Month: December 2024

  • 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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  • Slow Down

    “[W]hy do boomer men refuse to slow down?” A really good piece from The Guardian about how difficult it can be for older men to accept that they can’t do everything they used to, or that they want to. Or as I put it to Rodd: “Oh look, someone wrote an entire article about our Dads.”

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  • Alpaca Beanie

    I finished the alpaca beanie for the Snook! This was purely to use up the extra bits I had left over from making his scarf. I casted on 132 stitches and then just made the pattern up as I went. His scalp is pretty sensitive and he doesn’t like hats that grip too tightly, so…

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  • Beanie progress

    I’m making good progress on the alpaca beanie I’m knitting for Rodd to match his scarf. No pattern; I’m just making it up as I go.

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  • Wrapstodon

    My Mastodon instance (aus.social) is participating in “Wrapstodon,” where the server generates some fun end-year-stats for you. My most popular post was this one featuring my niece Indie’s embroidered sneakers!

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  • Timpano

    Trying to convince the Snook that he should make us a timpano for Christmas dinner, using Stanley Tucci’s recipe from his book Taste. 

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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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  • After 10 days of tech conference, *of course* I was going to come home on Friday night and watch a 3hr documentary on why Richard Feynman’s legacy is mostly BS. Who wouldn’t? (via Metafilter)  

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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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