Shane.Blamer's blogspot

Breakfast at the café formerly known as Oh Hi Walked home from mitcham (drizzle) Walked at mullum mullum • kangeroos 20+ • choughs 8 • kookaburra • cockatoos • no turtle  I watched Style Wars (free on youtube) a 60 min documentary about the begins of graffiti culture in the USA incl. break dancing & hip hop Then i watched A House of Dynamite (2035, netflix, film) which was excellent Total steps: 9,100

Felt bit dusty after pints last night. Took panadol Word Cloud based on my daily journaling (that i begun here at the start of 2025) kinda sucked I've faked up this version word by word word word like a dork ✔️ Grilled toasties ✔️ Did dishes ✔️ Fussed over hops, pond fish, pixel's pebbles ✔️ Uploaded beer photos 20+ ✔️ Put air in my tyres Skipped weights RICHMOND 7pm - N's uber via my address to pick me up. Dinner in Richmond (in a place that will shutdown soon apparently, Cherry Tree) and then try a new wine bar also in richmond, Our Terrior (cnr Bridge x Church steets)

Worked at Tooronga, my customer's head office Miso & Peanut Butter cookie with my coffee Drove to the office ~ 25min. My customer has Fridays in the office, so i drive in to join the team. It is only once a week (usually) so it isn't too tiring However, Fridays used to be my most productive day: and now they are my least productive  Also: my customer used to have "meeting free" Fridays. And now it is the only day that everybody is free for a meeting, so the project managers will book time in our calendar When everybody's calendar is full, that probably means they need more staff? but that means $$$ RICHMOND ~ 7:30pm Bar 360 is a small bottleshop with corkage. I have actually been here before (under another name) The beer selection is wide ranging. A little bit of everything & some brand new releases I order a beer called "Run" (One Drop, NSW) Then the guy who served me played Iron Maiden's run to the hills. I'm basically the o...

Breakfast with N at Line café in mitcham Work: i had 1 ninty min call w/ A and A (the PM) Stopped in the afternoon to go to the post office • Glow in the dark stones for my fish Pixel • White medium pebbles (3mm-5mm) for him too I had 2 cans of beers, listened to podcasts Then I went to bed early, scrolled ebay and reddit Total steps: 1,200

Morning coffee at Jolimont café I invited A but he said [sic] I do t think I'll make it  Which i guess is meant to be: I don't think ... T is saying nice things about me in the trivia group chat: "Shane, being an artist, noticed ... " Today to do list  • Buy milk from the supermarket • Unpack the washing machine • Weights • Call my GP to hear about my blood tests results  • Take photos of my beer cans for my collection • Then upload and label them on my flickr  (album)

Feta & pumpkin quiche with my coffee at Dimicks It feels summery again today, i'm wearing shorts  Tue trivia at workers club (brunswick st/gertrude) Vege burger 18$, Bad Shepard IPA tinnie not bad  I purchased the final Gwielo sherbet sour tinnie We won! There were only 5 teams left in the end DJ Hot Wheels voucher valid for 3 months I wished i had more energy to drop in on Catfish for a fullstop beer, but super tired & uber got me home by 10:20 pm TRIVIA REPORTBACK They had a little screen where you could re-read the question. It was '80s pixel art like Mario Bros And each question had a little animated gif that went with it. It was tastefully done. (Usually, more screen time isn'tt what we are seeking when we go to pub quiz) I took photos of the tiles on the DJ booth. They looked like lizard skin, but in a vibrant blue Total steps: 6,000

New café has opened where Oh Hi used to be Coffee was great & pizza begal really hit the spot The ring i found on the walk back from wines along the train track is apparently worthless This is not white gold with diamonds. It is sterling silver with cubic zirconia by Michael hill Quiet day at work. Slow progress, but progress nonetheless & it felt good to walk away from the laptop at 5pm Weights at lunchtime Total steps: 2,000

Very many kangeroos at mullum mullum N and i saw 2 kingfishers at mullum mullum. They are much smaller than i thought. I had to google to check what they really were.  Then at the bird hide behind bunnings in vermont south, a pelican. Which must have been 30 min from the nearest ocean. Hanging out with half a dozen cormorants — which kind of makes sense i guess Mitcham Social, we got a good deal on the wines — thanks to the young bar manager we know Full stop beer (or two) at Foragers Total steps: 16,000

Dad's bday lunch at Cherry Tree in Templestowe Afternoon nap, then played some guitar for ~ 1 hr Was planning to see a gig, Delsinki at Northcote Social Club w/ N, but she has decided no peopling today  T is in high street. I was then considering staying in, but i' had half a fridge beer on my back decking & got motivated to find a bar someplace.. Slowbeer in montmorency, aka. Grape & Hop Prosciutto Brothers in eltham ~ 9 pm Forager's mitcham

