I don't think so. I remember people nodding off on trams and trains. I remember the hari kristners begging, the odd dero who's pissed himself, the drunks. I don't ever remember the violence that commuters are experiencing today.
I remember people getting glasses smashed on them outside y&j. I remember drunk cunts getting very fucking rapey around flinders. I remember a lot of queer bashings.
I get that and things weren't reported like they are now but I don't remember cunts wanted to start fights because they've been up for 4 days straight.
DTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!! After half a year the car search has ended, I have finally replaced my 4x4 that shit itself during covid. Ya boy is about to make up for years worth of missed camping and road-tripping.
Just went down a travelator behind a man who had jammed the trolley hard against the side of the travelator side, and it was making this horrid scraping noise as it was going , scraping a dent/scratch into the side of escalator. Man either totally unaware or could not give a fuck. I was thinking how sad it is how much the public just trash stuff and how much it must cost to be constantly fixing things, no wonder everything is expensive. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Eating Tiny teddies for the first time since I was a kid. There is something very moreish about them. It’s a bit dangerous, the whole box might get mindlessly consumed if I’m not careful!
Allergies are calming down a bit today, the wind and rain has got rid of some of the pollen particles. This has been my worst year for rosacea for 15 years. Big hugs to everyone who is having difficulties with allergies and inflammation.
That was a cold freaking walk back to the accom. 10C feels like 3, hectic winds, spattering rain - and now lots of wooshing and swooshing while I'm trying to settle down in bed. Pros and cons to getting accom with palms right out the window.
Absolutely fabulous day otherwise, was a bit nervous/overwhelmed at first but met heaps of good folks today. Weather aside, only downside was I think I had too much dairy in the dessert and got straight up liquid shits (scrambled to the toilet just in time). Or maybe it was the wine. I don't know but my gut definitely feels unsettled, still. I need a substantial breakfast tomorrow to make up for it. Ninight.
was out for a walk early this morning. after an hour, even with brisk walking, came home freezing cold, windblown and ever so slightly damp, wondering what I had been thinking.
am now reaping the benefits by working in trackies, my slippers, with a cuppa, feeling smug as my wife complains about having to leave the house while I have done my exercise and errands for the day and can remain toasty warm and comfy inside.
same here. Is it schadenfreude? why yes, but that makes it no less delicious. Enjoy your trudge in the rain sir, me and my 11k steps shall be playing Totk
I made baby cheesecakes last night. Very easy to do.
::: spoiler baby cheesecakes
:::
I used a block of philly cheese (Manhatten from aldi) at room temperature. Added a half a jar of lemon curd. A tiny bit of milk and a tablespoon of icing sugar. Gave it a stir until all combined. Put a butter nut biscuit in the muffin patty pan and top it with my mixture. Put them in the fridge to set.
You can make them with your choice of jam and biscuits.
Would it be out of line to ask what young man is dealing with symptoms wise?
I have an older cat and have been on the medical merry go round of working out what’s wrong. Perhaps there’s something that sounds similar to an issue we’ve solved, an idea of where to go next.
~ Obligatory ‘I am not a veterinarian’ disclaimer ~
We have had a little of that, it was a fissure from constipation. But not to the extreme. It was a tiny smear of bright fresh blood as an isolated incident.
It could be so many things so if you find this vet isn’t taking you seriously you are within your rights to see another vet or another practice for a second opinion. You’re around them more and see things the vets don’t. It took me a long time to be believed and figure out Melbcat’s nebulous pain but it turned out there were multiple genuine causes which are now being treated.
It could be an ulcer, inflammatory bowel disease, eaten a foreign object, a grass seed worked its way into the anus, ingested a chemical, parasites, bacterial or viral infection, blood disorders, cancer, injury, severe irritation from food intolerances or allergy, polyps, colitis etc
It’s very hard when they can’t talk.
