The wind is really picking up out there.

Christmas day report 2.

That cousin who totes disrespected me last week. 🙄

Started talking about all of us going on holiday with him to Ireland.

This is after he said the bus tour operator on his last holiday was boring and would point out the most boring things, like ancient ruins of monasteries

and I said I'd be "Stop the bus!" and would be excited to see the ruins of the places where monks worked to save western civilisation after the fall of Rome.

To him the tour would be seeing places where some of his ancestors ( the men ) came from . I truly would not have enough eyes to roll.

Talking with him yesterday was a good exercise on how a very average sexist copes with talking to a woman who is not cowed by him and is way smarter and knows stuff better ( not perfect, just better ) The copium was spread thick.

"That's just your opinion."

changes subject

starts to get passive aggressive

appeals to other people

Braved the shops to get groceries for dinner. Apart from the heat, it's not that busy actually. Plenty of parking and roads weren't mad.

Very surprised.

Christmas day report.

Some of you may remember me writing about my BIL who is a hoarder and for whom we spent a lot of energy and time cleaning up his house and yard. Weeks of horrible disgusting dirty work.

He does not have much furniture, nearly all that he has he inherited from his dad, just like he inherited the house. And he does need to replace his kitchen and bathroom .

So I organised a nice big gift card from ikea to him as a present. Just to get him looking at the website or in the actual store as well as getting something that could make his life better.

He opened the present. He was furious.

It seems to me he was counting on cash so that in our usual cash gift exchange he would come out even. Take into account he doesn't make any meaningful contribution to xmas dinners or any fam celebration, he usually comes out ahead.

I had no idea he was that much of an unredeemed Scrooge.

It's a sleepy day today. Made the trek in the heat to get cat food for the extended cat family and now I'm done.

Gypsy has come for a visit. The cats are unimpressed.

Anyone interested in doing the Hobart to Hobart with me next year? We just float around on a boat in Hobart and sink some piss. If asked we claim we finished really early.

Tech support complete. Basically accessing sensitive docs sent by a law firm.

Without giving too much away ol' boy is giving a medico legal opinion on a poor young lady who has been through the wars. Family suing a doc (not the ol' boy thankfully) completely unrelated to underlying issues.

Anyway this is discovery shit.. defendants' (the doc.) file is a GB or a 1400 pg pdf, extremely detailed entire history (which is a lot, down to everything done intra-daily). Plaintiffs' bringing 240KB lol (shouldn't laugh but the discrepancy is absurd).

When these guys retire or semi-retire, some of them are hit up by either the defendant or plaintiff's lawyers depending on their history of siding with whoever. Some sell themselves to the highest bidder, others do it because it's right, others to protect their colleagues, some pro-bono or a combination.

Sounds awful but it do be that way. And this shit drags on like you wouldn't believe (and naturally it's the lawyers that win).

In any case, moral of the story is record everything.

Best thing about today: hot cross buns go on sale

Not a good day to be fluffy :(

Konstas has not disappointed. This is hilarious 🏏

Tech support for p's on boxing day :(

The speed at which that generation will throw up their hands and say it's all too hard never ceases to amaze me.

Going to take some drastic action today. Drastic carby action. Heading out to buy some beer 🍻

It's hotter outside than in, but it's so overcast outside that it actually feels reasonably cool out there

E: the pool is unpleasantly chilly without any sun. Should've gone in yesterday when it was sunny!