shit is falling apart at work, despite my warning that this is a shit time of the year to be attempting stuff.
Everyone seems super stressed but I'm just sitting here making jokes in quiet cause if they ask me to engage all they are gonna get is "I fucking told you so, enjoy the consequences of your actions"
nah its not even gonna be that polite. I specifically said "we should not be doing this in a change freeze". They said "its not a change!". So far their "not a change" has killed 2 apps and resulted in a complete server restore.
If asked its literally gonna be a "I told you so. I warned you, i was condescended to. Fucking sucks to be you".
Did you cover your arse with logged messages? If so switch off and enjoy the ride (but please support and take care of anyone more junior who may be stressed out and played no part in this decision).
Thanks @Seagoon for keeping Tucker Time alive, most appreciated. Good idea to include breakfast and lunch. I shall be keeping that. I've made today's post. 💜💜💜
I might restart Baldur's Gate 3 and actually finish it. I've got Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth queued up as well. Nothing much else that has piqued my interest at the moment. Very optimistic for 2025 from the trailers I've seen.
It was the best toastie I've ever had in my life. The bread was ciabatta and cut on the angle so every piece of the crust was crunchy. Then it was dripping in butter with stacks of bacon. I will always be chasing that taste sensation for the rest of my life.
Ps. I made a egg and bacon just now. Not as good but it hit the spot.
I'm mentally calculating the "Hours left" for 2024 and the "Hours of work" to do in my head. I'm not going to get it all done. I'm left trying to decide who I have to let down.
Thank Frank tomorrow is my last day until Jan 2, SO over this place. Way too busy, and everyone is grumpy AF (including me).
I still can't believe that if I were to start slapping people upside the head, -- I -- would be the one getting in trouble for it. It was self-defense, Your Honour.
Tomorrow's going to be interesting because we're required to be on then offsite for a function then back onsite? Maybe if we're lucky we'll just go home after the function.
If there is alcohol involved then they can't be back onsite to work after the function because it will potentially be in breach of employment contracts.
Are they shuttling you there or do you have to make your own way? If it's the former then everyone will go home, if it's the latter you got on the wrong bus/tram and ended up home.
Epic cooking sesh complete - made a gigantic amount of dal (most for the freezer) and used up almost all the sad veg in the fridge. That's me done until xmas eve. Pretty glad at what I've got thru - chipping away at my old red rice too by mixing it in with basmati. I'll be glad to start having fewer and fewer bottles and boxes of things in my kitchen.
Planning to do some more big cooks in Jan when I've still got time, and add more to the freezer where I've got space. Going to prepare myself for the very busy few months after that. I'll make sure I've always got food without needing to spend on takeaways etc.
Pretty much managed to finish everything that needed finishing yesterday. Have a team meeting late this morning and my manager told me to piss off after lunch (he'll cover for me if anyone asks).
I am very much looking forward to doing fuck all for a few weeks.
ee got me new PCIe to PCI converter today in Melbs and it's being brought down on Sat. For an old but exxy soundcard for the studio.
Better fuckin' work (interwebbles says yes so we're hoping). Have to re-do an entire DAW (OS and plugs) which I'm not looking forward to (it takes forever). Been about six months since making choons and keen to jump back in over the break.
Nevertheless surprised an obscure part like that only took 2 days to arrive this close to xmas.
Heh yeah well old. Seriously stable card / drivers though. Also feel naked w/o Digicheck (specifically the spectrum analyser) so I'm determined to try and resuscitate it lol.
the SUV deployed its emergency breaks for the first time ever on me. No surprises what road i was on: the monash.
if i was in the old hatch we woulda hit, no doubt. But the SUV saw and responded before I even noticed the threat and broke so hard my face hurts. Have to say, I am impressed with it.
Mine just has a "safety" feature where it screeches at me when there's something ahead, so I have to have a heart attack, work out what the alert is for, and THEN start breaking. It actually distracts from whatever hazard's come up in front of me.
I’m making a biscoff trifle for friend Christmas on the weekend and just realised I have no trifle dish. And big trifle dishes are hard to track down at this time of year apparently. I think I found one in stock at the local Salt & Pepper store, half price as well. But does this dish have any other uses or only for trifle? Sounds like a kitchen cupboard clogger.
Trifle bowls are generally huge but you can get smaller bowls these days. You can use them for jelly or salads. You're better off getting a clear plastic bowl from kmart if it's not gonna get used that often or passed down like a family heirloom.
Had a long chat with a cousin this morning and that's set a relaxed tone to the day... screw uni, there's nothing I could do with this processed data until mid Jan anyway and I NEED A BREAK. Feeling so happy that I have a day of no obligations!
