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📺 Finished watching The Acolyte (2024) ★½

A rectangular image with a review of the television series The Acolyte (Season 1). 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 Poor selected. The review reads: Set well before the time of the movies and other tv series there was a perfect opportunity to do something completely different without the usual Star Wars tropes. Shame it was completely wasted and this fell very flat. One episode was basically a repeat of an earlier episode, but from a different point of view, without adding anything to the overall story. A big red flag the writers didn’t know what to do with the opportunity they had.
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The iPhone App Library groupings can be very random. X has moved from Social to News, which is ridiculous. Although it’s also moved all Apple apps (reminders, mail, calendar, contacts, notes, maps) from Productivity into Other. You’d think at a minimum Apple would categorise its own apps correctly.

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Gorgeous winter afternoon for a walk beside the river. Just before 5pm, 18°c and clear skies.

Looking along the Brisbane River. The lower half of the photo is the blue of the river. The curve of the river creates a thin band of land across the middle with the upper half a clear blue sky.
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Productive afternoon reviewing the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) program to decide what I’ll see. I’ve added it all into a spreadsheet to plan out and add travel times. Also need to leave some gaps to catch up with friends as well. 🍿

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🐱 The cat is silently sitting beside her bowl glaring at me as I’ve been up for an hour and haven’t fed her. She will be even more displeased when I scoop her up shortly and put her in the carrier to go to the vet to get her teeth cleaned.

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After today, I have 17 working days until I go on six weeks leave. Just have to make sure the screaming stays internal until then.

A black enamel badge in the shape of an animal head, pointy ears, big round eyes and the words “Screaming Internally” where the mouth would be. It’s pinned on a cream coloured jacket.

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🍿 Watched The Peacemaker (1997) ★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie The Peacemaker. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Avoid selected. The review reads: I’ve never gotten around to watching this and I’m pretty sure I could’ve kept going in blissful ignorance. Talk about a by the numbers plot and acting. Meh.
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🍿 Rewatched Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) ★★★★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Great! selected. The review reads: One of my favourite movies and I’ve watched it so many times. It’s an almost perfect buddy movie without the two actually being buddies. Candy’s quiet emotional baggage slowly revealed as the movie goes on and Martin’s gradual resignation and acceptance of his fate entwine so well. The gags and humour are classic '80s and you're either going to laugh all the way through or cringe, no in-between.
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I don’t understand people who buy an apartment and then complain every quarter they don’t understand how the levies are calculated. How do they not look into it and make sure they know all the ongoing costs before making a major financial decision?

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🍿 Watched The Death of Stalin (2017) ★★★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie The Death of Stalin. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Good selected. The review reads: The cast is predominantly made up of comedians, which seeps through into the way they present the characters and the writing helps it along. Clearly aiming to try and show communist Russia as being run by people with gutter smarts rather than actually being smart, their hunger for power the only reason they do what they do. I had this as a three star but then Jason Isaacs appeared as the general and it went up to four stars.