Melbourne

You know how some days you seem to have really great focus and get all your work done so well you surprise yourself? This is not one of those days. At least there's only about an hour left, then I'm free to go home and hope my lack of focus does not extend to forgetting to put the bins out tonight.

slept really good the last couple of nights, but had an emotionally draining day yesterday. Only thing that seems to help is music. I feel like I could put my head on a pillow and sleep in 3 second.

I have had a realisation that todays kids will never experience a life where they are not under constant observation. And it’s probably willingly. Social media, tracking aps on phone from parents, data collected on their preferences for any media they engage with, smart watches that monitor movement and sleep, etc.

My daughter's at Coles and she texts me to ask if I want anything. So I sent a shitload of texts back in a row. Get donuts. Cinnamon donuts. Or whatever. And biscuits. Any biscuits. I don't care which ones. You want your dad to pick you up. Hello.

Pay backs ☺

Had such a weird interaction today. I've been trying to buy Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard. Book Grocer had it and have had it for ages, I finally took the plunge because I can pick it up from the warehouse when I'm in Melbourne. I put it in my cart, but before I decided to buy it, I did a quick check on google to see if I could get it cheaper anywhere and saw there was a signed copy on ebay. He's one of my favourite writers and it's pretty cheap but coming from the USA and the shipping was more than the book (go figure). I asked the guy if he'd consider shipping with someone else who might be cheaper (instead of ebay global or whatever it's called) and he replied overnight not having a clue how to do that so I figure it's not meant to be.

Go to bookgrocer and Road Dogs is gone. Not available. They must have sold it which is so highly coincidental that it gets sold on the day I finally decide to buy it. But you snooze you lose, right?

So I check on facebook marketplace and some guy in Balaclava has it and is selling it. So I message him today asking if it's available.

He says yes.

I ask how much.

He says $7.

I figure bargain. I asked when is he free, I'll be in Melbourne over the weekend.

He tells me when he's free.

Great. I'll grab the book.

Then he asks where I am coming from.

I tell him Bundoora.

He says it's a bit far.

I said that's fine, I'll have a car.

He says 'but if you factor in time and petrol, it will cost more than shipping which is $10.90.'

I got a bit annoyed because who cares so I said, don't worry, I'll get it elsewhere.

Dude talked himself out of a sale (though I figure he makes a couple of bucks on the shipping so his $7 turns into $10 maybe).

I know this is news to exactly nobody, but job hunting sucks balls.

Whilst I'm positive about my plans for the future in general I'm a bit apprehensive about moving house too. It's all the little changes, stuff like where the teaspoons are is pretty much muscle memory now, I've been in the same place for 18 years now so the little routines are quite ingrained. Plus I have to get used to sharing space again and all the compromises that entails. All while reassuring a cat and dog who will also be stressed by the transition.

At least by the time everything is sorted out to actually make a move it should be Spring, so I won't have to contend with either freezing cold or boiling hot temperatures.

hm. Found an ipad in the middle of a normally VERY busy road, undamaged so I must have just come across it as it went flying off someone's roof (it was near a sharp turn) . No neighbouring houses ping a wifi pickup, anyone know how find my works on these things and if it needs a network connection to work?

Failing that, how to get in without wiping? Just wanna get it on the network, I've taken a photo with it with my number and a note saying CALL TO PICK UP YOUR TABLET since it's gonna sync to cloud