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Sunday 28th May, 2023

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Fixed the brakes on AJ's bike - then he crashed his scooter with a graze and some blood. Talked to Callum as he washed his mums car. 

Saturday 27th May, 2023

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Julie left to her weekend away with Christina and Lauren. Took the boys to Agnes bakery on James St - got an almost crossaint that was circular with all the almond slivers poking up.  I bumped into CE at New Farm Park - before Kai ran off through the rose bushes. We made pizzas, and Alex came over for dinner - we talked life and relationships

Friday 26th May, 2023

Came home at a reasonable time - had a roast chicken and veggies with the family. I managed to cleanly cut the chicken in half. It was really weird having dinner with them for a change. 

Thursday 25th May, 2023

SLT where we were told about the people being made redundant - I sent Jasneet and Michelle a message to see how they're doing. 

Wednesday 24th May, 2023

Most of the team were in - we did FY24 planning. Jasneet looked really upset, she was arguing with HR about the exit packages.

Tuesday 23rd May, 2023

Toured the new office with Jon and Faye - I realised just how stupid the layout is. We're going to have to rush the upstairs section. 

Monday 22nd May, 2023

Caught up with Bahar - her car failed to start and she got stuck at school. I helped guide her on what I thought it might be. 

Sunday 21st May, 2023

Took the boys to Ballymore to ride their bikes and bumped into Diego. I ran around with the boys, playing soccer with everyone 

Saturday 20th May, 2023

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Checked out the frame with dad - noticed how low the garage entrance was, so we measured it. Yum chat with Julie's cousins. The char kway teow was horrible - the boys played at the arcade next door.

Friday 19th May, 2023

Nikhil came to the office, but Jon didn't. We had burgers. In our 1:1, Jon told me the extent of the HR stuff coming next week. 

Thursday 18th May, 2023

Introduced the requirements for the preview experience to MX. Getting them to start the UI asap 

Wednesday 17th May, 2023

Emergency call on the DB load issues - it turned into a big meeting for Jon's first day back, and yet nobody could tell us what actually was causing it. 

Tuesday 16th May, 2023

Playing against a tall team at soccer - it was tight all the way through, but we managed to get up by two with 3m to go. We ended up losing after a flurry of goals. 

Monday 15th May, 2023

Only managed to get started on the FY24 planning work in the evening - got a horrible draft out to ML just in time. 

Sunday 14th May, 2023

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Mothers day drive up to see mum - extremely slow moving old man came out of the bottle shop while we went to get wine, clerk in tow to help him.  Took flowers to the beach, and threw them in for nanny - given its the first mother's day mum has had without her

Friday 12th May, 2023

Hanging out with Luke B while a government pitch day was happening in the office  We were trying to be quiet - but I accidentally knocked over my light beer (which tasted rather awful) Drove to the city to get Tears of the Kingdom for AJ and I. I got the last copy - walking past the bored electro violist. AJ was incredibly excited when I gave it to him when I got home. 

Thursday 11th May, 2023

AI Hackathon judging day. Jon dressed up as Agent Smith. Our translate to audio solution - with snoop dogg giving lessons, didn't win. 

Saturday 13th May, 2023

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Saw our frames for the first time. Met Tatiana and her husband who were walking past.  Her hubby had his name really spiked up at the front.  It was good to see the frame, but they'd accidentally flipped the powder room

Wednesday 10th May, 2023

Talked to Julie about her job - they're looking to change her 0.5 role again. We worked out she could do 0.8 and still make more than news corp. 

Tuesday 9th May, 2023

I rushed to come home to soccer talking to Andy in the car. Got turned off by the pot of food left out by Julie's mum - it was some chicken mince soup thing that smelt weird. 

Monday 8th May, 2023

Kai ran into my office while I was on a call and gave me a big hug - the first time I saw him in his soccer outfit. We had burgers, I was terrified he'd get his red and white shirt dirty. 

Sunday 7th May, 2023

After the frustrating afternoon the day before snapping screws while mounting the blind in the study - I went back to bunnings and got what I need to fix that, and the bike rack. Dennis and Carolina came over - I assembled his PC for him. 

Saturday 6th May, 2023

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Met mums boyfriend Alan for the first time - he had a cracking handshake. We went and saw the slab for the first time - the boys played with their cars on it. I made dumplings - they seemed dry

Friday 5th May, 2023

Ant pinged me - he told me he got made redundant. Heard Marc was also in that group, and Jo. talked about others who would be going - showing me their faces in Bob

Thursday 4th May, 2023

Workshop on V3 API - we quickly landed on a position to use minimal query params. We still need to ponder Graph - I pinged Ben after but we couldn't decide. 

Wednesday 3rd May, 2023

Met with Jake from AP for the first time - to talk about Content Gateway

Tuesday 2nd May, 2023

A new player - Boris - turned up at soccer. He did well, and we won - although Tim managed an own goal ricocheting of Gaz

Monday 1st May, 2023

Ran as far as I dared towards the gap along the Enoggera Creek path. Ended up at the scout hall next to the new bridge between Ashgrove and The Gap where it floods. Kai's first movie - and my first time at Red Hill cinema. We watched Mario with the Williamson's, he hid behind the chair when bowser came on screen. 

Sunday 30th April, 2023

Visited Lauren and Jon for the first time in forever - Jon pointed out my grey beard. We struggled with my PC - which had all sorts of issues with the new CPU, but eventually worked. Whipper snipped their yard and side, to help given Jon was out of action. 

Saturday 29th April,

Cleared out all of the boxes from the study furniture to the tip, along with the old desk and chairs. The garage was now clear of crap after the study build. It was still a lot of space Went to Ba Ngoi's and fixed her smoke alarm - but I couldn't fix the leaky tap, as I need to buy a new one. Struggled to shut the water off. 

Friday 28th April, 2023

Raced to the Ploughman to have a beer with Alan S - called and realised he was at 5 Boroughs. Raced up - and had a beer and burger while we talked work and our connection via Luci