Luke Hand Diary

Worked 13 hours. Barely moved from the desk all day. Got told off for our coding work being shit. By the guy who I’ve been handing everything in late to. Doh. Sent off another project tonight that was at least sent in it’s due date - but I didn’t know it existed until two business days ago, so I bet the coding we did on it will be crap and it will also be flagged as being lousy work. Doh. Took a b...

Last night, I was made aware of a post in the Warrnambool ‘buy, sell, swap’ page on Facebook about a black cat that had been hit by a car and killed on the street here. Had to go check the body to see if it was Sox. It wasn’t, thank goodness! I was completely sure that it would have to be Sox - given that they’re profoundly blind. Phew! Did some lurking in the telegram about the vaccine mandate pr...

Up early. Walking around town. Had a lot of coffee. Was lurking in the telegram and Facebook group for tomorrow’s anti-mandate protest. Will be interesting to see how it goes tomorrow! I dobbed Apple in to one of the higher-ups at my work for this new setting that will let users block calls from all unknown numbers. Sure to effect survey response rates pretty massively I reckon! Slept through the...

Really sore shoulder. Must have slept on it wrong. Ouch. Work - got the wrong end of the stick in a meeting. Oops. Thank god it’s Friday. Got slow cooked fare from Mrytle with mum. Delicious. Bath. Soaked my arm - up to and including my shoulder - for as long as possible. Ahh. Very uncomfortable. Chocolate and cookies. Lots of good content online this evening. Lots of ugly commentary about Gladys...

I jolted awake at 11 o’clock last night and felt so rested that I thought it was morning. Love when that happens. Feels like getting a bonus night sleep after that. Work. Flat out and still managed to be late to get an already overdue project finished. Realised yesterday that many of the jobs that have been running late have been for the one guy - so he must think I’m completely hopeless! Damn it....

Had some really crazy dreams. Woke up very sweaty and uncomfortable. Slept poorly through the morning. I’m out of routine with my medication and it’s thrown me off centre a bit. Need to get back on a health kick. Start working on my summer bod. Work. Busy. Got through a couple of things. But also fucked up a couple of things. Ah well. Went out for dinner with mum and ash. I ate poorly all day so I...

Work. Long day. Weather was almost balmy. Sox had a good snuggle into my leg. Played the magpie sound back to it. Bet that’s not great for them, because they always look pretty weirded out by it. Fun tho. Pulled the trigger on what I think was a pretty strong investment offer to Sobah Beverages, for a not insignificant number of shares. May have been a bee’s dick too late. Fingers, toes - everythi...

Woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of mum’s MacBook Pro hard drive. It whirred up and did something for a sec and then went back to sleep. Millennials wouldn’t even recognise that sound probably. Turned a corner in my thinking about the protesters from last week. Had been overwhelmed by the grey around who was protesting and what their beef was, but realised today that their number is...

Tired. The boys playing with the chickens was cute. Snooze in the sunshine. Heart rate low and slow. Cosy. Frustratingly unproductive. M: 3. E: 3. L: 0. 😴😑😠

Long chat to [REDACTED] at Safeways early this morning. Covered a lot of ground. First proper talk with someone for a while I think. Tried a new cafe. Checked out the huge queue for Covid tests. Drive with mum. Nearly ran into an emu walking up the middle of the road. Got a pasty. The police called me the other day to say that they wouldn’t be taking my complaint about the sign about homosexuality...

Grand final public holiday. Yhhheehhh. Lazy day. Just lounged around, napped. Did basically nothing. Got a meal from one of the popular fast food restaurants - pretty perfect. News of Covid hitting town came through. I hadn’t been to the exposure sites listed so far. I do suspect that I probably caught it last week though. Have a tickle in my throat but it might be imagined. M: 4. E: 3. L: 0. 😐😴...

Got up early and had a skate with Sai and the girls. Work. Hmm. Something I was unsure of made sense after I worked on it for a bit. Ohhh I get it. My leadership was commended. This long weekend is a chance for a Great Reset, to catch up on some things and get organised. Bin night. Alternating weeks for the collection of different types of waste sucks because you don’t get that complete restart ba...

