Daily Thread : Sunday 25th June 2023
Daily Thread : Sunday 25th June 2023
Happy Sunday everyone! Sending good vibes to each and every one of you.
I've decided, in my 50th year on the planet, to do something about getting fitter. I'm fit enough to do my manual labouring type job but not as fit as I'd like to be. I work in food manufacturing, which has been better for the wallet than the waistline! I'm not really one for going to the gym and I have trouble sticking with things like exercise routines. So this morning I downloaded a coaching app and started with a beginner's workout. It turned out to be a good place to start. I wasn't absolutely stuffed by the end of it but I definitely felt like I'd done some exercise! I'm posting about this to keep myself accountable. Hopefully I'll be less likely to slack off!
An AA mate made me flush my weed down the toilet. Take the hit. I wasn't smoking anyway. Fucking waste of money but it's better than relapsing, that would cost a lot more ultimately.
Brekky at the caff. A few groceries, then i'm gonna get my arse into gear, clean the kitchen, make that fucking stew finally, go for a walk and play guitar. As always I face fucking transphobia from losers on the online meeting just as I do everywhere else pretty much online. Funny how fucking weak people are. I never experience it in person. Interestingly though immediately after I read it someone read the sickness part. This program is working for me anyway and the group are really supportive and accept me for who I am. That person will be banned. It's just fucking frustrating. /ent rant. Today will be good a day
I'm not going to lie, I have zero regrets whatsoever about being in Sydney this weekend, went down to Corrimal beach with the fam and had a great time basking in the sun with short sleeves and rolled up pants...
...even though I am currently shitting myself, as I have a SMALL amount of extremely urgent work to finish this weekend, but I'd somehow left my laptop on when unplugging so it had barely enough battery left aaaaand I've stuuuuupidly left my charger all the way back in Melbourne...
The Targus proprietary charger from jbhifi isn't working and my cousin's just helped me get the USB-C one - I need just enough juice for it to synchronise the files to SharePoint for another colleague to work on tomorrow 😭 praying it'll work
E: I GOT IT TO WORK. Crisis averted
Had bros wedding last night. Was wonderful.
Sent the parents off to an art gallery with my aunt and cousin so I get some much needed solo pool time.
It's exhausting trying to make conversation at brekky, lunch, dinner and stuff in between.
So i have a weird fun thing w woolies where i always get as close to the delivery min $50 as possible, and every 2 to 3 days, to keep my wastage down. Theyre now increasing it to $75 (i did look at coles but their subscription is twice as much) so now ill be strategically adding and removing stuff from my cart to reach 75 instead 😅 its an odd diversion but i enjoy it lol
My Steam Deck arrived today, time to tinker! And thanks @lodion@aussie.zone for fronting the hosting costs of this instance.
Thank you for creating the thread @Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 🙂
There's some storm coming if you've got a dog to walk.
Picking up my Intel NUC from Centrecom Maribyrnong today.
Stopping at Le Bajo Milkbar in North Melbourne first.
Then probably wash the car in Alphington on the way home at this place Mr Smeg's work uses that's touch free but does a super deep clean.
Playing some PBS in the car on our journeys. Not a bad day all up
My JavaScript project is off to a slow start. I wanted to download the appropriate programs onto my old laptop, and as there is not much space on it I wanted to remove the local copies of my OneDrive files. Apparently this was too much for the poor thing which had a complete breakdown. So now I have just finished a full reset and am finally ready to start again with a clean slate. Why does creating a bot army have to be so hard? The amount of effort required to make things easier is absurd.
I woke up early enough, decided I’d rest my eyes. Several hours later…
It really is one of those mornings where your toes burn when you get in the shower.
Happy sunday dt friends :)
Sunday Funday.
My Jerboa app finally updated! It seemed to take a while for the update to show in the store for some reason, but I am now in the "sort thread by new" club on my tablet. Happy days. Hopefully the phone app will sort itself out and stop crashing every time I try to open it as well.
Edit: it works! I am on my phone, app is open and it is no longer telling me that every instance does not actually exist.
Had a weird dream that I was best friends with Tom Cruise. There was no Scientology stuff though just regular hanging out. I think he liked me because I didn't care about the fame or money and just spoke to him like a regular dude but then at the end of the dream he randomly decided I'm "out" and he'd called me a taxi to leave.
