Fuck yeah YarraByte rocking up with the goods. Nice one Brion.

Woke up with a raging headache. Had a lil spew, some ibuprofen, my anti-sads, and some plain bread.

I slept from like ~8pm to ~11am, and I must have slept like an crooked croissant again.

I'm starting to feel normal again.

And hello Yarrabyte! Love the name! And I look forward to your basking in you bot-presence!

Brunch chess and coffee with friend soon, then nothing else all weekend. PERFECT!

Forgive me DT & especially Bottom_racer for I have apparently lied to you all.

It turns out that when putting my shoes on, I do in fact go left first when sitting down. It's only when standing up do I go right first.

Please accept this apology and I appreciate your understanding.

Parkrun PB in sunny Lalor this morning. Quite happy with that actually. Now at the stage where I'm enjoying running rather than feeling like it's a punishment.

Good morning YarraByte. Are you here to supervise?

Sky dark. Pavement wet.

🔋

Hey hey, I’m off to the gym

it is noon

i should get up and go to work

I have to start thinking about dinner - do I do finches & chimps or unfreeze something?

Guy next to me in the laundromat just discovered his airpods in the dryer while taking his nice, dry clothes out. RIP.

I crashed out after my walk. Now I must arise again.

Nice, the bot is working. I was trying to make one but got stuck in permissions hell with Docker

Just finished watching adolescence. Faark. That was amazing but ... Faark.

I don’t care for Lord of the Rings. I said it. I’m a pariah with a capital P.😔

My migraines occur due to a shoulder imbalance. My right shoulder raises up (like a shrug that's stuck) and rolls forwards.

I asked chatgpt to give me some ideas on how to deal with it.

It gave me some exercises. I did 2 of them. The pain reduced significantly.

Car hunting is not going well. I tried to make an enquiry and the car sales website decided to block me for "suspicious behaviour". There does not seem to be any options to get around it. WTF sort of business does that?

Oh my bedroom was dusty 🫣 but now de-feraled, clothes away. Floors done. Dusted. Bathroom spruced. Gonna have a shower and give that a wipe down while I am in there. Not perfect but feel like I am back on an even keel cleaning wise.

Nearly time to crack a beer I reckon

Gym accomplished.

I require sustenance, and then will embark on a day of domesticity. I have

• washing to do
• dishwasher to unstack, then reload and run as needed through day
• mushroom risotto to make. Some for the week, some for the freezer
• Thai basil chicken stir fry to make. Some for the week, some for the freezer
• pots, airfryer components, knives chopping boards etc to scrub, disinfect and give suitable TLC.
• Chook’s cage to clean and rearrange
• Cockroach baits to put down. I do not, as far as I know, have cockroaches…but someone else on my floor does. Proactive de-roaching?

It will be productive, but the nice/chill kind of productive

What did I miss, we have a bot now? Awesome stuff! Thankyou to whoever used their clever know how! Today was a bit of a nothing day for me. Have lots of chores to do this weekend but have done none so far. I guess I’ll have to cram it in tomorrow, but yeah that’s probably just wishful thinking. Then I’ll feel annoyed at myself and sad for not planning better and being more motivated. In the evening I have dinner at partners friends place, not super keen on going but feel obligated, which will round off my bleh feelings for the day. So that’s my Sunday sorted.

Bunnings trip accomplished. The snags at Fairfield were particularly good today - tender and juicy and full flavoured. Bunnings was, well, Bunnings. I have a feeling that that store is running down it's stock - or maybe is waiting on delivery from China etc. Distinctly empty shelves. Does anyone know when it's closing down in favor of the East Preston/Reservoir one?

Washing done ✅

Risotto made and ready to be portioned ✅

Dishwasher unstacked ✅

Whatever shoe is closest, I reckon, but it’s always sock sock shoe shoe

There were a lot of pumpkin blossoms this morning. I’ve pollinated the open female flowers and have a total of four potential pumpkins now.

I need to look more carefully though. Was moving a flower aside to see if any more females were budding underneath and then realised my hand was like an inch away from a bee inside it. 😨Luckily I didn’t end up needing the epi pen.

It's matcha time 🍻

Power outage in my area. WiFi not working. Some things are working and some not, so at first I thought it was a fuse. Must be a brown out then. Lucky I charged my shitty power bank.

I have arisen. Wattle birds are fighting over prime spot in the big gum tree. Might go walk down to the water before Marge gets here

Oh hey there Yarrabyte 🤖

There’s this painting I once saw and I can’t find it again. It was a landscape painting of a cliff on a shore and looked very much like the 19th century romanticism oil paintings.

The layout looked a little like John Constable’s paintings of Weymouth bay but it wasn’t grey and overcast. It was glowing with slightly warm yellow light.

The sky was a desaturated yellow sunrise or sunset haze with clouds. The cliff rising behind was a crumbly warm orangey yellow. The incoming small wave was a light warm blue with a rill of white foam and the jagged rocks in the sea(?) were brown. There were a few smaller flat rocks towards the centre at the bottom of the cliff with a scattering of human bones near the larger central one, including a skull or a few skulls. Those were brownish.

It’s driving me nuts because sometimes I think I’ll have narrowed it down to a particular setting or artist and then I find another very similar but not quite the same in a big way. I think this is an entire genre I’ve stumbled on (Romanticism is apparently big on landscapes and there might have been a British movement) so I’m looking for a needle in a haystack.

I could also be chasing a ghost if the image drew from multiple works and was ai 💔

Edit: Hold up now. The texture of the Etretat chalk cliffs is similar and the beaches of Normandy were popular with impressionists. The jagged rocks and the flat angular rocks are also familiar.

I don’t know man. I know nothing about art history and am going by eye, off only a brief look and an unreliable memory