It’s worth looking at everything else surrounding it for clues. If there have been any changes like diarrhoea re the Bristol stool chart, presence and location of any pain, changes in appetite, nausea (lip smacking or reluctance to eat) vomiting or gas, when does it happen? Is the blood bright and fresh which may indicate the issue is down closer to the anus, or is it older and brown, or is it partially digested like coffee grounds? Is there any mucus which may indicate inflammation? Jelly like stool which is extreme inflammation? Weird colour like yellow or green which may indicate too fast transit, or a greasy appearance? Signs of worms?
It sounds overwhelming but maybe just jot down what/when he’s eaten and the time/details of him moving his bowels to see if there’s any patterns or anything unusual. Perhaps give them a sample.
And check if there’s been any warnings about baits or sicknesses like feline panleukopenia/parvovirus in your area. There have been Australian breakouts in recent months.
The more concrete info you have the more of an idea you can get and the harder it is to dismiss.
Gelato might be healthier than icecream? They might have coffee. Edit: Or coffee frozen yogurt.
And allowing the occasional scoop might mean less craving
Edit: Or you can make an iced coffee at home by dissolving sugar or Splenda with instant coffee in a little hot water (no need for special syrup) and adding your preferred milk
Horrible weather out there, it's actually getting colder. I stopped at Bunnings on the way home from work, they were closing off the garden entrance and had lost a few plants in the wind already. The staff were in remarkably good spirits considering how miserable it is outside today.
Morning dog walk has been cancelled because of excessive wind. Possibly the afternoon dog walk will be cancelled for the same reason. Definitely not nice out there today.
Of few things in this world I'm sure
Who knows what's behind each door?
But if one thing is always true
Is it the desert being red, or ocean blue?
No. But when I open up a tin of fish
It will always, always be delish!
Whats on for the weekend everyone?
Tonight im heading to a party at Max Watts run by the Rainbow Serpent crew, should be massive!!
Tomorrow night will be moving my current mead to secondary to age on oak!! Sunday i have an axe throwing marathon, its only 2 weeks till the Asia Pacific Champs and Sunday will have 10 or more of the current top 20 in Australia throwing so will be a really good warm up :)
It has not been a good week. The weekend will be spent recovering from the week.
(Kid) Footy and Hockey seasons are finally over. This is the first weekend of not needing to up at 7am for various sports. I need to get my sleep cycle under control. Spent a day and a half sick/sleeping and I'm still not quite back to normal. My watch says I slept from 3am to 7am, but it isn't counting the bit where I crashed at 8pm and slept to nearly midnight.
Also, a friend/workmate passed away this week. We're gathering this evening for drinks and memories/tears. He was roughly my age, with kids a little over my kids' ages. This feels too close to home, like that could have been me but for a roll of fate's dice. It could be my kids facing life without their dad. Cancer sucks.
Belated, but sorry to hear about your mate. Reading that gave me chills, just imagining it happening to me or someone my siblings' ages, though I have no children. That's particularly rough when it's someone you worked with. Hope you've got some good strategies for handling the grief at work.
I will be competing against the big guns yes, im currently ranked 6th in Australia in the ruleset the marathon is running in. There is essentially two rules sets, standard and premier, premier requires a much higher level of accuracy but anyone can compete in either rule set. The marathons are usually capped at 24 people, so there will be a pretty big range of skills.
The Asia Pacific Champs in 2 weeks is an invite only finals under the premier rule set, there were qualifiers around Australia early this year, the top 2 from each venue went straight into finals and then the rest of the spots went to the people with the highest averages in qualifying :)
Yeh everyone can throw really well, so consistency and doing well under pressure are really important. The mental part is definitely where i need to work on the most, the closer i can get in match play to the way i throw in practice the happier ill be :)
Hmmmm got the job (VPS) but it was never explained that it was a fixed term contract until I just got the offer letter, I was under the impression the whole time it was a full time contract, so it ends after a year and if they don't have the budget I'm out of a job potentially? Exactly the sort of thing I wanted to avoid and why I was willing to take a paycut otherwise why not just work as a contractor?
