Monday: Administrative things; ordered some weldable m16 nuts, spoke to a guy from 3M about the filter for my welding helmet. The long and short of it is the filter should be good for more than 6 months, and the primary protection is the particulate filter, which the PAPR will tell me when it needs replacement. The filter I have sealed in bag is past its use-by date, but I’ll use it anyway, change it out after 6 months. Organised a printed manual for my welding helmet’s screen. Did a cycling session, weighed myself at 53.9kg. Made Kippers fried rice for dinner.

Tuesday: A rushed morning, had to go out  as soon as I was up to collect fixings for the desk shelf project. I went to bunnings to grab a 3mm drill bit, as well as some matching nuts and bolts. The goal of this is to drill pilot holes in steel, and then bolt those pilot holes together, so I can stabilise the pieces of steel for drilling the larger holes.

Wednesday: Woke late, and had to race out for a riverside drink with Cam. Later, went to fuel up the car for the drive down to Brisbane on the weekend. Spend some of the night working on the Kyoto chapter of Day and Night.

Thursday: Took out a subscription to The Rest is History club, and began the process of downloading 900+ back catalogue episodes. Did some laundry.

Friday: Laundry, and packing for the Brisbane work trip.

Saturday: Packing, running backups, travel down to Brisbane. Ordered Chinese food, a meal costing $111, more than I’ve ever spent at a restaurant/ takeaway. Weird being in Hannah’s house by myself. Watched a movie, and did some drinking before going to bed.

Sunday: had a broken night’s sleep, so had a relatively easy day. I set Hannah’s garage up for welding etc. Monday, I’ll start work.

Monday: A day of driving around on errands; went over to a hackerspace to pick up eWaste for my dragon hoard of sculpture materials. Then, to bunnings to collect materials for my next fabrication project, and on to Kmart to pick up a new cooler bag. Finished the Derby Daze series on Mastodon, after 126 days.

Tuesday: Drove out into the industrial lands of Brisbane again, north this time, to pick up replacement jacking feet for my workbench. These ones have ball joints on the feet so that if they’re on an uneven surface, they’ll tilt to conform.

Wednesday: Working in Hannah’s garage. Fired up the welder, and gave it a run. Everything appears to be working, I was able to get the helmet dialled in, and the settings all configured. Replaced the levelling feet on the workbench with ball-jointed versions from yesterday, and they’re working wonderfully. Watched movies while having BBQ pork ribs for dinner.

Thursday: Tidied up in Hannah’s garage, moved most of my tools into the tool chest, and cleared out 4 big plastic tubs in the process. I moved the tool chest under the workbench, which I was able to lift on its new, longer levelling feet. Next trip down, I can start work on the new levelling feet.

Drove up to Noosa in the evening, while Hannah was already at the Sunshine Coast doing a talk. Stopped at Hungry Jacks, where I was given the wrong burger at the drive-through.

Friday: Had a grocery delivery with several things wrong. Spoke to Hungry Jacks, and worked out that I’d been charged the correct amount for the wrong order.

Saturday: A quiet day, played some games with Hannah in the evening.

Sunday: Another quiet day. Spent time looking for instructions for the welding glass in my PAPR helmet. Made a portion of Nachos mix, with some mushrooms, broccolini, grated carrot and avocado for dinner, as well as a large bowl of ramen broth.

Upped my workout to 40 reps.

Monday: Amazon order arrived and it’s not the thing I ordered; the seller changed the product page while the product was in transit, and altered it to be the thing they sent me. Managed to get a refund organised, but still have to send it back.

Got a bunch of productive work done on a replacement for said product, what I want to do is going to be more complicated, but I suspect fabricating the thing myself is going to be the only solution.

Tuesday: Spent the day doing laundry, and investigating what fixings were necessary for grommet-fitting my display to the shelf I’ve designed.

Wednesday: Did some calling around looking for fixings for the desk shelf. Replied to Fastspring regarding the fraud that was put through my store.

Thursday: Had to fuel the car up, had to shave as a result. Cut my neck to ribbons in the process because the razor’s blade was loose. The federal government announced they’re halving the number of publicly-funded Covid shots immunosuppressed people can get.

Friday: A poor night’s sleep, spent the day prepping for a week away. Washing the car, packing, laundry, backups.

Saturday: Drove down to Brisbane, did some work in the garage, watched some tv, atr chicken wings.

Sunday: Did more work in the garage, levelled the workbench and set up my welding screens.

