My kid won an award today for visual arts. She received a $30 Coles gift card which she bought a packet of chips, large tub of cottage cheese and a lactose free drink.
Back from the hospital. Both positively and annoyingly, results were normal despite being in a fair bit of pain. But I will be getting a referral to a new specialist and also to a pain clinic so that's a win.
I'm missing the pitter patter of tiny beans. I downsized to a week. It's tempting to get Melbcat back asap but someone said maybe it's it's best to leave her there for a few days to settle in and get used to the cattery just so she knows it's safe for next time.
Today I made 108 large lasagnas. I discovered a little hard lump in my hand, right where my rude finger joins on the palm side. You can move it around a bit, it's kinda freaky. Doesn't hurt too much but I'll swing by a Dr next week and get it checked out.
Given Raven is doing it as a home cook and I'm doing it in a factory setting, I declare Raven the winner. Doing that kind of thing at home is truly impressive.
I think trams are inefficient... they are so inflexible with rerouting, you can't have express services, they can get majorly delayed by traffic, and because they can't overtake, if one breaks down a whole lot get stuffed, and I still think it's wild you often have to walk into the road to get on/off trams. And new routes are next to impossible to establish these days. I think people defend trams for the romantic charm but I think they are increasingly impractical for a city this size. Would rather see electric buses with bus lanes or fully separated light rail, not this worst of both worlds kind of thing.
The house feels empty without Melbcat. I keep thinking she's going to come looking for me in the shower or looking down so I won't step on her. It's probably a good chance to do things like a big vacuum and use cleaning chemicals when she's not around but I'm still feeling like crap
Reminder that no matter how much marketing and weird hype there is from McDonald's and Americans.. the McRib is garbage and they only bring it out once every now and then to capture the curiosity of those who fall for the hype.
My mum used to make sandwiches of it (albeit with fairly dry dal)! Also can use toast to scoop up dal instead. Toast is basically a holey second cousin of naan...
The amount of country music I've listened to in the last year REALLY came through in my wrap up. It even gave me a little custom video from Luke Combs which he recorded for his top fans on Spotify to say thanks.
Looking at that you'd never think a lot of the time I'm listening to other things like Rap Classics 1990-2010, Metal, Classical, Dance/Electronic, Various oldies, Punk, Rock (it does say my top genre is Rock though) and whatever else tickles my fancy.
I did mine with YouTube Music and my top artist was The Beatles. Second was Ringo Starr. Third is George Harrison. Fourth is Paul McCartney. Fifth was Hail the Sun.
I just realised why The Beatles was number one at 10 hours, it was because I listened to the Anthology albums (1, 2 and 3), which are 2 hours and a half hours (give or take). And also the times I relistened to Now and Then.
What do people do for lunches? I’m having one of those days where I want something but I don’t know what. Stare in the fridge, stare in the pantry, decide I don’t want anything but know I’ll end up eating too many biscuits because I’m hungry. And I know it makes no sense to stare in the fridge and pantry, because I know exactly what’s in there because I did the shopping!
Soup and a sandwich. Both can be minimal - eg cupasoup and peanut butter. If you want to get fancy put a couple of slices of bacon in the peanut butter sammo.
You know when you go to Aldi and discover something so you go back and buy 8 packets because you know they're gonna disappear. I present to you macadamia lamington balls
I'm running with a 150 bpm playlist. Fight for your Right is in there. Sabotage is too, but seems a bit quick. Looking it up Body Movin' is apparently about 100.
I am vexed. My pipeline build at work keeps failing, leading to new commits for tiny changes, except finding a colleague to peer review/approve my pull requests is hard this week.
And now I've just spent half the evening failing to get an arm build of Fedora to boot on the RPi4. About to revert back to the default OS, but I could have done that hours ago! 😡
Hasn't chamber pop has been around for a long time? Orchestra heavy pop arrangements going back to the Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach, I'd also imagine Eleanor Rugby fits
I have a two week cough (and counting). No signs of letting up, my voice is destroyed. The only good part of this is the cough medicine I got prescribed. It’s delicious and makes me feel woozy.
I had a three month cough in my early thirties (they suspected whooping cough actually), codeine tablets gave me the relief and the sweet sweet sleep I needed.
I had one of these when I was 20 and they gave me liquid codeine. That tasted awful though but forced me to go ni nighs. Not just a gentle "hey, wanna go to sleep?" but more like a "haha sleep time, idiot". Magic stuff.
My wife has brutalized mine. Who the hell is Stone Sour.
Still, blink182 came out on top so its deffo right. I think this is the first year Glass Animals - Heatwaves isnt in the top 10
Just discovered this - upload an audio file and search for the animal/bird/reptile that is closest to it. A20 Acoustic observatoryFull article on abc Could be a lot of fun when going bush/hiking.
Surprisingly, I really enjoyed this year’s Spotify Wrapped. It’s so far out of the genres I usually listen to, it included podcasts and I’m surprised I was in the top 3% listeners worldwide (contextually it’s a bit ambiguous, it might have meant when I peaked in June).