Fabulous. A night where absolutely nothing happens is always a good night.

Ok, the night shift has begun. If everyone can try to refrain from burning things down or crashing their cars it would be great, I plan to sort out my budget and finalise my car expense figures for the tax return tonight. I really don’t need to be interrupted by disasters, so if we can avoid them it would be a win for us all.

Ballarat is pulling out the full winter experience, with an expected top of 11 degrees today. Thursday they are predicting a maximum of 8.

What about that ‘grated parmesan’ that comes in a tube and smells like vomit?

I need to sharpen my lawn mower blade. I think I should add the shovel & spade to the sharpening list when I do that.

Oops, stayed up a bit later than I should on a work night.

Sale inspections would be an absolute nightmare. That sort of nonsense is one of the main reasons I’m looking forward to buying my own house. The freedom to just live like you want to in your own house/

Mr Woof used to stop barking once someone came inside the house, but these days he is not happy until they are sitting down. If they stay standing he keeps up the barking.

Another rental inspection survived. Mr Woof was ropeable, some strange guy coming in and wandering around the house. He firmly believes strangers should either be completely absent or sitting on the couch providing a lap and pats. No other options are acceptable.

Currently 5.5^o with a feels like of -1.1^o The wind keeps blowing open the dog door, I had to block it off. I don’t think Mr Woof wants to be out there anyway. 🥶

Just make sure you pay appropriate wages. Plus penalty rates for weekends and night shift. We are unionised, you don’t want to get on the wrong side of the flock.

bbq sauce.

The LLM rubbish is just so tedious, it all sounds the same. Even if the content is useful the delivery just becomes mind-numbing when you encounter the same tone and pacing everywhere.

It frustrates me that it’s also individual people putting their own writing through AI to rewrite it in the same bland tone. It’s getting to the point I’m getting disgust/anger reactions just to seeing the phrase “I’m curious”. It’s the sort of loathing previously reserved for tv laugh tracks, but you can’t avoid it by just turning off the tv because it is everywhere.

Lovely walking weather. Nice and sunny but not hot. I did have to divert at one point because the footpath that was still in shade had a layer of ice over it.

I finally got the email confirming the payment of my Rego rebate. I was starting to wonder if I was ever going to see it!

I’d just ignore him. He’ll get hungry and come down eventually. They know who he is, they can just go and arrest him later. It seems like a waste of resources to hang around waiting for him.

I did a ‘rough draft’ of my tax return and was a bit alarmed that it extimated I owed money instead of being owed a return. Apparently, forgetting to include a really big work expense makes a difference, even with my $1 in franking credits.

This passive income lark is great. $2.97 in dividends plus franking credits, I’m definitely on the gravy train now!

My credit card balance and my own calculations are not agreeing with each other. Looks like line by line analysis will be required. I think that can wait until tomorrow though, I’m far too busy digesting lunch for that sort of nonsense now.

The traffic gods were with me today. Ballarat to Burwood, 2 hours door to door. At work 45 mins early!