Melbourne

Ted watching the rain.

Thunderstorm just rolling over the village, but the house battery is fully charged and I need not fear the inevitable power cut.

Last real day of work tomorrow.

Mainly meetings. Monday is do nothing day and Tuesday is the last day. Catching up with people Tuesday for lunch.

It's almost over.

Submitted another assessment, and passed the two I submitted last night. Phew!

Gotta wait for the quizzes to open, and complete the last two assessments on WHS, and I should be good.

I really hope I hear back about that job I interviewed for on Tuesday. I'm trying not to think too hard on it, just remain hopeful but not dwell. It's so hard because I'd freaking love it. Argh!

The rain has stopped and best sky pretty I’ve seen in a while

Good morning Melburnians. There will be sunshine, wind, rain, possible storms. A little for everyone today.

1st decent-ish haul, bit late:

Many more on the way (hopefully).

Just booked flights back to Perth for first time in about 6 years. Family excited. They come over here a lot so I haven't been totally neglectful but yeh haven't been back since pre COVID

Today I am trying to cut as much dairy out of my diet as I can. Just to see how bad this intolerance/allergy really is.

Otherwise, weight loss continues. clothes getting baggy. 😊

Listened to a podcast about a guy who pretended to be a Saudi prince and defrauded people out of millions of dollars. He managed to access a credit card with a limit of $200 million and no one really knows how he did it.

pounds desk RAIN. RAIN. RAIN. RAIN

Someone's playing guitar real late. It's pleasant though. Twangy, slow, country/blues-esque tune, a lilty voice that's too faint to make out.

It's a vibe and I'm vibing

There was 6 lamb chops. Theoretically 2 each but they were so good and the kid took too long to get to the table that I declared "there's only one chop each" and wrapped the other one up for the dog and I to share for ron.

AITA?

P.s. Don't worry. She won't starve. I gave her more vegetables and she didn't even mention how delicious the chop was. Only mentioned how good the mushroom was.

Waking up at 530 completely refreshed is not usual for me.

Things of note today

2nd last of current role. Tidying up some things for handover and that's pretty much it.

New AC game out, which shall be purchased swiftly

My new cannabis script is arriving at some stage.

Gonna be a good day

It's World Happiness Day today 🙂

Keys to the old house handed it. Good riddance, hope they knock it down.

Less great it looks like the next door neighbour who helped himself to our garage is going to be an ongoing problem. No, your tradies may not traipse back & forth through my house all day. Grrr.

I'm a bit concerned about this weather. I told Mr Woof it should be cool enough for afternoon walkies today, now it looks like we could get rained out.

i want mcdonalds for breakfast tomorrow. i hope the weather allows that.

Stupid back and the stupid amount of pain it brings. Can barely even get on the foam roller.

pork katsu bento. how bloody good! starting to like the miso soup as well.

Pizza night I declare and Hawaiian it is!

Also picked up some thin little crispy things. 3 packets for 2 bucks each at 185g.

Good deal and don’t taste too bad either.

Looking forward to this weekend!

Have band rehearsal with new band Saturday which should be fun.

Will go out Saturday night, have a couple of options.

Then 2 more days or work next week and I get a week off till I start the new job!!!

Alright I have bought a carrot, quarter head of cabbage, red capsicum and some green beans to cook with the remaining eggplants and new pack of tofu puffs. And braved Glenferrie Rd to get the requisite spice paste earlier. Let the sayur lodeh commence. Even though I will not have lontong to eat with it

E: it only took an hour but it is done. It is not really sayur lodeh but an inspired stew absolutely overstuffed with vegetables. I should've really kept it to cabbage, eggplant, half a carrot, green beans and tofu puffs. But I also threw in leftover bottle gourd, red capsicum, and tempeh. Barely enough space but it all cooked. Half of it is going in the freezer.

yikes

Getting proper rain here now in Thornbury.

I just picked up $2 that I found on the floor. Would you do this or did I stoop to a new low?

I got very lucky with my tech support session yesterday. I just had to set up a scanner, which could have been simple enough, but the laptop wasn't connected to wifi, nor was it picking up the hotspot from my phone.

Fortunately, the laptop was old enough to still have a disc drive. So I was able to install the drivers from the disc that came with it instead.

air sticky

Legitimate question; what has happened to the Monash Freeway the last four or so weeks? Morning commutes are now ~75 minutes from like 6:30am onwards. Used to be a clean run up until like 7:15 or so.

My boxes should be arriving today. I don't even have anywhere to move to yet, but the prospect of having to pack the house up is so overwhelming/terrifying I am determined to start as early as possible.

just packing my demi tasse set

My brain is in a different room to the rest of me and I don't like it

packing continues

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Still have no rain. Radar looks like it may miss large chunks of Melbourne. Mostly going south. Not much in north or east. Boo.

Edit: much rain now! Also I obviously don’t know how to interpret the rare, lucky I’m not a meteorologist.