Luke Hand Diary

Funny old day. Got a laugh out of mum almost to the level that my “vol au vents” reference the other week got. Was working pro bono. Snap lockdown announced in the morning. I decided to act out and ride my scooter to the garage and around Merrivale - unlicensed, unregistered, unroadworthy, and unvaccinated!! I don’t give a jot! Did a bit more work but mostly just pottered around. Listened to some stressful football. Eiy-yi-yi... M: 5. E: 5. L: 0. 😆😎😐😇

TGIF. Work. Submitted a couple things. Ate a tonne of beetroot for lunch. Delicious. Went to Lady Bay for dinner with mum. Pretty tasty. Nice “date”. Bath. M: 5. E: 5. L: 0. 😐😇😍

Did a survey on the phone last night and one of the questions was about what kind of life I’d like to live. It was a multiple choice question. A happy life, and exciting life - there were a couple of other options that I can’t remember. I chose “An important life.” Today was whiled away unimportantly. I made no progress toward making my life an important life at all today.

Worked. Couple of chores. Listened to some music. Bed. Today’s grateful: sky looked bigger than it usually does. A real Texas kind of sky this afternoon. AstraZeneca changed its name.

M: 3.5. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😇😑

No pep at all today. Flat as a tack. Work. When I wasn’t bored about work stuff, I was slightly stressed or frustrated about it. Did a survey over the phone in the evening. Was dipping into reading about outed white supremacist people all through the day. Probably could have done less of that, to help my low mood. Re-watching the Operation Ore/Pete Townshend doc was the only bit of joy in the day. Snacks. M: 3. E: 3. L: 0. 😴😤💩😑

Work. Busy. The usual. Ehhhh. My gold chain arrived and is tight. NFC tags arrived. Mum got annoyed at me a couple of times. Doh. Got body shamed, or was that yesterday? Just snacked and worked a bit later into the evening. Ordered a pair of Nothing headphones. Not in the best mood. M: 3.5. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😰😓😑

Work. Sean dropped a bomb and resigned. Pretty huge news. Still haven’t processed it or worked out how well cope without him. Could be a clustermunch. Hmm. Also - had a sweat breakout on a zoom call - which I haven’t had for a while. Damn it!! Haha.

Tried to play the role of a ‘flying monkey’ in making sure that a local employer was aware of one of their workers being a neo-nazi, and that being covered in the local paper. He’s been stood down. I’ll keep an eye on it.

My Fagg’s Mitre 10 shirt arrived. Bless them for sending that. I love myself sick in it.

John Gruber followed me on Twitter. Now when I post about Apple stuff, there’s a chance of Gruber sharing my thoughts directly with senior Apple executives. That would be cool!

Some pretty depressing news out of Afghanistan. Fucking idiots.

M: 4. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😓😑

Ehhhh. Market. Roasted protein for linner with mum. Couple chores. Listened to a tonne of the podcast Something Was Wrong. Pretty great. Bit crabby, and annoyed and annoying. Fresh sheets. Tried olive oil and salt on ice cream and balsamic vinegar on ice cream. Not good. Ehhhh.. M: 3. E: 3. L: 0. 😐😞😑

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. 😐😓😑😇