Just lounging around finishing up Happy Valley (such a good show!) and then I'll cook up what I can in the crisper (sad red cabbage), appeal my stupid parking fine online, set up my new phone (still haven't done it...) and head to t'shops for a few little gifts if I feel like it.
Nah, I never really cared for Xmas gifts. I'll wait till the new year to think about getting a second hand benchtop dishwasher and maybe an instant pot.
Will be heading interstate in a week so no point getting much food, and my unit is so small I'm trying to acquire as little as possible
I'm 10 days into one meal a day with no carbs, and I feel amazing. Today I feel like my mood was better than its been in months. Not hungry at all between meals, really enjoying what I'm eatin, which recently has been a 250g steak, a zucchini, an avocado and one other random veg, sometimes eggs sometimes not. One black coffee, one serve electrolyte drink, and lots of water
I absolutely do not believe you had no reason!
Edit: Oh constipation. Nope I am still regular - was a bit weird when I was doing only steak and eggs but now I'm adding veg it's perfectly normal for me
Sigh. Just spent an hour past my appointment in the GPs waiting room. Why do they always run so late? Surely they should leave some buffer time or make appointments longer? So annoying. Seriously I would be happier to drive further to a clinic that can manage their bookings rather than sit endlessly at one that can’t. But they all seem the same.
It's a symptom of the system as a whole not working well enough, not necessarily the clinic.
People don't book long enough appointments due to cost because the rebate is too low, doctors need more than 15 minutes to properly document visits or fill out paperwork, good GPs will be proactive with things the patient didn't come in for, people show up late, emergencies come up, etc. etc.
My GP charges the same gap fee no matter the length of the consultation, so I usually always book a double to hopefully at least give them a few minutes of their time back.
Mine have recently started charging more based on how long the consult actually takes, on a sliding scale. Which makes sense, and I love how thorough my GP is, but it gets a bit exxy.
::: spoiler Magpie/dero rambles
Yet another person going out of their way to go right up to the water dish and gawk… perhaps if I wrote ‘wildlife water’ on the side? Or if I got a proper birdbath and put it more inside the property boundary. (Not sure whether I would have to remove it once I left though. And it would be a target for vandalism.)
A bit worried about potential problems though. Thankfully he didn’t knock it over but when he went up to it a magpie kind of flew up to him and hopped after him as he walked off. The other day someone else might have got swooped as he was loudly complaining about the birds being annoying and saying ‘X says some pr-ck in this area is f-cking feeding them’.
Now the birds were already here and would be regardless of whether I was kind to them. They live in that tree. If you got swooped it’s because you went close to their territory in breeding season!
Plus there are a lot of sketchy randos cutting through the block and a lot of them act seriously alcohol affected/aggressive/unpredictable so I don’t really care about them getting swooped. (That might be why it might have happened.) I actually wouldn’t mind if these disruptive people were deterred from my place.
I’m more just worried about stupid people having normal predictable magpie issues and me being blamed for it, or about being harassed to stop giving them water.
People here are genuinely the type to do that. To come trying to intimidate you for petty reasons and start dictating what you do on your own property.
I’d honestly rather deal with an aggressive bird because they respond to reasonable accommodations.
:::
Not sure public or private property. I’m trying not to give doxable descriptions but it is within easy reach of drop kicks and I might have to move it to a less ideal spot
I have decided to bake some biscuits for Christmas. I have narrowed my selection down to 8, lets see how many I end up doing! The current shortlist is:
pfeffenusse
Scottish shortbread
coconut macaroons
cranberry-coconut oatmeal
embossed lemon shortbread
Pizzelle (wafers)
Chocolate Brownie Cookies
"Oma's biscuits" - another shortbread variation
I'm focusing on recipes that are not too complicated to make, keep fairly well, with at least a few that can be dunked in a cup of tea. I'll give a few as gift boxes and take some to work, with the bulk of them to be a gift to my Mum - she has been making her own biscuits for years, but recently has started to find the effort a bit much, so I'd like to fill her biscuit jar with home made biscuits for a while.
I could be completely wrong here as I'm going off second hand info and cba verifying, but aren't those boxes coded to a specific outside box? What I'm getting at, is it a new one that you're being shipped from what ever provider you're using and doesn't need setting up or is it your old one you've shipped to yourself?
Picked up some of these earplugs recently and highly recommend them. A nuclear bomb could go off down the road and you'd die of radiation poisoning before you ever woke up. Great for tuning in to the harsh inner critic while travelling this holiday season, so if you ever want to be trapped in your head with only the voices to keep you company, pick yourself up a box.
