Feels more like work...

 I'm still having to force myself to write these, just to maintain the momentum for the goal of writing every day in Feb.

Seems like it's less fun if I'm having to treat it like work and struggling to find something to put on here.

This is hard

 Turns out that I don't really have a lot to say.

I'm hoping that by forcing myself to write something every day I can get back into the old habit of doing creative writing. Bit hard at the moment with work being so mentally draining - report after stupid report to fill out. Spend more time filling out reports about what is being done than actually doing it! Doesn't help that we are under-staffed in all departments.

Oh well, pretty sure I'm not the only one in this boat.

Quiz night tonight with the family and the "in-laws" (for lack of a better term!) We'll see how it goes.

Orange cascade

 Whoops, made a bit of a mess this morning.

Was getting breakfast at work and the drink machine (one of those with a big plastic tank on top, some spinny thing inside to stir the drink and a push tap on front) did a dirty on me. I held the cup up to it and pushed on the dispenser, and the top of the dispenser popped off!

Had a min-fountain of juice, trying to plug the holes with my hands while calling for the staff. Must have been quite amusing - for people watching. Made a bit of a mess, I think lost about 2L of juice. Luckily I didn't have to pay for it, and one of the staff said they had issues with the machine earlier this morning.

New week

 Whee, Monday morning rolls around once again. Gotta love that "get up and go to work" alarm.

I remember reading a fan theory about Garfield, the lasagna-eating cat that famously hates Mondays. The theory goes that since Garfield is a cat, there is no objective difference to him about Mondays that is different to any other day of the week. He doesn't work - so why does he hate Mondays? From Garfield's point of view, the only thing different about Mondays as opposed to the weekend is that Jon goes to work. So the reason Garfield hates Mondays is that Jon spent the weekend at home with him, but now he's off to work all day.

Garfield loves Jon, and misses him on Mondays.

Noibats!

 Had a good day today out and about with my better half doing the Pokemon Go community day.

Pretty sure we're "cheating" by walking around inside a shopping centre, but:

• it has airconditioning,
• it has access to bathrooms,
• there's food / drinks easily available if we feel like it,
• we don't get wet if it rains (and it's quite likely this time of year),
• and heaps of other people were doing it too! And everyone knows that if others are doing it, then that makes it a-ok! :D

The main down side is that since it was on a Sunday, the shops close before community day is over, but it worked out well because we drove over to the uni nearby (which has loads of pokestops) and I was able to complete my older task which was about to run out.

In unrelated news, we survived the driving adventure yesterday without damaging the car and without needing to jump into mud, Double winning!

Going exploring!

After living here for about half a decade, we're going to head out and do a spot of 4WD'ing. Have some recovery gear and a shovel packed just in case, convoy of two cars and both have CB's.

Will be interesting to see what we see, the place we're going to is relatively well known so it'll be more "tourist" and less "explore" but without the boutiques.

There's a geocache I'd like to visit while out there, but it's several km down a side road, with multiple don't attempt in wet season warnings. So we'll be giving it a miss on this outing. I'm sure seasoned 4WD's with proven cars would easily do it, but I don't think it would be smart to try on our first outing. I don't feel like crawling in knee deep mud under a vehicle if I'm not getting paid for it.

Shorter days

Seems like each day has more things to do, fewer hours to do it and I end up achieving less and less.

Might switch my creative attempts to digital. Made zero progress with physical stuff.