That's incredibly kind of you Baku ❤️ I really appreciate you saying that. It was getting really fucking hard but you can't give up because what's the other option?
And it's all good about replying to what's been happening for you. It doesn't bring my mood down at all. I just wish you didn't have to deal with this bullshit mate.
I've been in this job for over 2 years now. Wouldn't say it's better. Cruisey but frustratinging because basic things are made more difficult in the name of 'security'. 1 minute jobs take 5 minutes etc.
I am studying education though, but that's long term.
Sooooo I got the call. It's sounds promising. I won't go into too much details because it's early stages but it is a potential writing collaboration idea I had and they are receptive to the idea.
They're gonna talk to their people and see if and what can be done and we can work from there. I'm hopeful. It's going to be so cool if it comes to fruition.
Get paid, think "hmm that's a bit much", check psyslip, per hour is off. Have had payroll biff it up before, so send a quick heads up "oi you typoed and overpaid" boss says "oh yeah forgot to tell you, your hourly rate went up. So did your super".
On top of the tax cuts that's an extra $200 in my pocket. Marvellous
It is building an exclusive 55yo and older community called st. clare in kew. Shit out of luck if you're 54 but the joke is on them because the grand kids will visit and you're back at square 1.
Very odd, I’ve been to a lot of funerals and never have been asked to chip in.
It’s up to the family to organise and decide what to do with the funeral and it’s their responsibility to finance it and everyone’s else role is to pay respects or to celebrate their life.
The only time where I might have to was when they organised a after lunch or something but I didn’t go so no idea if that ended up being split.
Me either - sounds dodgy to me. Is the funeral going to be catered??? If so, why????
Usually funeral expenses are covered by the executor of the deceased's Will as a first charge on the estate. The whole "after payment of funeral expenses and just dues and taxes" bit that nearly every Will starts off with.
Sounds like the beneficiaries of the estate want to maximise their slice of the pie to me.
did you also stash a block of chocolate somewhere and forget and now have to hunt it down?
Im gonna find it! Its half a block of darrell lea rocky road ffs.
I've been informed that it's Vegas' 10th birthday on Saturday! I need to figure out what to get him. Think I'll hit up the butcher but I might have to wait until Saturday to do it so it doesn't spoil the surprise, because he'll smell it. I'll swing by the big pet shop too and see if I can find something he might like.
Edit: Oh it's also my nanna's 98th birthday tomorrow. I don't think she wants anything from the butcher.
@danwritesbooks@bull
Australia should be exporting SPAMB (canned spiced lamb) instead of live sheep. Keep the labour local and remove the argument about third world lack of refrigeration. True globalism would see spambwiches being served in cornish high tea and alaskan cafeterii.
Already had a sickie on Monday and got short notice leave day approved for next week 😭 going to have to suck it up. If you can get one with a blank date though....
Did a pantry clean out today. Chucked out so much expired bottled goods, powders, etc... Found a packet of Stroopwafels, out of date by 7 years.. Yes, I ate them ,and yes they were great.
Yeah I prefer making it at home tbh cause I can just sort of throw leftover veg together. I doubt roasted pumpkin is traditional but damned if it doesnt work!
She's incredibly strong. I saw a clip of her seizure and it kills me. Her voice and power is rare and incredible, and for her to slowly lose that is devastating. She's earned her spot amongst the best singers (the trifecta: Whitney, Mariah, Celine).
I still love and listen to her Eurovision entry. It's how she got so big. She sang in french but was competing for Switzerland, as a Canadian. She changed the economy of the LA strip by doing residencies, which bought in massive revenue and made doing residencies viable for other artists again (previously they were usually for those past their music peak). Her philanthropy, her kindness. If anyone doesn't deserve her condition, it's her.
Went out, came back unable to unlock my laptop despite typing in correct password. Noticed that some of my keystrokes are not registering.
Looks like one of the cats managed to strategically position themselves on the keyboard just right to activate the filter keys prompt and the "yes" button on it.
Grateful that all the urgent work/backlog is cleared thanks to my colleagues, and I have a very manageable workload again!! The stress relief is immense.
Still being sick, day 5 and no real improvement yet. So hard to get out of bed and do work when my body wants to rest. Glad it’s not Covid though, I’m testing negative. So I have anti-gratitude and gratitude at the same time.
Today I have a day off. The Minipeelers have been sitting around all school holidays doing nothing and will want to do something today, something big. I've been working pretty hard and just want to put my feet up and do nothing and rest. I can anticipate what will happen when Miniest awakes from her royal slumber!
My ex tooth hurts. The paracetamol/ibuprofin combo works fine as a painkiller, but because of the limits you can take in a day I can't take it often enough to remain pain free. So the next few hours are going to be painful so that I can take more later so I'll be able to sleep tonight ☹️
@RustyRaven@LowExperience2368 you can combine paracetamol with non-steroidal anti-inflamatory such as nurofen or voltage to amplify the analgesic effect. Cold pack.
I had a sleepless night and my eyes feel sore from it. I tried to listen to a podcast as well but ended listening to it instead of falling asleep to it.
Im trying not to sleep or have a nap so I can get my internal clock back to relative normalcy.
