Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 ๐บ April 2025
Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 ๐บ April 2025
Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 ๐บ April 2025
Decent view on my run earlier. Turns out those forestry trails are indeed steep.
Bluestone moved! No monolith / stonehenge today :(
Surprisingly no injuries.
I used to love going to guitar shops. But I get treated like some kind of fucking exhibit these days. I went to one in Brunswick. I've known the owner for like, 20 years and he's super chill but rarely in store.
Not every musician is a lanky white dude.
I don't complain about racism pretty much ever, but it irks me in this context.
My 10 years sober present to myself.
I'd love to hear the weird sounds you make with this thing
ooooh nice!
Such a sleek looking little unit.
BE NOT AFRAID!
Did some adulting with bank accounts. Not only has the old Bond paid for the new door but there is no need to double count pennies unless we find a Must that has to be ordered Right Now. Utterly astonished.
Several buckets of paint stripper it is.
Peel-away is fucking top notch shit, I'll tell you that.
Different name, but orange based stuff we got from the mob you recommended. Takes a bit to cook but nowhere the awful stench of some others.
Some stars out tonight. So nice to be away from the light pollution.
that looks amazing , great photos
This thing is fucking bright lol
i'm in love.
edit: also the cable spaghetti.. there is no other way.
I've tried so many times but I've accepted it now. Let the cables run free!!!!
This is good. You need to see these things amongst the fog
Moved some biggish bits of bluestone yesterday. Feeling that today. 2 more to go. One of them is about 1.5m long 30cm wide and 20cm high. Chuckin' it in a bluestone slab weight calculator it's over 250kgs lol.
Not sure what to do with the big one (or how to move it safely). Tempted to bury it a bit, upright in the middle of the lawn as a sort of a space odyssey monolith thing for no reason.
Went out for dinner last night, got a porterhouse. Some drinks, more drinks at another bar. Aldi beer.
Then I promptly fell asleep at 11pm.
It's fun when my partner's birthday is within 10 days of mine ๐ he is my best friend, I love how we can make each other laugh.
I hope everyone has the best day!!
Sounds like an excellent evening!! How fun is it when your partner is your best friend? Boyo and I were in bed last night, unable to sleep and just talking and laughing about the stupidest stuff, it was excellent (aside from the lack of sleep thing).
I'm so happy for Spud and partner, they deserve all the happiness and laughs in the world
Laughing is the best thing in the world. Followed by big happy smiles. ๐๐๐
I think perhaps I chill on the couch for most of today
Sky pretty (tram edition).
Could be a Switch skin
Series two:
Helping the kid organise her stuff. Fake eyelashes, fake nails and hair accessories give me the heebie jeebies. Yuck. I need a shower.
She came out with a whole bunch of cables for her dad to sort through. He secretly loves it.
bangs table excitedly TRIPLE PAY MONTH TRIPLE PAY MONTH and yes I have carefully planned my leave to come around the bonus pay. Half of it to savings, the other half to buy me some fuckin' treats and I have now ordered the Bigtree I have had my eye on for years
My brain just does not compute budgeting that way. I budget on my fortnightly pay cycle, with monthly and yearly payments averaged out.
Same. A fortnight is a fortnight, every bill or estimated bill gets divided into fortnightly payments even if it's $3 per fortnight. Getting paid 3 times a month makes no difference at all to my accounting/budgeting...
I just run a spreadsheet. Pay1 on X pay 2 on Y, reoccurring bills all colourcoded in accordance to what pay cycle purview they land in + half a mortgage payment = total for that pay. Subtract ones with PAID next to them from the total for a running idea of how much moneys I need to have before next pay rolls in
I so badly want to throw a sickie tomorrow but I'm not going to.
Am hour went past in what felt like seconds playing with the pedal.
Yeeeeeeha!
Goodnight all โค๏ธ
Iโm not sure if itโs in your work policy but donโt throw a sickie tomorrow or you might need a medical certificate for being next to a public holiday. (Good Friday)
Awwโฆ Melbcat has flopped into me to be the little spoon. My big soft teddy bear.
My psychologist, psychiatrist and someone in my personal life who is not a friend or family member all think I have autism. None of them know each other, and have just told me that coincidentally at the same time. Unfortunately, it would explain a lot. I didn't even think of it until they said it.
Is it true, is it fact based, to what level?
And what can you do with that information?
