Pre-inspection rental application completed. I'm really missing the days when you would go to the real estate agent, grab the keys for anything you were interested in to go and have a look, and if you liked it you just showed some basic id & proof of income and the place was yours.
Yup! Many less hoops to jump through to get the mortgage than deal with a new rental app. Seems they want damn dna samples now, and it's all in highly insecure third party databases.
Yeah, some you have to apply for and be accepted onto a shortlist before you get to inspect it. This one sends you the link for the application at the same time as the registration to inspect, I'm not actually sure if you have to do the application first but I figure it can't hurt.
I've booked an inspection of another one which looks ok, but the photos on the website are the same photos it was sold with 7 years ago.
There is another maybe property which looks a bit too good for the price and has been listed for a while, so I am a bit sus about that one. It also has a patch of fake grass in bad condition and a number of very large yuccas.
It might just be location. I'm learning the "poor" areas just by comparing rental prices. But I'd personally rather have an older house with a bit of yard space in a run down area than one of the cookie-cutter grey townhouses that comprise about 80% of the market. They are just not my style.
Ol' boy finally found the piccys from a school trip we did to nepal back in 1999 (I was yr 9 at the time). 200 kids, bunch of teachers, 4 docs who were parents of kids (and went for free lol). And a fuckton of risk, they stopped the trip a year after that as a few kids ran into health troubles. Cheap as shit due to bulk kids.
Was before digital cams so pretty much only the adults had proper cameras. ol' boy had a nice one and got heaps of shots. They're all on slides and negatives.
Looks awful for now until I get them properly imaged but fuck me the memories.
Over easter doing a slide show on an old school slide projector from the 70's that still works down the bellarine w/ the fam. Gonna be lit lol.
Parma for dinner. Tomorrow nights probs loaded potato wedges that I stole the idea from Aldi.
need to get back into miss match meals to use whats in the freezer.
Spent most of today learning how to navigate my new org's SharePoint structure. Nearly 4 years in the same place and shit was embedded in my memory and almost automatic.
I feel like an infant learning how to crawl again.
I reckon a chef (who also cleans the kitchen once they're done for the day). Delicious meals prepared for me and time saved cooking / cleaning up afterwards would transform my life.
A cleaner, absolutely hands down. Especially the bathroom. Everything else I can somehow handle but the #1 very first kind of help I would get if I had money is a cleaner. Then maybe an admin person (even just to make phone calls, I hate phone calls). Then maaaaybe a cook but I would be very very picky about what they make and how.
I also want a personal assistant and it was a close toss up between that and a cleaner
but I'm thinking with a full time cleaner my mind and time would be freer to do my own admin and I don't care how awkward I am and how long things would take as I wouldn't be under any pressure from other tasks
The Brian Cox series on ABC has a bunch of interesting stuff about this. I think one of Jupiter's moon's moons isn't tidally locked to the moon itself, but another point in space of it's elliptical movement.
Then you can look up Alpha Centuri and the suns and planets that orbit each other
Our moon is tidally locked with us, so it always shows us the same side, but it moves through the sky because Earth isn’t tidally locked with it.
For the non nerds but mildly curious this means that the moon spins at the same time that earth moves and that's the reason we don't see the dark side of the moon.
Seriously though I asked a few questions like this on Saturday night when we were drinking outside. tell me about (???) but in 25 words or less and in the most simplest form is always my requirement. Plus stubbies were involved in the demonstration. 😂
I didn't realise I had the same bug as the rest of the family until I finished my coffee in the office. I managed to get home alright without any problems. Another plus to the location of this place, the last thing you'd want is an hour long train trip after realising you're sick
Just did another botched job of reversing into a parking space. I'm really stuffing up the initial angle. I'm sure I'll get better eventually, but at the moment it is pretty nerve wracking.
