Luke Hand Diary

Got a few things from a list done - chores mostly. Heh, King David (the sovereign citizen) went bananas and attacked cops with a metal bat and is now under police guard in hospital. Good golly. Went to the market. Got flowers and a denim jacket. Listened to the December 1980 Lennon interview. Had a beer down at the river. Watched some Dawson’s Creek. Fresh sheets.

M: 4. E: 3.5. L: -5. 😐😑😠

Walk. Naps. Andy Bell ep of I am the EggPod Beatles podcast was so great. Food for thought. Listened to the Andy Bell album again. Listened to a nice John Cage album a few times. Bored as hell. M: 4. E: 2. L: 0. 😑

Posted a podcast ep. Work - slow day again. Will catch up on the weekend. M: 4. E: 4. L: 0. 😆😑😕

Work - took it easy. Walk. Throat still sore. I was trying to film the way that Sox zigzags in front of me when I try to walk on the deck - and I stepped on their foot. M: 4. E: 2.5. L: 0. 😑💩

Crook. Flu-like symptoms. Kind of like feeling sick tbh. Work. Thought I would try to finish early today but didn’t get away. A small group from within our team worked together very well and got a lot of work done to a high standard. Very cool! Walk. Bed. So zonked. M: 4. E: 3. L: 0. 😴😑💩

Work. Many new projects came in. Going to talk with my manager tomorrow about how best to get through the current bottleneck. Pop tarts for breaky. Feeling a bit swollen around my glands and a bit achey. Could be a side effect from a dart I had this morning. Felt a bit silly and distracted this afternoon. Felt a bit annoying to others. I know I can be a bit much. Early night tonight and back to business tomorrow I reckon. M: 5. E: 4. L: -10. 😆😰😐

Worked 13 hours. Barely moved from the desk all day. Got told off for our coding work being shit. By the guy who I’ve been handing everything in late to. Doh. Sent off another project tonight that was at least sent in it’s due date - but I didn’t know it existed until two business days ago, so I bet the coding we did on it will be crap and it will also be flagged as being lousy work. Doh. Took a break to do a beachy with mum in the evening. She pointed out the gravel that they’d put in on each side of the speed hump at Pickering Point.

“Yeah - I noticed that yesterday. Did you just notice it now?”

— No, I noticed it yesterday as well but I didn’t mention it.

“Isn’t life great? If some new gravel on the sides of a speed hump is the highlight of our day.. our week.. month and year? I wouldn’t be dead for quids! Are you kidding me - and miss all this!?”

M: 3. E: 3. L: -10. 😰😑😕

Last night, I was made aware of a post in the Warrnambool ‘buy, sell, swap’ page on Facebook about a black cat that had been hit by a car and killed on the street here. Had to go check the body to see if it was Sox. It wasn’t, thank goodness! I was completely sure that it would have to be Sox - given that they’re profoundly blind. Phew! Did some lurking in the telegram about the vaccine mandate protest, and then went and watched. It was interesting. Despite media having reported that the event was cancelled and the poor weather conditions, there were over 100 people marching - and many cars circling and beeping in support. I didn’t think it was going to be as successful as it was. Mowed the lawn. Bit flat again. Cooked flexitarian meatloaf for dinner. Bored. Bed. M: 3. E: 3. L: 0. 😆😠

Up early. Walking around town. Had a lot of coffee. Was lurking in the telegram and Facebook group for tomorrow’s anti-mandate protest. Will be interesting to see how it goes tomorrow! I dobbed Apple in to one of the higher-ups at my work for this new setting that will let users block calls from all unknown numbers. Sure to effect survey response rates pretty massively I reckon! Slept through the day too much, drank too much coffee, feel a bit scattered. Crazy mist today. Gave Sox tinned food for the first time and I think they loved it. They were very cuddly with me for the whole day. Deadnamed Hannah and felt terrible about it! Oops!! Listened to (What’s the story) Morning Glory? for its 26th birthday today. Beautiful. M: 5. E: 4. L: -5. 😆

Really sore shoulder. Must have slept on it wrong. Ouch. Work - got the wrong end of the stick in a meeting. Oops. Thank god it’s Friday. Got slow cooked fare from Mrytle with mum. Delicious. Bath. Soaked my arm - up to and including my shoulder - for as long as possible. Ahh. Very uncomfortable. Chocolate and cookies. Lots of good content online this evening. Lots of ugly commentary about Gladys of NSW resigning. Not cool that people are so gleeful about kicking her while she’s down - after a career of decades, essentially, trying to help the community. M: 5. E: 4. L: 0. 😎😓😐😇