::: spoiler overthinking overreacting
Torn between feeling good and feeling bad. I feel good because next week I start my course and I'm changing my future.
But I feel bad because I feel so far behind. I don't even have $40k of super. I don't have a career. I've burnt my brains out trying and failing at call centre work for 10 years. I still feel like I'm failing. That I have already failed and I'm waiting for it to catch up with me. I can go back and blame the first 28 years of my life but I'm also autonomous. Why haven't I got a high powered career making big money and have a nice nest egg. I've never had enough to even travel to Bali FFS. Idk. I just feel the weight of the past more than ever and I. scared of failing again. It's gonna take me three years to get where I want to be, qualification wise, and I'll be 35. And I have to then find work and start paying my HECS off. I don't feel like I'm ever gonna have a home or feel financially secure.
Alright tough love time: Everyone is running their own race, and everyone started with their own unique handicap so you cant compare anyone elses life to your own.
BUT: If you're not happy with where your at? Fix it. Process the emotions, work through everything then get up dust yourself off and keep going. Sadly no one else is gonna step up and help you out here, so its up to you to live the life you wanna live. Set some goals and make 'em happen. Rome wasn't built in a day, but it would never have been built without starting out and some tough days.
I'm ten years older than you and have only worked out careers that I don't like. Hecks is only a problem if you make money. Due to lifelong research I'm an associate professor in being broke and feeling like I have enough. I had a super fun 20s & 30s. I've eaten the double dick of lockdown then hernia for being a massive hermit. Pulled my super out during covid because there's just something about it that I'm sus on, possibly just simple financial iliteracy on my part but gimmie my money. Impermanence, you ultimately cannot rely on anything other than your own mind/thoughts. Once I'm able to work again I'm considering scaffolding and getting back into jiu-jitsu. I've always enjoyed physical work over intellectual. My first degree got wiped out by arduino. I don't like the myotherapy industry in Australia, the way to make money is to run a clinic (rent seeking) not be a therapist. Plus any job I can leave at the job is a bonus. hits vape, pops another endone
Better to be working towards a career you will enjoy later in life than to have stayed in a career you hated for the sake of being financially stable earlier in life. Yes, it would have been better if you found what you wanted to do career-wise earlier in life but it doesn’t always work out that way. I think what you’re doing is brave, a lot of people would have stuck to their existing career, too scared to make a change. The money and holidays will come in time!
I've been doing cocoa, sugar, and a flavour carrier lipid: cream, butter, coconut oil or sour cream, then blend. Tasty and easy to adjust levels to taste. And fuck Nestlé.
I doubt I'll get any sleep. Too bright, too noisy, next to the nurses station where they're chatting, way too warm, one nurse has a deep chesty cough, neighbour calls the nurses station every 15 minutes. This place is for keeping people alive not helping them recover. Glad I bought a sandwich because dinner was rank, so I'm hungry too.
E: whichever nerd suggested mechanical keyboards for a hospital can get stuffed too, as can the mega squeaky toilet door.
there was a comment on reddit the other day about how ww3 could break out and they allys would ride in on the stony point line to save is culminating in the first battle of Frankston. I pondered how ride of the valkyries would sound on a stolen 90's WRX's ruined sound system.
Gonna lose my shit at work. We asked for X to be done. Its a security time sensitive thing. Sent off a spreadsheet containing all the details they needed.
They report back X+Y was done. When i asked why they did Y i was told that it was on the spreadsheet.
Why did you put Y on the the spreadsheet I hear you ask? I didn't! When I asked them to produce the working spreadsheet they sent us something totally different that cherry-picked data from the original but missed critical details.
If I were HALF as incompetent as this team I'd be out on my ass, but yet somehow this team is a protected species and can continue to fuckup till the cows come home.
I was just getting all the meat off yesterday's roast chicken for lunch sandwiches and Bill Cat was begging real bad, but I know him, he won't eat it but he does like stealing chicken from plates!!
So I put some pieces on a plate and put that on the small table in the living room then walked away. He is stealing it right now and I can hear him eating.
My old dog was a bit like that, only he preferred to tip over your glass and lap up the wine. Didn't like it in a bowl, had to be licked off the floor. Weird.
Was in Brunswick today for a dentist appointment. Ended up wandering around afterwards. God I miss it.
Maybe I'll head back in 6 months if all goes well with this job.
It makes coming back to where I live so depressing. My mantra for the last 6 months has been "all in good time".
And so it will be once again hopefully.
In other news, I found an amazing new Middle Eastern instruments library that will expand my compositions significantly. It doesn't have as many functions as my other one, but it has a wider variety of instruments and they sound good right out of the box.
Exciting, it is a lovely place. Can't wait for you to join me in listening to the local pop sing and dance on a Friday night lol.
Awesome about your instrument library! I love to hear anything you're willing to share! I really like the piece you shared last time, the one that was in your head for ages :D
Everything is coming up for you, friend! This is joyous, and you deserve every ounce of goodness that comes from it!!
Yeah it's been a crazy few weeks. I'm just keeping my head down and hoping for the best.