Is it a "contract" or "permanent fixed term"? The latter gives you leave entitlements and other benefits (that I can't currently think of) of a permanent employee
so I've figured out car wise what Im going to do. I've all but sold my car to pay for the mrs's car's loan. then im gonna get her car limping, sell it off and buy something brand new with a warranty. Its gonna cost a fortune, but given I stand to lose close to 20k on her car, and I'm having to sell mine to offset that I dont see we have a lot of other options. What do I do if I buy second hand and it blows up again?
But I hear back from the diagnostics (mid next week) I dont know how much its going to cost to fix (If even possible). So I dont know the financial damage so I cant really order anything. Stressful. I just want this done and buried so I can move on.
Bahaha, love it!
I had a similar thought tbh, but the dealer I'm looking to buy from is 100km away. Thats gonna be an expensive tow, and fair confident the cars not gonna make it under its own power.
I’m sure they are out there. Trouble is I don’t even know if it’s cost effective to fix mine. Mazda quoted like 20k in the worst case scenario. The cars worth maybe 17k? I’m not paying what it’s worth to sell it. I’ll just piss it off to a wreckers.
Don't tell Las Vegas but I'm pretty casino'd out. I'm not exactly sure who I am now but I've had zero urge to drink. Even when offered free booze I've been getting lemonade/soda or water.
Anyway it's 7:15pm and I've decided to lock myself in my room with some gummies, lemonade and a cup of donut balls while I watch Ahsoka.
I dont feel too bad about it, solar is JUST generating enough to cover the heater so I may as well. But I suspect thats all the solar is gonna be good for today.
i'm sorry, but i don't care for finals talk. especially in an open plan office situation...can you take it to the break room please? i mean, i'm 20m away and can clearly understand everything you're saying
Dunstan suggested that a badge should be devised, so that League members could recognise each other and intelligent non-football discussion could take place. The badge was to be in the shape of a red cube, symbolic of an object that would not bounce.
fucking christ. trying to access work sever via vpn on a win10 laptop, vaguely mutter to myself "ugh you running sl-o-o-o-w is that why you're reporting as offline, baby?"
Windows fucking suggestion pops up with "Slow machine? check this" to which I say the only true and proper response of
#YOU FUCKING WHAT MY SON
and prompt destruction of all microphone permissions.
This is a machine that has been gutted of bloatware and cortana, btw. Never. Trust. the cunce.
Going for a run today was a bad idea. I thought my calf had fully healed, but 2km in and it started seizing up again. Probably put me back a few days. Real shame too, as my pace was probably my best yet, and I didn't even feel tired, but will just have to wait and see next time.
Guess I'll just stick to swimming until after my work conference.
It's very wimdy. 😲 The front door flew open unbeknownst to me, ( the lock mustn't have been snibbed ) so when I opened the back door a vacuum literally sucked a heavy vase off the window ledge which then smashed on the floor.
I've got that weird air thing at my place too. When you open the front door another door in the middle of the house slams shut. When I first moved there it used to freak me out👻
Holy shit I just saw what happened on Bourke. I regularly take the 86 / 96 and I use that specific stop a lot to get to work. So scary! Will keep the affected in my thoughts
I just got back from the CBD, the incident would have occurred sometime between 6-7pm-ish. I didn’t see it becuase I was having dinner near the GPO, but walked up Bourke St about an hour ago. Lots of police, fire, ambulance, sirens and police tape.
Mr Peeler heard today that one of his cousins lost her short battle with MND today. It was only just over a couple of years ago she was fine, came over to our place for lunch. Here's hoping we can find a cure soon. I'm a bit of a stunned mullet, but Mr Peeler will be very upset as he was close to his cousins, having no siblings.
Lemmy is being a butt. It keeps logging me out and saying my credentials are wrong (they’re not) but letting me back when I close and re-enter. Only to do it again on navigating to reply to a comment.
