I don’t understand people who buy an apartment and then complain every quarter they don’t understand how the levies are calculated. How do they not look into it and make sure they know all the ongoing costs before making a major financial decision?

🍸 Heading out for dinner and a show

📺 Finished watching Sugar (2024) ★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the television series Sugar (Season 1). The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Okay selected. The review reads: The mystery drama tone, the framing of shots, and Colin Farrell leaning into his character like a latter day Humphrey Bogart makes this a classic neo-noir. The private detective caught up in a broader crime creates a slow build in tension across each successive episode. I was quite enjoying this until the surprise reveal at the end of episode six and then my rating dropped from Good to Okay.

I have six weeks of work left until I have six weeks of leave. I can’t begin to describe how much I’m looking forward to this given my last large block of leave was Aug-Sept 2022.

Niece borrowed some money to help buy a car earlier this year. She’s discovering the bank of uncle peter is not as flexible with repayments as the bank of dad. Deferring the regular payment results in a lecture when it doesn’t resume as agreed. I call it character building, not sure if she agrees.

📺 Finished watching Loki (Season 2, 2023) ★★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the television series Loki (Season 2). The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Good selected. The review reads: I thoroughly enjoyed both seasons of Loki but would put season one slightly ahead of this second season. The camaraderie between Loki and Mobius seemed better in the first season, with it seeming a little more serious or earnest this time round. Having said that, I think the story arc this season was better than the first. Tom Hiddleston plays Loki as he always has, sarcasm to the fore but in a good way. The different seasons were in different phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but stand-alone enough it didn’t matter.

🍕 Making pizza for dinner, mainly so I can warm the apartment up with the oven.

We’re having “the office might be warmer, maybe I should go in instead of WFH” temperatures at the moment.

Someone in the comms team at my superannuation fund is probably swearing profusely right now. A generic email has gone out and it has the member number instead of the name (Dear 12345678).

After their recent outage due to Google cloud issues you’d think they’d be extra careful about this stuff.

🍷 Trivia time with team “Furiosa: A Mad Peter Saga”