I had a quiet day at home today - went for a walk around the block, sent off a the Google Streamer I sold online via courier as an overnight (it is easier for me to courier it than for the buyer to pick it up or me drop it off even though we're in the same region). I did some organising around the house but I think I'll be doing a lot more when I go for my two weeks off over Christmas.

Rather than being a hermit on my day off I decided to get out of the house and head down to the store to have a look around, check out what iOS 26 is actually like rather than the early judgements I made which were based on screenshots and videos. I decided that, after much mulling over what I should do, that I went all in and decided to move back to the Apple ecosystem after giving Windows a good college try - I really wanted it to work but I'm so used to the way things work in the Apple world - everything is rather disjointed when trying to get the Google and Microsoft ecosystem to work nicely together.

Work was good today, felt a lot better after a few days of rest and I was fairly productive getting through quite a few emails as well as answering phone calls and following up with past enquiries. After work I decided to have tonight off since there is rain that is on and off so while I had something to eat I checked the shopping I had ordered online to see whether I left anything out - I added a few more items to the order to cover myself for another week.

On the road to recovery by spending today at home and while at home I was watching a great interview over on YouTube - it is great to see an ecosystem that is building particularly when it comes to one with centre left to left wing unafraid of calling a spade a spade vs in the past with the obsession about decorum and presentation over substance.

Woke up today with stomach cramps and felt under the weather so I decided to have the day off, resting in bed, drinking plenty of water to keep hydrated. I'll need to have a good night sleep and see how things work out tomorrow but depending on what happens I'll make the decision when I get to it. I went for a small walk tonight just for the sake of some fresh air but nothing more than that.

Today it was raining all day and raining at night - it really didn't stop until around 2am which by that time was far too late to go for a walk. I decided to stay at home, have some vegetarian chilli for dinner while watching some YouTube videos (the vegetarian chilli would actually go well with mince or firm tofu that is fried and then the chilli mix added to it).

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

Finished work tonight, went for my 11.6km walk, jumped in and had a shower and now relaxing in bad watching some YouTube videos. The day so far has been rather uneventful, got up, had brunch, logged into my computer and found that Google hadn't released an update for Chrome - maybe something happened and it had to be pushed back to Thursday NZ time (Wednesday US time)?

Not good news for the Redmond giant.

I decided to go all out tonight and go for a 23.2KM walk - I really needed to go for a walk after a lazy day on Monday and after coming back it felt good having accomplished what I wanted. On my walk I like to use it as a time to consolidate my thoughts and plan what I am going to do for the coming week - I've decided that going forward what I'm going to do is buy all my groceries online and get it delivered because when I go shopping I buy things I don't really need (aka 'junk food') because I browse where as online I have a list of things I need to purchase and just get those delivered.

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

The government says it is not a power grab, but about "making local government fit for purpose".

A few ideas have been rolling around in my head for quite some time so I thought I may as well put them out there - I could very much be wrong (most likely) but I'll 'put them to paper' then see how embarrassed I am within a few years. A topic that I see regular come up in conversionsations is in regards to software quality, performance, memory usage and general efficiency is the lamenting over how 'inefficient' modern software is while waxing poetically about 'the good old days' (while ignoring back in the 'good old days' the same accusations of 'inefficiency' was levelled at the very software that people today consider efficient) how the software was more efficient.

I went to sleep last night, slept in until around 12 noon, woke up, had something to eat for lunch then headed down the road to pick up a few essentials and then got in contact with mum regarding what was happening. Had a chat with mum and it turns out that my sister had he account hacked and money emptied but thankfully she got onto it quickly so hopefully it'll be tracked down.

The weekend has finally arrived - finished work today then went for my nightly walk and picked a couple of sandwiches for dinner then came back home, watched some videos while eating dinner. It was a long week but I think this coming week will be a lot easier - getting back into the routine of going for a walk each night.

Another day at work and then went for a my usual walk. I really do love this time of year, not too hot, not too cold, a cool breeze, things aren't too chaotic around where I live and I'm looking forward to a few work get togethers over the next couple of weeks and then my holiday starts on 15 December where I'll enjoy two weeks off.

YouTube video by Real Time with Bill Maher