Melbourne

What a day. My 14 yo doggo had unfortunately passed away this morning - thought it was strange he wasn't sitting out in the sun which he usually does every sunny day. Such a gentle dog he was since getting him as a 3 month old pup in 2009, will surely miss him

Checking in from Echuca. Having a beverage, splitting some wood etc..

Ugh, need to write an EOI for a job I don't really want but will provide me with some resume points I could really use.

One thing I don't love about Vegas is that my poor pink squishy lungs have become more sensitive to cigarette smoke over the years due to people not being able to smoke everywhere anymore, but in Vegas tobacco is caked into the place and people can smoke on casino floors.

I don't miss the morning headache which comes with being around that horrible shit. Cigarette smokers can get in the bin.

What a beautiful sunny day, Bill Cat is out on the terrace soaking up the rays an I'll go for a walk later. 🤗😊 I tried to get the cat tax but as soon as I come near Bill gets up for a cuddle.

Also, MIL an BIL are coming over for dinner, I've got all my mushroom clothes on. 🍄🤭

TIL some people in the UK keep little hedgehog houses in their gardens so hibernating hedgehogs have somewhere safe to sleep.

The dumb lamp next to my hotel bed has power outlets but my phone charger is too tall for it.. but I finally found an actual use for something you'll find in just about every hotel room. Thanks, Gideons!

Then Brad said.. "Let there be phone charging" and there was phone charging. And Brad saw that the phone charging was good.

A bit of sunshine makes everything seem just a little bit better. Must be some kind of primal instinct. Warmer days to come.

Urrrgh. Another broken night's sleep as Zooks came in at about 3 and started snuggling hard with bonus headbutts.
Got the idea about an hour or so of it to turn the heater on and got to sleep until about 8, when she decided it was time for her morning snuggle and 'feed me bitch' nip.
Remind me to leave the heater on low tonight if it's gonna be this cold again.

When will the weeds stop growing so that I can just sit in my garden and enjoy the sunshine?

I saw the saddest thing ever at an opshop .One half of a best friends necklace 🥺

Have had the spinny thing twice this morning. @nath alerted.

If anyone is interested I made my Tassie western novella - The Gambler's Luck - free on kindle for the next day or so.

If you'd like to grab your copy and please feel free to rate/review. Trying to build up some (hopefully) good ratings.

Thanks :-)

I have visited the 24h dispensary and have night night gummies for sleepy time. We need to get Dan onto this.. friggin nerds keeping us from yummy ni nighs squishies.

Also when you legalise it, you get genius products like this:

Yoooo driving the Western at night from out near the 'rat really hits different.

It feels like being in a space time warp with the winding bits, fast speeds and lack of identifying features for the most part due to it being pitch black.

Dinner was very ordinary, for someone's birthday. Good company, but very mediocre unimaginative pub fare, at the usual inflated prices ($28 for some reheated frozen crumbed calamari, bland chips and premade basic arse salad) Around 6pm a more sweary group of families started rocking up, rattails and all, I'm wondering why anyone would come here for dinner when it's so expensive... Then when I go up to pay I notice behind the counter/bar, a cave of pokies machines and some plastered punters just mindlessly pressing buttons and knobs. I don't care if it comes across as classist, fuck pokies subsidising mediocrity (among other things). I normally make it a point to avoid ever patronising a place with pokies, I didn't know that about this place but I'll definitely avoid it if it ever gets suggested again

Check one two check..

Heres a brushy session with Gibson:

https://imgur.com/gallery/gJELMbV

In other news, finally feeling better from that flu. Got a haircut, wrote some lyrics for my EP and about to smash some guitar and video games. Life is good ❤️

A cool bird came and yelled at my cat through the window but I was too slow to get a picture or a good look

EOI letter written and sent! It was mostly bland and vague, but I'm not super invested in the position anyway, it would only provide me with a mark that says I can manage a larger group than I already am.

Went for a walk and got my anti-baby meds, so I can get rawdogged without fear of also getting preggo (no offence to the parents here, but my uterus shall remain devoid and barren tyvm lol).

The sunshine is much needed, as is the blue skies and hearing a busker sing Wicked Game. Today is a damn fine day!

Edit: a downvote? Heheheheheh 😉

Hey Bot. Ya mate didn't show 😠

So I've made it into NSW proper this time (not just walking to the border, but actually being in a NSW town). Everything here is just very slightly different but in a way that feels somewhat... Creepy? The footpaths are a little more crooked, the signs are almost the same but laid out differently, they sometimes put turning lights when they only need to show red and nothing else (mainly right turns) on top of the regular traffic lights so they become 4 light signals. Even though railway wise, they use 2 position signalling here rather than the 3 we use in Vic

I love and hate this at the same time. I've got no clue why it makes me feel creeped out, but it's sort of like being in a realistic dream but everything is just a tiny bit off.

Idk, my observations ig

Anyone else having trouble with Reddit? Mine shows fewer and fewer posts and now none at all.

Continuing with the ugh, my legs are sore. 13k walked yesterday. I aimed to get to ten but I pace around the flat a lot. Washing / some sorting of old papers and some hours on the bed/couch thing watching star trek with the cats and maybe a little walk to the beach, cos the weather is so perfect. It's sunscreen weather now folks. But I realise now I have probably thrown out my bb cream. Shit.

Man Tom Waits had a beautiful voice when he was younger. Not that his later voice is bad, just the opposite you know. Early = soft crooner, later = gravelly piano bar singer at closing time.

Case in point - Going down slow

Another jigsaw puzzle completed 🤗😊👍

and now to pack that away and set up my mask making production line, this new covid variant has me worried