I have a couple published which you can check out here
A couple of upper primary horror inspired by Goosebumps (book 3 coming soon), a Treasure Hunting Adventure (releasing shortly) and a Tassie-western novella/sort story (like 40 pages).
I went to visit nana in respite care today. The place she is is really nice and the nurses and the others there are lovely. I genuinely think it’s as nice as you can get with these kinds of things. The problem is that nana’s dementia means that she forgets why she’s there. Her short term memory is about 5 minutes long now, and every few minutes she asked me “when do I get to go home?” It broke my heart every time. She doesn’t remember what happened to put her there and she doesn’t understand. When she saw me walk into the common space she jumped up and said “you’ve come to take me home!!” It was all I could do to not cry on the spot. She’s also started reverting to being scared of my grandfather. He’s been dead for 30 years. He was a raging alcoholic and very physically and emotionally violent, but nana also gave out as much as she got back in the day and has never expressed being afraid of him before. But when I kept having to say to her “no Nan, this is your home now, remember? You’re here so that we can keep you safe” she’d just nod and go “right, to keep me safe from him he’s always so angry when he drinks.” So that’s interesting.
Anyway I took her to the pancake parlour and let her go to town and order anything she wanted and she was so stoked. She’s never as happy as she is when she’s got dessert.
I need and entire bottle of wine and a good cry now.
I didn’t have a good relationship with my mother and she had a deep onset of dementia while relatively young that eventually took her motor functions and her voice.
On one of my earlier visits she was still somewhat lucid but had no speech and I had to explain to her why we had to put her into a home that she tried desperately to escape from.
When I last saw her she was just a husk of herself staring out into space with clenched fists not even recognising me.
It was very hard to see and I wish we had time to mend our relationship and I’m sure her dementia contributed to our fights.
Treasure the time you have spent and memories of her that you have.
Before my grandpa passed, he was in hospice care (found out later that it's actually the same one my partner's mum works at, but she wasn't his nurse) and he I think suffered dementia because of the jaw cancer. And like man, that shit hurts. And you know they're not forgetting you intentionally.
Like I remember my final goodbye and I could see him trying to connect the dots on who I am. Ugh.
I'll have to join you the good cry (luckily there's no one else here in the lunch room), it never gets easier.
Nana, thankfully, still remembers who I am. There’s only been one instance where she didn’t know me, and it was because I showed up at her house with my sister and niece who she hadn’t seen for 5+ years and two unfamiliar faces threw her. I can’t take Mr Omoikiri with me to see her either because he came onto the scene too late for him to be in her long-term memory and she gets a bit uncomfortable around ‘strange’ men. She also comes out with some old lady racist stuff sometimes that she may have thought in the past, but had the filter to know to not say it. and while he just laughs it off, it’s best for everyone if he stays away. I’m certain the day will come when she doesn’t know me though.
I’m sorry for your loss too. It just sucks so much
Oof yeah, it's uhhh... it's tough being around old people and they just feel so embolden to say whatever is on their mind. I'm surprised my nana is taking my cousin's transition well. Of course, I guess it's easier to understand his transition because it's a binary transition, whereas I and my partner are both nonbinary... oh well.
Yeah it does suck. But, your Nana is getting the best care and she knows she's loved and that's really all you can ask for.
I work at a respite home and it's such a sad place to be because you see the elderly suffering through their dementia and other memory or physical issues. It's really sad, but it's so nice you got to take her out.
That hit me right in the gut too. This isn’t a big centre. There’s maybe 25-30 people in there all up. It’s also not a high-care one, so they’re free to roam around and do what they want and we can take them out no problem. But when I signed nana out in the log, I saw that there was maybe only 10 other instances of people taking their loved ones out. Maybe some of them can’t really go out, and maybe some family members come and sit with them instead. But for the most part it looks like they’ve just been out there and forgotten.
It’s so hard. Thankfully nana is now past the point where she realises that she’s dementing. There was a while where she was really distressed because she knew she should remember how to do basic tasks and had enough of her mind still to understand what was happening to her
Dastardly Windows automatic update restarted my computer and made the bot homeless overnight. At least it was not the bot itself failing. It has now been turned off. I thought I'd shut off everything that could turn it off on me, but missed one.
I wonder what future humans (if there are any) will make of Windows updates.
I like the comment you added to bot001's posts. I was thinking of adding a random quote of the day to sydbot. Thinking is about as far as I usually get though. I'm a good thinker in that respect.
Maybe some nice new batteries, a squirt of WD40, points cleaning and a buff with a microfibre cloth will help it feel better. Self care would apply to bots too methinks.
I've been asked if I want to attend an IT security conference next week at the MCG which it comes with an MCG tour and a fine-dining lunch experience. I feel like I don't own clothes nice enough to attend something like that! I'm not fancy.
Finally had my long awaited psychiatrist appointment today and lemme just say I'm so so so relieved she turned out to be very professional and empathetic and asked lots of very very relevant questions and wasn't at any point condescending or patronising. I'm quite emotional tbh. Just want to lie down somewhere and soak up the sun but I have this very time critical government related project thing I have to go and do now and my shoulders are killing me. I will do the lie down this weekend.
Also stay inside if you manage to soak in the sun from there. Outside is cold and windy enough to offset the the warmth from the sun, not that it was that warm in it anyway.
Lying down over the weekend sounds like a great plan, I hope you manage to get your neck and shoulder sorted out.
I reckon so. Big hit to the wallet (475 - thankfully I think I'll be getting most of of it back having hit the safety net) but she is good.
Unfortunately I gotta head outside shortly for a bit of field work. But I probably could do with some fresh air. I have plenty of warm clothes on so if the sun's out I'll be fine in that sense.
Thanks. I've done it so many times now I'm a bit numb to the whole process but I'm actually feeling overwhelmed this time from feeling like I have finally got a breakthrough where everyone else has hit a wall (because I needed psychiatric assessment).
Heading to Melbourne next week. Taking the Jetstar roulette. Last time the flight was eventually cancelled at midnight and we got put up in a hotel and slept for like 4 hours before having to be up again for the earliest flight the next morning.
Definitely hoping that isn't the case this time.
I reached out to my old primary school a week or so ago about donating my books to the school library since they are the reason I am such a big reader and wanted to be a writer. They said yes and wanted me to come in for a talk but unfortunately couldn't make it work because of pupil free day on one day and specialist classes on the other. They asked if I could come for book week which I would love but probably won't be able too. I'm really sad I couldn't do it because I've really felt a connection to my school since my little one started school and I'm now studying education for a career change.
I'm still going to drop off the books and hopefully get to see what it's like inside. Last time I was in Melbourne I drove past and it's changed so so much. It's crazy.
Pizza has been cooked and consumed. OMG awesomeness pizzonified. No pics, I was too busy eating. Miss Meow is very displeased, she was under the impression that pizza was a sharing food, but I would not let her snag a piece and ate the whole thing myself.
Everythings coming up Milhouse. New job is good, exercise and money. Close enough to home and might be really close after training. aa is working. Finally got some closure on my previous shit cunts of employers and co workers, can resign and move on with life. Holiday is over and I have a new job.