Tooronga. Samoid "Heidi" came into Nigel café I was invited to have a pat but i felt too "hands full" with a coffee, bacon & egg muffin, backpack, lanyard She may have covered me in her white dog-hair Today wearing head to toe black: New boots, straight jeans. Hoodie.  Overheard colleagues joking around in the work food-court say:  "Have a good day at school," i found it amusing RINGWOOD/CROYDON Budgie smugglers, quality cocktails (young crowd, meat market) w/ L and G + Stu ~ 7:30 pm McAdams wine bar, fairly quiet which i hoped for (2 bar staff) a group of older folk & a group of younger folk. The posh pinot noir was spot on. Next time i'd like to try the tapas. It was ~ 10 pm Ten Saints was same as always. Mezcal cocktail Considered SubUrban, but it was after midnight Back to Budgie so L could drive G home in the brand new Ford 4x4. Enormous and luxurious. Sensibly and conveniently she also drove me back to my place on the way

Breakfast w/ N at "Mylkbar" (in Mitcham rd) "If you go to a gig and people have their phones out to record the experience: more than half will be holding their phone in portrait If you hold your phone in landscape these days (like i still do) then it's like o.k. boomer territory" Up to APOD to connect my package of 12x IPAs Dropped in to foragers for a pot. I forgot it's trivia night, which Jesse hosts. Kyle is the bartender I watched Deliverance (1972). Classic for a reason. I have put it at number 26, because i don't think it is very re-watchable (compared to other films i saw this year) but it definitely a high quality flick, the scenery is superb

Needed sleep-in to 8am (instant coffee, no walk) Sketched a Crested Pigeon in ~10min before 9am Work was o.k. Weights at lunchtime Cooked hamburgers on the bbq Ordered groceries, beers, and underwear on ebay Went up to foragers for 2 pots w/ Nancy Met two train-drivers: an Irishman ("Dave") and his best friend, Steph Total steps: 1,500

Morning coffee & a croissant at manta-ray Trivia at railway hotel, fitzroy ~ 7:30pm The place is great, it is like someone's mum is running the trivia — but that didn't matter. It's quiet and civilized and not very humorous. Beers great. Wines cheap. Meals generous. Total steps: 6,000

Walked bellbird dell in the morning Coffee at dimmocks, sweeping 7/11 views  Works at lunchtime, then did a 10 min meditation After work, 2 episodes of King & Conquerer  It sounds like D will need radiation over Summer. He has a follow-up with his surgeon today   Bird species: 16

Brunch with N at Red Cup in box hill 🍿The Running Man (2025) again, this time with L at readings cinema in burwood Then to china bar (blackburn rd) which is 24-hour

Up early 7:45am. A weird dream & then a sequel Blood test. Coffee at Rise & Grind café Set up M&D's new laptop, and picked up my guitar • Far Side • Running Postman (pictured above) • Sessions • Foragers

Breakfast w/ N at Mr Robertson's Picked up Dad's printer from Good Guys in nunawading Filled up my car with fuel & for lawn mower too 🍿 The Running Man (2025) Forest Hill at 6:30pm, MA15+ It was AMAZING ! 5 stars a perfect movie no notes I went out to Ashburton last night afterwards Two Brothers, i was literally the only patron in the at one point ~10pm on a friday night. It is not long for this world, it seems. Even though the venue itself is pretty cool: front bar, back beer garden, upstairs tables And then Oydis wine bar & restaurant, which is apparently always bustling — directly across the road Total steps: 10,700

Awake on my phone 3-5am Two emails: i'll need to change both pw (add 2FA) 1. Bfast w/ Nancy at redwood this time 2. Productive day, no break, 9:30am-5:30pm 3. Trivia at Birmy with just T and D, we did just ok  4. Beer Mash for a lovely beer & i felt welcomed 5. Forager's next.... A comedy of errors 3-5am.... • Must login to Gmail accounts every 24 months • Posted to  my old blog  about my "new"  linktr.ee • My old blog is hosted on my highdefier Gmail • My phone is logged into my blamer Gmail (uber) • And I have a personal Gmail (my full legal name) Google has become really confusing.... • Logging to Android phone (with Gmail account) • Was not: Login to phone's Chrome web browser Historically, I would usually use Blogger.com (as highdefier, or as blamer, or myself) by logging in via an Incognito browser. But that website has apparently been updated this year, because uploading an image was broken for me (now requires cookies). I have been using ...

