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feeling much better than that but i think it s best to not move more than i have to unfortunately housework is unavoidable and maybe a bit of gardening won t hurt but there ll be nothing more adventurous than that oh except saving the galaxy not literally unless you can count in some roundabout way my reduction in activity having some kind of reduced impact on the environment which results in some kind of ripple effect that could in combination with the inactivity of other recluses somehow contribute to the salvation of the galaxy but i don t think that would really be saving it only minutely slowing the downward spiral umm anyway not literally just virtually in a game called mass effect the game is like a lesson in history and astronomy as well as diplomacy cartography languages and problem solving not to mention the coordination required to drive the mako yes i know i said i was going to take it easy but despite all the cognitive processing required to play this game it is a lot of fun or perhaps it is precisely because of all the thinking involved anyway much to do or not do so i won t linger here any longer much to do 26 03 2021 pistachios 7 comments not feeling much like writing this week because of being busy with life not overly busy but just doing things here s a run down i ve been continuing with trying to learn russian but now i ve decided to use two different websites instead of relying on just one the one i ve added memrise has the benefit of having recordings of actual people saying the words and phrases which you d hope is more accurate and true to real russian if i try to do even just a little bit of learning every day i m hoping i can get decent level in a few years or so i have a book of russian stories i d like to be able to read one day but i know that day is quite far away unless i really dedicate a significant amount of time to learning as for other reading after realising that i haven t been sticking to my own advice to someone else about reading a little bit every day i ve been trying to make sure i read a bit whenever i can sure it s not quite back to a daily habit yet but i think i m making more progress with war and peace than i was say a month or two ago speaking of war and peace i ve discovered that i m more engaged with the book in the parts about the relationships between people and their lives in russia on the other hand my brain seems to tire more quickly from reading about battles and warfare only when there is some description of the individual human experience in the war do i become more captivated i think perhaps it s just harder for me to picture the landscapes and battalion manoeuvres and whatnot than to picture a bunch of people sitting around a drawing room or dining table either way i m still enjoying the book overall and am far enough along that i can start to have delusions of possibly finishing the book by the end of the year only thing i want to add is that i read in the introduction or blurb or somewhere that pierre is the character most like tolstoy himself however i ve so far found pierre to be one of the least likeable characters which i think is confusing my brain because in anna karenina levin was the most autobiographical character and he was my favourite writing this post i ve really come to realise that i ve given myself a lot of things to do that require consistent and frequent effort the next on the list is piano i m very aware that i need to practise piano a lot more than i have been if i want to ever get any good at it and be able to play the kind of music that i want to play of course in this i have no delusions as i seem to spend more time on learning russian and reading books which seem a lot easier perhaps another area that has been a bit neglected is the garden after all this rain the plants are flourishing but so are the weeds and i think too much rain builds that complacency of we don t need to worry about watering the garden today and it quietly slips from the daily routine but the clouds have dispersed for now and the sun has come out it is the start of the week end and there is much to do happy days 06 10 2019 06 10 2019 pistachios 2 comments it s sunday night here but it s a public holiday tomorrow so it feels like saturday but yesterday also felt like saturday so i guess things are pretty good here i ve been busy but not overly productive i had the day off work on friday so i went to visit my friends who were preparing for their holiday to canada how i wish i could join them i helped them lock their windows and get rid of rubbish so they gave me cake and miscellaneous perishable food from their fridge a local brewery was doing a special oktoberfest menu this week end so a friend and i went there for lunch on saturday we were there last week end too but the bar has such a relaxed atmosphere and the staff are so chill i d happily become a regular one of the owners was working behind the bar and he actually remembered us from last week i take that as a good thing i m sure they think our patronage is a good thing too today sunday i wanted to catch up with a couple of other friends i reckon sunday session friends are pretty high up in the unofficial hierarchy of friends you know the kind of friends you want to round out the week end with or the ones you can talk to for hours hence the sunday sesh should preferably start in the early afternoon to allow ample time to chinwag until the sun goes down i m not sure why but i thought i d be home early on friday night and i thought i d be home for dinner on saturday night and likewise for tonight but cleaning and other things went late on friday and we ended up at an arcade bar on saturday and i completely was not keeping track of time at all tonight so the cooking and cleaning and blogging and writing that i had planned this week end didn t happen well it hasn t happened yet there is tonight and there is tomorrow and just now i got a feeling of deja