Especially with a new car, so terrifying to scrape it. And of course, worried about hitting someone else’s car! My current car is a bit bigger than previous one, and the first month I had it I wasn’t great at parking it, often had to readjust multiple times, even with cameras and sensors. Got sick of it so then I went to a semi empty parking area and reverse parked about 10 times paying attention to how best to line up and when to turn and after that I was ok. Probably looked weird to anyone who saw but I needed to do it.
Forgot to take the compost bin down last night, woke up to enterprising felines flinging lamb chop bones to the floor. The mishcat is untethered and her craves know no bounds
it's taking so long to unpack and set up house as it's a house of 4 adults and 2 cats including the young Seagoons, this is their base here in Australia and where they keep their things.
Yup, stovetop moka pot, one full chamber of water is enough for one and a half mugs worth.
I usually serve it in a bigger mug.
I use a long armed coffee scoop, 1 and a half coffee grinds usually is enough to keep me awake and also send me into a coffee high so I’ve been experimenting with using less coffee so that it won’t keep me awake and be as strong.
Nothing wrong with my phone, but i'm already weighing up if the iphone becomes a 2000 dollar phone do I still need one?
And if not, do I still need a flagship? Or can I get away with a Pixel a, Galaxy FE or Nothing a. Technically my current non pro iphone isnt a flagship.
::: spoiler Great googly moogly I've solved the kodi conundrum
Issue: Kodi has Very Specific Naming Conventions. So do I . We do not share these conventions. I refuse to bow to the machine.
Solution: Symlinks
Issue: I have a remote fileserver, you cannot UNC hard symlinks
Solution:Kodi does fine with soft symlinks
Issue: Symlinks in windows are very different to linux, where they're more like shortcuts as windows has them hard coded to the kernel. Every single machine running kodi - currently two, lounge and bedroom, possibly a third with the brewery - will need its own symbolic link of every. single. file. on my file server named correct in order to scrape them and show them. My fileserver has 12tb on it.
Solution: Script written that will ask for a share name in UNC, then drill down every subdirectory and replicate the whole tree symlink form on local machine in directory of choice.
Issue: Still not in kodi naming convention
Solution: filebot portable, which is free. Rename symlinks to match TVDB. Original files untouched.
Issue: faults will occur if source files are moved or renamed
Solution: I just wrote another friggin' script that will go through every single symlink and subdirectory and list all that do not resolve in a txt file called broken_links.txt. Run that once a month or so and update as required and I'm dancing.
Then it's just upkeep with new symlinks as files/folders added and double checking it scrapes ok.
:::
Old fart comment: I used to know to the minute how long it took to print an essay and bolt to the faculty office before they cleared the essay drop box.
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At this hour there is a perfect sunbathing spot on the stairs
Just makin' sure it's level.
One is quite markedly not
You even got a wave.
Pre-inspection rental application completed. I'm really missing the days when you would go to the real estate agent, grab the keys for anything you were interested in to go and have a look, and if you liked it you just showed some basic id & proof of income and the place was yours.
Omg same. It's awful the hoops you've got to jump through now!
no hoops for landlords or REAs tho, none at all
I'm afraid you're quickly learning how dramatically different it is to 20 years ago. Welcome to what many of us younger ones are dealing with 😭
Yup! Many less hoops to jump through to get the mortgage than deal with a new rental app. Seems they want damn dna samples now, and it's all in highly insecure third party databases.
You've got to do a pre-inspection rental application?! 😅 It's been a while for me.
Yeah, some you have to apply for and be accepted onto a shortlist before you get to inspect it. This one sends you the link for the application at the same time as the registration to inspect, I'm not actually sure if you have to do the application first but I figure it can't hurt.
I was unsuccessful in my rental application. ☹️
I've booked an inspection of another one which looks ok, but the photos on the website are the same photos it was sold with 7 years ago.
There is another maybe property which looks a bit too good for the price and has been listed for a while, so I am a bit sus about that one. It also has a patch of fake grass in bad condition and a number of very large yuccas.
the photos are often big lies
it's best to visit in person
and what might be a catch for someone else is ok for you, so just cheack it
for my new place teh "catch" is it's in the western suburbs and near a railway station, for a lot of people that's not acceptable, for me it's ok
That might be the only catch with this one too - maybe walking distance to the scrap metal yard is not a drawcard?