I grew up in Brunswick in 90's and it's changed so much. I've got a lot of memories running amok along Sydney road lol
It's definitely interesting these days. More lively for sure and as much as it's changed, its still got the old school Brunswick vibe. Especially past Blyth Street heading towards Coburg.
I love the area because it's not pretentious and everyone is friendly.
The Middle Eastern library sounds really exciting. Just thinking 2 of my fave bands use ME instruments in a fusion sound, Brian Jonestown and No Quarter
Been sick all this week. I should have taken more than one day off but there are meetings I want to get out of the way. My sense of taste hasn't been the best so I think I'll do a COVID test and if it comes back positive I'll take the rest of the week off
I packed clothing away when winter came around and now I can’t find my other pairs of trackies. Moral of the story, don’t tidy up or you’ll lose your pants
meanwhile I have one which was shipped yesterday from somewhere over the east side, I forget where exactly, went through Tullamarine last night and should be arriving at my front door of my parents place out in Melton any moment now (status is onboard for delivery as of 30 minutes ago)
Haha having MC delivered feels like I'm doing something illegal. Even when I go to Prahan to pick it up at the pharmacy, I still feel so judged. Like the po-po are gonna rush in and arrest me as part of a sting. Which is dumb, I have TGA approval lol.
But MC being delivered to your door - we truly are living in the future
What a time to be alive! I didn't feel any weirdness going to pick mine up from St Kilda BUT I was on my toes because where I parked felt like a slightly sketchy area and I figured scumbags might watch for people coming out of the dispensary and target them. Felt super sketchy like that around some of the US dispensaries I went to over there too.
Lol I feel that way walking out of Amcal in Prahan. I just beeline back to the train station lol. I don't want ANYONE to look at me while I'm carrying my Green Gold tyvm hahaha
I have heard of posties nicking MC packages, but that was when MC was picking up in popularity. Haven't heard anything of the sort since, so I imagine they've cracked down on that. I personally haven't had any issues with either delivery or pickup, it's a seamless processs, end to end.
There's an auspost sorting facility down in Dandenong South, so I imagine it's just being sorted for distribution. Thought, anecdotally, there's been parcels getting stuck in sorting facilities for weeks. I imagine their packages fell off the conveyor lol
Edit: clarification because I had another coffee and am overthinking: it is at Dandenong to be sorted, it will then be sent to your local auspost and assigned a postie to deliver.
I'll have a chat with my aunt about it, she works for auspost. (Apparently posties/couriers can be very emotional and resistant to change lol love her stories)
The whole point about formal minutes of a meeting is JUST EXACTLY THIS. So the participants can't wriggle out of undertakings given and recorded.
Baku, let me introduce you to the ancient and uncivilised practice of writing the minutes of a meeting BEFORE the meeting.
Start with the agenda of the meeting - a bullet point list of items to be discussed. These should be few in number. Ideally less than 6. You might like to send this bullet point list to the regional manager before the meeting so he knows what topics you want to discuss. For example :
return/repair/replacement/compensation of stolen/damaged goods
living arrangements going forward including repairs to locks etc.
what happens if someone else is moved in to your house without consulting you
personal safety
maybe another item that you consider necessary
These can be in any order - I usually put the most important one at the top but you might like to start with something that the manager can agree with as this can be a useful way to get co-operation on the other items.
Then, (not sending this bit to the manager) expand on each bullet point by adding 3 short paragraphs/sentences describing and/or discussing 1) What if you get everything you want when you want it AND who is responsible for seeing that you get it, 2) If you get something, but not all of what you want and who is responsible for each/what etc, and 3) You don't get anything, and won't get it in the future either.
Print this out (or save on your phone screen) and take to the meeting. As each bullet point is discussed, you strike out whichever of 1) 2) or 3) above that doesn't apply - for each bullet point. At the end, you'll have a list of what was discussed and what was agreed, and who is going to action each item agreed to.
At the end of the meeting you make the person read the document, and sign off on it if at all possible. If you like, give them a copy so that they have a record available too.
This is standard corporate practice, and will do a lot to concentrate their mind on doing things properly.
I'm in that club as well. Let him know while it's okay to meet face to face, you'd like to be able to send him an email prior to the meeting with your points laid out and ask that he sends you a follow up email after the meeting with what was discussed. Heck, write him one afterwards with what was discussed and get your advocate to read over it.
If they push you into a discussion by yourself it’s a good idea to get anything said in writing so they can’t lie and bs later. Do not talk to them on the phone.
Also great to have someone with more power present or bcc’ed in, good idea
Had a stuffy nose last night, couldn’t sleep so put an extra pillow to keep head a bit elevated, and then woke up with sore neck. The irony of treatment for one ailment causing another.
Back from opshop with some finds. I'm listening to another Peter and Dudley LP and found an old book, Seven Years in New Guinea about some weird guy who was sent to PNG in the 50s-60s to do ethnographic studies for the Aust, gov. They didn't eat him, as is evidenced by the fact he wrote this book.
I definitely feel different to how I did last week.
I guess, more confident, or maybe sure of myself?
It's not surprising in a way, but I didn't notice what I lost now that I have it back.
That's incredibly kind of you Baku ❤️ I really appreciate you saying that. It was getting really fucking hard but you can't give up because what's the other option?
