Up at 4am to fly to Melbourne for the day job’s Christmas party. If I’m still awake by the time it starts, of course.

I have so much work to do, but feel completely shattered today. Productivity is a struggle.

Well, I rejoined Facebook again so I could try to support BTTR. But I can’t bring myself to send friend requests. It’s just not a platform I want to invest personal time or effort in.

So, it turns out I was spamming the micro.blog feed with BTTR’s Black Friday deal links. Apologies! I was playing around with automation and it wasn’t quite working the way I wanted it to.

We took a long weekend last weekend to Turon Gates, and it was spectacular. We stayed in a nice little cabin by there Turon river, watched the kangaroos, echidnas and wild goats, went bushwalking and horse riding, and cooked dinner on the fire. It was such a great opportunity to just stop and unwind … read more

I deleted my Facebook account back in 2019 or so, and have not regretted the decision at all. The feed was always full of crap I didn’t care about, I never posted and any connection with my “friends” wasn’t actually meaningful. But, in order to try to push BTTR along, I set … read more

This looks incredible. Have thrown my pledge in for the deluxe edition: The Witcher: Path of Destiny

It’s so sad that this country is hobbled by its racism and inability to proactively build an inclusive space for our First Nations countrymen and women. It was an easy choice, and the country chose wrong.

Had to get a deep clean at the dentist this morning, including local anaesthetic and everything.

It was fine, but I’m really feeling out of it now. Can’t concentrate to write, yet can’t bring myself to log off.

Went to set up a bunch of home security cameras for review and one of them requires professional installation. Not sure I’ll be getting that one done any time soon, unfortunately.

Started off strong. Thought we had it all under control, and then the last encounter appeared. We needed to play 6 spells to be able to remove it. But that was hard. We hadn’t had a lot of spells appear on the board. And once Voldemort appeared, it became nearly impossible to impossible. In the end, … read more

I absolutely loved the first season of Ahsoka. I thought the casting was perfect across the board, and the story had me gripped from the beginning (though mostly because it was just Rebels continued).

I really need confirmation of Season 2 though. Come on Disney, stop making me wait.

This CMS is potentially the most frustrating piece of crap I have ever worked with. It was clearly designed with absolutely zero input from anyone who would have to use it.

I am literally wasting hours to do what should be the most basic of tasks.

Spent the past couple of days playing Familiar Tales, which my daughter got for her last birthday. It’s a pretty epic campaign based game. We only finished the first chapter, but had a lot of fun doing so. We thought we were doing well on the last mission of the chapter, but then things changed … read more

Home after seeing Birds of Tokyo play at the Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. It was phenomenal. The band were having lots of fun (for most of the show) and the SSO was amazing as always. A couple of tracks gave me tingles, making the hair stand up on the back of my neck it was so … read more

Yesterday I was reviewing the espresso monitor for BTTR and drew a picture.

My daughter was at Nanna’s, so I thought I’d send it to her. She loves that kind of thing.

I searched for her in messages on the computer, pasted it in, wrote a quick message:

“Hey beautiful, I drew you a picture”

And hit send.

Then I realised I had sent it to the cleaning company we use.

I tried to delete it, and thought I had succeeded. Until I got a message today.

“That’s lovely Nick but not sure if it was meant for Licence to Clean”.

I am officially dead.

This morning our lovely neighbours came over and invited us all to the Botanic Gardens for lunch. The kids and I rode our bikes in with them, and we enjoyed an afternoon of good food and great company.

It was just really nice to stop for a bit.

I’ve been on quite the SEO roller coaster the past month. August core update saw me reach record heights on BTTR, new Helpful Content update seems to have dropped it back down to previous levels.

I’ll just keep plugging away making the site as good as I can. But Google, you’re making things harder than they need to be (for me, anyway).

Last night we went out to dinner to celebrate the boy’s birthday. We ate a lot of meat. It was incredible.

The last two episodes of Ahsoka have been, for me at least, probably the best Star Wars I’ve seen. Absolutely phenomenal.