Back from my week off in NZ. Absolutely stunning scenery all around, it was just one incredible vista after another and I wondered how this place was real.
Had a couple days skiing as well, thankfully I remembered how to snowboard even though the last time I was at the snow was something like 8 years ago, much fun had. One aspect I had forgotten is how bloody expensive skiing is. It was more worth it for this trip because I wasn’t just going there for skiing, but I can’t imagine sinking that kind of money to go to the Victorian ski resorts.
Back at it today and still exhausted even after two recovery sleeps, not even the wind could keep me awake last night. I think I’ve reached the age where I need my own accom when going away with a group of friends, because I was only getting 5 - 6 hours of sleep in our Airbnb house every night and while I didn’t really feel it there, as soon as I got home it all hit me.
Apparently I missed a lot of wind?! My backyard looked like it had been trashed.
The wind it has me brooding, edgy,
Like my thoughts, an imperfect similie
Perhaps I force my lines, they don’t come naturally,
I am an amateur at everything, actually.Wind shift the good sand
Only for things be maybe
It will not not shift.
-me drunk on a sunday 2024
Good night everyone, stay safe and try to get some sleep. 😽
Beach Party ⛵️
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋🍃The opposite of beans please
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A storm-whipped souffle please.
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Hawaiian Parma? Yeah I’m eating a Parma for breakfast… No judge
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A pack of no-doze disolved in a can of red bull. Thank you ❤️
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Roof still on but rattling like fuck all night. Police helicopter. Very little sleep and have run out of berocca. Almost want the power to go out so I don’t have to pretend to work.
Ugh I had the copper chopper here too. Shaking the windows :/
Side gate smashing open all night despite the chain and various mcgyver fixes at 3am.
Brain no work.
Very little sleep for me as well.
Thankfully just a lot of leaves and debris around but no damage thankfully.
I need coffee!
oh dear, Bill cat has been fighting Ted and now Ted ran away to next door( ted can’t get away but I’m worried )
he’s back home now
Man it’s hard to sleep with this wind.
Wind wind wind. My door has been banging in its frame all night
That was some feckin wind alright. Woke up a few times overnight. Had weird dreams of living for a few days in a hippie commune in the mountains of northern NSW and then leaving - only to be accosted on the outside by various people coming for me because of downed trees in their front yard… and I couldn’t get back into the commune because it was blocked by downed trees everywhere.
Was gonna walk to work this am but maybe I’ll tram it in and walk back instead. NO MORE BED!!! 💨
not even a little? I do housework and other tasks until past 11 most nights , true I have little time outs to read here and sometimes watch telly for an hour
I find wind gusts fascinating. The giant tumble dryer decides what stays and what gets ripped up. Big gum tree you’re getting uprooted um your friend there can stay. Rusty tin shed you’re on your last warning this time but I’m gonna shower you with palm tree fronds from somebody elses yard. Kids trike I’m gonna help you along there.
Of course I don’t like that it can be frightening or that people can get hurt or the cost of destruction.
Went to sleep in the foothills of the Dandenongs. With all the noise last night, surprised the house isn’t now in Kansas…
Five-year-old woke up at 3:30am upset from all the noise, and that was pretty much the end of our sleep for the night!
Everything appeared intact this morning at least. Dream drive in to work, nobody on the roads - I’m very jealous of the WFH-brigade!!!
Miniest couldn’t get to sleep at first due to the noise, then wouldn’t stay asleep. Didn’t help having a half demolished house down the road, lots of banging and loose sheet metal type of noises. If I sent her to school she’d fall asleep at her desk, which she’s done before, so she can stay home. Wish I could too, but I’m off to work in an unusually empty bus.
Oh dear lord, just come back in from my outside duty.
The wind chill is crazy out there, I’d freeze first before being blown away out there today.
I swear it was just cutting through all the clothes I was wearing today.
It’s cutting through my Aldi ski hoodie - and I’m wearing 2 pairs of pants and it’s too cold. At least we could get some rain to water the garden - it’s been missing my place, but got all the wind as I’m on the top of a hill.
Sun was out on my way to work but had 3 layers on including a friggin ski jacket like it was the depths of winter again.
Just had to go down to our loading dock to pick up an equipment delivery and can no longer feel my hands :|
it wasn’t much fun, I was out there for about an hour and I definitely felt it with multiple layers, a scarf around my face and a beanie as well.
Excuse me?
That wind has some bite
Things were ok overnight? Hopefully we don’t get hit by it after saying that.
Apparently at about 3am, my area was put into a watch and act for a couple of hours. Downgraded to advice now, but seems it was not okay overnight
I must have been lucky. Fingers crossed everything is ok in your area
Everything seems fine. My house and property fared quite well. The trees stayed upright, and the plants didn’t uproot and fly into the sunrise. Apparently my neighbours tree fell over, there was SES tape around it. Looked at my cameras, and apparently an SES rescue truck came past about 4 in the morning lights flashing (but unlike the firies every time they come by in the middle of the night, no sirens). Everything seemed fine, and I didn’t even wake up
Trying to get through first level of organisations these days is truly excruciating. The enshittification of everything is real.
That’s because the way things are going, there likely IS no next level. It’s punchingbags/shitkickers, then empty space, then “management”.
Things do not get done because all the workers got the arse.
