Luke Hand Diary

Chores. Bunnings. Got a tight rope. Mowed the long grass on the nature strip right back. Took ages and I had to get pretty wild and dangerous with the lawnmower, but the pay-off was worth it. Took some found bullets into the cop shop to have them disposed of. More chores. Went for a body board at the beach with mum. Was fun! Caught a couple waves. A couple of times, mum and I caught the same wave....

Parkrun with mum, Leanne and Paul. Nice weather in the morning. Lots of coffee. Macca’s. Wandering around. Mowed the lawns. Watched the cows. More walking. Pottered around. Had some bubblegum flavoured soda pop. Shapes and French onion dip for dinner. Finished the Beatles Get Back. Nice long day with plenty of solitude. M: 4. E: 5.5. 😐😆🙂

Work. Not too bad. Paddock got mowed. And the cows went bananas. Fish n chips with mum. Had mustard with my fish n chips. Wonder if I’m the first person to do that. New Covid variant is popping off in South Africa. M: 3. E: 3. 😐🙂😑

Work. Day went quick. Crumby vibe. Roasted veg for lunch. Very tasty. Took the green bin down to the area I had weeded for to collect all the grass and weeds I left piled on the ground there. Saw a bloody big frog and a bloody big mouse amongst the weeds I was picking up - and thought best to leave before I next saw a bloody big snake! Toggled a couple of settings for my AirPods Max - neat. The Be...

Work. Staffing issue. Sweated up a bit in a meeting. Not very nice. God I’m disorganised. I’m going to get in big doo-doo over it I reckon. Had dinner at the Cally with mum. Walk with mum and Ash. Bit of a goss. Saw this big weird ship on the horizon. Could be the Pong Su incident all over again. I’m feeling so unfit. Can’t be bothered exercising properly though. Ugh. M: 3. E: 3. 😐😓😴😑🙂

Dropped by birthday boy [nephew’s] before work. [Other nephew] gave me a big long cuddle. Cute. Work. Overdue on several projects - but apparently I don’t do any work until I’ve let pressure build and build and people are getting completely fucked over by me delivering it way too late. Why am I the way I am? Wish I would have done more work. Got some vicarious relief from my work wife getting a lo...

Work. Boring, frustrating, unproductive. Mopped. Walked to the beach and had a look in the rockpools - splendiferous. I would like a sea burial. There is an outfit out of Western Australia that do it, I think. There are a lot of regulations around it of course and it’s not cheap, but it would be cool. I would like my funeral service and wake to be held near to an onion cutting factory. Apple TV an...

Eh. Did the weeding. Might not keep doing it. Probably roped off for a reason, I guess. Might as well just mind my own business. Can’t get in trouble that way! Went to the doctor. Went exactly against doctor’s advice a couple hours later. YOLO. Carrot cake. Bunnings. Got annoyed at alt-right Davo. While trying to call him in, I guess I was glad to feel like I don’t always assume sides on things ju...

Hung out with mum. Did some shopping. Poor retail and hospitality workers, having to deal with asking to see check-in/vax certs! So bananas. God Anko has a wide range of products. So bananas. Watched the anti-mandate rally. Listened to a bunch of new music from reading some MOJO magazine. Lots of great music queued up. Headache in the afternoon. My 20 year high school reunion was this evening. M:...

International Men’s Day. Work. They hate me. Ah well. Spuds and onion for lunch. Terrible dinner. Blue. M: 3. E: 3. 😐😑

Work. Boring. Annoying. Tetchy. Unproductive. Really windy day. Lots of dust in the air. Hay fever. Tried to bash the fence together to stop it blowing around and creaking. Walk with mum and Ash. Convinced the union to delete a tweet that I found problematic. Lost the Powerball. Done a podcast. Pretty boring and pointless day. M: 4. E: 4. 😴😑😠

Birthday. Nice and achey from the weeding work. Beachy and coffee with mum before work. Work. Tetchy again. Hmm. Was listening to William Tyrrell content all day, now that the case appears to be cracking. Very interesting. Had a beer at the end of the day, and it hit pretty bloody well indeed. A walk with the girls. Looking forward to getting back to my weeding soon - hopefully tomorrow. M: 4. E:...

