Party is over and I bought way too much food and soft drink, but it won't go to waste around here I guess. Miniest's friends are all funny and nice little girls with nice mums, but I didn't get a chance to talk to them much.
Screw you mozzies.i brought aeroguard this time.
The orange kittens are really growing quickly!
Happy Easter 🍺
We found a new home for the weekend
Anybody have the “board game stash cupboard” ? I counted around 30 board games and card games and half dozen puzzles. I think my favourites are Settlers of Catan and Risk, but the one game that everyone comes back to is UNO for some reason.
I think it’s more fun in a large group gathering that’s more casual.
I have approval for the rental place I'm less fond of. Haven't heard anything from the one that looks 100%. And I still haven't seen either of them in person.
The one I really like is currently vacant, so I'm presuming if they were liking my application they'd be moving fairly quickly on it, so not hearing anything is not a good sign. The inspection for the other one is booked on Thursday, so there is still some time for divine intervention.
But at the moment it's looking like it will be mostly about just how deceptive the 7 year old photos are in relation to the current condition of the property, and what's in the mysterious corner that none of the photos show. The other place I can piece together all the photos and the plan to get a great overview, this one has a few missing sections that my brain is imagining terrible possibilities for. Especially in regards to the door through the laundry, which in this place would be the most used entrance. If it's a dodgy set of steps or something it's going to be a hard no. I suspect it's just not in the photos because it is utilitarian but not pretty, so that will probably be ok. But I need to work out how I'm going to manage Mr Woof's access, which can be tricky with no sliding door to put an insert in.
Miniest's non birthday party today. She wanted a get together with her besties rather than a full on party. So we're hoping to snag a spot at the local "good" park (we live closest to the "shit" park) and I'm providing plenty of cold drinks and snacks. Got to make brownies and do some quick shopping. Off I go!
Oh my lucky, my next door neighbours dropped off some lunch boxes for me.
Lunch has been sorted and I have too much food!
Is everyone's fire insurance paid up? Cos at work we've had TWO burned out trucks in our back alley so far today. One was a furniture mover's truck (this morning) and now the fire alarm went off cos the next door block of flats had a small truck with a burning engine stuck in the garage door. Alarm was stupid loud too - had to finish up phone calls cos neither one of us could hear the other over the noise. Boss now gone down to bound and plunge and lose his temper. Not that that will accomplish much.
If anyone's looking for a stupidly large decoration but didn't think the alien was quite right for you, there is a new option on Facebook you might like to consider.
Whole lotta bull
Achieving basically nothing all week cause no one wants to make a decision. More work falling to my team whilst the useless team is rewarded for not doing any work and being incompetent. Dreading this long weekend and a million other things flowing through my head.
But subaru just dropped a WRX TS Spec B. So I mean i guess I'm not quiting my job any time soon. Screw you capitalism, you win again.
Idk why I slept in until 1pm, I was asleep around 11pm last night lol!
But then I had my psych appt at 2pm, so I'm a tad drained.
But all is well!
Sky pending
Edit: sky has moved through ominous red into pale orange. I'm expecting an eye-searing ball of fire to appear any minute.
Garden ramble: Aphocalypse
I’d been letting the garden coast while unwell and was aware of a bad infestation of aphids on the worst affected plant… left it because I had bigger fish to fry. Came out today and all the potted jack be littles were absolutely covered.
Spent ages scrubbing and wiping the leaves down with soapy water. The point for delicacy had passed so instead of spraying the soapy water I was scrubbing the leaves on both sides like dirty dishes and rinsing them like a salad. The dousing with moisture will absolutely encourage the mildew and the residual dish soap may harm the plants but I just had to get the pest burden down quickly. I also fed them to help replace what the pests took.
Some leaves were already dying - those got snapped off and immersed to drown the load of aphids on them (so they couldn’t just go and climb back on - or rather be carried back on by the ants farming them).
I’ll have to either plant a different variety next time or seriously plan out the disease and pest control. Organic and heirlooms seem to need a bit of attention. I saw one ladybug but honestly the rummaging and soapy water might deter it.
I don’t see a great outcome for these plants if I can’t keep this in check. At this point the aim is to keep them kicking just until the most mature fruits ripen.
The ones in ground and the golden nuggets are also affected but not as badly.
I left them as I needed to get back in to attend to Melbcat and the magpie water had just run dry.
Pics
PSA: shops closed tomorrow. Buy your eggs buy your buns buy your butter.
Guess I'm not the only person in this building getting high for Easter, noice!
Aw, I forgot to bring my bunny ears to work. I even put them on this morning and then put them back down. Considering I’m wearing slight extra zany makeup to go with them, I continue to look like the weirdo of the office… but at least I’m (very) sparkly!
The post flu-vax haze is combining beautifully with the complex task I'm on at work.
Just...floating for the moment
Got up at 3:30am after pizza-induced crazy dreams and heat and going to sleep early. Am now finally sat at computer forcing myself to do the last minute uni work I need to do before meeting my supervisor.
...of course, I want to do literally anything but that. Sinking feeling that I will not get to "enjoy" the public holidays much as I'm so behind on everything. My brain thinks of calhoon's gorgeous hammock photo from yesterday and is engulfed in sadness.
Also, what the fuck it's so hot in my apartment. Or I'm just really feeling it. I have to have the AC on in my south facing living room that has had the blinds closed all day...
OKAY. This meeting is at 9am and I need to be out of my house by 8:50 am so I better get cracking now. Headphones on, The Trip at full blast, let's go
Morning guys. I’m probably going to be late for work
Did a solid day of uni stuff. Made essential progress on the easiest stuff.
Next up is time to be data wizard, start generating plots, and when that all feels like too much I shall start with the easiest bit of writing: the method...
But that's for next time. No supervisor meet next week, top priority is to clear my work pile before I fly off. Gonna just take all my days away as carers leave I think.
Meanwhile I have bought a decent stockpile of ready made food to last me a while, between that and stuff I've already frozen and 11 days away, I don't think I'll need to cook til 10 May. All according to keikaku
My recent funky vivid dreams may be due to my CBD oil treatment.
Not complaining.
Tonight's dream is lamenting with a stranger about the difficulties faced when dealing with docs when you have an substance use background.
Tech success! I figured out why PuTTY wasn't reading serial data from the ancient data measuring device I had to use (some setting in device manager buried under 5 layers)... and despite massive internal blockage in my head from actually sitting down and learning basic R, I managed to troubleshoot why my supervisor's R script for cleaning the output data kept not working. Something something dataframe object column number mismatch something. Good old google making me feel smarter than I am
I fucking love this film.