Mathew Packer

Category: Life

  • I’ve hit peak burnout, and peak frustration, so I’m tapping out on the rest of the year. So much of my time is chewed up volunteering, it used to be rewarding, but now I’m the _default_ person that everyone goes to it’s become a 7 days a week thing, that’s not fair or remotely equitable.

  • It’s Fishing & Crabbing We Go, Sea Shanty

    When your wife challenges you to write a sea shanty after seeing your [shared calendar notification](https://mathewpacker.com/uploads/2024/media.jpg), you take that challenge…and then maybe you cheat a little a use ChatGPT because after all, you’re not a song writer 😜

    🎣 🦀

    Hi ho, hi ho, it’s fishing and crabbing we go,
    With nets in hand, we’ll scour the sand,
    Hi ho, hi ho!

    Hi ho, hi ho, the tides they ebb and flow,
    We’ll cast our lines and haul the brines,
    For fishing and crabbing we go!

    The salty breeze, it fills the seas,
    Our traps and bait below,
    We’ll fill the hold with tales untold,
    From fishing and crabbing we go!

    Hi ho, hi ho, it’s fishing and crabbing we go,
    The ocean’s call, we’ll heed it all,
    Hi ho, hi ho!

    🎣 🦀

  • The Week Ahead

    Looks to be pretty busy, but shouldn’t be too stressful if things go to plan. 🤞

    **Monday** – finish clearing the garage and make a couple of tip runs

    **Tuesday** – setup golf sim in the garage, football meeting at 5pm, sports club board meeting at 6pm

    **Wednesday** – take the boat out on Lake Macquarie, try to catch some fish and crabs for Sunday BBQ

    **Thursday** – same as Wednesday

    **Friday** – same as Wednesday, if I haven’t caught enough for the Sunday BBQ, otherwise play some golf

    **Saturday** – no plans

    **Sunday** – early trial match between between my sons team and Singleton Under 18’s, then family Christmas BBQ

    Plenty on, nothing stressful, let’s go!

  • Annoying Monday morning issue, my son’s bike has a slow leak in the rear tire, seemingly takes 8-10 hours to go down…so in theory, if I pump it up now before he goes to school, it should stay up enough to get him home in 7 hours 🤷‍♂️

  • This pair… 🤷‍♂️🤪

  • Might be time to increase the dosage of my ADHD meds, finding them less effective currently and have been on the same dosage for a couple of months now.

  • ⚽️ Strong result by Arsenal over West Ham in the EPL, conceding 2 wasn’t part of the plan, good to get the season back on track though! Back up to 2nd on the table, a draw between Liverpool and Man City would be ideal!

  • I’m hoping this rain forecast for today is wildly inaccurate! Eeek!

    Weather forecast for Newcastle, Australia on the 30th of November, 2024

    That’s approx. 2.5 inches for those in the USA.

  • Unsubscribed from another 45+ mailing lists, many of which I do not recall signing up to, a fair few from products I’m not remotely interested in, nor have ever purchased. Most respected the “unsub” but a few gave the “it can take 3 days for us to action this” response, which is a load of BS!

  • All these Black Friday sales emails makes it easy to unsubscribe from all the various mailing lists you’ve ended up on over the last 12 months. The standard “sorry to see you go” message feels disingenuous though, along with the exit poll asking why you’ve unsubscribed.