I've been taking advantage of the windy hot weather to tackle Mt Washmore. I've also just made a Bolognese. What else did I do today? Oh yeah I learnt to play Ludo, which turns out to be Miniest's favourite game. I can see why, I have to admit I kind of liked it. I'll have to have another match this evening after dinner.
Cleaned out the garage, no sign of dead rodent. I’m guessing it’s somewhere above the ceiling and below the roof and the smell is coming through. Or possibly inside where the roller door spins. So just have to wait it out. Kinda concerning, I hope this isn’t a start of a bigger problem. On the bright side, garage is now clean and tidy!
I still haven’t been able to get the donations down but packed them into boxes. I’m hoping to shift those next week and get some space back. Melbcat got stressed out by the activity so I stopped and we’re doing phone in bed. Cuddles are required to relax.
One load of washing is done and I’m doing another. Then there’ll be another basket of folding to do on top of the one already there 😑 The chances aren’t great today.
4 DAY WEEKEND!!!!!!
mine will be done!
This is even worse. Trying to follow guides to pause syncing of OneDrive and nothing is as the guide said. So I poked around more and I now have the choice of pausing it for up to 24 hours or unlinking it completely.
At this point I feel like Microsoft is expensive spyware but I don’t have the energy to jump through all the hoops to control it or make the switch 😔
Come on night time. There's music to make.
It has been confirmed - I didn't get the preferred house. After looking at the alternatives available and thinking a bit more about options the house I've been approved for is growing on me. I think my uncertainty about it comes from two things:
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I'm filling in the gaps that I can't see with worst case scenarios instead of what's likely, and extrapolating a few things into problems that are unlikely. Particularly concern about overgrown trees - where I am now I have a small garden with trees in the neighbouring yards that grow over and block most of my useable garden space. In this house there are big trees, but they are already mature and there is space for a vegie garden between them. They are also deciduous trees, so I should get lovely shade in summer, light in winter and lots of leaf mulch for the garden.
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The layout of the house means some changes to how I set up my rooms, I can't just mentally swap the rooms I have now into the new house. But when I sit down and think about how to work with the different layout it should work pretty well. I might end up changing the layout from winter to summer - it has a great dining/lounge room with a north facing bay window that will be amazing in summer, and a south facing lounge that should be much cooler in summer. Being migratory depending on weather seems a good option.
One big upside is that it is in the lower end of my budgeted rent range. I should also be able to do a dog door for Mr Woof - there is a window to floor level in the main bedroom which opens onto the back garden, I should be able to get a door put into that and replace it with normal glass when I leave. Doing that with a small window should not be much more than a good quality sliding door insert would be.
The biggest unanswered question: where to put Miss Meow's litter trays. Do they need to be at ground level, or are cat's happy to jump up on a bench for that? I'll have to do some research, I could put a cover over the bath (which I don't use) and put the trays on there.
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Why do I have to be up so early on a public holiday. I mean, I did go to sleep very early too but I was angling for a nice long sleep-in... especially because of the very sexy dreams I just woke up from :(
7/10 haven't been following golf or politics and it shows
I really don’t like Windows 11.
Edit: First of all the layout and navigation sucks. So much unwanted stuff. Like Windows 10 but worse.
But. It’s saying that space is low so it’s making not recently used items be cloud only… but OneDrive storage is almost full so when that feature fills it up I might not be able to receive emails. There’s also the question of whether I want some items to be in the cloud. I might have to work out how to turn syncing off.
Also I’m going to have to figure out how to disable Copilot. Stop it taking snapshots.
I hate how tech works now and didn’t want any of these changes. I wonder how much *more of my private shit has already been harvested.
If I could be sure that I could make everything I needed work (and most importantly interface with others using Windows or Mac) I would go over to Linux. Unfortunately I don’t have the organisational capacity right now :(
I treated myself yesterday to a red Shiraz, a cheapie from Aldi, I think it was about 4 bucks.
Had a glass or two last night, surprisingly it was pretty tasty and no sharp pang afterwards, my preference is a smooth red usually.
For 4 or 5 bucks a bottle it turned out better than I thought.
Not sure I actually like milk anymore. Tongue just feels sticky and odd.
Doesn't seem the helicopter is going away before dawn. Not sure what they think it's helping.
Bickies for everyone! Total fail on the fancy print, but you can't taste those anyway.