And it's all good about replying to what's been happening for you. It doesn't bring my mood down at all. I just wish you didn't have to deal with this bullshit mate.
I think in light of recent events you’re probably super happy and relieved as well.
You’ve been through a lot with the emotional roller coaster and to come out of it on the other side is of great relief.
I just want to lay in my new bed and new mattress and forget work ever exists.
I thought you had a new better job?
I've been in this job for over 2 years now. Wouldn't say it's better. Cruisey but frustratinging because basic things are made more difficult in the name of 'security'. 1 minute jobs take 5 minutes etc.
I am studying education though, but that's long term.
Does it feel like heaven?
It is very comfy. And I have slept so much better.
Sooooo I got the call. It's sounds promising. I won't go into too much details because it's early stages but it is a potential writing collaboration idea I had and they are receptive to the idea.
They're gonna talk to their people and see if and what can be done and we can work from there. I'm hopeful. It's going to be so cool if it comes to fruition.
Tasmanian goosebumps?
🤞🤞🤞
Get paid, think "hmm that's a bit much", check psyslip, per hour is off. Have had payroll biff it up before, so send a quick heads up "oi you typoed and overpaid" boss says "oh yeah forgot to tell you, your hourly rate went up. So did your super".
On top of the tax cuts that's an extra $200 in my pocket. Marvellous
Nice one!
Best part is it's the b'day of friend doing it very tough on disability atm, and i got their paypal deets XD
Pay it forward sister! ❤️
You’re a sweetheart!
My sky pretty has a crane
Now let me explain what this crane is doing.
It is building an exclusive 55yo and older community called st. clare in kew. Shit out of luck if you're 54 but the joke is on them because the grand kids will visit and you're back at square 1.
If you squint it looks like a giraffe
Or a Brachiosaurus.
You can find a lot of strange things in Melbourne.
Heh I was thinking the same. Just had a look, Giraffe life expectancy is about 25 yrs.. it's going to have to move on before residents move in.
ah good another eye infection. Love it. The same week daycare jack up their prices they send home headlice and eye infections. Brilliant!
You chose to spawn because…
technically, my contribution was just aiming for the cup... but I take your point.
Here's an odd one (to me at least).
P's are going to a funeral tm and everyone has to chip in a $fiddy.
Extremely wealthy family. I've never heard of that before. Is that a thing now?
I understand they're expensive but just never seen that before.
Extremely wealthy and they’re insisting people chip in for a funeral? That’s extremely tacky.
I’ve heard of people asking for donations to a charity rather than flowers, but never for the cost of the funeral.
E: it would be tacky even if they weren’t wealthy
Why though? For what?
Entrance fee?
That'd be a pass for me.
What? I gave up going to funerals in the late 90s but have never heard of this.
Very odd, I’ve been to a lot of funerals and never have been asked to chip in.
It’s up to the family to organise and decide what to do with the funeral and it’s their responsibility to finance it and everyone’s else role is to pay respects or to celebrate their life.
The only time where I might have to was when they organised a after lunch or something but I didn’t go so no idea if that ended up being split.
Me either - sounds dodgy to me. Is the funeral going to be catered??? If so, why???? Usually funeral expenses are covered by the executor of the deceased's Will as a first charge on the estate. The whole "after payment of funeral expenses and just dues and taxes" bit that nearly every Will starts off with.
Sounds like the beneficiaries of the estate want to maximise their slice of the pie to me.
Staying wealthy by being (extremely) frugal? That seems... very weird.
yeaaaaaaah nah. Unless its someone I'm super close with I cant see me ever doing that.
Touch the corpse for $200
Home in bed with the dog, weed, oxy and a salmon bagel.
I love salmon bagels, but for some reason my brain saw this:
Rest well!! Hope the recovery is easy and smooth!
Chefs kiss, perfection
😻
Had 3 days off caffeine. Caved this morning.
Back on the caffeine choo choo train.
I'm down to about half of what I used to have and keeping it for earlier in the day, I think it's working as I'm sleeping better
My partner always gets a mocha, loves them. I always get a cappuccino.
But the baristas will ALWAYS give ME the mocha, and my partner the cappuccino. Then we swap, in front of them lol.
Just a funny observation of unconcious bias lol
I have some potentailly really good news coming today. I'm probably jinxing it by even hinting at it now but I'm excited if it happens.
did you also stash a block of chocolate somewhere and forget and now have to hunt it down? Im gonna find it! Its half a block of darrell lea rocky road ffs.
Rocky Road wouldn't be in my top 10 tbh. :D
Does it involve any prospects of rogering or getting rogered?
No Jolly Rogering at this stage. However, she did say she has potentially exciting news too and waiting confirmation so...stand by...maybe?
I just knocked on wood for you, so that should cancel out your jinx, methinks.
Haha thank you.
I've been informed that it's Vegas' 10th birthday on Saturday! I need to figure out what to get him. Think I'll hit up the butcher but I might have to wait until Saturday to do it so it doesn't spoil the surprise, because he'll smell it. I'll swing by the big pet shop too and see if I can find something he might like.
Edit: Oh it's also my nanna's 98th birthday tomorrow. I don't think she wants anything from the butcher.