My Loops are great sitting still but I can't walk around with them. Every step gets a weird ringing ping impact thing. Unpleasant with squishy soled shoes, unbearable with hard.
Those extra 4 mins spent looking up the weather meant I posted too slow
deletes other thread
Edit:
☀️Min 12 Max 29 Sunny. Chance of any rain: 0%
Melbourne area:
Sunny. The chance of fog about the nearby hills in the early morning. Light winds becoming south to southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h in the early afternoon then tending east to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the evening.
Check on myGov or call them. I got something similar ages ago for a couple of dollars, thought it was a scam, but turned out to be a refund because I paid my tax debt early
E: just saw you checked in myGov already.. I think it takes a bit to update, and the credit comes in advance
::: spoiler this pic I took of a snake at the Royal show
:::
I think it's a northern death adder iirc. So cute!!!
Edit: oh there's also a black house spider behind the exit sign above the fire escape in the hallway. It's all tucked in there, also very cute but no pics lol
Tool battery powerpacks are usually just literal 18650's chained together. I have a chainsaw one that's actually just a buncha nicads. They don't do replacements. I am not paying another couple hundred for a useful tool that I use once in a blue moon. I know you can get replacement battery packs, but are there small, dodgy shops where they will perform the swap for you?
(I want a battery upgrade which will also need new charger but I am not fuckin' soldering lithiums)
nah, they don't tend to do tool batteries. There's one not far from me in mentone - I've recycled a UPS there, gotten a new battery for my 2009 ebook...not so much on the tool front.
I was just about to check my email for the estimated time for my grocery delivery today when they delivered it. Faboulous timing, they most often deliver around 11am for this time window. Mr Woof Is not happy about someone encroaching on our territory though.
I spent the morning browsing biscuit packaging ideas and printing some bags. So I didn't actually start on biscuits until after lunch. I have made the cranberry coconut oatmeal biscuits & have the pfeffenusse dough chilling in the fridge.
Edit: I've also realised two of my biscuits are almost identical, just shaped differently. So Oma's biscuits are being swapped out for jam drops.
This is one of my personal and useless gripes with hold music selection.
We're dealing with a narrowband medium designed for the natural range of human voice, why the fuck are they choosing high pitched string and woodwind instruments or "wide" orchestral pieces that only sound good if you can hear the bass?
Centrelink you're probably the biggest culprit, this track is an absolute disaster over the phone.
morning teefs
scritches da chin
I see you like to live dangerously.
Eh, given the extant number of holes in my feet, it's worth the risk 😺
?? Never met me a cat who didn't enjoy a chinscratch
the belly on the other hand....
Butter Chicken. Excuse my French, but I fucking nailed it.
Edit. Thanks everyone. Tasted great. Here's the recipe, it's basically unfuckupable....
https://www.recipetineats.com/one-pan-baked-butter-chicken/#wprm-recipe-container-123891
why do you torment me like this
Wow. That looks awesome.
Wow, you most certainly have. That curry sauce texture 👌
Bravo!
ooh nicely done!
That looks like it belong in a food blog or magazine. Beautiful
HELLOOOOO 3 WEEK HOLIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.
ahh.
My Samsung photo gallery highlights of 2024 is literally all photos of Gibson 🤣
The mark of a true cat slave lol!
And work is done!!!!
Last emails sent. Out of Office message set. Time to make some dinner, get some beers and stick my dick out the window so I can fuck the world!!!!
Okay that last one is optional and probably won't happen but the day is young!!!!
please practice safe sex when fucking the world. last thing we need is the world ending up pregnant. its irritable enough!
I shall spill my seed at my leisure!!!
But yeah good point. Might get messy.
Especially if you’re sticking it out the window and letting it all out into the wind.
🤣 Enjoy!
shit is falling apart at work, despite my warning that this is a shit time of the year to be attempting stuff. Everyone seems super stressed but I'm just sitting here making jokes in quiet cause if they ask me to engage all they are gonna get is "I fucking told you so, enjoy the consequences of your actions"
"This outcome was raised as an expectation early in discussions."
nah its not even gonna be that polite. I specifically said "we should not be doing this in a change freeze". They said "its not a change!". So far their "not a change" has killed 2 apps and resulted in a complete server restore.
If asked its literally gonna be a "I told you so. I warned you, i was condescended to. Fucking sucks to be you".
Did you cover your arse with logged messages? If so switch off and enjoy the ride (but please support and take care of anyone more junior who may be stressed out and played no part in this decision).
