Daily Discussion Thread: Tue 08 Aug 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Tue 08 Aug 2023
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Many years ago I grew and birthed a baby. Today I did it again. 😎 Feast your eyes on my loaf
Image of a loaf of breadUpdate will happen when I saw into the thing.
Image of loaf with two cut off piece. One buttered.Verdict: Lovely crust. Soft inside. Maybe a little under done but still edible. 4/5 yum yums.
Note to ones self: Do not eat the whole thing before the roomies come home.
https://www.recipetineats.com/easy-yeast-bread-recipe-no-knead/
The Herald Scum are at it again. According to them firefighters are being offered a "whopping pay increase". 12% over four years - which means 3% a year. Wow, less than half the current inflation rate, how outrageous. 😡
Exercises for this morning were completed, and to my surprise the Elder Minipeeler asked shyly if he could join me! It was a good teaching moment about not going at it too hard when you're beginning with exercises so you don't hurt yourself and get disillusioned, and doing 10ish minutes a day is a good habit to get into no matter what age or ability you are. He also showed me some exercises he's been taught at school!Let's see if he joins me again tomorrow or starts his own thing!
Curse my stupid healthy sleep routine for making me miss the cool
alienspace junk. I'm feeling awake and refreshed, but at what cost?So since we are a very international mob here let's share some good and bad flying stories.
I think my fave flight was flying on xmas eve/xmas day, London-Singapore-Melbourne. The pilots came on board dressed in santa suits and we had xmas dinners and got gifts! Surprisingly the plane was half empty.
Another time, this was before 9-11, I arranged for young Miss Seagoon ( age 15 ), and her friends who were travelling with us, to visit the cockpit. They were allowed to experience the landing into Singapore, they sat in the cockpit. . ( and that's a lovely airport at night , the harbour is so pretty with all the lights )
Current pet peeve: Repeated doorbell ringers.
I'm not talking the "press button, wait , try again" kind, I'm talking about the utter bastards who will press the button, then if you have the temerity to not IMMEDIATELY open the door to their vaunted presence will hit the button again. And again. And again. And again.
My desk is less than 6m (EDIT: I just measured with my rolling tape for shits and it's actually 4.785m from my desk, to the office door, out the door and then back down the hall) from the front door. If you ring the doorbell more than once in the time it takes me to get from my desk to said door I should be legally permitted to beat you with a chair.
Since I've gone down a size or two I'm getting rid of the too big clothes and last of the stuff I don't wear anymore. 👍 two bags of stuff for the op shop
Ugh, mornings. Should be illegal
Really want late night potat. Just remembered I have potat gems and access to a Phillips xl air fryer. Problem solved.
Making glacial but gradual progress on work. Half way through 1 of 6 discussion sections with images. My ability to concentrate is totally shot atm. I kinda wish I did have that psych appt yesterday after all. Maybe meds might've helped.
hmm i cbf today
finish cooking, do the dishes, a little walk, and then i'll get back in bed
I've discovered the magic of Slow Rail Journeys and now I just reallllllly want to go on one. Unfortunately it's out of my budget for the foreseeable future, but God if I ever happen to just have a casual $1000 I don't need, I'm 100% going on one
i am getting up
I have steak and veg for dinner. I'm doing a tray bake of the veg, and I have so much I'm not sure how I'll fit everything on the plate.
it is better to pack a random bag of dirty clothes to the laundromat and miss a number of items than not do any laundry at all.
Well... that was a very circular and unproductive discussion with the boss and admin person. I'm left absolutely no clearer about where things are going and the business still wants to throw everything into my court without providing me enough information to make a decision. I guess that alone is information in itself. I'm so sleep deprived it was probably not the best frame of mind to understand what they were getting at anyway.
Part of me is so over it all I'm tempted to just jump onto fb marketplace and start selling off all my stuff NOW and get away and get out of Melbourne within a month for a clean break and reset.
Buuuut okay, first things first. Start with today.
Make toastie.Eat toastie. Drink water. Do the image-insertion thing that I said I'd do (that'll be about 3 hours of mind numbing shit). Meeting at 3:30. Enter timesheet. Feed cat. Then go the fuck to sleep.I don’t really like the mint and tea tree body wash these days.
After years of using multipack soap bars in cardboard I saw the recycled plastic bottle and thought to try it again… the smell isn’t too overwhelming but it’s weirdly moisturising with the feeling of a residue and even on a loofah or puff it doesn’t actually clean you well?
Using it up as shampoo on my hair.
I love when you meet a masseuse who take it personally and see you as their personal project. Like a mother who eyes your dirty kitchen, roll up their sleeves, and make it their mission to right the wrongs. They just get to work, they don't nag about how you've hunched your shoulders too much and get your muscles all tense, they just tell you through the pain they inflict on you as if saying "you see this? rrright there? yeahhhh" and you're thinking to yourself "will I make it outta here? is this where I die?"
FINALLY. The toil is over! I can sleep soundly for the rest of this week. I'm driving across town to show my face in the office tomorrow because there are still colleagues I like and they're doing a thing. But I think I'll need some extra effort not to be battery acid level sarcastic with certain people...
e: the really good side of today is I had some unexpectedly lovely emails come through. I don't feel like I spiral as much as I did before with confrontation or feeling patronised/ignored. I have a much better sense of self worth and inner peace now and I'm not quite sure where that came from
It’s surprisingly warm atm so you know what I’m going to say. Get that Vitamin D in right now if you can. Go for a smoko? Idk 10 min break if you’re in the office. Whatever get that Sun and warmth. Who knows how long it’ll last. I can’t enjoy it as I’m about to go into an appointment. Have a bloody good day everyone!
