Monday: Had a video interview with the local NDIS coordination organisation. It seems like a lot of paperwork, and red flags in a followup email about needing lists of tasks one “cannot” do.

Tuesday: Went to the optometrists to look at the replacement frames Lindberg had sent, and they largely had the same issues as the originals, plus an extra issue with the surface finish. So, I ended up taking the original ones home.

Wednesday: Did a load of laundry.

Thursday: Did a bunch of tidying around the house, and continued photo processing stuff.

Friday: Continued on my cleaning binge… and managed to put my phone through the washing machine – didn’t notice because it kept playing a podcast at me over bluetooth headphones.

Saturday: Hannah arrived for the weekend, we went shopping for groceries, then made chicken wings & martinis for dinner while watching Fringe & The X-Files, then played a bunch of Halo. Noticed something odd with Fastspring after receiving an email telling me I had a payment due: some bot network or something is putting random purchases through my online store. LOTS of purchases. Most are being declined, but a few are successful. I’m “making” more from this than I ever did from legit sales. Obviously, I’m not withdrawing the money from my FastSpring account until I find out what’s going on.

Sunday: We had a late morning, made pancakes, eggs, bacon and maple syrup. Damn it’s good. Watched a couple of films with  some daydrinking. Tried to play some games, but Hannah’s controller started bugging out. Watched some X-Files, and had the remainder of the chicken wings, with another movie.

Monday: Public holiday, chilling at home. A few drinks, some gaming, chicken wings for dinner.

Tuesday: A day spent cleaning the dishwasher, running cycle after cycle, first empty, then doing the oven racks, then all the plates, crockery, and cutlery. Later, time spent getting a bunch of publishing steps done for Derby Daze Vol 1, Second Edition.

Wednesday: Did a bunch of work cleaning up and finalising the HTML of my Derby Daze books. There were a lot of issues, and I’m finding glitches with the Apple Books app. Came to a point where I think the images are a bit too dark, so I started on bringing a bit of brightness punch.

Spent about an hour making an amazing dinner – a blue cheese bacon & mushroom gluten free pasta, and just as I’d scooped it all out in a bowl, I lost strength holding the bowl, and all but a small snack worth of it fell out on the floor.

Thursday: Woke up with an eye headache. Spent the day working on photo stuff.

Friday: Woke up late, spent the day catching up on news, then working on photo processing. Spent a bunch of time going to and fro with my webhost over why I couldn’t get in to my admin system, before they sent me notification that the server admin system was offline pending a security fix.

Saturday: Got back to the admin system, and implemented a better antispam rule, which seems to have cut down on garbage emails. Played videogames with Hannah.

Sunday: Did two sessions on the bike standing trainer. Kept working on photos etc.

Monday: Huzzah! The toolbox was delivered, and appears to be undamaged. The old one was taken away. This was scheduled to be two separate deliveries, one to pick up, one to drop off, but the one guy did both. Instead of using palette jacks, he just had a tip trolley, and did everything himself; left the truck out on the street, wheeled the box down the driveway.

Later in the evening, we assembled everything, got the wheels on, etc.

I’ve been stressing about this for so long, it’s hard to fathom that it’s over.

It. Is. Done.

Tuesday: Drove back to Noosa.

Wednesday: Quiet day, grocery delivery.

Thursday: Another quiet day – posting on forums about stuff.

Friday: Again, not much. Cleaned and replaced the HEPA filters in three of the four house air scrubbers. Cut up a couple of steaks into portions for freezing. Forum drama continues.

Saturday: Hannah arrived, we had fish & chips for dinner, then played some Halo.

Sunday: Beers with Cam & Dunc down by the river. Made low-carb pancakes, bacon & eggs for dinner. Had a couple of margaritas and a whisky while watching The Terminator.

Monday: Bad sleep due to construction work, or leaf-blowing for hours next door.

Tuesday: Slept well, had a chill day. Did a bunch of photo processing & received notice of a shipping / delivery date for a chair I ordered from Desky.

Wednesday: Chair arrived, and it’s not going to work out – it cuts into the nerves in the top of my legs and is the opposite of what I was trying to achieve by switching to a standing desk.

Thursday: Pottering around, stomach complaints. Finished a pass through my roller derby images.

Friday: Tidied the back garden. Realised the tap timer is truly stuffed. Fuelled the car.

