I grabbed the essentials at the supermarket and bolted out of there because of these 2 kids, full on screaming. One had climbed to the top of the soft drink aisle shelf and was evading any attempts to get him down. The other had cleared out part of a shelf and ran around to the next aisle and cleared out the other side of the shelf to create a kind of tunnel, through which he also was screaming. One staff member was trying to cajole the kid down off the shelf and he was just laughing and screaming. The other staff all had this painful tight, pinched look on their faces. The noise broke me, and I went to the variety store nearby for a kitchen benchtop storage solution. Came home and made that solution work (looks tidy and organised ✅) and ate half a packet of Butternut Snaps 🤰🏼
Today I played mini golf in the Flinders St ballroom. It was very cool. Super arty mini golf- for one hole, you put on animal tails and use the tail as your golf club. Very fun.
A friend invited us over for a lovely beach walk and a feast of a dinner with delicious, heavy things. Now trying to resist the food coma or I'll be up and pacing at 3am. Word searches and bright coloured pens for some relaxation time.
Its a fine grained hardwood - very popular in late 1800s for furniture, and again in the 70s & 80s, as both durable and beautiful. Then the supply of that timber (from old growth forests) bottomed out and imports from Indonesia/Malaysia pretty much took over the furniture market. Your pen may well be repurposed timber from old/antique furniture, as new timber of that variety doesn't often come onto the market now, and what can be cut under the current strict licence conditions mostly goes for musical instruments. Treasure it - it's beautiful.
Slept pretty well which was nice. Once I’ve finished with the PT it’s time for another nap and a chill night.
Next week is interview central so doing fuck all this weekend. I generally get sick of sitting around not being productive after a couple of days so this works for me.
Hooray just ordered the bits for a new 'puter for a DAW.
Upgrading from an old 2600k lol. That kicked the bucket about a year ago so a good 12 yrs of service. Using a shitty slower (but newer-ish) one since it died. I miss that rig. It became very temperamental, suffered water damage from water cooling mishaps, and spilt wine on it accidentally a few times..
New one will be quick but it won't have the same battle scars or charm :(
Eee 64gb of ram so look out kontakt! bit of a jump from the 16gb in the old one lol.
Going for the 9700x. Don't need gfx thankfully. mb just entry level gigabyte eagle ice. Nothing crazy.
Also have to get a new audio interface as the old RME one is legacy PCI and I think that kicked the bucket too :( Tempted to try and swap out a few caps and try a PCIe -> PCI adapter but honestly I have no idea what I'm doing there.
You had an internal PCI? I've never seen one in the wild.
The saffire claret is a really decent interface. Beats out the standard saffire by miles if you don't mind focusrite. But admittedly RME are absolute beasts.
I'm the same with graphics card I think it's a super old 2070 but I don't game on PC so no great loss considering how expensive new cards are these days.
Ooh that does look like a good interface. Heard good things about focusrite's drivers too.
Yea it was an old RME 9632, so stable (and took a bit of the wine I spilt lol, kept working though). I will miss it if I can't give it life again.
I'm starting to look at the Scarlett 4i4, SSL 2+ mkII or the MOTU M4. The MOTU does have pretty levels leds on the front heh. Bit of a step down from the RME but practicially probably doesn't matter.
I'm stealing "suburban day" to explain my day to people. My inner city friends wonder about life in the burbs, it's unremarkable but there's a peace to it as well.
I've got this!!!!. I'm ready just for this occasion. ( been waiting ages to post this ) This is a ham and cheese croissant I got you in Hobbiton. 🧙♂️🥐🐷🧀
Home & Away, set in Ancient China's Forbidden City. Everybody wearing floor length silk bathrobes and enough gold hairpins to stock a medium sized sunburst. The murders, the romances (appropriate & inappropriate), the betrayals, the promises of undying loyalty which promptly get broken. Gorgeous sets. Pregnancies galore. And EVERYBODY has perfect hair & makeup except those that have gone mad and been locked up for life (before the Emperor sends them a dose of poison via his favorite eunuch). This one was the Legend of Zhen Huan.
8/10 politely spiteful catty remarks - the kind that draw blood.
::: spoiler here he is to bless your Saturday :::
That is a hell of a look 👀
10/10 would hug
I feel blessed.
🙌🏼
Blessings happily accepted. What a cutie.
