Totally forgot about static ice.

I had carpets removed and floorboards put in and it left a little gap behind the fireplace. A tiny mouse came in while I was watching TV and then went back (so I found the hole). I plugged it up with steel wool and expansion foam. Then I also finally set up my sub woofer. My house shakes anytime something with bass goes on. I’m hoping it scares them off as well.

Woohoo!

Looking to get another HDD for my NAS. Same as the last one I got (16tb iron wolf). My god, the price jump. It’s almost double in price from when I bought the first one.

For real. I expected him to be ok with it, but the whole dont worry about AL thing was just completely out of left field. Relieves a lot of stress.

I told my boss about my studying (complete career change) and how I would be leaving at some point. Told him about my last lot of annual leave was for my placements and I’d have enough leave for my next placement but after that I’d probably have to leave.

His response was: Don’t worry about taking leave for it. We’ll work something out.

I was umming and uhhing for months on whether I should tell him or not and decided yesterday to do it because it would then force me to decide how to approach studying/working instead of worrying about it. That went a whole lot better than I expected.

I know I should get over it, but do you think it’s ‘ok’ to be miffed about donating something to someone and not even getting a thank you in return?

It’s been a month. I am mostly over it, but from time to time it comes to mind and it bugs me as someone who lives in a world thinking they’ve never mattered.

The dream somehow turns into action movie about guitarist saving a country from some kind of chemical warfare.

Desperado in Australia. I’m down for this.

How is it I started work at 9, I’ve been here 18 hours, yet it’s not even 1:30? (Today is going soooo slooooow)

Mainly just work and uni and placement and writing and just trying to have a non-tech life at times. Too many irons in the fire.

Howdy all.

I have not been here for a long long time. Life has certainly got in the way of everything.

Hope you are all doing well and life has been good.

I got into westerns a few years back as well. I even wrote some western short stories set in Tasmania and have a couple more planned.

The 2010 remake of True Grit is fantastic. Hailey Steinfeld was amazing in it. High Noon is a movie you have to add to your list. It’s my favourite western (and top 3 overall movie for me. Funnily enough, Out of Sight is top 3 for me too and that’s a Elmore Leonard novel - add that to your Leonard novel reading list).

Anything Clint Eastwood western is going to be good. Justified TV show for a neo-western (also based on Elmore Leonard). They adapted Get Shorty into a TV series too which was pretty good.

Jackie Brown is based off Rum Punch.

The Tall T, 3:10 to Yuma are westerns based off a Leonard short stories too.

Honestly, you are spoiled for choice with Elmore Leonard and westerns/adaptions.

I loathe them. The revving, the constant rumble, it grates on me to the point I might turn into a mindless murderer. We have a guy who uses it almost daily at work, and just lets it idle and…urgh.

After an almost 2 month wait I got my final 2 assignment results back from last teaching period.

I was pretty certain I nailed one and the other I was iffy about.

The one I nailed, I “only” got an 82. Which is good and I am happy about but I thought I would have done better.

The one I was iffy about, 90. Now, that, I am chuffed about.

The 90 also did some heavy lifting and put me in HD for the overall unit.

I put on Iron Man the other day and AC/DCs Back in Black comes on and my daughter goes “I like this music. Is it old people music?” I swear my back started aching as soon as those words left her mouth.

I usually have veggies with dinner - snow peas, beans, 1 or 2 types of capsicum and zucchini. Sometimes carrot if I can be bothered peeling, sometimes mushies

How did my package go from NSW to Launceston to the Ausport Depot 5 minutes from home in Tassie to Adelaide and now in Melbourne?

Cold certainly ain’t an issue.

That would be the only issue. If something happens, there wouldn’t be anyone else to be able to get her. I’d (hopefully) be teaching in the area.

I haven’t been to Ballarat in many many years. What’s it like now?

It seems so much bigger and I think it has a lot of what I need in terms of moving back to Melbourne (well Victoria) and housing prices is within my budget. It also has gymnastics and other things my little one would want to continue doing so it definitely sounds appealing on paper.