Fucking joy, opened the wardrobe and somehow managed to hit my head and left hand with the door. Got a lovely looking egg on my forehead now.
I swear to God, if I start getting concussion symptoms (or worse), I am going to be very annoyed. Assignment is due Sunday and I'm still 600 or so words out from completion, so I literally do not have time for this bullshit.
NtccJnr is home sick. Well, not very sick but not good enough for school. Heater has been cranked up and fresh warm popcornn is nownwarming our bellies.
If I had a nickel every time my data was compromised in the past year. I’d have three nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened three time.
(Optus in September of last year, AHM in roughly November of last year and now Dymocks) (Also I posted this in Thursday's DT not realising it's Thursday and I'm like "it's been five hours, why have I only gotten one like?" idiot... hahaha)
ChatGPT says that could make a very interesting chicken pot pie.
::: spoiler Chicken pot pie recipe from ChatGPT
G'day! You've got some versatile ingredients there. How about making a Chicken and Vegetable Pot Pie with a twist? Here's a simple recipe:
Ingredients:
1 chicken breast
1/3 pack of pork mince
Bacon (a few slices, as much as you like)
1/4 pumpkin
2 parsnips
Red and yellow capsicum
1 sheet of pastry
Various spices from your cabinet (like salt, pepper, paprika, thyme, and oregano)
Leftover salsa
Pantry basics (flour, butter, milk)
Instructions:
Preheat your oven to 200°C (180°C fan-forced).
Dice the chicken breast and bacon. In a pan, cook the bacon until it's crispy. Remove it from the pan and set it aside.
In the same pan, cook the chicken until it's no longer pink. Remove and set aside.
In the same pan, add the pork mince and brown it. Drain any excess fat.
While the meat is cooking, chop your veggies (pumpkin, parsnips, and capsicums) into bite-sized pieces.
In a separate pot, make a basic white sauce. Melt some butter, stir in flour, and gradually add milk until you have a creamy consistency. Season it with salt, pepper, and any other spices you like from your spice cabinet.
Combine the cooked chicken, bacon, pork mince, and veggies in the pot with your white sauce. Add a few spoonfuls of leftover salsa for extra flavor.
Roll out your pastry sheet and place it over a baking dish. Pour the chicken and veggie mixture into the dish.
Fold the pastry over the top to make a pie crust. Brush it with a bit of milk to give it a nice golden color.
Pop the whole dish in the oven and bake for about 30-40 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown and the filling is bubbling.
Enjoy your Aussie-style Chicken and Vegetable Pot Pie! Feel free to season it with your favorite spices for that extra kick.
:::
Note I've given ChatGPT custom instructions that I'm in Australia and sometimes it goes overboard. But at least it uses Celsius by default.
You could ask the same thing and say "make it Mexican inspired" or "adjust this to make mini pies" or even something as simple as "tell me another idea".
Op1: Cook the chicken salami and capsicum, add in can or tomatoes or a red jar sauce if you have it, have with pasta.
Op2: pork mince and veg stir fry, using selection of spices.
Ok so you have a few different meals there. Fry up the mince and bacon. Add in some spice. Halve the capsicums and stuff them. Bake until soft. Top with grated cheese. Put them back in until cheese has melted. Any left over mixture make triangles with the pastry.
Roast pumpkin and parsnips. Poach/grill/Fry chicken boob.
Fry up a capsicum with the pork mince (and bacon?) Butterfly the chook titty, stuff with said mixture and roast until done with your choice of spices. Roast pumpkin cubes on the side, can cook while the chook does
I've discovered a new hobby. When there's a crowd gathering around a street performer or in today's case, a chase the queen card hustler, brush by the back of people just enough that they feel you touch them but not hard enough for a bump. Just keep walking. They'll check their pockets, it's hilarious.
Also it's a sunny 36 degrees here. Flying home on Monday night (your Tuesday) and from what I'm reading it's going to be a bit of a change in weather. I'm actually going to miss this summery weather. Hopefully ours rolls around quickly.
