Tonight’s wave:

Good swim.

CEO, can’t you just buy big jars of sambal oelek for the man. Or isn’t that strong enough?

Bleahhhh took today off on leave to try and squeeze out the last of uni fieldwork but nope spent most of my time driving, still a long way to go :( as the days progress my results are starting to look more and more sus… the angle of the sun is really messing around with it I think.

Friday looks like my last chance entirely. Another leave day I’ll have to burn unless I make up for it next week. No way I’ll finish everything. I’ll have to do my best to cover as much data as possible. And then the mad, intense, insane 2 months of data processing and WRITING commences. I really ought to book in some kind of treat for the end of the whole damn thing

alright. Van sorted (not cheaply, but sorted). Some of the gear has arrived including some all important poles but a lot of the other essentials (like waterproof mattress protectors to protect bed in the event of a wet packup) are enroute. And the nice to haves (new kettle, sheets, chopping board, dish drainer) are still awaiting shipping dates. Thinking this might be a very bare bones dry run this weekend.

Electrician has been and gone to get my chandelier down and the old fitting put up. I noticed the movers missed quite a few item. I’ll have to go back and pick them up.

the big flock of cockatoos, maybe 200, in has over taken my old block in Carlton the past few weeks

they are chewing up every thing in sight

all the other birds are being driven away

the streets are covered in litter from chewed up trees

I found a feather in my little front yard and brought it home for Bill and Ted

all the train ride the city took the same amount of time as the short tram ride from the city to Carlton

I think I nearly got scammed on ebay. Bought some furniture but they had strange messaging, only very late at night

they did not give me the information I wanted to pick it up but demanded codes that would enable them to tell ebay the transaction was completed. I even asked 3 days. No information.

I cancelled and got my money back. Then they send me a message like 2 minutes later and they were very angry.

But they did not lose any money. They still have their items.

the fact they were very angry makes me think that yes, this was a scam. Plus they called me a spammer. yeah, as if spammers pay money.

I accidentally nailed a bee with the eco friendly fungicide spray 🐝 🔫 😐 (it flew off unharmed)

Goodnight all! I’m not particularly tired, mostly just done with the day and want to go to bed to kind of retreat into my personal space a bit. Pleasant dreams.

A nap went awry and I woke up at 8pm to do cat meds. 😴🥱

Melbcat went to the vet yesterday and is back on antibiotics because she has another uti starting.

Only light work in the garden was done, water and a spray. I managed to enlarge the drilled holes on the bottom of the bin with an old pair of scissors (the lid can be finished later).

The pumpkins are starting to bud female flowers and I saw a bee visiting the existing male ones. I pulled out the dead 3 zucchini and spared the raggedy final one because it’s still making new growth and trying to flower.

Still pushed myself too hard. I’m now slowly trying to rehydrate because I didn’t drink much yesterday. I had no energy left and kept going back to sleep.

I slept in til 1pm yesterday. Fell asleep at 9.45ish pm and now I’m 👁️👁️

Having a hot chocolate now. Not sure what to do, maybe I’ll turn on the PC and save some jobs to apply for during business hours.

so 99% of everything here is still in boxes. 6.30 this morning, tired, need brekkie before I go out, grab a meal shake sachet but couldn’t find any glasses. Find an empty clean spice jar with lid. Make shake, drink it. That tastes a bit funny. Pretty sure it was dried garlic powder in the jar too. took less than 5 mins to chuck. 🙄

i’m a bit better organised now but very sore and tired

I might take a bath 🙂 I bought a peach bath bomb.

I have 4-and-a-bit days to make my first official cosplay item. A helmet of sorts.

I was hoping Amazon would provide the goods but they let me down.

So now it’s me, a hot glue gun and some supplies from Savers, Bunnings & Spotlight.

The hopes of a 9yo boy are in my barely-capable hands.

1 hour to go then the laptop gets handed in

Crickets loud, sky pretty.

I’ve been gone 30 mins and the other person in my team is already messaging me