I'm 100% sure this is all because I saw a poster for the new Mission Impossible movie at a tram stop last night. Fuck you, dream Tom Cruise. I'll still go see your movie though. Prick.
11 feels like 4, get fucked.
So I said today would be a good day. I didn't make the stew again, because there were some great reduced food stuffs at the shop. The caff warmed my body heart and mind. Nothing like walking into a place where the staff know your name, show you love and then make a guilt free bacon and egg toastie. I went in my oodie cos it was cold. I'm really starting to enjoy the simple pleasure of playing with the cats. Friends are popping in a bit later on and I'm finally putting the last of my artwork up on the walls.
Time for a study break. I'm going to risk going out for a walk with Mr Woof, hopefully we don't get blown away. He has quite long hair, so he always gets a dramatic windswept look in this sort of weather.
So cold. Huddled under blankets and reheating little wheat packs to keep myself warm and I can hear the wind picking up outside.
Thankfully just ate dinner or what passes for it so hoping to warm myself up again.
Settled in for the night playing movies. Maybe might make a late night hot tea.
Hope everyone else is able to stay warm tonight and have a relaxing time.
Here to complain about dating apps or rather what people do on dating apps, most recently the "I don't chat on here, so add me on Instagram" and so I did and then I did all the heavy lifting with the chat and as soon as I left it alone, they didn't message. I've worked really hard to no longer expect instantaneous responses and I've accepted that people don't owe me their time, however, if you suggest we add each other on a social media app, a little bit of chat not started by me would be much appreciated.
Getting a bit late for anyone to see this before the new day's DT but still.. I did some booking of US hotels in USD today with my Latitude 28° travel credit card and I'd almost forgotten how good it was. I was checking the current exchange rate via google and my card was being charged within $1 of the exchange shown, meaning no fees on top and no dodgy high exchange rate being used. **HIGHLY **recommend that card for your spending needs, if you can be responsible with a credit limit.
Barely slept a wink last night. Going to be in bed by 7 tonight I reckon 😴
It's been one of those weekends where I realise I need a weekend and a half to get all my shit done. Hope y'all had a relaxing one.
I don't know if I'm completely missing something, but both on Mlem and the browser, I'm not getting reply notifications. (Scratch the browser, I had them automatically blocked. Have just unblocked, so we'll see.)
Second run with the slow cooker today. Was going to have steak tonight, but am opting for the slow cooked meal instead since a super late Yum Cha lunch was had. Finally got a proper desk chair and it feels so nice on my lumbar! Really not ready for work tomorrow, but gotta pay for my coffee and other habits somehow. On a side note, ate at Lillian last night. The food was nice, but boy, for a lot of staff... Not quite up to the level I was expecting.
Really don't want to face it as well, but Uni take 2... Here we go again.
The annual Qld holiday is going well so far. No arguments, no massive sudden mood swings from pre-teen-kidcalhoon. And the MIL's new place is pretty sweet
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Hooooooome. flops
Watching Mrs play ff16. God this game is pretty. Possibly the prettiest PS5 game yet.
Any desky owners in the DT?
I've been umming on this one for a while as a suitable option for a desk on wheels for my studying.
Currently I use a hospital table and it works but it's kinda shit - https://imgur.com/a/O2ShW5V
The Desky dual mini on castor wheels would really do the trick. I can afford it but hate spending that much money.
The work calendar gods have aligned and I have a whole week ahead of working from home, rather than the usual three days of having to commute 70km each way.
Now if only the kids weren't also on school holidays... 😬
Anyone know the best place to sell a brand new laptop?
Backstory is, my mum bought an HP Chromebook for work, not realising that she can't get windows/Microsoft suite on it which she needs for work but she can't get a refund from JB Hi-Fi as she threw away the box. I listed it on Facebook marketplace but it's had next to no interest.
Monday's thread is up :) https://aussie.zone/post/160083
Had a very "bite of this, bite of that" kind of dinner. That with a couple of glasses of wine and now I feel ready for a 4 course meal, but will tuck myself into shortly instead.
Anyone here playing D4? I've been enjoying it sooo much, but made the mistake of trying to follow a specific build and am now dying because I haven't picked my talents for the fun and it really does take something away from it.
