Melbourne

IT People: not really big on small-talk. 😀

We had a few people pull out of their booked windows 11 upgrade appointments. Told my team we should still push it as an update anyway and when they complain shrug and say "sorry, pulling out isnt always effective".

Had a great time in Melbourne. The Jurassic World exhibition was a lot of fun. Took little one into the city and the National Art Gallery which she enjoyed.

But more importantly, Slurpees were a hit and she is more convinced than ever to move back to Melbourne.

First day of the new job. I'm going to approach it with zero expectations.

One of the first things I'm going to do is login to everything on the work pc. Even if I'm just browsing aussie.zone, manager logic is I'm being productive if I'm on the computer, you're only slacking off on your phone

Moon pretty

The kid's gone away for 3 nights and ngl I'm actually excited.

Oh man it's weird logging back into the work laptop. Will take a few days to get back into the swing of things I reckon

Boardies bum seam repair survived (to my surpise)! No moons, and the tape didn't stick to the no no region.

Guessing the salt water won't be good for the adhesive though.

And yet another wave:

Welcome back to the Office. Change your password this instant! 15 attempts to think of something suitable later...

Alright, doctor booked for this stupid migraine thing. Gonna get the physio to take a look as well.

So here's the gossip.

One of the remaining 3 (of which i am one) account managers resigned.

So his clients get divided up between me and the other one.

Yay.

Hot tea being spilled left and right at work today, I love hearing the drama when I'm not a part of it!

First day on the new job was uneventful and went pretty much as expected. A bunch of long meetings, didn't get a laptop until 2, and then couldn't login anyway. So I really just hung out in the office for 8 hours.

I could see this job being alright as long as the day to day doesn't suck. I have a feeling it may be alright but I'll just have to give it more time

Back to work today....about 300 odd emails to get through, thankfully less than 25% will be pertinent.

An old colleague reached out to me over the weekend, regarding a role at his current work (large company, pretty cool project). Emailed their recruiting person to get some more details about it.

Good news is, clothes might actually dry today outside!!

lovely day here, think I might go to bunnings and get some orchid mix :)

I have stuff to do but I might take a break for a few days

Managed 5 hours in a row of sleep again! Hell yeah.

on train
one guy singing what sounds like a prayer softly to himself
one woman on the phone in English but switches to demon beast growling occasionally

Huh. My crimson tide has synced with the full moon.

No one tell my mum 😂😂

Holidays are officially over - just got my first debt collection call of the year.

Optus sold my debt to them, I never paid my last bill due to the Optus data leaks. Sorry not sorry.

I'm never gonna buy a house or anything, or take out a loan, so why should I care? Besides that, my only debts are HECS/HELP and my TAFE fee (which I pay in installments by DD every month).

YOLO 🤷🏼‍♀️

Thank you Seagoon! 🙌🏼💜🙌🏼

Ripped my boardies riding back from the beach last night. The bum seam from sitting on the seat. They're very old. So with a bit of poor sewing, some stitchofix fabric adhesive stuff and some duct tape (lol) we're going to see if it holds tonight. Should probably bin them but i just want to see if it works.

Just met my new manager. Seems like a nice guy. Let's see how nice he is next week when I ask for a raise.

The flies recently have been absolutely insane. Since that coincides with the end of TheStench™️, I'm going to assume that either they ate TheStench, or they flies I killed laid their eggs in TheStench, and now they've run out of food

There's a gap in the skylight in the laundry that I can't put back myself because when I tried the entire thing fell out and it was a bitch and a half to put back in. The flies have been escaping from there. I went in and absolutely doused it with fly spray last night, and there are at least a hundred dead flies everywhere now. There's a few dozen on the floor that escaped the gap, and I counted about 90 in the skylight. Ugh

On the double downside, all the flys have brought a number of spider out of hiding. There's at least 2 living in my fruit bowl, and I've seen a bunch of others around. Thankfully not gigantic ones, but I'm still scared of spiders so it isn't exactly ideal

Next weekend I reckon I'm doing bug bombs. This house was empty for a fair while before I moved in, so it'll probably do good. Gonna buy a cobweb thingy too

Goodnight everybody . Sweet dreams 😘

First day back in my course tonight. I have like 10 mins til I need to begin the process of getting on (involves multiple sign ons and OTPs, eugh). Haven't used my laptop since before I moved, so windows has decided that I HAVE to do updates. Started 5 minutes ago, and we're only 4%.

FFS windows.

"Oh no, fuck! But it's stuck at 99%! How the heck am I gonna pay the rent?? Gonna be homeless because I forgot to update windows"

Still so humid 🥵