That is a very impressive effort. You’d pay a personal trainer lots of money to make you work that hard, so you’ve saved money on two things.

The Goddess of Quanitity is smiling upon me today. The soup I made filled exactly the right number of jars to completely fill my canner (17 jars) with just enough left for a small bowl for entree.

It is a chicken & tomato soup, with lots of vegies, like zucchini and capsicum. A lot of the vegies are from my garden, including a few kilos of cooking tomatoes.

After many days of slothfulness after feeling a bit unwell I am back onto Doing Things.

A new veg box arrived yesterday, so I’m doing a final clearout of some of the older stuff. Primarily finishing off some soup and doing a tray bake of vegies for meals over the next few days at work. Plus I’ll do a few salads, for lunches and/or side dishes for dinners, depending on how much stuff I end up having.

I dreamed I was looking after a puppy. It must have been the night for good dreams.

You gotta watch out for those street gangs. You don’t want to get behind on your protection money or there’ll be trouble.

You don’t do that sort of notice until after someone did something dumb, and you have to make sure the notice you put up is slightly obscure and not really helpful. Something like “microwaves are provided for heating up food items only. Thanks!!!”

Then people can get upset about how the sign is really obvious so it’s treating them like they’re stupid, then someone else can get upset because it says they can’t microwave their wheat bag and that’s discrimination because they use it for period cramps. After lots of outrage someone will decide you can eat wheat so technically it’s food so heating it is ok. Eventually after everyone is ignoring it anyway the sign will fall off and no one will notice.

At some point after that someone will try to dry their umbrella in the microwave and it will catch on fire, and when they get told off they will claim they had no way of knowing they shouldn’t because there was no sign saying not to.

It would be a very strange time to be in any sort of finance/investment related role. Alternating between madness and veging out sounds like my normal work day, emergencies are always erratic.

Feeling a bit bleh today. Generally flat, headache, upset stomach etc. Right at that ‘do I call in sick for work or not?’ line, which is really annoying because I tend to get really indecisive when I’m not feeling well. I’ve ended up erring on the side of caution and not going in. I think I’m right on the line where I’d go in for a day shift, but I’m not up for a night shift.

An optimised tool might do it better, but that would require taking the time to learn how to use a new tool. A spreadsheet lets you do things quickly with minimal learning curve, and the fact that you end up having to hold everything together with the digital equivalent of string and sticky tape just adds to the charm.

I worked at the council depot in Bellfield at the time they renamed that section. I’m quite sure the people who live there are going to be very insistent that it is definietly not Heidelberg West. Sort of like a teenager trying to pretend they aren’t related to their parents because they’re embarrassing.

Nonsense. Spreadsheets are for everything.

Except maybe writing essays. But nearly everything.

That would be a good option. Especially as it probably dates back to the days before everyone was issued a wheelie bin.

I sort of feel like a streeet with four houses in it shouldn’t need traffic management solutions. But if you do then using a pole just means you are missing the opportunity for a small garden bed.

I’ve had a look at a few other courts in the area - all of them have a pole in the same spot. It appears to be a deliberate design choice.

I was looking at some random streetview addresses today and have a serious question.

Something sticky, please.

Oh please no. This is my last day off before I go back to work tomorrow, if there is any fast-forwarding today please do this on an individual basis!

I think there is a lot of learning going on at the moment. I find it a bit amazing how many people have things like investment properties while not actually understanding the basics of how negative gearing and tax work. They’ve just gone into it based on vibes and ‘everybody says’ and haven’t taken the time to learn about what they are doing. Then they’ve panicked about the tax changes based on vibes, but some are starting to slowly work out what it will actually mean for them and are realising the sky isn’t falling after all.

I am feeling very flat and unmotivated at the moment. I’ve been spending far too much time scrolling on Reddit instead of doing anything useful.

The good news from there is that the finance bro hive mind is slowly pivoting from outrage that they might have to pay more tax to poking and prodding at the new rules to try to figure out new stragegies and loopholes. Most of the ‘loopholes’ are along the lines of ‘I’m just going to invest in things that get me income then’ or ‘I’m just going to pay off my investment property and keep it as an income producing investment’ as if they are secret tricks they have found and not the exact thing the changes are supposed to lead to.

Driving home through clouds was interesting. I have a switch that claims to be for fog lights, but it may just be a placebo as it makes no noticable difference.