You know what chatGPT is good for...? Coming up with inane responses for a PDP.
Fog pretty
Image of foggy Southbank over yarraFuck family are annoying. Mum still refuses to do some ten minute reads about having a trans kid so she still treats me like a fucking man. My son was asked to house sit for my sister for a fortnight, so she just plonked herself along. Now I can't stand to see her because it fucks with my head so I'm missing quality son time, which I've been missing a lot, cos he's terrible at messaging, but super present when we spend time together. He was the first person to know I'm trans and has been awesome.
Mum called me daddy yesterday and has a very, you're a certain aged person when I was excitedly showing them how my baldness is receding, I've told her a dozen fucking times I'm a 14 year old girl mentally right now. Can you please show the same sensitivity? Acceptance of my new superficialities are nowhere near enough. Her and my sister have been very no, you tell us what you're going through, even though I've explained multiple times that it's painful to talk about the insensitivities they show. There's so much support around for families of trans people, I've given them the advice and showed them how to access it. As I've stated again, multiple times, if I had autism or was blind, they'd be across it of their own volition, but this all comes across like they think I have some kind of choice over this. I've had so many shitty experiences with being trans in the last month and it's starting taking a toll.
Journal entry no 311 dated 8/8/23 kthxbye
I wish I could knit and play Baldur's Gate at the same time...
Edit: I feel like I could. It'd just be during cut scenes and combat. But sometimes they're so quick I won't be able to do the knitting.
Sitting here under two layers of blanket with an electric hot water bottle under keeping me nice and warm while I watch The Rookie.
Only thing missing is some snacks.
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone can you please ask the Lemmy people about the 300 comments spinny thing repeated comments and collapsed comments bug problem we have. @useless_modern_god@aussie.zone has the link down below.
It was a lovely afternoon for gardening. I did some weeding in the front yard and divided up the jeruselum artichokes. I was thinking I would just spread them out a bit and not eat much this year because I only planted a few small pieces last year, but they are really prolific - I ended up with a box full to eat! I also cut a couple of fennel bulbs which are growing really well this year.
4 degrees? What do? Why? I'm not built for this climate 😦
I'm a little annoyed.. when I booked my US flights I wasn't able to select a seat, just set a preference for Window or Aisle. At some point between then and now, they enabled to ability to select seats without telling me and other people have taken all ones I would have chosen. I only had the choice of these 2 seats (screenshot of plane seat map):
So I've naturally picked the aisle because what maniac wouldn't?
I still can't select a seat for the return flight but I'll just have to keep checking until I can so I don't get shafted with a middle seat or something.
So we've switched over to a better Internet provider than Optus. But for some reason some websites work and some don't. Like YouTube is fine, but Mastodon just doesn't want to work. Twitter kind of works, but like other streaming services don't work. It's very weird. I'm getting better downloads and uploads than I have previously, but this is so weird
Japchae for dins tonight.
Have all the bits including mushrooms.
Been following a different one normally but tonight giving nagi's recent one a go. Seems legit.
Finally braved the cold to open the gates and it's still bloody foggy out there.
In other news, the cats now love Coles Purr cat food. In fact Zooki loves it so much she shoved Sammi out of the way and helped herself from her plate. Usually it's the other way around...Sometimes I love looking up where a period piece was filmed just because it's hilarious to see how unremote a location is or how surrounded by modern amenities it is. I mean obviously things aren't nessascarily going to be period accurate, but seeing a shopping centre or a main road is right round the corner feels so silly.
Online Orders 1 Week Delivery Challenge update: order 2 of 4 has arrived today.
This is the one which came from South Australia too, Auspost are killing it! My 2 remaining orders are from Catch so we'll see how that goes. I know one of them is being shipped by a 3rd party not Catch themselves.
I was a bit late getting to the food cupboard this evening and it was picked clean of everything except some spring onions. Which is actually pretty good news, both because onions are the main thing I need more of right now and because it means all the jeruselum artichokes I took up this afternoon are gone.
I've done nothing with my weekend besides watch television and snooze, and I know that come tomorrow (my monday) I am absolutely going to regret it.
On a completely different note I think I'm very very VERY nearly ready for a bit of spring and summer.
🎼Ohhh, there ain't no rest for the wickeeeeed
Money don't grow on treeeeeees
I got bills to pay
I got mouths to feed
There ain't noothing in this woorld for freeeee
I know I can't slow down
I can't hold back
Though you knowww
I wishhh I coullld
Oh, no there ain't no rest for the wickeeed
Until we close our eyes for good🎶🎶spinach quiche is in the oven and a salad will be made
For this morning's edition of "What's In My Bowl":
Image: bowl of banana porridge with maple syrup and very thick yoghurt.
A hot breakfast was certainly called for today!
Very solid Japchae on the recipetin site.
10/10 would recommend.
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Today's construction traffic in my street has upgraded from excavation equipment to concrete trucks. Traffic is going to be a mess while they juggle consecutive trucks today, but hopefully that means they'll be moving on from the work involving big vehicles. The street will be cluttered with tradie's utes for a while, but that's probably less problem than some of the truck face-offs we've had recently where no one has been able to get through in any direction.
Really nice out! Immediately cold and then warmed up with the sun. 🤗
Was listening to a podcast about barefoot running and they got sidetracked and started talking about something else for a bit, then mentioned this album - Product of the Environment by Tricky.
Check out it here - Over at !music@lemmy.world
