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10 Dec 2023: I loved the three Doctor Who specials and intend to rewatch before the Christmas episode. Neil Patrick Harris as the Toymaker in the third one was …
27 Nov 2023: I’d like to drop gmail as it’s the last bit of Google I haven’t removed from my life. However, I have a grandfathered free Workspace having set it up …
26 Nov 2023: Having successfully avoided any references to Doctor Who online today I’m going to settle in and watch the first 60th special. I’m a big fan of the …
23 Nov 2023: Happy Doctor Who Day! The show hits the 60 year mark today and is the one tv show that I can safely say has been a favourite my whole life. Can’t wait …
17 Nov 2023: 💻 Today is new MacBook Air delivery day at work. Surface laptop was a great unit but I’m excited to be fully back in Apple land.
6 Nov 2023: Quietly indicating two of my favourite things. 🐈📚
28 Oct 2023: Spent my Saturday morning listening to the new Mountain Goats album, Jenny from Thebes, which made for a pretty good morning. 🎵
27 Oct 2023: It’s been a week. A very TGIF sort of week.
27 Oct 2023: It’s well past time for journalists to stop writing “X, formerly Twitter” or some variant in their articles. He sacked the comms team, don’t replace …
22 Oct 2023: Had a sunspot cut out of my lower leg on Friday and had the usual instruction of keep it covered for 48hrs and don’t get it wet. Looking forward to a …
19 Oct 2023: ☕ That relieved feeling when you made it to the cafe counter in front of someone who has a 10 coffee order rather than behind them.
18 Oct 2023: Trivia time. Thanks to international journeys we’re a much reduced Team “Peter: The eras tour”.
18 Oct 2023: I always give myself a Christmas present and this watchband is going on the shortlist for this year. 🖖🏻 www.amazon.com/Star-Trek…
17 Oct 2023: I like it when the six monthly fire drill is a “Shelter in Place” exercise rather than an evacuation. I can stay in my office and quietly sip my tea …
9 Oct 2023: Almost half of private school parents would consider switching to a better funded public system Governments in Australia need to stop funding private …
1 Oct 2023: 🍸 Lovely afternoon with a long lunch and then cocktails. Walking/rolling home.
30 Sep 2023: On Caturday, this little treasure likes to sit in the old chair on the balcony and watch the birds in between naps. 🐱
29 Sep 2023: The contrast of old and new on the streets of Kyoto.
29 Sep 2023: 😎 Clocking off early to get my long weekend started.
28 Sep 2023: You get a pretty decent cardio workout if you decide to walk around the gardens at Versailles. So large and spread out.
27 Sep 2023: Embrace the leg. 🐱
26 Sep 2023: My nighttime beverage more often than not these days is a cup of tea rather than a glass of wine. I quite like this “Sleepy” tea.
26 Sep 2023: When you’ve had a tooth out and still high on painkillers you too will sit and stare at the ceiling. 🐱
25 Sep 2023: Beaches at the end of the day when you get that last flare of the sun are the best.
24 Sep 2023: Went out for dinner last night before seeing a show. We popped back in afterwards to have dessert and a nightcap. I went with the vanilla bean panna …
23 Sep 2023: A day in the life. Dinner and a show. Bananaland as part of the Brisbane Festival.
23 Sep 2023: Live long and prosper. 🖖🏻
23 Sep 2023: Another sign I’m turning into my father: just had an afternoon nap because I’m going out tonight.
22 Sep 2023: A favourite thing to do when visiting family in my hometown is to take a drive up the Eungella range. You can stop at the pub near the top and you get …
22 Sep 2023: It’s been a week. TGIF.
21 Sep 2023: The life of a cat. Will fall asleep anywhere, anytime.🐱
20 Sep 2023: Disruption. That’s definitely what this creates to my planned walking route.
19 Sep 2023: I was browsing through photos looking for a new image to use as my zoom background and came across this one of Hadrian’s Wall. I remember standing …
18 Sep 2023: The nights have warmed up so time to pack this bit of fabric away until the head needs to be kept warm again.
17 Sep 2023: An intense game of chase the ghost that only the cat can see has been underway for the last 10 minutes. 🐱
16 Sep 2023: Puppy said woof! then I said oof! as he lunged at me playfully and nearly flattened me.
15 Sep 2023: Sitting on her red throne with her arms folded up. A favourite position and I always assume I’m being judged, probably for the lack of food despite …
14 Sep 2023: Impersonating a statue in the hope the gecko will come back. 🐱
14 Sep 2023: A walk across the bridge and the horizon glowing as the sun sets. A nice way to wind out the day yesterday.
12 Sep 2023: No need to panic, I’ve been here inside the chair the whole time. 🐱
11 Sep 2023: In retrospect, a recycling bin with an easy to open lid may not have been the best idea. 🐱
11 Sep 2023: I just need a few people (20,000) to get together and chip in a few dollars each and I’d have a brilliant Christmas present in the shape of a …
11 Sep 2023: Two of my favourite things, cats and Star Trek. 🐱🖖🏻
10 Sep 2023: My Malvern Star Moscow 80 racer sat under water for three days during the 2022 Brisbane floods. I gave it a good clean down at the time but haven’t …
10 Sep 2023: This Lego Star Trek Voyager intro is brilliant. The creativity is a joy to see. 🖖🏻
9 Sep 2023: Looking at photos from a 2008 visit to the British Museum. Wild to think how the Rosetta Stone was already 1600yrs old when it was dumped as rubble in …
9 Sep 2023: Spring Saturday afternoon vibe check. 21°c and sunny ✅ Sailing on the river ✅
8 Sep 2023: ⛈️ A lazy Friday night. I’m sitting on the balcony with a glass of wine watching the storm slowly roll in. The cat is doing the same, just without …
8 Sep 2023: One of my favourite photos. An overnight flight and I was able to capture the sun starting to rise off in the yonder.
8 Sep 2023: Signalling my day is full. Don’t ask me for anything else.
7 Sep 2023: It was a pretty good panorama to grow up looking at every day.
7 Sep 2023: The Australian media cycle is obsessed about the government not approving more landing slots for Qatar airlines and how it’s anti-competitive. If only …
6 Sep 2023: Well, who you gonna call?
5 Sep 2023: Thinking about a trip to Yosemite from San Francisco back in 2008 and the views of the mountains and forest as you wind your way up. A beautiful spot.
5 Sep 2023: Project manager asked us to complete a survey so they have a baseline to measure against as project progresses. Survey has a scale of: 1 - Not …
4 Sep 2023: Sometimes when I don’t feel like doing a long walk I’ll use the orange outdoor exercise equipment that’s down by the river. There are several …
4 Sep 2023: Time to fly on a gorgeous sunny morning.
3 Sep 2023: Spending time with family is precious and Floyd is family. I mean, how can you resist those puppy eyes. 🐶
2 Sep 2023: The buildup and anticipation from Floyd as we head for the water. Can almost hear the “hurry up” in his look back at me. Wants to be in the water. 🐶
1 Sep 2023: Abstract art from an exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery.
1 Sep 2023: Time to fly 🛫
30 Aug 2023: Dance like nobody is watching.
28 Aug 2023: Today was brought to you by Doctor Who via etsy.
25 Aug 2023: A question I’ve been asking myself since 1974.
24 Aug 2023: I’ve managed to avoid spoilers, reviews and comments for Ahsoka so I’m about to settle in and (hopefully) enjoy it. I prepped over the last few months …
24 Aug 2023: Greg Jericho in The Guardian has the only comment you need to read about the Australian Intergenerational Report released today. The only thing the …
23 Aug 2023: Trivia time with team Peteroid City.
23 Aug 2023: Boss is away and I’m acting director of the department. I promised not to break anything or anyone.
20 Aug 2023: I appreciate having a local butcher and not just the variety that provides but that I can buy small amounts. Every butcher has their own recipes for …
17 Aug 2023: Six years ago little Ms Ali came home with me from the Cat Cuddle Cafe rescue and immediately made herself at home. How could I not adopt her when she …
16 Aug 2023: Well we might have missed a place in the final but the Matildas made it to a semi final and still in contention for third place. More than the men’s …
16 Aug 2023: You can’t be an Australian that grew up in the ‘80s and claim to love the music from that decade if The Chantoozies album isn’t in your record …
16 Aug 2023: Fitting it’s a public holiday today as it’s 40 years since one of the best British police procedurals ever made, The Bill, first aired on 16 August …
16 Aug 2023: Got up, fed the cat, went back to bed with a cup of tea and my book. Wednesday public holidays are the best.