The four motorcycle round trips today was unpleasant, could barely stay upright and it was freezing. Thankfully they were only 5km round trips on 40kmh roads.
One more tonight. Hopefully wind is calm by tonight, am only going to book a car for the trip if it is raining or is forecast to rain.
I'm catching up to 2016 with The Witcher 3. Finally got it downloaded, then spent as much time updating keybindings on the game pad and mouse as I did playing. 🤣 I'm still working on figuring out the whole combat system and what button does what, and have died three times so far due to flailing ineffectually while maddly pressing the wrong buttons.
Putting in a little leave so I can spend a week at the end of the month enjoying my new (to me) car! Weather permitting, I might jump the border and hang around Port Mac, maybe even dig my wetsuit out and do some snorkelling at Ewens Ponds.
It's so silly, but finally having a 4x4 back has lifted my spirits insanely, I feel like a dog in front of his fully stacked toy box.
Exercises completed except for one of the weird plank ones which started to hurt my neck and back so I abandoned it immediately. I guess it was all that shelf cleaning yesterday with myself at weird angles to get to hard to reach places.
Wedding anniversary today, going to celebrate (despite the weather) with a posh lunch in Briiiighton then back to Mordi for a few drinks :)
Congrats ! 🎉 💃🪩🕺
Thank you!
Congratulations.🎉
How many years did she get? 🗝
Thanks! hehe...16 years
Noice.
Congrats and happy anniversary!
Hope you're enjoying (enjoyed?) the posh lunch in Braaaiiiighhhton, and don't get blown into the bay at Mordi. :)
Congrats!
Congrats. Have a lovely day. 🥂
Thanks! Should be a good one, I have a rare Saturday off work so let the champers and margaritas flow!
Congrats! Have fun!
Congratulations 🎉 🥂
Very upsetting what just happened on Bourke Street
I'm shook. Hope the injured recover and the lost soul's close ones find peace.
The culprit can fucking rot
Once upon a time it was safe to walk or take the tram around the city. Not any more. It's so sad.
This feels like a little bit of a leap.
Nah Pilko I can tell you now as a a 46 year old who has frequented the city their whole life it is getting worse.
Yeah nah, 90's were worse
I don't think so. I remember people nodding off on trams and trains. I remember the hari kristners begging, the odd dero who's pissed himself, the drunks. I don't ever remember the violence that commuters are experiencing today.
I remember people getting glasses smashed on them outside y&j. I remember drunk cunts getting very fucking rapey around flinders. I remember a lot of queer bashings.
I get that and things weren't reported like they are now but I don't remember cunts wanted to start fights because they've been up for 4 days straight.
the issues are more frequent and moving out further into the suburbs
it's getting more and more dodgy inside the trams too
Exactly.
people need to understand that they own public property, and so they should treat it with respect
I saw the report on the Guardian. Awful.
DTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!! After half a year the car search has ended, I have finally replaced my 4x4 that shit itself during covid. Ya boy is about to make up for years worth of missed camping and road-tripping.
Congratulations 🎉
Thank you!
What did you get?
Mitsubishi Pajero NT 09 3.2L diesel.
Just in time for better weather (hopefully) for the camping and travel!
Just went down a travelator behind a man who had jammed the trolley hard against the side of the travelator side, and it was making this horrid scraping noise as it was going , scraping a dent/scratch into the side of escalator. Man either totally unaware or could not give a fuck. I was thinking how sad it is how much the public just trash stuff and how much it must cost to be constantly fixing things, no wonder everything is expensive. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Eating Tiny teddies for the first time since I was a kid. There is something very moreish about them. It’s a bit dangerous, the whole box might get mindlessly consumed if I’m not careful!
Honey or chocolate?
Half coated choc, so I think honey.
Ooo. I think you've got choc chip there.
Allergies are calming down a bit today, the wind and rain has got rid of some of the pollen particles. This has been my worst year for rosacea for 15 years. Big hugs to everyone who is having difficulties with allergies and inflammation.
