Luke Hand Diary

Funny hair day. Work. Yhehhh. Late to submit a job and did an awkward speech in a farewell thing for [redacted]. Ugh should have kept it zipped! YOLO. TGIF. Watching the Melbourne Demons embarrassing the loathsome Geelong Cats, mwahahah!! Dishes. What a damn work week. Could be my last weekend before the wheels come off the Coding department completely! M: 4. E: 3. L: -4. 😓😰😑

Sprung out of bed at 5. Updated some coding files from some export files, recorded a tutorial on how to update coding files from export files, and also wrote up a document covering the same. Did some work. Did a walk before the others clocked on. Did a big protein cook up for breakfast. Rode the Vespa on break. Exchanged some Vespa bants with a fellow Vespa owner up the road. Older lady. She’s on like her fourth Vespa. Loves them. Same lady who also feeds the magpies around here. Nice lady. Quiet work day up until a zillion things went wrong or were remembered to me as being overdue. Ssshhiiiittt..! Had a late coffee, thinking I’d power through and work into the night but I’d had enough after 12.5 hours. Long bath. Going to start on watching Dawson’s Creek. Early morning tomorrow hopefully. M: 5. E: 6. L: 0. 😎😇😓😰😐

Work. Review went well. I’ve clocked probation. And what’s fab is that I definitely have capacity to do a lot more and a lot better, so just wait until I get into gear. I’ll be exceeding expectations all the way down the review document! Meeting I called to say that I basically expect to have no idea what I’m doing on a few major projects once [redacted] leaves went OK. Could have been better but at least I’m not as stressed about that stuff as I was a few weeks ago. Beautiful skies and light today. Proper spring day. I should have gone for a walk after work but I was zonked. The scents of spring have been nice the last few days. Rode passed the Carey’s house and the smell floating out of the garden was lovely. Other random nice scents have popping up lately too. The added bonus is that my noticing nice smells indicates that I probably don’t have covid. No small bonus. Watching CUBE (1999). Going to snack a lot. Woolworths out of Ice Magic two days in a row.

M: 5. E: 4. L: 0. 😓😰😐😑

Work. They hate me. Ah well, can’t be helped. Work day went quickly at least. Got a garden salad from McDonald’s. If they didn’t give me the balsamic dressing that I ordered deliberately, then the jokes on them because I actually was glad to have a super low calorie lunch. Winning! Sox came right inside and was walking around the living room. Kept a close eye on them so they didn’t mess anywhere or anything. Was pretty uncanny watching a cat move around inside here.

Watched a movie that for many people would be too scary for them to be able to handle. Wasn’t a problem for me at all. Saw (2004).

A diary podcast listener wrote to me. Someone I don’t know in real life. Said that they listen. Very cool! Early night for an early morning I think. Big boring work day tomorrow, I’m predicting. Awkward meetings and my Review are on the cards. Would love to make some music soon.

M: 5.5. E: 5. L: 0. 😇😐😑😓

Work - annoying, busy, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles. Was thinking during the day that I’d stay on overnight and burn the midnight oil but I got bored of it. Will try to get up early and do some stuff tomorrow. Listened to Dexy’s Midnight Runners for the first time in ages. So good. Listened to Kevin Rowland’s My Beauty album for the first time. Hated it! Somerton Man was on Australian Story. Thought they were going to announce findings from the exhumation. Just retold the story and then said that they’re studying stuff they dug up now. Maybe we’ll have some answers soon. Did a dinner collab with mum. Not bad. A lady borrowed a wire coat hanger off me.

M: 4. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😇😤

Woke up with a crook back again. Just part of getting to my age, I spose. Grabbed some crabs in the shallows with the nephews. Saw the whales doing more spouting and flapping and breaching than I remember ever seeing them do. Did some house chores. Pegged a mail box. Watching The Bourne Identity. Clean linens. Didn’t eat well today and feel a bit crap. M: 4. E: 4. L: -5. 😐

Had the nephews for a bit. Got Maccas for lunch. Cost bloody $48 after I’d rounded up a donation to Ronald McDonald House. I don’t know how many times I’ve complained about the self serve checkout machine never having paper - and the number displayed on screen never matching what is called out (today: 98 on screen, 198 called out). For fuck sake. Couple of cute nephew moments. Especially nephew yelling “Oh for Christsake!” when the other kids turned up. Had a nap. Got ice cream with the lads. Put some tea from a teabag in the aeropress with my coffee. Could be on to something. Got dinner from Myrtle with mum. Very good! Went through a bunch of files on old hard drives. Some funny old videos and photos. Lots of memories. Watching the footy.

M: 6. E: 4. L: -5. 😐😇😆

Yeah nah. Quiet day. Fizzer. Work - similar shit to many other work days. Great clouds and colours in the afternoon. M: 3.5. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😓😑

Early morning walk. Saw the sunrise. Crappy work day. Swimming in it at the moment. Long day. Sore back from sitting down so long I think. Ate poorly. New chain arrived. A skit of mine might be aired on the radio soon. I think I have a crush on Gladys Berejiklian. She has an interesting face. Watching that viral video of her press conferences all chopped up, and, in certain shots, she looks really beautiful. If we were to date, I would love to playfully muss her hair up while we were laying around on a lazy weekend afternoon. Alas - she doesn’t know that I exist. M: 4. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😤😑

Damn Daniel. The toothbrush I have currently is the firmest “Medium” toothbrush ever! Work. Ball-ache ‘R’ Us. Blood donation. Fish n chips. Beautifully fine day. M: 6. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😑

Been thinking about Isaac on my smoko break walks the last few days for some reason. What a gem! Probably around about a year since he died now. Really glad that my thoughts pretty regularly wind back to thinking about Isaac. Such a great guy and the fact that I think about him and his smile and his humour and his vibe so often always leads me to thinking about how some people are sort of more themselves than others. And I know that other people really admired Isaac for being himself so much - so they probably also think about him and get inspired anew regularly as well. Very cool. Goo goo g’joop.