Luke Hand Diary

Sprung out of bed at 5. Updated some coding files from some export files, recorded a tutorial on how to update coding files from export files, and also wrote up a document covering the same. Did some work. Did a walk before the others clocked on. Did a big protein cook up for breakfast. Rode the Vespa on break. Exchanged some Vespa bants with a fellow Vespa owner up the road. Older lady. She’s on...

Work. Review went well. I’ve clocked probation. And what’s fab is that I definitely have capacity to do a lot more and a lot better, so just wait until I get into gear. I’ll be exceeding expectations all the way down the review document! Meeting I called to say that I basically expect to have no idea what I’m doing on a few major projects once [redacted] leaves went OK. Could have been better but...

Work. They hate me. Ah well, can’t be helped. Work day went quickly at least. Got a garden salad from McDonald’s. If they didn’t give me the balsamic dressing that I ordered deliberately, then the jokes on them because I actually was glad to have a super low calorie lunch. Winning! Sox came right inside and was walking around the living room. Kept a close eye on them so they didn’t mess anywhere o...

Work - annoying, busy, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles. Was thinking during the day that I’d stay on overnight and burn the midnight oil but I got bored of it. Will try to get up early and do some stuff tomorrow. Listened to Dexy’s Midnight Runners for the first time in ages. So good. Listened to Kevin Rowland’s My Beauty album for the first time. Hated it! Somerton Man was on Australian St...

Woke up with a crook back again. Just part of getting to my age, I spose. Grabbed some crabs in the shallows with the nephews. Saw the whales doing more spouting and flapping and breaching than I remember ever seeing them do. Did some house chores. Pegged a mail box. Watching The Bourne Identity. Clean linens. Didn’t eat well today and feel a bit crap. M: 4. E: 4. L: -5. 😐

Had the nephews for a bit. Got Maccas for lunch. Cost bloody $48 after I’d rounded up a donation to Ronald McDonald House. I don’t know how many times I’ve complained about the self serve checkout machine never having paper - and the number displayed on screen never matching what is called out (today: 98 on screen, 198 called out). For fuck sake. Couple of cute nephew moments. Especially nephew ye...

Yeah nah. Quiet day. Fizzer. Work - similar shit to many other work days. Great clouds and colours in the afternoon. M: 3.5. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😓😑

Early morning walk. Saw the sunrise. Crappy work day. Swimming in it at the moment. Long day. Sore back from sitting down so long I think. Ate poorly. New chain arrived. A skit of mine might be aired on the radio soon. I think I have a crush on Gladys Berejiklian. She has an interesting face. Watching that viral video of her press conferences all chopped up, and, in certain shots, she looks really...

Damn Daniel. The toothbrush I have currently is the firmest “Medium” toothbrush ever! Work. Ball-ache ‘R’ Us. Blood donation. Fish n chips. Beautifully fine day. M: 6. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😑 Been thinking about Isaac on my smoko break walks the last few days for some reason. What a gem! Probably around about a year since he died now. Really glad that my thoughts pretty regularly wind back to thinking ab...

Good horoscope today. Matched up with new beginnings and stuff at work. No dramas at work today. Day flew by. Snacks. Reset my Home Screen layout. Cleaning out house a bit. Spent time thinking about what my true motivations are for some things I’ve been doing lately. I know there are a lot of factors at play. I might book in with the psychologist again to untangle this. But I may not want it sorte...

Late night last night because the new Kanye West album appeared after 10 PM and I wanted to hear it in full. Day went by quickly. New book arrived, new earphones arrived. I was feeling great all day. I kept, by turns, dancing around, singing, and holding my arms out - thinking how free and happy I felt! Was thinking about my “FREE LUKE HAND” t-shirt from a few years ago and how I think I’m basical...

Nailed a loose fence pailing back in. Lots of repotting of plants. Was nice and relaxing. Listened to Supergrass a lot. So good. Saw gran for a sec. She was in fine fiddle, which is always good to see. She and I remembered the magnetic fish tank glass cleaner thing that she had in her tank about - oh, 30-sommin years ago! Those were the days. Cooked a quick pumpkin soup, and it turned out really d...

Ehh. Hung out with nephew, made a song with him based off his comments about wanting a car and a licence so he could go really fast and coronavirus couldn’t get him. Put some more seeds in the rock garden. One of my flowers in there got sat on and broken by a child. Team I was rooting for lost the football by one point - season over. So that’s wonderful. Buddy won’t kick his 1000th goal until next...

