Monday: Had a slow start to the day, but eventually went for a drive up to Lake Macdonald, to the Noosa Botanical Gardens, and had cheese and crackers n the grass at the deserted amphitheatre, hand-feeding magpies. Had chicken schnitzel & salad for dinner, a martini and a whisky, played some Halo, and had an early-ish night.
Tuesday: Hannah was working from home. I spent the day alternating beteen the forums CSS, and tryng to unfuck my facebook profile’s post privacy settings.
Wednesday: Mum cam home, I am no longer peacefully alone. I can feel the stress already. Had my flu shot. Continued working on Facebook and forum CSS. Stayed up stupid late stressing over mum potentially letting a tradesman into the house while I was asleep. Ended up leaving a note downstairs setting out why I was so worried, and the effect it was having on me.
Thursday: A busy day. Turns out Mum was only trying to work around me not being woken up by the tradesman working next door. Still, at least I’ve set some boundaries with that, and explained the stakes. I had a call with my superannuation company’s financial planner to talk about my current account – it’s the second most valuable thing I have, after my main savings account, and we were discussing where my desired risk profile is. After that, I had a video call with the National Library of Australia’s National E-Deposit team.
Friday: Had a solid night’s sleep, and a day of administrative efforts to figure out my Photography insurance, as the new policy was sent to me had only a few days before it expired, with a completely new insurer and company who appear to have all their information two years out of date.
In the evening I started working on a second attempt at redesigning Simple Machines Forum, and came up with a much better solution; just adding my new CSS overrides to the bottom of the CSS file, so they’re read last and I don’t have to care about, or modify the original code. It’s some of the nicest work I’ve done in a long time.
Saturday: Spent the day working on the forum theme.
Sunday: Spent the day trying to clean out my facebook profile, setting posts to “me only” so nothing is visible to my “friends”. Then did some more work on the new forums design. Had fish & chips & calamari & chicko roll for dinner.