Moose Musings

11:08pm: Yes, in contrast to the women's event, which had mostly teenagers, the men's event seems to be full of old folk, including a guy who's 51 years old! Talk about a contrast.

In other Olympic news there's also the Dinghy Final, where guys in tiny boats are trying to get around a course that looks quite confusing. The guy from Hungary just tipped over his whole boat and had to get it upright again, which he managed to do. It's rather exciting because we're in a gold medal position! We just have to finish far enough ahead of the dude from Cyprus. Although as I said it's kinda hard to tell who's in what place when the TV isn't showing it LOL.

Wait, they've just abandoned the race...there's not enough wind D: Well that sucks, although it also answers my question of what happens when there's no wind. How annoying though! We were about to pick up the gold medal. Dang.

Anyway...apart from that not much to report except I need to get my butt to bed since it's coming up on 11:30pm and I've been staying up far too late, last night for example I did stay up to watch the diving, fortunately, it didn't end at 1:30am (or maybe it did with the medal ceremony), but still.

The itchiness continues...a colleague suggested that it might be the winter weather, but I was also itchy in Fiji, so I'm not sure about that. And I've neglected to make an appointment with my doctor about it, I guess I should do that now.

On a final note, the Archery Club got back to me, they're having the next "Come and Try" session on Saturday 17th August, so I plan to attend that.

On that note I shall be off, goodnight all!

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10:20pm: Earlier today...but do you think I can remember what is was now? LOL fail.

Oh wait, maybe it was about the GINORMOUS order file I had to upload into our Library Management System? Basically, the library doesn't order any items in May and June because of the end of financial year. I'm not sure if this is what other council's do, but probably. So yeah, for about two months no orders have been made, but finally the selectors got the go ahead so put their lists through.

Which lead to over one thousand titles being ordered! The Library Management System can't take that many in one upload, so I had to split the file. I didn't actually know how many items were on the list - because I'm not gonna count it manually, but I split the file into 100s (which is pretty much the limit of the LMS) and ended up with 11, so yeah more than a thousand.

What was weird though, was previously when we a large order file, it would time out when we tried to upload it, thus alerting us. This time though, no warning at all! I didn't even know it was an issue until one of the selectors messaged me wondering why some of the books she was putting holds on for patrons weren't showing up. Good thing she did, because it would have been a huge pain in the ass to figure it out from emails or whatever.

I'm happy to report that I've arranged to see Inside Out 2 with my friends, not this weekend, but next - this weekend I'm going down to Wollongong on Sunday with the parental units and will catch a train back (more train-ing) Monday morning to get to work in the afternoon. Which is also the day of my Yearly review thing, which I think I've got done, mostly. Fingers crossed it won't suck, those things are always a pain in the ass, basically it's checking to see if you're doing your job...the answer to which is...yes I am, except when I've got to screw around typing into the system about how I'm doing my job. LOL.

I'm hoping I can get some writing done this weekend, we'll be 2 weeks into July and I've done a grand total of zero fics for McFly July! Tsk! The fics don't need to be super long or anything and I think I've got a few ideas for the prompts, so bring it on.

It's past 10:30pm now, so I better get a move on, I want to do some stuff tomorrow morning so I don't want to oversleep.

Before that though...

The Friday Five

12/7/24

1. Are you good at fixing things? Hmmm...not sure to be honest, probably not, although I AM going to try and darn my favourite jumper, so I guess we'll see!

2. What kinds of things can you fix?

See above.

3. Is there anyone in your family who is good at fixing things?

Grandpa is, although at 93 he doesn't fix as much stuff as he used to, although he did fix the toilet lid at my parent's house a few months back and last year he was fixing the compost thing at his unit in the retirement village, not sure if he did end up fixing it, but he probably did.

4. Has anyone ever taught you how to fix things?

Nah, or if they offered I didn't take up the offer, probably a poor idea in retrospect.

5. What was the last thing that broke in your home?

The soap dish in my shower, it just fell off the pipe! I tried to put it back on, even waiting for the shower to cool down because I thought maybe that's why it wasn't going back on. But nope, when I tried again the thing broke! This spurred me to finally buy a new shower holder thingy though, it looks quite nice, although that does mean I needed to take off the shower holder that has a dolphin shape in it. That was kind of broken too though, so...

