Shane.Blamer's blogspot

7:30 AM Train now departing Nunawading 8:10 AM Coffee sit-in at Supagrind, 664 Collins Pick up new keyboard & mouse Town Hall Team lunch at Moondog, Docklands Tennis on L8

Manta Ray Coffee Roasters Arrived at 8am, quickly shot A a message on Signal to suggest he meet me here if he's free I'm looking forward to next week of work. I feel like i've been dreaming of work, which is my sign that i need to stress less about it The menus are new: beige with red text. They used to be black with white text, so it's quite a noticeable change I feel like i haven't been here for weeks and weeks. And yet the barista, she still remembered my order: magic to have here & a warmed up plain croissant Hawkers WC DIPA, very good Forno88 pizza, olives, anchovies  Bracket beer with simcoe, pretty good, a bit under-powered Played some soldat zombies, first sooner & then we had a big team of ~10 10:15 PM Bed time Total steps: 1,600 (shameful)

6 AM Woke up early Watched last night's Planet America — half before my shower & then the 2nd half "as a podcast" in my car: Iran strike, Epstein deposition of Clintons Drive to work: 45 min, the longest it's ever been. It didn't bother me. I was plenty early. Listened to a couple of tunes. Then caught up on a pod about Iran being bombed by USA (again) this week 8:45 AM Coffee, bacon & egg muffin My manager annouced that he wasn't coming in to the office today (due to a conference). I'm expecting that will dissuade my colleagues from attending today too — which should result in a quiet day for me I found last Friday uncharacteristically disruptive — due to morning team coffee, in-person meeting, lunch together (that kind of thing, i don't recall exactly). Anyway, it didn't bother me because (1) return-to-office feels like a decision to be less productive this year, and (2) my project will no doubt overshoot it's deadline by many months ...

Strathdon House (and Orchid Precinct) • I've only seen 1 walker, 1 dog on a lead • It's about a 20 min walk from home • Smells like marijuana Supposed in at Jolimont café on the walk home for a coffee (only). I saw it the back, which was dry enough. Not very many patrons inside/outside 1 PM (Lunch-break)  • Weights • Did a load of washing • Listened to a podcast about Claude (LLM) 6 PM Striped away from my laptop. Ate a sandwich. Hung out my washing 8 PM Watched some Bluey episodes. And then a bag movie, Mother Father Sister Brother, Frank (2025) Bird species: 8 Total steps: 4,500

Figure9 café, mitcham • Bircher w/ yoghurt & strawberries, blueberries • Corn fritters & gauc, w/ poached egg Walked home, quick shower, drove N home 2:30 PM (Greensborough) Upgraded brother printer software, firmware & added a desktop icon for Printer queue 6 PM (Vermont) Back home, planted sunflower seeds Listened to Planet Extra Podcast Had 1 fridge beer & sandwiches for dinner: salami, cheese, cos lettuce, siracha hot sauce

Bfast at mr roberTson w/ N Uber driver was an old bloke with an English accent. Red tesla. He demo'd his Grok A.I. assistant for me, Rex The first thing i noticed is that Rex responded to information that we had spoken about shortly before activating Rex. Right off the bat, Rex misunderstood Blamer as "Palmer". Certainly sounded synthetic, like the Spotify DJ (albeit that DJ can't interact). Most noticeably, i found the delay before Rex responded to bed very clunky, awkward, off-putting, annoying 4 PM Le bon ton w/ A • Hurricane (rum-based, fruit juice cocktail)  • Cornbread w/ jalapeño • Loaded fried w/ brisket Slow poke Stomping ground Foragers