Oh hi mini starchy one
Mickey's looking a little impish... what has he done
I grabbed the essentials at the supermarket and bolted out of there because of these 2 kids, full on screaming. One had climbed to the top of the soft drink aisle shelf and was evading any attempts to get him down. The other had cleared out part of a shelf and ran around to the next aisle and cleared out the other side of the shelf to create a kind of tunnel, through which he also was screaming. One staff member was trying to cajole the kid down off the shelf and he was just laughing and screaming. The other staff all had this painful tight, pinched look on their faces. The noise broke me, and I went to the variety store nearby for a kitchen benchtop storage solution. Came home and made that solution work (looks tidy and organised ✅) and ate half a packet of Butternut Snaps 🤰🏼
Those poor staff 😬
That’s just a matter of time for one of the children to get injured (and legal issues) but there’s nothing they could really do
fucking brats
Number one fan lol
Pepper is currently enamoured with Don Henley. Can't blame her, wasted time is a beautiful song.
She's pickin' up good vibrations ...
She's giving me the excitations...
You could add honey and spirits to that lemon/ginger tea.
My sore throat on Thursday night turned into covid by Friday morning....
I hope it's not, it's not a fun time even on my second go at it.
just rest up
so many hugs
Today I played mini golf in the Flinders St ballroom. It was very cool. Super arty mini golf- for one hole, you put on animal tails and use the tail as your golf club. Very fun.
It's running for another month or so.
That sounds... really interesting!! Thanks, I'll have to look into it!
Oh hell yeah. There really wasn’t a lot on Peertube but now I found out about Invidious https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invidious
I just have to work out how to use GitHub and hope this stays up.
One thing I figured out with github is you need to look at the Releases tab on the side. You don't download or fork the repo
A friend invited us over for a lovely beach walk and a feast of a dinner with delicious, heavy things. Now trying to resist the food coma or I'll be up and pacing at 3am. Word searches and bright coloured pens for some relaxation time.
::: spoiler Beach photo
:::
Nice. 😊
In addition to my normal purchases, I spent a frankly stupid amount on a fountain pen. Not sorry
Oooh what did you get? I have a Lamy 2000 that I bought during lockdown sads and it makes me happy to use it. And I do use it every day
Made by a lovely bloke called Ashley, under the business name Woodwork and Whiskers
Beautiful! What timber was used?
He said Tasmanian blackwood. I have no idea if this is correct, I don’t know from timbers, but he said blackwood
Its a fine grained hardwood - very popular in late 1800s for furniture, and again in the 70s & 80s, as both durable and beautiful. Then the supply of that timber (from old growth forests) bottomed out and imports from Indonesia/Malaysia pretty much took over the furniture market. Your pen may well be repurposed timber from old/antique furniture, as new timber of that variety doesn't often come onto the market now, and what can be cut under the current strict licence conditions mostly goes for musical instruments. Treasure it - it's beautiful.
I have terrible handwriting but that pen is stunning ❤️
Oh that is beautiful 😍
Slept pretty well which was nice. Once I’ve finished with the PT it’s time for another nap and a chill night.
Next week is interview central so doing fuck all this weekend. I generally get sick of sitting around not being productive after a couple of days so this works for me.
I learnt a new ascii today. v_@_ It's a snail.
Goodnight all ❤️
goodnight from Bill
Such majestic floof!!
his tummy is tickle bait ...lol
Her little face 😍 goodnight!
Bro, Gibson looks like our (RIP) cat's sibling. Can you cuddle her a bit extra for the next while?
hugs to you too
Thanks. We've had good grieving sessions.
Daughter was on call with some friends and they insisted on giving us condolences.
Haven't been touched like this in a while
porridge eaten
it tasted good 😊 had it with oat milk and a little brown sugar
but slept bad/sad, america 😭
New Deftones album!!!!!!
Sounds fucking mad!!!!
The song called "I think about you all the time" is my current fave. Such a solid album!
Hooray just ordered the bits for a new 'puter for a DAW.
Upgrading from an old 2600k lol. That kicked the bucket about a year ago so a good 12 yrs of service. Using a shitty slower (but newer-ish) one since it died. I miss that rig. It became very temperamental, suffered water damage from water cooling mishaps, and spilt wine on it accidentally a few times..
New one will be quick but it won't have the same battle scars or charm :(
Fuck yes!!!!! What are you getting and does it have a million gigs of ram lol
Eee 64gb of ram so look out kontakt! bit of a jump from the 16gb in the old one lol.
Going for the 9700x. Don't need gfx thankfully. mb just entry level gigabyte eagle ice. Nothing crazy.
Also have to get a new audio interface as the old RME one is legacy PCI and I think that kicked the bucket too :( Tempted to try and swap out a few caps and try a PCIe -> PCI adapter but honestly I have no idea what I'm doing there.
9700x with 64gb is unstoppable lol
You had an internal PCI? I've never seen one in the wild.