15 Aug 2023: I’ve decided my new response to “but why” questions at work will be the mangled metaphor I trotted out today - because the circus keeps on rolling …
15 Aug 2023: I’ve finished the trilogy of books the Silo tv series is based on and feel like my view on the first two episodes is validated. The sheriff and wife …
14 Aug 2023: Wearing a solidarity message for my fellow introverts.
12 Aug 2023: I think there was more noise in the neighbourhood for the Matildas win than I’ve ever heard for any male game of any football code. The tension of …
12 Aug 2023: A friend of mine occasionally gets a bit of gentle ribbing because of his love of physical media. I dug my CDs out of storage recently and have been …
11 Aug 2023: 📺 Time to settle in and have a quiet Friday night watching Foundation and the season finale of Star Trek SNW. 🖖🏻
11 Aug 2023: Today’s badge on the jacket.
10 Aug 2023: From the way the two person crew passed too closely and fouled their oars with the four person crew the private schools have new rowing crews training …
10 Aug 2023: A work from home day means commute time is replaced with cat time and that’s a 200% better use of time. 🐱
8 Aug 2023: Time to laze on the couch with a glass of red and watch the two new episodes of Only Murders in the Building (S3E1&2). The combination of Steve …
7 Aug 2023: My personal mail was constantly bombarded with newsletters, morning/daily news summaries and emails from companies to the point that every time I …
5 Aug 2023: One cork missing but the sign of a great lunch. Nearly four hours at one of my favourite Italian restaurants. 🍷
5 Aug 2023: 🇮🇹 Heading off to a long lunch at one of my favourite Italian restaurants. Very good wine list with three pages worth from Mt Etna.
5 Aug 2023: Star Trek: SNW Subspace Rhapsody was a great bit of fun! The mix of serious and silly this show continues to deliver is one of its strengths. The …
1 Aug 2023: I told myself I probably shouldn’t visit the pen shop on the way home as I really don’t need any more pens just at the moment. A little look won’t …
1 Aug 2023: Told myself I shouldn’t visit Pulp Fiction bookstore on the way home because my “to be read” pile was getting out of control. I did not listen to my …
1 Aug 2023: Enjoying a Slow Pash on the way home from a long lunch.
1 Aug 2023: A work meeting this morning then rest of the day off. Headed to a long lunch then avoiding the bookstore and pen shop on the way back home. Dangerous …
30 Jul 2023: 🤤 Present Peter is very happy with Past Peter’s decision to put a nice bit of rump steak in a pepper marinade 24hrs ago.
29 Jul 2023: This article conveniently ignores Loki and Wandavision when it asserts “none of the shows that preceded Secret Invasion were particularly great” and …
26 Jul 2023: The Cat is contemplating Wednesday with the same amount of enthusiasm as me.
26 Jul 2023: Happy Wednesday!
25 Jul 2023: My favourite email at work is the fortnightly one with the subject line “Your pay advice”.
25 Jul 2023: I love the comment about Brand X in this Guardian article. X marks… what? But the name reads more like the residue of too much time spent watching …
24 Jul 2023: Second viewing of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2E7 Those Old Scientists. The crossover with Lower Decks was so well done and I loved the references …
24 Jul 2023: An advantage to working from home is being able to stop earlier and do all the dinner prep. Once it’s in the oven you can get back to work and finish …
22 Jul 2023: Listening to Barbie: The Album and loving it. To quote the album notes in Apple Music “the soundtrack is full of bangers and clever pop-cultural …
22 Jul 2023: I really enjoyed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2E6. Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura is so good and it was great to see a story focus on her. The …
19 Jul 2023: I may have found this year’s Christmas present to myself. Babylon 5 series coming to Blu-ray 📺 Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced …
17 Jul 2023: Had originally set up the free version of Tinylytics but bumped it up to the paid subscription. I don’t really need any of the extras but I generally …
17 Jul 2023: ☕ Monday. I’m going to need more caffeine to face the full day of meetings that lay ahead.
15 Jul 2023: 🍽️ Dinner with old friends tonight. There will be the stories of times long past retold over wine. Possibly some outbursts of singing. My soul will be …
15 Jul 2023: My Micro Camp stickers have safely made their way to Australia. Thanks @jean!
15 Jul 2023: On Caturday we nap, unless there’s a bird outside then it’s an all systems alert. 🐈
12 Jul 2023: The official Ahsoka trailer has the excitement levels going up. Might need to do a Rebels rewatch beforehand. 📺
10 Jul 2023: ☕ Monday. Opens calendar to review the week, sighs, sips coffee, checks how many days of leave available.
9 Jul 2023: 😴 And that’s a wrap on the weekend.
9 Jul 2023: Took myself off to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny today. Was great to hear the theme swelling up in the action sequences but a bit too much …
9 Jul 2023: 🫖 Raisin scroll with a cup of tea. Sunday morning done right.
5 Jul 2023: Enjoy it while you can: July’s RBA rate pause is likely to be fleeting, unless a lot goes right Other developments may work in our favour too. Wage …
1 Jul 2023: On Caturday we keep a careful eye on the pigeons. 🐱🐈⬛
28 Jun 2023: 📱 Setting up my new purple iPad mini 6.
25 Jun 2023: Making a little stop on the afternoon walk. I think it’s important to support small business. 🍦
25 Jun 2023: 😴 Big Sunday roast lunch consumed. May need a big Sunday afternoon nap.
24 Jun 2023: Hymns in and Monty Python out of UK funeral songs top 10 Hymns are back among the most popular funeral songs, boosted by the queen’s funeral, while …
24 Jun 2023: Very disappointing news about Star Trek Prodigy not only being cancelled but removed from the Paramount+ platform altogether. Original series for …
22 Jun 2023: Thought I’d try out the Text Shot app that Chris Hannah has just released. Looks very neat. Not sure how much use it will get but I like to support …
22 Jun 2023: Grease 2 was referenced at trivia last night and I popped it on when I came home. I now have Michelle Pfeiffer’s Cool Rider as an ear worm this …
20 Jun 2023: Square where Julius Caesar was killed will open to public in Rome Tourists will be able to stroll close to the spot where Julius Caesar met his …
19 Jun 2023: 💁♂️ Monday morning. Already thinking about Friday afternoon.
18 Jun 2023: 🫖 Sunday morning is made for cups of tea and catching up on the rss feed.
16 Jun 2023: Babylon 5: The Road Home premieres on 15 August so not long to wait now! It’s exciting that we’re finally getting some new B5 after all …
15 Jun 2023: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2E1 - engage! 📺🖖🏻
15 Jun 2023: 🖥️ Vendor evaluation demonstrations. A great way to spend a morning. 😬
14 Jun 2023: 😺 The cat has been evicted from my lap with the usual comment “I have to go to work to earn some money to feed you”. 🐈
13 Jun 2023: 🙃 Five day long weekend and now I have to go to work. The highs and lows.
12 Jun 2023: I didn’t know how much I’d been missing Jatz with smoked butter and anchovy in my life, until I had it at lunch yesterday.
10 Jun 2023: The menu and view for a degustation lunch at ‘Oncore by Clare Smyth’ on the 26th floor of the Sydney Crown building today. Apart from these 7 dishes …
9 Jun 2023: Dymocks in the Sydney CBD has a good selection of pens and ink and I really shouldn’t be allowed in there. Accidentally bought a Kaweco Iguana Blue AL …
8 Jun 2023: 📽️ Thanks to the pandemic I haven’t been to the Sydney Film Festival since 2019. Rectifying that with two films tonight. 🍿
7 Jun 2023: ✈️ Bag is packed and near the front door. So keen for a little trip away for a few days.
7 Jun 2023: Out of office set. Engaging extended long weekend mode. 🍸 See you next Tuesday desk.
7 Jun 2023: Increasingly unhappy with the way a particular area of the organisation I work at has taken to responding to important queries by calling rather than …
4 Jun 2023: 📖 Winding down the weekend with a book, a glass of red wine and the cat curled up snoring against my leg. 10/10
4 Jun 2023: I have a list of things I intended to do today but now I’ve done the ‘must do’ items I’m inclined to abandon the rest. My brain needs some downtime …
4 Jun 2023: Trapped. No movement allowed. Plans deferred. 🐈⬛🐱
4 Jun 2023: I wasn’t sure about Silo after watching the first two episodes. The pacing seemed a bit slow and I felt they could’ve been one episode. I stayed with …
3 Jun 2023: Bought some charging cables from Aldi in today’s special buys. They’ll probably last longer than the Apple cables despite being cheaper. For a company …
3 Jun 2023: Did I watch The Pirates of Penzance movie last night? Why yes, yes I did. One of my favourite Gilbert and Sullivan operas and this adaptation of the …
2 Jun 2023: Cars bigger than a sedan shouldn’t be allowed to have LED headlights. They’re too bright and for people in smaller cars they tend to be right at eye …
1 Jun 2023: I think my favourite piece of dialogue in the final episode of Ted Lasso came from Higgins: “Human beings are never going to be perfect Roy. The best …
1 Jun 2023: I quite enjoyed the Ted Lasso finale. S3 wrapped up storylines and was consistent with the growth journey the characters were on. The way they leaned …
31 May 2023: 📺 Time to watch the final episode of Ted Lasso S3 before I see spoilers. See if my predictions are correct.
31 May 2023: 🦷 Starting the day with a visit to the dentist for a check and clean. Living my best life.
29 May 2023: 🖥️ Spending the day at a PowerBi essentials training course. Quite looking forward to learning something new.
