Melbourne

The new house has kitty approval.

Back from the hospital after the PET scan to see if the cancer has been completely expunged. Results to be discussed with doctor on Wednesday. Am still high as a kite on the anti-anxiety meds they gave me when putting in the cannula. Early night tonight, so as to limit the amount of time I spend chewing my fingernails down to the elbow.

I had this dream that a young man had died but fortunately, you could be cloned on the event of your death. Everyone had been told that the new clone would take some time to adjust and memories to awaken, but after some initial tests I was sent home.

The family saw me as their son, but my memories were not coming as easily as I was told they would. The young man had set traps, clearly "he" didnt trust "Me". If i tried to turn on "my" computer it would ask for a password, then fake format itself if I didnt get the sequence right. I saw "I" had a apple watch, but when I asked about "My" phone I got given an old qwerty nokia that was locked. Asking pop culture questions I'm told I should know, but I didn't. Math ciphers I'm told "I" used to love that meant nothing to me.

I couldn't get on an unrestricted device to access the internet to research myself or who I was supposed to be. "My" siblings were growing suspicious (who look exactly like MY real life sibling), but "his" parents accepted me regardless. But all the while a name is ringing in my head. My name. And its becoming increasingly apparent throughout this whole ordeal that they've given this poor family a body with the wrong mind in it, MY mind.

And man, I would totally read that book or watch that TV show. Whole thing preys on this desire for a new beginning, but when I woke up I've never been so happy to be me! 10/10 dream, well done subconscious.

Just heard from Subaru and I pick up the new car Thursday morning. They're doing an exterior paint and interior protection thing on it as well as getting the roadworthy so it needs a few days apparently. Not quite the "early next week" they said but I'll live.

So, things have been going well at work. They like me, they're supportive and encouraging, it's very welcoming and well-managed. I like the job itself, like being a mini-project manager. It's quite rewarding and I am really quite enjoying it.

...

But they're all racists. My manager voted No because "those rich abos don't need any more help they get more assistance than I do. Bludging off the dole, being an utter nuisance on the roads up north". Everything else is perfect, but I feel like a monkey paw somewhere just made a fist and shook it in my face.

Fuck.

Sometimes it is hard being in a multi-lingual household. I just accidentally said "woof" to the cat.

Final day off before I start the new job tomorrow, so naturally it's pjs on the couch with maybe a little light cleaning in-between.

A terrible tragedy has befallen the Raven household. The Halloween cat scratcher box arrived, but it is missing the roof!

Miss Meow is going to be terribly disapointed.

This might just be placebo, but my carpet 'feels' cleaner walking around on it since I vacuumed with the new filter. I also got some of that vanilla scented powder stuff to sprinkle on it before vacuuming which has added a very subtle vanilla aroma to the apartment. Is nice.

I'll take "Things Bull aged 15-25 never thought he'd be excited about" for $200, Alex.

Dog has decided he likes the taste of the hardwood floor. This is not good.

Well, that's it. 3.5 years into the pandemic and I've tested positive. It was a good run.

sksksks awful lot of people lining up to tell me explicitly how much they don't care about me not giving a shit about their opinions in that nazi thread. I haven't had so much fun telling people to go fuck themselves in years

Does anyone pay any attention to the U.N.? They are about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle.

real cuppa-and-a-book vibes here today. Struggling through despite this.

Made an excuse to not go office today and had such a good day. Mandatory Monday office days are evil. Can’t wait to be done with this job. After they essentially told me to look for another job, it’s been pretty awkward. I feel on the outer already, and being in the office just makes me sad that this job didn’t work out.

Now I’m trying to decide between another FT role or doing freelance work for a bit. Found a place that already want to sign me on as a contractor and sounds like they have a fair bit of available work. I love the sound of freedom to work as I want, but letting go of guaranteed money, leave etc is very hard to do.

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Thanks to @No1, I have created Gluten Free Cookies & Cream Ice Cream. I'm not certain the world will ever be the same.

I got back to some reading yesterday. Polished off ‘Exiles’ by Jane Harper (slow and really sad) and ‘The Last devil to die’ by Richard Osman (good but also very sad). I don’t think I’m cut out for murder mysteries.

If anybody's interested in ai this guy took people's user names and used Bing image creator to create pictures.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lebanon/s/fSqIDL0S6p

Downloading update: after 6 hours of downloading, the estimated download time has dropped from an initial estimate of 3.5 hours to 3.5 hours remaining. There were some downloading speed issues for a while that saw the time estimate go up to 3 months at one point, but I think I've got that fixed and will hopefully actually get to play my game by tomorrow.

Caught up with an old school friend who I'd lost touch with for ages, found out she's got lupus and it's been really casting a sobering tone to the day - I can't believe what she has to go through even in her mid 30s, you think your classmates have a whole lot of life ahead of them and never expect them to be condemned to endless specialist visits and expensive treatments for the rest of their lives. Honestly still can't shake it off. On the plus side it's sort of made her a more patient and compassionate person than before

So I went to Haigh's today since any hope of finding good quality chocolate in supermarkets these days is a hopeless endeavor. Life hasn't been the same since everywhere stopped selling Green and Blacks.

And while I knew they weren't going to be cheap 15 dollars for a 200 gram block dark/milk blend of chocolate was very much ouch.

I still feel creeped out from a nightmare that I had gone half balded. 😂

"Asteroid City" 😐

I loved True Stories by David Byrne. 😊

Friend of mine's wife was going to have the baby this afternoon by Caeserian. Still no word. bites fingernails

ooo I just checked online and I'm going to get a $300 refund on my car insurance for swapping it to the new car. Turns out insuring a 2009 Falcon is more expensive than insuring a 2023 Subaru Outback!