Walk. Bought a new book. Babysat nephew. Cooked, gardened, skated, made a song with him (Whatever You Want). Let nephew do the throttle while I dinked him on the Vespa - he was pretty psyched about that and the huge skid that we did. Cute. I didn’t eat well today. Feel crabby and bored. M: 4. E: 5. L: -10. 😐😆😑💩

Work. Boring and unproductive. Heard back from higher ups re my RAP working group email. My questions were acknowledged. Sore throat from doing my Dale Cunningham character voice. Might have to call the coronavirus hotline and ask “How ya doin, sugar. Listen now, an ad what came on in between my stories tonight says I’m to get a coronavirus test if’n I’ve a sore throat. But say my throat is only sore on account of doin voices - you reckon a man needs to get tested in that eventuality?” Pretty bloody bored and flat. M: 4. E: 3. L: -5. 😑😓😞😐

Well, the sun has moved back south (I think?) because it was shining on me in bed after sunrise this morning. Nice clear and sunny day. Realised after going to the vaccination centre and ranting about the rollout to a bunch of people that I’m getting too worked up about it and I have the luxury here in Regional Vic to step back and see if some Pfizer doesn’t just pop up sometime in the next month or so. Rather than repeatedly bumping up against assbackwards rules around who gets access to what isn’t as dangerous to people of their demographic, etc. Going to try to calm down about it a bit.

Work. Very busy. And I had to go and open my big mouth and send some uncomfortable questions to the Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group (AKA as, basically all the top brass who I’m not fit to shine the shoes of..). I’m glad that I sent the email but I bet it’ll lead to discomfort or some sort of weirdness. YOLO tho I guess. Walk. Vibed out a bit looking at the dewy grass and the river and that. Glory be to God. I’m due to listen to some Soul Search podcast eps and get in touch with my spiritual side again soon I think. Missed dinner due to snacking.

M: 6. E: 6. L: 0. 😐😓😑😇

Very boring day. Work. Same stuff. Sox sat up on the deck for a long visit today. Too stormy all day for the magpies to visit. I’ve got olives and blueberries ready to feed them. I bet I’ll forget they’re there and they’ll go bad before I remember to feed them to the magpies. I booked in for a vaccination shot today but cancelled. Fuck it. I want to wait for Pfizer. Why the hell shouldn’t I? The over-60s can use the fucking Astra. I spoke to a clinician on the coronavirus hotline about concerns and I have done probably as much research as any judgemental prick who thinks I’m being an anti-vaxxer or single-handedly slowing the race to 80% immunisation of the population by choosing to wait for Pfizer - so fuck em. Grateful that iPhones are pretty water resistant nowadays. Like being able to run them under the tap occasionally to blast the grime off. M: 4.5. E: 4. L: -3. 😐😑😓

Work. It’s really busy at the moment! I think everyone there hates me - wahh, wwaaahh!! Emailed Sophie’s mum to say Hi and that I always think of her and [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. She sent a really lovely reply. So glad I finally messaged. I saw them pretty much every week for over a decade so it feels so weird to just switch off and have nothing to do with them at all. That was really nice. Lots to think on from that.

Bought and used an enema kit and some moisturiser with sheep placenta in. Bath. Barbecued some protein. Dishes. Bed.

M: 6.5. E: 5. L: 0. 😇😓😟😐😆😍

Bought a gold necklace online late last night. I might invest in a chunkier and fancier one if this test-chain feels alright. God I was comfy in my clean linens and tightly-made bed and heavy blankets last night. Work. Hmm. I’m a bit behind and useless. Eek. Clocked Looking. Man that was good. Food for thought, some of it. Walked. Nice clear sky this evening. Bit of overtime. M: 4.5. E: 5. L: 0. 😐😇😓

Nice long day. Chores. Repotting plants. Recorded a podcast ep that I thought was superb. Washed all the crockery and cutlery and the drawers. Cooked onion and garlic in butter. Binge watching Looking - damn this show was good! Fresh sheets. Long, slow, and lazy Sunday. M: 7. E: 5. L: 0. 😐😇😎

What a damn day. Rode in mum’s new whip. Has CarPlay - nice! Babysat the nephews for a while. Had Macca’s, played with the conversation prompt cards from Instagram (they were a hit!), chucked sticks in the river, Alfie and I climbed up to a cubby up in a tree, we picked wild fennel and made a tea with it (boys surprisingly liked it), took them for spins on the Vespa - by and large, a nice and whine-free hangout. Snacked a lot, checked in on work.

Got a bit dragged into a Twitter debate around the Apple announcement about scanning for CSAM on iPhones and in iCloud Photo Library. God damn. Pretty weird issue with a lot of greys, but essentially I think it’s good - and I don’t think Apple is choosing to do this just so they can offer governments a way to search people’s phones for anything they want to monitor. It shouldn’t be a surprise that sheeple immediately jump to the “Apple is a big company so of course they’re evil” stance. It’s annoying though. Before I even saw discussion about it again this morning, I was already thinking about what my major malfunction is with being such a baby about people having different opinions to me on certain subjects. Wouldn’t we all be happier if I was just in charge and everyone thought the same as me and we all had just one font of truth? Hawthorn always win the Premiership, Oasis albums get five stars, Android doesn’t exist, Australia is the one global superpower, etc..

Anyways. Watching Pixar’s Luca.

M: 7.5. E: 7. L: 1. 😍😇😎😆

Work. No dramas. Cooked the tastiest Napoli sauce at lunch. Delicious. Fish burger at dinner. Small fire outside in the early evening. I wrote and burned a small invocation. 🙏🏻 Went for a walk on the trail in the dark and listened to the frogs. That was awesome! Really loud. Super cool. Sounded so great. Bought a super cute little plant for my bedroom. Raindrop shaped succulent leaves. M: 7. E: 6. L: 0. 😐

Work. Super busy at the moment actually. Good timing to have decided not to bother with exercising for a couple of weeks. I parlayed some negative retail energy from finalising my complaint to Harvey Norman into some positive retail energy by scoring a free t-shirt from Faggs Mitre 10, Geelong. The lovely Liz in their Operations team is mailing a shirt to me, gratis. (Well, gratis except for the small donation I made to a charity that Faggs support..) Another lockdown announced. M: 5. E: 5. L: 0. 😐😢😇