Gonna take the dog for the arvo walk and by walk I mean take him out to the front porch where he'll stare at me with the "What the fuck?!" look but at least he'll stop with the "where's my fuckin walk" looks I'm getting now.
EDIT: I took him out when going to the car for some tools, he absolutely stayed on the porch with a strong "nu-uh" vibe about him. I took the tools through the side gate to the shed and he still wouldn't leave the porch to run around the side and come back in that way. So I went an got him and brought him back into the AC, he had a big drink on the way back. Outside in the shade for under five minutes
Could possibly be a christian soul who is all about loving your neighbour and forgiving sins against him. Unlikely, but possible. Or just a really really nice person.
I just assumed you all died, it's good to hear that at least one of you is still alive. I don't do well with heat, if I didn't have AC I'd either be camped out in the shower running cool water over myself or on the floor crying. I wish I was more like Miss Meow, who is currently voluntarily outside.
Well that sucks. Several houses in Belgrave including mine have been without power since 18:30. Would have been good to have aircon this evening.
On the positive side I'm feeling virtuous for having recently run up the generators, checked the oil, topped up the petrol, etc. So we have a fridge / freezer and, if we still have no power tomorrow, will still be able to work.
I just topped off my strays water and food. Used the last sachets of food, went and got some more from Savemore, went back to drop them off and it'd been eaten. Caught a glimpse of the cat. Savemore also had 3/$5 Linda McCartney vege snags which is a fuckin bargain.
I had the brilliant idea tonight when filling the water tray for animals to put the timer on and set it to a slow trickle. That'll keep it topped up and I know some animals are more likely to drink from running water than still
That’s genius. It would be so cool to have a solar powered water fountain recycling a tank of clean water (with a filter to sieve out mosquito larvae and kill them).
Replacing the water and cleaning the fountain would be a job though.
I did the slow release thing with blocks of ice before but now just fill an automatic water dispenser sold for pets
Running water should be enough to stop mosquitoes but a filter would be great for everything else that gets caught in there. I think I'll do the dribble timer next hot day we have too
Vic emergency map has a cool new feature - the little red triangle with the warning "evacuate immediately" now has the red triangle and a little running man blinking on and off. Really stands out. Check it out at the Otways fires.
Aaaand it looks like most of the Otways are going up in smoke rn.
You should have a look at bushfire.io it includes the information from the Vic Emergency app, and also has overlays with the wind speed/direction, satellite detected hot spots which show where the fire is actively burning, and where the fire fighting aircraft are. It's really interesting and I presume it takes a bit of pressure off the Vic Emergency app and helps stop it getting overloaded.
I haven't heard a train in hours 😬I thought this might happen, it's why my husband didn't take the train this morning, could not rely on it in the afternoon heat
If you can learn abseiling window washing can be quite well paid. Great job for an introvert, just you, a bucket, a squeegie and a really long way down.
It is? I don't see people wear stuff like this, especially at my age, so I get a bit insecure about it. I dress weird ...lol Think of this way, at my age I could shop at Katies or Blue Illusion. I actually shop at Dangerfield.
Mr Seagoon hasn't seen it yet, I think he will like it. 🙂🚀🐈
I just had an iced coffee myself. I contemplated doing some washing, but there is no way I'm going outside to hang it in this heat, you are much braver than I am.
Your planning was better than mine, I needed a sit down after I hung it and after I collected it! Even 10min is too much outside for today. I ventured out just now again to refresh the birdbath, and now I’m not leaving my aircon until the cool change comes.
I've turned the water mains off with a mallet because the outside tap has sprung a leak. Good news is I've had my morning shit. Bad news is I need a shower.
incidents like these are why everything is getting an individual shutoff. EVERYTHING. We have gotten very odd looks and "are you sure it costs extra..." from plumbers but I can shit in peace if the kitchen or brewery leaks.
The girlfriend has put out a box of clothes to be donated. Most of the things I want to get rid of are things she got me from an op shop previously, so I found some things to sacrifice to cover them up.
Sometimes I think she wants me to dress like a lesbian that went to the op shop to dress like peak 90s JTT, but these clothes are just cheap and nasty. I'll wear the world's ugliest pattern if the fabric is nice but these aren't op shop gold, it's the other 99%.
the thing with op shop clothes is they are so cheap you should expect to cull those that don't work out, even if you throw out more than half of them you still save money and have something a bit individual
I used to buy Miss Seagoon a lot of new clothes and accessories, I always believed it's up to her what she does with her own possessions, she would give a lot away to friends and I did not mind at all.
