Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 9/2/2024
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
House went on the market this week and had first open home today. Really not looking forward to spending every Saturday and Sunday morning cleaning/tidying and then being out all day at open homes.
Good luck! Hopefully you get a sale on the first day and don't have to do it anymore 😆
That’s the dream but probably not reality. We’ve noticed a lot of places being relisted after their auction dates so assume there’s a high volume being passed in.
Hopefully we’re a bit more realistic. The council was smoking something when they did the last RV and our minimum is about 25% lower than the valuation.
Another day resting on the bed. Hopefully tomorrow I will get to go outside and see how my swan plants did when I was away. From the glimpse of it I saw the other night, they one grow really high!!! :)
The good news is MSD have silently reinstated my disability allowance. The bad news is there is no back pay, and the last letter I had from them was the one from back when they randomly cancelled it. I wish I had more ability to sort it out, but I might have to just take the hit on this one.
MSD are so crap. Are there organisations that advocate to MSD on behalf of people? I feel like that should be a thing.
Yes, theoretically there are "advocates" from grassroots charities, but I think up here they must only be for much bigger stuff (like people who are made homeless or having their kids benefit taken and can't feed them etc).
I've never been able to get an advocate here for my issues, despite asking Citizens Advice and the legal aid people, and phoning the Auckland poverty action for recs. And to be honest I wouldn't for something like this when there are people who need it much more.
I've had a busy day at work, though it should taper off this afternoon.
Also, last night my wife and I won Pandemic on the hardest difficulty (vanilla, 6 epidemic cards, one role each). It's the first time we've tried it, last week we lost 2/3 on the normal difficulty. I think the secret this week was to actually pay attention to your super powers and the cards in your hand.
Anyone got any exciting plans for the weekend?
I've got Monday Tuesday and Wednesday off as annual leave. Mm non-holiday holiday
Nice! Showing up those people who had a 4 day Waitangi weekend. You'll have a 5 day weekend!
Been pretty hectic and busy, so have naturally been a bit distant from Lemmy for a while.
How's everything going? Any breaking news?
Honestly I can't remember if anything interesting happened recently. I had a holiday 😆. We updated to the latest version, Lemmy 0.19.3. @BlueEther@no.lastname.nz dislocated his shoulder. I think some stuff happened in the news 🤷
thanks for the mention.
ended up spending all week in Waikato waiting on CT then MRI to find out if they would operate on it, only to have the surgery put off today at lunchtime and then sent home foe the weekend - will get a date on monday when they will glue me all bac together.
Running damage:
Kids, have someone stabilise you ladder - they can f you good
Where do you put the camera so it doesn't get smashed or something?
Something I never understood since it never happened where I lived, why would anyone steal post box? 🤔