Daily random thread: Hey, Hey it’s Saturday edition (June 17, 2023)
Daily random thread: Hey, Hey it’s Saturday edition (June 17, 2023)
First day of the weekend. Let’s goooooooo!
I have completed some draft Community Guidelines for the group. https://aussie.zone/post/53977
Hopefully they are ok - it feels a lot like writing an assigment and waiting for it to be marked :-)
If anyone remembers all my long rants in the Reddit DT, I have some kinda good news about it.
Things at the hosue have been much more settled, it appears one of them (the main noisy one) will be moving out and back in with his family. He hasn't been here in about a month and a half, so things have been more chill. One of the others is just going about her life as usual. She tells and throws things once every day or two still, but not as bad as it was. And then the other one is still chill, he's never caused many problems
And on the lead tenant thing I mentioned a while ago, it seems things are going well. They lined up a house that sounds chill and I had my first meeting with the program coordinator on Tuesday. She gave me a rulebook I need to read, and then this coming Friday we meet with her again and I officially sign the papers. After that, it will be about 4-8 weeks until I move in.
It's still stressing me out a bit, mainly because I don't fit one of their requirements properly and I'm only about half fulfilling it. Allegedly they'll be pretty lenient on it, but lenient as in they'll accept me, but if I don't 100% meet it within a few months, I'll be locked back and sent back into Resi.
It's also kind of fucking with my head because I've been here for 4 years, and although I've never considered it to be, or felt that it is my home, that's the longest I've ever lived anywhere in my entire life. For about 3/4 of those years it's been pretty bleak living here and felt like a never ending nightmare, but now that it is ending and comparitively the end is so close I can basically touch it, it feels is backwards to what I'm used to
I've only just got here but Bright and the drive in is very pretty. Totally guessed the motel wifi password like a hardcore hacker because they didn't give it to me and there's nothing in the room about it.
Now that I'm settled it's time to go for a look around. I friggin love alpine regions/mountains.
Instead of doing anything constructive I have been reading about the Aboriginal stories about Raven (AKA Crow). Known as Waa to the Wurundjeri People. Waa was originally a white bird, who stole coals/fire from seven sisters who were keeping it to themselves. He either dropped some or ended up throwing it at other animals who were wanting to have some too, which is how fire came to be used by mankind. In the process Waa started a bushfire in which he was burned, which is how he became black.
The lies I tell myself. Went to the sourdough bakery in Bayswater to avoid Dröm but they were sold out.
Braved the queues at Dröm promising myself I would only buy sourdough 😆
What I actually bought:
- Bavarian beignet
- Chocolate marmalade babka
- Marshmallow choc chip cookie
- Chocolate pecan cookie
- Honey butter kouign amann
- Sourdough
I love my job but they cut my hours, so I went job hunting. First interview and they offered me the job which is 30k more than I am currently getting. They want me to start in 3 weeks but I’m so scared I’ll quit my current job and then hate my new one and never get to go back.
Has anyone has a situation where they got the job and ended up hating it
Wow physical meet up between a couple of DT mates was nice. Got a message of support also from another DTer. You peeps know who you are. Thanks a lot. I'm resigning myself to believe that I cast that shit into the ether and let it out rather than bottling it up and can always tell my story in another way anyway. Incredible to meet someone irl with similar shit going on and not pause for breath for an hour. Food and hot bevs were excellent. St kilda is iconic. I'm definitely getting in the north vs south war by now. Great day for a skate. Hopefully I'll not too wobbly.
Good evening!
Very glad we have this thread.
I have to start work at 7 tomorrow so I shall enjoy another episode of Modern Family and then go to sleep.
Also, I broke my two week no crying streak and it was a nice release.
P.S. if r/melbourne doesn't come back, should we start a new sub from the ground up?!
It’s fucken wimdy. This wimd needs to calm down. Have some chamomile tea or something 😴💨🍃
My hot water unit is finished, the gas pilot isn't staying on for more than 24 - 48 hours. The unit is from 1995. I've been told they don't usually last almost 30 years so this house did well with it. It's a fun game going into the shower on a cold winter's day and wondering if hot water is going to come out or if the pilot's gone off. Going to cost 2k to get replaced! Love these unexpected large expenses. Anyway, trying to not let it ruin my weekend. Things break, such is life.
in the market for a new job and article this morning about australian companies trialing and succeeding with 4 day work weeks here has me glimmer of hoping. difference in quality of life between 5 and 4 days is incredible.
