Discussion Thread 🔮 Friday 4 April 2025

MissGod has completed the work experience week at the police station and courthouse. None of it super exciting but has made quite a few acquaintances with the local constabulary.

That's probably the single most useful thing anyone can do on work experience. That is, learning that cops are people too (off duty). Police stations and courthouses is where the rubber meets the road in terms of peopleology too.
- Couldn’t have said it better myself
That's so cool!

I didn't get the job, but it's okay :) I'll just keep studying and applying.

Got a beer and playing rimworld to chill

It's learning experience. You'll get the one you want when you want it.
Sucks now, but opens up more opportunities.

Knock on wood for meeeeeee

Tried that - now my head hurts.
- Omg 😂😭
I'll pet a kitty. They can psychic the distribution network 🖤
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I've knocked on some wood patterned laminate for you, hopefully that's close enough.
- Any wood is good wood! Even patterned laminate!
🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾
- 💜🤞🏼🌳
i have punched a tree and scared some birds for you
- Yesssss 😂

Tonight's wave

No one there which I know is a bad idea but it's very calming for some reason.

Miss Meow decided to check if I was awake with a claw to the nose. There was blood.

I'm glad Gibson just decided to randomly lay on my feet lol

Well, first week is over.

Pretty tired but not in a bad way necessarily. Will be nice to have some time to just relax tonight and not be on a timer.

Have a few errands to run then it's home sweet home.

How did it all go at work?
- So far so good. Exhausted. Just staying awake long enough to eat dinner pretty much.

Cheers Winners 🍺

*This post was proudly brought to you by this week's Powerball numbers

I am now feeding a total of 7 cats.

I don't know how to feel lol

Also, I fucking hate some uber drivers with a passion

You are a kind soul. Any luck finding a rescue organisation that could rehome them? The 11 could turn into 50 very quickly if the cats are not desexed. Cats can become pregnant very young.
- Only 1 bothered to respond to my query. They said to try again in 2 weeks.
  Another responded and said call the council.
  No way. They'll euthanise them. Better they stay strays than that.
  I don't know what to do except keep feeding them. I can't take in any more cats. I'll be leaving here in 6 months and I'm worried what will happen then.

Bit rough out there.

So jumping in soon for the sunset swim. I believe this might be the arse end of the weather system / swell that hit the east coast a few days ago. Sometimes goes over that wall but like that not often.

Be careful!
- Eee thank you survived that one :)

As beach pictures are popular here I thought I should share a photo from my once-in-a-decade trip to the ocean the other day.

Don't call Ur super fund today plz. Have mercy

but my super website is down i need to know whether me monies is still there
I want my monies numbers too.
If it's missing I demand reimbursement in the form of cheese kranskys.

First look at the chilli patch after 2 weeks away:

Enough there to start fermenting now :)

Can see a fair bit of leaf curl but no edema. Overwatered but not the worst, will dial that down. Habs a bit shit this year but the thais pulled through alright.

Looking fab, lots of fruit
Can you put moisture sensors in the soil that can talk to a tap timer?
- Yea with this controller you can. Can also get it to talk to a weather station and the BoM. But sometimes you have to take a step back and think hrmm.. 'will I fuck that up' and for me the answer is 'most likely'.

Baleeted

My biggest client decided to call for a Friday late afternoon pow-wow which has properly fried my brain. Ready to check out mentally for the weekend. This week felt like a lot for some reason, but not as shitty as last week so we're on the up.

I imagine there won't be many people in the office today.

Guys that's handing over created a confluence page with all the info I need. Turns out we pretty much have 1 week to handover.

The CEO and my line manager came and apologised to me about the situation and said he basically blind sided them with his resignation as he was supposed to move departments.

I appreciated that. They've also been completely transparent with their financials, which I've never experienced before.

Let's see how things play out.

Enjoy your day everyone :)

Good vibes so far, even if it is a bit hectic at the moment!
You got this!! 💜

I just finished the first High School Musical movie. I don't know why the franchise became one of my obsessions as a kid, but there we go.

What a perfect little day. My uni meeting got cancelled and the ground floor unit had really loud renovations; I just had to get out of there...

... Good thing I have absolutely nothing planned for the weekend, guess now that I've had such a beautiful day I'll have enough in the tank to crack on with a bit of uni desktop work and chores.

ooh that looks delicious.
That sounds like such a lovely day!
I enjoyed the kusama exhibition, but was pretty overwhelmed by the end of it. Don’t think the weekend crowds helped

Well Fuckit there is a hole in my bucket

Well fix it, dear Henry
Sorry
- This response was inevitable

Work complete. Onward to babysitting

Am in possession of News (TM) of the unpleasant kind. Attending somebody else's event on my birthday just got a whole bunch more complicated. Drunk and rocking in the corner it is.

