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TinyCat is off to the vet. He chucked again this morning, that makes it 4 times in a week. He's also alternates between velcro-kitty and antagonist way more than usual. Suspect something is going on with him.

Initial Assessment for Psych sessions done. Now on the wait-list for a bulk billed session.

Holy crap, I want to cry and laugh.

Looking forward to TAFE starting in July, too.

I can do this, I can do this. If not for me, then for him:

It's too late, the snot has me now

It went ok I think. They didn't react negatively to "Simon". But we'll see how it plays out.

Was good practice anyway! Edit: managed to sort of organise a reference. It's a mate but it's the best I can do for the moment.

Love getting into work and there's a mystery bottle of vodka waiting on my desk. Sign of the week to come?

remembering i have a puffer jacket but it is bright blue and that’s not very melbourne

My head is so sore from last night. Those damn smoke alarms. I am pretty sure the ones we have are loud enough to cause hearing damage, at least my tinnitus thinks so. I guess it gave the neighbour with the car alarm a taste of his own medicine though, so there's that

Got some pretty cool shots of the aurora on Saturday night, hand held with my phone, standing in my partners backyard in Reservoir!!! What a crazy experience :)

I've woken up and come to work and forgot my ID pass, hopefully I don't get locked out of the building today.

Also my body is broken from the weekend furniture moving.

5 mins to have coffee and enjoy it before I have to be outside, argh!

Alrighty. Off to an interview as "Simon". Here we go.

Have awoken to a kitchen covered in stir fry. Unwisely thought the lid would be enough to stop FishyCat getting into it. Hopefully he doesn’t end up peeing rocks from that snack.

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I missed the aurora the first time, going out briefly and too late, then forgot last night. Oh well. It's not really safe to hang around outside at night and I wouldn't have been able to see much.

Saw little butters today for an mday event. Little man chooses his battles.

For fucks sake. Our fire alarms randomly went off. I was on the dunny half asleep. Nothing's on fire. There are cobewebs around the fire alarm that's going off, so my guess is that something's moved in to it and is triggering the sensor. This actually happened at my last place, although at a much more reasonable hour.

Our alarms are a lot worse than regular alarms in regular houses. They're all wired in series, so once one goes off, they all go off. It is controlled by a commercial style Pannell, but the best that can do for us is making it shut up for 8 minutes. After that it can be retriggered. We can't just take it off the roof, A because we'd be in a fair bit of shit, but B because it's bolted onto the roof and has several wires feeding into it anyways.

We can call the fire alarm company to replace it, but they won't get here for several hours. Several hours while we're meant to be asleep...

E: We tried vacuuming out any dust, in case that's what was causing it but no dice. Fire panel people have been called. No clue how long they'll be

E2: fire people reckon they'll be here within an hour

E3: they came out quite quickly to fix it, which honestly wasn't my experience in the past. Apparently nothing moved in, it just happened to go faulty. I blame the sun farts. In any case he took it off the roof and somebody will come tomorrow to replace it. A bit under 2 hours from it going off til it was fixed, which was honestly a good response time. Lovely bloke they sent too. He's on call so we pulled him out of his slumber, so at least we aren't alone in our suffering 😂

E4: also he called me back at 12:59, so he was here in under an hour

What a frickin dumpster fire. The EBU f’ed up hard. Also so much for not politicising Eurovision, Israel got over 300 points with one of the worst songs of the night! in the same 24 hours it warns of inceasing its bombing campaign in Rafa. I just….. I don’t even have words here. What the f is going on in the world.