I guess I'm worried she might be upset since they were kind of gotten like gifts or she thinks I'll look good in them. At least they're cheap but there's a reason they were at the op shop
I used to op-shop as a hobby and would grab anything super nice and well priced then find a home for it later on. One friends birthday party I turned up with a dozen very nice mens shirts (too small for me) and handed them out to all the lads.
My WWII grandmother passed on her appreciation of corned beef sandwiches to me. Even though I've mostly stopped eating meat I still feel like reaching for it in Aldi. My other gran gave me a taste for Fray Bentos pies, which are their own culinary abomination.
I used to love corned beef when I could eat it but I tried the tinned one from Aldi many years back and it wasn’t very good. A lot of gloopiness and connective tissue, not very tasty, kind of reminded me of how dog food looks and smells.
I’d eat it if I was starving (and able to digest meat) but it fell a bit below even my low standards :(
I wouldn’t be above one of the Frays pies though, they just look like tinned pot pies
Never had that. I used to like putting nutritional yeast on hot buttered toast.
Otherwise maybe try tiger toast (cut slices of cheese over Vegemite toast to make stripes). Or melting cheese over the mustard under the grill, mustard goes great with cheesy things.
::: spoiler spoiler
I absolutely adore my diary from last year, it's filled with stickers and washi tape and random colours where I've felt like it, along with noting all of the things I did like dinners out and drives we went on or even just things like the day Boyo lost his sunnies in the bay. It helps that it was a Kikki K creativity diary and while I didn't utilise it to its full extent, it did inspire me with some of the prompts. I'm sad they didn't do another one this year.
Lately I've been getting into junk journaling, but it's felt a little harder because I feel like I want it always to be perfect, but I don't know what that perfect is. I keep reminding myself that no one is ever going to see it unless I choose to show them.
Anyway, I've got it into my head that I want one of those little instax polaroid printer so I can print little pictures to add to my diary and journal, think I'm going to go and buy one after work.
:::
After my test, I would like a big continental breakfast; before it gets too hot.
I am also getting the car serviced today. Usually I cut a few laps of the local Botanic Gardens while I wait, but since it is so hot, I think I will be lounging in a quite café with AC until the kick me out…
I cooked 20 snozzages yesterday, that's 3 for each man, 2 for each wimmins , for 2 days
it is not my fault if there are not enough today, I'm having my 2 , with mustard on bread and a little side salad and some strawberry coconut ice treats for dessert
This sounds like a school maths problem. If Mrs Seagoon cooks 20 sausages to last 2 days, and serves 3 per man and 2 per wimins, then calculate the number of mans and wimmins.
I don't know if I'll see it... I'm scared it could ruin the audiobook for me. Like when I watched the Harry Potter movies it ruined the images I'd made up of the characters and places etc. and I couldn't get them back.
Holy shit balls. I just paid the whole mortgage off 🤯
Best feeling in the world. 🥂🎆🎇🎉🎊🏅🥉🥈🎖🏆🤩
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I would but don't want go out to get any!
Grats!
One (1) [House] has been added to your inventory.
!!!! Holy shit congrats!
Am I an adult now??? Still have no idea what I'm doing.
You have skipped the adult stage and gone straight to boomer parity.
yeah that's normal.
Weeee!! That's so exciting!!
Congrats!!!
Congratulations!
Congrats 🎉
Tonight's wave / smoke:
wow
That's an amazing photo
Gorgeous!
Gonna take the dog for the arvo walk and by walk I mean take him out to the front porch where he'll stare at me with the "What the fuck?!" look but at least he'll stop with the "where's my fuckin walk" looks I'm getting now.
EDIT: I took him out when going to the car for some tools, he absolutely stayed on the porch with a strong "nu-uh" vibe about him. I took the tools through the side gate to the shed and he still wouldn't leave the porch to run around the side and come back in that way. So I went an got him and brought him back into the AC, he had a big drink on the way back. Outside in the shade for under five minutes
keep those of us without air conditioning in your thoughts today 🥲
I thought getting wet was bad for bots? Stay safe yarrabyte, we don’t want any short circuits!
Holy shit YarraByte. You talk!
Oh crap he could have heard us talking about him…
Could possibly be a christian soul who is all about loving your neighbour and forgiving sins against him. Unlikely, but possible. Or just a really really nice person.
I hope so or the bot uprising will go badly for me
Oops, hopped on a machine that was logged in as ![email protected]
Spray bottle with fan does such a great job, optionally can refrigerate the water.
thats a great idea! I should get a spray bottle for next time.
my strat has been to close all windows and blinds to the world & have regular cold showers. plus frozen grapes.
