Luke Hand Diary

Spoke to Anton the barista to make clear that I wasn’t trying to be rude when I asked about masks the other day. No dramas. They’re closing temporarily until they can open to everyone. Interesting. Work. Stressful. During a meeting, I crunched a boiled sweet and my second molar crumbled apart. Hmm. Probably well overdue for this to happen. It’s been about a three decade run of not being to the dentist, but that might come to a close soon. Fell into a bad mood in the afternoon and everything was annoying me. Walk with mum and ash. Frustrating to hear about some stuff going on. Some fucking people. Unbelievable. Good to chat and joke with them two though. Sudden throbbing headache just now. M: 2.5. E: 3. L: 0. 😐😑😠😓

Spilt milk. Work. Boring day. Stayed on to set some files up after hours. Should have done more but couldn’t be fucked. Will get up early and do it then, hopefully. Ugh. Nice weather. Put some avocado seeds in water and soil to try to grow. Dropped some Woolworths bricks around to the boys. Nephew is cute with how much he picks up the chooks and pats their beaks and chins, etc. T-shirt arrived. M: 3.5. E: 3. L: 0. 😐😑

Vertical and caffeinated by zero dark thirty. Work - bit of an epic nothing burger of a day. Did a lot of dishes. Nephew was sick and came here from school to rest. I had too much ice cream and ice magic. Got eviscerated by alt-right Davo in the chat. Was just trying to point out that we all experience content - and life - differently based off nature, nurture, circumstances, and a whole bunch of other factors. Early to bed. M: 3. E: 3. L: 0. 😑

Early rise. Stitched nephew’s Coles patch to his little aths top. Asked [REDACTED] the barista why he and other staff weren’t wearing masks. Exemption. I think he’s cross at me these days. Didn’t see him by name in the anti-mandate chats, but maybe he’s seen me clowning around in there. Felt like a bit of a jerk for asking. Will talk with him again. Cooked. Shouldn’t have lurked around on Hinge for a while. Depressing. M: 4. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😑

Up super early. Did some pro bono. Walk to Maccas for breaky. Had way too much coffee throughout the morning. Felt sick. Went to Koroit with the nephews. Pie from bakery. Went to the skatepark. Ollied onto a block and acid dropped about a metre off the end. Got new shoes and jeans. Jeans made by tailors in Bangladesh. Shoes made somewhere on the planet. Amazing that global trade and these structures make these kind of purchases possible - would have been only possible for the 1% at any other point in human history. Wow. Headache kicked in terribly. Very uncomfortable. Thought I was going to be sick. Must have been a bad prawn. Had a nap. Finally came good. Got friend-zoned. Dinner and bed. Had hoped to do some tasks today. Maybe tomorrow. M: 4. E: 4. L: -10. 🙂💩😑

Work. Got one file that had been a total mess neatened up. All of our team was so good all week and have done heaps of work. I got through most of a to-do list today and we may have the next couple months under control? Ah pish. I forgot to send HR an email to put out an Expressions Of Interest ad for a new person on our team. I over-egged the mayo in an email at the end of the day and was too earnest and over the top. Bit embarrassing. YOLO tho. Listened to some more great music. Going through a rude patch of finding plenty of music very enjoyable. Very grateful for it. Did dishes. Saw Leon at the supermarket and got a lecture on Vespa scooters. Very cool guy. Cool mod shirt. I’m going to get a lot done this weekend! M: 5. E: 5. L: 0. 😐😞😑

Up really early. Worked a bit. Then took a walk around the beach. Clocked back on. Lot of work. Still fucked with a couple jobs not set up yet and the project leads mithering me about when they’ll be done and that. Fuuuudge. The Age got back to me about my news tip about that anti-masker yanking the cop’s taser and that. They said it was “a disgrace” and they’re having a reporter look into it. I think it’s definitely a story that’s deserving of much more attention. Was standing with the cows for a while. Cute. Walk with mum. Was chatting with a bloke who’s planning on working this bit of land near mum’s house and I told him I’d be keen to pick up some roustabout/jackaroo-kinda work. Oh he jumped at that! So I can’t wait to get involved. Finna be epic. Mowed the lawn. Fed the maggies. They were taking chunks from right up close. Cute. I know of someone who is “fucked in the head.” M: 5. E: 6. L: 0.

Up early - rare for a work day. Full day of running around and spot fires all day today. A few calls with people to get some little weird wrinkles on a couple projects sorted out. One of the ladies is like an alternate reality, normie version of Sophie - very animated and expressive, and a similar face. Haha. We’re going to add a couple of people to our team. Can’t wait! I thought I had wrecked the RSS feed and podcast settings for Tomato Is a Fruit the other day. I posted an ep today and it looks like it might be fixed. Still hasn’t appeared in Castro. Hopefully Castro is just being slow to realise that there’s a new ep and the whole thing isn’t wrecked and I don’t lose my followers. But then again, it won’t be the end of the world if I do. Day went quick. Had Thai dinner with mum. Was really good this time, compared to last time I think. Early night. M: 5. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😇🔥😑

Work. Got a couple tasks done. But we’re about to get totally overwhelmed with work. Eek. Hopefully get an early start tomoz. Was listening to a few Steve Roden albums on repeat all day. So good. Perfect music. Fed a magpie and followed it down the road a bit after it picked up a few hunks of meat and walked off with them without eating them. I thought it hid some meat away in some grass for later. I checked but couldn’t find it where I thought it had hidden it. It was doing something queer though because why else had it eaten a few bits at home but then chosen to take the other bits away - especially because it had to stop a few times to rearrange its carry. I’ll keep an eye on it. The story from the other day with the anti-masker bashing the cop with the metal bat developed further today. Reports say that the son grabbed the cops taser and shot it off and was also going for their pistol. What the hell! The cops pulled their guns on these bedlamites and were going to shoot - but couldn’t get a clean shot. Insane that there was nearly gun fire right across the paddock from home. Yikes. Wonder if the mum will be spotted out and about without the son, while the dad and son are in custody. Very interesting. This morning while I was watering the planters that I put up on the back fence, I liked seeing rainbows in the spray from the hose. And this evening on a walk with mum and Ash, a wave crashed on a reef and white of the wave caught the colour of the setting sun. Really nice and golden, glowing sunset tonight actually. M: 4. E: 4. L: 0. 😐🔥🙂😟😓

Work. Busy. Tired. Nap before dinner. Another nap before walk and talk with Ash and mum - that was nice. Quality bants. Nice weather. I’m just really tired and feel a bit sick. Could be from being out of rhythm with my medication lately. Feel very irritable. Bored. Getting an early night. M: 3. E: 3. L: 0. 😓😠😐😑