Driving home through clouds was interesting. I have a switch that claims to be for fog lights, but it may just be a placebo as it makes no noticable difference.

I just realised I’ve managed to smear chocolate down the front of my top. I guess I’m just sitting here all chocolatey for the last 8 hours of my shift and hoping I can manage to hide it behind my name badge.

I’ll have any dumplings the witch didn’t eat, please. If basically all the dumplings turned out to be literally all the dumplings I’ll take a pork bun instead.

I just realised there are only 4 pays left until the new financial year. How does time pass so quickly? I need to start counting my tax-return eggs so I’m ready when they hatch…

I may have gotten a touch annoyed about the open ended questions on the RACV survey and been a touch cheeky with my answers. But really, why can’t they just ask if I’m happy with the service instead of ‘how likely are you to recommend us’. And then to demand reasons!

I told them I was happy with the service but unlikely to start an RACV fan club. I also told them the telephone operator was a touch robotic, (because I didn’t actually speak to a live person).

Delicious, thank you!

I think your subconscious might have remembered what it was supposed to sound like and orchestrated ruining the old ones for your benefit.

Stir-fried dinosaur witjh extra special fried rice, please.

Not on a school night!

I have to be up early for work tomorrow, so no 🍺 for me.

I was looking forward to being home at 6pm tonight instead of my usual 7pm, but of course traffic decided to be horrendous and the trip took 3 hours, so I’m only just home now at 6:30. Today really didn’t like me.

The battery guy did a test of the battery and said it passed. But it was apparently the original battery, which makes it 7 years old, so a new one was definitely due.

Clearance issues. It’s always some sort of clearance that messes things up! I have a little cupboard in the bathroom that fits perfectly, except for a compartment on top with a lift up lid which hits the bench overhang.

I always measure 47 times to make sure things I buy are going to fit.

And I still manage to get it wrong sometimes, especially if there are clearances for opening doors or similar involved.

The battery turned out to be even more expensive than anticipated, as the auto stop/start feature needs a more expensive battery to power it. But apparently it still had the original battery, which makes it 7 years old so I really can’t complain. Plus 56% of my driving is currently claimable as work km, so the battery is 56% tax deductable!

The technician was much better than the last one, changing over the battery efficently and doing some sort of mysterious communion with the computer that is apparently important. Mind you, it wouldn’t take much to beat my last experience with having a battery changed, which involved a guy who was very shaky and I think hung over. He took about an hour trying to fit the battery unsuccessfully before figuring out it was the wrong size battery.

Thanks, but I’m just going to get RACV to come out today. I’m working 12 hour days/nights for the next 4 days, so don’t have much time. Plus if I put it off it will probably refuse to start after night shift when I just really want to get home to bed.

I don’t think the guy I took it too was big on the checking of potential issues like that, I think he just did the basic service items. Or he could just be uncommunicative, it’s hard to tell.

Car batteries are $$$$$. This is karma for me being happy that my service last week was not very expensive. Oh well, at least it’s an easy fix.

All good for now. The problem was the battery, so the car was started and I’m now in Melbourne. It will be a coin toss as to whether it’s going to start again, so I’m going to get a new battery today.

I was a bit concerned with all the warning lights. I think the voltage drop from the failing battery triggered sensors to detect non-existant faults, which also stopped the car from even trying to start. So it didn’t try to turn over and fail like I’m used to with battery issues.

Bugger. I’m supposed to be driving to Melb for work today and the car won’t start. A bunch of scary error lights are lighting up instead.

I keep thinking of more benefits to this - our Facilities Manager at work won’t be able to lie to us about things meeting the Standards when they don’t because we’ll actually have access to the Standards! We might be able to get a couple of issues with the kitchens at work fixed finally.

I’ve also thought of a couple more times I’ve wanted to access Standards for minor things - looking up requirements for labelling pet treats and labelling clothing when I’ve had a fancy to maybe sell a few of my creations at a market. It’s very offputting to know there are laws that cover what you want to do but you are not able to find out what they are without paying an excessive amount.