The saffire claret is a really decent interface. Beats out the standard saffire by miles if you don't mind focusrite. But admittedly RME are absolute beasts.
I'm the same with graphics card I think it's a super old 2070 but I don't game on PC so no great loss considering how expensive new cards are these days.
Ooh that does look like a good interface. Heard good things about focusrite's drivers too.
Yea it was an old RME 9632, so stable (and took a bit of the wine I spilt lol, kept working though). I will miss it if I can't give it life again.
I'm starting to look at the Scarlett 4i4, SSL 2+ mkII or the MOTU M4. The MOTU does have pretty levels leds on the front heh. Bit of a step down from the RME but practicially probably doesn't matter.
The ssl looks awesome from the reviews I've read (was looking to upgrade front my saffire).
I think it has some hardware DSP as well which is handy.
I'm so tired. Been sleeping so much. My body feels really run down
Hugs
I suggest reading positive stories
Did you know that there are events being held around the world for T-Rex racing?
Peanut butter is not fucking green!
mmm, aflatoxins
More divergent colour vision
I have gymed. Now to market. I will be taking requests
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig - not the whole pig of course. Just enough for dinner and some leftovers for sandwiches. And a jelly croissant.
🍖🥐
Thank you!
English breakfast?
🍳 🥓 🍞 🧈 🫘 🫘 🍅 🍄🟫 🍄🟫 🍃
Thank you kindly :)
Can you just carry my stuff home for me please?
Sling it over the handlebars of my scooter
Thank you 🙏
Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Too late I got a Hobbiton meal
I'll have what Force is having, but with extra garlic and a bottle of red wine and some 🐛🐜 (lightly toasted and drizzled with honey) please chef.
🍖🧀🥐🧄🍾🍷
🍯
🐜🐛^🔥^
v_@_
A Chef is never late, nor is Chef early. Chef arrives precisely when Chef means to.
Sounds like what someone who's late would say
Had a perfectly suburban day today.
Grocery shop and a browse around local shopping centre. People who don't understand personal space, got hip checked.
Early afternoon gym session, weights and sauna. Felt amazing.
Proper afternoon nap.
Went out for dinner, now keeping my missus awake until our daughter needs a ride home from a party.
I'm stealing "suburban day" to explain my day to people. My inner city friends wonder about life in the burbs, it's unremarkable but there's a peace to it as well.
Please use it and get others to as well.
It's unremarkable but a zen quality to it.
We make it fun by talking judgemental shit about everyone we see.
I stepped into tarocash AND Peter Jackson today looking for something.
Didn't find it but the sales staff looked like aspiring real estate agents.
That's such a good way to put it and honestly how good is a day like that?! Especially nicely done pj the hip checking.
Some bunny was buried in his phone and walked into my hip. Took one look up at me and apologized.
Kept looking over his shoulder when walking away. We stopped and kept looking at him and sipping a coffee. I think he shit his pants.
That's beautiful!!!
Inaugural quote quiz
6/10
3
5
17% worse than average which is pretty good for me.
2/10
4 😴
today at the opshop I bought a 1950s framed silk tapestry of Kyoto, Fuji and the Golden Temple. $5
Piccy please! Sounds lovely.
You have a much more reasonable op shop than around here lately. Might as well be buying new.
This was Vinnies in Brunswick.
I used to volunteer there! In the Before Times. Love that store, I still go back and grab some really good clothes occasionally.
Whenever chef is ready...... Ham and cheese croissant please
I've got this!!!!. I'm ready just for this occasion. ( been waiting ages to post this ) This is a ham and cheese croissant I got you in Hobbiton. 🧙♂️🥐🐷🧀
🙏🙏🙏 it's a little bit stale but still hits the spot. Thankyou Hobbitchef
It stays fresh for a long time like Lembas
You can hike a whole day on one bite
Force had four.
Big morning and still a little queasy
Just watched my very first cdrama episode. Oh my, oh my.
what is a cdrama?
never mind
it's Chinese drama
Home & Away, set in Ancient China's Forbidden City. Everybody wearing floor length silk bathrobes and enough gold hairpins to stock a medium sized sunburst. The murders, the romances (appropriate & inappropriate), the betrayals, the promises of undying loyalty which promptly get broken. Gorgeous sets. Pregnancies galore. And EVERYBODY has perfect hair & makeup except those that have gone mad and been locked up for life (before the Emperor sends them a dose of poison via his favorite eunuch). This one was the Legend of Zhen Huan.
8/10 politely spiteful catty remarks - the kind that draw blood.
What genre would you put David Gray in? Comfort pop?
Babylon is one of my go to comfort pop songs, so ... yeah I guess?