Better luck next time and beware what looks too good to be true. There’s always a catch.
It might just be location. I'm learning the "poor" areas just by comparing rental prices. But I'd personally rather have an older house with a bit of yard space in a run down area than one of the cookie-cutter grey townhouses that comprise about 80% of the market. They are just not my style.
Yeah or something in the neighbourhood or surrounding area bringing the price down.
the disused petrochemical facilities are about 2 km from where I live
I can't see them and there is no pollution or smell but I know they are there .
is that any worse than densely populated urban areas with lots of noise and car pollution?
good luck, gotta just keep trying
Beware the yukkas 😹
I pruned mine on Friday and have the battle scars to show for it.
Wore long sleeves too.
Unfortunately both actually have yuccas, but the other place has less of them, and they are tucked away down the side of the house.
🤞
Ol' boy finally found the piccys from a school trip we did to nepal back in 1999 (I was yr 9 at the time). 200 kids, bunch of teachers, 4 docs who were parents of kids (and went for free lol). And a fuckton of risk, they stopped the trip a year after that as a few kids ran into health troubles. Cheap as shit due to bulk kids.
Was before digital cams so pretty much only the adults had proper cameras. ol' boy had a nice one and got heaps of shots. They're all on slides and negatives.
Looks awful for now until I get them properly imaged but fuck me the memories.
Over easter doing a slide show on an old school slide projector from the 70's that still works down the bellarine w/ the fam. Gonna be lit lol.
Everything sounds awesome, the trip, the pics, and your slide show evening 🙂
That's calendar worthy. So pretty.
Wow!!!!
baleeted
it's good to have a name to what you have been feeling and direction to get to being better
hugs, I hope you are feeling better from now on
baleeted
hugs again
Fingers crossed the treatment for that will help you feel a lot better
baleeted
Hope there's a plan of attack for you, good luck on feeling better!
Parma for dinner. Tomorrow nights probs loaded potato wedges that I stole the idea from Aldi. need to get back into miss match meals to use whats in the freezer.
I’m craving fried potato :(
Yay it's Monday! Can't wait to start another week at work 😊🎂🙏🤝🥳
At least it is a short week, and next week even shorter.
#blessed
R U OK?
Last week was rough at work 😭
Spent most of today learning how to navigate my new org's SharePoint structure. Nearly 4 years in the same place and shit was embedded in my memory and almost automatic.
I feel like an infant learning how to crawl again.
Your org has a SharePoint structure? I'm very envious! At our place we have multiple SharePoint archipelagos and no map.
My last job had SharePoint guidelines, which few followed.
This is one is seriously regimented. In saying that, the instructions are - copy the previous folder structure and do not deviate.
I'm down with that approach honestly.
Goodnight all ❤️
jelly fish on the beach
it was big, about 30 cm , bluish with pink edges
gotta say the velvet'ed beef was incredible. Absolute game changer.
Now do it with pork, imo it's even better.
If you could afford to employ one full time staffers who would it be? Gardener, pool boy, administrator, butler etc.
Personal Polynesian. Just a massive dude that hangs out and occasionally helps out with things.
Japanese house boy. No contest.
Housekeeper. No contest.
I reckon a chef (who also cleans the kitchen once they're done for the day). Delicious meals prepared for me and time saved cooking / cleaning up afterwards would transform my life.
Hired goon
I think Seagoon might be a bit busy unpacking still
still unpacking 😫
Haha. Let me guess? It's their job to protect the birds water dish and to feel free to pistol whip anyone that gets too close?
"but you can do that for free...... oOOOOOOOH GOON... Not the other thing. Carry on"
A cleaner, absolutely hands down. Especially the bathroom. Everything else I can somehow handle but the #1 very first kind of help I would get if I had money is a cleaner. Then maybe an admin person (even just to make phone calls, I hate phone calls). Then maaaaybe a cook but I would be very very picky about what they make and how.
