Daily Discussion Thread: Sat 14 Oct 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Sat 14 Oct 2023
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Ok morning, here's my plan..
- attend to Minipeelers re breakfast and Milo/chai
- exercise
- vote
- grocery
- butcher
- get a soup stock on
- get a soup on
- Mt Washmore
- pretend to relax while I worry about everything else that needs to be done
- worry about turning 50 in a few days
- buy small gift or two to give to Mr P to give to the kids to give to me
In no particular order.
Victoria has had a First Peoples' Assembly since 2019. This is largely identical in role and function to what the federal Voice would be, but it is tasked with representing its views at a state level.
Sadly, while I try to hold on to a bit of hope, it is almost certain Victoria will not be voting Yes today.
Make it make sense.
I woke up a little late after being exhausted last night. I decided to go ahead and cook my big breakfast or in this case lunch.
I’ve got toasted bread, eggs under the bacon, some charred fried tomatoes, onion and mushrooms with some hash brown and a couple of sausages and also a little bit of Dino pasta.
Sorry about messiness of the plate and playing but here it is.
I have to say I’m stuffed now.
photo of my big lunch
Wondering to risk putting the laundry out - it's all blustery out there and looks miserable but no real rain as such.
The black dog continues to lurk for honestly no good reason at all. It's getting quite tedious. I have taken my massive vit D supplement but something tells me I need more sun. I've enjoyed having my blackout blinds in my bedroom but I think I need to leave more sun filtering through so I wake up more naturally and start the day a bit less groggy and shitful...
E: I had some coffee and it definitely helped but now I feel a bit jittery instead. I started looking at jobs in Perth ........
One disadvantage of living near the top of a hill is that the walk home is always upwards. A lot of walking to write a few letters on a piece of paper, but I did get to see some nice gardens on the way - one place in particular had a stunning native garden. I also got to pat a dog (a young excitable Husky, which I expect will be trouble in the future as the owner did not seem to have any idea how to deal with it, unfortunately).
The majority no vote reflects a few things:
- Many are uncomfortable with race based provisions in the constitution ( the fact one is already there didn't mean we should add another - it's an argument to remove it).
- Australians don't trust politicians or activists and need a higher standard of proof that something is going to work before putting something in the constitution forever.
- While Australians are not against taking action to assist aboriginals in need (or anyone else for that matter), they are strongly committed to equality in law and in representation in the constitution. Any assistance targeted at particular groups should be accountable, specific and temporary. If an ill defined body is embedded forever and becomes untouchable no matter it's effectiveness, this creates conditions for corruption.
- Australians are practical people and are not easily moved by rhetoric.
- Australians will resist moralizing and condescension.
- Australians are tired of lip service, committees and reports saying the same thing.
What I find very disappointing about the Yes campaign and some yes voters is that they have taken no responsibility for the loss. There doesn't seem to be any consideration of the possibility that the Voice was not the best idea, or any consideration that the campaigning for it was poor. Instead everyone who voted no is branded as racist or dumb . There is an arrogance here which has ultimately led to what is shaping up to be a crushing defeat, and unfortunately this arrogance continues post mortem. Nor does there seem to be much respect for the will of the people, which the outcome of this referendum represents.
What I would expect the government to say at this point : "We fucked up and we take accountability. We ran a very needless, damaging and divisive referendum. We need to find a better way to address the gap that involves the government actually doing their job, starting Monday".
I think I made the mistake of turning on to the abc’s vote counting broadcast.
Listening to a politician on his view about the No vote and how he talks makes me sick.
Of course they support the idea and everything about recognition and how there’s so many ways to word it but of course they’re opposed to the no vote for the same amount of reasons and words that all mean the same thing.
Political spin makes my head hurt.
I’m putting on a movie before the women’s afl or cricket starts.
here's a positive, nothing has been lost, no rights have been lost, no money has been lost, no programs have been dismantled
this was just one thing and we can keep working in other ways
sadly, what may have happened is an increase in social division here, thanks to murdoch and russia . We must not let them write the narrative, we will not become Us vs Them. We are all Aussies.
17k steps for the day, good boy me. Now time to lay on the bed like a cow for the rest of the day 🐮
Am full of sausage. Nap time Zzzzz
So fatigued and nauseous today. I almost booked a night up in Moama but I feel gross, so it looks like I'm just staying here fighting the urge to go back to bed.
Made a chicken stock and then soup. It's simmering away on the stove and I'm about to add "noodles" (really it's broken spaghetti, the only time I break spaghetti! Mum used to do it and I got used to it). Also having lamb cutlets because local butcher had them for reasonable price so I thought why not. Elder doesn't like lamb but will be soothed with home-made chocolate brownie.
My spooky playlist is behind and I am stupid tired today. I need to get a reign on this fatigue that seems to have reared up this year. On a random note, I’m impressed with the silicone moulds I purchased.
Hope everyone is okay this evening.
Don't forget to vote
Won the food cupboard bread trifecta this morning - English muffins, crumpets and fruit loaf! They had a ton of muffins especially today for some reason. It was odd, there was no normal bread, normally there is lots of plain bread and the others are an occasional treat. Good timing too, I'm almost out of muffins and I do like them with my eggs for breakfast.