Also got news my son and mum are coming down for a couple of weeks in August.
Got interviewed yesterday for a trans book and photo exhibition. So much positivity going around. Service work today, aa and my organistiion. Cook another vege stew, go for a walk, another meeting and then bed. My days are full of joy at the moment. Plus constantly playing with the cats. They are super happy at the moment. I got some treats from Aldi. They love them a bit too much but it's bringing us closer.
Exciting day trip to Northland. It has real shops, something Carlton and the cbd doesn't have.
I went by bus and that was excitement. 😬 A big speeding earthmoving truck pushed a van into our lane, evasive measures were taken.
Northland is so different to where I live. It has shops for children and men and families, homewares and variety stores, cafes that weren't just coffee shops. It's clean and quiet.
I don't think you can get an easier hot meal than hot dogs. Yep I've scraped the bottom of the barrel with lips, hips and arseholes for dinner tonight.
I wonder if there's some interesting combination to make it tasty or something. Like adding onions and mushrooms and garlic sauce or some combo you don't normally use with hotdogs.
You don't need much heat for a good chili. Cumin and smoky paprika can do the job. Plenty of garlic and onion and you still get most of the flavours. Most American type chilis aren't actually that spicy.
Oh my GOD. I was gonna post this bit of a rant because I couldn't find my pants. I was so annoyed and getting frustrated. I couldn't find them and I remembered wearing them Monday and put them on my bed. I even checked the laundry places.
...I washed them Monday night so they were in the hamper the whole time. I'm an idiot.
With apologies to those whom have standard days, weekend! Four whole days without idiot manager. May they stay the fuck out of my dreams, that’s just too damn much.
With society changing away from standard working hours we really need to update terminology. We need a new term for scheduled days off, and also a term for when your days off align with the days off of people you want to spend time with. We could probably do with a term for the situation when you are unable to spend time with family and friends due to not having any overlapping time off, and for the annoying attitude of people who assume days off during the week are "holidays" and days off after night shift are open for you to do things other than sleep. Despite the number of people who proclaim we are a 24/7 society now (and they tend to be the ones arguing against penalty rates) a lot of people really don't understand anything other than standard work hours. Drive time radio hosts are my favourite - despite the fact that they are working non standard hours themselves they really go all in on the 9-5 mythology.
I feel better today. Yesterday my brain was a bit “foot to the floor on the accelerator” but today it’s much calmer. Which is strange, because I don’t think I’ve done anything different. Somethings just shifted inside me and I’m back to good again. Strange.
In today's defiant act of self inflicted financial sabotage I'm getting 3 potato cakes @ $2.50 a pop when I go to the shops later. Tum tum can do this.. it has to.
They're newish and it's daylight robbery but they've lengthened their trading hours and are open every day now so seeing that viability warms the icy cockles of my heart.
You need to source these mate Potato cakes. They have them at Tasman Meats. There's another one that you can get at Tasman Meats but I can't think of the name of them. They are big potato cakes.
It’s the water not the gas canister, but point taken. Was rather worried. We’ve had burst pipes three times in this house, so the possibility of it being something non trivial was there.
aaah, many swears old workplace resignation letter sent. I was super stressed right after then but and an aa friend called very soon after which was at just the right time. First time I'd wanted to drink in a month. That call, food, an anti anxiety med and some strong camomile tea and I'm deeply at ease again and feel like booze would be a very bad idea. End of an epoch of my life. I worked there for almost 17 years and they've always had shit management which really failed me when I needed their support. I expected a lot more solidarity from the staff also but received absolutley none, not even an are you ok? I'd given mine so freely and to my own detriment as the most senior member of staff. They're all on my resentment list. FUCK THEM! Their memories will fade away as I make better connections and they'll still be spineless psycophants. I deliberately avoid places I may see them because I really don't like my chances of keeping my cool around them. Ok, rant over. No stew made, but I think dinner is planned with some aa people after this evening's meeting.
end rant, thanks for reading dear DT friends.
It hurts a lot when you’ve given so much of you to a job and nobody gives a shit when you leave. I know one shouldn’t feel that way, it’s just a job, but personally I felt really upset, I try so hard. (8.5 years ….. shitty management can fuck off)
Yeah I was angry bitter and disappointed that people I actually trusted as friends basically deserted me when I needed them most. The only people who could really understand why I was so let down by management, because they have the same shit management and unsafe workplace. This was the final nail though, I have let it all go. Harbouring resentments and seeking revenge or being litigant destroys my chance of helping those sick people be better to the next person they have the chance to desert or lie about being supportive to.
I have to work on bettering myself and they have to be honest with themselves before they'd accept my support anyway. A lot of people would rather bitch than try and change the status quo. This is true in every facet of society.
Had a couple site servers go offline yesterday, in both cases it's the modems. One's a hard DUP fail (meaning it's the NBNco infrastructure in the pit outside), the other is the modem just straight up offline in the aussie broadband diagnostics. So i have nbnco going out today to repair one abd waiting on site to reboot the modem at the other. Simples, right?
Nope, $boss is already rabbiting on about replacing the servers and trying to light a fire under my arse screaming about random shit that doesn't even goddamn apply once actual diagnostics are run on the issues to hand.
I finally got paid, yay! And I sent my partner the money that I owe them from last October. It's a lot of money and goes over the savings budget, but it was only an extra $40 or so, and I'd rather it out of the way than still looming.
I wish it was the weekend already, I’m sick of work today, my boss is on holidays and someone has decided to change up one of the aspects of my job so that what used to take me about 45 minutes, took me 2 and a half hours today. Hopefully it will be quicker tomorrow, but I keep thinking about the fact that I usually have Fridays off and have to go in just to get frustrated.
I knew going back to the office would make me tired but holy shit it feels like my bones have turned lead in my sleep. I feel exhausted and very cranky, which is not ideal because cranky me is the single worst person I know.
I’m still
Shocked at much much of an affect it has on my sensory and nervous systems. Came home from the office yesterday, fed the dog and went to bed. Slept 13 hrs.
Those sting. I worked at a place that didn't actually tax our allowances (living away and travel).....and I was working on site for like 9 months. The cash was great. The ATO bill wasn't.
Have a friend going to Olinda tomorrow, might suddenly become ill and go with. Had an incident at work when I started earlier this arvo and it's extremely soured my already diminishing taste for the place.
Pondering buying an old car in case I have to drive into the city - can’t park a large car to save myself. How many km is too many ? Looking at $5k or less. No Uber or taxi where I live. Was $145 to book a private car to get into the cbd a few weeks ago. (Was emergency medical)
After much procrastination I took the first step in my plan to make instructional videos by doing a short video of how to darn a sock. I really don't sound like I think I do when recorded, it is very odd. I also put some apps on my phone to filter for colour blindness visibility, it was a bit tricky to find colour combinations that would work well and provide good contrast for different types of colour blindness.