28 May 2023: All caught up on Ted Lasso S3 ready for the final episode. My prediction is Ted resigns as coach to go back home, Coach Beard stays. Ted recommends …
28 May 2023: I spent part of the afternoon chasing five year old twins around a playground so decided a gelato cone was in order as a little reward. Plenty of …
28 May 2023: 🚶 Afternoon walk. Which may involve a stop for gelato.
28 May 2023: 🫖 Chores and grocery shopping done. Time for a pot of tea. The Scottish Breakfast blend from Harrogate of London I think.
27 May 2023: I have arrived at friends for dinner and have been greeted by one singing along to Divine You think You’re a Man and the other yelling out “I’m in the …
27 May 2023: Two guys sitting at the table beside me at this cafe and I’m close enough to hear their conversation. I honestly can’t work out if they’re having a …
26 May 2023: Here we are in 2023, with three years of online meetings, and people are still playing music in the background when working at home and not turning …
23 May 2023: Spent the afternoon at a HR training session. Two things come to mind: (1) What did facilitators do before they could show videos of TEDx Talks or …
22 May 2023: We all love a crochet blanket when it starts to get cooler at night.
22 May 2023: 🐈 Upsetting the cat by asking her to move off my lap so I can go to work.
21 May 2023: A gorgeous bluesky on a lovely autumn afternoon. I love this time of year. This old gas stripping tower is along the Brisbane river in West End. The …
19 May 2023: 🍷 Friday night plan: takeaway, then a glass of wine and catching up on some tv shows.
19 May 2023: If you start now and watch seven episodes a week (including specials) you will have completed all of the 2005 onward episodes of Doctor Who before the …
18 May 2023: The circle of life: Me this morning “I need to go to bed early tonight” Me after dinner “I might just read for a bit then go to bed” Me now “wait, …
16 May 2023: 🐈⬛ A rainy morning and the cat is asleep on my lap. Unplanned day off? Y/Y
14 May 2023: Meet Floyd. An eight week old bundle of energy and adorable that has just become part of my brother’s family. 🐕
12 May 2023: Heading to Mackay, Queensland, for Mother’s Day and my brother and niece’s birthdays. On an Alliance Fokker 100 as they fly a number of routes on …
9 May 2023: Watched the first two episodes of Silo. The set is exceptional and the cast are great. It’s based on a book and I must admit I’m thinking …
8 May 2023: A polar blast delivering a single digit cold snap to most of Eastern Australia is the perfect reason to pull out some fandom winter gear a little …
6 May 2023: “Imagine losing your rudder out at sea and sending out a distress call. And then the largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship in the world comes …
6 May 2023: Next weekend is a trifecta of Mother’s Day, my brothers birthday and my niece’s birthday. Buying presents for mum and my niece qualifies for a free …
6 May 2023: 🌞 It’s 9:00am and 19°c with a high of 26° forecast. I love Autumn.
5 May 2023: 🍷 The weekend has arrived. I see a glass of Sangiovese in my near future.
4 May 2023: 🛫 A night spent planning a holiday is a good night.
4 May 2023: Body corporate committee meeting first thing this morning. The agenda includes the evergreen items “enforcing the parking by-laws” and “dogs not being …
3 May 2023: Doing my periodic review of subscriptions to see what I can cut out. I’m slowly reducing the number of apps I use but I do love a new shiny thing so …
2 May 2023: The cooler weather means the crochet blanket comes out to keep my feet warm. The cat loves to sleep on this blanket and will now spend the next few …
2 May 2023: Watched the first episode of Mrs Davis as it’s had a thumbs up from people with similar viewing tastes to me. Very quirky and fun. I’ll be watching …
2 May 2023: So many thoughts whirling around in my head lately. I’ve started so many short posts and then paused, thinking how it would make a good blog …
2 May 2023: ☕ A brisk 14°c this morning. Perfect to sit at the cafe sipping coffee pretending work is not a thing I have to go to.
1 May 2023: Lovely long weekend drawing to a close. Bit rainy on the first day but gorgeous autumn days for the other two. So many people out enjoying the local …
30 Apr 2023: A frustration of having apple devices for personal use and windows at work is that reviews rarely focus on this. It’s always here’s the apple thing or …
29 Apr 2023: The Bluesky what’s hot timeline is a bin fire and basically unusable. Bad luck if you wanted to get on and quietly try things out. Appears the …
28 Apr 2023: Friday night plan: Fish and chips ✅ Glass of wine - underway Hunt for Red October - imminent A friend said “one ping only” in the group chat the other …
28 Apr 2023: 🍸 Long weekend - engage (Picard finger point)
27 Apr 2023: Cat on my lap = peaceful start to the day. Cat on my lap = extreme guilt about needing to get out of chair to go to work. 🐈
26 Apr 2023: “Stop corporate greed” protest on an apartment development site at the end of my street with a large crane prevented from entering site. Two police …
25 Apr 2023: Stumbled across this Star Trek Picard ending but with the Beach Boys. So good. 🖖🏻
25 Apr 2023: Murray Gold returning as Doctor Who composer 📺 The news that Murray Gold is returning to Doctor Who is quite exciting, for me anyway. I love the way each season he created new material, giving each …
25 Apr 2023: 🍕 Making pizza for lunch, with all of the anchovies. All. Of. The. Anchovies.
25 Apr 2023: Finished The Diplomat on Netflix. Good pacing, underlying story isn’t overly complex and links everything together. I’ve seen comparisons to …
23 Apr 2023: Checking out Bluesky. Not sure I’ll use it actively but if nothing else I’ve reserved my username. Now to find some people to follow.
21 Apr 2023: Spoiler free thoughts on the final episode of Star Trek Picard. Nice touch having Walter Koenig do the voice of his son, the federation president. …
18 Apr 2023: 🍸 Clocked off and going to a long lunch on a Tuesday. How decadent.
16 Apr 2023: 👴 I appear to have reached that stage of life where I straighten up, hold my lower back and sigh “oh dear”.
10 Apr 2023: I count myself very fortunate to live close to the Brisbane river where I can find a patch of grass and enjoy a pleasant end to the Easter long …
10 Apr 2023: 🚶 Time for a walk along the river to wind out the long weekend.
10 Apr 2023: 🫖 Washed the car, which is my one chore for the day. Now for a cup of tea, hot cross bun and catch up on some rss feeds.
9 Apr 2023: I spotted Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as I was flicking through Netflix last night. I’ve seen it before but long enough ago that although parts were …
7 Apr 2023: Some spoiler free thoughts on Star Trek Picard S3E8. My two favourite lines: “Is this a rescue mission or a continuation of the torture” “Personal …
7 Apr 2023: Just watched The Mandalorian S3E6. For a show that’s about “The” Mandalorian it’s spending a lot of time on Bo-Katan. Is she now “The” Mandalorian? …
7 Apr 2023: 🐰 Rainy Good Friday = Cup of tea ✅ Cat asleep on lap ✅ Netflix ✅
3 Apr 2023: The WFH supervisor is beginning to look unhappy with me. Most likely because she thinks food should have been provided by now.
31 Mar 2023: Someone needs a little more practice at hiding ready to pounce.
30 Mar 2023: On my last trip to Europe I was fortunate to visit the Belvedere building complex in Vienna on a clear sunny day. One of my favourite photos from that …
30 Mar 2023: My friend Ash is a passionate advocate for cycling. What I enjoy is how he’s not negative towards cars and drivers the way some are, he just shows the …
29 Mar 2023: When I travel I like to bring back souvenirs that will be used, not just looked at. This knife from a trip to Kyoto, Japan, has “Peter” stamped in …
28 Mar 2023: I wasn’t very prompt at trading this in. I wonder if my niece will still honour it despite the must be used by date.
27 Mar 2023: In this home I’m just the support act, the cat is the lead attraction. 🐈
26 Mar 2023: I often reflect how an instrument that cost about $10 over 30 years ago is probably the most well used and oldest utensil in the kitchen.
26 Mar 2023: Afternoon walks at sunset are good for the soul and a very pleasant way to wind out the weekend.
25 Mar 2023: On Caturday, Ms Ali gets to nap outside while I read. I’m going to be in so much trouble when I pick her up to go inside shortly.