Leg of lamb! Old people love lamb.
Everyone loves lamb! Unfortunately, Nanna also lives in Mildura so no lamb for her. Not from me anyway.
Bless Nan on her birthday. Hope she has a good one! 🥂
Except my mum.
@danwritesbooks @bull
Australia should be exporting SPAMB (canned spiced lamb) instead of live sheep. Keep the labour local and remove the argument about third world lack of refrigeration. True globalism would see spambwiches being served in cornish high tea and alaskan cafeterii.
Morning! It's Thursday! Which means it's almost Friday which means it's almost the weekend!!! 👌👌😮
Pull a sickie and it's Friday. Want me to pick up a post surgical assistance requirement note for ya?
Already had a sickie on Monday and got short notice leave day approved for next week 😭 going to have to suck it up. If you can get one with a blank date though....
I forgot to take my douche out of the shower and the plumber is in there.
FML FML FML FML
Edit: not a pipe leak or water ingress. It's my fucking washing machine. FML FML is the re gonna make me pay for this? Fuck.
Bit rude to call your partner a douche
Fkn LOL!
Lol, been there! not a douche, but another adult toy. They must've seen it but said nothing. I said nothing. We all just pretended it didnt happen.
Same same same same 😭
I heard the shower turn on, and realised I forgot to remove it all. A douche and a couple of different dildos. I want to cry lol
He was probably admiring the extra-large dragon dildo, thinking of upgrading from his own which is only a large.
He wishes he had one as big as mine lol
Did a pantry clean out today. Chucked out so much expired bottled goods, powders, etc... Found a packet of Stroopwafels, out of date by 7 years.. Yes, I ate them ,and yes they were great.
Passport came... for my daughter who lodged hers after mine. 😔
the country cannot be without its CEO
Mine should be coming next provided the dog didn't apply for one.
Beep Beep 🚚
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A bottle of scotch and a straw please.
🎋🧴
Ummm. Thanks. Cheers.
No worries. Have a good day.
You too.
I could do with some fish and chips!
Potato cakes needed too.
Please chef.
🎣🍟🥔
Thanks Chef!
Could I please have a peri-peri chicken burger. with pineapple and beetroot.
🐥🍍💔🍔
Chef always delivers :) Thank you.
PERFECT timing! I'm on bit of a health kick at the moment, so I'd like a plate of nachos bigger than my head please!
^🧔🏻♂️^
🌽🛢️🍅🧅🧄🌶️
You are a legend - thank you!
At your service.
Fisherman's basket, please! And a shaved ice on the side. Thank you chef!
🐡🎣🦀🦐🍧
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Just in time for lunch! Could I please have an emu burger, with blue cheese dressing and a fried egg on it. Hoisin sauce instead of ketchup.
🍳
🐦🔥🍔🔵🟤
Thanks!
Our pleasure.
Oversized beef burrito please
🥩🌯
Ooooo my belly…
Hmm chicken sushi and a bottle of peach ice tea. I'm living on the edge!
Thank you 🙂
🐣🍣🍑❄️☕️
We are denying your favourite until you deliver a riot
Deep fried broccoli with blue cheese sauce and some pan fried salmon (on the rare side)
🛢️🥦🔵🎣
that's cool
How good's a breakfast burrito and a black tea for brekkie? Stuff of champions!
Breakfast burrito is my love language. Except for when places feel like they have to be too fancy and start throwing spinach in them.
Yeah I prefer making it at home tbh cause I can just sort of throw leftover veg together. I doubt roasted pumpkin is traditional but damned if it doesnt work!
Apparently you can make them and freeze them.
thats what this was, a bag of fozen burrito mix, fried up in the pan a bit, chucked in a wrap with some cheese and sauces and away we go.
Yuuummm!
so, I have no feelings about Celine Dion as a singer.... but as a person who can't sleep, I am finding her documentary fascinating and admirable
She's incredibly strong. I saw a clip of her seizure and it kills me. Her voice and power is rare and incredible, and for her to slowly lose that is devastating. She's earned her spot amongst the best singers (the trifecta: Whitney, Mariah, Celine).
I still love and listen to her Eurovision entry. It's how she got so big. She sang in french but was competing for Switzerland, as a Canadian. She changed the economy of the LA strip by doing residencies, which bought in massive revenue and made doing residencies viable for other artists again (previously they were usually for those past their music peak). Her philanthropy, her kindness. If anyone doesn't deserve her condition, it's her.
Went out, came back unable to unlock my laptop despite typing in correct password. Noticed that some of my keystrokes are not registering.
Looks like one of the cats managed to strategically position themselves on the keyboard just right to activate the filter keys prompt and the "yes" button on it.
The food cupboard had some apple scrolls and berry scones this morning, morning tea will be yummy today.
There were also a couple of empty jam jars of my favourite style to add to my jar collection.
I should be receiving a package both today and tomorrow - hopefully these headlight globes are not dodgy like the last ones I bought.
