Discussion Thread 🕹 Monday 14 April 2025

Goodnight all ❤️

Parma for dinner. Tomorrow nights probs loaded potato wedges that I stole the idea from Aldi. need to get back into miss match meals to use whats in the freezer.
- I’m craving fried potato :(

jelly fish on the beach
- it was big, about 30 cm , bluish with pink edges

I didn't realise I had the same bug as the rest of the family until I finished my coffee in the office. I managed to get home alright without any problems. Another plus to the location of this place, the last thing you'd want is an hour long train trip after realising you're sick
- It’s just not fun till it’s firing out both ends hey
  
  I've only had one out the front so far. It seems like I've moved on to just more mild stomach aches now

sky pretty
- it's been lovely 🙂

Eee yaks
So the one thing yaks don't care about is everything. You get out of the way, they won't.
- I'm nervous just looking at the photo.
  How were you with altitude?
  
  Surprisingly most kids were okay. Little bit of altitude sickness for a few which led to a few issues.
  The really fit kids suffered the worst which was odd.

If you could afford to employ one full time staffers who would it be? Gardener, pool boy, administrator, butler etc.
- Personal Polynesian. Just a massive dude that hangs out and occasionally helps out with things.
- Japanese house boy. No contest.
- A cleaner, absolutely hands down. Especially the bathroom. Everything else I can somehow handle but the #1 very first kind of help I would get if I had money is a cleaner. Then maybe an admin person (even just to make phone calls, I hate phone calls). Then maaaaybe a cook but I would be very very picky about what they make and how.
  
  I also want a personal assistant and it was a close toss up between that and a cleaner
  but I'm thinking with a full time cleaner my mind and time would be freer to do my own admin and I don't care how awkward I am and how long things would take as I wouldn't be under any pressure from other tasks
- I reckon a chef (who also cleans the kitchen once they're done for the day). Delicious meals prepared for me and time saved cooking / cleaning up afterwards would transform my life.
- Cat trainer lol
- full time cleaner and laundry , including cat care
- Housekeeper. No contest.
- Hired goon
  
  I think Seagoon might be a bit busy unpacking still
  
  Haha. Let me guess? It's their job to protect the birds water dish and to feel free to pistol whip anyone that gets too close?
  
  "but you can do that for free...... oOOOOOOOH GOON... Not the other thing. Carry on"
- Probably a Ghost Buster
  
  Ummm.....
  How much you paying? I might be interested.
- Can I have one great all-rounder, to do bits of everything?
  Otherwise, definitely personal chef
- Cat litter dealerwither! Need to vacuum every 5 minutes the way these boys kick the stuff around
- dog walker atm. Would just love them to get some more walks!
- A chef, in a heartbeat.
  
  I've thought about a kitchen hand. They prepare. I cook. They clean up.
- Cleaner, must do laundry

I chased a moth around the room, gave it an almighty lob with the fly swatter and now I don't know where it's gone.
- it's hiding in your favourite jumper
  
  No, I think I sent it over the tv.

it's taking so long to unpack and set up house as it's a house of 4 adults and 2 cats including the young Seagoons, this is their base here in Australia and where they keep their things.

Good night guys. Sweet dreams. 😘

I have an assignment to finish by later tonight, but I just want to sit and play guitar. That will be my reward (tomorrow)
- Old fart comment: I used to know to the minute how long it took to print an essay and bolt to the faculty office before they cleared the essay drop box.
  Midnight online submission? Luxury 😝
  You got this!
- I have a big fat PowerPoint research project I should be working on, but I'm utterly distracted learning guitar 😭😂
  Tomorrow! Tomorrow I start the assessment heheh
  If you get your assignment done tonight, you'll have all day to play guitar! You can do it! I believe in you, hot stuff! 🔥🔥🔥
  
  Good luck Spud! First and foremost, please make sure your PowerPoint looks pretty :)
  And thank you! Tomorrow, I will be doing another assignment, but I will definitely slot in some time to play guitar.

At this hour there is a perfect sunbathing spot on the stairs
- Just makin' sure it's level.
  
  One is quite markedly not
- You even got a wave.

Pre-inspection rental application completed. I'm really missing the days when you would go to the real estate agent, grab the keys for anything you were interested in to go and have a look, and if you liked it you just showed some basic id & proof of income and the place was yours.
- I'm afraid you're quickly learning how dramatically different it is to 20 years ago. Welcome to what many of us younger ones are dealing with 😭
- Yup! Many less hoops to jump through to get the mortgage than deal with a new rental app. Seems they want damn dna samples now, and it's all in highly insecure third party databases.
- You've got to do a pre-inspection rental application?! 😅 It's been a while for me.
  
  Yeah, some you have to apply for and be accepted onto a shortlist before you get to inspect it. This one sends you the link for the application at the same time as the registration to inspect, I'm not actually sure if you have to do the application first but I figure it can't hurt.
- Omg same. It's awful the hoops you've got to jump through now!
  
  no hoops for landlords or REAs tho, none at all

Ol' boy finally found the piccys from a school trip we did to nepal back in 1999 (I was yr 9 at the time). 200 kids, bunch of teachers, 4 docs who were parents of kids (and went for free lol). And a fuckton of risk, they stopped the trip a year after that as a few kids ran into health troubles. Cheap as shit due to bulk kids.
Was before digital cams so pretty much only the adults had proper cameras. ol' boy had a nice one and got heaps of shots. They're all on slides and negatives.
Looks awful for now until I get them properly imaged but fuck me the memories.
Over easter doing a slide show on an old school slide projector from the 70's that still works down the bellarine w/ the fam. Gonna be lit lol.
- That's calendar worthy. So pretty.
- Everything sounds awesome, the trip, the pics, and your slide show evening 🙂
- Wow!!!!