25 Mar 2023: I miss going to the markets near where I used to live. The small quantities this stall holder sold instead of larger jars were perfect and meant my …
24 Mar 2023: It was a very busy day when I visited the Court of the Sun King. The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles was very full but fortunately the beauty was above …
24 Mar 2023: 🍺 Friday done, work week done. Time for a beer.
23 Mar 2023: A few of us at work play Uno as a wellness activity at lunch on a Friday. While there’s a very high chance the mildest insult will be your parentage …
22 Mar 2023: The way an insect will wrap itself in a cocoon and then reappear transformed is one of the many marvels of nature that will never cease to fill me …
21 Mar 2023: I have a tiny Dalek that sits in front on my computer monitor at home. I occasionally find it cathartic to turn it to point at the screen during …
20 Mar 2023: Took the houseplant out to water it and came back to find the cat in residence. 🐈
19 Mar 2023: I may have a lot of smart devices in my home but I still keep an analogue clock (or analog for the Americans) where I can see it when watching tv. I …
18 Mar 2023: On Caturday we sit in the sun and watch the birds sitting on the building next door.
18 Mar 2023: I love walking towards one of the original buildings on campus. The big front entry on the first level, with the large stairs up to the high four …
17 Mar 2023: When you’re a bit early for dinner you have a cocktail while waiting for others.
17 Mar 2023: 🍀 I wonder if I can get an Irish Coffee at the cafe this morning. It is St Patrick’s Day after all.
16 Mar 2023: A road along the river near me is a shared space for pedestrians and cyclists. I often think how this sign is good life advice and not just a caution …
15 Mar 2023: Sometimes you need a lot of patience when you live with a cat. There’s a reason I sometimes refer to Ms Ali as “my little lunatic”. 🐈
15 Mar 2023: 📆 The Ides of March. Time to settle your debts and keep an eye on that friend named Brutus.
14 Mar 2023: I love travel and I especially love flying. I often refer to it as being up in my happy place. I will never cease to enjoy looking out to the horizon …
13 Mar 2023: Who doesn’t love a collection of ice cream. 🍦
13 Mar 2023: Every episode of Star Trek Picard S3 has fan service in it. Episode 4: “Admiral you have the con”, TNG music starts, Picard sits in the middle chair, …
12 Mar 2023: A shiny new magnet has just been added to the fridge. Given to me by a friend who knows me well. 🐈
12 Mar 2023: Tweetbot has updated its icon 😢
11 Mar 2023: Out on the balcony with Ms Ali and she walked onto the exposed part just as it started raining. Now I’m being glared at as if this is somehow my …
11 Mar 2023: My @hemisphericviews stickers arrived! These are most definitely not gimcrack and will be going straight on the laptop. A great podcast that I look …
11 Mar 2023: Old style latte glass. You don’t get these in cafes very often anymore.
11 Mar 2023: ☕ The physio visit has occurred and now the coffee will happen. Starting Saturday slowly.
10 Mar 2023: 👨💻 I think I’ll call that a wrap on the week and head for home. Brisbane drivers forget how to drive in the rain so allowing extra time.
10 Mar 2023: Most Friday mornings I have breakfast with two friends in what has become a little “shall we have poached eggs” ritual. The answer is nearly always …
9 Mar 2023: The cat and I spend a lot of time together like this. Often when I’m wearing clothes I don’t want to get cat hair on so I keep this green towel handy.
8 Mar 2023: If you see me out with this bag it’s extremely likely my walk is taking me to the local shop to get a bottle of wine.
7 Mar 2023: Spent 10 minutes looking everywhere for the cat as I thought she was in one of the bedrooms and the whole time she was hiding under the chair in the …
6 Mar 2023: It’s important to wear your hard hat when undertaking engineering projects.
5 Mar 2023: “Tile with birds” Iran 17th (?) century Ceramic decorated with black lines Taken in the Louvre Museum on a holiday in 2018.
5 Mar 2023: Did you even go to the beach for the weekend if you don’t get sand between your toes.
5 Mar 2023: 🏖️ Walking on the beach at dusk is good for the soul.
4 Mar 2023: I could barely waddle let alone zip anywhere after this delicious seven course degustation with paired wines. Took us just over three hours to work …
3 Mar 2023: While I might live alone I don’t live in solitude.
3 Mar 2023: Star Trek Picard S3 just gets better with each episode. Jonathan Frakes does a superb job as director of episode 3. So many great lines. 🖖🏻📺
2 Mar 2023: 🖖 Time for Star Trek Picard S3E3. Given they’re slowly featuring the TNG crew will we see Geordie this episode? 📺
2 Mar 2023: The weather cleared briefly earlier just long enough for a red sunset and then quickly closed over again.
2 Mar 2023: 🐱 Starting the day with a cat sleeping contentedly on my lap while I read = good frame of mind to tackle work. 🐈
1 Mar 2023: Time to watch new Mandalorian. This is the way. 📺
1 Mar 2023: Checking the window is secure before settling in for the night.
1 Mar 2023: 📔 Trying to decide between a standard Kindle or a Kindle Paperwhite.
27 Feb 2023: Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday January 28, 2023.
27 Feb 2023: 👨💻 Monday. Time to brush the weekend cat hair off and do the work thing.
26 Feb 2023: Someone was very unhappy I was watching the Olivia Newton-John memorial on tv and not paying any attention to her demands for food. 🐈
26 Feb 2023: Thinking of getting a Kindle again and did a search to compare models. Was logged into my Amazon account when I did it. Next day a $50 off discount …
26 Feb 2023: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1962 - ★★★★ Watched on Sunday February 26, 2023.
26 Feb 2023: Fort Apache, 1948 - ★★★ Watched on Friday February 17, 2023.
26 Feb 2023: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, 1982 - ★★★ Watched on Sunday February 12, 2023.
26 Feb 2023: Uncle Buck, 1989 - ★★★★ Watched on Wednesday February 15, 2023.
26 Feb 2023: Mamma Mia!, 2008 - ★★★★ Watched on Tuesday February 14, 2023.
26 Feb 2023: Bullet Train, 2022 - ★★ Watched on Wednesday January 4, 2023.
25 Feb 2023: 🍺 Tai chi this morning and now off to have lunch and beers with old friends. Mental health recharge time.
23 Feb 2023: 🦷 Dentist time. Hopefully don’t need a filling 💸
20 Feb 2023: 👨💻 Monday. I guess the work needs to resume. I have holidays to save for.
18 Feb 2023: ❔ Flicking around the various streaming services as I can’t decide what I’m in the mood for. 📺
18 Feb 2023: On a warm Caturday afternoon we swish the tail back and forth then nap outside in the shade. 🐈
17 Feb 2023: 🍷 Weekend mode - engage.
17 Feb 2023: 🍹 Love it when a hotel has a sale on so I can cancel my booking and then rebook, saving myself $270. More money for cocktails!
16 Feb 2023: 🤫 Star Trek Picard S3 E1 - engage. 🖖🏻📺
15 Feb 2023: 🥸 First trivia of the year with team “Magic Pete’s Last Dance”.
15 Feb 2023: 🙏 Just a Doctor Who fan forever patiently waiting for a TARDIS emoji to be available on the iPhone.
13 Feb 2023: Local real estate agent ran a $2000 Valentine’s Day competition to go to one of four restaurants. Usual instagram giveaway; follow the restaurants and …
13 Feb 2023: Spotted another Tesla with an Uber sign on the rear window. That’s three I’ve seen now. If they can afford a Tesla why are they driving for Uber? Is …
13 Feb 2023: 🐈 I have a cat asleep on my lap. That’s an acceptable reason to cancel going to work? Y/Y
12 Feb 2023: An early release means I can watch The Last of Us E5 tonight instead of Monday night. 📺
12 Feb 2023: If I wasn’t already really looking forward to Star Trek Picard Season 3 I definitely am after reading this spoiler free review. 🖖🏻
11 Feb 2023: “You woke me up from my Caturday nap. There’s going to be trouble.” 🐈
10 Feb 2023: 🎶 Playing some Burt Bacharach. He leaves a vast music library, what a wonderful legacy. 🎵
7 Feb 2023: 🐈 First is play with the cat, then the coffee, then the work. The correct order of things.
6 Feb 2023: 📺 Time for The Last of Us episode 4.
5 Feb 2023: Wait until there are three episodes then binge together I thought. Have a nice Sunday night I thought. Wind the weekend down with a bit of tv I …
5 Feb 2023: One of my favourite photos because of the way I unintentionally caught the image of wine glasses within wine glasses. It was a foodie weekend with …
5 Feb 2023: 🍹 A little aperol spritz after a nice walk along the river. Warm out but not as bad as the end of last week.
5 Feb 2023: Listening to the latest @hemisphericviews podcast while out walking. Scored a strange look from the person I was walking past just as I started …
4 Feb 2023: On Caturday, we observe the world from the balcony. 🐈
3 Feb 2023: 🥵 Thinking I should’ve sat out on the balcony with the cat before my shower not after. It’s 7:10pm and 34.5°c.