Grateful for Chappell Roan existing (I don't know if I want her, or if I want to be her... Prolly both lol)
YASSSSSS! 🙌🙌 WE'LL BRING CHAPPELL TO AUS YOU AND I 🙌🙌
Grateful that all the urgent work/backlog is cleared thanks to my colleagues, and I have a very manageable workload again!! The stress relief is immense.
Also grateful that I have meals for a few days.
Ungrateful to TS for disrespecting my Queen Celine lol
I think cult swifties are going to be confused, silently ashamed. No one disrespects Celine.
How slow it takes things to get sent. Bought an underdesk treadmill Tuesday last week and it got shipped out yesterday.
Still being sick, day 5 and no real improvement yet. So hard to get out of bed and do work when my body wants to rest. Glad it’s not Covid though, I’m testing negative. So I have anti-gratitude and gratitude at the same time.
Today I have a day off. The Minipeelers have been sitting around all school holidays doing nothing and will want to do something today, something big. I've been working pretty hard and just want to put my feet up and do nothing and rest. I can anticipate what will happen when Miniest awakes from her royal slumber!
My ex tooth hurts. The paracetamol/ibuprofin combo works fine as a painkiller, but because of the limits you can take in a day I can't take it often enough to remain pain free. So the next few hours are going to be painful so that I can take more later so I'll be able to sleep tonight ☹️
@RustyRaven @LowExperience2368 you can combine paracetamol with non-steroidal anti-inflamatory such as nurofen or voltage to amplify the analgesic effect. Cold pack.
I had a sleepless night and my eyes feel sore from it. I tried to listen to a podcast as well but ended listening to it instead of falling asleep to it.
Im trying not to sleep or have a nap so I can get my internal clock back to relative normalcy.
I hate sleepless nights.
::: spoiler overthinking overreacting Torn between feeling good and feeling bad. I feel good because next week I start my course and I'm changing my future.
But I feel bad because I feel so far behind. I don't even have $40k of super. I don't have a career. I've burnt my brains out trying and failing at call centre work for 10 years. I still feel like I'm failing. That I have already failed and I'm waiting for it to catch up with me. I can go back and blame the first 28 years of my life but I'm also autonomous. Why haven't I got a high powered career making big money and have a nice nest egg. I've never had enough to even travel to Bali FFS. Idk. I just feel the weight of the past more than ever and I. scared of failing again. It's gonna take me three years to get where I want to be, qualification wise, and I'll be 35. And I have to then find work and start paying my HECS off. I don't feel like I'm ever gonna have a home or feel financially secure.
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Alright tough love time: Everyone is running their own race, and everyone started with their own unique handicap so you cant compare anyone elses life to your own.
BUT: If you're not happy with where your at? Fix it. Process the emotions, work through everything then get up dust yourself off and keep going. Sadly no one else is gonna step up and help you out here, so its up to you to live the life you wanna live. Set some goals and make 'em happen. Rome wasn't built in a day, but it would never have been built without starting out and some tough days.
Thank you for this. Next week is just me laying the first brick of my own Rome then.
You're the best, Tinybreak 💜
I'm ten years older than you and have only worked out careers that I don't like. Hecks is only a problem if you make money. Due to lifelong research I'm an associate professor in being broke and feeling like I have enough. I had a super fun 20s & 30s. I've eaten the double dick of lockdown then hernia for being a massive hermit. Pulled my super out during covid because there's just something about it that I'm sus on, possibly just simple financial iliteracy on my part but gimmie my money. Impermanence, you ultimately cannot rely on anything other than your own mind/thoughts. Once I'm able to work again I'm considering scaffolding and getting back into jiu-jitsu. I've always enjoyed physical work over intellectual. My first degree got wiped out by arduino. I don't like the myotherapy industry in Australia, the way to make money is to run a clinic (rent seeking) not be a therapist. Plus any job I can leave at the job is a bonus. hits vape, pops another endone
Better to be working towards a career you will enjoy later in life than to have stayed in a career you hated for the sake of being financially stable earlier in life. Yes, it would have been better if you found what you wanted to do career-wise earlier in life but it doesn’t always work out that way. I think what you’re doing is brave, a lot of people would have stuck to their existing career, too scared to make a change. The money and holidays will come in time!
so many many hugs
half the battle is setting your own goals, not the goals of other people and society
at the same time remember you are part of team, you are not alone, it's you and your partner against the world
nobody else still up?
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I could use some hot milo. Really need to add that to my shopping list.
I've been doing cocoa, sugar, and a flavour carrier lipid: cream, butter, coconut oil or sour cream, then blend. Tasty and easy to adjust levels to taste. And fuck Nestlé.
E: I should add cinnamon.
Fucking noisy hospital.
Bugger. Having trouble getting to sleep there?
I doubt I'll get any sleep. Too bright, too noisy, next to the nurses station where they're chatting, way too warm, one nurse has a deep chesty cough, neighbour calls the nurses station every 15 minutes. This place is for keeping people alive not helping them recover. Glad I bought a sandwich because dinner was rank, so I'm hungry too.
E: whichever nerd suggested mechanical keyboards for a hospital can get stuffed too, as can the mega squeaky toilet door.
Bleh that’s not really fair on you, a recovering patient who needs rest to recover from surgery.
I saw the photo of your dinner. Didn’t look too good. Beef pasta?