I was unsuccessful in my rental application. ☹️
I've booked an inspection of another one which looks ok, but the photos on the website are the same photos it was sold with 7 years ago.
There is another maybe property which looks a bit too good for the price and has been listed for a while, so I am a bit sus about that one. It also has a patch of fake grass in bad condition and a number of very large yuccas.
- the photos are often big lies
  it's best to visit in person
  and what might be a catch for someone else is ok for you, so just cheack it
  for my new place teh "catch" is it's in the western suburbs and near a railway station, for a lot of people that's not acceptable, for me it's ok
  
  That might be the only catch with this one too - maybe walking distance to the scrap metal yard is not a drawcard?
- good luck, gotta just keep trying
- Beware the yukkas 😹
  
  I pruned mine on Friday and have the battle scars to show for it.
  Wore long sleeves too.
  
  Unfortunately both actually have yuccas, but the other place has less of them, and they are tucked away down the side of the house.
- Better luck next time and beware what looks too good to be true. There’s always a catch.
  
  It might just be location. I'm learning the "poor" areas just by comparing rental prices. But I'd personally rather have an older house with a bit of yard space in a run down area than one of the cookie-cutter grey townhouses that comprise about 80% of the market. They are just not my style.
- 🤞

- Hope there's a plan of attack for you, good luck on feeling better!
- Fingers crossed the treatment for that will help you feel a lot better
  
  Thanks. I really hope so!
  I’m so used to having to suck it up and endure that I didn’t realise that wasn’t normal :/
- it's good to have a name to what you have been feeling and direction to get to being better
  hugs, I hope you are feeling better from now on
  
  Thanks, fingers crossed

Yay it's Monday! Can't wait to start another week at work 😊🎂🙏🤝🥳

Spent most of today learning how to navigate my new org's SharePoint structure. Nearly 4 years in the same place and shit was embedded in my memory and almost automatic.
I feel like an infant learning how to crawl again.
- Your org has a SharePoint structure? I'm very envious! At our place we have multiple SharePoint archipelagos and no map.
  
  My last job had SharePoint guidelines, which few followed.
  This is one is seriously regimented. In saying that, the instructions are - copy the previous folder structure and do not deviate.
  I'm down with that approach honestly.

Last night I learned that Pluto and Charon are tidally locked with each other, so Charon appears to not move in Pluto's sky.
Our moon is tidally locked with us, so it always shows us the same side, but it moves through the sky because Earth isn't tidally locked with it.
Mind blown 🤯
- The Brian Cox series on ABC has a bunch of interesting stuff about this. I think one of Jupiter's moon's moons isn't tidally locked to the moon itself, but another point in space of it's elliptical movement.
  Then you can look up Alpha Centuri and the suns and planets that orbit each other
  
  i love how we are in the position to literally look up at alpha centauri
  
  I have been meaning to watch that!! I like Brian Cox and that show is right up my alley haha
- Our moon is tidally locked with us, so it always shows us the same side, but it moves through the sky because Earth isn’t tidally locked with it.
  For the non nerds but mildly curious this means that the moon spins at the same time that earth moves and that's the reason we don't see the dark side of the moon.
  
  https://youtu.be/UGEJOowWzXo - animation of tidal locked Pluto and Charon
  https://youtu.be/6jUpX7J7ySo - animation of moon tidal locked with earth :)

gotta say the velvet'ed beef was incredible. Absolute game changer.
- Now do it with pork, imo it's even better.

Forgot to take the compost bin down last night, woke up to enterprising felines flinging lamb chop bones to the floor. The mishcat is untethered and her craves know no bounds

Today is definitely a two-coffee, suffer-no-fools kind of day. Even my colleagues are keeping their distance from my DON'T DISTURB ME vibe. Good.

Just did another botched job of reversing into a parking space. I'm really stuffing up the initial angle. I'm sure I'll get better eventually, but at the moment it is pretty nerve wracking.
- Especially with a new car, so terrifying to scrape it. And of course, worried about hitting someone else’s car! My current car is a bit bigger than previous one, and the first month I had it I wasn’t great at parking it, often had to readjust multiple times, even with cameras and sensors. Got sick of it so then I went to a semi empty parking area and reverse parked about 10 times paying attention to how best to line up and when to turn and after that I was ok. Probably looked weird to anyone who saw but I needed to do it.

yay, pakige
coathangers and shoe organisers , so excitement
- need more coat hangers

Ahhh 3 hours more sleep yay!

- Why not just run jellyfin as a service on your remote server, then access that service on each local device?
  
  Because apps are not allowed to run on Enigma.

Brewed coffee, maybe one spoon isn’t enough for the stovetop coffee, not as strong obviously but lacking some body to it.
Also in other news the price of the PS5 is to set to increase due to whatever reasoning Sony has given.
Increase of 70 dollars, makes me wonder if the rest of the tech industry will up their prices as well.
- Nothing wrong with my phone, but i'm already weighing up if the iphone becomes a 2000 dollar phone do I still need one? And if not, do I still need a flagship? Or can I get away with a Pixel a, Galaxy FE or Nothing a. Technically my current non pro iphone isnt a flagship.
- Stovetop moka pot? I fill up the coffee chamber each time I brew one. Never fails.
  
  Yup, stovetop moka pot, one full chamber of water is enough for one and a half mugs worth.
  I usually serve it in a bigger mug.
  I use a long armed coffee scoop, 1 and a half coffee grinds usually is enough to keep me awake and also send me into a coffee high so I’ve been experimenting with using less coffee so that it won’t keep me awake and be as strong.

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- Everybody is fasting? 2 saltines and a thimble of broth I guess
  
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early cat breakfast sorted
1st breakfast done
time for second sleep
busy day ahead after that