Weeknotes #2008
Dear Diary it has been almost exactly 1 and 1/2 years since my last week notes. Please forgive me.
First off, you’ve not missed 2000 notes, I changed the naming scheme based off of this blog post which is based off of this blog post which is apparently based off of other blog posts.
Henry 🤺
It was a public holiday on Monday this week (for the King’s birthday apparently) and I used my free day to absolutely smash my wrists completing Henry Simulator II (Kingdom Come Deliverance II). What a game! It definitely had ups and downs – tracking a person in the dark in a new city I’d never been in tested my patience for sure – but it really picked up and I certainly enjoyed it. I also heard it might have had more lines of dialogue than Baldur’s Gate 3 but sometimes I felt like people were talking for the sake of it so I’m not sure how I feel about that.
Work 👨🏼💻
On Tuesday I won our office’s quarterly reward for receiving the most positive feedback which made me feel pretty good about myself, as did the monetary prize – well, I say monetary, vouchers. But still.
Mr Resident 🇦🇺
As if the week couldn’t get any better I missed a call from my visa lawyer whilst in the bathroom on Wednesday. When they eventually called back an agonising 5 hours later I was told my permanent residency had been granted. I applied for my 820 back in October 2022 and it was granted on my birthday 2 months later. For the second part, the 801, we applied at the beginning of November 2024 and we were in for a bit of a longer wait this time. I spent a lot of time since then worrying about what if they asked us for more evidence or asked me for another medical. Thankfully it wasn’t at all necessary as I’M A PERMANENT RESIDENT NOW. Next stop – citizenship. It is quite nice not having to worry about being forced to leave the place that is now my home in the foreseeable future.
We went out to celebrate on Friday night and I ate waaaaaaay too much sticky date pudding and had to go home and lie down. I’ve apparently hit the point in my life where I can experience pain from overeating.
Whales 🐋
On Sunday we went for a walk up the memorial walk near where we live to look for whales. It was a gorgeous day and we did spot the maritime mammals. They were quite far out but we’re professionals armed with some ridiculous binoculars.
Quickfire 🔥
Gaming 🎮
- Finished Kingdom Come Deliverance II.
- Purchased and started playing Divinity Original Sin II.
- Looked at my vouchers from work and umm-ed and ahh-ed over a Switch II (I did not get one).
TV 📺
- Loving Taskmaster Series 19.
- Working our way through Succession. Absolutely gobsmacked by the events of Season 4 Episode 3.
- Thea has been watching Below Deck Down Under so I am watching by osmosis. So much needless drama.
Computering 💻
- I changed the design of this website again.
- I added fediverse commenting after seeing this blog post yonks ago.
- I added a music section to my website inspired by Andy Bell’s website (Getting the data out of Apple Music was actually the first thing I vibe coded as it was using python. I had to interject and fix things myself a fair few times but it was definitely not something I was interested in learning at that moment in time so I guess I can see the benefits).
Weather ❄️
- It has been so, so, so cold. Freezing. Frigid…. in our flat. Outside where the sun is it’s not been so bad. Since I’m a permanent resident I should come to accept this now.
- Related to this – our air-conditioner died. At least it had the decency to go kaput after the 13ºC day.