While I did say earlier it was good to see the DT once again on r/melbourne, I figured it might be best to make an account here on the Aussie Zone so I can read up on happenings over here as well. Hello, once again, !melbourne.
I just discovered Aussie.Zone has a pictures community. I'm going to share some of my favourite Aussie holiday snaps there. It would be nice to get a bunch of photos in there from all over Australia, expecially if they have a bit more local flavour rather than just the aussie landmarks. So I've started with some bats from the colony on the Yarra.
Today is the day I ask my doctor for a cert for stress leave and I'm so nervous I feel ill. I really want to ask for a full two weeks, but I feel like that's a lot to ask for just off the cuff. It would be the perfect amount though and I would get to skip my night shift rotation which is desperately what I need.
I'm not supposed to drink coffee normally this month because it could stain my temporary veneers, so I've been drinking iced coffee with straws. Until right now. As I sit outside this Bourke Street cafe, headphones adorned, audiobook playing while I people watch; I have before me a large, perfectly hot Melbourne coffee. A beverage I have not put to my lips since the beginning of winter.
I'll only have these teeth for 7 more days. Stain be damned.
I go to Coles because I love the joint. I love fucking searching for shit that should be there but it's not. So I have to make a right hand turn into the carpark and there's some wank coming out trying to make a right hand turn in to my street. He starts beeping. I wind down my window and yell "oi what are you doing mate. You've got a stop sign". His arms start screaming at me. I let the dickhead go because I'm polite and he puts his foot down and nearly takes out the car travelling straight. Urgh fuck me.
I may or may not have bought myself a sausage roll on the way home purely so I’d have something warm in my hands
Yo I’m gonna be honest, I’m sad about all this. Like my minds struggling to contain whatever this complex mixed up emotion is. Like I said in the dt before everything blew up, I’m not good at goodbyes. And part of me just feels like this is an end of some description, like nothings gonna be the same again. I don’t like change.
You know you must be getting older when you're excited you stocked up on toothpaste that was on special at the chemist...(PSA: Oral B is only $2.49 at Richmond Traders Priceline today)
I know said yday that I was probably gonna just stay lurking but idk, I like the vibes here 😎
I'm on uni break atm but, for some reason, remembered today about the mandatory work placement/internship unit I have to do for my bachelor's. I probably won't be graduating before the first half of 2025, so I technically have until then to do it but still - suddenly stressed out lmao
Funny what a difference it makes when you have people at work that have similar common interests than you do. Not to shit on people who love reality TV, but hearing that kind of stuff day in, day out in the office is enough for me to put my headphones in and drown the noise out with whatever genre I want for the day.
Change the topic to videogames and sure enough 30 minutes goes by in a blink (to which I'm sure those who want to talk about reality TV are then chucking headphones in themselves haha).
I survived the walk, and as a bonus the 13.6 degrees of my lounge room now feels quite warm.
PSA: r/melbourne mod is removing the links we posted directing people here (and comments telling people about other replacement subs). We will have to direct message if we want to invite someone here.
Oh. Thanks, but no thanks. I don’t think I’ll be getting up today
Aww I think the party is over with the Florida posts on reddit.. my new post was removed as soon as I submitted it. I wanted to continue my 'gators fuckin in my yard' cinematic universe.
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I finally figured out what I was doing wrong when putting links in posts. Silly me was putting the words I wanted to appear outside the square brackets and creating a link with no words to click on.
So for any other people needing a super-basic linking walkthrough, you put the words you want to show in square brackets followed immediately by the link in normal brackets. [words](link)
I've been trying to wean myself off this 10 year old dual-screen desktop PC for a while, it's a Win 7 and Office 2010 setup that's no longer supportable. But it's been the cornerstone of my life for a decade and I flick it on first thing in the morning because that's what I've always done. PC first, then the kettle for tea.
I bought a snazzy Win 11 gaming laptop late last year but it's barely been used. I need to sort my shit out and finally migrate to it, and today might be the day. I've got all the personal and business email accounts working, an Office 365 licence, and OneDrive cloud storage sorted. Went to Officeworks for a second monitor this afternoon (went in for a basic 24", came out with a 27" curved gaming one. Of course I did).
The new house has a study nook with a really long desk surface, so I reckon I'll be able to run both setups side-by-side, but I'm in cable hell and it's going to take some effort to unravel everything. Wish me luck, friends.
