So we're all here because of a change in circumstances that none of us expected. I'm in my early 50s and a creature of habit, I don't cope well with change. I used to enjoy Twitter, but it's gone to shit, every third tweet is an irrelevant ad for something I've never expressed any interest in (crypto etc.). It's pretty much unusable now. I used to subscribe to The Age, hard copy, home delivered. But then Nine took it over and it started to go down hill, to the point where it's now the Herald Sun but for people who can read big words and long sentences. Pre-CoVid my favourite local bar was open five days a week, from at 5pm. I was usually the first in the door, and Fridays and Saturdays we'd be a big group handing a fair amount of money over the bar. Post-CoVid restrictions, the owners changed it to Fri/Sat only, late opening, and more of a club vibe to attract the younger crowd, so that killed it for me. I could go on, but this is turning into a bit of a rant, so I'll just finish by saying that because of the way my brain is wired, I need routine and predictability, and I'm really over shit changing around me in every aspect of my life and having no say in it. How do you guys cope with change?
Oh my gosh yay I found you all. I have been so sad without the DT I missed everyone :-( Where else to post my anecdotes such as the following:
Woolies massively messed up my order today. Received half of some other family’s order. I have all their dairy, including a bunch of kids stuff. They presumably are the ones with my week’s worth of dinner meats, among other things. I am now the owner of 6L of milk, 3 tubs of spreadable butter, a ton of kids yoghurt pouches, and much more. I am going to have to see if any of the mums at play group want any of it.
Woolies had been suspiciously good with my orders there for a while, absolutely zero issues the past several orders. I feel like I’m being punished for finally trusting them lol! Waiting to hear about a refund…
I know we can't give awards so I'm just going to announce my unrequited love and respect for bacon for giving me a heads up for melbourne coming back online. Now I can recover my journal into a document and i'll just keep posting on this zone. Still, I like this DT now. So here I am, declaring my unrequited love and respect for my saviour, Bacon!!!!!
Getting there slowly, but stronger and geez more femme every day. The boost to my oestrgen levels last week and quitting booze have had marked effects on my mood. I'm teary but it's cos I feel so in love with life at the moment. I planned to arrive at this moment and did.
I have so much to look forward to today and I'm grateful for everyone here for being here and sharing mine and your thoughts. So many kind and funny people in one place, this is the Melbourne we all know and love. The bits where we are not being tailgated down punt road or made to feel like pawns in a property investment scheme. People wonder why we love this place so much, it's because of the people not the cool shops and so called liveability.
Happy pride, both rainbow and city!!
Just like that, week long tum tum woes went away.
Cannot begin to describe that fortunate timing.
My mums partner is addicted to his PlayStation. He doesn't cook, clean, or help with anything when he's not at work because he just spends all his time smoking, drinking, and playing PlayStation. Over the weekend, it shit itself. It doesn't turn on. So he found an old Xbox 360 that my mum had in storage, and that worked for 24 hours before shitting itself too. Now he's walking around the house, banging cupboards and being a cunt because he can't play his videogames. Any minute now he's gonna spin some story to blame me. Giant man baby
I was a longtime DT lurker and I'm stoked to have found this place. I'd barely been on reddit since the blackout began and just randomly checked it tonight to see if anythings going on, and saw the link to here on the reddit DT. I know it's technically back or whatever but I'm pretty sure the app I use is shutting down at the end of the month anyway, and the official one is garbage so here I am. Maybe it's meant to be. Unlikely to change lurker status beyond this though but we'll see🫠
I love the name of this monday thread btw, i loved garfield as a kid 🥰
This whole thing is just… it’s fucked man. And I don’t understand the hate the mods are getting on this one. They are not the bad guys here. And hey if you were getting pushed on bullshit at work and your work were treating you like crap you’d push back too. Especially if you weren’t even getting paid.
Well that was a miserably wet walk this morning. Mr Woof kept mostly dry with his raincoat on, but is still a bit wet around the ears so I'm getting the whole wet dog smell experience.
The good news is that Thursday is the turning point for the days gettting longer again (although I believe getting warmer lags behind that). I am looking forward to seeing a bit more sun. I know a lot of people have strong preferences for summer or winter, but I am definitely in camp autumn & spring, the extremes I could do without.
ugh i don’t want to go back to work
I'm going to make this dish tonight. I have some luv a duck Peking duck so I'm going to slice it and fry it. Take it out to rest. Fry some onions and add garlic, ginger, gochujang, kecap manis and the left over sauce from the packet to make a new sauce. Pair it with rice, steamed broccoli and top with an egg. I think it will taste good. Hopefully. Also kimchi on the side.
Decided I'd attend the hour long technology information session (Teams meeting) from my bed. I have a tablet mount on it so I can watch ma' stories. "Oh it can handle scanning straight to OneDrive that's pretty cool", I thought as the sales rep was describing some of the features of the platform. Next thing I knew it was 40 minutes later, 3:05pm and the Teams meeting was silent with only me in there.
I didn't have my camera or mic on, thankfully. Oops.
So, continuing on from my good updates on Saturday, my absolute favourite worker I've ever met left a few months ago. He took a job as a counsellor at a different org. There's been a few months of clearing it with various people and making sure there'd be no potential conflicts, and nobody could invent a way to twist a good thing into something terrible, but last week it was all approved and given the tick. I'm allowed to go counsel with him, and we have our first session tomorrow!
