Luke Hand Diary

Ehhhh. Market. Roasted protein for linner with mum. Couple chores. Listened to a tonne of the podcast Something Was Wrong. Pretty great. Bit crabby, and annoyed and annoying. Fresh sheets. Tried olive oil and salt on ice cream and balsamic vinegar on ice cream. Not good. Ehhhh.. M: 3. E: 3. L: 0. 😐😞😑

Walk. Bought a new book. Babysat nephew. Cooked, gardened, skated, made a song with him (Whatever You Want). Let nephew do the throttle while I dinked him on the Vespa - he was pretty psyched about that and the huge skid that we did. Cute. I didn’t eat well today. Feel crabby and bored. M: 4. E: 5. L: -10. 😐😆😑💩

Work. Boring and unproductive. Heard back from higher ups re my RAP working group email. My questions were acknowledged. Sore throat from doing my Dale Cunningham character voice. Might have to call the coronavirus hotline and ask “How ya doin, sugar. Listen now, an ad what came on in between my stories tonight says I’m to get a coronavirus test if’n I’ve a sore throat. But say my throat is only s...

Well, the sun has moved back south (I think?) because it was shining on me in bed after sunrise this morning. Nice clear and sunny day. Realised after going to the vaccination centre and ranting about the rollout to a bunch of people that I’m getting too worked up about it and I have the luxury here in Regional Vic to step back and see if some Pfizer doesn’t just pop up sometime in the next month...

Very boring day. Work. Same stuff. Sox sat up on the deck for a long visit today. Too stormy all day for the magpies to visit. I’ve got olives and blueberries ready to feed them. I bet I’ll forget they’re there and they’ll go bad before I remember to feed them to the magpies. I booked in for a vaccination shot today but cancelled. Fuck it. I want to wait for Pfizer. Why the hell shouldn’t I? The o...

Work. It’s really busy at the moment! I think everyone there hates me - wahh, wwaaahh!! Emailed Sophie’s mum to say Hi and that I always think of her and [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. She sent a really lovely reply. So glad I finally messaged. I saw them pretty much every week for over a decade so it feels so weird to just switch off and have nothing to do with them at all. That was really nice. Lots...

Bought a gold necklace online late last night. I might invest in a chunkier and fancier one if this test-chain feels alright. God I was comfy in my clean linens and tightly-made bed and heavy blankets last night. Work. Hmm. I’m a bit behind and useless. Eek. Clocked Looking. Man that was good. Food for thought, some of it. Walked. Nice clear sky this evening. Bit of overtime. M: 4.5. E: 5. L: 0....

Nice long day. Chores. Repotting plants. Recorded a podcast ep that I thought was superb. Washed all the crockery and cutlery and the drawers. Cooked onion and garlic in butter. Binge watching Looking - damn this show was good! Fresh sheets. Long, slow, and lazy Sunday. M: 7. E: 5. L: 0. 😐😇😎

What a damn day. Rode in mum’s new whip. Has CarPlay - nice! Babysat the nephews for a while. Had Macca’s, played with the conversation prompt cards from Instagram (they were a hit!), chucked sticks in the river, Alfie and I climbed up to a cubby up in a tree, we picked wild fennel and made a tea with it (boys surprisingly liked it), took them for spins on the Vespa - by and large, a nice and whin...

Work. No dramas. Cooked the tastiest Napoli sauce at lunch. Delicious. Fish burger at dinner. Small fire outside in the early evening. I wrote and burned a small invocation. 🙏🏻 Went for a walk on the trail in the dark and listened to the frogs. That was awesome! Really loud. Super cool. Sounded so great. Bought a super cute little plant for my bedroom. Raindrop shaped succulent leaves. M: 7. E:...

Work. Super busy at the moment actually. Good timing to have decided not to bother with exercising for a couple of weeks. I parlayed some negative retail energy from finalising my complaint to Harvey Norman into some positive retail energy by scoring a free t-shirt from Faggs Mitre 10, Geelong. The lovely Liz in their Operations team is mailing a shirt to me, gratis. (Well, gratis except for the s...

Work. Day went quick. Went to the pub for dinner with mum. Mum was paying, so I ordered just a sumac carrot salad. Just $12 and not too much trouble for the kitchen staff to put together. Didn’t want to order anything that would be too much trouble for anyone or leave mum too out of pocket. I wasn’t great dinner company because I’m a bit flat. Snacks and mucking around on my phone for the rest of...

