Melbourne

Test is negative! 🪩💃🏼 And I can taste more things! I didn't realise until I bought some mixed donuts for the Minipeelers and Elder asked what the yellow ones were and I took a bite and said, "pineapple" lol. Spent most of the day cleaning in the lounge room, which hasn't had a decent clean in a while. Four long haired people in a place really take it's toll in terms of fluffage in the carpet and upholstery. Now I'm going to make some schnitzels and maybe a quick curry. I'm back baby 👉🏼😎👉🏼

so far today I've done all the washing, designed and printed IMMENSELY satisfying just right fitting compartment boxes for my toolbox for bits and bobs, run the first lot of distillate and done a 10 walk. Very niiiice

I suspect my doctors has now got an automatic pre-recorded message you have to listen to before reception pick up the call. They always used to answer pretty quickly, but in the last year literally never pick up. Automated ‘Welcome to blah blah. If it’s an emergency hang up call 000. You can now make appointments online at blah blah blah details, opening hours, useless info’ etc and it goes for a full several minutes before someone picks up. I think they are trying to minimise answering calls. Look I know how to use the online bookings, if I’m calling it’s because I have a question. Annoying.

Spring has truly sprung when my elderly neighbour is out watering his lawn daily again.

In an effort to lift my mood I'm looking at visiting my aunty in WA over the AFL PH given that she has her birthday that week too. Flights are never cheap, but they're less gross than usual atm... I haven't seen her in quite a while and I've got just enough leave to make it work. Could do with a bit of mutual TLC.

Chef has not fully recovered yet 📜
Help yourself 🚚

After my little mini rage on Monday, they pushed child protection along and got the security upgrades happening. The 4 things they promised were:

• a gate on the driveway (which is currently the only unprotected entrance)
• security cameras around the property
• proper locks on the side gates (currently 2/3 gates are just a simple latch with a padlock hole I've put an unsanctioned padlock in)
• a deadbolt on the front door
• replacement door frames to fix all the damage old mate inflicted with his little knife episode

Apparently all except the deadbolt have been approved (they're still trying to come up with a solution that doesn't violate the fire code thingies, although I guess technically the screen door is a deadbolt, since it can't be opened by sliding a knife into the lock and prying, which is all I really wanted. A dude came out today to measure the door frames, apparently they're going to replace all the doors as well. Interestingly they've actually used a local tradie instead of the idiots from mcpeake.

Mcpeake are the previously unnamed idiots that do stupid work that I mention almost weekly. As I understand it, they have the contracts for fixing, upgrading, and maintaining all public housing and out of home care properties in Melbourne. They seem to take it for granted, or the department is locked into a long contract. they don't provide timeframes, they usually rock up unannounced (a problem because I'm not allowed to let them in, or approve/sign off on any work, that's all the property managers job), at least outside of emergency works. They also do shoddy work, are staffed exclusively by arseholes (their google reviews are hilarious btw), and usually don't even finish the job right.

But it seems that people above the property manager have been stressing the importance of getting things done in a timely fashion, and they ended up finding local tradies to do most of the work.

So I got sent a link to view the ct scans of my face, from the radiology department.

I have never seen the inside of my face before, it's super wild! I can scroll up and down through the 'slides' and like, move back and forth and up and down these scans of my head.

I feel a tad ick, all the nerves in my face are tingling now that I'm aware 👀 but it's also really cool!

It also confirms what I have long suspected, that my skull is quite empty and cavernous.

How does this sound for the title of a cricket themed/haunted mansion story: Caught and Ghouled (a play on caught and bowled).

Otherwise I'm stuck with the temporary title of 'The Haunted Mansion' which is overplayed.

The Daily Chair. The other day I bought an outdoor thermometer for the terrace just to check that the nights are warm enough for me to do painting. It's consistently 2-3 degrees warmer than the temps weathermaps gives for this suburb and it needs to be over 10 , which it is, so that's good.

I just finished doing a very fine sanding, then a wipe down and another coat of black stain. This time I was very careful to watch for drips.

It's a really old chair so I just have to accept that it's going to look knocked about even with restoration. Gen-you-wine shabby, not fake ...lol