I think I've got the basics down about how to use the editing software, but managed to delete a section in the middle (fortunately not an important bit). I also need to work on keeping what I am doing centred when filming, I kept moving my work into the wrong spot.
Overall, lots of areas to improve on but I'm fairly happy with it for a first effort.
I wear holes there because my feet are at the top of the size range for standard socks, and with one foot larger than the other it only wears on that one side. The fabric at that point gets stretched thin so it is more vulnerable to abrasion, I don't think the toe nails are the main culprit. If you do wear holes regularly I find it actually helps to darn a patch over the top before there is actually a hole there, the extra protection tends to stop it wearing through.
Met this super cute woman at a meet up tonight and just really couldn't figure out, is she gay, bi or does she just hang around queer people and is just a Melbourne hipster? All I do know is that I thought she was really cute and pretty. Lol.
have decided to take tomorrow off and go somewhere for the weekend. excluding Daylesford (its lovely but I go there all the time), where's a nice regional town for me to visit this weekend?
edit: someone mentioned wandi in a different thread, strong contender
Forrest us a good shout - I should have noted in my post that we have a place in Lorne, so we are often in that part of the state. I absolutely love Lake Elizabeth - its such a nice walk in, and so pretty! I dont often see platypus, though (I know they're there, I just never see them!)
Oh cool. I’m sure you have been but if not, I can highly recommend CODA at the Lorne Hotel. They do a fantastic steak. Probably in top three favourite steak meal in my lifetime.
Uh let’s see, you know Echuca always has something going on and the river has the paddle boat. Shamrock does a nice pint.
we are headed to Beechworth next week for a couple days to poke around and do the asylum ghost tour. Maybe I’ll write a mini review here.
oh!!! an asylum ghost tour sounds right up my alley! please do share your review. You prompted me to google ghost tours in regional vic. There's one in walhalla, so maybe that's where we go this weekend
It is a lovely part of Victoria. I did have the worst pizza ever in Hall's Gap, but that was like 20 years ago and I'm pretty sure the joint doesn't exist anymore.
I finally booked in for an eye appointment. I hope I don't need new glasses, but I hope I can get my new ones cleaned up or something (though I might need to pay for new glass because I think one lens has a scratch).
My left rear car tyre has a slow leak and I just can't right now. I pumped it up last night, it was down to like 14psi.. I'd pumped it up 3 weeks ago and it was down to about 17psi then. Just.. urgh.
I have now spent way too long learning to do captions for YouTube videos. Then I discovered that the default position for them blocks the video of what I am doing. After much investigation I have discovered that you can drag the subtitles where you want them when you watch, unless you are using the app. Which of coarse automatically opens when you watch a video. I have now disabled the app, as I apparently can't delete it, and now videos are opening in the browser. It is frustrating how many companies put out apps with extremely limited features and then push everything to open in them. If I wanted to use the blasted app I wouldn't be in my browser.
For anyone still using Reddit, are you getting a weird thing with the Popular feed where you click on a post and it ‘opens’ two or three posts and then to get back to the Popular feed you have to go back 2-3 times?
No, but the way I do it, is I go through /popular and look at whatever I'm interested in. If I'm not interested, I hide it. If it's a picture, I look at it, then hide it. Text post? Read it, then hide it. If it's something I want to read later, I open it in a tab, open the comments in a tab, then hide the submission. I go through the whole front page like this in about 30 minutes.
Then, later, when I check Reddit again, about 50-60 percent of what is on /popular is stuff that I saw and hid earlier in the day. It's super annoying that I'm not being served fresh content throughout the day when I've specifically hidden the other stuff I don't want them to show me.
I've just been going year by year on my Google Timeline to see how far I've travelled each year. I know some people find this sort of thing creepy that your phone keeps a record of places you've been, but I find it really useful and valuable.
2020 the furthest place I went to was Albury and that wasn't until December. It's almost as if something happened that year that kept me at home. 2016 the furthest was Sydney but every other year since it has been tracking me (2012 when I moved from iPhone to Android) I've managed to get up to Queensland or travel internationally, so I'm doing alright.
If anyone is taking a look at theirs.. check out August 2020. I actually didn't go beyond our mandated 5km limit the entire month! I went to Costco x 1, Woolworths x 1, Pizza Hut x 1, KFC x 1 and my apartment for the entire rest of the month!
PTV website says to go to the Art's Centre to get a bus to Moorabbin, but then I keep getting told by them to take the Sandringham train to Brighton beach and take a bus from there to Moorabbin. That actually adds an extra 15-20 minutes to my travel rather than an express bus to Moorabbin from Art's Centre.
Anyone know why they keep telling us to go Sandringham line instead? Is the Art's Centre bus not actually running?
Could be a connecting line? I remember busses would go to Sandringham instead of direct to the city. The Pakenham/Cranbourne line is going to Burnley instead of into the city.
A little help please....so it looks like the last time I got the energy rebate was September last year and I have not kept up on what is available since then. Have I missed some deadlines on applying for additional payments? What should I do?
Australians cannot comprehend keep left unless overtaking (and their attitudes are they absolutely do not give a single fuck about other drivers) so I can't see this making any difference except potentially fining people who have enough of sitting behind right-lane hogs and go around them on the left, like I end up having to do multiple times on semi regular journeys to the outer western suburbs. I've actually spoken to someone before who said when they get on the highway they'll just go straight over to the right lane because it's "easier". I see truck drivers doing the same thing on places like the Westgate. Not overtaking anyone.. they just want to be in the right lane.
Nothing short of an actual crackdown on keep right unless overtaking will change this behaviour in my opinion. These people need to be pulled over, shot, have their cars crushed and their families sent a fine.
These people need to be pulled over, shot, have their cars crushed and their families sent a fine.
You have thirty minutes to move your family. You have ten minutes. Your family has been impounded. Your family has been crushed into a cube. You have thirty minutes to move your cube.
OK, this is just screwed up. I scored a perfect round, but today’s puzzle shows how inconsistent this game is.
::: spoiler The spoiler contains spoilers, so don’t click it if you’re going to try your luck in the game.
Tonga is closer to New Zealand than two of the countries included as neighbours. Why does it treat Norfolk Island as a neighbour when it’s an Australian external territory? And why does the game usually only consider nearby neighbours separated by water when the country has no land borders at all? Like when it was Italy, they didn’t include Tunisia or Albania as neighbours, despite both being far closer than any of NZ’s neighbours.
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Hey all, Decided to take the plunge with aussie zone and nice to be invited into the daily thread. Hope you are all doing well
Hey alright! I rescued another one!!
haha yes you did. Once I got off my lazy butt.
Careful now. The eco chamber we created on the old site is inevitably going to repeat here, apparently.
...apparently...
Good to see you again!
And you too. I hope everything is well with you.
hello!
there!
Nice to see a fellow writer!
I'm hoping Lemmy has some decent writing places, I always hated the Reddit ones tbh.
I felt like r/writing was just bad advice and people not wanting you to be a writer.
What do you write?
Yeah it was the same questions over and over again and I'm like "ugh okay, yes you can write women if you're a man just WRITE THEM AS HUMANS!"