The subscriber counts here are a bit dodgy. I think it is only showing the subscribers on the instance you are in, not overall. I accidentally went to my other group from this account and thought it had dropped from about 200 subscribers to 3! It makes me wonder how many subsribers we actually have here, if the 358 showing is just people subscribed from this instance we may actually have quite a few more. Although I think the users/posts/comments counts are really more meaningful anyway.
Made a spreadsheet for a list of names. No time to fill it out yet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oMhrX4Pal2el0Km6l_1C_INnqUCpr_E-L0NPYyYb49o/edit#gid=0
Open for editing, no need to login.
Full of porridge with a purring cat on my lap. Saturday morning is going well so far.
Laundry accomplished. Shopping done. Have decided to ditch the jigsaw that came with a jumbled up picture on the box. Brand/logo is M?xtery. Stuff that for a game of soldiers. Will fall back on the Sistine Chapel ceiling by a proper jigsaw brand with a real picture on the box. Not in the mood for deciphering a jumbled up picture.
Sister has lent me a rather nice jigsaw called Diverse Women. No women in the picture just a lot of squiggles. Maybe that one after the Sistine Chapel.wind's howling
So I had this problem where I couldn't open more than one page in my browser. I asked the man to have a look and he said everything is fine. Then the interrogation started.
Him: What browser do you use?
Me: I don't know. Chrome I guess.
Him: Show me.
I press the google bar. His eyes got very wide.
Him: That's not chrome. That's google. It only allows you to open one tab at a time.
Me: ooohhh
He shakes his head. Then proceeds to educate me on Google vs Google Chrome vs Samsung browser. Now you smart people probably already know this. I did not even though I've had 3 Samsung phones and 3 Samsung tablets over the last 10 years. I have learnt lots in the past few days. I will continue to learn. I at least showed him how to use the airfryer the other day.
Morning DTers,
So I know that the whole Rdt saga is a bit of a sore point. (Avery ye eyes if needed.) I’ve been following it loosely and someone posted their terms which made me think about how we loathe it when news outlets pilfer our posts. I thought it might be worth noting this:
When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.
Just some thoughts.
Had an interesting day, yesterday I watched a pretty cool YT of Danny Elfman, he's old and weird and awesome and so talented. But watching him gave me the confidence to be older and weird too. I'm just miserable if I wear beige and be "comfy" and be my "age". I like to have some style, I like to express myself, have fun, wear black even. So today I bought black and stylish stuff, including a cute jumper with embroidered stars and moons and a grey cashmere top . Felt good. :)
Just went and looked at a car and old mate was determined not sell it apparently. Remember guys "my bro is a mechanic" and "I'm selling it because I'm moving overseas" are not phrases you utter when trying to sell a car.
So I was curious about what's happening over on Reddit, and turns out some subs are opening up because they're worried of Reddit admins gutting the mod teams and putting new ones in. It's already happened with advice animals. Not like it hasn't happened before, the head mod of Kotaku in Action (basically that whole gamergate shit, that IMHO, the guy who started it lied), essentially privated the sub because he was over it and hated seeing how hateful people were, he was removed and Admins put in new modding team.
They're at it again
I was watching this video on fare evasion in Vienna by tapakapa, and this stuck out to me:
For good service you'll gladly pay. For a 20 minute late, slow, meandering piece of junk that reeks of pee, not so much.
Sums up Melbourne's buses pretty well 😂
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Didn't get a lot of sleep, hopefully I'll catch up tonight and wake up in time for the first ep of AEW Collision.
Doesn't look like it's on Foxtel ESPN like the other AEW shows, I don't really want to fork out $11 for the whole month.
Good morning everyone. I've arrived just in time for breakfast, perfect timing!
I've created a post https://aussie.zone/post/50477 to share pet photos in, currently starring RustyDog (AKA Mr Woof) and RavenCat (AKA Miss Meow). If we can link to photos there rather than posting them directly here it will help stop the thread getting pic overload, and as a bonus we get a zone of concentrated cuteness to go and chill in. Win Win. 😁
Anyone else watch My Place as a kid? I just had the most intense memory of watching it while on holiday at my grandparents and being utterly obsessed with it.
Best part about every weekend for me in Saturday morning swimming lessons with my 1 year old son. Kid’s a fish, been doing for 6 months and loves it.
Who else is going to do parkrun this morning?
Who has seen the latest Black Mirror season? Which are the best episodes - or should I watch it in order?
Although predicting weather is one thing that is consistently crap, feels like 7.1 in Lorne is spot on.
Got on my PC at midnight after sleeping post-work. PC was stuck in a bootloop.
Finally narrowed it down to the RAM and took out two dud sticks at 3:30am... ugh.
Fiji. It’s nice but I saw one a few meters away from my hut. Apparently sea snakes like land too.