Work. Bit busy, as normal lately. Earthquake æffected workmates in Melbourne. I didn’t feel it here. Mum did though. Eek. Had a blade at the bowl with Sai after work. Haha so weird. Takes me back a few years! Got a few grinds. Feels pretty natural. Might have to get back into it! Leg cramped and is feeling very stiff already. Will be interesting to see how it fares tomorrow. Saw Sai’s girls for a...

NULL day. Work. Same as usual. Watched the construction worker demonstration thing. Pretty wild that they got up on Westgate Bridge. What a clustermunch. Definitely a curly one. Food for thought. Mum got lasagna from the Cally for dinner. Delish. William Tyrrell special on TV. Wth happened to this little fella!? M: 2.5. E: 2.5. L: 0. 😑

Work. Busy day, with still more work pouring in all day. Fuck sake. One chat with one lady about another project coming along. She’s very nice and thoughtful, so that was nice. That new project that’s coming along is also on an intense and potentially triggering subject as well. There seems to be many projects that we’re working on concurrently that are really heavy. Crazy rain and hail and wind a...

Woke up early. Recorded birds singing on the deck. Played the birdsong back to them and the birds really reacted and flew right over to me. Walked. Crappy mood and annoyed by everyone. Bored as hell. Cooked soup. Snoozed all day and feel crap. Didn’t get to things I wanted to do this weekend. M: 3. E: 3. L: -7. 💩😤😴😑

Lazy day. Drove illegally as an unaccompanied Learner - once in the morning on the highway, and then again in the evening on an ungraded backroad. Just napped and watched Dawson’s Creek most of the day. The Lil Nas X album came out and is great. You would think that - with Twitter and with the democratisation of music production software and everything - that there would be more pop stars who are...

Nephews got me up in the hour of 7 AM. Cuddles with the little one. They got on my nerves by 9 and I froze them out. Work - blergh. Was so tired all day. TGIF. Dawson’s Creek. Ushered a fly out a window. The mix of feelings you get when you finally get a fly out is one of those things that I could imagine that there is a word for in other languages but not a direct English translation for. I love...

Work. Lots of check-in chats. Good to riff with a couple of the squad now that we’re over the hump with a couple of big projects. Still accelerating and getting more busy for your humble fabulous though. A higher-up explained the various files or processes that we talk of when we say “lookups” at my work. Clarified for me that we are talking about completely separate things half the time when some...

Norm Macdonald “bought the farm,” E-I-E-I-O! F. That was sad news in the morning. I might need to watch a bunch of clips when I get a chance. Had a beautiful Chinese gooseberry at breakfast. Wooooooooorrrrrkkk. Got some work finished in the end. Bit short tempered today after staying up til after 2 on that fucking [REDACTED] job last night. Fed the birds. A magpie came inside. Dropped some stuff u...

Work. Fast day again. Me and my work wife [REDACTED] have totally got this! Two days into our new era and things are still going swimmingly! Need to work out how much is enough to feed the magpies. Seems like they’ll just come back often all day if I feed them every time they ask for food. Met with the nephews down at the river to wet a couple of lines. Had a foot race around the oval and I nearly...

Work - day went fast. Walk with mum. My knock-off Apple Watch band arrived - $5 of the purchase price goes to the fine folks at Beyond Blue. Might have to order some more bands through this mob. Listened to the last Low album a couple times and most of the new one. Bloody hell, this sounds great. Can’t wait for more music tomorrow! Bit more awake today, thank god. Some Dawson’s Creek before bed. D...

Got up in the middle of the night. My sleeping is all out of whack. Watched a bit of Rage. Then slept in. Helped mum set up grandma’s shower seat thing. I hope to hell that that was done alright actually. Good to have a chat with Chief. Was tired and snoozed half the day. I think I’m stressed about a big job that’s sort-of-due tomorrow. Could just start on it now but I’m being avoidant of how much...

9/11 twentieth anniversary. Nephews visited. They were funny and nice today. A few cuddles. I stayed home and napped while they went out. Watched a tonne of Dawson’s Creek. Starting to get good. Big veg cook up. M: 5. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😴😆😍

Funny hair day. Work. Yhehhh. Late to submit a job and did an awkward speech in a farewell thing for [redacted]. Ugh should have kept it zipped! YOLO. TGIF. Watching the Melbourne Demons embarrassing the loathsome Geelong Cats, mwahahah!! Dishes. What a damn work week. Could be my last weekend before the wheels come off the Coding department completely! M: 4. E: 3. L: -4. 😓😰😑