So, as it happens I am a big fan of Flight of the Conchords, I saw them in Edinburgh in 2003 when they were shortlisted as finalists for the Perrier award (still not sure how they didn’t win)..

..they scratch an entirely different itch than Tim Minchin, or The Scared Weird Little Guys for that matter..

..anyway, I always struggled to pick one of their songs as my favourite, though probably “The most beautiful girl in the room”, but I recently caught up with their reunion tour and I think, for now at least it is “Father and Son”

https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=i8iK1rhfYpI

Somewhat predictably the insomniac insomnia’d but coffee consumed, suited up and under no pressure can recall most of the prepared interview answers from memory..

T-36minutes..

Driving lesson done, time for a beer and feet up before an evening of interview preparation.. life is tiring just now..

What I want to be doing today: trying to memorise prepared answers and focus on prep for the interview which is now less than 24 hours away..

What I will be doing today: Learning to drive a car for 6+ hours..

Well, at least I’ve got the day off work..

Now that my assignment is submitted, my wife has wasted no time in presenting me with 10 potential interview questions to prepare for ahead of Wednesday’s early interview.

I’ve answered them as best I can, so awaiting corrections then I have a day and a bit to commit them to memory and hope that they don’t ask me something else randomly!

With a rare evening free we started watching Squid Game.. as the intro was playing I said..

.. it’s basically like an adult battle royale, right?

My wife: well, it’s more like… and.. so and so watched it and said … and before they mentioned it I looked it up and …

A few minutes later.. Blue Danube plays..

Me: .. that’s a reference to Battle Royale..

My wife literally falls asleep..

Let’s call that one a draw.

Assignment submitted.. at least I think it is.. the uni moved to a new Microsoft platform this semester and no confirmation email..

.. also as a result odt files aren’t accepted.. awesome..

Today is my 15th brew day of the year and is a minor celebration as I set myself a target of 15 brews for this year! Should manage 20 which seemed impossible when I set the target.

Having a bit of fun with this one, my own experimental recipe and trying out some alternative processes .. will also be my first attempt at brewing with a tea grown by my in-laws so I hope it’s at least drinkable!

Need to pepper some assignment work in throughout the day to try and get it submitted this evening.

My assignment is shaping up reasonably well, once again the word limit is far too small to address the various requirements of the brief in any sort of depth whatsoever.. but I’m doing OK, currently on around 2300 words with a bit more padding required around one of the sections.. probably ending up on about 2500-2600 words for the initial draft.. probably about 100 of those are just citations, so will need to trim another few hundred off before submission.. limit is 2000 words, but previously 10-15% above has been acceptable, I’ll just have to make some wordy images that side-step the word count functions ;)

However, I’m taking a break now before I make dinner and spend a few hours sanitising my brewing equipment for tomorrow.

House to myself for the weekend!

Been robbed of sleep for several days by my 3 year old so tonight will be some beers and repeatedly trying and failing to get past the first few days of apocalypse difficulty on project zomboid.

Tomorrow will be a relatively long lie followed by a day of assignment writing, editing and hopefully submitting.

Sunday is brew day, and back to trying to refine my first original recipe, this time including tea in the mix!

My spouse will return on Sunday evening but daughter will still be with grandparents for a few days so..

Monday: (work) brush up on highway code for 6 hour driving lesson and try to fit some 日本語 preparation in for our interview on Wednesday.

Tuesday: a 6 hour driving lesson hopefully followed by a beer and some further 日本語 interview prep.

Wednesday: interview day, should be finished before work and hopefully will get a vocal contract offer, at which point the huge amount of pressure on my shoulders bounces over to the impending driving test. (work) catching up on weeks 2, 3 and 4 of my course work after the ludicrously early assignment. Then hopefully, giving my daughter a big cuddle on her return home.