Melbourne

Our daughter, our only child, cherished baby girl is out on a date. Don't worry, she's keeping us up to date. Plus I have life 360. I know exactly where she is.🥺

I have received flowers for the first time in my life. 🥰

Back in Melbs.

No rando convos :(

I miss them already.

The face of "turn the fucking music down you woke me up!"

I have 2 offers!!!! Hoping number 3 comes through but probably not.

That's ok though!

I’m feeling for the people who went Laneway, they would be getting soaked right now.

TAFE done for the day, last two classes were chill so no stress.

It was a toss up between goon and coffee ~~so I combined them together~~ so I chose coffee

update: I may have written BAG OF DICKS on the side of the sausage bags

I'm drinking piña coladas
While watching exposés
Of speedrunning cheaters
Breaking rules of the games
And it's narrated by an Aussie
But from Queensland they are
But they're actually quite funny
So I'll forgive that faux pas

Nice drop of rain. The garden needs it.

I’m off to the fish and chip shop.

Would anyone like a dimmy? Potato cake? Eldritch tentacled god in batter?

V. nice cider, this

Stuff cooking. I hear some fish & chips calling my name.

I small fisherman's basket later ... damn it just hits the spot tonight.

Heading back to melbs today.

Haven't been back since xmas. Gonna be a shock going through the CBD. Always blows my mind down here you only see a few people daily (usually on the foreshore / beach / shops) but people go out of their way to interact. Had more convos with randos down here in the last month than I have in the last 2 years in melbs.

I say bring back the rando convo.

I'm getting slaughtered at gin rummy today. Please send good luck wishes.

It’s my IRL birthday today! YAY!

I’m having to work it for the first time in probably 14 years because workplace is shit. BOO!

Going into the city for a staycation tonight. YAY!

Headphones! My work headphones for about six years have been a pair of Google Pixel earbuds that have been fine. No complaints, nothing to rave about. I've ogled a pair of Sony XM5's for the longest time, but have never been able to justify buying a pair while I have a perfectly working pair.

The Pixels are starting to wear out. I'll be getting replacement headphones this year.

Here the thing: If I wait a couple of months, I'll have enough points for a free pair of Apple Airpods Max. Only, at work the only Apple device I have is the iPad. I have a Macbook at home, but these will be for work. The biggest strength of Airpods is their ability to seamlessly work with all your Apple devices. They'll do regular Bluetooth, but they aren't special for that.

The Airpods are stupidly priced at $900. Even getting them for free that pricetag is the biggest thing I have against them. I don't really want to look like the sort of moron who would waste that much money on a pair of headphones. I thought of getting them, selling them and then buying a pair of Sonys. Only, Ebay seems to have Airpods going at around the price of the XM5's anyway. So, that pathway looks like a hassle for no real gain.

Options:

1. Buy a pair of XM5's and claim them on tax like a normal person.
2. Get the Airpods and cope.
3. Get Airpods, sell them and get XM5's. Put the remainder towards something I actually want.
4. Get a free pair of cheaper Beats headphones and look like even more of an idiot who pays too much for headphones.

What to do? I don't suppose anyone has had any experience with both XM5's and the Airpods Max, do they?

Ok so still waiting on Toshiba, software company called and I'm calling back.

And I've emailed the 3rd place to get an answer.

The 3rd place is the one I really want, but I don't think I'm getting it.

Alright, I'm home. I'm going to stretch out the anticipation and murder the tower of dishes, vacuum, and shower before I lose several hours to the show of the season. I suppose this is not dissimilar to the concept of "edging"

E: I have watched it. I suppose, in line with the theme above...