Something vegetarian.
I’m still up!
champ!
For how long, who knows?
Morning! Woke up because too hot. Now window is open but the night is so noisy. Good time to catch up on deleting emails.
::: spoiler Train lines PSA
Stony point line FTW!! looks like it's clearing / getting back to normal but double check
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there was a comment on reddit the other day about how ww3 could break out and they allys would ride in on the stony point line to save is culminating in the first battle of Frankston. I pondered how ride of the valkyries would sound on a stolen 90's WRX's ruined sound system.
Sky pretty
Taking today off was a good call. I was woken up a bit after 1am from tooth pain. Hopefully it starts settling down a bit more today.
Gonna lose my shit at work. We asked for X to be done. Its a security time sensitive thing. Sent off a spreadsheet containing all the details they needed. They report back X+Y was done. When i asked why they did Y i was told that it was on the spreadsheet.
Why did you put Y on the the spreadsheet I hear you ask? I didn't! When I asked them to produce the working spreadsheet they sent us something totally different that cherry-picked data from the original but missed critical details.
If I were HALF as incompetent as this team I'd be out on my ass, but yet somehow this team is a protected species and can continue to fuckup till the cows come home.
And yet, if you start asking them to explain themselves you're the unreasonable one.
I just sent back a really blunt "lets revist the ORIGINAL spreadsheet and prioritize, thanks!"
I really love the BCC feature on emails.
👩🍳😚👌
Nope. Mail client can't see the bcc recipients to include
I ... Actually don't know the answer to that lol
Don't worry, if you get a job/career that uses email, BCC will be your very best friend :D
I read that as BBC and thought you meant a documentary tv show 🤓
I was just getting all the meat off yesterday's roast chicken for lunch sandwiches and Bill Cat was begging real bad, but I know him, he won't eat it but he does like stealing chicken from plates!!
So I put some pieces on a plate and put that on the small table in the living room then walked away. He is stealing it right now and I can hear him eating.
Stolen chicken is yummier. 🤭
The spoils of the heist lol
My old dog was a bit like that, only he preferred to tip over your glass and lap up the wine. Didn't like it in a bowl, had to be licked off the floor. Weird.
Was in Brunswick today for a dentist appointment. Ended up wandering around afterwards. God I miss it. Maybe I'll head back in 6 months if all goes well with this job.
It makes coming back to where I live so depressing. My mantra for the last 6 months has been "all in good time".
And so it will be once again hopefully.
In other news, I found an amazing new Middle Eastern instruments library that will expand my compositions significantly. It doesn't have as many functions as my other one, but it has a wider variety of instruments and they sound good right out of the box.
Exciting, it is a lovely place. Can't wait for you to join me in listening to the local pop sing and dance on a Friday night lol.
Awesome about your instrument library! I love to hear anything you're willing to share! I really like the piece you shared last time, the one that was in your head for ages :D
Everything is coming up for you, friend! This is joyous, and you deserve every ounce of goodness that comes from it!!
Thank you so much ❤️
Yeah it's been a crazy few weeks. I'm just keeping my head down and hoping for the best.
I grew up in Brunswick in 90's and it's changed so much. I've got a lot of memories running amok along Sydney road lol
It's definitely interesting these days. More lively for sure and as much as it's changed, its still got the old school Brunswick vibe. Especially past Blyth Street heading towards Coburg.
I love the area because it's not pretentious and everyone is friendly.
The Middle Eastern library sounds really exciting. Just thinking 2 of my fave bands use ME instruments in a fusion sound, Brian Jonestown and No Quarter
No quarter is fucking awesome! Otherwise for Egyptian folk is Om Kalsoum
I had a gf on Blyth St in the 90s.
Been sick all this week. I should have taken more than one day off but there are meetings I want to get out of the way. My sense of taste hasn't been the best so I think I'll do a COVID test and if it comes back positive I'll take the rest of the week off
Product review. Found this honey in the pantry:
It. Is. Amazing.
Bougie honey ($22 according to the lid I have no idea how it got there or when I think it was a gift).
Should go nicely with your kukri methinks.
I’ve ordered some more trackies while I look for the other ones. Pakige.
I also need to get the next bag of Melbcat’s biccies that have been sitting at the post office for at least a week
what did you order? I've somehow burnt my hurley ones and the AS colour I've gotta admit hasnt lasted as long as I'd like.
Straight up Kmart, sorry. Nothing flash
I packed clothing away when winter came around and now I can’t find my other pairs of trackies. Moral of the story, don’t tidy up or you’ll lose your pants
Sky angry. Reminds me of old paintings of ships at sea during a storm.
lovely morning out there, the clouds are tinged with red and purple and the birds are chirping 😊
It was beautiful otw to work, even with the crazy wind on the freeway.
meanwhile I have one which was shipped yesterday from somewhere over the east side, I forget where exactly, went through Tullamarine last night and should be arriving at my front door of my parents place out in Melton any moment now (status is onboard for delivery as of 30 minutes ago)
sometimes they just get it right
bring me my weeeeeed mr postman
Mines on there too. Let's see who gets theirs first.
Ps not weed. Passport
A race! It's on like donkey kong.