What's a change freeze?
No changes to client systems.
ah ok, thanks!
Welcome to the club! One of our 3 engineers has resigned. Good times.
are there frantic back room meetings with the c suite yet?
Yep. The new owners don't seem to either give a fuck or act at all.
I think you need to learn the words of this little gem (sometimes I just LOVE the YT algorithm) Battle Hymn of the Retail Worker at Xmas
ACCURATE!
Thanks @Seagoon for keeping Tucker Time alive, most appreciated. Good idea to include breakfast and lunch. I shall be keeping that. I've made today's post. 💜💜💜
You're very welcome. 😘
Aldi Garlic dip, I put it in a pita wrap, I recommend everyone give the dip a go.
I can second this. I have one in my fridge permanently.
Here's a tip. Buy a roast chook. Rip a piece off and dip it in. Eat.
I keep forgetting to buy that dip.
Closest they've come yet
Cat Man!!
I reckon this is an "outside cat". She meowed at me repeatedly, and I thought that strays wouldn't really do that.
2 more meetings to go. Then it's over for the year.
My studio and ps5 are waiting patiently lol
Whatcha playing? PS5 wise that is?
Final fantasy rebirth and.....
Cough destiny 2 cough
I bought a $15 pack that gives a whole bunch of the previous story missions so I thought why not give it another go.
How about yourself?
I might try and start FF remake.
Can’t access my old ps4 save so I have to start again.
Do it man. It's amazing and if you decide to get rebirth, it's really, really good.
I nearly finished the first time. I was near the top of the Shinra building.
The boss fights in the game were pretty epic so at least that’s something to look forward to again.
One of the last fights fucked me up for ages.
The combat in rebirth is more complicated and fun as well.
I might restart Baldur's Gate 3 and actually finish it. I've got Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth queued up as well. Nothing much else that has piqued my interest at the moment. Very optimistic for 2025 from the trailers I've seen.
Some of the game awards trailers looked real good. That new naughty dog game looks awesome!
That one looks sick. I hope it's open world where you fly around planets and hunt bad guys.
Same! And nine inch nails doing the music!!!
So many douchebags complaining about the protagonist. Absolute numpties.
Just fragile egos. Seeing a badass girl, shaved head and jacked with muscle is unimaginable to them.
I'm all for it.
Hopefully CDPR do Ciri justice in the new Witcher
I'm very tempted to make a bacon and egg toasted butty like this one.
Goodness me, that doesn't even look like bread.
Looks like a cloud pillow!
🤤
It was the best toastie I've ever had in my life. The bread was ciabatta and cut on the angle so every piece of the crust was crunchy. Then it was dripping in butter with stacks of bacon. I will always be chasing that taste sensation for the rest of my life.
Ps. I made a egg and bacon just now. Not as good but it hit the spot.
Wow! That is gorgeous food pornography. Report to the bridge for your award!
I'm mentally calculating the "Hours left" for 2024 and the "Hours of work" to do in my head. I'm not going to get it all done. I'm left trying to decide who I have to let down.
Maybe it would be fairer to let everyone down and start your holidays early.
You can let me down Nath, because I'll forgive you
Why play favourites? Let everyone down lol /j
Send a few 'thanks for your patience' emails and any that come back with an out of office....BOOM that's future Nath's problem
Proper genius
can't stop thinking about googly eyes
where can I get some big ones, where are all the good statues that need googlies , where can I wreak mischief without getting in trouble
https://amzn.asia/d/e30OIzR
I hate amazon as much as the next old greeeeeg but...when needs must
Outside the Pullman hotel opposite Jolimont station is a bronze rabbit and a bronze mad hatter - ripe for the picking imo.
I have a bag of several hundred and have adorned such things as the fridge and the robovac. Only up to 2cm though.
Anything is better than cigarette butting those guys at the end of Burke St mall yet again
I'm so tired I'm going to bed early and then waking up too early, and then I'm tired again by the time it's get up time.
o/
It's hard to break that cycle isn't it? (sent at 3am after waking up half hour ago after crashing at 9pm)
So hard! I've got 3 weeks off after this week and my sleep cycle will probably change just in time for my return to work 😞
I've been trying to set up a bot on here that could do the DT thread but every time I try configure the files my computer says I don't have permission
I don't anything about this stuff but maybe if someone makes you a mod then maybe it might work.
No, it's on my PC's side. It could be because I'm remoting to it, which means I'm not a root user. There are still a few things I need to figure out
Right. Yep. No idea what this means but thank you for trying. We really do need a bot for Christmas.