I just assumed you all died, it's good to hear that at least one of you is still alive. I don't do well with heat, if I didn't have AC I'd either be camped out in the shower running cool water over myself or on the floor crying. I wish I was more like Miss Meow, who is currently voluntarily outside.
I used to survive by wringing out a shirt in water and putting it on, and having icy poles or frozen drinks
Well that sucks. Several houses in Belgrave including mine have been without power since 18:30. Would have been good to have aircon this evening.
On the positive side I'm feeling virtuous for having recently run up the generators, checked the oil, topped up the petrol, etc. So we have a fridge / freezer and, if we still have no power tomorrow, will still be able to work.
Cool change is making its way across the Geelong plains. Should be here soon.
I am about to finish work and head home. Fingers crossed I survive
You got this 🤞
Glad i decided not to head back to melbs. Currently 24 here in queenscliff. Got to about 40-ish but felt a lot cooler next to the ocean.
The WSW / soon to be SSW is bringing a lot of smoke from the otways though.
I can confirm it has gone down 1° in the last hour here.
My backyard max/min thermometer has gone down from 45 deg to 40 deg. Still bloody hot though.
The wind has increased in my hood, maybe has dropped a couple degrees but still very hot. I think it’s going to be a gradual cooldown tonight.
I can feel it already
I'll have to wait a bit, being further north. Bummer.
Just went up a degree in North Fitzroy. Help 🫠
I have seen a few posts from just_kitten recently at the other place.
I got a dm from Duenan a while ago. He said he was doing well so I left it at that.
Duenan left after TinyBreak did iirc. They still post on the other place regularly. Same with Baku.
;-;
Edit: We seem to have lost a lot of people since this started, leaving a core group of regulars.
There’s probably more activity in the other place but I haven’t gone back because I don’t recognise many people there and may no longer fit.
As well as the whole ‘owner emulating you know who’ thing.
I'm out of the loop, why did they leave?
I did notice that just_kitten was gone, I haven’t heard from Duenan either
Good luck everyone!
I'm changing the strays water every couple of hours. Theres shady spots where they live. I've put ice in the bowls to help hopefully.
Am also freezing some water bottles for them to lay next to if required
I just topped off my strays water and food. Used the last sachets of food, went and got some more from Savemore, went back to drop them off and it'd been eaten. Caught a glimpse of the cat. Savemore also had 3/$5 Linda McCartney vege snags which is a fuckin bargain.
Nice work man!
I put out the dry food and it's been gobbled up real quick.
I bought a bag of ice and put it in a shady spot near where my live. Hopefully they see it and figure out the ground will be cool near it.
I have cheap litter boxes / pans under the trees during summer, birds are going apeshit. Also stealing all my appls and pears.
I had the brilliant idea tonight when filling the water tray for animals to put the timer on and set it to a slow trickle. That'll keep it topped up and I know some animals are more likely to drink from running water than still
That’s genius. It would be so cool to have a solar powered water fountain recycling a tank of clean water (with a filter to sieve out mosquito larvae and kill them).
Replacing the water and cleaning the fountain would be a job though.
I did the slow release thing with blocks of ice before but now just fill an automatic water dispenser sold for pets
Running water should be enough to stop mosquitoes but a filter would be great for everything else that gets caught in there. I think I'll do the dribble timer next hot day we have too
Thank god this gig tonight is at the Croxton. It's close to home and has decent parking. Just as long as the air conditioner works well in there
Vic emergency map has a cool new feature - the little red triangle with the warning "evacuate immediately" now has the red triangle and a little running man blinking on and off. Really stands out. Check it out at the Otways fires.
Aaaand it looks like most of the Otways are going up in smoke rn.
You should have a look at bushfire.io it includes the information from the Vic Emergency app, and also has overlays with the wind speed/direction, satellite detected hot spots which show where the fire is actively burning, and where the fire fighting aircraft are. It's really interesting and I presume it takes a bit of pressure off the Vic Emergency app and helps stop it getting overloaded.
Thanks! That looks like a really useful take - especially the closed roads.
That site is utterly fascinating, thank you so much for sharing it!
😞
ahhhh train cancellations and delays due to the heat. Never change, Melbourne, love ya 😂🥵
Dear cat jesus, thank you for letting me work from home today. I will dispense the appropriate treats to your people.