Saturday: Drove down to Brisbane. Pizza for dinner, drank too much wine.

Sunday: screaming hangover, slept in till 2 after being sick from eye headache. Had chicken wings for dinner.

Monday: Grocery delivery. Had a poor night’s sleep having forgotten whether I’d taken my sleeping tablet or not. I suspect not.

Tuesday: Another poor night’s sleep. Had to rush to get to a pathology centre that closed at 2:30pm, to find it was closed at 12:30pm. Rushed to a different pathology place, and had blood drawn there. Then drove over to the optometrist to return my Lindberg glasses for having the frame checked. Arrived home to find someone had plugged the pool robot back in. Then fixed the watering timer in the back yard. Called up the first pathology place’s call centre to tell them the hours were wrong for their location I attended.

Wednesday: Discovered I’d missed a step in the setup for the watering timer, but checked the instructions, and managed to get it all sorted.

Thursday: A domestic day, laundry, listening to podcasts. The watering system is not working, annoyingly.

Friday: Walked up to the shops, checked the mailbox, bought some rocket from the little grocer, some lettuce from the supermarket as well as some sprouts. Then some paracetamol from the chemist. Had long phone calls with Allie and Marissa, who I haven’t spoken to since last year.

Saturday: Chill day, didn’t do much. Listened to podcasts, chatted to Hannah’s family via facetime. Was up late working on a website thing to change the post order for my Photostream.

Sunday: A quiet one; woke up very late because I was up the night before. Watched a TV show with Hannah while having dinner, and did some photo processing. Last thing, before going to bed, I bought a tall wobble stool, as a lean-against option for my standing desk.

Monday: Public holiday, mum came by for a late lunch. Had a drinking video call with Allie & Gareth. Played a bit of a new game we bought; it’s badly designed.

Tuesday: Late start, made prawn rolls, and had them with beers down by the river. Watched Constantine with Hotdogs and martinis for dinner.

Wednesday: Had a chill day, then a big night of margaritas and made smoked kippers and rice for dinner.

Thursday: Hannah was having a work from home day. Had indian for dinner.

Friday: Alone in a house again, Hannah headed back down to Brisbane, Mum is off for a road trip for a month, so I have blissful seclusion.

Saturday: A quiet day. Did some photo processing.

Sunday: Much the same as Saturday, photo processing, waiting for over-eating Indian to burn out. Watched an episode of Fringe with Hannah.

Monday: Was awake late the night before, so a late start. Had a grocery delivery, then trimmed the hedges in the courtyard. Spent the evening babysitting downloads for Hannah, and working on photo processing.

The mains water was out overnight.

Tuesday: A meh day, spent a lot of it angsting over the email I would have to write to the optometrist regarding my new sunglasses.

Wednesday: Optometrist replied, seems chill enough. Did some photo processing. Jeez I’ve put on weight, 55kg. Updated iPhone to iOS 18.7.7.

Thursday: Optometrist let me know they were closed Friday, when I had intended to drop off the glasses… cause it’s Good Friday, which I forgot about. He’s going to be on eave as well, so we wait until the 13th to get the process back underway. I woke up really unwell with medication side effects at 11am, went back to sleep and got up at 2:30pm. Had a fragile day all day. Weigh 54.4. Updated iPad to iPadOS 18.7.7. Hannah bought some 4k bluray films to bring up for the weekend. Bought a new bottle of whisky, and a case of beer.

Friday: Quiet day, spent time processing photos, listening to tunes, cleaning up cables on my new desk.

Saturday: Was a bit worse for wear after the previous night’s groovin’ to tunes (and whisky). Did a bunch of tidying up.

Sunday: Hannah arrived for a few days. Made chicken wings.

Monday: Woke up early, and under-rested, went back to sleep and slept till around midday. Received email that my new licence photo upload was accepted, and had to decide if i was still going to go through with Tuesday’s doctor’s meeting for a medical certificate, given i wasn’t required to submit one. Did a load of laundry, towels etc. Went for a bike ride. Hung the two framed Grickle prints Hannah had bought me.

Tuesday: Running around for a lot of things today; doctor’s appointment, then to storage to pick up my studio chair up, then over to supermarket to try to find some Rocket, then home, then over to get my new sunglasses adjusted, then over to another supermarket to look for Rocket, where they didn’t have the one I wanted.

Went for a bike ride.