I like this using spoilers for pictures. You can replace the 2nd spoiler text with whatever you want too.
warning: cat
Image: cheetah walkingWork has been so fucking slow today I've actually done stuff a week early. It will most likely need changing but I had nothing else!!
I'm kicking goals today.
Coffee beans have been roasted and leek & potato soup has been made.
The new mattress topper from Koala arrived (thanks to whoever mentioned getting one sent free!) and has been put on the bed along with new sheets. Old bedding is in the washing machine.
A grocery order has been made and will be arriving later today - Coles gave me $10 off if I spend $100 via the app, so I added a couple of things to stock up on and bought $10 of freezer bags to donate to the food pantry.
I've ordered some different types of kitty litter to try, hopefully Miss Meow will approve.And coles just told me they have substituted medium bags for the large. Seriously, different sizes are not the same thing. Annoying. Hopefully they will refund the money and I can buy more large ones.
Huh. TIL you can't reblock someone for 24 hours after unblocking them on Reddit
I think the poetry has infected my brain. I keep trying to rhyme everything.
Today's the perfect weather for the soup I'll be making
As well as for the slices of pumpkin I'll be baking
They'll go in the freezer for a future lunch
Cause a hot vegie toastie is great to munchI hate me for getting up early with all the intention to go into work and then the minutes tick by I'm like...nah...nah...nah. and I got up early for nothing.
Productive day today! Was asleep before 10 (unheard of) and slept right through, had a sesh with the coach and did a bit of tidying, then walked up to the little local supermarket to get supplies and a pastry from the little South American cafe which I was craving yesterday when they were closed.
Now relaxing on the couch while I plot my next move. gSo /r/melbourne is back and I'll be able to save my journal. Did back to April last night and will do some more later today. Was actually pretty good reading it back. No, "holy shit that's right!" moments yet, but fuck it was a relief.
Today I have been doing functional crap but finally set my delay and distortion pedals up with all associated leads and the pedals off the floor so the cats can't chew them. Its running through Aux 1 so I can again put a nice echo effect on stupid things like youtubes. Not as fun as when I used to wake and bake but still at least its all working again. Glad I kept that little piano stool. It was nearly taken to the opshop three times I think. Still need to cable up the dj setup amp and speakers but lost my motivation. Another coffee I think, pic attached so you know what heck I'm talking about if you're not a muso. If you are, in before the metal zone (yuck), it's fine.
Scored a nice red pvc jacket from the opshop, put some other recent jacket scores in for repairs, with both costing more than the jackets, but they're worth it. Bought one of those cat tunnels and the cats tired themselves out playing it, really happy with that. I bought a cheap one though and it's a bit shit but it'll do, they don't understand money.
Taking the last of my stuff I need to downsize out of my life to the opshop soon. Fuck... it's almost all done! I've slowed down in the last six weeks cos I was on a bender, but I've stopped drinking and back on top of things. Also finally getting the hang of liquid eyeliner which seems like a big step in the right direction.
Edit: Also nice to post the daily thread for you all, seriously, this place feels like more of a community than the old dt and it was great.
I recently bought a fancy rice cooker (upgraded from the trusty cheapo kmart one button one), and this one has a smaller cup capacity (3c instead of 6 or 10) which is perfect for 2 people who don't need huge quantities of rice. Plus it made amazing rice, including brown rice which I've never managed to cook well before! Very happy hehe
late coffee poem
Late night coffee, how very European
Though they may not have meant at 1am
You only live once, and it may be quite short
So indulge, treat yourself, this isn't all for naught.mushroom soup, two croissants, thin steak, egg, juice. Oh yes.
bolognese and pasta made and eaten last of my jumpers washed ( I'm washing them all as real winter hits) of course it has a moth hole in front now 🤬
Does anyone have specific ways to budget? Whether this is using apps or specific spreadsheets? Budgeting is hard, and especially with ADHD I'm like "ooo money" and I've gotten into some serious trouble from spending money and forgetting about the responsibilities I have. There's the 50/30/20 rule which seems pretty doable. I might change my health insurance to be paid monthly instead of the fortnight it was originally set due to being paid fortnightly (this new job will pay me out monthly instead).
I have discovered the secret to getting through a full workday in the office without feeling like a nap. Please don't do the maths on how much sugar I had today...
