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Enduring work after a week away. luckily it's a short week
Nothing special really.
Didn't have anything planned for over the weekend and went to check out a community meeting. Met a few new people and they had some very very good free chocolate orange cake. Fitted in a lot of gaming time as well.
Work is really slow as the boss and a good chunk of the rest of my team are on holiday with the kids, and my main job is sat in QA's queue as 1/2 of them are on holiday as well. I'm bored and should really be taking advantage and doing a course but I can't be arsed and am feeling very lazy.
Might walk down to the chip shop for tea later on if it stops raining, or throw something beige in the air fryer if it doesn't and then try and motivate myself to get out the craft supplies and make my brother a birthday card for next week.
It's been a good week. survived the first half of the school holidays. decent weather. several barbecues. Had my hair dyed. continued my longstanding drinks with internet strangers hobby.
I've started a new crochet project and I've gone up a geek level or two now I've sorted out a reverse proxy for my containers on my debian vm and I've mounted my NAS to my laptop (mint).
Today has been fairly relaxed! I've only just found this place and made my account so that's pretty cool
Welcome! 😎
Really questioning my ability to read, thought the title of the post was "How was your week ban"
I suppose we could ban everyone for a week, it'd be much quieter.
It's been tough. I nearly failed to pay rent, and had to borrow money from a friend to afford it. My finances have been an absolute bloodbath for nearly a decade, and I'm finally gearing up to go sober and really confront how much debt I have. It's going to be a tough year. But, on the whole, the week could have been worse! And, thankfully, a calm but enjoyable Sunday.
Sounds like you're on a good start mate, mad how much money drinking takes even at home. I did the same with finances, used to live pay cheque to pay cheque and then the overdraft. Did an honest budget where I paid my bills first and used the snowball method to knock the debts on the head. It's always doable, and you'll be surprised how much money you actually have.
Sorry to hear you are going through a rough patch - I gave up drinking 25+ years ago and don't regret it, my life would definitely be worse if I'd kept going.
I’ve been working a new roofed decking where BBQ and Ooni pizza oven will go. I bought the pizza oven as a bit of an impulse thing and didn’t really think where it will go, so now I have a building project to deal with.
Yesterday the weather was great so I just kept going for far too long for my age. It turns out roofing in April sunshine is exhausting and seemingly requires muscles I don’t appear to be using that often. On the bright side I did not burn myself as I slapped plenty of SPF 50 on.
I also did a good few walks with our dogs and explored new forrest paths we haven’t been to before. We knew of them but never got round going there.
I’d call this a very good week.
Shifted a ton of glass from an old greenhouse out into the car and off to the skip. Cut a big branch off a tree we plan to hinge-cut later. Then it started raining and we packed it in. I'm tired, but happy - it was a good day
Shifted a ton of glass from an old greenhouse out into the car and off to the skip.
Brave move shifting all that glass.
I was just a bit astounded that the recycling centre had literally no section for recycling glass.... that is one material easily recycled, and I had to throw it all into "household waste"
I've yet to go to one that didn't do glass. They even drop those things into supermarket car parks.
Yeah the ones for bottles, I see them everywhere. I know there's a big centre in Croydon which does glass, but the queue to get in is not something worth doing. We went to quieter one, and paid the price.
That being said, there's something cathartic about throwing a ton of glass into a furniture pit. I wanna say it's symbolic too of something, but cant be bothered to deconstruct the world right now
And totally no sore muscles tomorrow morning.
Sssh, thats a problem for future tetris. Let current tetris enjoy his beer
Cousin's wedding on Monday, considering he is 69, never been married and is a drunken shambles of a man (not a bad bone in his body), it went like clockwork, all credit for that goes to his new wife (who is an old hand at this marriage lark). I think the sit down meal had more courses than I've had in my life - starter, sorbet pallet cleanser, main meal (a massive lamb shank), dessert (a selection of three mini desserts), enough cheese to guarantee we all get gout (there was so much left over, everyone was getting silver foil from the kitchen - we left with more than a wheel of Brie and close to a wheel of Stilton), followed by coffee and tea with chocolate truffles. A waiter was so impressed by my tie that he didn't focus on what he was doing and poured tea on a cousin's husband. I got to meet a lot of new additions to the family and have a tonne of homework to do updating the family tree over the next few weeks. Only downside is my brother didn't go - he is my cousin's godson, so I felt he should go but, as he has a wife and two kids, I was easier to fit in (how to make everyone feel special). I did message him on Monday, but there has been radio silence and I know not to prod the bear.
Other than that fairly standard:
- Curry Night Wednesday - delicious vegetarian curry house in town. We ate too much, again.
- Movie Night Thursday - Death of a Unicorn, decent enough but far too much was given away in the trailer.
- Pub Friday and Saturday - nothing worth reporting.
- Today - getting chores done, sorting various things out and batch cooking.
What's the beef between your brother and his cousin?
There isn't one. The only thing is that there was one space available and my brother comes mob-handed where I am more convenient to fit in. I presume my cousin's new wife thought she could delegate the small task of explaining this to him but I refer you back to the "drunk shambles" bit and he did a bad job of it.
I'm intrigued about what kind of tie would impress a waiter that much
Giraffes.
I don't have many ties, and the one I was going to wear turned out to he dirty (dry cleaned my shirt and suit, overlooked the tie), so I grabbed my Dad's favourite tie which he would have worn if he'd still been with us. So it was a lot more meaningful and close family understood the symbolism. The waiter must just like giraffes.
Nice, that's cool. My ties are more boring than that. Maybe I need new ones.
I have a black one for funerals and a silver one from my brother's wedding, so I am not a tie aficionado.
Anyway, I thought I'd better show off the tie:
I don't care much for ties generally, but I like that one. I think it would catch my attention if I were waitering :)
Dad liked it because it was jaunty without the whacky uncle vibes you'd get from, for example, a Tasmanian Devil tie.