Daily Discussion Thread: Fri 08 Sep 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Fri 08 Sep 2023
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Just went down a travelator behind a man who had jammed the trolley hard against the side of the travelator side, and it was making this horrid scraping noise as it was going , scraping a dent/scratch into the side of escalator. Man either totally unaware or could not give a fuck. I was thinking how sad it is how much the public just trash stuff and how much it must cost to be constantly fixing things, no wonder everything is expensive. This is why we can’t have nice things.
That was a cold freaking walk back to the accom. 10C feels like 3, hectic winds, spattering rain - and now lots of wooshing and swooshing while I'm trying to settle down in bed. Pros and cons to getting accom with palms right out the window.
Absolutely fabulous day otherwise, was a bit nervous/overwhelmed at first but met heaps of good folks today. Weather aside, only downside was I think I had too much dairy in the dessert and got straight up liquid shits (scrambled to the toilet just in time). Or maybe it was the wine. I don't know but my gut definitely feels unsettled, still. I need a substantial breakfast tomorrow to make up for it. Ninight.
was out for a walk early this morning. after an hour, even with brisk walking, came home freezing cold, windblown and ever so slightly damp, wondering what I had been thinking.
am now reaping the benefits by working in trackies, my slippers, with a cuppa, feeling smug as my wife complains about having to leave the house while I have done my exercise and errands for the day and can remain toasty warm and comfy inside.
I made baby cheesecakes last night. Very easy to do.
baby cheesecakes
I used a block of philly cheese (Manhatten from aldi) at room temperature. Added a half a jar of lemon curd. A tiny bit of milk and a tablespoon of icing sugar. Gave it a stir until all combined. Put a butter nut biscuit in the muffin patty pan and top it with my mixture. Put them in the fridge to set.
You can make them with your choice of jam and biscuits.
Horrible weather out there, it's actually getting colder. I stopped at Bunnings on the way home from work, they were closing off the garden entrance and had lost a few plants in the wind already. The staff were in remarkably good spirits considering how miserable it is outside today.
10c outside 20c inside. And not just the room with the reverse aircon oh no no no, everywhere
Oh insulation. Oh ducted heating. Oh new house i love youuuu
Don't tell Las Vegas but I'm pretty casino'd out. I'm not exactly sure who I am now but I've had zero urge to drink. Even when offered free booze I've been getting lemonade/soda or water.
Anyway it's 7:15pm and I've decided to lock myself in my room with some gummies, lemonade and a cup of donut balls while I watch Ahsoka.
Can't believe I was wearing shorts yesterday and now I'm wearing my super thicc wool tights.
I also just wanna go home and play Starfield, though I do get my new glasses tonight so that should be exciting. Sad to retire my current ones.
Maybe next time I might go all out and buy the $249 pairs because they always fit the style I like, damn you Specsavers...
Have given in and chucked the heater on, my little finges are like icicles.
so I've figured out car wise what Im going to do. I've all but sold my car to pay for the mrs's car's loan. then im gonna get her car limping, sell it off and buy something brand new with a warranty. Its gonna cost a fortune, but given I stand to lose close to 20k on her car, and I'm having to sell mine to offset that I dont see we have a lot of other options. What do I do if I buy second hand and it blows up again? But I hear back from the diagnostics (mid next week) I dont know how much its going to cost to fix (If even possible). So I dont know the financial damage so I cant really order anything. Stressful. I just want this done and buried so I can move on.
Whats on for the weekend everyone? Tonight im heading to a party at Max Watts run by the Rainbow Serpent crew, should be massive!! Tomorrow night will be moving my current mead to secondary to age on oak!! Sunday i have an axe throwing marathon, its only 2 weeks till the Asia Pacific Champs and Sunday will have 10 or more of the current top 20 in Australia throwing so will be a really good warm up :)
My dog has no balls to lick so he grooms his toys instead whether they like it or not.
spoiler
Then he tries to give it to me knowing it's wet.
Update on https://aussie.zone/comment/2480580
We went through a series of tracing because we found out there's actually a few things happening at once, and we seem to have traced it to the that little black box thing that sits on the outside of the house where the main street wires come in
Apparently we can't call the electricity distributor or a sparky because we need to go through an after hours thing at our organization. And to make matters even better, they don't answer their DAMN phone. Apparently this isn't an immediate danger, according to the lead tenant. That may be true, circuit breakers are a magical thing, but that doesn't really do much to make me feel like I'm a little less likely to die in my sleep
Hmmmm got the job (VPS) but it was never explained that it was a fixed term contract until I just got the offer letter, I was under the impression the whole time it was a full time contract, so it ends after a year and if they don't have the budget I'm out of a job potentially? Exactly the sort of thing I wanted to avoid and why I was willing to take a paycut otherwise why not just work as a contractor?