3 Feb 2023: 🖥️ Apparently there are spare new monitors available at work. Goodbye 24”, hello 27”.
2 Feb 2023: We had a farewell at work today for someone the whole department adores. Lucky person is heading off into retirement. One of our very talented staff …
2 Feb 2023: Water saving tip for the day.
1 Feb 2023: The final season of Star Trek: Picard looks brilliant. ST:TNG has been, and always will be, my favourite Star Trek. I’m very much looking forward to …
30 Jan 2023: Time to fly. A gorgeous day for it. 🗺️
30 Jan 2023: Lack of consistency between security screening points at different airports is bemusing. If it’s so important to remove an aerosol and laptop at a …
30 Jan 2023: ✈️ Security screening then the coffee then the flying.
28 Jan 2023: Visiting my brother and this gorgeous old girl alternates between demanding pats and sleeping. The best life. 🐕
27 Jan 2023: 🎲 Playing board games on a Friday night with the family. Sometimes the simple things are the best things.
22 Jan 2023: Decided to tidy up my profile on the bird site and make it clear I was gone. Not going to completely delete it though as I don’t want some crazy to …
22 Jan 2023: It’s exciting that Ivory will be available in the App Store very soon. I’ve lost a few months of a Tweetbot subscription but I consider that a …
22 Jan 2023: Every single time I put the ironing board up the cat jumps straight on to it. If only she could do the ironing as well. 🐈
22 Jan 2023: 🎥 Watching an old classic western - Fort Apache 🍿
18 Jan 2023: A very pleasant 24°c summer night to walk home after dinner.
17 Jan 2023: Today is brought to you by the letter M. Morning tea Mocktails Marvellous team
17 Jan 2023: Me: are you okay with the rain and flooding Mum (in Mackay): daytime tv is rubbish and I’m bored Guess she’s fine then.
15 Jan 2023: 🍦 My fiendishly cunning plan to buy gelato on the walk home has been foiled by the fact they’re not open, despite the hours on their website …
15 Jan 2023: My only new year resolution was to read more paper books instead of digital. Went to the Lifeline Bookfest this afternoon to browse the second hand …
15 Jan 2023: 📚 Browsing the second hand books.
15 Jan 2023: 💭 Attempting to relax on the balcony and musing on the thought that if the cat had a status.lol page it would just be a series of “trying to climb …
15 Jan 2023: 🐈 Waiting for the cat to stop using my leg as a pillow so I can get off the couch. Hopefully that’s the biggest challenge I have today.
14 Jan 2023: 🍽️ Booking some restaurants for a weekend away with friends in March. Something to look forward to.
13 Jan 2023: It’s great to see a new airline tackling the monopoly existing airlines have in Australia. I’m not sure I want to fly in a plane called …
12 Jan 2023: 🚶 Walking after work is a great way to clear the brain.
12 Jan 2023: Glass Onion, 2022 Watched on Monday January 2, 2023.
11 Jan 2023: 🍷 Heading out for drinks and dinner with an old friend (33yrs and counting) that’s in town for a few days.
10 Jan 2023: My employer had a cyber attack prior to Christmas. As a precaution, they expired all user passwords today and increased the minimum number of …
9 Jan 2023: I’ve decided this year I’m going to track all television and movie viewing. Will use Letterboxd for movies but can’t decide between trackt.tv or TV …
9 Jan 2023: ☕ There will be coffee, and only then will there be work.
8 Jan 2023: Iconic and very popular Australian prime minister Bob Hawke. The beer not so iconic or popular.
8 Jan 2023: Out for a walk and overtaken on the path by a guy on an eScooter, sitting on a milk crate on the base with a towel for padding.
8 Jan 2023: 🎧 Listening to the Screen Watching Best TV of 2022 podcast on the afternoon walk.
8 Jan 2023: 🚶♂️ Time to stretch the legs and go for an afternoon walk.
8 Jan 2023: 🫖 Sunday morning = a pot of tea and browsing my rss feeds.
7 Jan 2023: 🍷 Big Saturday night. Sipping red wine and plotting out some personal projects in Tot. It’s a great app.
7 Jan 2023: On Caturday we roll around on the tiles outside and get rid of excess hair. 🐈
7 Jan 2023: Look both ways. Advice that’s good in many situations, not just when avoiding assorted cyclists, scooters and runners.
7 Jan 2023: 🚶♂️ Out for an afternoon walk.
7 Jan 2023: Actually IFTTT, there is a very good reason why the link to twitter doesn’t work anymore and it most definitely has nothing to do with improvements …
7 Jan 2023: ☺️ Knots worked out of the neck and shoulders. Saturday morning massage has set me up for a good day.
7 Jan 2023: A nearby building site is noisily driving piles into the ground. They can do this on a Saturday because developers have convinced council they must …
7 Jan 2023: 💆♂️ Patiently waiting for my massage appointment. Starting my weekend with working the tight knots out of my shoulders.
6 Jan 2023: ✅ Friday is over. Very much done with this week.
5 Jan 2023: 🚊 Car in for a service so on the train to work.
5 Jan 2023: Please stand behind the yellow line.
5 Jan 2023: A recent podcast discovery is @hemisphericviews. I listened to one after seeing it referenced on micro.blog and thought “yep, I’m going to enjoy …
4 Jan 2023: A lot of people on Mastodon still seem to be obsessed with the bird site, source content from it or are auto cross posting. Meanwhile, I’m constantly …
4 Jan 2023: Apart from the great wines, one thing I really like about my wine club is that they send an email advising what wines are in the next box and give you …
3 Jan 2023: ☕ Coffee has been consumed. Time to get work rolling for 2023.
3 Jan 2023: Me: I’m going back to work today, will you miss me? The Cat: 💤
2 Jan 2023: 🧨 Doing a purge of things sitting in my rss reader that are never going to get read.
2 Jan 2023: 🚙 Washing the car to avoid sorting through the last of the storage boxes.
2 Jan 2023: Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus singing Wrecking Ball and segue into I Will Always Love You at Miley’s NYE party The way Dolly kicks in at …
1 Jan 2023: 🥃 Enjoying a whisky sour and reading on my balcony. Perfect first day of the year.
1 Jan 2023: Years ago I decided to only make one new year resolution. This year is to read more actual books. I’ve increasingly been reading digital books on my …
1 Jan 2023: After 11 days of being positive, I’ve never been so happy to start a new year on a negative note! Hopefully it’s a sign and things are looking up for …
31 Dec 2022: 🥳 Last post for 2022. See you all in 2023 when we can do all the good bits all over again. Let’s try to not do the rubbish bits again though. HNY! 🎉
31 Dec 2022: On the last Caturday of the year the great hunter hides where nobody can see it and lays in wait for unsuspecting feet to walk by. 🐈
31 Dec 2022: 🖖 Time to watch the Star Trek Prodigy season final. Avoided spoilers so far. 📺
31 Dec 2022: I have five apps in TestFlight and they’re all related to the fediverse. It’s genuinely exciting to see so much activity. It’s like the bird site …
30 Dec 2022: 🕹️ Playing Civ VI. “Just one more turn”.
27 Dec 2022: 🖥️ Tinkering with my omg.lol page.
26 Dec 2022: Blowing the dust off my old Tumblr site to see if it’s something I want to keep around, and if so for what purpose.
