I'm definitely there. I finally managed to merge the code for the task I've been working on for the last 6 weeks this morning. Big sigh. Where's the bar?
I've got an increasing list of 2026 problems. I could do them now, because then the problems that actually arrive in 2026 won't be adding to them. But I don't wanna.
I have the practice of taking leave at least a week before Christmas. Years of living in NQ or WA but families in NSW and Victoria meant early flights = cheaper flights. This year flew to Thailand on 15/12 and escaped the madness of Perth Christmas shoppers and just returned refreshed - or was that because I had largely disconnected from the news cycle. Highly recommend calling time early and a media blackout.
I was there a month ago. Unfortunately I don't have the option to just stop. I will be working right through, but only the bare essentials. My wife is driving a rail-bus because of the aforementioned track closures. She gets no break. She has to leave at 10:00 on Christmas morning and won't get back until 22:00.
Not too many businesses shut anymore. Most of my customers are only shut for the public holidays.
It's almost like Christmas is an inconvenience to the normal flow of life. NSW schools went on holidays on Monday (so, technically, the end of last Friday). I think that may have had something to do with some Covid thing a few years back that pushed everything back a week (up here we just cut a week out of the school year; I mean, who really does anything on the first or last week of school?).
For a tourist town during the holidays we seem to be very light on punters so far. Maybe they're waiting until the new year kicks in before accepting it may well be Xmas? Maybe they're all down the hill at the beach and driving endless loops of the car park of Sunshine Plaza looking for that one remaining car space. Who even knows?
One of the local accomodation places has exactly one booking for Xmas.
If you're looking for a relatively people free break it's here at the moment.
That’s interesting about the lack of bookings for accommodation. We were looking at having to go down to the south coast for a couple of days just after New Year’s and it turned out. There was plenty of accommodation there too.
Currently working in an state government agency office, very much trying to stretch the few minor administrative tasks I have to/should do/ no one cares if I do until I can bunk off. Almost no one in the office, most having taken these days this week to work from home to hell with what the inflexible work policy claims (three days in the office/week IS THE FOUNDATION) but it all feels performative because it relies on middle managers being to monitor and the good ones don't care as long as the work gets done and for the bad ones it would mean they would have to show up to check and they don't want to slept into the office. The horrific tragedy of Bondi and the deranged rantings in response, ridiculous rantings of the American president with the looming war on Venezuela which no doubt Australia's sycophantic classes will rush to join (has there been a US misadventure since the War of Resistance Against Japan that Oz HASN'T joined) it all feels a bit the falcon cannot hear the falconer, Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…
Haha. I was about to lecture you on how nobody would be so stupid as to want to join the American invasion of Venezuela. But then I realized I would be betting against the stupidity of the Opposition
I'm definitely there. I finally managed to merge the code for the task I've been working on for the last 6 weeks this morning. Big sigh. Where's the bar?
I've got an increasing list of 2026 problems. I could do them now, because then the problems that actually arrive in 2026 won't be adding to them. But I don't wanna.
I finished up last Friday. I usually take Christmas Eve off so working 2 days seemed stupid. Back on the 5th.
I have the practice of taking leave at least a week before Christmas. Years of living in NQ or WA but families in NSW and Victoria meant early flights = cheaper flights. This year flew to Thailand on 15/12 and escaped the madness of Perth Christmas shoppers and just returned refreshed - or was that because I had largely disconnected from the news cycle. Highly recommend calling time early and a media blackout.
I was there a month ago. Unfortunately I don't have the option to just stop. I will be working right through, but only the bare essentials. My wife is driving a rail-bus because of the aforementioned track closures. She gets no break. She has to leave at 10:00 on Christmas morning and won't get back until 22:00.
Not too many businesses shut anymore. Most of my customers are only shut for the public holidays.
It's almost like Christmas is an inconvenience to the normal flow of life. NSW schools went on holidays on Monday (so, technically, the end of last Friday). I think that may have had something to do with some Covid thing a few years back that pushed everything back a week (up here we just cut a week out of the school year; I mean, who really does anything on the first or last week of school?).
For a tourist town during the holidays we seem to be very light on punters so far. Maybe they're waiting until the new year kicks in before accepting it may well be Xmas? Maybe they're all down the hill at the beach and driving endless loops of the car park of Sunshine Plaza looking for that one remaining car space. Who even knows?
One of the local accomodation places has exactly one booking for Xmas.
If you're looking for a relatively people free break it's here at the moment.
That’s interesting about the lack of bookings for accommodation. We were looking at having to go down to the south coast for a couple of days just after New Year’s and it turned out. There was plenty of accommodation there too.
Currently working in an state government agency office, very much trying to stretch the few minor administrative tasks I have to/should do/ no one cares if I do until I can bunk off. Almost no one in the office, most having taken these days this week to work from home to hell with what the inflexible work policy claims (three days in the office/week IS THE FOUNDATION) but it all feels performative because it relies on middle managers being to monitor and the good ones don't care as long as the work gets done and for the bad ones it would mean they would have to show up to check and they don't want to slept into the office. The horrific tragedy of Bondi and the deranged rantings in response, ridiculous rantings of the American president with the looming war on Venezuela which no doubt Australia's sycophantic classes will rush to join (has there been a US misadventure since the War of Resistance Against Japan that Oz HASN'T joined) it all feels a bit the falcon cannot hear the falconer, Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…
Haha. I was about to lecture you on how nobody would be so stupid as to want to join the American invasion of Venezuela. But then I realized I would be betting against the stupidity of the Opposition