Mon 20th Nov – Work From Home

Declan and Joe were working from home in Randwick in the morning, and I joined them by pestering them both. This mild irritation was further enhanced by the balcony construction that is happening in a languid and haphazard fashion on the apartment. Our balcony is now going to be tiled.

Declan: Declan went to Woomera today. He caught a plane from Sydney to Adelaide at 3pm, then a 50 seater flight to Olympic Park. Then he got picked up and driven to Woomera. He is there for a little under two weeks.

Walk: A bland meander around Queens Park. Bleak weather.

Weather: I have started my holiday, and NSW has simultaneously remembered about overcast and humid days.

Book: Rhys Nicholson – Dish. I did not enjoy this random assortment of ‘essays’ (blog posts). At the heart of my discontent was that I simply consume too much Rhys Nicholson content. I have seen him live, listened to many podcasts and now am reading the poorly edited book of all those stories. This morning I was reading one tale and thought, how pleasant, I haven’t heard this one before. Only to go on my walk around Queens Park and have it relayed in the latest Simply Marvellous instalment.

TV Show: Six Feet Under. When I turn the TV off, Binge keeps running the show in the background. So when I turn the TV back on, I am suddenly 4 seasons ahead of where I left it. Then I have to go back and guess what episode I was up to. Unfortunately I must have last been up to the final episode of Season One. When trying to jump back into that episode (I guess I was halfway?) there was a glitch with Binge. It thinks I had finished the episode, so it was at the end with the credits and then would autoplay Episode One of Season Two. And I couldn’t get in to rewind to where I was up to, it just kept taking me to the last second of credits and rolling me into Season Two. Binge and I repeated this fight three times. I gave up, and now in Season Two they keep referencing some car crash that seemed important but I have no idea what happened.