Big hugs to you. My hayfever isn't bad yet but it's coming.
Bill Cat has scratched his face raw 😿
Oh poor Bill Cat.
he's sleeping now 😿
My allergies only started calming down a couple of days ago as well.
Now my skin is healing but damn is it really hurting on my hands and feet as it hardens and comes off.
Hope you're not suffering too badly from it all.
gentle hugs
aww thank you
I’m not too bad, rosacea hay fever and asthma are all under control but my dog is going crazy scratching her belly.
hugs to both of you
*hugs* hope everything is okay.
COLD 🥶
As my heart on Saturday morning.
All four of my cheeks are freezing 💀
Beep boop. Good human. Good pie.
You made it pretty! 👍
Omg you made it, I'm so impressed. Very aesthetic too.
Perhaps this is an insight into what the robots will feed us when the revolution comes.
Looking good!
Opening yesterday's thread, the Brisbane daily thread, or accidentally sorting by "old" are my favourite ways to add a touch of confusion into my day.
.... Nailed it.
Look at those enormous breasts!
At least one person can see what you have posted lol.
That was a cold freaking walk back to the accom. 10C feels like 3, hectic winds, spattering rain - and now lots of wooshing and swooshing while I'm trying to settle down in bed. Pros and cons to getting accom with palms right out the window.
Absolutely fabulous day otherwise, was a bit nervous/overwhelmed at first but met heaps of good folks today. Weather aside, only downside was I think I had too much dairy in the dessert and got straight up liquid shits (scrambled to the toilet just in time). Or maybe it was the wine. I don't know but my gut definitely feels unsettled, still. I need a substantial breakfast tomorrow to make up for it. Ninight.
was out for a walk early this morning. after an hour, even with brisk walking, came home freezing cold, windblown and ever so slightly damp, wondering what I had been thinking.
am now reaping the benefits by working in trackies, my slippers, with a cuppa, feeling smug as my wife complains about having to leave the house while I have done my exercise and errands for the day and can remain toasty warm and comfy inside.
same here. Is it schadenfreude? why yes, but that makes it no less delicious. Enjoy your trudge in the rain sir, me and my 11k steps shall be playing Totk
Cheers homies and home girls 🍻
Cheers 🍻🍻Imma smack the lip like wuuPAH!! and then get pitted…so pitted
Cheers cobber 🍺
No you're 35 minutes early! Not fair!
It's not a sprint. It's a marathon. 🍺
Ok nowwww I can cheers 🥂
Cheers buddy 🍺
🍫🥛
I see you're on the hard stuff tonight.
🫖🍵cheers m'dear!
Cheers Peeler Power 🍺
🍸
Cheers lovely 🍺
Woohoo! That was a long week 🍷
Cheers Chick a dee. 🍺
I made baby cheesecakes last night. Very easy to do.
::: spoiler baby cheesecakes ::: I used a block of philly cheese (Manhatten from aldi) at room temperature. Added a half a jar of lemon curd. A tiny bit of milk and a tablespoon of icing sugar. Gave it a stir until all combined. Put a butter nut biscuit in the muffin patty pan and top it with my mixture. Put them in the fridge to set.
You can make them with your choice of jam and biscuits.
Ooooooo
They are really good ngl.
10 days off has officially has begun.
Enjoy!
Looks like a serious case of ADORABLEE!
So get the magnifying glass out. Is it wet, dry, chunky, large, small, medium, firm, loose, black, brown, other?
awww
Cheers Catfish Cat. I hope you recover from whatever it is. 🍺
If OP is Catfish, clearly that is Fishcat
Would it be out of line to ask what young man is dealing with symptoms wise?
I have an older cat and have been on the medical merry go round of working out what’s wrong. Perhaps there’s something that sounds similar to an issue we’ve solved, an idea of where to go next.
Ah yeah.
