Daily Discussion Thread: Wed 11 Oct 2023

i did a thing today and it went very well

The remainder of the soil is covered up in anticipation of rain. And in my need for a rest before I haul the rest around.

I decided to give goget a whirl today to meet a friend in an awkward part of town and do some errands while I was at it - gee it's a rather pricey venture once you add it all up. I can only justify it by doing multiple things on the one trip and hope it's all close by so you don't rack up heaps of km. Car Next Door (now Uber Carshare) is not much better at all given its high booking fee - $7 per booking! - and not very transparent pricing.

Flexicar looks like better value for money but unfortunately the closest car is 2km away and no PT in between...

E: holy cow the final bill was $62.20 for 3.5 hours and 30 km. Think if I need to visit a friend next time I'll just take a cab/uber and ask them for a ride if I need to pick up or move stuff...

I've just popped into the office and was standing outside this room thinking about whether I should go in, so I did.

Third night in a row I can't get myself to sleep. Next time the melatonin is coming out at 7 and it'll be a full tablet. I also have forgotten to eat much today so upon having two slices of toast my stomach has performed quite the symphony of gurgles.

Hooray for sunny Wednesday! My toes are frozen... I desperately need to spend more time outside

Shout-out to any folk at DH who may be getting some rough news this week/having their teams decimated. Rough time.

Comedian Cal Wilson has died. Sad news.

The first delivery of soil has officially been moved - just in time for the next load to be delivered! I'll try to get the second planter filled today, then cover the rest of the pile to protect from rain and fill the other areas I have over a bit more time - this is exhausting!

Well.. shit. One of my fave colleagues has quit as a result of the boss closing the place on Fridays. Which means we aren't closing on Fridays anymore because there aren't enough of us.

lovely day so I'll be going out walking and doing some errands

then back home to do my emails and messages

Enjoy the day everyone 😘😘

Ate my first mango of the season. So good.

Rewatching The Shape Of Water, and I know people go "hurhur fish fucking movie", but seriously it's such a fantastic movie. The cast, the cinematography, all of it is just, chefs kiss.

Remember guys if you put a bolt or screw in something some poor bugger might eventually have to take it out. PSA brought to you by me having to angle grind the anti-rattle bolt off my towbar.

I love it when I buy new technology gadgets and I pass it to the man and say "make it happen please". BTW it's a skipping rope with Bluetooth and a app and shit. I just thought it had a battery and it counted skips. Not my problem. I told him "you'll have fun with that". Secretly he loves this kind of shit.

Codral original do your thing, I need to push through work today. Really wanted to take another sickie but these bloody client deadlines have come thick and fast this week and we have several people on leave.

Lunchtime in the sun planned, hopefully some solar power will help me get better.

Last night I woke up in the middle of the night with my thumb hurting. (Not asking for medical advice, just sharing my misery). Swollen and bright pink, with a hole in the skin. Couldn’t get a doctor’s appointment until today. Throbbing all day yesterday, and now I can’t sleep from the pain. Anxiety about flesh eating bacteria and having it amputated.

Hey green thumbs I have a question. Can you grow coriander inside near a window in a little pot? It would get the afternoon sun. I'm sick of paying for it.

Lower back pain 😑 Massaging the muscles at the sides of my hips helps but I don’t like the cheap foam roller. Trying to foam roll actually puts pressure on my joints from supporting my weight like that.

I end up just jamming my thumbs into the muscles but they bend back so I just use the heel of my hand. Wondering if a massage gun might be useful or is just a waste of money

I'm afraid the only way to get this worm out of my brain is to share it, so:

IIIII'M ENNERY THE EIGHTH I AM, ENNERY THE EIGHTH I AM I AM

Today's coffee (last one I post unless I learn how to do fancier foam art)

PSA. If you're thinking about an airfryer Aldi have them on sale for $149. Join the cult.

Emergency services trifecta today

Police call for a domestic. Not my volatile neighbours, I didn’t place the call. This is a DIFFERENT domestic.

