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Thursday 30th April, 2020

Watched the first episode of the Chicago Bulls Netflix series. Julie came out to talk, but we have an argument and she huffed off to bed. Went to bed later and pulled up the cover, only to accidentally pull it over AJ's head as he was upside down

Wednesday 29th April, 2020

Video call with dad late at night, and AJ came out of bed to sit with me. Dad pretended to fall off the bed, which had AJ in stitches

Tuesday 28th April, 2020

Complispace charter finished up after a long day and meetings into the night to sort it out. First sprint planning with the team, had to tell them all off for being late.

Monday 27th April, 2020

Good day of focus to get the Pearson charter and kick off sorted. 

Sunday 26th April, 2020

Finished my article on remote communication.  Only had Dave F and Eric to Sunday night gaming, quit early and went to bed to read on the tablet.

Saturday 25th April, 2020

First time intimate with Julie since Kai - had to sneak to AJs bed.

Friday 24th April, 2020

First retro with the Engineering team to teach them about our new Jira space, they were well engaged - which was great. Watched a movie with Julie thanks to knocking off work so early. We watched "The Gentlemen" - got interrupted by AJ coming out twice saying he was scared.

Thursday 23rd April, 2020

Finished the new JIRA setup with the team - glad to get everyone onboard. Went to get dinner - found AJ had eaten my tortilla and had emptied his toys to make a train with the soft boxes from his cube storage

Wednesday 22nd April, 2020

Long sleep in after feeling lousy after yesterday at work - had a reasonable day of progress, but hit a wall in the evening with some difficult calls/conversations. It really drained me and set me back after yesterday. I had some scotches - and sat on the couch hugging AJ and watching 'The Incredibles 2' with him

Tuesday 21st April, 2020

Long day - felt like crap after not being happy with my performance throughout the day - especially the call with executive on resourcing changes I was after, where I felt like a goof for not having a proper business case with me.

Monday 20th April, 2020

AJ's new car mat arrived- I unravelled it when I noticed as I came up for lunch, and we played cars for a few minutes together in his bedroom.

Sunday 19th April, 2020

Woke up to find the Woolworths delivered order had already been and gone. My second day of iRacing, lead an oval race for a large portion of it until my engine blew and put me right back.

Saturday 18th April, 2020

Drive to MacDonalds to get breakfast - but also buy a dozen eggs. Then went to Officeworks for coffee and chalk. Drew on the driveway with AJ - including some dinosaurs, a racetrack, and I even sat him on my handlebars and rode my bike around for him.

Friday 17th April, 2020

Retro with the team where we talked about how we felt being at home during COVID. I tried to run a Jackbox party game, but we ran out of time.

Thursday 16th April, 2020

Geremy called me and introduced me to the girl he wants me to coach working for him - hard to gauge where she's at.

Wednesday 15th April, 2020

Drove to Nathan's to pickup weights - talked about games and cars, then drove him and worked until very late.

Tuesday 14th April, 2020

7am to 11pm day at work - had a last minute call with the customer in the UAE at 10pm.

Monday 13th April, 2020

Drove to Ba Ngoi's house to trim the hedges at the front and mow the garden - had to battle some huge golden orb spiders.

Sunday 12th April, 2020

Julie's birthday - had to wait for ages before we could eat the three-layer cheesecake I made. Jas popped around to say happy birthday, so we let her in and had cake with her. I moved the couches into a U shape, after AJ and I made a cave with them and pulled out his teepee to create a little house as well.

Saturday 11th April, 2020

Video called Alex to talk about his business idea for selling pour over coffee hardware and beans.

Friday 10th April, 2020

Mum came over and we talked through the window - she brought AJ a fire engine with chocolate eggs and two hash browns. Jas came over later with AJs PJ Masks ninja toy.

Thursday 9th April, 2020

Got a call from Geremy after work - which happened to be the start of the Easter long weekend. Talked about a lot of things, he's currently stuck in isolation in Melbourne.

Wednesday 8th April, 2020

Had a panicked Julie message me as I worked in the garage - AJ had dragged a chair across our floor and damaged it. After work came up to find the TV sound not working - he'd also broken the AV cord.

Tuesday 7th April, 2020

Played with AJ with the bike torch after work - turning all the lights off in the lounge room and playing around. He kept calling the torch a rocket ship, and I gave him a horsey ride to bed for cuddles.

Monday 6th April, 2020

AJ ran out of the bedroom at 8:30pm as I was making dinner - we watched a little YouTube (a one man band playing Gotye's Somebody that I used to know) before I took him back to bed, and then read more of 'The Originals'

Sunday 5th April, 2020

Went for an earlier run down to coronation drive - there were people all along the running track. I bailed off the track, and ran back along the footpath next to the road to avoid them all.

Saturday 4th April, 2020

Drive to dad's to drop off the pressure cleaner - had to put some fuel in my car, which I used a latex glove and the BP app to pay for it without going in.

Friday 3rd April, 2020

Finished work earlier - pumped up AJ's soccer ball and took him to Ballymore to play. Sent a few final farewell messages to Susan from work - then went home for Indian delivery

Thursday 2nd April, 2020

AJ's toilet step arrived in the post today - hopefully it helps us get him potty trained. Jared called me after work, talked about the challenges of GO1 and our shared frustrations. Then called Alex and went for a run

Wednesday 1st April, 2020

They told us today about the cost-cutting measures for the company to weather the COVID-19 lockdown storm. It can't have been easy for them in doing this.