Monday: No sleep overnight, Hannah left in the morning, and I dozed away much of the day fitfully. In the evening, I started the process for doing a major operating system upgrade for my Mac. Backups were made of multiple drives, a bootable duplicate was made of the extant system, and that was it for the night.

Tuesday: Slept solidly, woke late. Installed Sequoia on the Mac’s internal drive, then on the main boot drive, then spent the day dealing with issues resulting. The desktop wallpapers were wiped for all but one of my spaces, so that all had to be re-set. Surprisingly, all my old software worked fine. I bought some upgrades, and they were… meh. Had one upgrade charge full product price because I was looking at the store page for the company while still on the purchase page for the discounted version.

A real annoyance has been iCloud drive being stuck on a 1 byte file, which prevented Time Machine from running, so there was most of a day futzing around trying to fix that.

Wednesday: The iCloud issue was solved – booting in safe mode, the problem was instantly gone. Rebooting to normal, everything was good.

Thursday: A quiet day. Posted a review of a piece of software on SBMR, but aside from that, not a lot done. It’s that post-project quiet time.

Friday: Tried to go to Bunnings to pick up some things, but they were closed because it was a local public holiday. Having concerns with a product I bought from Amazon, which is delayed, and has had its product page changed to be completely different to the product I ordered. Had thai food for dinner, which may have undone all my no-carb slimming.

Saturday: Feel post-carb blergh. Played Snipey with Hannah, had Satay sauce with a portion of steak with salad. By the end of my wake cycle, I’d managed to finish writing up the Osaka chapter text for Day & Night.

Sunday: A quiet one, I managed to get the opening text for the Kyoto chapter of Day & Night done.

Monday: Woke up around half 2. Had a chat with Allie while making and eating dinner. Played Snipey with Hannah. Bought a set of C Clamps to try to build a better baseplate for my displays.

Tuesday: Didn’t get to bed till half 7 this morning. Slept till 2:30pm. Had breakfast, & dinner, watched an episode of Fringe with Hannah.

Wednesday: Late start. Worked on Day & Night, figuring out the text for Osaka. Went over to storage to find Gibson’s sprawl trilogy.

Thursday: Solid night’s sleep, slept till late. Read to Hannah. Continued to work on Japan photography book.

Friday: A couple of more people signed up to SBMR. Did some tidying in preparation for Hannah coming up for the weekend. Took her upcoming birthday presents to storage.

Saturday: Hannah arrived, we made chicken wings, and had drinks by the pool, and played games.

Sunday: Pretty much the same as Saturday, with a roast lamb shoulder along with leftover chicken wings.

Monday: Late start, after a late night. Shopping order delivered. Spent time on the phone to Ikea.

Tuesday: Had a shocking night’s lack of sleep, went to bed at 12, woke up at 3, didn’t get to sleep till 7. Ordered Hannah’s birthday present. A new Dremel die grinder bit arrived, whils I’ll try on the steel baseplates at Hannah’s. Had Japanese beef udon noodle soup for dinner.

Wednesday: What did I do… Spent the day mostly tidying my room.

Thursday: Made a few fixes to some SBMR CSS, did some laundry, realised someone I know on Mastodon in someone I knew on a BBS 30+ years ago.

Friday: Had my first Shingles vaccine shot. There’ll be another one in 3 months or so. Played a bunch of Halo with Hannah.

Saturday: Bits and pieces of work on SBMR. Chatted with Hannah’s family by Facetime, as she was there for her father’s birthday.

Sunday: Did a bunch of stuff on SBMR; added a new VR board, put a couple of posts in to it. Added a post for my ProxMox project.

Monday: Slow start after a bad night’s sleep. Went for a drive out to Port of Brisbane to scope out photography locations. Headed from there to the seaside at Manly, where it had become bitterly cold, so we bought Chicko rolls, and ate them in the car, while listening to The Rest is History. Drove home to Hannah’s, stopping for booze on the way, and made san Choi bao for dinner.

Tuesday: Slept solidly, had a leisurely breakfast. Went antiquing to a new place I hadn’t visited before. Afterwards, we went to the big Brisbane Dr Martens store, where I picked up a pair of Solovair Monkey Boots, that I’ve been looking at for a little while.

Wednesday: Quiet day at home. Processed a photo from the weekend.

Thursday: Woke late, but felt pretty ok for most of the day. Figured out an interesting fix for an EPUB previewing. Played some games with Hannah in the evening.