I love it when the man goes walkies on his lunch breaks. He finds the most incredible places that sell snacks.
Yay, so just as I thought today was going to be a chill enough day, and that all my issues were sorted, one of my power boards is making an electric crackling sound, and a lamp plugged into a different one from a different power point won't work properly and just keeps flickering
Edit: oh and know my little heater I have next to my bed smells like burning
https://youtu.be/EuRjmzz6qL0?si=fvQGBd_Ilm6JuvoV
For anyone that needs a reminder that you're "hot shit"
Love you all!
fucking christ. trying to access work sever via vpn on a win10 laptop, vaguely mutter to myself "ugh you running sl-o-o-o-w is that why you're reporting as offline, baby?"
Windows fucking suggestion pops up with "Slow machine? check this" to which I say the only true and proper response of #YOU FUCKING WHAT MY SON
and prompt destruction of all microphone permissions.
This is a machine that has been gutted of bloatware and cortana, btw. Never. Trust. the cunce.
Going for a run today was a bad idea. I thought my calf had fully healed, but 2km in and it started seizing up again. Probably put me back a few days. Real shame too, as my pace was probably my best yet, and I didn't even feel tired, but will just have to wait and see next time.
Guess I'll just stick to swimming until after my work conference.
Mr Peeler heard today that one of his cousins lost her short battle with MND today. It was only just over a couple of years ago she was fine, came over to our place for lunch. Here's hoping we can find a cure soon. I'm a bit of a stunned mullet, but Mr Peeler will be very upset as he was close to his cousins, having no siblings.
Fucking joy, opened the wardrobe and somehow managed to hit my head and left hand with the door. Got a lovely looking egg on my forehead now.
I swear to God, if I start getting concussion symptoms (or worse), I am going to be very annoyed. Assignment is due Sunday and I'm still 600 or so words out from completion, so I literally do not have time for this bullshit.
If I had a nickel every time my data was compromised in the past year. I’d have three nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened three time.
(Optus in September of last year, AHM in roughly November of last year and now Dymocks) (Also I posted this in Thursday's DT not realising it's Thursday and I'm like "it's been five hours, why have I only gotten one like?" idiot... hahaha)
Today 12, next Friday 26. Already thinking of my plans for knock-off bevvies in the warm sun. Today ain't it.
I've discovered a new hobby. When there's a crowd gathering around a street performer or in today's case, a chase the queen card hustler, brush by the back of people just enough that they feel you touch them but not hard enough for a bump. Just keep walking. They'll check their pockets, it's hilarious.
Also it's a sunny 36 degrees here. Flying home on Monday night (your Tuesday) and from what I'm reading it's going to be a bit of a change in weather. I'm actually going to miss this summery weather. Hopefully ours rolls around quickly.
The four motorcycle round trips today was unpleasant, could barely stay upright and it was freezing. Thankfully they were only 5km round trips on 40kmh roads.
One more tonight. Hopefully wind is calm by tonight, am only going to book a car for the trip if it is raining or is forecast to rain.
yes it'll be 24C next week but are we getting 80km/h gust to go with that or will it actually be good weather...
i prefer this over 8-18C and the sun is shining and the wind is howling weather.
i don't need to think about whether to wear a jacket or not
Putting in a little leave so I can spend a week at the end of the month enjoying my new (to me) car! Weather permitting, I might jump the border and hang around Port Mac, maybe even dig my wetsuit out and do some snorkelling at Ewens Ponds.
It's so silly, but finally having a 4x4 back has lifted my spirits insanely, I feel like a dog in front of his fully stacked toy box.
Exercises completed except for one of the weird plank ones which started to hurt my neck and back so I abandoned it immediately. I guess it was all that shelf cleaning yesterday with myself at weird angles to get to hard to reach places.
Ahoyhoy
I enjoy it generally, but I think this is one of my favourite things about SYSK podcasts - http://sndup.net/wcpm
Bunnings relationship was never a love/hate. More of a hate/hate.
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