Thank Frank tomorrow is my last day until Jan 2, SO over this place. Way too busy, and everyone is grumpy AF (including me).
I still can't believe that if I were to start slapping people upside the head, -- I -- would be the one getting in trouble for it. It was self-defense, Your Honour.
Is it too late to hide someone's lunch in the freezer?
That's where I plan to hide the... actually... forget I said anything :D
Stapler? Mouse pad? The coffee tin? I. DONT. CARE. SURPRISE. ME.
Pics or it didn't happen.
-looks around- Rhymes with “noddies”
Do that the thing where you screenshot someone’s desktop, disable the icons then use the screenshot as the background
Elegant, and you don’t have to talk to hr afterwards
Haven't heard from @[email protected] in a while. Hope they're OK.
The kid now has a cold. She walked in and said "I hate you" before going back to bed.
I don't think I've ever not caught a cold after a flight. Recycled air means recycled germs.
2nd last day of work. Oh let today go quickly.
Tomorrow's going to be interesting because we're required to be on then offsite for a function then back onsite? Maybe if we're lucky we'll just go home after the function.
If there is alcohol involved then they can't be back onsite to work after the function because it will potentially be in breach of employment contracts.
Are they shuttling you there or do you have to make your own way? If it's the former then everyone will go home, if it's the latter you got on the wrong bus/tram and ended up home.
No alcohol involved, making my own way there.
Will most likely go home from there.
Epic cooking sesh complete - made a gigantic amount of dal (most for the freezer) and used up almost all the sad veg in the fridge. That's me done until xmas eve. Pretty glad at what I've got thru - chipping away at my old red rice too by mixing it in with basmati. I'll be glad to start having fewer and fewer bottles and boxes of things in my kitchen.
Planning to do some more big cooks in Jan when I've still got time, and add more to the freezer where I've got space. Going to prepare myself for the very busy few months after that. I'll make sure I've always got food without needing to spend on takeaways etc.
Last of work 🎉 !!
Pretty much managed to finish everything that needed finishing yesterday. Have a team meeting late this morning and my manager told me to piss off after lunch (he'll cover for me if anyone asks).
I am very much looking forward to doing fuck all for a few weeks.
First beach dins for the summer.
Was looking forward to that.
turns out the water sys. down here had a leak near the lettuce. Was wondering why they were looking so good.
Am having beach envy… all I can hear rn is bad doof or something from the nearby wedding venue :-(
Your dinner looks good, too
I bet some aldi garlic dip would've gone a treat on that.
Shilling aldi garlic dip ey
ee got me new PCIe to PCI converter today in Melbs and it's being brought down on Sat. For an old but exxy soundcard for the studio.
Better fuckin' work (interwebbles says yes so we're hoping). Have to re-do an entire DAW (OS and plugs) which I'm not looking forward to (it takes forever). Been about six months since making choons and keen to jump back in over the break.
Nevertheless surprised an obscure part like that only took 2 days to arrive this close to xmas.
they do weekend deliveries during December so the delays aren't bad at all
Those are are mostly outsourced. Do not expect anything beyond a fling in your general direction and a notice you signed something you didn't.
Tullamarine is running sixty thousand daily and that's light.
I know multiple someones who work in various bits of Post, and keep a parcel sorter in my house.
Firewire?
No just this one
It's for an old RME 9632. Fingers crossed! Surprisingly they still offer support for it.
Woooooow. Dude I haven't seen something like that since the old pro tools hd cards.
Heh yeah well old. Seriously stable card / drivers though. Also feel naked w/o Digicheck (specifically the spectrum analyser) so I'm determined to try and resuscitate it lol.
So are you plugging a pre into the spdif input? Always wondered how these cards worked
I've never actually used the spdif (or ADAT). pretty much only use this pre. Colour comes from plugins.
It's a very simple setup all mainly ITB heh.
In terms of how it works it's like any other sound card it's just no new MBs have legacy PCI.
On my way to work. Do this meeting, head over to a client for a while, then sneak back home lol
Manager might not be in office. Sneaking might be sooner.
"What are you doing? ....
the SUV deployed its emergency breaks for the first time ever on me. No surprises what road i was on: the monash. if i was in the old hatch we woulda hit, no doubt. But the SUV saw and responded before I even noticed the threat and broke so hard my face hurts. Have to say, I am impressed with it.
For all the stupid technology added to cars over the past 20 years, it's easy to forget that there has been some awesome tech added as well.