I'm a urban fantasy/sci-fi writer mostly. But I love creative non-fiction too.
Did your book get published? I have no recollection of anything past you saying you were working on it maybe? Welcome home anyway.
I have a couple published which you can check out here
A couple of upper primary horror inspired by Goosebumps (book 3 coming soon), a Treasure Hunting Adventure (releasing shortly) and a Tassie-western novella/sort story (like 40 pages).
I went to visit nana in respite care today. The place she is is really nice and the nurses and the others there are lovely. I genuinely think it’s as nice as you can get with these kinds of things. The problem is that nana’s dementia means that she forgets why she’s there. Her short term memory is about 5 minutes long now, and every few minutes she asked me “when do I get to go home?” It broke my heart every time. She doesn’t remember what happened to put her there and she doesn’t understand. When she saw me walk into the common space she jumped up and said “you’ve come to take me home!!” It was all I could do to not cry on the spot. She’s also started reverting to being scared of my grandfather. He’s been dead for 30 years. He was a raging alcoholic and very physically and emotionally violent, but nana also gave out as much as she got back in the day and has never expressed being afraid of him before. But when I kept having to say to her “no Nan, this is your home now, remember? You’re here so that we can keep you safe” she’d just nod and go “right, to keep me safe from him he’s always so angry when he drinks.” So that’s interesting.
Anyway I took her to the pancake parlour and let her go to town and order anything she wanted and she was so stoked. She’s never as happy as she is when she’s got dessert.
I need and entire bottle of wine and a good cry now.
That's really difficult, I'm sorry. You go have that wine and cry, it's okay to do so 💜
Thanks, friend ❤️
Big hugs to you and your nan. That's rough.
Hi Onoikiri.
It must have been really hard to go through that.
I didn’t have a good relationship with my mother and she had a deep onset of dementia while relatively young that eventually took her motor functions and her voice.
On one of my earlier visits she was still somewhat lucid but had no speech and I had to explain to her why we had to put her into a home that she tried desperately to escape from.
When I last saw her she was just a husk of herself staring out into space with clenched fists not even recognising me.
It was very hard to see and I wish we had time to mend our relationship and I’m sure her dementia contributed to our fights.
Treasure the time you have spent and memories of her that you have.
🍷🍷🍷 and internet hugs if you want them
Thank you. ❤️
Before my grandpa passed, he was in hospice care (found out later that it's actually the same one my partner's mum works at, but she wasn't his nurse) and he I think suffered dementia because of the jaw cancer. And like man, that shit hurts. And you know they're not forgetting you intentionally.
Like I remember my final goodbye and I could see him trying to connect the dots on who I am. Ugh.
I'll have to join you the good cry (luckily there's no one else here in the lunch room), it never gets easier.
Nana, thankfully, still remembers who I am. There’s only been one instance where she didn’t know me, and it was because I showed up at her house with my sister and niece who she hadn’t seen for 5+ years and two unfamiliar faces threw her. I can’t take Mr Omoikiri with me to see her either because he came onto the scene too late for him to be in her long-term memory and she gets a bit uncomfortable around ‘strange’ men. She also comes out with some old lady racist stuff sometimes that she may have thought in the past, but had the filter to know to not say it. and while he just laughs it off, it’s best for everyone if he stays away. I’m certain the day will come when she doesn’t know me though.
I’m sorry for your loss too. It just sucks so much
Oof yeah, it's uhhh... it's tough being around old people and they just feel so embolden to say whatever is on their mind. I'm surprised my nana is taking my cousin's transition well. Of course, I guess it's easier to understand his transition because it's a binary transition, whereas I and my partner are both nonbinary... oh well.
Yeah it does suck. But, your Nana is getting the best care and she knows she's loved and that's really all you can ask for.
I work at a respite home and it's such a sad place to be because you see the elderly suffering through their dementia and other memory or physical issues. It's really sad, but it's so nice you got to take her out.
That hit me right in the gut too. This isn’t a big centre. There’s maybe 25-30 people in there all up. It’s also not a high-care one, so they’re free to roam around and do what they want and we can take them out no problem. But when I signed nana out in the log, I saw that there was maybe only 10 other instances of people taking their loved ones out. Maybe some of them can’t really go out, and maybe some family members come and sit with them instead. But for the most part it looks like they’ve just been out there and forgotten.
Dementia is really really hard to deal with. It’s heartbreaking to see and interact with someone whose memory is disappearing.
It’s so hard. Thankfully nana is now past the point where she realises that she’s dementing. There was a while where she was really distressed because she knew she should remember how to do basic tasks and had enough of her mind still to understand what was happening to her
Dastardly Windows automatic update restarted my computer and made the bot homeless overnight. At least it was not the bot itself failing. It has now been turned off. I thought I'd shut off everything that could turn it off on me, but missed one.
I wonder what future humans (if there are any) will make of Windows updates.
I like the comment you added to bot001's posts. I was thinking of adding a random quote of the day to sydbot. Thinking is about as far as I usually get though. I'm a good thinker in that respect.
Damn, Microsoft killed another bot. We can't keep allowing this to happen. Remember Tay!
bot must be hungry and tired 🔋
Maybe some nice new batteries, a squirt of WD40, points cleaning and a buff with a microfibre cloth will help it feel better. Self care would apply to bots too methinks.
I've been asked if I want to attend an IT security conference next week at the MCG which it comes with an MCG tour and a fine-dining lunch experience. I feel like I don't own clothes nice enough to attend something like that! I'm not fancy.
Jeans + solid coloured t-shirt or long sleeve would suffice.
Just don't tuck your t-shirt into the pants.
Yeah "smart casual" had changed a lot. Jeans and a nice tshirt is enough to get you by.
A pair of slacks, shirt with a collar and a pair of shoes (not runners) will be fine.
It's IT. Just wear your most recently ironed pair of khakis and a collared t-shirt.
I always wear a death metal t-shirt when I am made to go into the office.
I've got a collection of 90's wrestlers gear for such occasions.
First date - Brett 'The Hitman' Hart
Second date - The Undertaker
Court appearances - Macho Man
Family Gatherings - Mankind
Work related - NWO or Hulkamania
IT security so chainmail and a chastity belt.
You gotta take a nice jacket - usually either, cream, bone, white, off-white, ivory or beige.
That's a blast from the past... My favourite random quote was always The cars just keep going round and round, it so fucking boring
Finally had my long awaited psychiatrist appointment today and lemme just say I'm so so so relieved she turned out to be very professional and empathetic and asked lots of very very relevant questions and wasn't at any point condescending or patronising. I'm quite emotional tbh. Just want to lie down somewhere and soak up the sun but I have this very time critical government related project thing I have to go and do now and my shoulders are killing me. I will do the lie down this weekend.
Hey Kitten,
Is this one a keeper?
Also stay inside if you manage to soak in the sun from there. Outside is cold and windy enough to offset the the warmth from the sun, not that it was that warm in it anyway.