26 Dec 2022: “Sometimes I think there’s something missing, like I had something lovely … and it’s gone” The trailer for the 2023 …
25 Dec 2022: 📽️ Full of Christmas food and snacks, it’s time to sprawl on the couch and watch Bill Murray in Scrooged, 1988. 🍿
25 Dec 2022: Merry Christmas everyone! May it be a happy, relaxing and great time however you’re spending the day. 🎁🎅🏻🎄
24 Dec 2022: I do love these Star Trek Christmas songs and appreciate the effort that has gone into them. You can probably find sound bites to create any song you …
24 Dec 2022: On Caturday we try and work out where the spider has disappeared to.
24 Dec 2022: I quite like Ivory as a Mastodon client and as a long time Tweetbot user it’s great to see Tapbots getting into this space. Unfortunately it seems to …
23 Dec 2022: 📽️ Christmas movie tonight - Elf, 2003. 🍿
23 Dec 2022: 🍸 Enjoying a medicinal gin. Making sure my taste buds are okay and not ruined by having covid.
22 Dec 2022: 🎥 Pizza is on the menu tonight. Mystic Pizza, 1988, that is. A very early film for Julia Roberts 🍿
22 Dec 2022: Me at 1200hrs: Right, that’s me done for the year. See you all in 2023. My boss at 1530hrs: About that… Printers at Queensland’s …
22 Dec 2022: This Guardian article about Mastodon is wrong when it says “…triggering a land-grab for space on it…” Space is infinite in the fediverse, just spin up …
22 Dec 2022: 🥳 Out of office on, I’m done for the year.
21 Dec 2022: 📽️ Tonight’s movie pick is Ladyhawke, 1985. Bit of medieval fantasy, bit of hawk by day and wolf by night, lovers eternally apart. Why not. 🍿
21 Dec 2022: 🦠 Lost my covidginity and joined the double line club just in time for Christmas 🙃
20 Dec 2022: 📽️ Early ‘80s for tonight’s movie - An American Werewolf in London, 1981. 🍿
19 Dec 2022: 📽️ Still in the ‘80s for tonight’s film. Watching Young Guns, 1988. 🍿
18 Dec 2022: 📽️ Continuing my ‘80s movie run. Tonight is Risky Business, 1983, with Tom Cruise and Rebecca de Mornay. 🍿
18 Dec 2022: A pizza place opened up recently near me and they have pineapple cannoli pie on their instagram story. I’ve been meaning to try it out and that might …
17 Dec 2022: 📽️ Watching Gremlins, 1984. 🍿
17 Dec 2022: I get wine, the cat gets a box. We call that a win/win on Caturday.
17 Dec 2022: 🐈 Things to do but the cat is using my hand as a pillow so I can’t move.
16 Dec 2022: ☕ Poached eggs and coffee with the Friday breakfast group. A nice routine to start winding down the week.
15 Dec 2022: Came to work on the back seat of a colleagues car. Must have been entertaining for anyone else in traffic.
14 Dec 2022: About to finalise my last 2022 to-do list. If something isn’t on it today, it’s not getting done this year. It amuses me to write my lists in a …
13 Dec 2022: 🎥 Watching Muppet Treasure Island, 1996. Because I can. 🍿
13 Dec 2022: Upside to switching to mastodon is the noise generated by some people on the bird site has been left behind. The absence of their content in my …
13 Dec 2022: Local cafe has a sticker wall that is slowly filling up and will soon be above an easy to stick height.
13 Dec 2022: Started the day with a false fire alarm at 6:02am. Pretty sure not everyone came down to ground from their apartments. At least the brigade was quick …
12 Dec 2022: 📺 Watching the final episode of White Lotus S2 before I see spoilers online.
12 Dec 2022: 📚 Updating Goodreads ready to import to my micro.blog bookshelves.
12 Dec 2022: The department has recently purchased sit/stand desks for a lot of people. We’re in open plan so when I look across the floor it’s like a colony of …
12 Dec 2022: Only 13 sleeps to Christmas.
12 Dec 2022: ☕ Monday. Let’s do this.
11 Dec 2022: 🎥 Settling in to watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 1987. 🍿
11 Dec 2022: 🚶 Walked to dinner and back to help offset the amount of Korean fried chicken consumed.
11 Dec 2022: We have entered the “feed me” part of the afternoon according to the cat. 🐈
11 Dec 2022: 📜 Spending a lazy Sunday morning catching up on my rss feeds.
11 Dec 2022: I went a different way on my walk and saw some street art I’ve not noticed before.
10 Dec 2022: Time to settle in for a great Christmas movie and watch Severus Snape fall out of Nakatomi Plaza. 🎥🍿
10 Dec 2022: On Caturday we nap in the sun. 🐈
10 Dec 2022: 🥃 Perusing the shelves of the local wine and spirits shop to see what might be my Christmas Day treat.
10 Dec 2022: More caffeine required. Went to edit a post and accidentally deleted. 🤦🏻♂️ Good thing I happened to write the post and image descriptions in Apple …
10 Dec 2022: I’ve been in the higher education sector for a while. Clocked up 30yrs earlier this year. There was a lovely event yesterday where annual awards were …
10 Dec 2022: 🫖 Saturday morning - tea and the cat napping on my lap.
9 Dec 2022: 🍷 Friday is done. Time to go home.
9 Dec 2022: 🎄 A series of end of year work events today. Not sure any actual work will happen.
8 Dec 2022: 😴 Nodding off on the couch, time to switch to the bed.
8 Dec 2022: One of my teams put up reindeer faces as part of their Christmas decorating competition entry. I said they were in the wrong order. After blank stares …
7 Dec 2022: I have to wear black pants for an event today. I rarely wear black for one very good reason, cat hair. These pants are like a magnet for it. 🐈
5 Dec 2022: Changing the Home Screen on my iPad. Looking forward to spending the next week trying to remember what random classification Apple has given things …
3 Dec 2022: When you own a cat and think you might just sit down for five minutes you need to allow for the fact the cat may have other ideas. It’s been 20 …
3 Dec 2022: Watched the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special. I wouldn’t say it was brilliant or five stars but it was a light hearted way to spend 45 …
3 Dec 2022: I like Signal as a messaging service. I like its approach to privacy. I recommended it to friends. Not sure I can continue to do so though. I rolled …
1 Dec 2022: Last week, as Spring was coming to an end, we had temperatures of 34° and 35°c. The first day of Summer has arrived with the rain and a cool change. …
1 Dec 2022: Sipping my coffee at the local cafe and listening to everything the soccer mad barista says about the World Cup results this morning so I can pretend …
30 Nov 2022: Microblogvember has me in a good routine now of thinking of something I want to say that utilises the particular word. Going to try to keep it going …
30 Nov 2022: This year we have invested time in addressing psychological safety at work. It’s been very well received and as part of the management group for …
29 Nov 2022: 🛠 Spending the night reminding myself how to design and build a website.
29 Nov 2022: Have decided to adopt a rule for downloading new apps. There needs to be no or very minimal data collection.
29 Nov 2022: Something I look forward to when I go to my hometown of Mackay, Queensland, at Christmas is the fresh reef fish available from the trawlers that …
28 Nov 2022: I regret quite a few things but at the moment it’s the fact I made a poor decision to not put the air conditioner on earlier tonight. My regret about …
28 Nov 2022: Organising my digital life - continued. Organising my digital life – continued. I've spent some more time thinking about and looking at options for how I want to craft my thoughts. Not the …
28 Nov 2022: Sitting on my balcony after the storm and watching it turn a glorious colour. What’s the old saying “red sky at night, shepherds delight”.
28 Nov 2022: Wore shorts to work today. Someone asked if I was trying to start a new trend for casual office wear and I replied that as I was born and raised in …
27 Nov 2022: Thoughts on organising my digital life I have been spending quite a bit of time trying to decide how best to arrange my digital life. In particular, longer thoughts or posts but also my …
27 Nov 2022: I've been spending quite a bit of time trying to decide how best to arrange my... I've been spending quite a bit of time trying to decide how best to arrange my digital life. Do I connect everything to the one website? Do I need a …
27 Nov 2022: My battle wagon is ready. It might also just be the local rowing club ready for the river first thing in the morning.
27 Nov 2022: The Mt Stapylton weather radar for Brisbane, Australia, seems to be having some issues. Either that or the Apocalypse has started.
27 Nov 2022: Trying to summon the motivation to go for a late afternoon bike ride. A storm went through earlier and cooled everything down but I lay down on the …
27 Nov 2022: My favourite local cafe had a fifth birthday party last night, in part to thank customers that stayed with it all through covid lockdowns and …
26 Nov 2022: I walked away from my chair for two minutes to refill my water bottle. 🐈
26 Nov 2022: I do admire Ms Ali’s commitment to sitting perfectly still, with big wide eyes, whenever a bird lands on the balcony outside. The next phase is …
25 Nov 2022: City hall in Brisbane, Australia, lit up for Christmas.
25 Nov 2022: 🎄 Finishing early at 2:30pm to head off to a work Christmas party.
25 Nov 2022: Most Friday mornings I have breakfast with 2 - 3 friends before we head off to work. It’s a nice little ritual and a very pleasant way to start …
25 Nov 2022: Today’s plan.
24 Nov 2022: 💲 Doing the survey to get my 9c discount on petrol on the way home.
24 Nov 2022: It’s always interesting the things your brain does and does not retain. I can easily recall something from a Doctor Who or Star Trek episode 20 …
23 Nov 2022: I recently saw a post from the developer of Toot! that they were going to start updating it again given the surge in mastodon users downloading it. …
23 Nov 2022: The black friday discount deals on subscriptions for streaming services and apps are making it very hard to stay the course in terms of reducing the …
23 Nov 2022: ❌ Deleting black Friday emails as soon as they arrive.
23 Nov 2022: 🏅 Off to a staff forum to hear all about our achievements for the year.
23 Nov 2022: The most important day in the Doctor Who calendar is 23 November. Still going strong after 59 years! 📺
22 Nov 2022: After a couple of very hot and humid nights it is very pleasant on my balcony tonight. I’m catching up on my RSS feed while The Cat is content to …
22 Nov 2022: What is Hive and do I need to care? Is it just another social media site that has a lot of prominence because of very good timing in terms of arriving …
22 Nov 2022: 😇 Counting the days until work is over for the year? No, not at all.
21 Nov 2022: It’s another 34°c day here so it’s very likely there will be ice cream tonight. Need to cool down somehow he says innocently.