I haven't heard a train in hours 😬I thought this might happen, it's why my husband didn't take the train this morning, could not rely on it in the afternoon heat
It's officially below 30 degrees. Yay!
Gibson's unsure of the portable aircon lol
Mate left at 5am to catch his flight, and immediately after Mickey came and started meowing at me. It's too early, my furry son, and I have work 😭
But now I'm awake so that means coffee time ☕
Yes, Hoddle street has way more lanes. Reach for the stars!
funny you should say that
If you can learn abseiling window washing can be quite well paid. Great job for an introvert, just you, a bucket, a squeegie and a really long way down.
and cats. Cats love windowashers
Alexandra Ave and Wellington is always choccas and the Wellington St lights take ages.
Royal Parade is shadier, and there's median strips which could make the process safer. You could offer to clean the side mirrors too maybe.
I've got a lot of nsfw stories about the window dudes at that intersection lol
Spencer Street 👍
sewing on a patch onto my new tshirt
Love it
That is so adorable!
It is? I don't see people wear stuff like this, especially at my age, so I get a bit insecure about it. I dress weird ...lol Think of this way, at my age I could shop at Katies or Blue Illusion. I actually shop at Dangerfield.
Mr Seagoon hasn't seen it yet, I think he will like it. 🙂🚀🐈
It is very cool. Embrace the weird!
Rock it, girl!! I love seeing people wear bright and interesting things or dressing however they feel. More and more I dress only for comfort!
Love it! 😍
Thanks. I put the same design patch on a denim jacket too 😻it's cute
I’ve hung the washing out and am having an iced coffee. When I finish my coffee, it’ll be time to bring the washing back in.
I just had an iced coffee myself. I contemplated doing some washing, but there is no way I'm going outside to hang it in this heat, you are much braver than I am.
Your planning was better than mine, I needed a sit down after I hung it and after I collected it! Even 10min is too much outside for today. I ventured out just now again to refresh the birdbath, and now I’m not leaving my aircon until the cool change comes.
Went to take the bins out and ran into neighbour doing the same.
He's loving this heat, or so he claims.
He ain't right in the head, is he?
Does he walk around saying ‘how about this heat’? /s
NSFW https://youtu.be/UrgpZ0fUixs
Hahaha
I'm down with it. My low blood iron has me feeling cold more often than not. Today is fine by me.
Hearing ya with hypothyroidism!
And the rest of us are cooking slowly
🤡
I honestly think he just runs cold. He was running his fireplace into December when it was high teens/low 20s.
I don't get it
he could have very poor circulation
That's what I'm thinking
Good morning! Got an early start to try beat the heat today.. hopefully we'll be outta there before it gets too hot 🥵
I've turned the water mains off with a mallet because the outside tap has sprung a leak. Good news is I've had my morning shit. Bad news is I need a shower.
Oh no! Hopefully you can mallet it back on should you need to use the facilities again!
incidents like these are why everything is getting an individual shutoff. EVERYTHING. We have gotten very odd looks and "are you sure it costs extra..." from plumbers but I can shit in peace if the kitchen or brewery leaks.
The girlfriend has put out a box of clothes to be donated. Most of the things I want to get rid of are things she got me from an op shop previously, so I found some things to sacrifice to cover them up.
Sometimes I think she wants me to dress like a lesbian that went to the op shop to dress like peak 90s JTT, but these clothes are just cheap and nasty. I'll wear the world's ugliest pattern if the fabric is nice but these aren't op shop gold, it's the other 99%.
Thank you for the 2nd paragraph lol
the thing with op shop clothes is they are so cheap you should expect to cull those that don't work out, even if you throw out more than half of them you still save money and have something a bit individual
I used to buy Miss Seagoon a lot of new clothes and accessories, I always believed it's up to her what she does with her own possessions, she would give a lot away to friends and I did not mind at all.
I guess I'm worried she might be upset since they were kind of gotten like gifts or she thinks I'll look good in them. At least they're cheap but there's a reason they were at the op shop
once she gives them to you they are yours to do with as you wish, they are yours
and surely she must know you are different people with individual tastes? It's not an insult if someone doesn't like what you bought them.
I used to op-shop as a hobby and would grab anything super nice and well priced then find a home for it later on. One friends birthday party I turned up with a dozen very nice mens shirts (too small for me) and handed them out to all the lads.
This is the way to do it. It takes more time to get the good stuff but I think there's little point otherwise
Work done, drinking a cold cider and playing JSAB with the teenage offspring, then off to the pool.
a predator cannot distinguish between prey and accomplice
Gym done, AC on, shutters down, so far so good, but dreading the afternoon.
