I should start going to more protests.

Congrats to your partner! What's her PhD in?

Dude.

The amount of emotional energy needed to interpret and navigate that set of circumstances with your mother - even though estranged, and even through the intermediary of your sister - at the same time as:

- being a father

- owning and running a birthing clinic

- drawing down on your finances hard to preserve your house

- watching the world as we know eat its own head

is going to be beyond brutal. I hope you're being kind to yourself.

The really cool thing is Men's Sheds. There's one in every country town.

No kidding? Your sister is an urban planner for Melbourne City Council? There's a non zero chance she's a colleague of a friend of mine.

I think it's one of those social centre places where elderly can go during the day to stay part of the community. Think child care except the opposite end of the age spectrum and they're going there voluntarily. There's no shortage of bars for them to visit on the way, though.

Hello friends. Amid all the shit unfolding in the world, some good news from me. We've upgraded from being slightly indebted to pay off an apartment to being in even greater debt to pay off a house. Which is to say, we bought a house last Saturday. It's only 10 minutes' walk from where we currently live, so we still get all the benefits of Collingwood.

Thinking about you all during these very parlous times. You're the first people I check in on every morning I arrive at my office at work.

Place is going to look amazing, though. I'm looking forward to a future Hubski post with an album of pictures.