Inspection went fine! Actually had the senior PM come, instead of the newbie from last time. Senior PM said newbie was wrong about the law regarding downlights, lol, and that it does in fact require an electrician that the RE will send out to change 😂 newbie told us it's the tenants responsibility, but didn't realise the difference between a screw in bulb and downlights LOL!

so after a year of not having kitchen lights, and six months of not having a normal bathroom one, the RE is gonna get that fixed for us. Senior PM apologised profusely and said we weren't the only tenants that were given the incorrect info either.

I couldn't stop laughing! I'm not even mad 😂

Had to attend an emergency meeting with the CTO of a client and explain why we fucked up without any forewarning.

Phone interview went well. Have a teams interview on Friday!!

Big work meeting this afternoon. I mean BIG, there's a lot on the line. I'm as prepared as I can be and a bit more prep this morning. I was feeling super nervous about it yesterday. Calmer on waking up this morning but the nerves are coming back. Deep breaths help - I will be fine, it will go fine.

Meeting over! 2.5 hours later, I'm so exhausted. There was a few times I felt like I was giving garbled answers to questions asked on the spot, and also being in full focus for that long is pretty tough. But overall I think I presented and communicated well. Client seemed happy too so that's what counts.

I think I deserve a takeaway pizza tonight and a night off any cooking.

I wanted to set up a mail redirection in case I forget to change my address for anything over, but wouldn't you know it - not allowed to do that while you're under. For "legal reasons", they say

Sorry for the rant, if anybody read it. With all the talk about these social media bans, on top of the issues with buying knives, and now trying to get a fricking mail redirection I'm really feeling like I keep slipping through the gaps and am getting left behind by half brained ideas thought up by privileged people

I laugh everytime I see a post on AustralianSpiders, where OP posts a picture of a black spider with a red stripe and asks "iS tHiS a ReDbAcK????"

The clue is in the name, my guy 😂😂😂

And yes, it was, and she's gravid - enjoy OP! 😂😂

while you slept the south korea did a failed coup

New ball. Long throws and crazy bounce.

Sunset gallahs

If nobody'll be up at midnight, or particularly cares who does what, I'll post tonight's at midnight. I'll still be up

Guess who is obsessed this year

I'm just fucking exhausted. That's all. I go to bed exhausted, wake up too early, exhausted.

About 6kg of cherries have now been picked. Probably that much again left on the tree if I was feeling enthusiastic enough to pick them.

Now I need to work out what to do with them - they are cooking cherries (morello), not sweet eating cherries. I'll probably just pit & freeze them for now and do some baking later.

Nooooooo

Kmart took almost a week processing my damn order, and now they've run out of abba vinyls

I ordered it at 8:08am on Thursday morning, 8 minutes after their black Friday bs (which the vinyl was a part of) opened up. They evidently didn't put one aside quickly enough, so they just cancelled my order

I just want abba vinyl 😭😭😭

Made it to Kmart today and filled up a trolley with various things

Set for most of it now. Still need a vacuum and (indoor) bins though

It was a fucked fucking experience. Lines were long as, but in their infinite wisdom, they only put 1 poor woman on the checkouts

She was standing over us the whole time, apparently if you have too much, you can't be trusted to scan your own things, and they either need to scan half of it for you, or stand over you watching you scan shit. We were trying to go methodically so we could organize a trolley and wouldn't end dup setting a frying pan on the top of an upside down coffee cup. She was not happy about that and said (verbatim) "gimme gimme gimme now! we're going to be here all day! Gimme!" And then snatched the scanning thing out of my hand and started going turbo mode

I don't really blame her, she was seemingly expected to supervise a dozen self serves, and man the 1 assisted register while also helping old people navigate the self serve during probably the busiest time of year. But geez. A dog shit experience as a customer. And ffs snatching the scanner and rushing us didn't actually do shit, it just meant she had to awkwardly stand there while we started repacking the trolley

Also feel like I should mention this was Kmart. I didn't accidentally walk into Aldi. They don't have packing benches - the alternative would've been throwing everything in the trolley, probably breaking and losing shit, then tipping it all out after paying to repack things sensibly

Today is the day I'm gonna have a zillion coffees and get shit done cos it's gonna be hot the next 3 days. Just have to get off the couch now.

Might try to angle going home at lunch due to not feeling well... Barely slept last night

Goodnight all ❤️

Office xmas party tomorrow night. I'm going to have a couple of quick shots and a gin and tonic to settle in. Let's see how it plays out lol

Some good points in this video about the social media ban https://aussie.zone/post/15770886

I bought two punnets of lettuce seedlings. They seem to do well for me and we eat them up. Other garden stuff is doing well too. Mostly tidying really.

and the young Seagoons will be coming to Australia in 10 days to stay with us 🙂 I better get everything ready. So excite.

Cherries are all pitted and in the freezer.

Basil has been trimmed and moved into it's new pots. The one at the front doesn't look to have a good root system, which is why it is trimmed so much - I won't be surprised if it just dies anyway. The other two had good healthy roots, so I expect big things from them! The trimmed leaves have been chopped up and frozen in oil in ice cube trays.

::: spoiler The patch

:::

Seems like being away for a month didn't impact shit too heavily. No ferts in the last month either and the watering seems alright with no drama / edema. Phew.

That piece of mind the watering sys. gives is priceless.

Also saw about a dozen ladybugs so aphids are a non issue (for now).

Lots of smaller self sown chilli plants from last year just popping up now was a nice surprise.

Finished S3 of the Taskmaster Australia. Really grown fond of the show was looking forward towards S4. Found out that David Hughes will be on it, and it's completely killed my excitement for it.

My manager said I'm good to work from home this week until my ankle heals up. It's the sort of thing that puts you in that weird spot where I can work but I can't deal with the hassle of getting to the office.

I'll arrange a tele-appointment to get an x-ray referral just to make sure nothing's wrong as it still hurts

Morning plans: mow grass. remove excessive amount of fennel from the front garden. plant some volunteer cherry tomato seedlings along the front fence. pot up some basil plants from the supermarket in the hope they can regrow. somewhere in there I should do washing too.

Edit: I need to add "pick cherries" to the list.

Family and I are playing Whamageddon this year, and three people have already ascended to Whamhalla, 4 days in 😂

I just want to thank the Woolies strikers for the lack of stock, because I've been going to Aldi's instead - they don't play music 😂😂

Remember! Remixes and covers don't count! And you only ascend if you recognise the song :D

My zucchini have two fullblown flowers now, they’re both male flowers but more are budding.

Many extremely nervous presenters at this conference. Buck up people you have really interesting things to say!!

ahahah oh god.

Client: YOU NEVER SENT US IP DATA FOR THIS UNIT. HOW DARE. WE *DEMAND *THE DATA.

Dude. It was configured according to the ip addresses you sent us