I also want a personal assistant and it was a close toss up between that and a cleaner
but I'm thinking with a full time cleaner my mind and time would be freer to do my own admin and I don't care how awkward I am and how long things would take as I wouldn't be under any pressure from other tasks
Cat trainer lol
full time cleaner and laundry , including cat care
Probably a Ghost Buster
Ummm.....
How much you paying? I might be interested.
I'm going to need to see your credentials before we get into things like "wages" and "salary"
Yeah, yeah I've got all that, I need to know if you'll be home while I bust these ghosts and is there a decent pizza shop near by?
There's a dominos, and I guess it depends on the ghost 🤷♂️ seeing as you're a serious applicant; salary is between $33,000 and 144,000 p.a
🤝
Can I have one great all-rounder, to do bits of everything?
Otherwise, definitely personal chef
dog walker atm. Would just love them to get some more walks!
Cat litter dealerwither! Need to vacuum every 5 minutes the way these boys kick the stuff around
A chef, in a heartbeat.
I've thought about a kitchen hand. They prepare. I cook. They clean up.
Cleaner, must do laundry
Last night I learned that Pluto and Charon are tidally locked with each other, so Charon appears to not move in Pluto's sky.
Our moon is tidally locked with us, so it always shows us the same side, but it moves through the sky because Earth isn't tidally locked with it.
Mind blown 🤯
The Brian Cox series on ABC has a bunch of interesting stuff about this. I think one of Jupiter's moon's moons isn't tidally locked to the moon itself, but another point in space of it's elliptical movement.
Then you can look up Alpha Centuri and the suns and planets that orbit each other
i love how we are in the position to literally look up at alpha centauri
I have been meaning to watch that!! I like Brian Cox and that show is right up my alley haha
Our moon is tidally locked with us, so it always shows us the same side, but it moves through the sky because Earth isn’t tidally locked with it.
For the non nerds but mildly curious this means that the moon spins at the same time that earth moves and that's the reason we don't see the dark side of the moon.
https://youtu.be/UGEJOowWzXo - animation of tidal locked Pluto and Charon
https://youtu.be/6jUpX7J7ySo - animation of moon tidal locked with earth :)
Oh no, you sent me to nerdville.
Seriously though I asked a few questions like this on Saturday night when we were drinking outside. tell me about (???) but in 25 words or less and in the most simplest form is always my requirement. Plus stubbies were involved in the demonstration. 😂
I didn't realise I had the same bug as the rest of the family until I finished my coffee in the office. I managed to get home alright without any problems. Another plus to the location of this place, the last thing you'd want is an hour long train trip after realising you're sick
It’s just not fun till it’s firing out both ends hey
I've only had one out the front so far. It seems like I've moved on to just more mild stomach aches now
sky pretty
it's been lovely 🙂
Eee yaks
So the one thing yaks don't care about is everything. You get out of the way, they won't.
I'm nervous just looking at the photo.
How were you with altitude?
Surprisingly most kids were okay. Little bit of altitude sickness for a few which led to a few issues.
The really fit kids suffered the worst which was odd.
Just did another botched job of reversing into a parking space. I'm really stuffing up the initial angle. I'm sure I'll get better eventually, but at the moment it is pretty nerve wracking.
Especially with a new car, so terrifying to scrape it. And of course, worried about hitting someone else’s car! My current car is a bit bigger than previous one, and the first month I had it I wasn’t great at parking it, often had to readjust multiple times, even with cameras and sensors. Got sick of it so then I went to a semi empty parking area and reverse parked about 10 times paying attention to how best to line up and when to turn and after that I was ok. Probably looked weird to anyone who saw but I needed to do it.
Today is definitely a two-coffee, suffer-no-fools kind of day. Even my colleagues are keeping their distance from my DON'T DISTURB ME vibe. Good.