- Energy drink (Kiwi Mother in this case) for breakfast
- Large coffee with 2 sugars for lunch
- Medium coffee with 2 sugars at 3:30pm with Work Dad
- Get interested in learning how to do some NQL scripting and manage to extract some juicy data to share with Work Dad and Work Grandad
- Blast some feel good folk & acoustic tunes through my headphones
I was extremely disorganised with dinner prep which means I'm having a third of a leftover chicken thigh and some stir fry veg for dinner. Man I don't even remember when this chicken was from lol.
Time to get Mr Woof's walk over with. 5 degrees, feels like 2.6 🥶
🙃🙃🙃 of course the VicRoads near me doesn't renew licences. I have to go to freaking Dandenong. UGHHHHHHH
Edit: so I have to go to Dandenong before work to renew my licence. I'm gonna go jump off a cliff.
Edit²: someone at my jobseeker place is offering to take me to Warragul to get it done tomorrow. So that's very nice of her.
TIL that if I buy or get something from a rich company that morally I shouldn't have to pay for it and it's ok if I stiff them. ( but aren't all of us in the West rich compared to 90% of the rest of the world? )
I haven't forgotten about this daily thread, it's just out of sight compared to reddit so ends up out of mind'
Finally. Rain has stopped. Lunch over. Covers off. Let's go fellas.
he he, nailed it
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Hey @baconmash@baconmash@aussie.zone I've been scrolling through the DT and I've seen a couple more regulars. I don't recognise like 90% of people there, and I think some of them may be here already (but my memory is just no good today, and they aren't on the spreadsheet). Have they been messaged and decided not to migrate, or were they forgotten?
nufan86
BIG_YETI_FOR_YOU
AlamutJones (they are on the sheet, but just have a -- for the messaged section)wow I should definitely read the sheet before jumping to conclusions next timeHurstbridgeLineFTW
futtbuckicecreamery
(did we hear back from mr-snrub-?)
awake-asleep
MajorBear
laughsabit
mazquito
Notyit
Hey brains trust, I need your help with a translation.
Does anyone know of/can think of a word that’s the same/similar to ‘automaton’ that has a bit more… humanity to it? The original uses the word ‘sleepwalker’, but that doesn’t really work well in this translation. Automaton fits a lot better but is too anachronistic. ‘Zombie’ is also anachronistic and is out.
I’ll include the segment I’ve translated so far below under spoiler tags because it’s not exactly pleasant to read. So don’t click/read if you’re not feeling it. Context for those that don’t know: Hiroshima survivor testimony.
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We were standing in the hallway on the first floor, though it seemed more like we were standing at the gates of Hell. Burnt and wounded naked bodies were crouched all around, screaming and writhing in agony. It was just like hell. I was terrified. I was really, truly afraid to be among such people. But I didn’t have the strength to run away. Before I knew it, I became an automaton, not knowing who I was or where I was going. Once again, I collapsed to the ground where I stood.
I’ve been staring at this word for like an hour trying to work out the best fit.
Today is going alright I guess. got the security alarm settled. waiting to hear back from the lawyers that I enquired about ppsr removal. contacted gray's online and wrote an email to teach them how to do their job. some packages come in XD and I finish my catch-up Japanese class. looking forward to Friday as I am going out to see the lightscape at the botanical gardens. tomorrow I got a lunch gathering, a dental surgeon appointment and maybe I might hit up the night market and queue for the latest ramen shop that opened in the CBD. backto playing more diablo
I'm creating my uni timetable with a bit of a dilemma.
Do I have classes on two days of the week and jam them all together, or do I spread it across three days and spend the two days where I only have two or three hours of classes watching lectures on campus so I don't get distracted at home?
My pros of the three day: more time on campus, will force me to wake up earlier as have to be on campus early for three days of the week Cons: more time commuting, might want to go home after two hour class and might not be worth going all that way for such a short class.
Oh this fucking bullshit. I've waited all day for this. I am not happy. Boooo. Anybody else waiting for the cricket to start?
Thai pumpkin soup and roti is starting to exert its pull on me. I will dine after doing my Duolingo
Thank you Hongo :)
Nawww. It's a Cat Stevens reference. Thanks Hongo ☺
husband is trying to watch tv thru a 3rd party app, it sucks.
I think I have finally fixed a problem with my computer going to sleep and not waking up. Some sort of virtual keyboard that had a driver installed was blocking it from responding to my actual keyboard while in sleep mode. I still haven't worked out why it was going to sleep when the settings were set not to.
On mobile what settings do you use to make the text here smaller and easier to read.
