Melbourne

Knocked off early.

Cheers 🥂

Edit

Was a good idea to come down here. Needed this. Back tm though but that's okay.

Got a shitload done. Good escape.

And..

First fire in about a year down here.

I am so so very lucky to be able to use this place no questions asked. Mental health wise it is a godsend rn. The space, shit to do, beach.

While out for my grocery shop I ran into an old friend and we ended up catching up for awhile on things.

I didn’t want to leave but I was coming to the end of my free parking.

Had a good time!

omg omg omg

we are going to visit a beach right on the Pacific Ocean tomorrow , not on a bay, right on the ocean

I think I will go in the water a bit 😀 just a little

So I got my sleep study results back after a fair wait. Yeah it turns out that not breathing might be the reason for the fatigue. Off to dig into savings and go CPAP shopping I think (#thuglife)

I am low key excited - maybe I can function like a real person finally. Any tips from anyone else in the mask club?

Righto ladies n gents, it's time to get rekk'd. Cheers 🍺

Had to have a serious chat to the team today.

I've put a target on my back by giving them a lot of autonomy and they were starting to get complacent.

I got the message across I think, without being too confrontational.

Hmm my Aunty tried to ring me.

I let it ring out.

A couple of weeks ago she tried to persuade me again to get the others to agree to the settlement of the will.

I refused to do it and told her so.

Werq

Yay: I'm getting a bonus! I totally forgot they give them out at this time of the year

Nay: not sure how to handle tax vs salary sacrifice into super. Especially with having to wait one whole year to claim any additional tax back.

I kinda really really need the cash so think I'll take most of it as cash even though it'll be taxed to all buggery. I swear to god I have not had to think so much about tax rules my whole life until this year.

Think I've caught something. Got a solid 10 hours of sleep last night, the just slept all day after getting my partner up for work. Just could not keep my eyes open.

I'm awake now, but I'm so so drowsy and blegggghhhh

Melbcat is being very squeaky and squirmy. She’s learned to cry for the heater to go on, for extra snacks of wet food, and sometimes for no reason I can see. I’m hoping she’s just jealous of the computer getting attention. Maybe she just wants love.

I’m playing games way too much but right now it’s just what I’m doing.

Goodnight all ❤️

I love you Friday.

3 times the dog went in and out the front door last night. The 4th time he tried I said "No. Go to bed". He repaid me by ralphing on the carpet.

Had that work efficiency session at the start of the week and I think I figured something out about why AI has been such a top down push in the workplace.

A member of the global leadership team was in the sessions, and she's all in on AI. She was telling us about all the work she was getting done with it, and it was just things like reports, presentations, communications plans, and risk strategies.

It's all just typing up a bunch of stuff that gets turned into PDFs and sits on the company Sharepoint. She's at a high enough level now she's not working on any of the implementation, so you can use AI to just write everything for you.

Really, you could probably download templates for all these documents and change the details specific to your business. It would be much better for the environment, but these people wouldn't feel like they're doing anything meaningful if they're just playing corporate madlibs.

I could use AI in a bit of my work, but I need to make Facebook ads, emails, and manage a website. AI can't do any of that, it's just an elaborate autocomplete.

And it's telling the perspective on AI is 'Look at all this amazing work I'm getting done with AI' and not 'The iPhone autocomplete can do my job faster than me, what's the point of my job?'

One of my only applicable use cases was a business case document. Copilot just wrote the most boring version of an SEO friendly article on Viva Engage, and even then I felt I had to step in and write some things myself to both make it more interesting and specific to the business. And say this goes ahead, AI can't put people into Viva Engage groups for me.

Finally home. Guiness in hand. Butt in couch. Game loaded up. Cheers dudes 🍻

Start work in 9 mins. Currently in bed. Good thing it's WFH day. This might be a job for coffee....

2.5h left... On the plus side I got an unexpected Monday off! 3 day weekend wooo

Had an excellent swim with a new best amount of laps in a row which feels bloody excellent. Hopefully haven't killed myself for the class tomorrow.

Now for wine, because balance. 🥂

it's early, wind is howling out there

i woke up to a tidy and well organised room, 😊, maybe I can get some stuff done today

I hadn't been following any news about The Pitt for a while but all the allegations coming out now about Tracy Ifeochor (Dr Collins) being asked to leave and not being in s2 are really sad. I can't believe she is part of a virulently homophobic church that promotes conversion therapy. Like how do you even get into TV and film acting in the modern era with these kinds of strongly held beliefs? Puts a new spin on her portrayal of a character handling some difficult conversations about abortion...

Last day of my late-shift week. It has been a struggle but I've survived (so far). 7.30 can't come soon enough!

Getting better at drums.

If I slow the part down by 50% and play it a few times I can speed back up and play it well most of the time.

I kinda like being a beginner with an instrument. I love that learning experience when you go from nothing to doing reasonably wel.

Pork roast is in the oven for dinner. I had a big piece so I've cut it in half and will do some sort of pulled pork for tacos with the other half. I put it on late so it won't be ready for a while, I might need to organise cheese and crackers to tide me over until then.

quiz

7/10 better than I thought

My tram driver either has the hiccups or is smuggling a purse sized dog