Bloody ants in the kitchen. Got tetchy about some stuff at work. Rrrrrr.. Got pretty worked up and felt tense, had a blood nose, and a headache built up - finished a bit early. Took some tynenol. Went and did more weeding at the river. A few separate passers-by agreed that the native grasses were looking very overrun and that I’m probably not doing any harm by clearing out some of the weeds and gr...

Work went really quickly. Didn’t get much done. Was getting annoyed about dumb stuff and probably came across like a dick a couple of times. Ah well. Work-wife was born in Bethlehem, she said today. Wow. I went to the river after work today and weeded around the area where they planted the native grasses a few months ago. Only afterwards did someone suggest that maybe they’re happy with the weeds...

Very wintery weather. Hail and winds. Tried to go for a couple of walks but it was too blustery. Was hoping to get to around Shelly Beach and get some periwinkles but didn’t make it. Heard a Liam-penned Oasis song I had never heard before. I Believe In All. Amazing. Crazily underrated as a songwriter. Mum got me to get out and pick up a piece of scaffolding off the side of the road - and then near...

Up early. Ablutions. Walking around. Watched a couple movies. M: 4. E: 4. 😐

Work. Didn’t get torn apart in the meeting that I thought I was due to be torn apart in. Had a couple frustrations today, but slunk through and clocked out without addressing a couple of things. Yolo tho. Guess that’s Monday’s problem. Swept up. Laying around. I don’t usually care about birthdays - and I never know or care what age I or other people are - but the last few years, I’ve felt really b...

Super out of it. Feeling very slow and hazy. Didn’t get things done at work again. Manager requested a meeting about my work generally for tomorrow. Not going to be fun. So out of it. Rode and got fish n chips for dinner at 5 and have been napping since. Flat as a tack. I have very little vim at the moment. Was hating myself in conversations all day. Shut the fuck up!! Isolating from a few social...

Work. Did fuck all. Need to get better at my job. Work wife suggested that as my New year resolution. I think that’s a good idea. Was looking at Airbnb options, either in Melbourne or somewhere else on a vline route. Not sure that I can be fucked going anywhere because I’m feeling like isolating anyway - and I can do that at home. Sent a photo of my toe to this chick off Hinge/Insta. She still bar...

Watered plants and stuff before work. Unproductive work day. Got some cuttings on my walk. Crumby mood. Solo walk. I got accused of not having checked in at the supermarket by some sticky beak. “You don’t check-in, mate?” Wished afterwards that I would of nutted the cunt! Should of said, “Mate - the spreads and honey are in isle 4, why don’t you check if there’s any BEESWAX there with the honey an...

Zonked. Got up late. Mum had left a takeaway coffee for me on the bench. Heated it up by stove top. Ugh. Probably didn’t get much caffeine out of it. Was dazed all day. Couldn’t work properly. Out of it. Cooked some pasta. Not bad. Did some potting. My new headphones arrived! Earlier than expected. I spilled beer on them within an hour of having them. Cows came up close to the house. Found a frog....

Full day. Market in the morning with cousin and child. Got flowers. Saw baby swamp hen. Mowed the lawn and used the hand-me-down whipper-snipper from Val. Did repotting and watering. Went for a drive with mum and gran out to Tower Hill and Koroit bakery. Nice drive and bants. Did some roustabout work - moving the old hay bale out of the pen, and spreading it in the paddock to disperse. Made a much...

Groggy morning. Had five fillings done at the dentist. Dentist this time was really nice. I thanked her afterwards for how comforting and caring she was through the whole thing. She’s leaving the industry in the new year. Damn it. Would have liked to have gone to her again. Watched David and Mary’s horse race from the Cally. It was the favourite but didn’t place. Dang it. Visited Ash and Marty. My...

Was laughing out loud last night while I was trying to get to sleep because I was remembering a bit on UYD where Seth off-handedly said that there was a restaurant that he went to regularly and that he never spoke in there and wrote things down when he would order, etc. Got a bit hysterical while remembering that. Late night and early morning - pro bono. Went too long without my meds and felt weir...

Too cosy in bed to get up early. And it only got more cosy as the sun came up. Work. Same shit. Walk with the girls. Nice light this evening. Done some pro bono in the evening. M: 3. E: 3. L: -7. 😐🔥😑😤