Mickey says “hello”

It’s just past midday, I’m 20 miles from Vegas and it’s hot as fuuuuck. Have a photo of a rock archway I drove under this morning for your troubles.

Hooray it’s my irl b’day today. we made it.

This calls for premium potato cakes.

E: thank you all for the bday wishes :)

Been speaking to the old man about the shed he had built a few years ago. It was flooded in '19 because the neighbour’s sprinkler system ran non stop for weeks. I had to climb over and turn it off because the council and yarra water were hopeless (this isn’t the point though). It was a serious amount of water that made its way 2 doors down.

Anyway he’s in a little email argument with the other neighbour because he thinks it’s that guys fault. The wall is disintegrating and the hydrometer is maxxed out.

I genuinely believe it was the massive flooding event from the other neighbour right before 3 b2b la ninas that super saturated everything so it’s a series of compounding events.

In explaining this I said “the theory that holds the most water”. Completely lost on him…

So to all you bad pun people, I see you and you are appreciated. It’s a tough crowd out there.

Found out that a newer work colleague, who I haven’t had much to do with before, is actually struggling a lot emotionally, and is insanely isolated with no idea how to navigate the situation. I had no idea and I felt awful that I had never checked in with her or realised what was going on amidst my own troubles.

We had a very long chat that made me reflect on a lot of things I’d been through more recently, and how severe the impact of poor post-lockdown workplace team management can be on individuals, especially recent arrivals to the country. I know we all like to talk about the benefits of WFH but professional isolation really sucks arse.

I remain fucking astounded by men who think they’ve gamed the system by weaponising incompetence and being useless bull tits.

protip arsehole: You’re just teaching her that you are utterly fucking inconsequential and can be cut out of her life with zero loss.

Made my way down to the bellarine for a little escape.

I will never get tired of distant surf pulverising the shore noise.

My homemade pub meal

Also thanks @[email protected] the man really liked the bullseye sauce.

Thought I was gonna throw up or pass out on the train. Stood up and went to the door intending to get off and go home. But by the time I got to the next station I was ok. Just knowing I was gonna go home slowly calmed it all down. New powerful kind of panic attack?

Free leftover food from an event in the office? Sign me up chief!

I left my earphone case in the back of an Uber yesterday morning, didn’t realise until I got home last night because I thought I’d left the case at home, I also had been wearing one earphone. Lol. Luckily I called the driver and he had the case (and the other earphone) and he made it to South Melbourne tonight and dropped them off to me.

Left over fried rice with scrambled egg, bacon, and cut up mettwurst for lunch. Feel much better than this morning.

I join the Zoom and it’s a political discussion. It’s too early to hear this conservative knob rattle on about how bad Labor is.

Pray for me

(He just said ‘aboriginies’ omg 😭😭😭)

Off to a bad start this morning. Really agitated and quite angry at the way a staff member spoke to me and patronized me.

I’d heard rumors how some of them are quite nasty and I think I just encountered it for one of the first time from this people from a certain team.

Anyway about to go outside. Going to take a deep breath and clear my mind while on my duty for an hour and enjoy the fresh smell of rain if it decides to fall.

The PMs speech at the referendum date announcement (14 October btw) was excellent. I wonder who wrote it?