Top three songs to listen to on your headphones whilst walking off an airplane through an airport:

3. Mr Brightside
4. Lose Yourself
5. Party in the USA

This list is final.

sunday flyday

“The reason that most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our goals not for the person we’re going to be when we reach them, but we set our goals for the person we are when we set them.”

— Jim Coudal

An author's view of the next 25 years on earth, published in January 1997

Accidentally tested the water proof capabilities of the iPhone 12 Pro today. It survived a 10 minute pool swim without a hiccup.

That was quick, Find My, considering there’s no items to add or find yet

This is a powerful read: How doctors die

Wearing your mask hanging off one ear is the 2021 version of kids riding their bike with their helmet hanging on the handlebar.

"I promise you that no-one is coming for your son's head. The data is clear, the number of false accusations that stick is negligible. If your son does not cross the line, if he doesn't teeter on the "edge of consent", if he doesn't misuse his power to control or belittle others, he will be just fine. But it's not bad behaviour we should be getting out in front of, extinguishing potential fires. We should expect more of our boys. We should be expecting good behaviour, because when it comes down to it, we all want our men to grow up feeling powerful and strong, but in their values of equality, respect and dignity."

– Zac Siedler, on the ABC

Nothing says you’re staying at a fancy hotel like naming it after Australia’s shiftiest bird then putting the word budget afterward.

It’s been a while since I’ve taken the 6am Saturday flight to Sydney for a wedding, it feels good. I feel dribs and drabs of normality returning to my life.

Person next to me in the bottle shop finally chooses a carton of cider and I say “so that’s decider” and got nothing. So now I’m telling you.

What a brave, cunning, and linguistic call for Tourism SA to make.

Gold Coast Mayor calls in Evergreen to cause our own Suez Canal incident on the M1 to stop Brisbane people going “down the coast” for Easter.

#notthebetootaadvocate

When the time comes, I will 100% support mandatory vacations, those who don’t should be forced.

You think that after the last year I'd be able to spell qarantein without using spellcheck.

Really surprised the humble salute didn’t make a comeback in 2020. It’s better than an elbow bump, and far more socially distanced, in fact the mere gesture implies that you should take a step back.

Turns out that the Queensland Government just thought having five people together in a house at the same time was what they image a really awesome and fun and large party would be like if they ever got invited, just saying.

I feel like the marketing team at Zarraffas have never had breakfast, they just saw an Instagram Reel about it once

You haven’t lived until you’ve live texted a Covid press conference with all of your wedding clients getting married in the next few days.

Cheers to the freakin weekend

In a way, aren’t we all boats stuck in a Suez Canal called life?

1yr ago today Queensland closed its border to other states with Police manning that border. That day was the beginning of a year from hell for our family and talking to a friend yesterday I realised I haven’t even mourned the last year yet. That’ll be something nice for future Josh to deal with.

We’re only one or two more “Covid ruined my wedding and now it’s your problem, Withers” away from collecting the whole set.

Good thing I’ve got great contracts that mean nothing in court.

Have you been overseas in the past 14 days? Have you been in a Covid hotspot or been in contact with someone who has Covid? Do you have a fever, runny nose, or a cough? Have you felt like visiting a Bunnings, K-Mart, or a Thai restaurant recently? You may have Covid.

Time to fly, Melbourne

“I’m working in Epping, Epping is barely Melbourne, and I’m working with a group of engineers that don’t smoke!?” is literally a sentence spoken by a Collingwood supporter walking to the MCG through Richmond and I think that’ll be the most Melbourne thing I experience this trip.

If you’re wondering if airports have spent the downtime they've been gifted over the last year to make their coffee better, they haven’t.

I keep on finding this weird smudge on the top of some of my photos when I get them back from the film lab. Anyone know what’s causing it?

If you’ve ever been disappointed, know that you’ve not been truly disappointed unless you have prepared food for a toddler to not eat despite telling you that they wanted that exact thing you just made, and you made it really well, am I raising a psychopath?!

For all intensive purposes words don't matter, right?

I, for one, welcome our new unable to understand actual consent so we’re using a sexual consent app overlords.

PSA: Your kiwi fruit experience will improve once you realise you don’t need to spit out the seeds.

Just say, hypothetically, that you were married to a heavy rug user, what are some things you can encourage your partner to do to stop buying rugs and eventually kick that rug addiction?

Asking for a friend.

In the first two months of both our girls lives we've moved house. Oddly enough, into the same house both times. Tomorrow we're out of the Palmy Crew and back into the Tugun Flight Path!

Police are now targeting a part of the people who misuse the word apart.

Did one person a million years ago cross their fingers and magically their situation changed for the better, or are we all just crossing fingers for feels?

Most Aussie shop ever

Boooo

"Many of us don’t have enough stories of being taken advantage of or of having something stolen because we don’t take enough risks. Any time we love someone, we risk being hurt. But it’s worth the risk."

Shane Claiborne.

Remember when internet things were called cyber?

Crypto is the new cyber.

Whenever someone says crypto it means we don’t fully understand it yet.

Someday in a few years we’ll call it by a different name and that’s how you’ll know it’s matured.

Shiver me timbers.

The latest Adobe Photoshop release which is Apple Silicon native just loaded in 4.13 seconds on my MacBook Air, and I’ve got heaps of other apps open etc.

I can’t wait to see what they do with Lightroom Classic, I might have to go back from Darkroom.

I remember reading about wireless networking technology in computer magazines in the 90s.

When they said wireless I didn’t think they’d mean on a 7mm thick glass & metal slab, 160g handheld touchscreen computer, travelling at 800km/h, 11km in the air.

Sitting next to a couple at the airport lounge who have just completed a whole photo shoot, different angles, poses, trying the different camera lenses on the phones, to capture the beauty of their free Qantas continental breakfast.

Years ago, when I was a younger man, you’d get your car serviced and they’d put air in your tyres for free, but I guess that’s how inflation works.

Life’s never going to be the same once you realise what the Barenaked Ladies song “One Week” is really about.

🏄‍♀️ Bells Beach