Although I'm reminded of one last thing, because of the headache yesterday, I went to bed on time for once and would you believe it? I missed an interview with Phil Ligget (aka "The Voice of Cycling"). Boo-urns what are the chances?

Mum recorded it though, so hopefully I'll get a chance to see it.

But for now, I'm off!

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10:18am: So I've got a cold (well, at least I hope it's a cold, the COVID RAT aka home test I took yesterday when I started getting a sore throat and stuffy nose was negative).

I'm feeling pretty ick so I took the day off work, which I figured would work out well because I have a doctor's appointment today (regarding the digestive issues) or rather I HAD one. Turns out my doc can't come in today, so it's been pushed to tomorrow.

Bugger.

I wonder if I should take a half day tomorrow morning because the appointment is at 11:15 or just take a long lunch. I guess it'll depend if my cold is better or worse, and then there's the question of whether in these times you should go to work with a cold at all. TBH, I have no concerns about taking time off because I've got quite a lot of sick leave, it's more that as a person who lives alone, work is my only source of social contact. I'm not a social butterfly by any means, but if I had to take a week off without seeing any other humans I'd get sad.

What does suck, is that due to various health and body issues I haven't gone to the gym in three weeks! I enjoy going to the gym, but I'm a bit of a wuss so generally if I feel kinda gross or if it's that time o' the month I'm not inclined to drag my butt to the gym to work out. Plus the principle of paying membership and not actually using it.

In other news, I'm out of carrots...damn...I may have to drag my butt over to the supermarket to buy some, I have a baby carrot or two a day and it'd suck not to get my daily intake.

I also have to wash my masks because I forgot to do that yesterday.

What else to report...well, thanks to a Tumblr inspired fandom challenge - McFly July, I've managed to get back into the swing of fanfic again. Yay!

To be honest I'm not sure if anyone (who hasn't already read it) would be interested, but if you are you can check it out here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40341489/chapters/101052129

Well, I should go and eat some breakfast or something.

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10:06pm: Well sort of...it's more the Council, but alas my contract as Collections Librarian ended on Thursday. The good news is, I have the Collections Assistant position and thus I still have a job.

The bad news is, it's less money and hours, so I'll have to be careful budget wise and hope for lots of extra desk shifts.

Meanwhile, I'll hopefully be able to enrol in a Basic Cataloguing course which will help when the Collections Librarian job is actually advertised, since that's something I should be able to do in that job (I have had some practice doing copy-cataloguing though.

Anywho, just wanted to let you all know I'm still alive and give a quick update. With any luck I'll actually do some more updating, but... Who knows :OP

For now though, goodnight!

11:35pm: Yes, indeed. For today I had not only an appointment with my psychiatrist, but an afternoon meeting at work, which I got paid for and also had to take minutes for.

I also helped out my supervisor by picking up some polo shirts for our couriers from the Council building near my apartment.

But! I got everything done, despite some rather poor time management which had me almost running late to the psychiatrist, what really pissed me off though was I had to pay for my parking because I could find a free spot, but what should I see as hurried to the building where my doctor is? Someone leaving! Damnit! That happened last time too! I'd planned to avoid the parking situation by taking public transport, but yeah...crappy time management strikes again.

On the plus side, at least I was able to report to him that my "train"ing (ie exposure therapy regarding the trains) is going pretty well - although I'm not sure I'll be able to get any in this weekend because Dad's having his birthday celebration tomorrow, so I'll be doing that instead of skating. What can you do though?

Anywho, I have considered changing my psychiatrist for no other reason than driving all the way over to his office is stressful, but as he pointed out, you can't avoid everything stressful, and I'm sort of turning into a Northern Beaches hermit LOL. So there you go.


Everything else went pretty well today, although I have been a bit nervous at work since yesterday, where three people were out with illness. Well one of them didn't actually come in, while one left pretty much as soon as they arrived, and another left just after lunch, both of them looked rather nauseous, which with my emetophobia gave me all sort of concerns that there's a gastro bug going around or something. I did feel a bit dizzy today, but that's probably nerves and also the fact that it's going to be that time o' the month soon (it's due, but hasn't shown up as yet, although I keep worrying that it is - that feeling is such an ass!).

