Luke Hand Diary

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. 😐😢😇

Work. Day went quick. Went to the pub for dinner with mum. Mum was paying, so I ordered just a sumac carrot salad. Just $12 and not too much trouble for the kitchen staff to put together. Didn’t want to order anything that would be too much trouble for anyone or leave mum too out of pocket. I wasn’t great dinner company because I’m a bit flat. Snacks and mucking around on my phone for the rest of the evening. Need to rearrange my home screens. M: 4. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😑😔

Work. Didn’t get through the hundreds of responses due tomorrow. Was going to try to finish them tonight but I’m not feelin it. Will see how they take care of themselves tomorrow somehow. Eek. A very humble dinner of potato/garlic/onion and horseradish. Enjoyed some banter through various messaging apps. Quality Kek. She’s blowing a gale tonight. Sounds nice. I’m taking a month off trying to close my rings on my watch. I need to use time that I spend exercising each day on some work stuff or just relaxing I think. Early night so that I can see about them responses come morning.

M: 6. E: 5. L: 0. 😐😆😑😓

Hectic work day. Pizza for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. My chest-feeding/nipple-play sweater arrived. Very cool! Some beautiful clear skies today. Imagine my surprise when I went outside for my lunch and noticed that one of the cows had walked up the dirt pile. Did pro bono in the evening. Did an Apple Fitness+ HIIT workout with Bakari from the Fitness+ studio. Filled in the census. I want to rewatch Looking - getting a bit late tonight though.

M: 6. E: 6. L: 0. 😇😆😓