Ironic enough for Alanis: My freelancer ABN - the licence that allowed me to operate a small business - was cancelled from lack of use two months ago. Now, for the first time in 6.5 years, I need it for potential freelance work.

The PSVR2 is going to cost $879.95 in Australia.

The disc PS5 will set you back $799.

PS+, which is required for any online gaming and is therefore essential, starts at $79.95 a year.

Is anyone else feeling like their hobby is trying to take advantage of them? 🎮

Parenting a teenager: A poem

At least we can feed the beast
Flour, water, sugar, and yeast
And he will think it a feast

I’m trying to figure out what the next chapter of my life should be about. My 20s were about discovery, 30s were about family, but my 40s seem a bit lost. All I’ve come up with is that I need a change… and so I handed in my resignation. Let’s see what happens next.

🎲 had a pretty good month playing board games over October. The winning stats are well down from repeated attempts to beat the Dark Side Rising and Death Eaters Rising

My greatest achievement today was not throwing up. It took all of my energy to hold it in, but somehow, against all odds, I succeeded.

(Celebrating the small wins.)

Coming to the conclusion that the “Rising” board games are impossible to beat. Played almost a dozen times across the Star Wars and Harry Potter versions and never come close to winning. 🎲

Spent today scanning in old photos and now I want Sydney to host the Olympics again.

I really liked this take from Ed Zitron on why Zuckerberg is a terrible CEO. But it was this part about the future of Facebook and Instagram that really resonated: They will likely become unpopular, forgotten products - unimaginable even a year ago - that are so desperate to try and trick you into consuming content that they’ve forgotten that real people even use the app. Source The line about forgetting real people use the apps is key, and one of the reasons I quit those platforms. Continue reading →

A pretty spectacular moon over the house as I took the bins out tonight… 📷🌑

It was so nice to have a warm, sunny day today. We are more than halfway through Spring and we were still using the heater last week thanks to all the rain and miserable weather.

Hopefully, it lasts longer than a week so the ground can dry out too!

Was straining the moisture out of some roast pumpkin in a tea towel. Strained so hard I popped a hole in the towel and pumpkin squirted across the kitchen. Oops. That’s not how it described it in the recipe.

It absolutely blew my mind last week when I randomly had my work Mac and my personal Mac running side by side and my mouse cursor just travelled from one screen to the next. Related: I now have a 3-screen setup.

The winners of the Finder Innovation Awards 2022 have been announced, with Aussie Broadband and The BioVerse Group winning big. The post Aussie Broadband and The BioVerse Group big winners at the 2022 Finder Innovation Awards appeared first on finder.com.au. Continue reading →

Teenagers are so exhausting. It’s like having a toddler again, except he talks back every time.

Playing Skyrim: The Adventure Game. Not gonna lie, it’s a bit of a learning curve with the kids. But it’s still pretty epic.

When the first smart speakers launched in Australia, I was so filled with excitement. I lusted for the idea of a home I could talk, which could turn even my three bedder into Tony Stark’s Malibu mansion. I was fortunate enough to be able to test just about everything that launched in that first year. From Google Home to Amazon’s Echo family, plus a bunch of products from brands that should have done better than they did, like Sony and Panasonic. Continue reading →

It’s been a long time since a Friday afternoon beer went down as easily as that one. I think it probably reflects my past week more than anything else though.

Despite my children reaching an age that they are somewhat independent, they are still mostly dependent. And this is best exemplified by the weekday morning routine. Despite the fact that I wake up at 6:30am every Monday to Friday, I don’t get to think about anything other than The Routine until almost 9am. Two and a half hours spent working to make sure my children are fed, watered and ready to be educated. Continue reading →

Sweet, sweet relief peppered with mild panic is apparently today’s emotional range.