🍿 Predestination (2014). ★½

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Predestination (2014). The movie poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Poor selected. The review reads: A time travel and paradox plot line which becomes more convoluted as each reveal happens with each switch between the past and the present. Having randomly come across it I had no expectations, which was a good thing. Maybe I was too tired to properly enjoy it but it was all a bit overdone and the final moments seemed inevitable but contrived.

🍺 It’s 4pm so I’m calling the week as over. Time to have a beer and lean into the long weekend.

📺 Finished watching The Ark (Season 2, 2024) ★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the television series The Ark (Season 2). The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Okay selected. The review reads: A light sci-fi show, humanity has doomed the earth and must find a new planet to live on fare. For me, this second season was better than the first. The characters felt more defined, there wasn’t the same type of forced crisis, there was a clearer plot line. The removal of one character to be replaced by another, played by the same actor, was probably the weakest part of the season arc. An easy watch but not something you’d feel like you need to binge.

You don’t really think about how much you move your dominant arm around until you have a sun spot (bcc) cut out right on the ball of the shoulder and the doctor says “try to limit movement for the first 48hrs”.

Get your skin checked regularly people.

🍿 Coming to America (1988). ★★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Coming to America (1988). The movie poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Good selected. The review reads: Decided to watch this again after the recent passing of John Amos. It would likely never be made now but as a product of its time it’s great. Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall comedically bouncing off each other while John Amos and James Earl Jones both deliver serious roles but half expecting them to break into comedy at any moment as well.

🍿 Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023). ★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023). The movie poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Okay selected. The review reads: Finally got around to watching this and I could have probably gotten by a bit longer. Guy Ritchie must have spent about thirty minutes pulling together discarded ideas and scenes from some of his other movies and then found a weak plot to try and thread it all together. Some big names in this but that didn't help it. It's ordinary but watchable as a standard by the numbers Ritchie affair.

🛥️ Taking the City Cat ferry home on the river really is one of the best ways to commute.

Wearing another new badge to work today. Pretending I’m wild and free while I sit at my desk and go to interminable meetings.

An enamel badge pinned on a brown corduroy jacket. The badge has a blue background and a white unicorn with the LGBTIQ rainbow colours as its mane. The words “Wild & Free” are across the top.

Badge for today is a new one I picked up recently on holidays in Hobart.

A rectangular enamel badge pinned to a light grey hoodie, part of a burnt orange vest is visible under the hoodie. The badge has HUMAN with the letters some of the various LGBTIQ flag colours.

Returning to work today after a very relaxing six weeks of holidays. I’m not looking at my email or diary until I get in so it will be like a boy’s own adventure. “You’re sitting at your desk staring out the window. Turn to page 34 if you want to read email. Turn to page 42 if you want to go home.”