I've already checked out of working for the year. These next two weeks are going to be a slog.

Apparently this is our 1,000th post!

(It said 999 a couple mins ago)

So it was only fitting that I was perfect again :)

Sky is pretty
Finger is sore
I don't want to do
This assignment any more

Well well who do we have here?

I've taken the dodgy finger to the doctor. I expect a tetanus injection and antibiotics are in my near future.

Edit: tetanus injection aquired, antibiotics prescribed and medical certificate for three days issued.

Ugh, another long work day. I worked so hard last week but we just got more work poured down the pipeline (probably will tomorrow as well - before it becomes 2 weeks before Xmas and I hope to hell we don't get anything more). Plus laptop still doing its random sleep BS. Blah :(

I'm super, super grateful I don't have to throw a shitty commute with train delays into the mix though.

Now I need to cook (, Jesse!) For tomorrow's lunch. Waah. Not feeling it. Zucchini slice would make sense... no cheese but I have nutritional yeast... doooo eeeet, body...

E: I gotta say I am so effing PUMPED for Severence s2 early next year, bring it on!!!

Ah yes. Hello "I didn't do anything to provoke it" random back pain from just walking normally.

Ah middle age.

Also, I'm fucking starving. Success.

I did a thorough clean up of my kitchen today. Swept, mopped, cleaned the dogs mat and bowls and temporarily replaced them with some plastic ones because he might get thirsty or hungry. Cleaned out the fridge, dropped some deli meat in the bowl.

What did he do to show appreciation? He didn't like it in his bowl so he slapped it up and down my freshly mopped floor including my foot, deciding what position he was going to inhale the slab of silverside.

FFS. FUCK EVERY SINGLE BANK IN THIS COUNTRY

I got a banner popup (in the app) that my term deposit account has some unspecified problem and I need to call them. So I call them. Then they say "thanks for calling. One of our online support agents will be assisting with your enquiry today. Please see your app or web banking for more info. Thanks for calling!" And hung up! You arseholes. Why would you do that? Why can't I just talk to a fucking human you stupid piece of arsehole robot thing

I'm having deja vu to when those unauthorised transactions happened a few months ago and after sitting on hold for 2 hours they told me I had to do it through the app

What's the fuckong point of having a phone number if its only purpose is to hang up on people you scumbags. I guess bank of Melbourne is now on my shitlist, right along with CommBank

F me. D day for this project I am working on is approaching and folks are only just starting to take a look at the email that was sent back in october.

Too bad the project manager quit otherwise I'd be having a go at them cause all this work somehow falls to me.

Had a great class tonight. The actual class wasn't the most interesting, it was all about ethics and legislation. Bleh. But we finished about an hour early around 8:10, but I stayed back and had a nice chat with the trainer and another classmate. I'm fond of them both. I don't know how to describe it, but they're both the sort of people you look at and can tell they are shallow, and are genuinely kind people in their day to day lives

I also had many questions to ask which made a change. I like to ask questions in these classes, and like to check my knowledge and understanding, but sometimes we have to move on too quickly, or I just don't have anything I can ask. Probably sounds like a dream, but I actually do enjoy learning, if it's something I'm passionate about and is delivered in a digestible format

Been struggling through a box of drumstick ice-creams that clearly had both been dropped and melted at some point on their journey to the supermarket. Had to put this last one in a bowl lest it crumble in my hands. Thoughts and prayers.

Advised cerys last night if she didn't stop being such a little turdholster i was going to drop her in the toilet and repeatedly hit flush. This did not appear to have the desired effect

This is Gertrude, I think she's a Isopedella victorialis (Victorian Huntsman). Or she's a juvenile male lol.

She's been keeping the top floor of my building clear of insects for the last week or so. Until this morning when the cleaners came - I think she got sucked up 😭 anyway, in possible memoriam, Gertrude; the finest pest controller on level 4

a picture of a huntsman spider, Gertrude

Mmmm pasta bolognaise

Was a bit of an idiot last night and now I'm hungover. Thankfully working from home, but because of a house inspection. Thankfully it happened at just about bang on 9am so now I don't have to spend the whole day waiting for it!

sky very pretty

sky pretty

Have been doing life admin today, and I’ve got a new item to add to the list of ‘what I’ll buy when I win tatts’, and that is someone else to sort out the insurance

Ooh, and while I’m spending big I’ll get them to do the electricity/gas/etc comparisons, too. It’s doing my head in

I have a question DDT fam…

When you have things to do, like you know, a list of tasks say for the day or next day, do you visualise yourself doing them (when you think about the task)?

I think I'm going to have to be quite regimented about my eating times for the next week. The antibiotics need to be eaten at least 30 mins before and 2 hours after food, and have to be taken four times a day.

just 2 weeks left. But DAMN if they arnt gonna drag.

Some movies I have watched recently:

Margin call (financial thriller drama) for fans of The Big Short 5/5

Longlegs (Horror) Excellent Nic Cage performance as a the deranged killer 3.5/5

Black coats daughter(Horror) supernatural, psychological horror. One of those slow burns 3/5

Election(comedy) Reese Witherspoon is a gem. 3/5

Goin South (comedy/western) a quirky little movie directed by and starring Jack Nicholson 3/5

The lost city of Z(biographical adventure) based on the experiences of British surveyor Percy Fawcett.4/5

Blackberry (biographical drama) charts the rise and fall of the Blackberry smartphone device.4.5/5

Nocturnal Animals(psychological thriller) a tense neo-noir written, directed, and produced by fashion designer Tom Ford. Great cast and story 5/5

Twisters(action) a fun sequel to the Twister movie from the nineties . 3.5/5

Kinds of Kindness(black comedy) 3 films in one. Yorgos Lanthimos writes and directs. Expect the unexpected with him and the great cast he used for all three stories.4.5/5

Maxxxine(horror) third instalment of the X series. Not my bag really 2/5

Gladiator 2(action)sequel to Ridley Scott’s hugely successful Gladiator film. Bit of a letdown. A carbon copy of the first film with a forgettable lead. I will revisit this one though 3/5

Deadpool & Wolverine(comic book action) I enjoyed the first two Deadpool movies immensely but this one just leaned too hard into the meta references More is not always better. A hugely financially successful movie thoug, so good for Disney I guess. 3/5

Alien Romulus(horror/sci-fi) the original Alien is a slasher film set in space. This current iteration really leaned into that. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was. A great young cast as well. I would probably rank it fourth in the franchise. 4/5

The Substance(2024) and The Fly (1986) double feature night (body horror) wow what a great pairing of the new and old(er). The substance is great a “Black Mirror” style of story with excellent gross special F/X and of course Cronenberg is the master of the genre with The Fly remake.4/5

Juror #2(courtroom drama) Clint Eastwood latest film. Very heavy 12 Angry Men vibes. Leaves you in thought well after the movie ends. Toni Collette always sensational. 5/5

Been doing physical work in a body not made for it. Ouch 😢 The coming days/weeks are going to suck.

The tomatoes are potted out but one of them looks extremely wilted and unhappy compared to the others so may or may not survive.

Also I forgot the mask and gloves. I really hope that I haven’t breathed potting mix microorganisms in and the tiny cuts on my hands don’t give me tetanus 🤦

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I miss having employment that paid for an Adobe CC subscription. I do own CS5 from uni days, which kinda sucks now relatively speaking, but at least the jump from modern CC to CS5 is a lot smaller than the jump from CC to Affinity. I just can't get used to Affinity.