Today is new MacBook Air delivery day at work. Surface laptop was a great unit but I’m excited to be fully back in Apple land.

That relieved feeling when you made it to the cafe counter in front of someone who has a 10 coffee order rather than behind them.

Lovely afternoon with a long lunch and then cocktails. Walking/rolling home.

Clocking off early to get my long weekend started.

A lazy Friday night. I’m sitting on the balcony with a glass of wine watching the storm slowly roll in. The cat is doing the same, just without wine.

Time to settle in and have a quiet Friday night watching Foundation and the season finale of Star Trek SNW. 🖖🏻

Heading off to a long lunch at one of my favourite Italian restaurants. Very good wine list with three pages worth from Mt Etna.

Present Peter is very happy with Past Peter’s decision to put a nice bit of rump steak in a pepper marinade 24hrs ago.

Monday. I’m going to need more caffeine to face the full day of meetings that lay ahead.

Dinner with old friends tonight. There will be the stories of times long past retold over wine. Possibly some outbursts of singing. My soul will be refreshed.

Monday. Opens calendar to review the week, sighs, sips coffee, checks how many days of leave available.

And that’s a wrap on the weekend.

Raisin scroll with a cup of tea. Sunday morning done right.

Setting up my new purple iPad mini 6.

Big Sunday roast lunch consumed. May need a big Sunday afternoon nap.

Monday morning. Already thinking about Friday afternoon.

Sunday morning is made for cups of tea and catching up on the rss feed.

Vendor evaluation demonstrations. A great way to spend a morning. 😬

The cat has been evicted from my lap with the usual comment “I have to go to work to earn some money to feed you”. 🐈

Five day long weekend and now I have to go to work. The highs and lows.

Thanks to the pandemic I haven’t been to the Sydney Film Festival since 2019. Rectifying that with two films tonight. 🍿

Bag is packed and near the front door. So keen for a little trip away for a few days.

Winding down the weekend with a book, a glass of red wine and the cat curled up snoring against my leg. 10/10

Time to watch the final episode of Ted Lasso S3 before I see spoilers. See if my predictions are correct.

Starting the day with a visit to the dentist for a check and clean. Living my best life.

Spending the day at a PowerBi essentials training course. Quite looking forward to learning something new.

Afternoon walk. Which may involve a stop for gelato.

Chores and grocery shopping done. Time for a pot of tea. The Scottish Breakfast blend from Harrogate of London I think.

Upsetting the cat by asking her to move off my lap so I can go to work.

Friday night plan: takeaway, then a glass of wine and catching up on some tv shows.

A rainy morning and the cat is asleep on my lap. Unplanned day off? Y/Y

It’s 9:00am and 19°c with a high of 26° forecast. I love Autumn.

The weekend has arrived. I see a glass of Sangiovese in my near future.

A night spent planning a holiday is a good night.

A brisk 14°c this morning. Perfect to sit at the cafe sipping coffee pretending work is not a thing I have to go to.

Long weekend - engage (Picard finger point)

Making pizza for lunch, with all of the anchovies. All. Of. The. Anchovies.

Clocked off and going to a long lunch on a Tuesday. How decadent.

I appear to have reached that stage of life where I straighten up, hold my lower back and sigh “oh dear”.

Time for a walk along the river to wind out the long weekend.

Washed the car, which is my one chore for the day. Now for a cup of tea, hot cross bun and catch up on some rss feeds.

Rainy Good Friday = Cup of tea ✅ Cat asleep on lap ✅ Netflix ✅

Friday done, work week done. Time for a beer.

I wonder if I can get an Irish Coffee at the cafe this morning. It is St Patrick’s Day after all.

The Ides of March. Time to settle your debts and keep an eye on that friend named Brutus.

The physio visit has occurred and now the coffee will happen. Starting Saturday slowly.

I think I’ll call that a wrap on the week and head for home. Brisbane drivers forget how to drive in the rain so allowing extra time.

Walking on the beach at dusk is good for the soul.

Time for Star Trek Picard S3E3. Given they’re slowly featuring the TNG crew will we see Geordie this episode? 📺

Starting the day with a cat sleeping contentedly on my lap while I read = good frame of mind to tackle work. 🐈

Time to watch new Mandalorian. This is the way. 📺

Trying to decide between a standard Kindle or a Kindle Paperwhite.

Monday. Time to brush the weekend cat hair off and do the work thing.

Tai chi this morning and now off to have lunch and beers with old friends. Mental health recharge time.

Dentist time. Hopefully don’t need a filling 💸

Monday. I guess the work needs to resume. I have holidays to save for.

Flicking around the various streaming services as I can’t decide what I’m in the mood for. 📺

Weekend mode - engage.

Love it when a hotel has a sale on so I can cancel my booking and then rebook, saving myself $270. More money for cocktails!

Star Trek Picard S3 E1 - engage. 🖖🏻📺

First trivia of the year with team “Magic Pete’s Last Dance”.

Just a Doctor Who fan forever patiently waiting for a TARDIS emoji to be available on the iPhone.

I have a cat asleep on my lap. That’s an acceptable reason to cancel going to work? Y/Y

An early release means I can watch The Last of Us E5 tonight instead of Monday night. 📺

Playing some Burt Bacharach. He leaves a vast music library, what a wonderful legacy. 🎵

First is play with the cat, then the coffee, then the work. The correct order of things.