Work. Didn’t get through the hundreds of responses due tomorrow. Was going to try to finish them tonight but I’m not feelin it. Will see how they take care of themselves tomorrow somehow. Eek. A very humble dinner of potato/garlic/onion and horseradish. Enjoyed some banter through various messaging apps. Quality Kek. She’s blowing a gale tonight. Sounds nice. I’m taking a month off trying to close...

Hectic work day. Pizza for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. My chest-feeding/nipple-play sweater arrived. Very cool! Some beautiful clear skies today. Imagine my surprise when I went outside for my lunch and noticed that one of the cows had walked up the dirt pile. Did pro bono in the evening. Did an Apple Fitness+ HIIT workout with Bakari from the Fitness+ studio. Filled in the census. I want to rew...

Nice day. Did some chores, listened to a lot of Serial Killing: A Podcast. Really good. Tinkered with plants. Still can’t tell if I completely killed the ones in the bigger pots out on the deck by hacking at their trunks. But looking around at some of the pots out back, I think there are some mini plants growing off some bigger ones that I can repot if turns out I did kill three or four bigger pla...

Very non-eventful day. Worked on my 2020 diary. Wild to read through entire months of last year. Walked. Got my Perfect Month award - really didn’t think I would close all rings each day this month. There were some very sedentary days with long walks in horrendous weather in the evenings. A very well deserved Perfect Month award. Clocked the 19 month sober milestone in my sobriety app too, which i...

Woke up at 2:55 AM to preorder a Playdate portable gaming console. The order form screwed up in a bunch of ways meaning that I couldn’t complete the order that I placed to get one from the first batch of machines to ship. So frustrating. I’ve followed this project for so long, and been looking forward to them going on presale literally for years - I’ve been an evangelist for the product and told s...

Work. Told my manager that I’ll have some things to show her soon and that I’m feeling confident and productive. She said, “I’m so happy!” And isn’t that all any of us really want to hear from our manager? Sox is getting less scared out on the deck when I go out to feed them. Came right up to the door. I know I'm late to the party on this, but I'm newly obsessed with the Photos widget on iPhone. T...

I loved being snug under my heavy blankets yesterday so much that I took all my blankets from atop my doona and folded them in half - doubling the weight and cosiness. Was so weighty and nice. I’m investing in some weighted blankets soon. Was amazing. Who needs bedfellows! Work. Another project due. Didn’t quite get it done. Had a coffee at like 6. Could be a long night. Catch up meeting with mana...

Was nice and cosy this morning under the heavy blankets. Work. Should be a busy couple days this week. Saw a magpie slurp a huge worm up like a piece of spaghetti from the lawn. Walk with mum after work. Windy enough to blow the paint off of a brush today. Saved three lives by donating plasma. Was a quick donation. Early night. Big day tomorrow. Haven’t had dinner for two days in a row now. Wouldn...

Work - long day! Cursed with IT issues. I knew I had a job due today and did chip away at it a bit over the weekend, but I thought I had a fast helper rostered to work today, but I didn’t. I did much of this job myself and didn’t get it finished until after 10 PM. Got it done tho! Being busy with this kind of threw me off my plan to eat well. Missed dinner. May have to cancel tomorrow’s plasma don...

So windy and rainy overnight. Sounded so good at 4 AM. Lazed around. Couple of chores. Bit of pro bono. Did a kick-flip. M: 5. E: 5. L: -5. 😐

Up super early. Did dishes. Followed simple Max YouTube tutorials. Could be good. Big walk. The line where the river coloured water meets the sea coloured water was very clear. Love when it’s like that. Pottered around at home. Pretty quiet day. Will get busy tomorrow! M: 6. E: 6. L: 1. 😀😎😇😆😐

Work. Bit going on. Made the day go quickly. Kanye livestream was interesting. Walk. Disappointing chips at dinner. Cousin’s kid said my song (I’m a Good Guy) is his new favourite song. M: 5. E: 5. L: 0. 😇😐😑

Slept terribly and was wide awake at 3 AM. Should have got up then really. Some weird dreams. Felt weird in the morning and realised I’m that I didn’t take my medication yesterday. That might explain things. Great sunrise this morning. Beautiful colours. Work. Decent day - but hit a wall. I should cut back down on the snacks soon. But as far as vices go, snacking isn’t the very worst. Topless phot...