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Good morning from Canberra. Photo’s taken just a little after 7:30 this morning.
Walked a little of the Castlemaine to Maldon bike trail today, which runs besides the tourist railway line. Usually a steam train travels along it, but I didn’t see one today.
Got my copy of Bloch’s Effective Java out today for the first time in years, in order to prepare for an interview. As far as books about programming languages go, this is probably my favourite. Very informative and easy to read.
My printed Day One journals for 2021 have arrived, much quicker than I expected. They came out nicely. I think paper covers are the way to go — they feel much better to flip through than the hard cover one I have for 2020.
Cling Wrap
I bought this roll of cling wrap when I moved into my current place. Now, after 6.5 years and 150 metres, it’s finally all used up.
In the grand scheme of things, this is pretty unimportant. It happens every day: people buy something, they use it, and eventually it’s all used up. Why spend the time and energy writing and publishing this post to discuss it? Don’t you have better things to do?
And yet, there’s still a feeling of weight to this particular event that I felt was worth documenting. Perhaps it’s because it was the first roll of cling wrap I bought after I moved out. Or maybe it’s because it lasted for this long, so long in fact that the roll I bought to replace it was sitting in my cupboard for over a year. Or maybe it’s the realisation that with my current age and consumption patterns, I probably wouldn’t use up more than 7 rolls like this in my lifetime.
Who knows? All I know is that despite the banality of the whole affair, I spent just spent the better part of 20 minutes trying to work out how best to talk about it here.
I guess I’m in a bit of a reflective mood today.
Regional train trip today. Nice doing something different.
I wish I had more to say today, on this, our last day of our summer holiday. So in leau of a better post, here’s a photo of a wallaby I saw on my evening walk.
Reading buddy.
These signs were up around town today. We went to the usual places they have markets but there was nothing there: no stalls or anything. It’s only just now that I realised we may have looked at the wrong places.
Probably need more signs around those other market spots.
Bocce in Fitzroy Gardens. Grand final for the 2021 season (yes, my friends and I came up with the idea of grand finals for our little casual comp 😏).
Wangaratta station. Took a V/Line train back to the city after helping someone with the drive to Canberra.
Happy new year. Time for the change of calendar.
I wouldn’t call myself religious — I not someone who reguarily goes to church — but I do have a standing gig on my calendar: playing the pipe organ at the Christmas Eve family mass.
For the last couple a weeks, a production crew have been filming around my place. I wish I noted down the production they’re working on. It was on the notice they sent to everyone, and I forgot to record it before I threw the notice away (this is what a journal is for 🤦).
Morning walk. There will be a cafe breakfast at the end of it.
My Stratechery mug has arrived.
It now holds the enviable position of largest mug in my house, holding roughly 1.5x as much liquid as the mugs I usually use.
Well, not every day you had a 5.8 magnitude earthquake around here (was originally reported as 6.0).
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of walking a new rail trail just outside Leongatha, in South-East Gippsland. The rails are completely gone but some of the infrastructure has remained.
A walk in the rain, with no one else around other than the currawongs. Fair bit darker than what the photo suggests.
Visitor at the back door. 🦎