20 Nov 2022: 🥵 Walking by the river in the hope it’s a bit cooler than at home.
20 Nov 2022: The Cat enjoying the cool tiles on a 34°c day right before the storm crashed through.
20 Nov 2022: The Cat versus the Currawong is a story on constant repeat here. The currawong has been quite active out on the balcony today and madam has been …
20 Nov 2022: The thing about twitter being destroyed and people leaving is you just know journalists and politicians will cling on to whatever end might be coming. …
20 Nov 2022: ✨ A lazy Sunday morning recharging the battery. Reading and cups of tea.
19 Nov 2022: Long lunch with a few friends today was just what I needed to decompress after a busy week. The crispy skin on the duck was A+. Apart from individual …
19 Nov 2022: Without checking, I’m reasonably confident there is a novel in every room with a bookmark part way through. I always have one on the go but old …
19 Nov 2022: I can’t decide if I want to download my twitter archive or not. I’m not sure I’d ever go looking back through it given I don’t go back over my tweet …
19 Nov 2022: I’ve never seen Coronation Street so I don’t know Millie Gibson at all. Looks like RTD is going for a younger vibe again though. Can’t wait for new …
18 Nov 2022: I will never tire of watching Star Trek in all its various incarnations. TNG is my favourite series and Wrath of Khan my favourite of the movies. 🖖🏻
17 Nov 2022: Questionable how authentic this quote from Aristophanes is but putting it on the end of a wine barrel makes it appear legitimate.
17 Nov 2022: Waking up earlier these days so I’m putting that extra time to good use. I’m sitting for about 20-30mins in my chair reading so The Cat can jump up …
16 Nov 2022: I’m really enjoying Andor at the moment. Apart from the Mandalorian, I think it’s the best tv show the Star Wars franchise has produced in recent …
15 Nov 2022: Serving looks of disapproval.
15 Nov 2022: I remember when the first aluminium macbook was released and how different it looked and how light it was. You didn’t see many in the wild …
15 Nov 2022: ☕ Coffee then work. The correct order of things.
14 Nov 2022: I’ve been reviewing my diary for the next few weeks and all of the things that need to be accomplished before the end of the year. The thought …
13 Nov 2022: 💤 Spending a quiet Sunday night catching up on some home admin.
13 Nov 2022: Reflecting on the fact that just like tuning a radio or tv, you adjust a few things in your life and the overall picture becomes clearer and you can …
12 Nov 2022: I’m getting “you went away and I’m disappointed in you” vibes from The Cat.
12 Nov 2022: Home after four nights away and the cat hasn’t left my side. I have a suspicion she might have missed me 😻
12 Nov 2022: ✈ Time to fly
11 Nov 2022: I really like the way you can walk around the Melbourne CBD and see street art on display everywhere.
10 Nov 2022: Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister are two of my favourite shows. Insightful political comedy that is still as accurate and cutting as when it first …
10 Nov 2022: Melbourne: coffee and cupcakes edition.
9 Nov 2022: Someone discovered gin slushies were included in the open bar at this conference function and I was straight there.
9 Nov 2022: Wind, high pollen count and my eyes do not play well together. I’m regretting accidentally not bringing my hay fever tablets with me to Melbourne and …
9 Nov 2022: 🤧 Good morning Melbourne and your high pollen count.
8 Nov 2022: Project meetings are an all or nothing thing lately. We’re either racing towards the objective as everyone is keen for change or we inch towards …
8 Nov 2022: 🚀 Time to fly 🛫
7 Nov 2022: Sometimes a person says something quite incidental in a meeting and you finally get an insight into what they’re trying to achieve. I have some …
6 Nov 2022: If there was any doubt about who runs this household … the cat just walked over to the balcony door, sat down and turned her head to look at me and I …
6 Nov 2022: One of my favourite things is the art on the utility cabinets all over Brisbane as part of the Artforce program. This one is Topograffiti by Shahni …
6 Nov 2022: Oh no. I just realised my microblogvember post with exempt in it didn’t actually upload yesterday. Does this mean I’ve failed the challenge or will …
6 Nov 2022: Talking to my nephew yesterday and I was suddenly reminded of my father, a man he never really knew as he passed away when my nephew was quite young. …
5 Nov 2022: A good article from The Conversation on how online communities move and adapt. While many people have left twitter it will take time to see if …
5 Nov 2022: ⌛ Updating my profile pic across all my fediverse and social media accounts, which is taking longer than expected.
5 Nov 2022: I have a big and comfortable chair that I like to sit in to read. I deliberately bought one that was large enough for The Cat to tuck in beside me, …
4 Nov 2022: One of the things I quite like about micro.blog is the way posts are written in a thoughtful and considered way. I have a lot of admiration for people …
4 Nov 2022: 😬 Waiting for micro.blog servers to come back up. I have to do my microblogvember post!
3 Nov 2022: 🤔 Trying to decide on a new blog name.
3 Nov 2022: A noticeable thing about micro.blog is the complete absence of spam accounts, which is clearly due to the work @jean does in zapping them. Our own 007 …
2 Nov 2022: There have been so many people signing up to the local aus.social Mastodon instance in the last few days it’s a veritable feast of new people to …
1 Nov 2022: Starting the Microblogvember challenge with a photo of the fine figure of a feline, Ms Ali. This gorgeous girl brings me joy every day. She is not a …
1 Nov 2022: ✒ Time to check the word for Microblogvember and get writing.
31 Oct 2022: I’m a big fan of the Carrot weather app and its snarky messages. The combination of homicidal personality and communist politics in settings delivers …
31 Oct 2022: 🥱 I am done with today, time to head home.
31 Oct 2022: 😬 Made it to 10:24 before the day was derailed.
31 Oct 2022: Not a huge fan of halloween as I see it as yet another american thing that’s becoming a commercialised norm in Australia but the joy on the …
30 Oct 2022: 😊 Happy with how my little project is coming along
30 Oct 2022: 🔧 Tinkering and dabbling
30 Oct 2022: I always make sure I include a stretch of the river when I go on my walk. It’s perfect at dusk with the breeze.
30 Oct 2022: I’ve been making a conscious effort to let subscriptions lapse if I’m not really using the product. My first real challenge though was letting a …
30 Oct 2022: A lazy start to Sunday morning. I’m reading and The Cat is napping, which is likely her plan for the rest of the day as well.
29 Oct 2022: Saturday afternoons done right. Met friends at the local craft brewery that is five minutes walk from home.
26 Oct 2022: I thought I’d been pretty good at not cluttering up my iPhone but in preparing to upgrade to the 14 I was surprised to discover I have 327 apps …
24 Oct 2022: Big night ahead. Final episode of Jodie Whittaker as Doctor Who and the final episode of S1 for House of the Dragon. 📺
24 Oct 2022: I wonder which one of my neighbours is being creative with their Wi-Fi.
23 Oct 2022: There are so many useful discussions by the micro.blog community and it’s one of the big reasons I’m enjoying it so much since signing up …
21 Oct 2022: The problem with wearing a hat everywhere is that most places don’t have somewhere to leave it. I either have to keep it on, put it on an empty chair …
19 Oct 2022: Picked up the latest Phantom comic and I just want to go home and read it but sadly work must happen.
18 Oct 2022: I’m enjoying both House of the Dragon and Rings of Power but the former is definitely the better of the two. I think the jumps ahead in years has …
18 Oct 2022: How does anyone start out with establishing an online identity these days when so many usernames are already in use? I have a very common name and …
17 Oct 2022: I do love this local crazy cat street art. Makes me smile whenever I walk by.
15 Oct 2022: Walking home and made a little detour into one of my favourite little bars. If it’s called a Vitamin C it’s healthy right? Yes/Yes
15 Oct 2022: I need to get some white gloves for a work thing and most places I’ve asked have given a look that slides from “What, why -> no -> actually let …
15 Oct 2022: I didn’t even need to look to know there was a bird on the balcony, the cat’s stare was enough of a giveaway.
