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A metal-rockin’ firefightin’ lady.

(One day the printing on these boxes will be coloured right!)



Welcome to another year of advent calendars, again I’ll be running through the LEGO City and LEGO Star Wars calendars, one day at a time.

133 days since I submitted my application, 126 since I submitted the “additional” paperwork they required - which they already had - I finally have an email stating my crossbow license has been approved.

I did the Category M (crossbows) safety course on the 2nd of July, got the certificate of attainment on the 7th and submitted it on that night. I’d really love to know what took so long, but given that any question to Queensland Police Weapons Licensing end in ridiculous hand-wringing and misinformation, I’m just over it.

Last week’s sniffles turned into a full-blown face-crippling sinus infection come Monday morning. This being so close to my holiday, I was less than impressed, and I missed two days of finalising things at work. Thankfully, the high-dose antibiotics seem to have worked within twenty-four hours or so, taking it down to merely a sniffle after a week.

Rimfire ten-pin on Thursday was a bit of a shambles, I ended up taking myself off the line after succumbing to a light-headed woozy feeling. Nothing dangerous, just tired and not enough sugar by that point in the day. Still did OK, considering.

Ten days until my birthday, three years and a day since I bought my car. Honestly, the car thing is way more interesting to me. I’m having a lazy Sunday afternoon on the couch with my puppy, because I’m snuffly and don’t want to do any more house work.

What have I been up to? I finally played with app deployment on Splunk this week - it’s a great tool to have - but just like a lot of these things could be used too much, or in the wrong ways. So far I’m keeping it simple… so far.

About fifteen months ago, I posted a vague thing about my net worth and how I had been graphing it, and the results I had seen.

Time for a new update! This month I paid off my car after three years, which should help the line’s angle a little - though with my recent spending spree I might have to be careful. :)

A while back I split the graph to show the “without superannuation” part of the information out, since that was something I had identified as causing some strangeness in the data. It’s a little clearer now how much of my net worth is “liquid” - for various values of liquid - and what’s going towards my future security..

Another week that’s flown past without me realising it… I’m not really sure what’s happened to be completely honest :)

Saturday night was a whole lot of BBQ thanks to MrK, with all manner of dead animal presented to us, having been tended to and smoked throughout the day. Quite lovely.

Today (Sunday) I cut the last large section off the rather dead paperbark tree in my backyard. I’ve only been concerned about it for nearly three years, probably a good time to sort it out. There’s extensive borer-insect damage throughout, so whatever I don’t burn in short order will have to go to the tip. Can’t risk them going off and finding other things to eat! The full-sized chainsaw’s blade was terribly dull, even after I’d had a go at sharpening it, but a hand saw finished the required job, and the tiny-but-mighty chainsaw on a stick did the needful to take down the higher branches with surprising finesse.