Today is going to suck
Stick a fried egg on top. Trust me.
I used to eat mustard and mayo sandwiches when on struggle street.
I used to eat just mayo or mustard pickle on a slice of bread.
Or tomato sauce and spam sandwiches if you had spam. A cousin of the baloney/devon sandwich
My WWII grandmother passed on her appreciation of corned beef sandwiches to me. Even though I've mostly stopped eating meat I still feel like reaching for it in Aldi. My other gran gave me a taste for Fray Bentos pies, which are their own culinary abomination.
I used to love corned beef when I could eat it but I tried the tinned one from Aldi many years back and it wasn’t very good. A lot of gloopiness and connective tissue, not very tasty, kind of reminded me of how dog food looks and smells.
I’d eat it if I was starving (and able to digest meat) but it fell a bit below even my low standards :(
I wouldn’t be above one of the Frays pies though, they just look like tinned pot pies
They go really nice in the airfryer
Never had that. I used to like putting nutritional yeast on hot buttered toast.
Otherwise maybe try tiger toast (cut slices of cheese over Vegemite toast to make stripes). Or melting cheese over the mustard under the grill, mustard goes great with cheesy things.
update: When questioned on how he pulled up this morning His Lordship's response was a seesawing hand motion. Gym was skipped.
Just chatting about journaling.
::: spoiler spoiler I absolutely adore my diary from last year, it's filled with stickers and washi tape and random colours where I've felt like it, along with noting all of the things I did like dinners out and drives we went on or even just things like the day Boyo lost his sunnies in the bay. It helps that it was a Kikki K creativity diary and while I didn't utilise it to its full extent, it did inspire me with some of the prompts. I'm sad they didn't do another one this year.
Lately I've been getting into junk journaling, but it's felt a little harder because I feel like I want it always to be perfect, but I don't know what that perfect is. I keep reminding myself that no one is ever going to see it unless I choose to show them.
Anyway, I've got it into my head that I want one of those little instax polaroid printer so I can print little pictures to add to my diary and journal, think I'm going to go and buy one after work. :::
There is no perfect journal. There is only your journal.
I love mine
Beep Beep 🚚
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I’m fasting for a medical test this morning.
After my test, I would like a big continental breakfast; before it gets too hot.
I am also getting the car serviced today. Usually I cut a few laps of the local Botanic Gardens while I wait, but since it is so hot, I think I will be lounging in a quite café with AC until the kick me out…
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Yummo! Thankyou Chef.
Iced everything please chef.
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Thanks chef!
brilliant
You know what I need on a day like today chef, hook me up
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My selections today:
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Exquisite
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morning , I slept well but have sore eyes , I have been neglecting them 😖
Requiem for a Wiper Mop
Metal Wiper Mop I hardly used you
So much so I bent you outta shape, again
So now it's the trash for you
and I'll get a new one
I cooked 20 snozzages yesterday, that's 3 for each man, 2 for each wimmins , for 2 days
it is not my fault if there are not enough today, I'm having my 2 , with mustard on bread and a little side salad and some strawberry coconut ice treats for dessert
This sounds like a school maths problem. If Mrs Seagoon cooks 20 sausages to last 2 days, and serves 3 per man and 2 per wimins, then calculate the number of mans and wimmins.
= don't look at my plate. I can't help you.
change over to new phone nearly complete, it will only take ... 10 hours!!! now 11
this is obviously relativistic ,
there is something not right
I think I will wait until the weather is cooler and my phones won't cook
Happy Happy Happy
Project Hail Mary is going to be playing at IMAX 🚀💫🌏🟤🟢
I don't know if I'll see it... I'm scared it could ruin the audiobook for me. Like when I watched the Harry Potter movies it ruined the images I'd made up of the characters and places etc. and I couldn't get them back.
pretty sure the author will have had some input in that regard
and maybe I imagined things wrong, so it will be interesting to see the movie , I think I imagine Rocky too small
I'm more, "will Rocky's voice be the same", I don't see why they would change it from the audiobook
For me he is about the size of an armadillo, but more round instead of long
Edit: actually bigger than a normal armadillo, more like a giant armadillo
I can see that, with the stripes and all
Thanks for that. 👍
scrub that, I have been looking after my eyes everyday as per normal, it's just so automatic now I forgot I even do it 🙂
How does one look after one's eyes?
I use a very warm compress for about 30 seconds, then use antibiotic wipes then use eye drops for dry eyes
and I never ever leave make up on over night