Melbourne

Just finished up this one a moment ago. Been distracted with too many things so it’s slow going for me.

Enjoy!

Sirene fight

Landed. So glad for my friends tip to use the VERY first ticket machines as you disembark - no queues at all, skipped past the nightmare later on. Now if only the bags would come soon on this bruised old conveyor and I could get through the damn customs queue. Sigh, what an experience to come home to, but I accept why no Australian airports can ever match Changi...

Edit: oh man customs was a bitch today. I'm never bringing back any tea again, not worth standing in line and getting yelled at by rude officers and having to redo my bloody form because the ink was a very dark green and not black 🙄

E2: Soup results were very disappointing. Ah well. I'll hold onto my euphoria from last night over the results here

E3: 2 hours later and I'm still salty at the power tripping customs people demanding I rewrite my form because it's not 100% perfectly black ink. They should be embarrassed to still have paper-only forms in this day and age...

sky pretty

I've been sussing out where the sewers etc. run at the new place, looks like the lines are all outside the property boundary so there should be no easemets within the yard. Which is good, I'm hoping the owner will let me create a bit of a garden including a couple of small trees. They'd be silly to say no as it would improve the property values, but there's no guarantee that they are not silly.

It is a great yard for a garden, at the moment it is just grass, but the whole lot is north facing. I'd be looking at doing the end with the outdoor area with low maintenance natives designed to attract birds, with herb & vegie garden including a lemon/lime tree at the less visible end. It will involve lots of digging, which is just what I need to improve my fitness levels. And buying a few plants etc. is probably cheaper than a qym membership.

If they decide to say no to the garden I will have to do a few things in pots instead, plus I'll do a bed or two of annual vegies and just pull it out when I leave. Either option will work ok, but I do like the idea of creating something for the future.

Conspiracy theory: Woolies manned checkout people have been told to go slow to massively incentivise using self checkout.

I completely forgot that Tony Abbott also lost his seat, it just wasn't immediately as he lost the leadership.

Confirmed that sleeping without any back ground noise i.e white noise machine gives me way more interesting and vivid dreams.

Edit: also feel more refreshed from sleep.

Still a bit of a nail-biter in my electorate.

Edit: the greens candidate is only a few hundred votes ahead of the alp candidate, who has held the seat for a while now (has been a safe labour seat for decades except when Phil Cleary won it in the 90s. I wanted the green woman to win and shake it up a bit). Can't believe how many people voted for the liberal candidate when he doesn't even live anywhere near the electorate and had to pay a fine for fraud or something last year. Happy for the overall result though, and actually relieved! I was worried more people would secretly support Maga type policies and vote accordingly.

Sky very very pretty.