My contact from Sydney Tools called to apologise for the situation with the toolbox, and touch base with progress to obtain a new toolbox, which he’s succeeded in doing.

Had a new bit of kit arrive, a HDMI to USB-C video digitiser that can plug in to an iPad, and then the video stream can be watched on the iPad.

Wednesday: Had a solid night’s sleep, spent the day doing admin stuff.

Thursday: A pretty bad day; couldn’t sleep due to impotent outrage over my glasses not having perfect geometry. Walked up the street to buy some Rocket. Spent some of the evening looking for the blank lenses from my new glasses, which seem to be missing.

Friday: it was a quiet, at home sort of day. I did some laundry, put a load of dishes on, played some games with Hannah. The big news, was Lindberg, my glasses maker getting back to me, and offering me a new set of frames to replace the ones I have, as they agree there’s something “off” about the way they look.

Saturday: Tourists staying pulled the entire pool cleaner vacuum out of the pool. Did some photo adjustment work on Derby Daze, & played Halo with Hannah in the evening. Couldn’t sleep, so I rewrote my bio at four in the morning.

Sunday: Bit of a meh day. Went through a garbage bag to see if I could find something, but it wasn’t there. Did a bit of photo processing. Signed off on my tax return.

Monday: toolbox delivery, what was supposed to be a drop off and pickup in one event turned into a pickup, then a drop off  in a separate trip. The box that was dropped off, was just as badly damaged as the one I was returning. They’d clearly sent a floor-stock demonstrator, rather than getting a fresh boxed, new item. To top it off, the guy who’d been handling things had to go home early for a family emergency, so he wasn’t there to take my call.

Had a productive phone call with Transport & Main Roads, who handle drivers licences, trying to get them to figure out a way for me to do a drivers licence photo without going in to a service centre.

Tuesday: Drove back to Noosa. All daytime driving, with my new glasses. It was a pretty nice easy run, the worst traffic was arriving back in Noosaville, at the end of Noosa-Eumundi road.

Wednesday: Woke up with a eye-crushing headache. Had a bit of a write off day. Really used my standing desk in seriousness for the first time though, and it’s properly nice. Went for a bike ride, and managed my full 12km route. Felt a bit wrecked by the end, but honestly, better than I’d thought I would be.

Thursday: Walked up to the shops to check the postbox, and pick up some Rocket at the supermarket. Walking feels… odd. Something to do with my neurology, I suspect. Wearing a mask, and my new round sunglasses, it was a bit…

It started to sprinkle with rain as I reached my street on the way home, I fiddled with trying to get an umbrella out of my bag and unfurled. A gentle drizzle came down as I walked up the driveway, to become a pounding torrent the moment I stepped under cover.

I wrote up a blog post about my experience (so far) with the toolbox.

Friday: Had a groceries delivery. Went for a bike ride, and did the absolute full course, including the bit I’d been avoiding because of a magpie. Arrived home to find the guy from Sydney Tools had emailed me back to express an apology for what happened with the toolbox.

Saturday: Had beers by the river with Cam. Played some Left 4 Dead with Hannah in the evening.

Sunday: Had a bad night’s sleep with feet hurting, and back hurting. Spent most of the day shuffling around with deep fatigue. Most of the day was spent trying to set up a photo shoot for a new ID photo for my driver’s licence. Added to that, printing the forms, filling in all the forms, etc.

Monday: Rain continued to bucket down, went to storage to try to get bits and pieces to prepare for my desk.

Tuesday: Waiting for new desk to be delivered, but it never showed up. The replacement power PCB for my iPad stand turned up, so I installed it, and everything seems to be working well.

Wednesday: The desk arrived, and the day was spent disassembling the old desk, unwiring everything, and then starting the construction on the new desk. I gave up after becoming exhausted.

Thursday: Picked up my new sunglasses, and my oh my they’re amazing. Finished constructing the desk, ready to finish wiring it up.

Friday: Wired up the desk, and it’s amazing. Had to remake some timber pieces, line some others with rubber, but it all went magnificently.

Saturday: Drove to Brisbane, had to get petrol on the way before I left. Had a long drive with my new glasses, they’re so good :)

Sunday: Put the wheels on the toolbox that is being returned, and moved it down to the lower level of the garage, so as to be most easily accessed tomorrow, when the courier delivers it. Ordered pizza, and had wine.