Spyke
aussie.zone

Buenas Noches all. I came here cos it was linked from the old reddit one which is alright sometimes but has some trollers. I see some names from the old lockdown days and pre-reddit "protest" purge. Hope you guise are all well.

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Getting there! One bed's soil is fluffed up and looking pretty. Added some dynamic lifter too for good measure. Soil will subside a bit so going to throw on somefing on top and give it a another scratch before spring.

That bed has never been more empty. Feels good to have a clean start. Also felt good standing on that retaining wall on the right with all my weight and it didn't budge.

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aussie.zone

Cheerful morning people should be shot and fed to the early bird

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I'm gonna be cheerful if all my body parts are working as they should. Ya gotta take the small wins.

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Duenanreply
aussie.zone

I’m not a morning person, some of my friends are very cheerful in the morning and as much as I love them I always want to strangle them at times.

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Catfishreply
aussie.zone

I was once at a multi day camping event and some guy had the audacity to skip to the breakfast tent. Outrageous!

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Totally outrageous.

No one has the right to be so cheerful without a cup of coffee.

Oh the audacity!

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aussie.zone

welp, today I learned first hand just how hard it is to get vanilla slice custard off a cat

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tbh I'd take the kelpie, cat in question is a longhair and it was on her belly

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Taleyareply
aussie.zone

I was eating a snotblock, cat was interested, sniff sniff, paw paw, glob of custard down her front.

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Oh dear. Pretty sure I already told the beetrooted white cat tale.

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I tell my Pepper that she has a creamy custard belly, but she doesn't take it literally!

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Cats love custard. Melbcat used to like the dairy free egg custard I’d make. Gotta be careful that it’s real vanilla though as imitation vanilla can be toxic to cats.

My fun cat cleaning moments were wiping at yellow ear wash runoff stains and oily brown liquid medicine on white fur

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aussie.zone

Hearing one of the kids on the hockey team introduce his great-grandma to my son. Totally wild. My great grandmother lived 1867-1952.

I didn't even really get the grandparent experience as a kid, let alone great-grandparents.

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Taleyareply
aussie.zone

My great grandad died when i was 16. Original ANZAC and all

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My grandfather was the Anzac. He served in both world wars. He passed away before I was born, though.

He was an absolute larrikin, there are loads of stories about him. He was famous in his hometown, is mentioned in its history etc.

I'd share highlights, but it'd probably doxx me. 😂

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aussie.zone

Finally found all my micro USB cables, and a watch I've got looking for about a month or so.

My girlfriend will collect things up in a grocery bag and dump it in the front room, or even on my desk, when she wants to clean and feel productive.

Unfortunately that just moves a bunch of unrelated things into a bag together that becomes harder to go through and I lose things because nothing is in a place that makes sense anymore

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aussie.zone

Ugh Mr P does the grocery bag thing too, just takes everything he feels is superfluous to the room, bag it up or toss it into random containers and dump it in a cupboard or under a bed. I hate it as it then becomes a separate more involved job to go through all the containers and bags and put stuff away like it should have been.

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That was the situation with my watch. There are two places I usually put my watches and it was in neither of them so I couldn't find it. Then I'm looking for a USB cable that will actually transfer data and there it is in a bag with all this other stuff

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Seagoon_reply
aussie.zone

Reading this is making me twitchy.

I am big into storing things in a systematic way so everything is easy to find and nothing is lost, my husband likes everything to be out or maybe he is just lazy

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Taleyareply
aussie.zone

Rule in our house is if it's not yours don't fucking touch it. Make the other person clean that shit.

Dishes? fine. Old beer/coke cans? Fine. Work bag? In his office. Paperwork / watch / gym stuff? "go put your shit away dude"

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I'm pretty tolerant until half the plates and cutlery are still in there and the mess/dirt starts tracking into the rest of the house

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My girlfriend wants to be like this but it doesn't fully happen. She also goes and cleans up all my stuff when the back part of the house is a complete mess and that's all her mother's stuff that could mostly be gotten rid of

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Yes, it's always a silly experience having voice navigation on down Royal Pde...

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aussie.zone

wiggles on bed alongside a pair of wiggly cats

They got breakfast when i had a five am pee, but they managed to swindle a second breakfast on Friday so now they're being extra coquettish in hopes of a repeat performance

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aussie.zone

My kid and her friends encountered some cookers today so they stopped, read their little signs, had a giggle then as they moved on yelled "you are all a bunch of morons". ☺

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There was no talking to them but you are right. I advised them next time to not stop and just to ignore them.

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Whoo, what a long day. Out to the city for movie, chat with friend, lunch at a HK cafe to satiate my cravings (Ovaltine! And yu xiang eggplant and you tiao), then sitting with my friend for hours of driving as she just bought a car and only recently got her licence and wanted to practice driving various routes including all the way across town... had a video call with a family member in between... I'm ready for bed now honestly. Also it's cold again. zzzzzz.

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House is clean. Time to crank the amp!

Gibson got a new wand toy today, so let's see if she completely ignores it as usual lol

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aussie.zone

Yep. I play guitar, sing and record/make music on PC.

If you want to hear any, let me know and I'll post a track or 2.

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Get the openwrt core router working, taken apart and old school serial hacked a tplink to get the first WAP up and running, get it integrated, go to do the second one and...motherfuuuuuu i did not check the version number it is unsupported

whine leya want make mesh wi fi

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Cleaning the house top to bottom. It's a big place and it's so easy to ignore until it's too messy.