They seemed to like the drawn tutorial (with the original video credited of course) so I whacked up part 2 - someone followed them both and posted their results. There you go. Iโve made my first few tutorials and kinda become a teacher to others.
Now to actually learn how to draw myself and not teach people bad habits ๐คช
I managed to get another weeks worth of antibiotics which will hold me til I can see my regular gp.
I feel heavy as lead and like Iโve been beaten by a sack of hammers. The anxiety has been bad today too which can be the low phosphate. The phosphate supplement has to be ordered in and costs $70-ishโฆ
I remember when I got the infusion for the first time, the doctor googled in front of me what foods contain phosphate.
He said, "We don't want you consuming sugary drinks and highly processed fast food, but in this case, it will help those phosphate levels."
Yeah, they recommended that to me too. And as much as Iโd love to the burger isnโt possible!
Just got a "how and why to vote liberal" flyer in the mailbox. There are two candidates in my seat - a Labor and a Green. Good work on the analytics there fellas.
2 candidates sounds really unlikely? You can check your electorate here. ABC election guide
Ah, my bad. I checked a few days after the election was called (and I thought it was weird too). I see now that a few more of the usual suspects have popped up names on the ticket.
I haven't seen anything , maybe just an article or two on abc.
No liberal candidate in your seat? Wow
Nah it's nearly the safest Labor seat in the country I think. Makes life easy, not that I am a liberal voter usually anyway
me going through life sober
stressful thing arrives
handle it like a chef
destress
alles gut
another one arrives
-flips table-
You got this, stay strong!!
Thank you
I lived
chemist warehouse?
Yarp. There's one down the street, so I got it done
Had an awful nightmare about someone from my past and woke up to see that theyโd tried to call me at 3:45am (number is blocked, but it shows in my call log). I sent them a polite email โthis makes me very uncomfortable, please stop. Also Iโm blocking your email address, so do not reply.โ I donโt know if that was the right course of action, but Iโm justโฆ I just donโt want to see their name in my call log any more. They try and call a couple of times a month and I know itโs not for anything and theyโll always just say โit was an accidentโ or โI saw a bit of news you might be interested inโ. Omg just stop.
why the hell is someone calling you at 3:45? Unless someone is dead leave me the F alone. Most phones wont even ring at that time.
don't ascribe reason and logic to a stalker.
so many hugs
if they are expecting an immediate response 3.45 am is not good, ( it was a call? not good ) it's huge boundary breaking
if they are nightmare material blocking is the right thing to do
I shook off my lethargy to gently gyme.
Iโm now home and contemplating being in bed by six. It sounds pleasant
I get ads for Temu which I'm quite happy to watch. Some things look handy and give me ideas but I'll never buy them from there. I like the kitchen stuff.
Today's ad was doggy wheels like the ones when the dog can't use his back legs. Doggy looked very happy wheeling around.
They really do sell everything.
I have bought a mona lisa cat bed, a lego master sword, an endoscopic camera and some extreeeeeemely specific arduino parts for very reasonable prices.
Edit: and this magnificence. Which i still need to frame.
...So I've been pondering getting a NUC for the bedroom media player, but they exxy af. Friend just randomly swung by when decommissioning a bunch of shit for work and gave me a dell embedded 3000. freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
What linux shall I install for my kodi.....
also, the word shutter can go in the bin
CLOSE, you mean CLOSE
I still want it for my roller shutters. Roller closes just aren't the same. Maybe just outlaw shutter as a verb.
appropriate use when describing real shutters is excluded
Feeling better now but I think I'll work from home today just to make sure everything is cleared from my system. The last thing you need before a week of is losing a day and a half to sickness
The moon is a 5 cent piece floating in the sky.
there are no sparrows or indian myna birds here, only native birds
the tide was out very far today and the water was so clear and still I kept walking in puddles without seeing
All my dreams are physical fights.
And I woke up with a normal headache.
Weird.
I had a vivid dream for the first time in a while. It involved a work colleague I don't interact with much, speaking with them about work but also ninjas and karate on a long train ride to a suburb called Brain, where I was meeting an ex work colleague for her birthday party at a Japanese pizza and board games restaurant. I fell asleep multiple times at the birthday party and learned my male colleagues name (in my dream) was Wendy, which was short for Wendsley.
I dreamt I was in Serbia with my cousin, buying a hotel.
No fights to report.
tonight the same
woke up in terror
I had a dream about a work project.
Meds?