My flat is now clean. Such peace
Have a look at https://lemmyverse.net/communities if you want to find more communities to add to you aussie.zone account, you can paste the full html address into https://aussie.zone/search and it should appear.
If you are the first person to point towards the community it will take 10+ seconds to populate.
Just heard from my son, who is currently living in Florida and working at NASA. Apparently the r/melboune posts are causing some cultural confusion over there. Particularly the myki one, and the ones about helicopters overhead. There is no Carrot Man in Melbourne FLA, so that had to be explained. The sunset pix though are appreciated. NASA is watching r/melbourne with bated breath - something to do with dangerous aliens interfering with the American Way of Life apparently.
Picked up the game Dorfromantik - it's kind of like tetris, if tetris was hexagonal blocks of varying types of terrain that could be linked for a higher score. You have a limit number of blocks in your stack that you take one off the top each turn, seeing what's next and what's coming up in the stack. Some blocks have "missions" like "connect x amount of houses" or "make a forest of 88 or more trees". By completing these missions you gain more on your stack.
The brilliant thing in my 1 hour of play last night was that I started unlocking some cool things - some blocks have rivers or trainlines, but I then unlocked a little boat and a little train, and surely enough if you connect a one of those with a line/river then the vehicle will trundle along its path while you play.
Super chill game - it's not like tetris in that way. I finished one game without even knowing my stack was empty, score flashing up on the screen with a "play again" button present. Yes, I thick I will play again :)
Took advantage of the break in the weather to dash out and get my antihistamines.
In other news, the cats have now decided they want cat food, of which I had plenty since I stocked up just before they went off it. At least I can eat the chicken.Have called in sick, now I'm going to take a bath and then eat chips on the couch for breakfast while I watch something bad. Today is a self care day because I sent a big bad email last night at work and it's eating my nerves.
Todays weather will be a 100% chance of rain, with temps between 7c and 11c ~BOM
Cloudy. Very high chance of showers, most likely in the morning and afternoon. Possible small hail from the late morning. Winds northwesterly 25 to 40 km/h turning westerly 20 to 30 km/h during the morning.
Gewürzhaus advent calendar preordered 💪
Slow day today. Sent email, took a phone call, ran some chores
Zzz
Holy crap it's cold out there! Gloves weather, don't make my mistake.
Fuck it’s cold
Work lunch has been packed, water bottle filled, scooter on charge, winter coat hanging up on the back of the scooter…
Alrighty
Turns out that mashed potato with brown sugar basically just tastes like brown sugar. It's actually pretty good, which makes sense as it's a neutral flavoured carbohydrate with a sweetener.
I tried it last night with a little bit of the mash I was making for dinner - took a small bit out and added caster sugar & molasses (because I don't actually have brown sugar, but that's functionally the same thing). It was a bit over sweet, but I think a better ratio of potato to sugar would improve it.
It's so silly but whenever I'm watching a nature doco and Australia gets no mention I get a little sad.
Watching a "What Happened?" video before work, it's about like what happened for x thing to stuff up royally. It's mostly about video games or consoles (I think he's done like video game movies and such?).
This one is about the GameCube, with a quote from the former Vice President of Marketing at Nintendo who says that the GameCube's colour "didn't feel masculine, I think. I remember us being very nervous at E3 that we were going to get bad press purely based on the color." Like Nintendo Japan liked the purple/indigo colour scheme but Nintendo of America hated it. With the former VP saying that they should do silvers and blacks, but "it wasn't that you couldn't bring out hardware that was a different color. It was just a very... 'female' looking color."
And man... I'm so glad that we as a society are straying from colours being feminine/masculine. I mean it still happens of course, but slowly, the younger generation is weeding that out. Thank goodness. Because purple is my favourite colour.
Bloody corporate training videos, using a big red gift box to symbolise a bribe to a politician.
Don't they know it's always an Aldi Bag filled with cash.
So for some reason the main person at my job agency said that the period I did the trial run for would be unpaid, and it seems like the ombudsman says unpaid Labor is fine within certain areas. But when I asked my job provider if I was getting paid, for the trial run that I would be and that it's illegal for him not to.
I'm a bit confused, and annoyed that it might be unpaid.
Edit: so okay it looks like I will be paid. It's just up to the boss man and I. Iunno, it's very confusing. Because I'm his first like in-house non contract/freelance person. It's a little different.
My evening walk was eventful this evening. Mr Woof and I got to play Good Samaritan! A woman cleaning a house down the road was having trouble getting the owners key locked back in the key safe. Happily I have a very similar one so knew how it worked and was able to help, although their safe was a bit beaten up and it took quite a few attempts (and a broken nail) to get it closed. Then Mr Woof got scared when she picked up her broom and barked at her, but he was a very polite gentleman otherwise.
The universe did reward us - the delay meant I was walking back past the food cupbard just after it had been stocked so could stop instead of making a cold dark trip back later. I got a sweet potato (which I haven't had for a while), a few salad ingredients and some grapes.
So much rubbish and stress today trying to organise the techy parts part of this trip for tm.. passowrds, apps, visas..
I want to be...
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Everyone is so angry over there. The mods are sabotaging the sub and everybody are just pawns.
ffs, for some reason I have this earworm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtK6pdUKmio&ab_channel=Devo-Topic
I did make this tonight. I called it Peking duck conFusion. I used rice noodles instead of rice. Oh how the Asian chef angels wept.