Mine just has a "safety" feature where it screeches at me when there's something ahead, so I have to have a heart attack, work out what the alert is for, and THEN start breaking. It actually distracts from whatever hazard's come up in front of me.
So at the beach tonight there was a young fam. Parents w/ their boy and girl about 7-5yo-ish respectively with 2 dogs.
Anyway the girl absolutely nailed her bro in the head w/ a tennis ball from 15m away. Seriously good throwing arm and aim.
Boy started crying and walked off with dad.. mum cracked the shits at daughter "you can't throw tennis balls at people!".
As a younger sibling myself I would've been thrilled to have landed that.
As the youngest sibling also, I know the older one would have deserved it.
I’m making a biscoff trifle for friend Christmas on the weekend and just realised I have no trifle dish. And big trifle dishes are hard to track down at this time of year apparently. I think I found one in stock at the local Salt & Pepper store, half price as well. But does this dish have any other uses or only for trifle? Sounds like a kitchen cupboard clogger.
Trifle bowls are generally huge but you can get smaller bowls these days. You can use them for jelly or salads. You're better off getting a clear plastic bowl from kmart if it's not gonna get used that often or passed down like a family heirloom.
op shops are the best for this
Another use is layered salads
Day #15 of my 7 day gardening project. Only 7 days more to go 🤞
Four out of eight biscuit batches have been made. Dough for two more chilling in the fridge for baking tomorrow.
I’m very impressed! I did 1 batch of gingerbread this evening and I’m done
Had a long chat with a cousin this morning and that's set a relaxed tone to the day... screw uni, there's nothing I could do with this processed data until mid Jan anyway and I NEED A BREAK. Feeling so happy that I have a day of no obligations!
Just lounging around finishing up Happy Valley (such a good show!) and then I'll cook up what I can in the crisper (sad red cabbage), appeal my stupid parking fine online, set up my new phone (still haven't done it...) and head to t'shops for a few little gifts if I feel like it.
Maybe a gift for yourself as well?
Nah, I never really cared for Xmas gifts. I'll wait till the new year to think about getting a second hand benchtop dishwasher and maybe an instant pot. Will be heading interstate in a week so no point getting much food, and my unit is so small I'm trying to acquire as little as possible
Airhorns and hangovers don't mix well.
I'm 10 days into one meal a day with no carbs, and I feel amazing. Today I feel like my mood was better than its been in months. Not hungry at all between meals, really enjoying what I'm eatin, which recently has been a 250g steak, a zucchini, an avocado and one other random veg, sometimes eggs sometimes not. One black coffee, one serve electrolyte drink, and lots of water
There are no other meals lol! That's it. I feel very satisfied and full and that lasts me until the next morning.
Edit: I can definitely see why you read it that way though oops
Onya mate 👍
Serious question: Are you gonna go low carb beer or none at all?
I will drink scotch or like vodka soda when I drink
Noice.
do you find you have cravings or need of pear juice?
Nope. Interesting question, why do you ask?
No reason.
I absolutely do not believe you had no reason!
Edit: Oh constipation. Nope I am still regular - was a bit weird when I was doing only steak and eggs but now I'm adding veg it's perfectly normal for me
sounds awesome
Dammit. I got whammed. Made it to the 19th December though so thats an honourable showing at least. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whamageddon
I can't be whammed due to not knowing what the song sounds like
Well done anyway 🏅 wear that proudly.
does it count if it's a cover and not the original?
I heard a pretty lacklustre cover yesterday that I'd have been happy to be ignorant of for the rest of my life.
Edit: on googling I've discovered that there are altogether far too many covers of this song!
Well I heard the original then a Mariah song then a cover so I got got twice!
Does it count if it's only in your head?
I think it's kind of easier these days if one avoids retail spaces. Good work nonetheless.
https://youtu.be/E8gmARGvPlI
Damn. You are too smart.
😂
I have a turps headache. And this paint job is not looking good.
Huff more turps and paint Starry Night
Curious choice for a knife block. May attempt after head behaves...
Sigh. Just spent an hour past my appointment in the GPs waiting room. Why do they always run so late? Surely they should leave some buffer time or make appointments longer? So annoying. Seriously I would be happier to drive further to a clinic that can manage their bookings rather than sit endlessly at one that can’t. But they all seem the same.
It's a symptom of the system as a whole not working well enough, not necessarily the clinic.
People don't book long enough appointments due to cost because the rebate is too low, doctors need more than 15 minutes to properly document visits or fill out paperwork, good GPs will be proactive with things the patient didn't come in for, people show up late, emergencies come up, etc. etc.
My GP charges the same gap fee no matter the length of the consultation, so I usually always book a double to hopefully at least give them a few minutes of their time back.