Anyway I took the minutes although I haven't typed them up yet, that'll have to wait until Monday.

On a final note, since it's heading for midnight - I've got an interview next Thursday for the Collections Assistant position. Still no word on when the job I'm actually doing will be advertised, but one steop at a time and all that!

I'll keep you updated!

For now, goodnight!

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11:52pm: Right, OK, I have quite a few things to report, but nowhere near enough time to write about it...

First thing's first, I got myself an adorable little two-in-one tablet laptop at JB Hi-Fi yesterday! It was the last one so I got it at a discount, yeeess! However, it asked me to update tonight, which I tried to do only to have the thing throw a complete fit and now I've had to to reset it. Boooo! Not taht I had anything important on it but what a pain in the ass. I think I'll try upgrading it to Windows 10 next time, if possible. Windows 8 is notoriously crap if I remember right.

But OMG, I need to get back into my fic but I keep allowing myself to get distracted! Coe on get with the program me.

On a final note before I have to get my butt to bed and explanation for the subject title...I meant to turn the stove off earlier on, but instead I turned it up or at least not off completely. With it being winter and all I keep the door to the bedroom/living area closed so I didn't realise until my fire alarm went off and opened the kitchen door to find it FILLED with smoke! There wasn't a fire or anything, but my sausages were ruined and I had to open the doors and windows to clear it.

So yeah...massive fail there.

Right so I'm off to bed, at least I can say that I sped-read the latest chapter of the fanfic that's holding the Yuri on Ice fandom in it's thrall. So I can sleep easy. :OP

Now I say goodnight!

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10:49pm: Yes indeed! And I got to have pancakes over at the parental house this evening as well as dinner! :O) Good times indeed.

In less good times, my left knee/leg hurts...why? I have no idea, I think it just wants to be an ass. Or perhaps I've become an old man and it's reacting to the weather or something, LOL (In all seriousness though, it's been all over the place...cloudy, pouring down with rain, sunny and now...back to pouring down with rain again).

Anywho, I've got to get to work a bit earlier than usual tomorrow with Mrs S so I better take us back to...

( The Adventures of Moose & Family in New Calendonia! )

Goodnight all!

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11:47pm: I refer to the Spit Bridge, which opens a few times per day to let boats go through from one part of the harbour to the other. Thing is, I'd forgot what time it opens and it turned out that 11:15am was one of them, which meant...I got stuck waiting as I tried to get to the pyschiatrist's office for the 11:30 appointment.

Suffice to say I was late, booo, which kind of put an end to thoughts of catching the last of the lunchtime ice skating session.

Speaking of ice skating, I got a reply from the cruise line, who told me they did not recommend taking my own skates on board because blades longer that four inches are not allowed on board. I mentioned this to my pyschiatrist, who encouraged me to write back mentioning how even though there's complimentary hire skates available, if you've got your own pair its much easier to use them and the email didn't straight out say it was forbidden only not recommended. He spoke about the need for assertiveness, and I have to admit I am rather a push-over, which makes me wonder...maybe that's why I'm not getting jobs, I'm not expressing enough confidence.

Speaking of jobs though...I got an unexpected phone call today, they're doing interviews for the Inter-Library Loan Officer's position and I have an interview next Tuesday! How exciting! Fingers and toes crossed everyone!

I also had to make an unexpected trip to the doctor because my referral for the psychiatrist had ended, and without one I don't get any money back from Medicare, that was a bit of a pain but I did make some purchases including a purple shirt! It's pretty much the same colour as the one I made! It has weird sleeve though, I'm not entirely sure how to work them out to be honest...hope I can though. Although I did tell myself I'd make my own purple shirt... I wasn't going to buy it, but I needed to spend an extra two bucks to use eftpos at Lifeline and I'd found some pinstriped pants that were $6 and this milk jug in the shape of chicken for $2.

However, I kind of made a mistake with the pinstripe pants...they're size 16! For some reason I thought they were size 8s and perhaps the reason they were in a second hand shop was because they were mislabled. But nope, so suffice to say they're a bit too big. Whoops. Ah well, I guess I could just give them away, it's only 2 bucks loss.