14 Oct 2022: It’s been a busy day and I’ve been very much looking forward to relaxing on the couch with The Cat. Madam was there before me watching tv so I decided …
10 Oct 2022: Watched Star Trek: Wrath of Khan again tonight for the umpteenth time and it’s still my favourite Star Trek movie, followed very closely by First …
10 Oct 2022: The supervisor seems unimpressed by this zoom meeting.
9 Oct 2022: Rings of Power this week felt like a filler episode and I’m finding the Harfoot storyline annoying. 📺
9 Oct 2022: The BBC has released the trailer for The Power of the Doctor, which is the final Doctor Who episode with Jodie Whittaker and also the final with Chris …
9 Oct 2022: Apparently being one of my oldest friends allowed my dinner guest to work out the passcode for my phone and put Celine on. Only took three guesses …
5 Oct 2022: The third and final book in a series was released on Audible only early last year. The author intends to release it as an actual book and indicated …
3 Oct 2022: Old friends On Sunday I spent a lovely afternoon and evening catching up with my best friends from high school and their partners. The ‘80s seems so long ago but …
17 Sep 2022: Using Focus, I’ve set up my iPhone to change home screens at night. Now the cat is giving me a look of disapproval for using my phone. 🐈
7 Sep 2022: A little stop at the local craft brewery at the end of my afternoon walk. It’s all about a balanced life.
30 Aug 2022: I am simply incapable of walking past a stationery store without browsing to see if there is something I need. Unsurprisingly, there usually is. I …
25 Aug 2022: Found a nice little spot to have coffee and listen to some music.
24 Aug 2022: There was dinner and now a show.
22 Aug 2022: I just flew from Brisbane to Melbourne, Australia. I love to fly and one of my great joys is travelling by air. The people watching at the airport, …
17 Aug 2022: It’s been five years since I adopted Ali from a local cat rescue. She was found with a litter of five kittens and was only about six months old …
17 Aug 2022: Made it to the end of Westworld Season 4 and while it seems they’re setting up for a possible S5 I think I’m done. I struggled to stay engaged this …
16 Aug 2022: I’ve reached that point in my holidays where I have to check what day of the week it is. Good place to be.
15 Aug 2022: A beautiful day to fly 🛫
12 Aug 2022: My brother’s dog, Tilly, is a gorgeous girl. She’s getting old now though and deaf as a post. She needs to see you to know you’re there but then she …
7 Aug 2022: A perfect 21°c winter afternoon for a walk along the river then relaxing on my balcony with a beer in the late afternoon sun. These are both …
5 Aug 2022: I had a list of things to do today but that plan has hit a slight snag in the shape of a cat.
24 Jul 2022: The more things change, the more they stay the same. This thought from 13 years ago is remarkably similar to one I had a few weeks ago that resulted …
17 Jul 2022: A very old friend, we met 35 years ago, came home this week after living through the last two years of Covid in Singapore. It’s the longest we’ve not …
12 Jul 2022: Almost everything ticked off on the day off list: Slow start - cups of tea & cat on lap ✅ Thor: Love and Thunder ✅ 7.5/10 Booster 4 ✅ Roast lamb …
11 Jul 2022: Just watched the first three episodes of the new season of Westworld. I see that they’ve stayed with the approach of multiple confusing sub plots, …
9 Jul 2022: I really enjoyed the final episode of Strange New Worlds and the man out of time plot device. The whole season has had everything you could want from …
9 Jul 2022: I subscribe to Choice here in Australia as I value their reviews of consumer products. When looking at a new purchase I will start there first and see …
4 Jul 2022: It’s been 18 weeks since the Brisbane floods filled the basement carpark in my apartment building and the lift was damaged. The email has just arrived …
2 Jul 2022: The cat giving me her please don’t follow me around singing face moments before going to hide in the bedroom. 🐈
2 Jul 2022: The best part of it being July is that I can start saying “I go on holidays at the end of the month”. I find it important for my mental health to …
2 Jul 2022: In the Brisbane floods at the end of February, the basement carpark filled with water and the lift was damaged. It’s been four months of up and down …
30 Jun 2022: My micro.blog stickers arrived!! Thank you @jean 🤩
29 Jun 2022: One of those days where I’ve decided that I’m making pizza for dinner because I can, and it will have both pineapple and many anchovies. It might be a …
27 Jun 2022: Project managers often appear incapable of admitting that things are not going well and always want to put the best spin on things. Amazing how saying …
26 Jun 2022: “Should have bought me a hammock”. Not content with slowing clawing the chair to pieces the cat has been making the underneath a little hiding spot. …
25 Jun 2022: My Saturday was lunch at a favourite Italian, a show and then a few drinks. Sometimes you just need to ignore the trouble and strife in the world and …
23 Jun 2022: Recently I’ve been using my iPhone without a case. The design and colour really is lovely to look at and shouldn’t be hidden away. The one thing that …
22 Jun 2022: We’ve been asked to put up new nameplates with a photo you like and also a spot for “a fun fact or a special quote that has meaning for you”. I talk …
21 Jun 2022: I recently removed roller blinds so the painter could patch the holes before painting. I have to wait a bit for the new shutters to go in so I’ve put …
21 Jun 2022: It’s increasingly frustrating the way the Australian media and politicians refer to the energy market as if it’s a normal commodity that you can …
20 Jun 2022: Trying to decide what to name a new member of the device family is proving difficult. I have themes I use but I’ve grown attached to my iMac being …
19 Jun 2022: Decided to watch Doctor Who from the very first episode and work my way forward to the end of the old series. I’m quite looking forward to this, it’s …
13 Jun 2022: Price caps for the Australian domestic energy market should have been part of the enabling legislation and permanently in place. We shouldn’t need to …
12 Jun 2022: I get the contents, the cat gets the paper bag. win/win.
11 Jun 2022: I wasn’t going to go this year but a decision to take some holidays in August and September had me dropping into the Lifeline book sale. Picked up a …
9 Jun 2022: Apple mail is truly awful at searching. It’s one of the reasons I stay on gmail. If I could find a decent app and calendar for both iPhone and iMac …
9 Jun 2022: They are indeed. #DoctorWho #DoctorWhoQuotes
6 Jun 2022: Discovered Blake’s 7 is on britbox so I’ll be indulging in some great old sci-fi for the next little while. Along with Doctor Who and Star Trek …
6 Jun 2022: The cat has slowly forgiven me for leaving her at the pet motel while the place was painted. Has resumed stealing my seat when I get up.
5 Jun 2022: Decided I’d take advantage of the Britbox $2 for two months special and check it out. Should be enough time to see what it has that I can’t find …
5 Jun 2022: This weather forecast fills me with joy. I love the cold and we don’t get enough of it in Brisbane. I’ll be able to wear a scarf and gloves, two of my …
5 Jun 2022: Saw Top Gun: Maverick today & really enjoyed it. Action sequences need to be seen on the big screen, opening sequence was a great throwback to the …
2 Jun 2022: The ACT is way ahead of the rest of Australia on a lot of important issues, including renewable energy. #SustainableEnergy #RenewableEnergy …
2 Jun 2022: The reality of climate change is increasingly obvious and yet major generating companies are dragging their heels on switching to renewable energy in …
29 May 2022: Painter is coming tomorrow. “Just move everything away from the walls” sounds easy until you get started and (a) need to take down all your artwork …
28 May 2022: Are you trying to take a photo? 📷🐈😹
28 May 2022: Autumn afternoons are made for beer and naps. I had one and the cat had the other.
28 May 2022: Chair ✅ Book ✅ Thermos of tea ✅ Gorgeous autumn day ✅
24 May 2022: I’ve been doing more reading this year on #sustainability #renewables and alternative options to the fossil fuel industry. I’ve stumbled …
24 May 2022: I recently bought the Toot! app by @tootapp@mastodon.social to use for Mastodon and I just love the icon choices. So cute.
24 May 2022: Questions are being asked as to why the balcony door remains closed.
24 May 2022: Painter is able to come a bit earlier than planned so I need to finalise what colour to paint the walls. With 98 whites and neutrals from Dulux it’s …
24 May 2022: A trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder has dropped and I can’t wait until it opens. The Thor movies are my favourites of the Marvel movies as they …
24 May 2022: I didn’t know how much I needed to see skydiving salamanders until I came across this youtu.be/tbLFbyjVL…
23 May 2022: We love a crochet blanket. 🐈 📷
23 May 2022: Spent a bit of time today on my continuing declutter and tidy up of my digital life. Also settled on using the Tufte theme from @pimoore for my blog. …
22 May 2022: Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode Early in January I decided I’d rewatch Doctor Who beginning with 9 and hopefully finishing before 13’s final episode. I’ve just …
22 May 2022: I make things easy for my family when it comes to presents. I will love anything #doctorwho related. My niece recently made two coasters for under my …
22 May 2022: Introduction I thought I’d set up a little space on the web. Not entirely sure what I will do with it but I decided I needed some little projects for my …