Lying down over the weekend sounds like a great plan, I hope you manage to get your neck and shoulder sorted out.
I reckon so. Big hit to the wallet (475 - thankfully I think I'll be getting most of of it back having hit the safety net) but she is good.
Unfortunately I gotta head outside shortly for a bit of field work. But I probably could do with some fresh air. I have plenty of warm clothes on so if the sun's out I'll be fine in that sense.
Take care Kitten. Spewing your guts out to a professional is hard and exhausting. Big gentle hugs.
Thanks. I've done it so many times now I'm a bit numb to the whole process but I'm actually feeling overwhelmed this time from feeling like I have finally got a breakthrough where everyone else has hit a wall (because I needed psychiatric assessment).
Best of luck with finding the answers you need.
So I’m browsing Kbin front page/new and what pops up? A sock darning how to video created by our illustrious moderator. Cute.
ooh, famous already 🤣
You should be a hand model👐
I'd probably have to do extravagent things like file my nails for that. And stop gardening without gloves and getting tons of dirt under the nails 🤣
Heading to Melbourne next week. Taking the Jetstar roulette. Last time the flight was eventually cancelled at midnight and we got put up in a hotel and slept for like 4 hours before having to be up again for the earliest flight the next morning.
Definitely hoping that isn't the case this time.
I reached out to my old primary school a week or so ago about donating my books to the school library since they are the reason I am such a big reader and wanted to be a writer. They said yes and wanted me to come in for a talk but unfortunately couldn't make it work because of pupil free day on one day and specialist classes on the other. They asked if I could come for book week which I would love but probably won't be able too. I'm really sad I couldn't do it because I've really felt a connection to my school since my little one started school and I'm now studying education for a career change.
I'm still going to drop off the books and hopefully get to see what it's like inside. Last time I was in Melbourne I drove past and it's changed so so much. It's crazy.
Can you do a Zoom thing for Book Week?
::: spoiler Sad Robot Noises :::
Half an hour wait for 3 potato cakes I noped out and bought a potato from the iga next door.
Chips it is!
Modern problems modern solutions!
Up there for thinking!
Down there for dancing.
Pizza has been cooked and consumed. OMG awesomeness pizzonified. No pics, I was too busy eating. Miss Meow is very displeased, she was under the impression that pizza was a sharing food, but I would not let her snag a piece and ate the whole thing myself.
Everythings coming up Milhouse. New job is good, exercise and money. Close enough to home and might be really close after training. aa is working. Finally got some closure on my previous shit cunts of employers and co workers, can resign and move on with life. Holiday is over and I have a new job. Also got news my son and mum are coming down for a couple of weeks in August. Got interviewed yesterday for a trans book and photo exhibition. So much positivity going around. Service work today, aa and my organistiion. Cook another vege stew, go for a walk, another meeting and then bed. My days are full of joy at the moment. Plus constantly playing with the cats. They are super happy at the moment. I got some treats from Aldi. They love them a bit too much but it's bringing us closer.
YAY!
Yeah am feeling a nice sense of peace.
So happy to hear that! 😊😊😊
😍😍 this sounds amazing! You deserve all this happiness!!
Thanks and so do you hun!
Exciting day trip to Northland. It has real shops, something Carlton and the cbd doesn't have.
I went by bus and that was excitement. 😬 A big speeding earthmoving truck pushed a van into our lane, evasive measures were taken.
Northland is so different to where I live. It has shops for children and men and families, homewares and variety stores, cafes that weren't just coffee shops. It's clean and quiet.
People there wear colours other than black. 😵
My floofy void is hogging the mini ironing board:
::: spoiler spoiler :::
That's not a mini ironing board. It's a purrpose built cat lounge
::: spoiler My void is assisting me at the computer today.
Image: A black cat sits in front of the computer, looking serious as it supervises the work. :::
Purple sky.....shephard's pie.
Pretty sure that's how the saying goes.
Mmmmmm Shepards pie 🥧 haven’t had one in ages
Craving one too tbh.
Was it purple or orange or pink though? At what point of sunset do we measure the colour?
This is a good question. It's a bit of a kaleidoscope of colours sometimes...
I don't think you can get an easier hot meal than hot dogs. Yep I've scraped the bottom of the barrel with lips, hips and arseholes for dinner tonight.
😂
Top them with some saurekraut, pickle relish, and canned corn.
Now that's a dang hot dog right there.
Interesting. I don't have any sauerkraut on hand will kimchi do?
Never tried it. Might be too many competing flavours. I find sauerkraut to be fairly neutralish. Kimchi might overpower everything else.
Then again might be something amazing that no one has ever thought of.
Yeah I'm not too worried about insulting the hot dog's feelings. That's why I put a shitload of hot mustard on the thing.
#allhotdogsmatter
Nothing insults my insides like a hot dog can. Nothing.
Cocktail franks fresh from the can?
Gool 'ol Grade-F meat.
There's very little meat in these gym mats...
Hahaha. Yeah meat isn't a word I'd use.
It's mostly circus animals anyway.
Wash it down with some Malk (full of Vitamin R of course) and you've got a meal fit for kids!!!
I beg your pardon, hot dogs are God-tier foods and with the right toppings can be transcendent.
Do you know what hot dogs means to me? Regret later on but it makes the other 3 happy so I just suck it up.
Check out the Lemmy hot dog community! (https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected])
You can post your hot dog masterpiece
TIL someone has invented a salmon hot dog. Why?
I'll do it but I'm scared to look.
I wonder if there's some interesting combination to make it tasty or something. Like adding onions and mushrooms and garlic sauce or some combo you don't normally use with hotdogs.
Chilli (the bean/meat mix) and cheese on a hot dog are heavenly
That’s a good reminder for me to make chilli this weekend.
Sounds like a nice combo there. Would try if my body could tolerate spicy stuff!
You don't need much heat for a good chili. Cumin and smoky paprika can do the job. Plenty of garlic and onion and you still get most of the flavours. Most American type chilis aren't actually that spicy.
I just do sauce, cheese and hot mustard. Nothing complicated. If you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.
I normally do sauce as well and sometimes with onions.
I was thinking this time maybe lettuce or greens with it and tomato or aioli.
Woah. You're getting into gourmet territory there.
Yeah, you're right, I went too far with the lettuce!
Hahaha.
I recently had the best hot dog I've ever had. At the Wandilagong Nut Festival of all places.
Oooo. What was on it?
Two different types of mustard, sauerkraut, onion, kransky.
Oh my GOD. I was gonna post this bit of a rant because I couldn't find my pants. I was so annoyed and getting frustrated. I couldn't find them and I remembered wearing them Monday and put them on my bed. I even checked the laundry places.
...I washed them Monday night so they were in the hamper the whole time. I'm an idiot.
Honey, where are my paaaaants?
Where is my supersuit?
With apologies to those whom have standard days, weekend! Four whole days without idiot manager. May they stay the fuck out of my dreams, that’s just too damn much.
Yay for the weekend!