Then ambulance, for some poor guy having a seizure in the homeless camp.

Now I have four fire engines outside and a fire alarm blaring from the building across the street

Whaaat is today.

So much allergy…. Was awake half the night. Telfast and Dymista are not enough.

Want to be outside but more outside is more allergy.

No idea why I'm still this awake after the night I had last night.. woooo

Maybe I'll buy some random cheap stuff online. Love a delivery.

Another glorious sunny day. And I'm filling it with hauling soil. ☹️

At least the second bed should be a bit easier to fill as I have access for the cart all the way along the long edge, I won't have to double handle soil to get it down the end like I did the first one - plus I've already filled some of the bottom section. I'm calling it my gardening boot camp, if this doesn't build me some decent arm muscles nothing will.💪

Coffee lovers gather round

Coffee mousse recipe

Well bollocks and crap and all that.

I've been asked to work at another site one day a week for the rest of the year on a temp basis.

I'm not exactly thrilled at having to be at another site, first off the drive there and back and not really knowing anyone over there.

sigh

I may not have a choice in this either. I did say it has to be passed through someone else and be ok with them but they're away at the moment, I could probably say to my line manager and suggest that it's not a good idea to transfer me but at the same time it leaves my site unattended as well for one day a week to cover for their absence.

I need to think through this and how I'm going to navigate this. In the end I may not have a choice but to comply.

sleep well everyone 😘

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I went outside into my garden and looked at all my lavender (it has self-set everywhere, as a "weed" is wanton to do, and I've dug it up and planted it in some form of order) - there's plenty of flowers and yet not a bee to be seen. It was really fucking depressing.

Scary day today, I'm going to wear some new shoes, lovely very supportive soft impact easy to wear sandals, in orange!!. Always a little risky to wear new shoes when you have sciatica. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Went for a bit of a scoot to the supermarket after I popped into work to pick up a laptop. Banger of a day. People are out enjoying the weather everywhere and my washing on the clothes horse out on the balcony is drying up reeeal nice too.

I have my last meeting of the day at 4pm and then I'll get back out amongst it #gingerinthesun

I found a flea bite on my foot… Melbcat is very annoyed I’m not letting her outside and traumatized her with the vacuum. She’s not going to like when I strip the bed

I had some really good food cooking inspirations later on in the week early this morning.

Now I'm not sure I'm motivated enough after today to do it even though food is one of those rare things that brings me a lot of joy at times.

the r/MelbourneTrains sub always makes me happy, I smile every time an update hits my feed 😊

I think it's because it's all posted in pure enjoyment of Melbourne and trains

Scootering along the Yarra's edge during peak hour = lots of pedestrians with zero spatial awareness. Almost cleaned up one girl who made a very sudden 90 degree turn while staring deep into her phone screen. That was a mix of stressful and relaxing 6/10 one thumbs up.

omg, Ted Cat is humping the stuffed Chebarashka cushion 😬😂 he's been fixed so it's all for nothing

Ted Cat is all tired out

Incoming rant warning.

Sometimes it feels like the healthcare system here is one giant Ponzi scheme, with GPs constantly feeding new customers to 'specialists' who charge a fortune, who then sends the report back to the GP, so you have to pay to hear the results, which often leads to another referral to a different specialist, who sends the report back to the GP and the cycle continues.

A friend who I hadn't seen for ages asked me recently what my music taste was like now and I answered with "It's easier to say I'm not into something (Country, mumble rap and most R&B) than pin down a genre." Which is true - Spotify at the end of every year spews out its stats and somehow I managed to listen to a shit ton of different genres.

BUT! The recent Spotify DJ guy, as well as the daylist thing really has hit home how much prog metal I still listen to.

Saw some weird stuff at the Op Shop today. A statuette of Stalin?? and carrotman

Any recs for a nice bottomless brunch place in/around the city?

#Worldle #628 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 ⭐⭐⭐🪙

Don't say Fuck until Thursday challenge.... GO