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1. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 28-Mar-2020 21:59:21 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Damn it. Spent three days adjusting my circadian rhythm to suit a 1am shift tonight, and it's been cancelled. Looks like it's going to be a lean few weeks at #work.
2. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2020 07:25:31 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Ha. Already did this course. Well, 95% of it. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-your-hastily-prepared-online-college-course #edu
3. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2020 07:12:48 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   @tregeagle I'm beginning to think that when every organisation with your phone number, from your superannuation fund to your cat's vet, misuses SMS to send you daily updates on their #covid19 preparedness, foul-mouthed abuse is an entirely appropriate response. No context or explanation: Not "F**k off, I was sleeping", or "F**k off, I was expecting something important", or "F…
4. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 26-Mar-2020 06:51:46 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Need to stay awake because shifts starting at 1am are a thing now at #work, and I have one in a couple of days, so I must recalibrate. Don't have a good track record with night work. Thankfully F-bomb Freddy at the far end of the landing and Pinky Tuscadero downstairs are engaged in a stereo war tonight. It's Total Eclipse of the Heart versus some generic heavy metal at the m…
5. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2020 05:28:37 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   #SocialDistancingTips: Play a game of Mastermind. It's as old as I am, and has that awesome photo on the cover. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34772 https://www.autistici.org/gnome-mastermind/
6. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2020 22:43:32 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   As with every time I've been to an optometrist I feel like I've been railroaded. Though to be fair, this time I needed multifocals. Spent $200 more than budgeted. Getting old is expensive.
7. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 22:41:52 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   @tregeagle There's always this race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMinwf-kRlA
8. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 19:50:12 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   @tregeagle No more ten-hour shifts for the foreseeable, but I still spend at least a few hours a day showing customers round empty shelves where any products even remotely connected with hygiene used to be found. People are thinking laterally now, asking for rubbing alcohol, glycerine (for home made hand sanitiser), etc. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34631
9. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 05:48:25 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Been delaying a haircut for months. Now sporting an Alain de Botton on the top, but a grey, wiry Farrah Fawcett at the back and sides. It rather suits me, but I have to get it cut anyway. In a few months, everybody in #Toormina will be wearing their hair like that. It's a burden being a trendsetter.
10. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 04:59:41 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    #SocialDistancingTips: Fill in the gaps in your musical knowledge. I am bingeing on #TalkingHeads, who I've never seriously listened to. I loved the film True Stories on VHS weekly rental as a kid. And (heresy alert!) I preferred the Chris-and-Tina-produced Happy Mondays album ...Yes Please! to Pills 'n' Thrills, which was dated the second it came out, and insubstantial in re…
11. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 04:38:49 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    #SocialDistancingTips: Take the opportunity to wallow in nerdy nostalgia thanks to the #InternetArchive and #Wine (both kinds). https://archive.org/details/cdromsoftware?&sort=-downloads I am currently rekindling my obsession with RollerCoaster Tycoon.
12. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 04:30:13 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    #SocialDistancingTips: Be married for two decades. You now have nothing more to learn about coping with isolation.
13. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2020 20:40:50 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Surely something else is happening somewhere? https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/34704
14. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Mar-2020 04:17:35 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Been #watching #Avenue5 S01E08. Breathtaking sketch of individualistic entitlement culture hitting reality and reality hitting back. It's almost like a metaphor for something. Can't quite put my finger on it. Been in the news a bit lately.
15. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2020 08:28:27 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Empty shelves do indeed look really grim. I wonder if the panic buying is spread by Facebook meme waves with a rolling menu of doomsday must-haves. It started with toilet paper, then tissues. Then pasta, rice, tins of soup, baked beans and spaghetti. Antibacterial soap, antibacterial cleaning wipes, antibacterial laundry liquid. Indeed anything with a label including a word p…
16. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2020 07:31:57 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Another long day at #work, which is starting to resemble a Soviet supermarket. We wear ill-fitting red shirts and have many fine consumer goods, just not today the ones you need. Panic buying has snowballed from idiot #covid-19 doomsday preppers to people panicked by the idiots, to people panicked by the people panicked by… And so on, but for how long? https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34631
17. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2020 05:40:28 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Thank Yeshua the Nazarene, the festival of lazy, loping, stoner rhythm guitar is finally over. I demand noisy neighbours with better taste! #Sawtell
18. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2020 05:24:36 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    @tregeagle Ah yes, Weinstein Park. Artistically valid, but recreationally, the yuck factor has been a bit of a hurdle. Not quite the win-win that was promised. Despite good intentions, judged to be not so much Economic Stimulus as Economic Harassment.
19. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2020 03:44:03 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Christ I want to dig myself out of this 20-year-deep hole and get back to civilisation.
20. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2020 03:35:20 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    F-bomb Freddy is excelling himself today. I had a pre-dawn start at #work today, got home before lunchtime, and he was already blaring away some choice 70s acoustic folk-rock which has continued unabated for about eight hours so far (who knew there was so much of it?). I adjourned to the pub for a while, but I have neither the money nor the stamina to keep that up. At my wits…

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