With society changing away from standard working hours we really need to update terminology. We need a new term for scheduled days off, and also a term for when your days off align with the days off of people you want to spend time with. We could probably do with a term for the situation when you are unable to spend time with family and friends due to not having any overlapping time off, and for the annoying attitude of people who assume days off during the week are "holidays" and days off after night shift are open for you to do things other than sleep. Despite the number of people who proclaim we are a 24/7 society now (and they tend to be the ones arguing against penalty rates) a lot of people really don't understand anything other than standard work hours. Drive time radio hosts are my favourite - despite the fact that they are working non standard hours themselves they really go all in on the 9-5 mythology.
Better terminology would be useful. So would calendar applications that auto send “this day is totally impossible you Idiot” messages
They sort of have to, because their audience does
I feel better today. Yesterday my brain was a bit “foot to the floor on the accelerator” but today it’s much calmer. Which is strange, because I don’t think I’ve done anything different. Somethings just shifted inside me and I’m back to good again. Strange.
Good to hear your brain is not being a burden :)
Let's hope it stays that way.
In today's defiant act of self inflicted financial sabotage I'm getting 3 potato cakes @ $2.50 a pop when I go to the shops later. Tum tum can do this.. it has to.
They're newish and it's daylight robbery but they've lengthened their trading hours and are open every day now so seeing that viability warms the icy cockles of my heart.
Single-origin organic cruelty-free vegan artisan gâteau de pommes de terre au sel de poulet
Look at ol' moneybags here. I hope for your sake they taste like heaven!
You need to source these mate Potato cakes. They have them at Tasman Meats. There's another one that you can get at Tasman Meats but I can't think of the name of them. They are big potato cakes.
Phillip Lowe disapproves of this wanton spending
What if you rent out a room and take a pay cut? Should ease the pressure of disappointingly daddy Lowe..
Also wantons... Mmm
gawrd dam $2.50 potato cakes.
potato cakes are the new avocado toast
Ominous hissing noise in my kitchen now identified as a leaking soda stream bottle. We aren’t going to blow up!
Put it outside tho, or at least open a window.
It’s the water not the gas canister, but point taken. Was rather worried. We’ve had burst pipes three times in this house, so the possibility of it being something non trivial was there.
That's what the snake wants you to think.
Exploding sneks? Oh my!
It's Midnight;
Oh no did it fail it’s job?
aaah, many swears old workplace resignation letter sent. I was super stressed right after then but and an aa friend called very soon after which was at just the right time. First time I'd wanted to drink in a month. That call, food, an anti anxiety med and some strong camomile tea and I'm deeply at ease again and feel like booze would be a very bad idea. End of an epoch of my life. I worked there for almost 17 years and they've always had shit management which really failed me when I needed their support. I expected a lot more solidarity from the staff also but received absolutley none, not even an are you ok? I'd given mine so freely and to my own detriment as the most senior member of staff. They're all on my resentment list. FUCK THEM! Their memories will fade away as I make better connections and they'll still be spineless psycophants. I deliberately avoid places I may see them because I really don't like my chances of keeping my cool around them. Ok, rant over. No stew made, but I think dinner is planned with some aa people after this evening's meeting. end rant, thanks for reading dear DT friends.
It hurts a lot when you’ve given so much of you to a job and nobody gives a shit when you leave. I know one shouldn’t feel that way, it’s just a job, but personally I felt really upset, I try so hard. (8.5 years ….. shitty management can fuck off)
Yeah I was angry bitter and disappointed that people I actually trusted as friends basically deserted me when I needed them most. The only people who could really understand why I was so let down by management, because they have the same shit management and unsafe workplace. This was the final nail though, I have let it all go. Harbouring resentments and seeking revenge or being litigant destroys my chance of helping those sick people be better to the next person they have the chance to desert or lie about being supportive to.
I have to work on bettering myself and they have to be honest with themselves before they'd accept my support anyway. A lot of people would rather bitch than try and change the status quo. This is true in every facet of society.
It's that time of night DT
I just noticed that BBQ sauce is basically flavoured tomato sauce
Good morning darlings, your mum says hello
Thought I had the bitch blocked everywhere.
Right‽ wtf 😱
Do we twinkle above her?
We twinkle below
But the hello sayer twinkles below, the helloed twinkles above.
My god WE'RE SURROUNDED
morning mum why is it so warm
Just lucky I suppose
Sender address is not valid or not permitted.
Morning mum, How'd you sleep?
Good painted sky tonight.
Had a couple site servers go offline yesterday, in both cases it's the modems. One's a hard DUP fail (meaning it's the NBNco infrastructure in the pit outside), the other is the modem just straight up offline in the aussie broadband diagnostics. So i have nbnco going out today to repair one abd waiting on site to reboot the modem at the other. Simples, right?
Nope, $boss is already rabbiting on about replacing the servers and trying to light a fire under my arse screaming about random shit that doesn't even goddamn apply once actual diagnostics are run on the issues to hand.
Fucking spectacular
watching someone go through a doscunent of mine and "correct" my grammar/spelling is making me want to throw my keyboard.
doscunent... document⌨️
dont diss my doscunent
The bot is still in our hearts and minds.
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I wrote "drat" instead of "draft" in a work e-mail I just sent, and only noticed afterwards. Highly embarrasing.
I finally got paid, yay! And I sent my partner the money that I owe them from last October. It's a lot of money and goes over the savings budget, but it was only an extra $40 or so, and I'd rather it out of the way than still looming.
I wish it was the weekend already, I’m sick of work today, my boss is on holidays and someone has decided to change up one of the aspects of my job so that what used to take me about 45 minutes, took me 2 and a half hours today. Hopefully it will be quicker tomorrow, but I keep thinking about the fact that I usually have Fridays off and have to go in just to get frustrated.
Yeah this week has weirdly been so rough and so slow. I keep thinking it's Friday today.
Just 24 hours til the weekend, just 24 hours til the weekend, just 24 hours til the weekend…
Two tasty hot dogs consumed. One burp not so tasty.
(One was in roll with cheese. The other one naked)
Hope you doubled down and put shitty american mustard on those bad bwoys.
I knew going back to the office would make me tired but holy shit it feels like my bones have turned lead in my sleep. I feel exhausted and very cranky, which is not ideal because cranky me is the single worst person I know.
I’m still Shocked at much much of an affect it has on my sensory and nervous systems. Came home from the office yesterday, fed the dog and went to bed. Slept 13 hrs.
Tax return came though. It’s a juicy one this year!
I got a bill for the first time in my life......
Boo!!!!!
Those sting. I worked at a place that didn't actually tax our allowances (living away and travel).....and I was working on site for like 9 months. The cash was great. The ATO bill wasn't.
Lucky you, I'm still waiting on my workplace to upload their data.
Looks like I'm not going to get much from the estimates but every little bit will help.
Dimmies. Piles of steamed dimmies. Great night for it
Gorram it, fake nails lasted until I tried to open my beer can. Bad, sad, and mad.
It's a sign from the Universe that I refuse to acknowledge. pfft
I'm going home to make fish and chips
Have a friend going to Olinda tomorrow, might suddenly become ill and go with. Had an incident at work when I started earlier this arvo and it's extremely soured my already diminishing taste for the place.