I had a dream a boa constrictor was biting me
Can't sleep, too hot, angry angry angry at having my work schedule upended last minute and not having the time I really needed and now running behind on things again. Forced back out into site visits when I had other stuff to do and planned everything ahead of time. I am firmly putting my foot down next time.
I'm going to be extra grumpy from being sleep deprived as well...
Make 'em payyyy
Well, despite barely sleeping at all out of frustration and resentment and the heat, I seem to have woken up feeling alright and the day was rather pretty and fun for what it was, once i realised other deadlines were going to have to get tossed out beyond my control
Still got a lot of uni stuff to do before meeting tomorrow and I had banked on a short office day today to give me more time. Am now exhausted and about to see psych after which I rarely feel like doing and work but we'll see... maybe I'll reward myself with pizza tonight if I can get it all done.
Did you get the pizza?
Totally did and scarfed it all down like a hungry wolf. Gonna have an early night...
People who type on loud clacky keyboards in open place workspaces are psychopaths. The keyboard is not balanced on the desk as well, so it rocks when being smashed by its user, adding to the wall of sound.
I've switched from my ear buds to my over-ear headphones, let's see how we go blocking it out.
mechanical keyboards are fucking fantastic and do not belong in the workplace
unless you're all devs and insane anyway
I hate my work keyboard for that reason. It's not mechanical, it's just crap.
In office I type in the laptop. Nice and smooth and quiet
so many hugs
this is one of my pet peeves
of course i think for me it's also a case of BEC
looking at pics of beautiful monkeys and apes that have lovely hair and fur, like colobus or capuchins or marmosets
and the thought occurs
we are one of those animals with beautiful hair๐
To the apes covered in fur, we must look like a hairless dog looks to us. Sickly looking with all our fur missing except the top of the head.
The new work laptop has a Copilot button. The most offensive thing about it is the Copilot button has replaced the right Ctrl key. Remapping it with Powertoys hasn't worked. I actually use the right Ctrl key so the irony of this button promising a productivity assistant replacing an actually useful key that enhances productivity is not lost on me.
its friggin useless. Like a homebrand chatgpt. I havnt seen the new version of it yet though.
There's already a keyboard shortcut for it alt+spacebar or something. But they just had to demand manufacturers give it a dedicated button
got reg access? Nuke the fucker
The IT guy is cool, he might let me.
At least Lenovo had the decency to let you change the Fn and Ctrl keys in the bios when they decided to switch them around for some reason. We're probably all just stuck with the copilot key
This would make me furious. Not the ctrl key!!!!
Absolutely breaks the muscle memory of Ctrl+Enter to send an email
Whyyyy
Saw the movie Mickey 17. It was OK. Felt like with the premise it should have been better but seemed like something was missing. 3/5 popcorns.
Eastlink account has now been updated with the new vehicle. I had to phone them because the previous owner still had it on his account.
It does make me wonder what the legal situation is if you just keep driving on someone else's account. Would they be stuck with the charges because they have agreed to pay tolls on that vehicle, or would it be considered some sort of theft by deception because I know I'm not really authorised?
yooo everyone knows Catch is going down, yes?
If you got kids or a small face, clean the fuck up right now on face masks.
housework never bloody ends
I hate it.
Banning myself from more plants until a possum solution is contrived. RIP parsley, violas, and heritage lettuce.
My local ringies have absolutely destroyed my potted fuschias. In previous years the mint has been fairly safe - not this year. They even had a go at the lemon thyme and the really spicy oregano, neither of which have been targeted before. Lotta hungry possums out there rn. So far the chives are safe but I'm holding my breath a bit.
Mint and oregano safe so far. These are all baby plants so not much bounce back ability yet. Gonna strew some grotty cat litter and get a solar motion activated light I think.
Picked up the bike with the new Marathon tyres on it. I noticed the weight picking it up more than I expected, same with pushing off on a quick test ride. It's not so bad once you get going, though.
It also just feels off having tyres like this on a gravel bike, like putting regular road tyres on a rally car but more noticeable. In reality this bike spends most of its time on the road and these tyres are meant to keep the flats away so I can spend more time riding. The added weight will be good for strength training
I drew a crappy little non-video tutorial for the other artists based on one Iโd watched, drawing each step in a different colour to help clarify.
Itโs something. If they like it I drew a part 2 to follow.
That's awesome ๐
and not crappy, awesome ๐
Beep Beep ๐
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