Peter W

What do you do when political leadership battles grab the headlines?
Approve a coal mine extension!
(Literally this morning, sigh...)
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A rectangular enamel badge pinned on a green and white striped shirt. The badge has a black background and in gold all caps it says - Book Slut

Why yes, I am a slut and I’ll proudly wear a badge recognising it.

A black and white cat called Ali laying on a rug with large green and white chequered squares. She is staring off into the distance while clutching a pale blue toy with bits of multi coloured ribbon on it.

A black and white cat called Ali laying on a rug with large green and white chequered squares. Her head is turned looking up and she is staring off into the distance while clutching a pale blue toy with bits of multi coloured ribbon on it.

Someone found the catnip infused dental toy and has been having a good time.

I decided I wanted to read the Slow Horses novels after thoroughly enjoying the TV show.

Took about six months to go from 72 to 0 in the library hold queue but I finally have the first in the series.

🍦 As an adult on a 37.5°c day, I’m having ice cream with lunch.

“NSW police assistant commissioner Peter McKenna vehemently defended the actions of the police, saying officers had showed restraint against protesters for more than an hour before the clashes began.”

Translation: We waited an hour before punching people and you should be thankful.

A black and white cat called Ali looking up from inside a box laying on its side. To the left of the open end of the box is a cupboard door.

The end of this box was pushed against the cupboard door to stop someone getting in….

Downside of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms dropping early over the weekend is I have no A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms to watch tonight.

I’m really enjoying the show and wish the episodes were a bit longer.

#AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms

A rectangular image with a review of Season 2 of the television series Fallout. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great with Okay selected. The review reads - Eight episodes and are we much more advanced in storyline? I guess. There was backstory and more world building but the end of episode 8 felt very reminiscent of the end of S01. I enjoyed it but it could’ve been so much better.

Watched Fallout (Season 2, 2025) ★★ ½

🚶‍♂️ An evening walk because I’ve been sitting down for far too long this afternoon.

I see the govt has deployed Penny to defend their decision. I don’t know, just because someone asks me to do something doesn’t mean I automatically do it but then I’m not the Foreign Minister. Sits right up there with “I was just following orders”.

#auspol

🍸 Why work a full day when you can finish at 11 and go to cocktails and lunch.

Entirely possible!

No, a little ‘puter project.

Well the first stage seems to have gone okay. I’ll make some more changes and then I think I’ll go for my afternoon walk and let things chug along.

Reached the cross my fingers and hope for the best stage of the project. Just closing one eye while hitting the enter key.

Different project, no bricks involved.

Not Lego/logo.

Pretty happy with the progress I made on a project today. Took me slightly longer than expected but with the groundwork done it sets me up for a productive day tomorrow.

🍸 Walking home from dinner and taking a little detour into a favourite bar for a cocktail (or two).

Cow hide rug

On 2nd thoughts, the cowhide rug was not the right rug for the bathroom...

My Trakt subscription renews in April. I prefer logging through TV Forecast but it has no statistics.

It integrates with Trakt, which does give me stats, so I have two months to decide if they’re worth $85AUD ($60USD) per year. I didn’t mind when it was $30USD but they doubled the rate last year. 📺

Current status: During our ongoing efforts to rebalance traffic across the region, we introduced a targeted load balancing configuration change intended to expedite the recovery process, which incidentally introduced additional traffic imbalances associated with persistent impact for a portion of the affected infrastructure. We're remedying our load balancing configurations while, in parallel, reviewing the viability of expediting our ongoing incremental rebalancing and recovery efforts.

Did Microslop have AI create this status message about an M365 issue?

It reads just like someone didn’t check the output after saying rewrite this to make it longer: “Root cause: A portion of dependent service infrastructure in the North America region isn’t processing traffic as expected.”

When you find out let me know.

A screenshot of a popup on Facebook. &10;&10;Customise your own nickname&10;Now you can use a nickname to post, comment and react anonymously in your groups

F’book was bad enough with fake accounts trolling and spamming in groups. Apparently you can now use nicknames to hide your identity. You can bet anyone using these is already hiding behind a locked account.

Staying out of the 40c heat by booking flights and accommodation for some weekends away during the year. I like to have things to look forward to.

I’ve decided I will vote for any party which includes banning residential construction noise on a Saturday as part of their manifesto.

This may be connected to the fact we’re now into the third hour of jackhammering and pile driving by the new apartment building construction site up the block.

Adding some more filters - “Beckham” and “posh spice”.

Stupid sport question stopped me scoring 10/10 on The Saturday Paper quiz.

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 584

The heatwave in Australia is beyond belief. And it's caused by people making decisions to burn coal, oil and gas when there's so many other options available.