Mine have recently started charging more based on how long the consult actually takes, on a sliding scale. Which makes sense, and I love how thorough my GP is, but it gets a bit exxy.
It's a cascade. One appt. goes over, the next does and so on. They pack 'em in tight.
::: spoiler Magpie/dero rambles Yet another person going out of their way to go right up to the water dish and gawk… perhaps if I wrote ‘wildlife water’ on the side? Or if I got a proper birdbath and put it more inside the property boundary. (Not sure whether I would have to remove it once I left though. And it would be a target for vandalism.)
A bit worried about potential problems though. Thankfully he didn’t knock it over but when he went up to it a magpie kind of flew up to him and hopped after him as he walked off. The other day someone else might have got swooped as he was loudly complaining about the birds being annoying and saying ‘X says some pr-ck in this area is f-cking feeding them’.
Now the birds were already here and would be regardless of whether I was kind to them. They live in that tree. If you got swooped it’s because you went close to their territory in breeding season!
Plus there are a lot of sketchy randos cutting through the block and a lot of them act seriously alcohol affected/aggressive/unpredictable so I don’t really care about them getting swooped. (That might be why it might have happened.) I actually wouldn’t mind if these disruptive people were deterred from my place.
I’m more just worried about stupid people having normal predictable magpie issues and me being blamed for it, or about being harassed to stop giving them water.
People here are genuinely the type to do that. To come trying to intimidate you for petty reasons and start dictating what you do on your own property.
I’d honestly rather deal with an aggressive bird because they respond to reasonable accommodations. :::
Are they going into your property or is it a common area? Any option to put the birdbath where the public can’t access it?
Not sure public or private property. I’m trying not to give doxable descriptions but it is within easy reach of drop kicks and I might have to move it to a less ideal spot
I have decided to bake some biscuits for Christmas. I have narrowed my selection down to 8, lets see how many I end up doing! The current shortlist is:
I'm focusing on recipes that are not too complicated to make, keep fairly well, with at least a few that can be dunked in a cup of tea. I'll give a few as gift boxes and take some to work, with the bulk of them to be a gift to my Mum - she has been making her own biscuits for years, but recently has started to find the effort a bit much, so I'd like to fill her biscuit jar with home made biscuits for a while.
Mice!
This is the first time in years I haven't made lebkuchen (like pfeffenusse) so I vote for the pfeff... coconut macaroons are so easy and yum too.
Lemon shortbread!
Good night everyone 😘
Thanks seagoon for posting the thread 💜
Quick question, do you mean the actual NBN box or a router?
Right? I'm confused too 😂
Huh! There you go lol! I had no idea, never worked in IP services so I'm lacking in that area haha!
Yeah I've only lived in areas that are fttp, so I missed that you require an extra techy doodad for fttc! My bad!
As someone on gigabit HFC that I max out I would be jealous of your FTTP and its potential.
For FTTP they install a hardwired box on a wall inside your house.
I could be completely wrong here as I'm going off second hand info and cba verifying, but aren't those boxes coded to a specific outside box? What I'm getting at, is it a new one that you're being shipped from what ever provider you're using and doesn't need setting up or is it your old one you've shipped to yourself?
Sounds like you know what you're doing, I apologise, I was only replying in case you wanted free tech support ❤️
Picked up some of these earplugs recently and highly recommend them. A nuclear bomb could go off down the road and you'd die of radiation poisoning before you ever woke up. Great for tuning in to the harsh inner critic while travelling this holiday season, so if you ever want to be trapped in your head with only the voices to keep you company, pick yourself up a box.
they don't drown out the louder tinnitus I got from my covid vax 😖
I imagine they would have made tinnitus dramatically worse
Did the vax do that? My tinnitus has got worse over the last couple of years and I can’t work out why
how good are they at blocking occlusion effects? 'cos I'm an absolute bastard for that.
I'm not sure I've experienced occlusion effects so I can't say with confidence
for me I'm able to hear the movements of my own jaw when I use loops or similar. NOOOOOOOOOOPE
My Loops are great sitting still but I can't walk around with them. Every step gets a weird ringing ping impact thing. Unpleasant with squishy soled shoes, unbearable with hard.
that's the occlusion effect!
Those extra 4 mins spent looking up the weather meant I posted too slow
deletes other thread
Edit:
☀️Min 12 Max 29 Sunny. Chance of any rain: 0%
Melbourne area:
Sunny. The chance of fog about the nearby hills in the early morning. Light winds becoming south to southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h in the early afternoon then tending east to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the evening.