Friday: Went and bought socks from Big W, to see how my new Monkeyboots look. As expected, the Neo-Georgian thing is working quite well.

Saturday: I was going to catch up with Cam for a beer, but it started raining just as I was getting dressed, so we, erm, rainchecked for Sunday. Had a quiet day doing some gaming, and played some sniper elite with Hannah in the evening.

Sunday: Beer with Cam by the river. Wore my monkeyboots out for the first time.

Monday: Had a good night’s sleep, and a quiet day. Did multiple loads of laundry, including hand-washing a bunch or merino shirts. Did some kitchen tidying, and made beef stroganoff for dinner, which I had with an episode of Fringe with Hannah.

Tuesday: Did more laundry. Took some boxes of stuff over to storage. Finished posting a new workflow post to the SBMR forums.

Wednesday: Annual neurologist appointment. His assessment: Stable. The issues I’m having with my legs might be mechanical nervous, rather than neurological nervous. Picked up some drill bits from Bunnings.

Thursday: Went over to storage and did a little tidying, wanted to return some boots to a box, but the (unknown to me) vinyl tongues had disintegrated. Had a chicken schnitzel salad for dinner.

Friday: Washed the car. Packed to spend the weekend at Hannah’s.

Saturday: Drove down to Brisbane. Picked up some groceries, and medical supplies. Had someone sign up to SBMR who I’d been trying to get in contact with.

Sunday: Spent the afternoon in the workshop drilling the baseplates for the jacking feet. Up late with a sore ear.

Monday: Woke up hung over, but managed breakfast, then dropped my bike off to be serviced. Went out for lunch by the river, with prawn rolls using brioche. Had a beer with lunch. Then a kahula coffee after a nap, then a martini, and a prawn salad, and two more martinis, for 12 shots of vodka total. More or less passed out, as opposed to going to sleep.

Tuesday: We woke up fragile, and hung over. Drove out to Cooroy, and bought pastie, cheese & spinach triangle, and a chicken pie, and ate them in the sun on the stepped banking between the library & the Butter Factory. Came home, went out to get ice cream because I had a hankering for an iced coffee. Made nachos for dinner, then played some Sniper Elite.

Wednesday: Hannah went back to Brisbane. Time spent nibbling away on CSS.

Thursday: Felt pretty flat all day, but glory of glories, I managed to get the SBMR forum css complete, as far as I can see. I ended the night posting the first few notes about it on various social media sources.

Friday: Had a really bad night’s sleep, did some SBMR CSS tweaks, and continued to drip out publicising it. Legs were feeling a bit weird, went for a walk around the block. Played an hour or so of games and legs felt really bad afterwards. Had KFC for dinner, which I haven’t done in years. Ordered some hair removal cream to see if it could be an alternative to shaving.

Saturday: The hair removal cream arrived. It doesn’t work. At all. Amazon simply refunded it, afterI was able to find a way to chat to a support rep. Played some games with Hannah after dinner.

Sunday: Quiet day at home. Mum has cleared out for a few days after waking with a sore throat, and deciding not to risk being infectious. Chatted to Hannah’s folks via Facetime. Played some Snipper Elite with Hannah in the evening, and had a small serving of Shepherd’s pie for dinner.

Monday: Went to bed around 8am, got up around 4. Did a bunch more CSS work as I try to figure out how to solve inconsistency in how Simple Machines Forum does a number of things.

Tuesday: Went to bed at around 3, woke up around 7. Don’t know if I actually slept or not. Had a nap in the afternoon. Spent the day working on CSS, and doing camera gear research with regards to my speedlight.

Wednesday: Another early start – went to bed around 1:30am the night before, and got up at half 8. Cutting down tohalf as much temazepam is causing me to sleep lighter, so I wake up easier. I reached a final resolution on a design issue with the new forum site, so I can move on to fixing other things, which is nice.

Thursday: Woolworths missed about a third of my delivery order, so I complained, and they scheduled a second delivery for later in the day. CSS progress is in the bulk benefit phase where styles are being moved in to more generic levels, and flowing through to more of the site.

Friday: Broken sleep – went to bed around 1, but woke up around 4 or 5. Stayed up till 8 or 9, had a nap for a couple of hours, then went out and did errands; biltong, medications and beer. Had the error where Mona shits its bed after more than 23 days uptime.

Saturday: Hannah arrived for a holiday, heavy drinkig and chicken wings and the new Masters of The Universe film.

Sunday: Hungover, but afternoon drinks and the forth Thor film, and Firefox.