Monday: Domestic day; did laundry, cleaned the bathroom drains, put the car on to battery charger & ordered replacement filters for all the air scrubbers. Booked covid shot for Friday. Had a portion of shepherds pie and salad for dinner.

Tuesday: Doctor’s appointment, picked up whisky and sherry from Dan Murphys, picked up medications from the chemist, and Rocket from the fruit & veg shop, and then some sushi from the sushi shop. Did some laundry; tea towels and placemats, did a couple of training sessions on the bike.

Wednesday: Bit of a loss of a day, did book stuff. Made a chicken schnitzel for dinner.

Thursday: Had a bunch of air scrubber filters arrive. Had some shepherds pie for dinner.

Friday: Walked up to the local chemist for my twelfth Covid shot. Bought a bag of rocket. Bought a download manager app, and started grabbing an archive of Goodies episodes from the Internet Archive.

Saturday: Received a 3 day suspension from macrumors forums for snapping at someone who was sealioning me. Hannah arrived, we made chicken wings

Sunday: Registered slotboxmacrox.org and I’ll set up an independent forum for mac pro users, because I’m a mature adult. Played some Sniper Elite, watched predator, had some Sherry.

Monday: Hannah drove up for her “help Matt live a safe life” week, as I recover from my finger sprain. Started working on fixing an eBook written by someone else to make it more readable.

Ordered a handmade leather desk mat for my desk, because a small luxury isn’t a bad thing for a place you spend 16 hours a day at.

Tuesday: Did a couple of cycle sessions, did some more work on the eBook reworking. We finished off the chicken wings, and had a portion of shepherds pie.

Wednesday: Continued work on the book stuff. Made steak & salad for dinner. Ate a couple of cinnamon donuts.

Thursday: More work on eBook processing. Had my remaining two cinnamon donuts, and chicken wings for dinner. Hannah did a bunch of banal chores I couldn’t do, thanks to my hand; garbage & recycling, etc.

Friday:didn’t sleep well, was up when Hannah woke up. Slept a bunch of the day away. Had leftover chicken wings for dinner, watched The incredibles, and did more work on the eBook.

Saturday: Had a late start. Finished off most work on the book. Had shepherds pie for dinner. Did a cycle session.

Sunday: An earlier start. Did some eBook work, had a cycling session, ordered a big danmurphys order; Nikka coffey malt was on special, also bought a bottle of sherry that I’d heard about. Shepherds pie again for dinner.

Monday: Late start, or rather, a late finish. Couldn’t stay asleep, so I got up around 3am, did some exercise, etc. Hannah had her alarm set for 7, so I waited up for her to go for the commute down to Brisbane. Went to bed after that, and slept till around 2. Spent the day working on EPUB stuff, as well as trying to figure out what was happening with FastSpring and all these fake purchases happening on my store. Hurt the middle finger on my right hand, in a fashion similar to my left hand, late at night. Published the new second edition version of Derby Daze: Volume 1 which is a thing I’ve been working towards for more than a year. Fucking my hand up wasn’t exactly the way I wanted to celebrate that.

Tuesday: Made a doctor’s appointment for Wednesday to get a referral for my finger, to have it ultrasounded. Found a bunch of large paddlepop sticks from mixing casting resin, so used one to splint my finger.

Wednesday: Doctor’s appointment to get a referral for an ultrasound on my finger, then immediately afterwards up to the radiologists to have my finger scanned. Their diagnosis is it’s probably a sprain, so we’ll keep it in a splint and hopefully the doctor will get the results tomorrow and we’ll know what to do with it. If necessary I’ll go get an MRI, even if its out of my own pocket, but hopefully it’ll just be a short splinting. My biggest worry right now is that I clip the finger on something, given it’s stuck out straight.

I finished the HTML / CSS for the Day and Night book

Thursday: Finger seems to be on a slow mend, I had a quiet day, woke up with a headache in the afternoon to a voicemail from the doctor I’d seen saying my finger was probably a sprain, and should be ok in a few days. if not, make an appointment with my regular doctor, and consult the hand therapist.

Friday: Did two cycle sessions, made a half length splint for my finger, and kept it in that, as I practice a bit of extra flexibility. Mum made a couple of Shepherds pies, and dropped them off for me.

Saturday: Chopped up a bunch of biltong, did a couple of cycling sessions. Packaged all the shepherds pie portions into big plastic containers, and put those in the chest freezer.

Sunday: A quiet day. Bike sessions, and house tidying in preparation for Hannah coming to stay for a few days.

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.