vu as if i ve written this kind of post before and very possibly i have because i guess this is the kind of thing i do not learn but if i have a chance to go out and hang out with friends and try some good beers then i will take it chores can wait i know i m not that irresponsible that i m never going to get around to them and i will carve out time for writing speaking of writing i ve started working on a new story i m not sure if i ll be able to make this novel length or maybe it s better to just keep it as a short story but it s been a while since i ve been this excited about an idea for a story so i m just going to write and let it develop into whatever it s meant to be i guess that s kind of how life is 5 7 5 x31 31 07 2019 24 04 2025 pistachios 2 comments you d be forgiven for thinking that i had intentionally waited until the last day of july to post this month of daily haiku recap but that s not really why i m writing this now this isn t much of a recap anyway being such a short post i suppose this is just to mark the end of the month i would have written and scheduled a post for monday if i d had time on the week end i did not the week end was exceptionally busy partly of my own doing partly not completely of my doing house stuff appointment long walks book club meet ups airport pick up lunchtime catch ups long chats live music etc etc this upcoming week end is looking like it s going to be equally full so i m basically forcing myself to sit down and write this now on a wednesday night when i should already be in bed asleep so that i can stop worrying about breaking my weekly blogging streak i suppose in a similar way but kind of on a smaller scale i ve been trying to not break my daily haiku streak and i m glad and quite proud to say that i haven t broken it thus ends haiku month but the journey s just begun more haikus coming daily haiku week 1 08 07 2019 07 07 2019 pistachios 4 comments i ve now finished seven days of writing daily haiku so i thought it would be a good idea to look back and share some of my favourites it s actually been more than seven days if you want to get technical about it since i actually started thinking up haikus before the start of july my mind was sort of preparing itself for the challenge like warming up before a marathon since july started on a monday the start of the work week i tended to think up haiku on my way to work while walking to the bus stop on the bus in my car or while cycling yes my commute was very varied last week this meant that several of my haiku are related to the outside world nature meteorological phenomena animals etc whatever i observed gained automatic consideration for haiku topics continue reading finals footy 05 10 2015 04 10 2015 pistachios leave a comment gotta love having the afl and nrl grand finals on the same week end hey saturday was the afl grand final played between the hawthorn hawks and west coast eagles i had backed the hawks for their last two premierships but i had always backed west coast whenever they went to a gf so it was a tough choice of who to support of course my usual loyalties are with the lions but we won t talk about that just now going into the match i kind of wanted west coast to win maybe just slightly more than i wanted hawthorn to win but i didn t really know any of the players on the eagles team whereas i could recognise several hawks from having watched their previous gf matches besides you could tell really early on like not even halfway through the first quarter that hawthorn had this one in the bag after the hawks kicked eight can t actually remember now unanswered goals it was pretty much game over for the eagles i will admit i was a bit disappointed by how one sided the game was and stopped watching after the third quarter sunday night s nrl grand final though that was frickin insane don t know if it s possible to have a better gf than that it was brisbane broncos versus the north queensland cowboys my loyalty will always be with the broncos but with an all qld grand final first time that that s happened too i would ve been happy either way and this game went right down to the wire broncos were up 16 to 12 but the cowboys managed a miraculous try right on the full time buzzer un frickin believable thurston just missed the conversion it hit the goal post and bounced back in field so the match went into golden point but of course within two minutes of extra time thurston got the field goal that got them the victory this was justin hodges final game so it was unfortunate that he couldn t get the win for a deserving send off but i m still happy for the cowboys for getting their first premiership and who better than thurston to lead them to that victory i haven t check out the match stats but i reckon north queensland had a lot more possession in the second half than brisbane did brisbane did remarkably well in defence but it was obvious that it was wearing them out to have to keep defending repeated sets of six and i ll admit i understand the strategy but i did get a bit annoyed that the broncos kept purposely sending the ball to the sideline every time they got to the fifth tackle well you can t have it all hey still it was such an exciting edge of your seat match which was exactly what i expected from an all qld grand final and also according to the commentators it was a record turn out the biggest crowd for any gf and this was a match played in sydney between two qld teams just goes to show how much queenslanders love their footy posts navigation older posts recent posts june 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 nov filing cabinet books exploring food drink intellectual life milestone movies music pharm random reblogged sport fitness television uncategorised uni weather writing index australia baking blogging book books brisbane change childhood memories classical music classics coffee cooking cycling doors driving flying food drink friends 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