Luke Hand Diary

Work. Hectic. Checkers with the lads. Felt unwell. Felt annoying. Just bored, I guess. Installed iOS beta. New emoji. Watching The Missing s02. M: 3. E: 3. 😐😴😑💩

Completely wiped out this morning. Took a sickie. Just hung around on the Teams chat all day but couldn’t work. So sluggish. Cleaned the plug from the bathtub. It had had grime on it and I’d bought new plugs to take over from it but none of them fit the bath plug hole as well. Gave it a spray with some ammonia stuff and it’s good as new! I was hoping for a huge storm to end the run of warm and muggy days we’ve had, but it only stormed for a minute. Watched a lot of The Missing tv show. Great stories, great acting. Should have got an earlier night. M: 3.5. E: 3. 😴😪😍😑

Stayed up very last night. Up til like 2:30. Latest I’ve been up in years. Had a [personal] appointment first thing in the morning. Was drowsy through the day. Was warm. Stayed inside mostly. I had designs on getting a lot of things done today but I laid around mostly. Did the lawn, did some laundry. Cooked lunch. Went to a zoom meeting thing about platypus conservation. It was pretty amazing. Great talk. No fat on it and super informative. I love platypuses! I’m going to go platypus slotting. Watching TV. Australia Day will change dates or change name and date within... five years, I think? Going that way I reckon. M: 6.5. E: 5. 😇🙂😐

Work. My first day working mostly in the new coding app. This app will change my entire focus at work. Will be able to do much more validation of codes and coaching etc, rather than spending time merging files together and spinning plates. Very cool! Walk with [sister]. Felt peaky after walking. Very uncomfortable - light-headed, headachey, nauseous. Cooked assassin’s spaghetti. Interesting. AppleTV+ and chill. M: 6. E: 5. 📈🙂😐

Work. Day went super quick! Getting busy. Went for a long beach swim. So nice in. Got cat food. Weird picking out a cat food package for Sox. Suddenly have to choose between a silkier coat or better bone health. It’s not even my cat! Shouldn’t be my damn problem! Cooked up some protein for dinner.. Had my first Gordon’s gin in well over two years in the evening. Didn’t drink enough water today. Tight shoulders. Headache-y. M: 5. E: 5. 😐

Nice and achey through my body from the snorkelling yesterday. Felt nice. Got sunburned as well - doesn’t feel so nice! Got some native grasses from Bunnings and bunged them in the rock garden space. I should just chuck a bunch of neglectable plants in there and see what survives. Took the neighbours bin in so the street doesn’t look like a dump. Napped in the afternoon. Zonked out completely! House chores and being calm in the evening. Cute and cheering message from Erika re the in-bed-with-Luke Insta filter, haha. M: 4. E: 4. 😇😴🙂😐

A ‘Sebastian Gorka’ (read: ‘corker’) of a day. Pottered around. Window-visit with gran. Went for a snorkel with mum. Sea was very flat and very clear/green/blue. Saw a few fish. Was great to watch the seaweed swaying. Went into a few areas that I’ve thought people were crazy for swimming in before. But it was so calm that it felt ok. I have a healthy fear of the power of the sea, I would say. Went between Middle and Merri Islands. That area has been very spooky to me since that family all died there. Even today when it was super calm, a very slight wave rolling in pushed me around. A couple of cute little penguins were sitting on the rocks. After snorkelling, I went in-land. Rode the scooter along the trail towards Illowa as a test ride for when I have to get the bike out to the mechanic guy next week. Felt like a bit of a dick zooming along the path because it’s not the place for scooters and a bunch of people would have been hating me for it. Yolo tho. Got her up to 60 clicks. When I got towards the knackery, there were a couple of floats and some horses standing around. I turned the motor off and rolled by so as to not spook the horses. Then the scooter wouldn’t start again. Might have overheated or something. Not sure. Not cool though, right next to the stinking knackery and in the heat. It started again eventually. Was awesome hooning along the road after that. Saw some huge predator bird, a bunch of cows and horses. I got through to illowa and then turned around because I didn’t want to go right to the door of the mechanic place - or get busted by cops on the way. Back home. AppleTV+ and chill. Pizza for dinner. Nice day. Might snorkel again tomorrow. M: 5. E: 5. 😇🙂😆😍

Work. Thank god for my work wife. Quiet day but should pick up next week. Got my bike tyre fixed finally. That was a whole kerfuffle. Another kerfuffle was that two pairs of Clark’s shoes that I ordered arrived. I really can’t believe that these are both size 10 shoes - one pair is too big and one is too small. If I live to be 100, that will never make a lock of sense to me. Very annoying. Gallo for lunch with mum. New Servant ep dropped. The newspaper were supposed to call me today about VLine repeatedly fucking up the road crossing recently but didn’t. Warm day. Peter Doherty is two years clean from drugs now. Bless. M: 3.5. E: 3. 😐😑🥰

Work. Hmm. Went to the rockpools at Thunder point with the boys. The middle one listened and learned about periwinkles and those things that suck your finger when you touch them and stuff. Cute. Good to see some live periwinkles around there. Has seemed a bit barren for a couple of years, compared to how I remember it as a kid. The VLine station left the crossing lights and bell on after the train had passed. Second time in a few weeks. So cars got sick of waiting, crossed the active crossing, beeping each other, one dude got out of the car to yell at another motorist. I don’t understand how just turning the crossing off after each train going through could be so difficult. Called the cops and they didn’t care to come out and control traffic or get the crossing turned off. It was still going when I took the bin out an hour later. The very frustrating. Wrote to the local paper about it. There’s gonna be an accident soon. M: 3. E: 3. 😐😑🙂

Worse than yesterday, better than tomorrow. Work. Unproductive. Couldn’t get going. Excel got a new lick of paint. Modernised look and feel. Laundry. Watered plants. Worked out how to adjust the height of the middle rack in the dishwasher. Walk with the girls. So this is my life? Wow. Pretty great. Thanks, God! Really great life you blessed me with. Appreciate it. M: 3. E: 3. 😴😑😓😕