Luke Hand Diary

Hung out with my tow-headed nephews. Mostly fun; bit tiring. Got invited to a lunch do. Hmm. Clean sheets. Bored. Done some farm work. Got catfished. Early night. M: 3.5. E: 3.5. L: 0. 😐😆😑😇

Wind and lightning last night was awesome. Work was annoying. Weird press conference by the police investigating the disappearance of the little girl in WA. Didn’t really say anything? Will need to wait ten years until this case is in the rear view mirror and the intention of todays presser becomes clear. Got a supermarket chocolate eclair like the ones at school. Very good. Did the dishes. Had a bath. Bored. M: 3. E: 3. L: 0. 😑

Work. Not so productive today. Bit tired. Had windows open and Sox was very into peering in the window. Great stormy weather in the afternoon and evening. Lots of Thunder. I asked a woman I know out for a drink the next time I’m in Melbourne and she said Yes. Might have to make a trip quite soon! M: 3.5. E: 3. L: 1. 😐😍😴

Nice weather. Quite warm. Balmy. Nice sunset. Got a bit of work done. Crook back. Had a bite of a pineapple fritter. Just a bite was more than enough. Looking forward to some warmer weather and being able to walk across to Penguin Island while the flowers are still in effect. Better get some shut eye soon. 666 days off the bottle. M: 3.5. E: 3.5. L: 0. 😐😴

Work. Busy. Did dishes. Watered plants. Nice smell of water from the hose that had been laying in the sun. More Morrissey. Walk with the girls. Nice weather today. Worked in the evening and actually got some stuff done, rather than flitting between email and Teams endlessly. Vego vegan hazelnut bar. My hair is flat and gross lately. May have to try some product for some texture. M: 3.5. E: 3. L: 0 😓😑😆

Work. Was talking constantly all day. Throat is sore. Completely way too much work to possibly get through any time within about a zillion years. Fuck. New person to join our team is super nice. Good pie for dinner. Mum’s fiend’s kale is good - the leaves feel young and not tough as old boots. A couple of tweets from an ex-friend got a bee in my bonnet for a while - not that I’m bitter or anything. Bit of a fizzer of a day. Worked a bit after hours but didn’t do much. Will try to start early. Ugh. M: 3. E: 3. L: 0. 😴😑😢

Got gran sorted out with a covid vax certificate. Did some gardening - the lawn, planting some seeds for some creepers, repotting. Mum’s lawnmower is a marvel. So old. How does it still run? Long and lazy day. Did my tax. Need to pay my late lodgement fines and take care of HECS. I think I have a tonne of tax taken out by work. Can’t wait until I’m actually getting returns again. Listened to some Morrissey albums that I thought I didn’t like. Boy, was I wrong! They were great. Did some pro bono. Oh we are fucked! Alt-right Davo came out as pansexual. It’s always the ones you least expect! M: 4. E: 4. L: 0. 😐

Dentist at 8:10 AM. The guy didn’t really go with me on my bants about my terrible teeth. Got a filling. Might go back and get a few more sorted out. Checked out [REDACTED]’s house. Nice. Hung out with nephew. Got a nice pure wool t-shirt. Laid around. Got a bit grumpy.

Was thinking recently about how mum was telling me around the time of the Sophie break-up that that would probably be the hardest thing I would ever have to go through (and that I just had to scrape through that, and then it’d be downhill skiing from there). Been thinking that that was probably true. Definitely if my tooth would have fallen apart a few years ago I wouldn’t have had the option of getting it looked at. Would have been too in debt, just paying rent and bills, stuck in that place. Probably was worth it to have gone through the hellish period, now that I’m on the other side. Buried a dead chook near Red Rooster. I was very brave at the dentist this morning. M: 4. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😴😧🙂

Work. Fuuuuudge. Busy as hell. This is getting insane. And I don’t think it’s tenable with even more coming on to the plate next week. Trying to keep the existing stuff going and projects submitted, plus training a new staff member remotely, plus testing and implementing a new coding tool, plus shit-loads of other stuff! Fuck sake. Not going to be good. Two dogs came up and were barking at and being aggressive towards me while I was moving around in my own home. They hung around for a while. A piece of vegan chocolate cake in the morning was all I ate up until 6pm today. Not good. Had a bath. India said that I’m “an acquired taste.” M: 4. E: 4. L: -5. 😐😓🙂

Tooth fairy came! $2 note. Work. The nephews popped in. Went to the libertarian cafe for their last day. Do hope they open again, but maybe they won’t. Damn. Quick beachy. Very flat sea today. Flowers are coming up on Penguin Island again. Just like that, another year has zipped by. Had fish n chips with a few people at the park for mum’s birthday. Good little hang out. I kicked the footy right up into a tree. Couldn’t get it down. Was really lodged in there, right by a bird’s nest. Ah well. The kids were all being very cute. Beautiful sunset. Did the dishes. Mum and Ashlea’s ceramics from the class I sent them to came back. Look great. Mum had a nice, love-filled day by the sounds of it - and that’s the main thing. M: 6. E: 4. 🥰🙂