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml
Thank you, Blesséd Weather Deity!!
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I have a random deposit in my bank account this morning of $45.67 as Direct Credit ATO 🤔 feels incredibly scammy
I just saw on the news the ATO has issued a reward to those that have paid their HECS debt on time.
Oh that might be me. I finished paying off my HECS this year (was for like one semester study lol)
Bang. Problem solved. Go and enjoy those hot chooks.
That's nearly enough for a slab.
My mind went to: approximately 3.3333 Coles roast chickens.
I've had those before and usually followed with a mailed letter. Might be some tax adjustment or similar.
Hmm ok good to know. Thanks
Merry Xmas from the ato lol
Anything in ya mygov about it?
Nope first thing I checked
Check on myGov or call them. I got something similar ages ago for a couple of dollars, thought it was a scam, but turned out to be a refund because I paid my tax debt early
E: just saw you checked in myGov already.. I think it takes a bit to update, and the credit comes in advance
Lower decks ending. Well, time to cancel paramount plus.
Random thoughts that prevent sleep. I have no idea what a chickpea plant looks like. To the interwebs!
::: spoiler this pic I took of a snake at the Royal show :::
I think it's a northern death adder iirc. So cute!!!
Edit: oh there's also a black house spider behind the exit sign above the fire escape in the hallway. It's all tucked in there, also very cute but no pics lol
It's that time of year again
Why don't they play THIS in the shops. Instant customer identification is very high indeed.
I keep getting a server error 😕
Sorry, fixed it now I think. Let me know if I didn't.
Another underknown gem
It worked. How about this one?
https://youtu.be/s0NoalRsk5w
Pure gold!
today's randomness:
Tool battery powerpacks are usually just literal 18650's chained together. I have a chainsaw one that's actually just a buncha nicads. They don't do replacements. I am not paying another couple hundred for a useful tool that I use once in a blue moon. I know you can get replacement battery packs, but are there small, dodgy shops where they will perform the swap for you?
(I want a battery upgrade which will also need new charger but I am not fuckin' soldering lithiums)
I'll do it for you. All I ask as payment is a will kit, a fire extinguisher and a prosthetic hand.
no eyebrows? Great deal!
Fuckin eh! I'm not keen on doing surgery on the cats' twitty bird because I expect it to be a soldered coin battery. Fuck anything bigger.
coin batteries are easy, and even easier to convert to a standard removable cell. But lithiums....n o p e
Really? It's stopped tweeting but I'm hesitant to pull the gut line @[email protected]
::: spoiler lol :::
yup, just carefully pull off the wires if they're soldered directly and slap one of these in: https://core-electronics.com.au/power-batteries/liion-lipoly/coin-cell.html
Awesome! Will be fiddly to gut the little fucker, but they love him, so I shall attempt it
Battery world in Greensborough prides itself on having every possible battery in stock. And they do same day delivery. www.batteryworld.com.au/stores/battery-world-greensborough
nah, they don't tend to do tool batteries. There's one not far from me in mentone - I've recycled a UPS there, gotten a new battery for my 2009 ebook...not so much on the tool front.
Beep Beep 🚚
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A pescatarian Cantonese banquet, please
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demolishes gladly
Can I please have all the potat that Force doesn't want.
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Lovely! There will be enough to make lots and lots of potato roses for xmas dinner.
Green chooken curry please, hot not deadly
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Some sparkling water with lemon and no potato please
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More cat food for the strays pls
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I was just about to check my email for the estimated time for my grocery delivery today when they delivered it. Faboulous timing, they most often deliver around 11am for this time window. Mr Woof Is not happy about someone encroaching on our territory though.
I spent the morning browsing biscuit packaging ideas and printing some bags. So I didn't actually start on biscuits until after lunch. I have made the cranberry coconut oatmeal biscuits & have the pfeffenusse dough chilling in the fridge.
Edit: I've also realised two of my biscuits are almost identical, just shaped differently. So Oma's biscuits are being swapped out for jam drops.
This is one of my personal and useless gripes with hold music selection.
We're dealing with a narrowband medium designed for the natural range of human voice, why the fuck are they choosing high pitched string and woodwind instruments or "wide" orchestral pieces that only sound good if you can hear the bass?
Centrelink you're probably the biggest culprit, this track is an absolute disaster over the phone.
That is bloody awful.
Onya Renegades 🏏 🔴🔴🔴
Of funk?
Of The Big Bash League 🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏
Renegades of the atomic age.
So nothing of actual value then
How are ya doing now? Thankfully looks like a cool evening