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📺 Finished watching Time Bandits (2024) ★★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the television series Time Bandits (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 Good selected. The review reads: Loosely based on the movie of the same name I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected to. Lisa Kudrow was great and it was an ensemble cast which worked well together. The surprise appearances by Shaun Micallef amused this Australian. He was the last person I expected to see popping up. Cancelled after this one season it's still worth watching. The season is self contained and you're not left hanging. Music is composed by Mark Mothersbaugh, a founding member of Devo.
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📺 Finished watching Territory (2024) ★★

A rectangular image with a review of the television series Territory (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 Okay selected. The review reads: I think it was maybe aiming for a Succession or Yellowstone vibe but set in the Australian outback. The elements were there, a cantankerous patriarch playing children and grandchildren off against the other, the children wanting approval, and everyone wanting to run the world's biggest cattle station in the Northern Territory. It tried to have a lawless undercurrent but some of it simply wasn’t believable. There was a setup for a second season but not sure I’ll be back if it eventuates. This was a close run between Poor or Okay and I went with Okay because of the stunning locations in the Australian Outback and the way Indigenous Australians were represented as the traditional owners of the land.
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Hot cross buns in the local grocery store already 🙅🏻‍♂️🙅🏻‍♂️

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📚 Finished reading Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I really enjoyed this trilogy, I’ll be reading more of his other books.

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Out of office is set and I’m done with work for 2024!

A sign sitting on an office desk. White background, blue emoji face and the words “Current Mood: CHILL” above it.
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I’ve warned my teams not to give me any urgent problems on my last working day of the year. Wearing the badge to emphasise my response.

A diamond shaped enamel badge pinned on a brown and white striped shirt. There is a thin black border on the badge, red background, and gold lettering which says “Yeah Nah!”

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Happily finished as chair of the body corporate. Lawyer who thinks they know everything will discover there’s a whole lot of things I dealt with which are now their problem. I intend to spend the next month ignoring every email from the retired engineer on the committee who really needs a hobby.

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Only 17 days into summer and the roads are already not coping with heavy downpours given a wetter than normal spring. Going to be an interesting summer I think, with plenty of localised flooding.

A screenshot of the Brisbane Lord Mayor instagram account showing a large number of road closures on a map of Brisbane and surrounding areas.
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I’m finishing at 11 and having the afternoon off in lieu of working Saturday. I have a long lunch planned with a friend and do not want to be delayed. I’ll be keeping my morning meetings short by using one of two options: “stick a pin in it until next year” or “no”.

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I might actually look at the suggested Threads accounts appearing on my insta feed if most weren’t either a story about someone in the wrong seat on a plane or how bad an Airbnb was. Sometimes it’s the person who has confused it for LinkedIn and is busy tooting their own horn as my Nan used to say.