So sorry that something bad happened. You can just say no to attending the event if you need to.
- Thank you. I'd feel worse piking. The person in question is going to have to deal with a rabid camera mob. Chin up, bottoms down!
Have some water and take care of yourself!

I did not know that the Geelong theme song had a second verse.

Geelong deserves no recognition, ever
Worked there for a while and leaned the local's biggest personality trait is not being from Melbourne.
Sad cases all around
- Geelong beaches shit all over Melbourne beaches. There I said it and won't take it back.
I was surprised by it when they played that 2nd verse this year, I don't know the words to it despite being my team!

Woke up in the middle of the night last night and wasn't asleep after 15 minutes due to thoughts, so I put on an audiobook. Two hours later, I was asleep again but brain did not work today. I collected worksheets from a couple of students and then two minutes later, I went over to them again asking for their worksheets. Boo

Happy last day of term 1! And happy Friday!

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After today 3 more days of work then I'm on holidays, yay!
Last day of term 3 for meeeee! Only one class today, at 9am phew!

Mystery pakidge... details went to my work email, but had attempted delivery at home... very strange. Waiting for it to land at the post office so I can collect. Also waiting on delivery of new keyboard which will make life easier as this one is playing some wonderful tricks while dying.

Pakidge was iHerb delivery of Catalina Crunch goodies, mmmm!!!

Okay, okay, I’m up, I’m up

Mount Dishmore is getting impressive again… it’s all “soaking”.

I just remembered something though. You can’t use normal dishwashing liquid in a dishwasher (especially a mini one) because excessive foam can damage the machine. But somewhere recommended putting baking soda in the dispenser with 2 drops of dish soap. Maybe I could get away with using one drop with the bicarb.

I also know that vinegar reduces foaming (with a risk of damaging rubber pipes or seals if it sits).

It’s worth a shot. I already know I’m not getting a refund and the extra work of trying to manually scrub and rinse the strong soap off everything afterwards means it’s sitting unused.

Um, don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but ... Read the manual carefully. Check to see if there's an outlet valve that's not working properly. Clean any outlet points/valves/tubes with a pipe cleaner (the coloured ones for craft work well) or straw size bottlebrush. Even a small blockage may mean that rinse/wash water is re-circulating when it shouldn't be. Also air bubbles in the intake valve may prevent proper water circulation so poke a pipe cleaner in them too (gently).
- It fills from the tank but I have some pipe cleaners and can check it over
Rinse dishes immediately after use. Use half liquid or powder in the dispenser. Use the 1 hour or 3 hour function. Clean the filter with a children's toothbrush and a small amount of dishwashing liquid. Don't use dishwashing liquid in the machine. If you can see excessive amounts of foam then something is wrong. There should be very little foam or none at all. Don't use rinse aid. Open the door after use.
- Done it all, I just can’t hack the soap residue

news quiz

4/10 note to self - pay more attention to local news

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A hearty potato and bacon soup with cheese grilled on top and some freshly baked crusty bread please.
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Chilly today, so a nice bowl of pho would be very pleasant please chef.
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I was so tired I fell asleep attached to a TENS machine with a horror movie playing. 😑 So that’s how life is going.

The stuff is here. I’m going to see if I have the energy to split up and rewrap the pack of soap (just so one person doesn’t get 8 bars and everyone else gets none). The tp is the thin rough Delsey but it’s the easiest least suss way to distribute individual rolls.

The fabric pieces of this doll got wrinkled so I have to iron them again before sewing. Note to self - 100% cotton fabric wrinkles super easily and is not a forgiving choice.

Do not choose pure linen as a replacement - wrinkles even worse. Poly blend would stand up to washing if required though, so could be a good choice.
- Agreed, linen is lovely but wrinkles badly.
  This fabric happened to be pure cotton because it’s the outer shell of a pillow I’m salvaging for parts. The ‘skin’ of it is being used in a practice run for a doll pattern I sketched onto a grid and the filling will be used to stuff the doll.
  I bought a meter of calico because it was cheap but I really think fabrics with a bit of stretch would work better

I just called....to say....I love you.....and I mean it from the bottom of my hheeaarrtt...

Just a little song I came up with in my sleep.

Not feeling too good… today I felt cold but now overheating! Must be those flu like symptoms/mild fever from the iron infusion.

Melbcat is sitting with me. She’s so beautiful 🥰