It may have been ugly hot and steamy today but it was perfect weather for an ebike ride. That sun and humidity would suck on a normal bike but on an ebike it was a nice breeze. This is the weather I’ve been waiting for since I got the bike

Went to the Golden Hills Brewery in Diamond Creek today because they’re got this 55 club thing going on. $55 for a case of their beer plus a whole bunch of other perks. For the price of decent beer these days that’s a steal

Definitely noting this down as an itinerary for a day trip

I’ve seen this in a newsletter I get for kids’ activities. We’ll make the trip down there one day

I actually managed to get a ticket to Opeth last night. It had been sold out for weeks but I opened ticketek and there one was.

I had been feeling super bummed recently because Metallica and Blood Incantation played the same night a few weeks ago and I couldn’t get a ticket to either. This was just what I needed

@CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone’s card from yesterday reminded me of this movie I watched a while ago. Burning Hell is one of those so bad it’s good movies where a pentacostal preacher is telling you how bad hell is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Pvkl0d_Z0&pp=ygUSYnVybmluZyBoZWxsIG1vdmll

Be warned if you watch this you’ll never be able to get the way he says ‘hell’ out of your head.

I watched this and the documentary Jesus Camp around the same time and I figured something out about these religions, especially in the States; they spend all this time telling you how bad hell is and to not be bad, but never tell you what a good person does. This movie is an entire hour about how bad hell is, with no explainer on how to be a good person or how to get into heaven. Imagine living your entire life only being told what not to do with no direction on what you should do. I think things over there start to make sense by seeing this as the mentality people were brought up with and how they impose their will on others.

This park near me should be finished now. It’s a nice big space and should make cutting across the hills to work easier if I ever want to go that way. I think I’ll take the kids there at some point this weekend to check it out

Better than the big concrete box they had it in up until now

They always seem like nice old people up this way but i dread to think what they’d say if you started asking them more probing questions on what they think about things

I now restart my work PC as soon as it prompts me to because who knows? It might brick the drive and give me the afternoon off. I could only be so lucky

There must be some rich people way of wearing it i don’t understand, like the right combination of clothes to layer they just have

I think an op shop dud my girlfriend got me was this Tommy Hilfiger sweater. It has a really closed neck hole like it wanted to be a turtleneck then just gave up. So it can look a bit weird when you wear a collared shirt with it, which is what I’d expect you to do.

And since it’s solid white you can see anything that’s put on underneath it. So you ideally need a plain white shirt because any prints or patterns will just show through. It’s one of those pieces of clothing that’s less of a hidden gem and more like ,‘yep, I can see why this is at the op shop.’

Must be the New Office Bug. Hope you feel better soon

I almost don’t mind listening to influencer drama because it’s all so decoupled from reality and anything significant it just feels like short stories about the stupidest people you’ve ever heard of

Here’s another thing I don’t get: Influencers that are just like a regular person. I can understand following rich people or people that were famous for something once. But I saw one woman who just lives in a 100 year old house and is renovating it kind of. I can understand if someone has an online presence about something, but there are people who are just there and don’t seem to have any particular niche or angle.

Yeah, tried to open the itch launcher on my laptop and was just getting a 500 error. It meant I couldn’t play a game at all even though it was installed on my computer. So I think I’ll just download Niota directly and bypass the launcher now.

I walked into an RSEA and they’re selling Helly Hanson work pants 5 for $150. That’s a week’s worth of pants for $30 each, that’s $15 per pant.

Imagine getting an email from that address now and just thinking the person is spam

Boomers probably signed up with an ISP in the 90’s and are like, “this is my email now”. I still don’t understand using icloud for anything important though. You must be really confident you’re only ever going to use iPhones going forward

Here’s something else I don’t understand people doing: using the email address provided by their ISP or an Icloud email address.

I see a lot of email addresses through work and it’s like, “you’re really wedded to bigpond or active8me, huh?” Or it’s like, you didn’t have an email address before getting your iPhone? Apple created you an email address and you decided to go with that now?

Although realistically these are probably just old people that are getting their emails routed through outlook or the default mail app on their phone and aren’t changing internet providers anytime soon.