BUPA is increasingly behaving like a US for-profit health fund. Labor should stop the Howard era subsidies, laughingly described as a rebate, and put the money into public health and medicare.

🐈 We’ve reached that point of the afternoon where the cat walking back and forth across my desk as she wants to go outside is actually impeding me from finishing up work and letting her outside.

With the apparent temp of 5°c at 8am thanks to the strong winds I have pulled out the tan leather gloves and can pretend I’m driving a cool sports car rather than my Hyundai i30.

🍷 Managed to get my walk in before the rain arrived. Might reward myself with a glass of red and few chapters of my book.

My monitor at work was recently changed from a 27” flat screen to a 34” curved screen with built in hub. I’ve been loving the extra screen space so of course I’ve been looking at the EOFY sales to get one for home.

Do I need to upgrade the 27” at home? No.

Do I want to? Absolutely. 🤷🏻‍♂️

When one of my team members wanders over and starts their question with “do you happen to know” it inevitably means “we have this problem we can’t work out and you’ve been doing this forever so hoping you can dig through your memory and remember”. Love those late on a Friday afternoon.

📺 Happy new 65” OLED TV delivery day to those who celebrate.

A day off today with four things planned:

  1. Drink coffee while reading with the cat napping on my lap ✅
  2. Buy a new 65” tv
  3. Long lunch and cocktails with a friend
  4. Walk home to balance out number 3

My younger brother and I are very different people. He is deep in the make a phone call when a text would do camp, I’m the opposite. Also incapable of ending a call. Like it did tonight, this combination usually has me saying “I’m going to hang up now, is there anything else” after about 45mins.

Sometimes I surprise myself with the things stored away in the back of my brain. A friend has loaded a stack of songs into his karaoke machine and now we’re delving into them post dinner. I don’t think I’ve heard it in 40yrs but a friend and I just managed to sing The Belle of St Mark by Sheila E.