Woke up from a nap, now when am I?
The year is 1965, and you and I are undercover detectives on the hot rod circuit. Now, let's burn rubber, baby!
2042 beware the robot overlords
Last Tuesday.
😱💀
pre-apocalypse
Pondering buying an old car in case I have to drive into the city - can’t park a large car to save myself. How many km is too many ? Looking at $5k or less. No Uber or taxi where I live. Was $145 to book a private car to get into the cbd a few weeks ago. (Was emergency medical)
Someone just found and liked a Facebook post I made in 2017. Things really do hang around on the internet!
After much procrastination I took the first step in my plan to make instructional videos by doing a short video of how to darn a sock. I really don't sound like I think I do when recorded, it is very odd. I also put some apps on my phone to filter for colour blindness visibility, it was a bit tricky to find colour combinations that would work well and provide good contrast for different types of colour blindness.
I think I've got the basics down about how to use the editing software, but managed to delete a section in the middle (fortunately not an important bit). I also need to work on keeping what I am doing centred when filming, I kept moving my work into the wrong spot.
Overall, lots of areas to improve on but I'm fairly happy with it for a first effort.
I love CVSimulator. Helps figure out what boyo might be seeing, like green peanut butter!
Link please!
OK, if you insist.
Thankee muchly. Interesting technique for toe holes. Must try it. Or possibly cut my toenails a bit shorter.
I wear holes there because my feet are at the top of the size range for standard socks, and with one foot larger than the other it only wears on that one side. The fabric at that point gets stretched thin so it is more vulnerable to abrasion, I don't think the toe nails are the main culprit. If you do wear holes regularly I find it actually helps to darn a patch over the top before there is actually a hole there, the extra protection tends to stop it wearing through.
Met this super cute woman at a meet up tonight and just really couldn't figure out, is she gay, bi or does she just hang around queer people and is just a Melbourne hipster? All I do know is that I thought she was really cute and pretty. Lol.
wind’s howling
I thought I'd take my break outside in the sun and it's be nice and warm.
Nope, it wasn't warm enough and the cold wind was blowing quite strongly....frozen again :(
and tipped to become howlier.
My washing nearly took flight earlier, and I’ve picked up our potted lemon tree twice after it’s blown over.
It looks wimdy but yesterday was so warm I overheated in a long sleeve top and jacket. 🤷♀️
Barely a rustle of leaves in the CBD right now
Run to the shops for bread and coffee accomplished. I am prepared to satiate and caffeinate tomorrow morn.
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edit: who am I kidding, I am totally having some bread now lol
most excellent brion bot
I waited 5 minutes before posting, I don't think the bot worked
Rusty will be disapoint
oh, I thought it was bot , thanks for posting brion
have decided to take tomorrow off and go somewhere for the weekend. excluding Daylesford (its lovely but I go there all the time), where's a nice regional town for me to visit this weekend?
edit: someone mentioned wandi in a different thread, strong contender
Go to Forrest. While you are there make sure to stop by Dar Tèta cafe for the best baklava ever.
Also, lake Elizabeth is nearby. They have canoe tour if you want to check out the platypus community there.
Also there is a e-bike tour run out of Gellibrand a short lovely drive to the west.
Forrest us a good shout - I should have noted in my post that we have a place in Lorne, so we are often in that part of the state. I absolutely love Lake Elizabeth - its such a nice walk in, and so pretty! I dont often see platypus, though (I know they're there, I just never see them!)
Oh cool. I’m sure you have been but if not, I can highly recommend CODA at the Lorne Hotel. They do a fantastic steak. Probably in top three favourite steak meal in my lifetime.
Uh let’s see, you know Echuca always has something going on and the river has the paddle boat. Shamrock does a nice pint.
we are headed to Beechworth next week for a couple days to poke around and do the asylum ghost tour. Maybe I’ll write a mini review here.
oh!!! an asylum ghost tour sounds right up my alley! please do share your review. You prompted me to google ghost tours in regional vic. There's one in walhalla, so maybe that's where we go this weekend
Bright is lovely
im leaning towards bright/wandi. Beautiful part of the state.
Not Ararat
Hall's Gap maybe?
Nice hikes in the area. Lovely views. Moderate chance of a white supremacist gathering.
oooh good call. love me a good white supremacist gathering. I mean hike.
It is a lovely part of Victoria. I did have the worst pizza ever in Hall's Gap, but that was like 20 years ago and I'm pretty sure the joint doesn't exist anymore.
Dessert Story shaved ice 🤤🤤🤤 I should have taken a pic
I finally booked in for an eye appointment. I hope I don't need new glasses, but I hope I can get my new ones cleaned up or something (though I might need to pay for new glass because I think one lens has a scratch).
My left rear car tyre has a slow leak and I just can't right now. I pumped it up last night, it was down to like 14psi.. I'd pumped it up 3 weeks ago and it was down to about 17psi then. Just.. urgh.
My car has an oil leak, and I've been polishing the undercarriage just so that I can find where that bloody thing is.
I thought it was the rear main seal, but it is coming from everywhere.
might want to get that checked out
Find the hole with a spray bottle of soapy water, and get a $20 puncture repair kit.
The notification bell not clearing properly is making me irrationally irritated.
you need click the ☑️ and make it green
On Jerboa I seem to need to click it twice. Same with the subscribe button. It's an odd bug.
I have now spent way too long learning to do captions for YouTube videos. Then I discovered that the default position for them blocks the video of what I am doing. After much investigation I have discovered that you can drag the subtitles where you want them when you watch, unless you are using the app. Which of coarse automatically opens when you watch a video. I have now disabled the app, as I apparently can't delete it, and now videos are opening in the browser. It is frustrating how many companies put out apps with extremely limited features and then push everything to open in them. If I wanted to use the blasted app I wouldn't be in my browser.
Footy ticket confirmed. Life is good
Which game have you got tickets to?
Collingwood v Freo. I am an absolute Pies nuff
Nice! You should rollover Freo pretty easily I imagine!
Looks like the oil leak is an defective oil filter.
I feel like it doesn't get said enough so I need to reiterate this to the universe but the lanes on Bell St west of Sydney Rd are TOO DAMN NARROW
I actually slept a full 8 hours last night, no wake ups. One day in the office and it kills me haha.
For anyone still using Reddit, are you getting a weird thing with the Popular feed where you click on a post and it ‘opens’ two or three posts and then to get back to the Popular feed you have to go back 2-3 times?
fine here
No, but the way I do it, is I go through /popular and look at whatever I'm interested in. If I'm not interested, I hide it. If it's a picture, I look at it, then hide it. Text post? Read it, then hide it. If it's something I want to read later, I open it in a tab, open the comments in a tab, then hide the submission. I go through the whole front page like this in about 30 minutes.
Then, later, when I check Reddit again, about 50-60 percent of what is on /popular is stuff that I saw and hid earlier in the day. It's super annoying that I'm not being served fresh content throughout the day when I've specifically hidden the other stuff I don't want them to show me.