Not exactly exciting, but necessary

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Seagoon_reply
aussie.zone

my place hasn't been cleaner for a long time but it's untidy because of all the sorting and chucking out of stuff and the furniture restoring , drives me nuts

so I suppose I'm saying, how can people take just a few hours to clean the whole house? I seem to do so much housework but it's never clean and tidy

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It's just me and Gibson so it's fairly easy to clean. I'll be moving to a smaller place later this year, and I'm looking forward to less rooms to clean.

And also not living next to crack heads, not having insulation, closer to civilisation and paying less per month.

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Just finished putting together one of those Kmart trolleys.
I feel like I've been stomped on by a troupe of tapdancers.

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aussie.zone

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aussie.zone

4/5 stars. Food is great if you ever get it, skilled and charismatic chef, but chef sometimes falls asleep after opening the food truck resulting in multi-hour delays. Worth the wait if you have nothing on.

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Duenanreply
aussie.zone

Mushroom soup with toasted bread please Chef.

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aussie.zone

I just watched All Shall Be Well which broke my heart and made me angry but also really made me want a sumptuous HK spread and mooncake 😭 please help chef

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Looks nice! I like imbue; when I used to drink I tried their sunflower vodka and elixir gin liqueur, both of which I really enjoyed.

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aussie.zone

My sternum is sore.

Plz explain.

In other news I am suitably stuffed from lunch and I’m up for le mini-golf this evening. Still buggered from Uni, but otherwise excited.

I have now been relegated to my much loved Savoys, but fear I have fallen in love with Jatz.

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Taleyareply
aussie.zone

Too much chest puffing. You're far too awesome for your own good

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Another eBay item sold. If my postage calculations are correct I am now $12 richer in money and one shoe-box size richer in space.

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aussie.zone

Went down to the Burnley Brewing taproom for their closing down takeaways sale. Filled my little 9.5L homebrew keg with IPA at $5/L and bought three cases of cans too.

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I took my 19L keg too, but they weren't as keen on that, which is fair. I still have about 15L of Rice Lager I brewed to get through anyway.

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aussie.zone

Do you homebrew as well? Or just, also like me, keen on all forms of booze? 😋

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So tired today. I only worked 2 days this week but they were pretty physical days and I'm knackered. Managed to get a load of laundry done and the kitchen cleaned. Forgot I've been playing nurse to covid sufferers this past week, which has been oddly stressful and emotionally tiring. I just feel spent.

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That and you are still recovering yourself! Feet up and rest woman!

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2 hours of work at home done.

Night do more later if I’m in the mood to free up my Monday work at home day.

Been doing them in 30 mins bursts today through the day.

Now for some footy and game time!

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I felt like I got the same amount despite trying to go to bed early last night.

Didn’t feel rested when I woke up.

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House clean (mostly), still need to scrub the shower and fold laundry but that can happen tomorrow as that’s enough housework for one day. Enjoying an arvo coffee in the sun (it’s turned out to be a pretty nice day), going to get a quick workout in before dinner out tonight.

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Found ginger at a reasonable price for first time in yonks. Brew on!

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ffs, Ted Cat is a smoke persian and so godamn fluffy. So very cute but he bites and claws the whole time when I brush him, I wear gloves now, and he is a bit of a stinky dag. Def not a neeb cat like Bill.

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barbie just started throwing shit in halfway through and tbh lost me at the song and dance sequence

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aussie.zone

Back to oblivion. Stupid saints got up and rolled my team over.

Tv back to a blank channel before their team song plays.

Yes I’m filthy right now.

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aussie.zone

Carn the Saints!!

I don't hate in real life, but Geelong fans can suck it and choke on it.

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Duenanreply
aussie.zone

It’s all in good fun even if I’m a nuffy.

I’m happy enough to have seen 4 premierships in my lifetime.

How many have you seen? 😃

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Chilli seeds are in on the prop. heat mat. This year (hopefully if they germinate) it will be just thai, habs and birdseye (if they overwintered).

Today's major thing is digging over the soil that's been trampled and compacted from doing the retaining wall. Soil is uneven af now and there's a fair bit of it and I'm running outta radox and ibuprofen.

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aussie.zone

mwa. mwahaha mwahahahahhaa. It's not mesh, but they're all gigabit backhauled so it's rather better than mesh.

I also printed myself an impossible cone which my cat views with deep, non-euclidean suspicion

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I was hoping to see Psycroptic tonight but the show sold out. I don't buy tickets in advance much anymore in case the kids are a nightmare to put to sleep but they went down well enough tonight.

These are the risks you take, and good on the boys from Tassie for selling out their Melbourne shows

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aussie.zone

More stuff has been taken out to the courtyard for neighbours to take if they want

best find is a real italian stainless steel pasta maker with the attachments and instruction booklet . It was expensive when I bought it. But I'll never use it again and it's taking up space.

also a small murano vase

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aussie.zone

Murano vases are worth a bit of money (I have a collection of paperweights). Lucky neighbours! We put out a box of lemons a couple of days ago and most are still sitting there 🤔 most peculiar, they're usually gone pretty swiftly. Last year a woman pulled up when we had about 3 wheelbarrows full after the tree was pruned and grabbed several grocery bags full.

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most murano nowadays is made in thailand ...lol. This is nothing special.

My real venini, cenedese and nason are staying put

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