Time for The Last of Us episode 4.

A little aperol spritz after a nice walk along the river. Warm out but not as bad as the end of last week.

Thinking I should’ve sat out on the balcony with the cat before my shower not after. It’s 7:10pm and 34.5°c.

Apparently there are spare new monitors available at work. Goodbye 24”, hello 27”.

Security screening then the coffee then the flying.

Playing board games on a Friday night with the family. Sometimes the simple things are the best things.

Watching an old classic Western - 🍿

My fiendishly cunning plan to buy gelato on the walk home has been foiled by the fact they’re not open, despite the hours on their website indicating they should be.

Browsing the second hand books.

Attempting to relax on the balcony and musing on the thought that if the cat had a status.lol page it would just be a series of “trying to climb over the balcony edge”. 🐈

Waiting for the cat to stop using my leg as a pillow so I can get off the couch. Hopefully that’s the biggest challenge I have today.

Booking some restaurants for a weekend away with friends in March. Something to look forward to.

Walking after work is a great way to clear the brain.

Heading out for drinks and dinner with an old friend (32yrs and counting) that’s in town for a few days.

There will be coffee, and only then will there be work.

Listening to the Best TV of 2022 podcast on the afternoon walk.

Time to stretch the legs and go for an afternoon walk.

Sunday morning = a pot of tea and browsing my rss feeds.

Big Saturday night. Sipping red wine and plotting out some personal projects in Tot. It’s a great app.

Out for an afternoon walk.

Knots worked out of the neck and shoulders. Saturday morning massage has set me up for a good day.

Patiently waiting for my massage appointment. Starting my weekend with working the tight knots out of my shoulders.

Friday is over. Very much done with this week.

Car in for a service so on the train to work.

Coffee has been consumed. Time to get work rolling for 2023.

Doing a purge of things sitting in my rss reader that are never going to get read.

Washing the car to avoid sorting through the last of the storage boxes.

Enjoying a whisky sour and reading on my balcony. Perfect first day of the year.

Last post for 2022. See you all in 2023 when we can do all the good bits all over again. Let’s try to not do the rubbish bits again though. HNY! 🎉

Time to watch the Star Trek Prodigy season final. Avoided spoilers so far. 📺

Playing Civ VI. “Just one more turn”.

Tinkering with my omg.lol page.

Full of Christmas food and snacks, it’s time to sprawl on the couch and watch Bill Murray in Scrooged, 1988. 🍿

Christmas movie tonight - Elf, 2003. 🍿

Enjoying a medicinal gin. Making sure my taste buds are okay and not ruined by having covid.

Pizza is on the menu tonight.

Mystic Pizza, 1988, that is. A very early film for Julia Roberts 🍿

Out of office on, I’m done for the year.

Tonight’s movie pick is Ladyhawke, 1985. Bit of medieval fantasy, bit of hawk by day and wolf by night, lovers eternally apart. Why not. 🍿

Lost my covidginity and joined the double line club just in time for Christmas 🙃

Early ‘80s for tonight’s movie - An American Werewolf in London, 1981. 🍿

Still in the ‘80s for tonight’s film. Watching Young Guns, 1988. 🍿

Continuing my ‘80s movie run. Tonight is Risky Business, 1983, with Tom Cruise and Rebecca de Mornay. 🍿

Watching Gremlins, 1984. 🍿

Things to do but the cat is using my hand as a pillow so I can’t move.

Poached eggs and coffee with the Friday breakfast group. A nice routine to start winding down the week.

Watching Muppet Treasure Island, 1996. Because I can. 🍿

Watching the final episode of White Lotus S2 before I see spoilers online.

Updating Goodreads ready to import to my micro.blog bookshelves.

Monday. Let’s do this.

Settling in to watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 1987. 🍿

Walked to dinner and back to help offset the amount of Korean fried chicken consumed.

Spending a lazy Sunday morning catching up on my rss feeds.

Perusing the shelves of the local wine and spirits shop to see what might be my Christmas Day treat.

Saturday morning -> tea and the cat napping on my lap.

Friday is done. Time to go home.

A series of end of year work events today. Not sure any actual work will happen.

Nodding off on the couch, time to switch to the bed.

Spending the night reminding myself how to design and build a website.

Finishing early at 2:30pm to head off to a work Christmas party.

Doing the survey to get my 9c discount on petrol on the way home.

Deleting black Friday emails as soon as they arrive.

Off to a staff forum to hear all about our achievements for the year.

Counting the days until work is over for the year? No, not at all.

Walking by the river in the hope it’s a bit cooler than at home.

A lazy Sunday morning recharging the battery. Reading and cups of tea.

Coffee then work. The correct order of things.

Spending a quiet Sunday night catching up on some home admin.

Time to fly

Good morning Melbourne and your high pollen count.

Time to fly 🛫

Updating my profile pic across all my fediverse and social media accounts, which is taking longer than expected.

Waiting for micro.blog servers to come back up. I have to do my microblogvember post!

Trying to decide on a new blog name.

Time to check the word for Microblogvember and get writing.

I am done with today, time to head home.

Made it to 10:24 before the day was derailed.

Happy with how my little project is coming along

Tinkering and dabbling