🤷 Sometimes you can get all your chores done early on a Saturday. Other times the cat goes to sleep in your lap and you have no option but to keep reading your book.

Checked how many working days between now and being able to access my superannuation. It’s less than 1000 but still too many. www.timeanddate.com/date/dura…

Brisbane weather has reached the period, some people call it April, where your morning involves a conversation with yourself along the lines of “is it cool enough to need something warmer or will I just be hot and sweating after lunch”.

A jaunty little Tasmanian Devil.

An enamel lapel badge in the shape of a Tasmanian devil pinned to a blue grey suit jacket. The Devil is coloured black with a white patch on its chest and a brown nose and is wearing a rainbow striped baseball cap.

🖋️ Going for a long lunch then popping into the Pen Shoppe in the Brisbane arcade afterwards is a bad idea for my wallet.

A dark green Pineider rollerball pen in the display case it came in.

🍸 Work mode off. Long lunch mode on.

Today is 3.5hrs of work and then finishing up to go have a long lunch with a friend. If the weather doesn’t turn bad again I’ll walk home along the river. Today is a good day for my mental health.

Mickey by Toni Basil just shuffled round on an ‘80s playlist and I wasn’t near enough to hit skip. There’s my earworm for the next three days lodged deep.

Listening to a succession of Celine Dion songs being cycled through on repeat by someone nearby. My guess is it’s been a messy breakup.

🌞 Blue sunny sky and 30°c is much nicer for a walk than the rain of the last few days.