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  • Kids and I are going through videos on YouTube and we stumbled on The Tea Party (Canadian rock band from the 90s and 00s)

    Is it appropriate to tell my kids that I've hung out with the band at a bar and the recording studio.

    And yes...many, many lines of Columbiab marching powder are featured in the stories.

  • Be me trying to reserve an Uber for when my cruise gets back in: "7am from White Bay Cruise Terminal"

    Uber: You got it! 6am booking confirmed. Driver will wait until 6:12am.

    3 times just to make sure it wasn't something I was doing. Every time. $48 for 15 minutes estimated drive too.

    Might try and sneak my way onto the shuttle bus which goes to central then just make my way from there to the car hire place.

    Meanwhile! I still have a train ticket booked which I'm just not going to use. Ship gets into Sydney at 4:30am, so when I booked it I figured I'd have HOURS to kill before the 7:40am train. Turns out disembarkation will start at around 6:45am so if something caused any delay I'd miss that train anyway. If I wasn't carrying my own bag out my disembarkation group time is 8:35am so that would have been doublefucked.

    The upside to all of this is that last night I extended my car hire by a day and booked myself a room in Albury for the night so I don't need to do the entire drive in a day. So now it's not a big deal if I don't get going from Sydney as early as humanly possible.

    • Sounds very sensible to break the journey on the way back esp after being unwell. 2022 xmas I had to leave at 4am to get to Sydney in time for dinner and was barely sane by the end coming after many stressful days prior. Broke my journey on the way back at Albury as well and had a much better time. Detoured via Beechworth on the way back on the second day and had a blast

    • Drive safe and welcome back to Melbs. :)

  • Cheese, pickles, chutney and crackers for lunch. The crackers are sweet potato, and I'm not overly thrilled with them. A bit strong flavoured, although that works quite well with the chutney which is also strong.

  • Just found a few microbats in the outside brolly I just put up. They are cute little things.

    Kinda feel bad for disturbing them. Brolly hasn't been opened since last summer so i imagine it was a bit of a shock.

  • I just finished listening to an audio book of the anthropology of Neanderthals and I feel quite emotional! Truly they were our brothers and sisters and I am so sad they are gone.

  • fresh mango has been eaten, storm clouds are moving in

    • Coming in from Mildura... Guess it'll be a humid night again.

      Must make sure I get up early enough tomorrow to finish the rest of my gardening before the rain hits...

  • Got thoroughly toasted outside and am rather dehydrated and tired now, but managed to get some decent gardening done 💪 Rejuvenated some rather dry potting mix, planted out the basil seedlings, repotted a rootbound kniphofia and a last-chance dwarf lemon (why do I have NO luck with dwarf lemons 😭), sowed a bunch of seeds... tomorrow I'll repot the curry leaf plants, set up the new large rectangular planter box with fresh soil (my back is already aching at the thought), and try to settle on a new arrangement of all the plants with the limited space I have. The manzano chilli plant is big enough that it's hard to find a semi-shade location for it over summer, so may need to get creative and/or prune judiciously.

    I also really need to find out how to keep the snails off my balcony pots for real. They're the bastards making it hard to grow anything from seed... especially beloved sunflowers. Any tips gratefully received. I've read that the typical barrier tape sold in garden shops isn't very effective so have ordered some EMI copper tape off ebay.

    e: gonna start reading the Silo e-books now since I can't stop wondering what happened after the end of season 1. and I hear it's much better than the show anyway

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