World news aside, I’ve finished my first day at the new job. I think I need to get past induction and do some actual work, and start working from home, before I can decide if this was the right choice.

I think it will be. I need to remember how shit my old work was, even before things for really bad. Once I get started I won’t wish I got things right in the old role, because even when things were working, they were just barely, and things were still shit

It really is a pizza night tonight

The way state elections have been going it night just happen

I’ve finally started at the new job. Let me know if you’re having trouble with your employer, I can send them an email that should scare them into shape.

I’m working for the sort of government department departments wouldn’t want to hear from, as long as they don’t dig too deep and look at my job title

If they go down alright I might just do it. I need to see The Book Of Heavy Metal performed live

The band Dream Evil are playing tonight at the Leadbeater. It would be some good, campy Swedish metal fun, but the boys were so exhausting to deal with this morning I don’t know if I’ll have the energy come this evening to go out

We went to the Kaiga Convention today. It’s like a dedicated artists alley you get at other conventions. It was good if that’s more your thing, and there’s a similar market in December.

The weirdest thing is it was at the Crown Convention Centre, the only time I’ve been there is for a boring B2B conference. It was jarring setting the same room for corporate shit filled with anime artists

I know I’ll probably get a refund but I’d like to think someone at dispatch for Kmart is now going on a Jingle All The Way style quest to find me a copy of this book

It said there was stock online. I’ve been checking stock levels and it wouldn’t let me buy it until now because it was out of stock. Something must have changed on the backend of their website

Maybe The Hobbit isn’t in stock. My order has been ‘partially shipped’ with the Hobbit being the only thing not sent.

Why did you let me buy it if there’s no stock, Kmart?

Some rather impressive model tram work here. I think the guy made these models himself and the overhead wires actually deliver power

https://youtu.be/ctBP3PXOAHc?si=ND7HmfNTPZw2mGzw

Maybe she’ll stop getting a weekly spot on Sunrise now

I heard it’s one of the best illustrated editions so I had to get on it for when the boys are ready

The illustrated edition of The Hobbit is back in stock at Kmart. You can get it from other places, but Kmart sells it for half the price of everywhere else all the time.

Of course I’m only sharing this after I finally ordered a copy: https://www.kmart.com.au/product/the-hobbit-by-jrr-tolkien-book-42864189/

Finally paid off the toy sale laybuy. I tell you what, I’m not doing that in store again. Next year I’ll add whatever can go through laybuy online and buy what can’t in store.

All this for $300 worth of toys as well. I almost used laybuy to not have to hide everything at home for 6 months

The last lunch ride of Biketober. I’ve enjoyed ducking out and going for these rides, they’ve been a great way to break up the week

I saw you’re having trouble with Debian at the moment. I don’t know what the exact problems you’re having are, the two things I can think of is making sure you’re in a root user, and you can edit individual files through terminal using nano

I first used Ubuntu and found snap to be really slow so I switched. I’ve put Mint on a computer and it works great. It’s justified in being the new linux favourite.

The UI has been designed to look a lot like Windows as well, so it’s easier for people to make the switch

On the ride home on Sunday we also saw an echidna. It was climbing into a flower bed next to the footpath, not even anywhere native looking. Another bonus for bike commuting

I put Debian on my optiplex with xfce as the desktop environment and it uses less than a gig at idle. Debian’s great too because it has a slow update cycle so you don’t need to worry about anything breaking. You could set Plex to autostart so you never actually see the OS, then you have free extra RAM from using a lighter system