Forgot to take the compost bin down last night, woke up to enterprising felines flinging lamb chop bones to the floor. The mishcat is untethered and her craves know no bounds
yay, pakige
coathangers and shoe organisers , so excitement
need more coat hangers
I chased a moth around the room, gave it an almighty lob with the fly swatter and now I don't know where it's gone.
it's hiding in your favourite jumper
No, I think I sent it over the tv.
Ahhh 3 hours more sleep yay!
it's taking so long to unpack and set up house as it's a house of 4 adults and 2 cats including the young Seagoons, this is their base here in Australia and where they keep their things.
Brewed coffee, maybe one spoon isn’t enough for the stovetop coffee, not as strong obviously but lacking some body to it.
Also in other news the price of the PS5 is to set to increase due to whatever reasoning Sony has given.
Increase of 70 dollars, makes me wonder if the rest of the tech industry will up their prices as well.
Stovetop moka pot? I fill up the coffee chamber each time I brew one. Never fails.
Yup, stovetop moka pot, one full chamber of water is enough for one and a half mugs worth.
I usually serve it in a bigger mug.
I use a long armed coffee scoop, 1 and a half coffee grinds usually is enough to keep me awake and also send me into a coffee high so I’ve been experimenting with using less coffee so that it won’t keep me awake and be as strong.
I brew a 6 shot moka pot as my morning coffee. It just does the job. Maybe I'm addicted.
I just made another one, slightly more coffee grind in the pot.
How do you know how many shots of coffee you make?
When I bought mine it said '6 shot Mika pot' on the box 😁
I just fill it up and assume it's 6 shots
Oh ok, one might be the same.
Someone gifted me their one so I don’t have a box to it.
Nothing wrong with my phone, but i'm already weighing up if the iphone becomes a 2000 dollar phone do I still need one? And if not, do I still need a flagship? Or can I get away with a Pixel a, Galaxy FE or Nothing a. Technically my current non pro iphone isnt a flagship.
::: spoiler Great googly moogly I've solved the kodi conundrum
Issue: Kodi has Very Specific Naming Conventions. So do I . We do not share these conventions. I refuse to bow to the machine.
Solution: Symlinks
Issue: I have a remote fileserver, you cannot UNC hard symlinks
Solution:Kodi does fine with soft symlinks
Issue: Symlinks in windows are very different to linux, where they're more like shortcuts as windows has them hard coded to the kernel. Every single machine running kodi - currently two, lounge and bedroom, possibly a third with the brewery - will need its own symbolic link of every. single. file. on my file server named correct in order to scrape them and show them. My fileserver has 12tb on it.
Solution: Script written that will ask for a share name in UNC, then drill down every subdirectory and replicate the whole tree symlink form on local machine in directory of choice.
Issue: Still not in kodi naming convention
Solution: filebot portable, which is free. Rename symlinks to match TVDB. Original files untouched.
Issue: faults will occur if source files are moved or renamed
Solution: I just wrote another friggin' script that will go through every single symlink and subdirectory and list all that do not resolve in a txt file called broken_links.txt. Run that once a month or so and update as required and I'm dancing.
Then it's just upkeep with new symlinks as files/folders added and double checking it scrapes ok. :::
Because apps are not allowed to run on Enigma.
The media pcs are chiefly for multiuser purpose and familiarity- personally i run slack :P
early cat breakfast sorted
1st breakfast done
time for second sleep
busy day ahead after that
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Everybody is fasting? 2 saltines and a thimble of broth I guess
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Old fart comment: I used to know to the minute how long it took to print an essay and bolt to the faculty office before they cleared the essay drop box.
Midnight online submission? Luxury 😝
I have a big fat PowerPoint research project I should be working on, but I'm utterly distracted learning guitar 😭😂
Tomorrow! Tomorrow I start the assessment heheh
If you get your assignment done tonight, you'll have all day to play guitar! You can do it! I believe in you, hot stuff! 🔥🔥🔥
Good night guys. Sweet dreams. 😘