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.

Nothing to say really

 Feeling a bit down, I'm kinda forcing myself to make a post. Which isn't a good thing because my idea has always been to not bother saying anything if I have nothing to say. I don't see the point in making noise (or in this case writing on the blog) if I don't have something specific to talk about.

All my projects are pretty much on hold, no idea if or when I'll be able to do something again. Still working on spending less time on the phone. Have made some progress on that front.

On the down side, along with less phone time I'm doing less Pokemon Go which also ties in with less exercise. There's currently a bunch of tasks with rewards that I'm not doing - so it's a good thing I'm not too affected by FOMO. If I get it, great! If I miss out, oh well - maybe next time.

February goals

New month, new goals. This month the emphasis is going to be on updating this blog and as a side benefit - getting more practice in writing. Albeit not creative writing, though I could do that.

Goal is to make a post on this blog every day in Feb. Note that it isn't "make 28 posts" because then I could make three posts one day then miss a few days.

Ideally they would be halfway decent and not just "here's today's post" lazy ones!

Assuming I succeed, this would be my first time making a post every day of the month. And I've had this blog since 2007, so that's a lot of gaps.

Here we go!