Need a Covid shot but can’t go to a pharmacy as I need to lie down for a while after due to reactions. My gp only does them on specific days twice a month, during the day (we both work and need my OH to accompany me). It shouldn’t be this hard … the vaccine centres were great, I let them know in advance. sigh.
I think today is one of those days that needs a To Do List.
- Walk the dog ✔️
- Walk myself to the voting place ✔️
- Cut up leftover lamb for the freezer ✔️
- Gardening assignments ✔️ (sort of. I did one, putting the second off till later)
- Plant the next lot of seeds
- Rearange area the new fridge is going in so it will fit, or at least frown at the area thoughtfully whilst ineffectually moving odds and ends around
Somewhere in there I'll need to work out what to eat today, and eat it. Feeling a bit uninspired on that front so far.
Edit: eating is going well so far. English muffin with fried eggs and garlic mushrooms. I'm thinking probably a burger for dinner. Still undecided on lunch, but a lamb sandwich is probably a good option.
Did an Aldi run (voted a couple of days back) and the car park was heaving. And Audi drivers were being Audi drivers.
Still, snacks and prosecco have been procured for either results watching or drowning my sorrows, depending on how soon it's called.
Now back to the theory units before the First Aid class Tuesday.Love a 30% off booze sale on ubereats. I was just ordering some Thai for dinner and you can tack on an extra order without the service fee.. saw Liquorland on there and with the 30% off promotion I'm getting a 10 pack of Jim Beam Black 6.9% (nice) cans delivered for $10 less than if I drove to Dan Murphy's. I'm not even finished my last 10 pack, but I'll take a bargain when I see it.
New runners! Quite liking the aesthetics
Dad is heading in to visit Mum at the hospital tomorrow (she broke her ankle, has to stay a while) so I might make them both some coffee and take it to them in my keep-hot cup. I think they'll like my coffee, I make it double shot. I hate having relatively early nights on a Saturday, I feel like a loser.. but I'm tired so (Mario style) heeere we go! zzz
So chill voting down here on the bellarine compared to melbs.
Also added a bunch of shit to the chilli patch hoping for a better crop this year. Bit of dynamic poo, bit of super phosphate c'mon little chillos you got this.
Nothing quite says this has been a relationship of circumstance quite like an incoming departure, annoying habits blocked out become maddeningly unbearable once again.
Someone's habit of clearing their throat every 5-10 minutes might just send me postal before my time is up.
How on earth does a rainbow lorikeet get itself stuck behind a car dashboard? I expect that sort of misadventure from cats, not birds!
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Tonight, it's more Japanese - leftover miso soup, steamed broccoli with goma-ae and I made an attempt at tamagoyaki for the first time. It looks like a giant yellow turd but... The inside is perfectly textured and it tastes not bad at all if I say so myself! I still think it's not exactly easy to do, you have to get everything in place and work quickly between dabbing with oil, pouring, lifting and rolling, but it doesn't feel as impossible as it did...
oh, no baby falcons this year :(
Google maps phone app update has changed the colours and I do not like it.
This was supposed to be a MarioKart party, but apparently the disc has shat itself.
https://imgur.com/a/nLa51eI?s=sms
ID: a table full of nibbles
Aussie Enviro, Food and Frugal are looking a bit slow.
The quicker Glaze time was nice but it still threw up the same insufficient protection error, so I cranked the settings up to maximum and ran it again to see what that time is like. lol. I'm still waiting. I should have done it with single images as a control and written the times down...
Playing Minecraft is also probably slowing it down. But I'm bored waiting. Lightning just struck the hut again, 3 times in a row. It's lucky I added a lighting rod and didn't tame any more cats.
I'm feeling really uninspired. Maybe I'll make an underground mushroom garden or an underground grow room. Or try to find new mushrooms/plants. All I really want to do is explore, but then that means I have to go further for new stuff after updates. Unless I limit myself to one direction, or a four point axis that still leaves widening pie slices of unexplored territory/never loaded chunks the further out I go.
you know how some folk came up with those "memo" water bottles (flat, rectangular in standard paper sizes like a5 etc)?
I want someone to do the same with food containers, so that my meals sit nicely in my satchel, and I don't have to leave my beautiful Italian satchel at home in favour of girthier but far more student-y crumpler.
that is all.
got some movie music stuck in my head, not even sure what it is but what ever it is it's lovely 🤗😊🎶🎵
now I'm off to vote, 🤞🏻 yes
My new fridge will be arriving Wednesday, so I ended up wasting half the day browsing fridge storage containers. I have also rearranged the space it's going into a couple of times and probably will a few more times before I settle on what I want to do. I have managed to get rid of some stuff, including some old spices and a ridiculous number of plastic bags. Why I had three separate plastic bag stashes in such a small area I do not know.
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Using version one of Glaze took all last night and into this afternoon only to throw a ‘not strong enough protection’ error… I’ve changed to the beta of version three and even after having gone up a level of intensity, it’s given me a much shorter estimate and I can see it counting down. Wow. Fingers crossed
How long can soy yogurt sit out of the fridge and still be good?
I got a delivery at 12pm, was occupied and then forgot to go get it until 5 or 6… the tubs were no longer very cold but they contain no animal products and are unopened.
That stuff is expensive 😭
I remembered the tune I woke up humming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaV2d8kkrAE it's so beautiful 😭
Ugh, work office is so stuffy because they are playing with air quality control for night shifters, feels like I'm going to need to start gulping to get enough air in me.
