Monday: I was going to go to Brisbane with all the stuff, but felt really unwell after breakfast, so went back to bed.

Tuesday: Took all the stuff down to Brisbane, things went well, it was an easier trip than the last time. Only snag was the new shelves I bought aren’t compatible with the old ones, so I had to buy anther two sets of shelves, and I’ll replace the old ones entirely.

Wednesday: Pretty flat post-medication day at home. Persistent headache.

Thursday: Flat still, working on photos in Capture One.

Friday: Doctor’s appointment, discussed surgeon’s visit last week. Doctor seemed a little unimpressed with the surgeon’s take on things.

Saturday: Quiet day, Hannah arrived for the weekend. Had sashimi and hot dogs for dinner. Made the mistake of a martini on too little food, and was wrecked fora couple for hours, but felt better later on.

Sunday: Midday / late breakfast beers in the pool, then a Facetime call with Allie & Gareth. Working on Hannah’s laptop to upgrade it to a newer operating system.

I saw out last week setting all my facebook posts to private, closing down still further the past I had. I saw something, my sister’s formerly deactivated account with an active profile picture again, but not friends with me.

It puts a perspective on things. I put my hand out over and over to stay in contact with my brother and sister, and they’ve shown no interest in reciprocating.

Monday: Some admin and research, getting in touch with the bolt people to get the 10 extra washers they shorted me. Spoke to Pinnacle hardware about a shelving unit that’s out of stock at Bunnings, and whether they thought the Bunnings home branded Craftright version’s shelves would be compatible.

Then bought two sets of the Craftright shelves and a couple of dollies.

Tuesday: It was bucketing down with rain all day, but I had to go to Bunnings to pick up the shelves and dollies. Of course the rain eased off once I was at storage to drop them off, having had to walk out to the car with them at the store, with no covered parking.

One I was at storage, and had unloaded the gear, I was able to put the finishing touches on the frame for C45C4D3. So that’s done, my big 2025 project completed.

Wednesday: Groceries delivery. Did a bunch of video processing for bike helmetcam videos, reorganising files on disk, and running a large backup set.

Thursday: Appointment with a hand surgeon. He was an hour late for the appointment, and I was paying $300 ($220 out of pocket) 25 minutes later. According to him, a problem I have is a cyst in my finger bone. Allegedly if it was malignant (assuming it dates from when the injury happened) I would be “long dead by now”. Not the greatest bedside manner. I’m going to see my doctor next week to discuss the implications, but the surgeon didn’t really give me a clear idea of what the experience I currently have is or whether the surgery he recommends (removing the cyst, and a bone graft) will solve it.

I took some time to install macOS to the internal drive on my Mac Pro, as an emergency backup in case it gets to a state where it refuses to boot from it’s NVME PCI storage.

Friday: six-monthy blood testing. rest of the afternoon is pretty chill since you can’t left heavy objects afterwards. Had to order a new controller cable or my Xbox’s controller, as the old one was haing constant disconnection issues, and they stop happening using my B&O cable.

Saturday: Went over to storage with my air compressor, which is going down to Brisbane on Monday.

Sunday: Over at storage again, organising all the stuff I want to take down to Brisbane on Monday.

Monday: Finding out the bolt company is closed.

Tuesday: Went to storage, to adjust the circuit boards on the top of the sculpture. Realised I needed small spanners , wrenches, went home to pick them up, went back to storage, then had the cordless drill die so had to come back home with the circuit board to use the corded drill.

Wednesday: Trying to figure out cabinets for Hannah’s garage, and I’ve settled on the larger one, on the basis that it’s a more compact cabinet. Also, I had to buy a new cordless driver / drill / hammer drill.

Thursday: Over to storage, modifying circuit boards for C45C4D3 with the new cordless drill. Exhausted to the point of jelly limbs by an hour’s work. Worrying that I’m so fatigued so easily, hopefully it’s a medication issue, not a me issue.

Friday: Phone calls, working out logistics of having the tool chest delivered to Hannah’s place. Realised I’d double-booked my hand surgeon and skin check appointments, so had to reschedule the skin check to February.

Saturday: Researching shelving units, primarily.

Sunday: went over to storage, and finished securing the final moved circuit board on C45C4D3. It’s all ended out quite nice, so photographing the finished project will look correct. In the next week I have to sort out the 10 missing washers, though.

New year!

Monday: quiet day, took the bandsaw out to the garage, and cut through the galvanised 20mm threaded rod which forms the crossmembers for C45C4D3.

Tuesday: Disaster. Went over to storage to do some assembly on the sculpture frame, only to discover that it didn’t fit properly, and it’s my fault. I didn’t measure the sculpture itself correctly, and so the top frame is a few centimetres too short. It’s OK, the roll cage still works, it just has a slight overlap with the topmost circuit board.

I think I’m going to move those circuit boards downwards, to avoid tangling with the roll cage.

Wednesday: Hannah arrived to visit, we had Second Christmas for New Years Eve, and almost had the pudding ruined when it boiled dry in the steamer. Thankfully it turned out pretty well:

Thursday: New Years Day, a lazy one, drinks in the pool followed by hotdogs, martinis and Deathstalker 2 for dinner. The hotdogs were due to a grocery mixup, that saw us receive half of someone else’s shopping order.

Friday: We went over to storage, and moved C45C4D3 off the milk crates, and onto its frame legs, put the bottom crossbar through, and bolted up the bottom corners. It’s looking good:

Saturday: Afternoon beers by the river with Cameron. That evening, Bread & Butter pudding was made:

Sunday: Back over to storage, to attempt to finish off the sculpture, only to discover I’d been supplied too few of one component, and too many of another. Chicken wings for dinner, before Hannah had to head off home.