You're going down bitch!
Mine just arrived!
Good game. 🤝 🏆
Mine just arrived as well!
Haha having MC delivered feels like I'm doing something illegal. Even when I go to Prahan to pick it up at the pharmacy, I still feel so judged. Like the po-po are gonna rush in and arrest me as part of a sting. Which is dumb, I have TGA approval lol.
But MC being delivered to your door - we truly are living in the future
What a time to be alive! I didn't feel any weirdness going to pick mine up from St Kilda BUT I was on my toes because where I parked felt like a slightly sketchy area and I figured scumbags might watch for people coming out of the dispensary and target them. Felt super sketchy like that around some of the US dispensaries I went to over there too.
Never actually had a problem though.
Lol I feel that way walking out of Amcal in Prahan. I just beeline back to the train station lol. I don't want ANYONE to look at me while I'm carrying my Green Gold tyvm hahaha
I have heard of posties nicking MC packages, but that was when MC was picking up in popularity. Haven't heard anything of the sort since, so I imagine they've cracked down on that. I personally haven't had any issues with either delivery or pickup, it's a seamless processs, end to end.
Ahem : Agency workers who don’t
This was my recent one earlier last month.
They all seem to go through the airport like the main depot is there. They never used to do that.
Reliable sources report that Sunhine is semi sane and Tullamarine is utterly cooked.
Can confirm
There's an auspost sorting facility down in Dandenong South, so I imagine it's just being sorted for distribution. Thought, anecdotally, there's been parcels getting stuck in sorting facilities for weeks. I imagine their packages fell off the conveyor lol
Edit: clarification because I had another coffee and am overthinking: it is at Dandenong to be sorted, it will then be sent to your local auspost and assigned a postie to deliver.
I'll have a chat with my aunt about it, she works for auspost. (Apparently posties/couriers can be very emotional and resistant to change lol love her stories)
The whole point about formal minutes of a meeting is JUST EXACTLY THIS. So the participants can't wriggle out of undertakings given and recorded.
Baku, let me introduce you to the ancient and uncivilised practice of writing the minutes of a meeting BEFORE the meeting.
Start with the agenda of the meeting - a bullet point list of items to be discussed. These should be few in number. Ideally less than 6. You might like to send this bullet point list to the regional manager before the meeting so he knows what topics you want to discuss. For example :
These can be in any order - I usually put the most important one at the top but you might like to start with something that the manager can agree with as this can be a useful way to get co-operation on the other items.
Then, (not sending this bit to the manager) expand on each bullet point by adding 3 short paragraphs/sentences describing and/or discussing 1) What if you get everything you want when you want it AND who is responsible for seeing that you get it, 2) If you get something, but not all of what you want and who is responsible for each/what etc, and 3) You don't get anything, and won't get it in the future either.
Print this out (or save on your phone screen) and take to the meeting. As each bullet point is discussed, you strike out whichever of 1) 2) or 3) above that doesn't apply - for each bullet point. At the end, you'll have a list of what was discussed and what was agreed, and who is going to action each item agreed to.
At the end of the meeting you make the person read the document, and sign off on it if at all possible. If you like, give them a copy so that they have a record available too.
This is standard corporate practice, and will do a lot to concentrate their mind on doing things properly.
I'm in that club as well. Let him know while it's okay to meet face to face, you'd like to be able to send him an email prior to the meeting with your points laid out and ask that he sends you a follow up email after the meeting with what was discussed. Heck, write him one afterwards with what was discussed and get your advocate to read over it.
Seconding Spin. Written or recorded. Don’t trust verbal anything
I'd be replying with a polite "I'd prefer to have this conversation in writing thanks".
If they push you into a discussion by yourself it’s a good idea to get anything said in writing so they can’t lie and bs later. Do not talk to them on the phone.
Also great to have someone with more power present or bcc’ed in, good idea
Sky pretty
So nice this morning!
Had a stuffy nose last night, couldn’t sleep so put an extra pillow to keep head a bit elevated, and then woke up with sore neck. The irony of treatment for one ailment causing another.
Just found salt and pepper in my parents pantry with best before dates of 2015.
The good news is that salt does not actually go off. Although I expect by this age the pepper is more of a placebo spice than anything.
That wind is looooud
got a giant to do list, thinking I can spread it out over two days
Fuck this mortgage person! If you want all new paperwork when July arrives just fucking say wait. Doing everything twice is Brain garbage.
I always feel warmer after dinner. ( spaghetti and meat tomato sauce )
Not long home from work - the yiayia isn't happy with the admin side of the agency either.
That's up to half of the clients or their next of kin who are pissed off with them.
Well, well.
Back from opshop with some finds. I'm listening to another Peter and Dudley LP and found an old book, Seven Years in New Guinea about some weird guy who was sent to PNG in the 50s-60s to do ethnographic studies for the Aust, gov. They didn't eat him, as is evidenced by the fact he wrote this book.
teaching ravens to fly underwater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhS35f015SQ
Fried egg sandwich eaten.
Now for coffee!
Just listened to the last chapter, Grey Havens, of LOTR, 😭 every single time
“I shall defeat a bajillion ninjas with a box of pop tarts”