Life
Spending the morning listening to new-to-me bands while I’m writing up notes for the meetings I have later today and tomorrow. So far I’ve added Memphis May Fire, We Came As Romans, and In Hearts Wake, all three have elements similar to The Amity Affliction who are an all time favourite. 🤘
Our new lounge arrives today! We bought the Bangalow Modular Sofa 6-seater chaise in Green Wattle, the Black Friday sales knocked over $1,000.00 off the price. Just hoping the rain stops when the courier gets here!
Just spent a couple of hours taking stock of the subscriptions we have for streaming services, web services, and a bunch of apps, then roughly worked out the value / use we get out of them…and then promptly killed off 8 subs, saving $800+ a year. What the actual! 🤯
🏋️♂️ First session of the year with the Exercise Physiologist went well, set new targets for the year with an eye on improving my golf game, particularly core strength and recovery aspects. Felt good and strong during the workout, off to a solid start!
Have been fairly busy today, just ticking off chores around the house and yard, trying to keep the momentum going.
⛳️ Made some minor tweaks to my golf simulator setup and it’s now the launch monitor is working way more accurately…so much so that my handicap well and truly comes into play.
I made a Pork & Holy Basil Stir-fry (Pad Kra Pao) for dinner tonight, quick and simple to make, and super tasty! 😋
I’m going to add a Projects page to my website to keep track of all the projects I work on around home. Nice to have something to reflect back on when my brain goes off to that funny place where I feel like I’ve not contributed enough or not completed enough things.
I’m hoping that when the calendar ticks over to January 1st that my health, energy, and emotion bars all refill automatically…that’s how the game of life works now, right?
Upside down Zelda. Must be a tough life. 😜
Thinking of building out a small, dare I say micro, website for the social golf club I play in. Tech wise, it needs to hold the season calendar, links to the courses we’re playing, the winners of each grade when we play, links to sponsors, and contact info. micro.blog looks a likely option. 🤔
⛳️ Played Merewether Golf Course this morning with a couple of mates. Didn’t hit them super well, but still shot better than my handicap, managed a couple of pars, as well as a birdie on one of the Par 3’s.
⚽️ Don’t mind waking up and seeing that Manchester United, Manchester City, and Tottenham, all lost their games in the English Premier League overnight. Better if Chelsea and Liverpool were also on that list, but beggars can’t be choosers.
I’ve hit peak burnout, and peak frustration, so I’m tapping out on the rest of the year. So much of my time is chewed up volunteering, it used to be rewarding, but now I’m the default person that everyone goes to it’s become a 7 days a week thing, that’s not fair or remotely equitable.
It’s Fishing & Crabbing We Go, Sea Shanty
When your wife challenges you to write a sea shanty after seeing your shared calendar notification, you take that challenge…and then maybe you cheat a little a use ChatGPT because after all, you’re not a song writer 😜
🎣 🦀
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s fishing and crabbing we go, With nets in hand, we’ll scour the sand, Hi ho, hi ho!
Hi ho, hi ho, the tides they ebb and flow, We’ll cast our lines and haul the brines, For fishing and crabbing we go!
The salty breeze, it fills the seas, Our traps and bait below, We’ll fill the hold with tales untold, From fishing and crabbing we go!
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s fishing and crabbing we go, The ocean’s call, we’ll heed it all, Hi ho, hi ho!
🎣 🦀
The Week Ahead
Looks to be pretty busy, but shouldn’t be too stressful if things go to plan. 🤞
Monday - finish clearing the garage and make a couple of tip runs
Tuesday - setup golf sim in the garage, football meeting at 5pm, sports club board meeting at 6pm
Wednesday - take the boat out on Lake Macquarie, try to catch some fish and crabs for Sunday BBQ
Thursday - same as Wednesday
Friday - same as Wednesday, if I haven’t caught enough for the Sunday BBQ, otherwise play some golf
Saturday - no plans
Sunday - early trial match between between my sons team and Singleton Under 18’s, then family Christmas BBQ
Plenty on, nothing stressful, let’s go!
Annoying Monday morning issue, my son’s bike has a slow leak in the rear tire, seemingly takes 8-10 hours to go down…so in theory, if I pump it up now before he goes to school, it should stay up enough to get him home in 7 hours 🤷♂️
This pair… 🤷♂️🤪
Might be time to increase the dosage of my ADHD meds, finding them less effective currently and have been on the same dosage for a couple of months now.
⚽️ Strong result by Arsenal over West Ham in the EPL, conceding 2 wasn’t part of the plan, good to get the season back on track though! Back up to 2nd on the table, a draw between Liverpool and Man City would be ideal!
I’m hoping this rain forecast for today is wildly inaccurate! Eeek!
That’s approx. 2.5 inches for those in the USA.
Unsubscribed from another 45+ mailing lists, many of which I do not recall signing up to, a fair few from products I’m not remotely interested in, nor have ever purchased. Most respected the “unsub” but a few gave the “it can take 3 days for us to action this” response, which is a load of BS!
All these Black Friday sales emails makes it easy to unsubscribe from all the various mailing lists you’ve ended up on over the last 12 months. The standard “sorry to see you go” message feels disingenuous though, along with the exit poll asking why you’ve unsubscribed.
⚽️ Love waking up to an Arsenal win!
Just because I like to do all the complex things at once. Not only am I in the process of moving my blog to micro.blog, I’m also de-Googling my life as much as I can. One of these 2 tasks is so much easier than the other…any guesses as to which one?