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🖥️ Vendor evaluation demonstrations. A great way to spend a morning. 😬

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😺 The cat has been evicted from my lap with the usual comment “I have to go to work to earn some money to feed you”. 🐈

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🙃 Five day long weekend and now I have to go to work. The highs and lows.

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I didn’t know how much I’d been missing Jatz with smoked butter and anchovy in my life, until I had it at lunch yesterday.

Two Jatz biscuits sitting on a small white serving plate. The biscuits have a small amount of smoked butter in the middle with a large anchovy wrapped around the butter.
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The menu and view for a degustation lunch at ‘Oncore by Clare Smyth’ on the 26th floor of the Sydney Crown building today. Apart from these 7 dishes there was a starter and finish course as well. Four hours, so full, so good.

A menu listing seven courses of a meal with a green card across the bottom with “Oncore by Clare Smyth” on it.A view from the west looking towards the Sydney Harbour bridge and Opera House.

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Dymocks in the Sydney CBD has a good selection of pens and ink and I really shouldn’t be allowed in there. Accidentally bought a Kaweco Iguana Blue AL Sport fountain pen. Will use cartridges for this one so picked up up some Herbin Vert Empire (Empire Green) at the same time. 🖋️

A metallic aqua green aluminium fountain pen with gold sitting on top of a brass coloured metal case. The case has “Kaweco” in large blue font and “Germany since 1883” in a smaller black type. A small cylindrical container with “Vert Empire” on it sits behind.
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📽️ Thanks to the pandemic I haven’t been to the Sydney Film Festival since 2019. Rectifying that with two films tonight. 🍿

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✈️ Bag is packed and near the front door. So keen for a little trip away for a few days.

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Out of office set.

Engaging extended long weekend mode. 🍸

See you next Tuesday desk.

A square sign sitting on a desk. The image says “Current mood:” and then in larger font underneath “Chill”. A blue whimsical emoji face is below that.
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Increasingly unhappy with the way a particular area of the organisation I work at has taken to responding to important queries by calling rather than replying to an email.

Almost like they don’t want you citing the email when a different person from the same area gives contradictory advice later.🤔