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  • Cello

    My neighbour a few doors down plays the cello, and with the street quieter for the holidays we can hear it through the open front door. It’s exactly as lovely as you imagine. (She’s a good musician.)

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  • Covid-19 Scarf

    I’m finally finishing off the scarf I started during the first lockdown. It encodes a small part of the genetic sequence of one of the Covid-19 strains! 🦠

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  • Happy Festivus!

    Knitting and beer with friends… ❤️

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  • The return of Reginald

    Momentous day! Now that all the furniture is in place and we’ve managed to get rid of most of the moving detritus, we were able to send Reginald Roomba out in his first post-renovation mapping run.

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  • Git push from highway

    He’s already completed one Advent of Code challenge this month from the beach. Today he did one going 110kmph down the motorway. (I did miss our exit, but at least he got a pretty good score!)

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  • Taxation

    I did not expect my call with a US tax accountant to be so amusing, but what can you do but laugh? “Nobody knows how the next four years are going to play out.” “We just need someone to tweet Elon about it.” 😂🤷‍♀️

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  • New dining room set!

    After more than 20 years of having the same timber dining room set, today we sold it and set up the new one. SCHMICK!! 😍

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  • My friend Kristin mentioned on Facebook yesterday that she would have a stall at the Moore Park Christmas Markets, and she asked if anyone could come cover her for a bit at lunchtime. I volunteered! So I’m helping to sell her very clever 3D-printed puzzle gift boxes.

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  • YOW Sydney 2024

    In the end, I managed to see almost every talk at YOW 2024. Here are the final four talks I saw today…

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  • Renovation update

    Dirt!! This is only like 10% of the total area, but it’s a good reminder of the fact that plants will eventually be growing here.

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