Coffee at Jolimont with granola Bird species: 10 Weights after work (no break, worked thru lunch) Then did my lawns

Coffee at Forest Hill Chase My day felt quick. I didn't stop for lunch  And i wore my noise-cancelling headphones around my neck all day (without using them at all all day). They hung there since coffee at Forest Hill Chase i think! Maybe i was hyper-focused!!!!? I had 2 meetings, no wait 3 meetings: so i put laptop headphone on & off three times between 9-5:30p

Coffee at Dimmicks I woke about 6 times but only for a short time. Much dreaming. I've run out of fresh podcasts Weights during my lunch break. It's a good temperature for a workout today. Listened to synthwave Hops is growing up nicely with all this alternating drizzle & sunlight

I had an instant coffee at home Fell back asleep, then took panadol. Had a 2nd coffee at caio man and an egg & bacon muffin Mullum mullum • I saw a joey boxing the ears of a kangeroo before i'd even parked the car  • 30 kangeroos total • 1 turtle • 8 choughs • 1 rabbit • 1 kookaburra • 1 cormarant • 2 ducks • 3 chickens • 0 snakes.

Breakfast with N in blackburn at Rubix Rainy drizzly day, so we didn't get to go for a walk My latest ebay purchase got delivered safely, a japanese rhino beetle. I'm really happy with it Did weights & listened to podcasts (Alt Ctrl Speech) some death metal, and some synthwave  VEX Pinot noir in Westgarth Walking up Rucker's hill: Bats speckle the sky Like dots on a dalmation Flying from where they sleep To where they feed Blood Incantation (USA) at Northcote Theatre w/ Secret Chiefs who were eclectic, talented, entertaining • Cosmic metal was fantastic. I smiled the whole time. I thought they might be a great band to see live because of the wacky cosmic sections and the echoey death metal sections. They were better than great. One of my favourite gigs in recent memory  • One dude's tshirt read (in giant letters across his back) COSMIC MUSIC FOR COSMIC PEOPLE. Which is a homage to a famous Morbid Angel tshirt: extreme music for extreme people (which i ha...

Drove in to the Tooronga office, "Friday team day" I was delayed 30 min because i couldn't find my spectacles. I turned the place upside down. But then i did find them inside my pillow case on my pillow. Very pleased that i found it in time! My first task is to locate a replacement power-pack for my laptop: because i evidently left that behind last friday which is frustrating A much more successful day today (We seem to have eliminated the "Meeting-free Friday" for all practical purposes. I had 3 today which were useful.) Grey clouds with drizzle all day. The hottest part of the day was 5pm at 28°C during my drive home • Natural Science • Bar Nearby

Thankfully for the short-week / weekend soon Coffee out the back of Jolimont with headphones Sunny morning, the flies are annoying — quick walk to the Dell

Breakfast w N at Kopcha   Moderately successful day 1. I left a laptop power-pack at the office on friday 2. The vendor upgraded our "cloud" at 2am and have left it in a broken state 3. I ate too much breakfast & felt way too full I had a 2-hour "working bee" phone call zoom call with a senior techie. My brain was fried by the end of it. We didn't get it working Computers: 1 Humans: 0

Foragers had a spit-roast Wordle 6/6 i had to put it down ~1am and come back to it ~8am because i got stuck I had an instant coffee, scrolled ebay, then fell back to sleep (and dreamed of snorkling with fish) Met N at Foragers for 2 or 3 pots. Then took an uber to Suburban mezzanine for steaks (great) and beers/wines (not so great)

Lazy day. I drew a butcher bird for my collection Monday trivia at the fox. We won. I didn't try the chicken burrito/tacos Afterwards, goldie's (4pax) then the tote (3pax) The Tote was actually good for once. I don't like that dive bar, although i respect that it's an institution. For example, the mens' is a disgrace Punk rockers all seemed to be having the best time. I think the headliner was a Swedish band (?) Wolfpack. We saw a bit and it was high-energy, inoffensive punk rock. They were very together. Guessing they may have been an old band from 20 years ago. They had been to Australia before "You guys made me felt young again," said some thuggish looking gentleman with a huge smile on his face

Morning coffee at Ciao Man Eastern Brown Snake  (Pseudonaja textilis) •  Common in Melbourne & across Victoria • 2nd most venomous land-snake in the world •  Responsible for most snake deaths in Australia •  Venom contains neurotoxins and procoagulants • Can  strike repeatedly if threatened •  Nervous, quick-to-flee nature •  Active during the day •  Eats rodents, mice •  Slender body and a small, narrow head •  Color is highly variable, from tan to black. Today's task list ✓ Purchased new duvet cover ✓ Changed bedsheets ✓ Walked at Mullum Mullum (snek!) ✓ Bought a 4-pack of beers • Go out

✓ Hop irrigation device My solar-powered hops watering device appears to be working as designed. I'm a bit excited about it It has a mode which will turn on the water (for both plants) and drip for 5 min which gives 1L each And repeats automatically every 12 hours, so that's exactly how much water my hops got each day last year when it went ape shit All i have to do now is keep watering the bucket with 4L per day Today's task list ✓ Had instant coffee ✓ Ordered groceries ✓ Showered ✓ Did dishes ✓ Uploaded beer photos ✓ Played guitar ✓ Did washing ✓ Worked out