Stopping by after a very long absence to introduce you all to Mabel:
I am OBSESSED with her and I am just showing her off to every single person I’ve ever met.
I bemoan chicken and vegetables, but holy fuck do I feel good today.
Like a different person.
Energetic, focused, motivated.
Crazy shit.
Edit: Noticeable performance increase at the gym as well.
Sun is streaming in my window onto the couch so I have given up any thought of moving, have made a G&T, pulled out the diary and sitting here planning holidays and just chilling.
I imagine this is how normies (ie people whose brains are not filled with depression etc) get to live all the time. It's nice. I approve.
Have made a report about last night’s yard screamer. The more I think about it the more it seems like a SA situation.
It's so dark 😓
I almost want to turn the heater on for emotional support. But it's 19 degrees inside so I will refrain. But it looks cold.
It really doesn't help that I've just returned from 10 days in a tropical island resort. It's like being plunged into winter all at once.
The alarm to get ready for work went off and I woke to a text asking if I would like AL today. Hell yeah I do! Back to sleep for me.
I was thinking: maybe I could be one of those people who goes around to schools and talks to the students about the realities of drug addiction.
Maybe.
Chook is awake. Time to get up.
I’ve just had the most luxuriant breakfast
Woke up at 6 today because my body still thinks it's 7 am. Laid about for two hours hoping I'll fall back to sleep. Not happening.
Meanwhile I see the weather is the usual Melbourne perma-grey. Thank God I'm going to Vietnam for a couple of weeks soon to somewhat extend my summer.
I love playing network engineer. Really all I did was unplug some cables then plug some different cables in, but it was still so much fun. I also made our internet not be as shit as I thought it was. Went from 200-500ms latency at 20mbps to 50-150 latency at 50-60mbps
I'm not sure how well the new router will handle multiple devices and concurrent transfers though. It's pretty much just a test and a way to make the internet usable for now. The old router sucked, but it could handle 20 devices just fine. The new ones for all these features but it's on the cheaper side, so I have my doubts
Edit: and changing the DNS server to 1.1.1.1 has removed the last bit of slowdown I was noticing. Telstra's DNS is kinda shit ngl. For the last 6 months I've had to use CloudFlare warp or my mobile data to access aussie.zone because it never worked otherwise. I ended up narrowing it down to Telstra's DNS acting like it's never heard of an Aussie zone in its entire life, which is how I learnt what DNS even is and how it works
tonight for dinner I am making tex chili
I didn't think DST was that big of a difference from real time
Walk walked. Groceries shopped. New pair of fingerless gloves bought (merino+possum for extra coziness). Bluey watched. I think it's time for a cuppa and to dig out the oodie
Mmm vanilla latte packet coffee
I've got a dual partition on my laptop and dual boot between windows and Ubuntu. But Ubuntu seems to have booked my windows partition after an update. I don't keep anything important on either partition, or even do anything important on the laptop, so it's no big loss. But I used the windows partition for meetings and 3D printing things.
The drive seems to be working fine though, and I can still access my windows drive through Ubuntu, so it's probably fixable when I've got the time and brain capacity to figure out what the hell is even wrong with it
Just had my first porrdige of the season. yummy
Rather a fun one today - got only 1 wrong. Quiz
I can't remember so many crickets so late in the season . It's good, it's a natural thing in the city. 😊
I think I prefer more time in the morning. I liked how it took so long to get to midday today.
5pm rave choon.
Walk complete. Now football
Movie Review.
This is my 3rd movie about tv weather guys. Ground Hog Day, The Weatherman and today's movie, All Hail.
All Hail, from some of the team who brought you The Revenant and Bardo.
This movie has the same feel as Bardo. I admit I love this kind of cinematography/direction, it uses familiar ways to set the scene, it's feels up close and personal looking at actors without making you feel uncomfortable, it all feels natural and it's so easy to let the story happen. Every actor is perfectly cast. Every set and location is just right, every camera angle .
It makes everyday life and our world look so beautiful .
Seems to me this team loves to use the elements to tell a story, fire, ice, water, air, earth. There is always an interaction between people and the elements that is part of the story.
It's the story of a very well educated tv meteorologist who starts to believe the hype of his own forecasting record. It's about pride. Not as bad as Bill Murray who brought a curse down upon himself by saying "I make the weather". This guy, Miguel, brings a mild curse by saying "I guarantee it".
So he fails, is condemned and he must find redemption and grace by getting back in touch with real people and his family, not just users and stans, and getting back in touch with nature.
I had to look up who Professor Neurus was. 🤔
4.5 hobbits. So easy to watch, that's why I think watching twice would be a good idea.
Useful shopping this weekend for some winter clothes which needed replacing. 2 hoodies and a pair of track pants. Looking forward to coziness. Although it’s annoying that things just don’t last like they used to, quality is so much lower than it used to be.
