It’s just past midday, I’m 20 miles from Vegas and it’s hot as fuuuuck. Have a photo of a rock archway I drove under this morning for your troubles.

Mickey says “hello”

Hooray it’s my irl b’day today. we made it.

This calls for premium potato cakes.

E: thank you all for the bday wishes :)

Been speaking to the old man about the shed he had built a few years ago. It was flooded in '19 because the neighbour’s sprinkler system ran non stop for weeks. I had to climb over and turn it off because the council and yarra water were hopeless (this isn’t the point though). It was a serious amount of water that made its way 2 doors down.

Anyway he’s in a little email argument with the other neighbour because he thinks it’s that guys fault. The wall is disintegrating and the hydrometer is maxxed out.

I genuinely believe it was the massive flooding event from the other neighbour right before 3 b2b la ninas that super saturated everything so it’s a series of compounding events.

In explaining this I said “the theory that holds the most water”. Completely lost on him…

So to all you bad pun people, I see you and you are appreciated. It’s a tough crowd out there.

Found out that a newer work colleague, who I haven’t had much to do with before, is actually struggling a lot emotionally, and is insanely isolated with no idea how to navigate the situation. I had no idea and I felt awful that I had never checked in with her or realised what was going on amidst my own troubles.

We had a very long chat that made me reflect on a lot of things I’d been through more recently, and how severe the impact of poor post-lockdown workplace team management can be on individuals, especially recent arrivals to the country. I know we all like to talk about the benefits of WFH but professional isolation really sucks arse.

I remain fucking astounded by men who think they’ve gamed the system by weaponising incompetence and being useless bull tits.

protip arsehole: You’re just teaching her that you are utterly fucking inconsequential and can be cut out of her life with zero loss.

My homemade pub meal

Also thanks @Force_majeure122@aussie.zone the man really liked the bullseye sauce.

Thought I was gonna throw up or pass out on the train. Stood up and went to the door intending to get off and go home. But by the time I got to the next station I was ok. Just knowing I was gonna go home slowly calmed it all down. New powerful kind of panic attack?

Made my way down to the bellarine for a little escape.

I will never get tired of distant surf pulverising the shore noise.

Free leftover food from an event in the office? Sign me up chief!

I left my earphone case in the back of an Uber yesterday morning, didn’t realise until I got home last night because I thought I’d left the case at home, I also had been wearing one earphone. Lol. Luckily I called the driver and he had the case (and the other earphone) and he made it to South Melbourne tonight and dropped them off to me.

I join the Zoom and it’s a political discussion. It’s too early to hear this conservative knob rattle on about how bad Labor is.

Pray for me

(He just said ‘aboriginies’ omg 😭😭😭)

Left over fried rice with scrambled egg, bacon, and cut up mettwurst for lunch. Feel much better than this morning.

My brain-worm gives me unsolicited advice on how to proceed and that’s my excuse

Off to a bad start this morning. Really agitated and quite angry at the way a staff member spoke to me and patronized me.

I’d heard rumors how some of them are quite nasty and I think I just encountered it for one of the first time from this people from a certain team.

Anyway about to go outside. Going to take a deep breath and clear my mind while on my duty for an hour and enjoy the fresh smell of rain if it decides to fall.