Are you in a browser? I use the main Reddit app.
Yeah, I use old.reddit
Nope, but i am getting a stupid attempt to slow down comment deletion that RES is fucking up spectacularly :D
Pizza dough had been made. I was originally planning a stir-fry, but today seems much more suited to pizza.
I've just been going year by year on my Google Timeline to see how far I've travelled each year. I know some people find this sort of thing creepy that your phone keeps a record of places you've been, but I find it really useful and valuable.
2020 the furthest place I went to was Albury and that wasn't until December. It's almost as if something happened that year that kept me at home. 2016 the furthest was Sydney but every other year since it has been tracking me (2012 when I moved from iPhone to Android) I've managed to get up to Queensland or travel internationally, so I'm doing alright.
If anyone is taking a look at theirs.. check out August 2020. I actually didn't go beyond our mandated 5km limit the entire month! I went to Costco x 1, Woolworths x 1, Pizza Hut x 1, KFC x 1 and my apartment for the entire rest of the month!
Anyone experience the Frankston line disruptions?
PTV website says to go to the Art's Centre to get a bus to Moorabbin, but then I keep getting told by them to take the Sandringham train to Brighton beach and take a bus from there to Moorabbin. That actually adds an extra 15-20 minutes to my travel rather than an express bus to Moorabbin from Art's Centre.
Anyone know why they keep telling us to go Sandringham line instead? Is the Art's Centre bus not actually running?
Could be a connecting line? I remember busses would go to Sandringham instead of direct to the city. The Pakenham/Cranbourne line is going to Burnley instead of into the city.
It's not stressful driving into the office (in Sydney) during school holidays. Even better if I were WFH. Oh well.
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I came away with this at Aldi today. I’ll go and pick up the kipper tomorrow from Colesworth but I thought I’d give this a shot just because.
::: spoiler Can of Tomato Flavoured Herring from Aldi
:::
I tried my best to warn you, but you wouldn't listen. ^Thanks Hank Williams Snr^
I know, it wasn’t too expensive so I gave it a shot. It was actually pretty good. The tomato sauce was sweet and the herring was nice to eat.
I chucked inside of a toasted sandwich and polished it off.
I promise I’ll go hunting for the other one tomorrow!
I liked these ones. You're in safe hands.
Are them already. They were nice and taste good.
The other flavours didn’t appeal to me sadly.
Going to need a review! Don't let it scare you off if the sauce is yuck
Oh you have given a review sorry, nice, glad you enjoyed!
It was lighter and not as tough as tuna and it had a nice taste to it.
The tomato sauce it was in was sweet and it was actually quite yummy.
I would definitely buy it again but using it for coming and stuff might be hard with it lathered in sauce.
I love smoked meats so I can’t wait to try out the Kipper you recommended.
There is a world of smoked tinned fish products waiting for you to discover!
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🥪🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥫🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉
Everything potato please, with grilled cheese on the top and a sprinkling of herbs. With a large coffee.
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🥔🍠🍟
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Thank you. I needed this this chilly morning. Cooked to perfection too.
Excellent choice
Full English breakfast please, coffee, orange juice and water. Ta.
🥓🌭🍳🍳🥔🍅🍄🫘🍞☕️🍊🧊
Thanks. I better get out of bed.
The hearts of my enemies, with a large cappuccino, pretty please 😍
🫀
☕️🥛
I only found one enemy. Will keep hunting them down.
Perfection 👨🍳😗👌🏼
Spanish omelette and a big fat coffee please chef
🥚🥚🥔
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Toast with bacon and mushroom sauce and a latte please good kind sir.
🍞🥓🍄🥛☕️
Thank you good sir!
Your finest everything please
🌏
Clever bacon. Now watch me go full Kirby and inhale it
Do it.
Ham jaffle please
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Bleh
Blarghargle
Slartibartfast
Starryblastfart
#aestheticgoals
Would you die for Fjords?
Bah humbug!
A little help please....so it looks like the last time I got the energy rebate was September last year and I have not kept up on what is available since then. Have I missed some deadlines on applying for additional payments? What should I do?
You good I think:
https://compare.energy.vic.gov.au/psb-faq
Oh thanks...I thought I'd missed out on a previous round in between...
Go fill it out now. If you leave it, you might end up forgetting
Okay okay you're right. I will do it now!
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Thanks for the reminder! I actually did forget!
I hope they'll have some at Aldi otherwise it'll have to wait till tomorrow when I'm at Southland
Aldi herrings come in gloopy sauces. I don't like them, so Colesworth is probably a better bet. But you do you.
Oh ok, that's good to know. I'll pop by Colesworth tomorrow most likely and I'll grab one from there.
I can only vouch for Brunswick brand atm, which is at Coles and probably Woolies. On special for $2.45 currently
Oh ok, thanks for pointing that out, I'll drop by a Coles and have a look tomorrow in that case.
What are your thoughts on what the highways would be like, if we implemented the UK's / Japan's road rule, where you cannot overtake a vehicle in a lane left of it?
It would do a good job of keeping the right lane free, but knowing Aussie drivers, they would just hog the lane.
Australians cannot comprehend keep left unless overtaking (and their attitudes are they absolutely do not give a single fuck about other drivers) so I can't see this making any difference except potentially fining people who have enough of sitting behind right-lane hogs and go around them on the left, like I end up having to do multiple times on semi regular journeys to the outer western suburbs. I've actually spoken to someone before who said when they get on the highway they'll just go straight over to the right lane because it's "easier". I see truck drivers doing the same thing on places like the Westgate. Not overtaking anyone.. they just want to be in the right lane.
Nothing short of an actual crackdown on keep right unless overtaking will change this behaviour in my opinion. These people need to be pulled over, shot, have their cars crushed and their families sent a fine.
You have thirty minutes to move your family. You have ten minutes. Your family has been impounded. Your family has been crushed into a cube. You have thirty minutes to move your cube.
Harsh but fair.
I kind of think a 30 minute detainment for speeding drivers would be an interesting punishment.
If you speed you are in a rush, and if your in a rush 30 minutes is everything.
It's already the law here for roads over 80km/h (or when otherwise signed). Absolutely zero enforcement though.Misread your statement, realised you meant 'undertaking' and not just keeping left. Fully agree.
For what it’s worth, I can speak from experience and say that while the road rule may exist. Japanese people don’t always/necessarily observe it.
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OK, this is just screwed up. I scored a perfect round, but today’s puzzle shows how inconsistent this game is.
::: spoiler The spoiler contains spoilers, so don’t click it if you’re going to try your luck in the game. Tonga is closer to New Zealand than two of the countries included as neighbours. Why does it treat Norfolk Island as a neighbour when it’s an Australian external territory? And why does the game usually only consider nearby neighbours separated by water when the country has no land borders at all? Like when it was Italy, they didn’t include Tunisia or Albania as neighbours, despite both being far closer than any of NZ’s neighbours. :::
yup, I tried Tonga as well
Yeah wtf about Norfolk Island!