Hello Friends! I just realised I haven't posted or logged in a much longer period of time than I thought. I hope you're all well! For once I'm not here to vent or complain. Lol.

Oh for fuck sake

Happy hottest 100 day! Would anybody be down for a thread in c/rage where we can discuss the H100? It was one of my favourite things from over on Reddit. All of us who cleared our days just to listen to the hottest 100 would sit around and pretty much all day "yeah this song's fuckin shit ay" with the occasional old person hopping in to rant about how much better music was last century. Then once every 10 songs we'd all day "yeah I'm not a fan of [artist] but this song is actually alright"

Ok I probably didn't sell that very well - there's a reason I don't work in sales! But jokes aside, would anybody be keen for something like that? Wouldn't be as much fun because there's less people here, but I reckon with a few of us it'd be decent enough?

We had a 7-hour power outage yesterday afternoon, along with 1500 other homes, all because someone a bit further down the street released a helium-filled metallic balloon which floated up to the power lines and blew them up. All credit to the fire service who arrived quickly to secure the scene, and also to the United Energy crews who turned up with three massive cherry-picker trucks to thread it all back together again.

In better news, Groundhog Day: The Musical was fantastic, highly recommended. It's surpassed Wicked as my favourite theatre musical of all time. The sets, the humour, the cast...just brilliant.

Another sunset go

No one there(?) Should be packed this time of year.

I made these today

Following this recipe

https://www.recipetineats.com/fried-chicken/

They were crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside but fuck they were bland and too salty. Nothing like kfc. I'll stick with korean fried chicken because they do flavour and spicy. I do not recommend unless you play around with spices.

I reckon if cats could make cups of tea and coffee they would be perfect

Ok so I did it. I booked the flights to Vietnam. But it's going to be a very flat out three months at work up until holiday time I'll say that much.

Meanwhile can I just say hospitality in this country is pretty shit. You are basically treated with a thinly veiled contempt at any hotel.

Here's the H100 thread for anybody who's interested:

https://aussie.zone/post/6318034

I forgot to put a picture of the mug. (First ever attempt at sketching with charcoal and very quick, be kind.)

The lines are a lot heavier and more defined than they should be, it wasn’t shaded in very lightly, gradually and increasingly accurately as it should have been. (You can see I put the bottom of the rim way too low at first then couldn’t lighten it with smudging.)

This is due in part to me sharpening the nib into weird uneven craggy angles by taking too large slices/inconsistent angles during sharpening and having to kind of press down to mark. I’ll watch a sharpening tutorial and try again when I feel like it.

Constantly hitting my hand and the end of the pencil on the easel rest and having to work around it at a weird sideways angle when doing the bottom was also really awkward.

Melbcat has also decided that she doesn’t like a flavour I bought many tins of and is refusing to finish her medicated supper, even with treats or bonito flakes on top. She just picks the good stuff off and demands something nicer. 😢

And yesterday I randomly came up in a few large hives which are now swollen welts. Must be from handling laundry chemicals

Final assignment done - I now have the next month free from study 😁

I had to draw an annotated diagram of my house & land as part of the assignment, and I can definitely confirm that is really not something I have any natural talent towards. I was able to use the glass table from my bathroom with a light underneath as a lightbox to trace a printout from Google Earth, so it at least has the right proportions. And I got to use my coloured pencils to do some colouring in of the different areas. I'm not expecting a great mark on this assignment, but it should pass and that's all that really matters with this one.

Goodnight everyone ❤️ and somehow it's the perfect time for Gibson's zoomies and sneak attacks lol

QLD is baking meanwhile we are having the mildest summer that I can ever recall having.

I just remembered I have like $1500 play-cash in my backpack from my cruise which I didn't spend because I was sick.

I could just go to the bank and deposit it back into my savings orrrrrr... the weather up on the border is looking pretty good for today/tomorrow.

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Did a day out in the city today.

So many tourists. Was glad to help a group of American lads that were a bit lost.

They were super appreciative and wanted to tip me.

Also, the Canadian lady that works at Lids Emporium...you rock

starting to get sick of watching telly but pain is so exhausting and I have to rest or my back won't heal

Today I rewatched The Untouchables for the 6th time. Even if you don't like police movies it's still awesome to watch.

The sun is shining up on the border 😎

And now for my next trick: I nap for an hour or two.

Ok all the hotels have been booked. Of course you never know until you stay there, but I think I've chosen wisely, and economically whilst ensuring good value.

But I will say that my gosh Ho Chi Minh City has become very expensive, pushing 1st world pricing at times.

Apparently an hour nap at like 4:30pm has meant I'm still awake at 5am. What is this bullshit, body? We've been alive long enough to have the hang of falling asleep by now, idiot.

Back after a long but productive day out. Through sheer serendipity I managed to get out to North Melbourne and get my hands on some Small Batch decaf beans, can't wait to try them!

This appears to be the first year where we've got some young neighbours round the back fully into the hottest 100. Good on them. The quality of their vocal renditions (with aluminium tray as percussive accompaniment) is heading very much in a downward direction inversely proportionate to their BAC. I hope they're having fun.

^(as long as they please don't continue past 10pm.)^

I just had a weird click moment.

In the Hottest 100 discovered via Rage thread there's a singer called Maisie that I've only ever seen before on a viral tiktok that spread to youtube. The song on there is called Lost The Breakup. She sounds like Taylor Swift but there was something familiar about the voice. She's using the babyish indie girl voice. While more upbeat it reminds me of Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star. Fade Into You

And apparently Nicki Minaj covered Barbie Girl?

Yep. Trends are cyclical. While Gen Z seems to be rediscovering a lot of 90's and early 2000's fashion trends the same may be happening with the music.

Ps. Was Fade Into You ever in Buffy? It sounds like it would have been played in the Bronze but don't actually remember. Edit: Unbelievably it was not.

We've entered the last 10 of the hottest 100. A few more people have joined the rage thread, but if anybody wants to get in before it finishes, you're more than welcome.

Palworld is going to eat up my whole weekend and I welcome that.

Can't say I've enjoyed any of these songs so far.

Rewatching an old show from 2004 and man oh man, the fashion, please never bring it back! Also so glad I was not a girl during that period because sooo much midriff, were your tummies cold all the time.

In saying all that I seem to remember my entire wardrobe consisting of baggy boardshorts, cargo shorts, and jorts (my favourites had a Bart Simpson patch on one of the back pockets).