Right, better haul butt now, it's almost midnight and this Moose needs sleep!

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11:16pm: So I remembered to call up Officeworks when I got home from work and discovered that yes, my order was received and paid for it's just that stock isn't coming in until Monday a week from now. Which means I won't get my new phone in time for my birthday. Aww. Hopefully though I'll get it before I go away with Mum and Dad to Canberra, although I won't be able to use my data probably, it doesn't extend to rural areas, or at least not the last time I was out of the city.

Tonight I also took down most of my Christmas decorations, although I'm keeping my Santa Ball up for another night because I do love him, he's so cute. It's a shame to have to put him away, but I guess them's the brakes.

So I got through my rather busy day all right, although I was rather embarrassed when having gone to Aldi and purchased a few things after I finished at Mrs S's I had to go right back in because I'd forgot to get more margarine! Which was pretty much the reason I'd gone there in the first place! Then I was almost late to work because I got distracted untangling my Christmas-tree shaped lights - which I manged to tangle after holding them for like three seconds! I'm pleased to report I managed to untangle them.

I am sleepy though! And arrrrgh, still behind on Memes! OMG, will I ever catch up? I guess that will remain a mystery....

Also, I've received some SMS replies from my friends about getting together for my birthday, but alas both of them are busy not only on the actual day (which is a Tuesday so I'm not too surprised about that) but that weekend too! Aw man, what if no-one can do anything? I'll have to celebrate just with my family. I guess when Ben gets back things can be done. Of course, there's a few other friends who haven't replied yet, so perhaps something will go down.

Although that reminds me, I need to RSVP Grandpa for the Australia Day get-together...

Okedoke! I better wrap this up and hit the sheets, once again I'm gonna miss Fed-Ex doing Mixed Doubles, dang time zones.

Oh well, I've got the ice skating on SBS to look forward to tomorrow as well as library work, so yaaay!

For now, goodnight!

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11:30pm: Yes indeed! And my big bro, sister-in-law and little niece have headed off back to Japan. Ah, it's been good having them here, although it's not like I saw them all the time, but it was fun while I could. In fact, just yesterday I had the experience of holding a baby, which I haven't done before, because as I've mentioned before perhaps, I don't really want to hold a baby because they seem way too squishy and the thought kind of freaks me out. However, yesterday my big bro was trying to show me how to do something on his i-Pad and I didn't do it right so he was like "Hold the kid, I'll fix it."

So, I got to hold a 10 month old, who fortunately wasn't too squishy, although she was heavier than I expected :OP. Suffice to say though, I don't have much of a maternal instinct, so I didn't end up all "coo-ey" and what not. I'm just happy to report my niece didn't poke me in the eye, LOL!

So, today was another day off from work at the library for me, yay! However, I realised this evening while checking my shifts that I've put my hand up for not just Tuesday and Thursday this week, but Wednesday and Friday too! Which normally wouldn't be an issue, but though my foot is feeling a lot better (even after all the walking yesterday) I'm a little concerned that this might lead to a flare-up. There's not much I can do about that, though...except not wear those enclosed sandals I bought since I'm not entirely sure they've got proper arch support. Here's hoping the anti-prespirant I got for my feet will hold up with the other shoes.

Anywho, the point about having the day off is that I went and saw my friend who wasn't able to come to the New Year's Eve fireworks today, we watched some John Oliver and Galaxy Quest as well as having lunch with her parents. It was fun! :O)

I also made the cupcakes for Mrs S's husband's birthday tomorrow, although I need to finish the frosting before I go to bed, good thing I can get up a bit later in the morning because of the public holiday (which means I only do two hours instead of four) since I won't finish by midnight!

I did make an unfortunate discovery when I came home from the parentals before heading off to my friend's place, I'd left the fridge ajar! Which meant my butter was soft for the cake, but there was no way the milk I just bought on Friday was salavagable. What's really annoying is that I came back to the Granny Flat to collect a number of things before leaving on Saturday and at no point did I notice the fridge door wasn't closed properly. Man, I hope the landlord's power bill won't be horrifying.

Right! I better be off, though I was hoping to get back into the swing of things re: memes, but once again time calls me away.

Goodnight all!

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