Worked in the share office space today because the power was off at home. Got a fair bit done without distractions. Work day went super quick. Listened to the Kanye album preview livestream. Album sounds so good. Can’t wait! There were a couple of sampled spoken bits that jumped out at me that I think I’ll be able to stew on as much as I have that line from Ultralight Beam (“You can never go too f...

Was up until 3 AM last night to finish a damn file. Sent it. Slept. Shorter day of work today - still behind the 8 ball. Doh. Prayed to St Anthony to help a friend who left a laptop on the train. Works every time! Laptop duly returned to her. The power of prayer! 🙏🏻 Was going to stay up again to work on some other files that are overdue. But after a long phone call, I’m a bit overwhelmed and nee...

Deep sleep. If I have any vaccination side effects, it’s just tiredness and aches on top of the tiredness and aches that I already had from gardening on the weekend - and being unfit in general. Feel fine. work. Feel a bit crap about not getting through this bottleneck of work as quickly as I should. Did pro bono tonight. It’s 10:30 PM and I’m having a coffee now because I had an Excel accident an...

Work. Chipping away at it. Went by the vaccination clinic. Got my first vaccination shot. Got to thinking that it’s really kind of cool that pretty much everyone on Earth is unified in trying to get over Covid, and that almost everyone is pulling in the one direction on this. We don’t get this sort of universal effort too often. The organisation of that one clinic in this one town in one country -...

So nice to listen to the storms through the night. Whole body ached today from yesterday’s yard work. Kind of feels nice. Work - getting crazy busy. Sister came to pick up a desk. I got kicked in the head by nephew. Sox actually stepped into the house today! So wild. Had a cross-OS FaceTime yarn with the boys. Heart is going out to David who is having a difficult time of it at the moment - but he...

The Matthew Goldin “kink” tweet cracked me up. So good. Good to not be able to stop laughing at 7 AM on a Sunday. Done a lot of yard work - mowed the lawn, did the edges, raked rocks, repotted plants. Satisfying (now I know how @Degg feels after getting the lawn done) but about broke my damn back I think. So achey. Fresh bed linens. Been looking forward to tonight’s 60 Minutes all weekend. More ou...

Funny old day. Got a laugh out of mum almost to the level that my “vol au vents” reference the other week got. Was working pro bono. Snap lockdown announced in the morning. I decided to act out and ride my scooter to the garage and around Merrivale - unlicensed, unregistered, unroadworthy, and unvaccinated!! I don’t give a jot! Did a bit more work but mostly just pottered around. Listened to some...

TGIF. Work. Submitted a couple things. Ate a tonne of beetroot for lunch. Delicious. Went to Lady Bay for dinner with mum. Pretty tasty. Nice “date”. Bath. M: 5. E: 5. L: 0. 😐😇😍

Did a survey on the phone last night and one of the questions was about what kind of life I’d like to live. It was a multiple choice question. A happy life, and exciting life - there were a couple of other options that I can’t remember. I chose “An important life.” Today was whiled away unimportantly. I made no progress toward making my life an important life at all today. Worked. Couple of chores...

No pep at all today. Flat as a tack. Work. When I wasn’t bored about work stuff, I was slightly stressed or frustrated about it. Did a survey over the phone in the evening. Was dipping into reading about outed white supremacist people all through the day. Probably could have done less of that, to help my low mood. Re-watching the Operation Ore/Pete Townshend doc was the only bit of joy in the day....

Work. Busy. The usual. Ehhhh. My gold chain arrived and is tight. NFC tags arrived. Mum got annoyed at me a couple of times. Doh. Got body shamed, or was that yesterday? Just snacked and worked a bit later into the evening. Ordered a pair of Nothing headphones. Not in the best mood. M: 3.5. E: 4. L: 0. 😐😰😓😑

Work. Sean dropped a bomb and resigned. Pretty huge news. Still haven’t processed it or worked out how well cope without him. Could be a clustermunch. Hmm. Also - had a sweat breakout on a zoom call - which I haven’t had for a while. Damn it!! Haha. Tried to play the role of a ‘flying monkey’ in making sure that a local employer was aware of one of their workers being a neo-nazi, and that being co...