::: spoiler Cat TMI and I mean it
~ Obligatory ‘I am not a veterinarian’ disclaimer ~
We have had a little of that, it was a fissure from constipation. But not to the extreme. It was a tiny smear of bright fresh blood as an isolated incident.
It could be so many things so if you find this vet isn’t taking you seriously you are within your rights to see another vet or another practice for a second opinion. You’re around them more and see things the vets don’t. It took me a long time to be believed and figure out Melbcat’s nebulous pain but it turned out there were multiple genuine causes which are now being treated.
It could be an ulcer, inflammatory bowel disease, eaten a foreign object, a grass seed worked its way into the anus, ingested a chemical, parasites, bacterial or viral infection, blood disorders, cancer, injury, severe irritation from food intolerances or allergy, polyps, colitis etc
It’s very hard when they can’t talk.
It’s worth looking at everything else surrounding it for clues. If there have been any changes like diarrhoea re the Bristol stool chart, presence and location of any pain, changes in appetite, nausea (lip smacking or reluctance to eat) vomiting or gas, when does it happen? Is the blood bright and fresh which may indicate the issue is down closer to the anus, or is it older and brown, or is it partially digested like coffee grounds? Is there any mucus which may indicate inflammation? Jelly like stool which is extreme inflammation? Weird colour like yellow or green which may indicate too fast transit, or a greasy appearance? Signs of worms?
It sounds overwhelming but maybe just jot down what/when he’s eaten and the time/details of him moving his bowels to see if there’s any patterns or anything unusual. Perhaps give them a sample.
And check if there’s been any warnings about baits or sicknesses like feline panleukopenia/parvovirus in your area. There have been Australian breakouts in recent months.
The more concrete info you have the more of an idea you can get and the harder it is to dismiss.
:::
Fingers crossed that it’s not serious and either can be treated easily or stops happening 🤞
It's raining here now so hopefully it kills the wind or I may lose a fence if it hasn't already gone. I'm too scared to go outside.
Ooo and the sun's out too. Jfc
🎵🎶 Fourrrr seasons in one dayyyyy 🎶🎵
I'll keep an eye on the skies for your fence... hope it's all still good! 😬
Thank you.
Jacket on, jacket off, jacket on
"That leany thing" gets me everytime 😅
That's the cheese stick God damn it.
Bin day today and they tend to do ours at about 2 so I can't wait to chase the fucker halfway across south road.
Mine is Thursday's. Every fucking Wednesday night/ Thursday morning it's either pissing down or windy. EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
hmmm, I don't think I'll be using this dinosaur fabric for masks after all. Partial long bronto neck looks a little odd . 🤨
use eggplant instead? 🍆
may as well 😂
Once you see it you can't unsee it.
serviettes and hankies it is!
I would really like some coffee ice cream. diet says no 🥺
Affogato
I love that stuff
Gelato might be healthier than icecream? They might have coffee. Edit: Or coffee frozen yogurt.
And allowing the occasional scoop might mean less craving
Edit: Or you can make an iced coffee at home by dissolving sugar or Splenda with instant coffee in a little hot water (no need for special syrup) and adding your preferred milk
I say 2 scoops won't hurt you and then you won't think about it.
it's moot, I don't have any anyway
Horrible weather out there, it's actually getting colder. I stopped at Bunnings on the way home from work, they were closing off the garden entrance and had lost a few plants in the wind already. The staff were in remarkably good spirits considering how miserable it is outside today.
10c outside 20c inside. And not just the room with the reverse aircon oh no no no, everywhere
Oh insulation. Oh ducted heating. Oh new house i love youuuu
Morning dog walk has been cancelled because of excessive wind. Possibly the afternoon dog walk will be cancelled for the same reason. Definitely not nice out there today.
Have you tried charcoal tablets?
I believe there are also charcoal-infused undies available
The wind might help with propulsion 🏃♀️💨
Missing an opportunity for a canine kite
Until it's on fire.
What is this "organization", like the agent or what?
Don't leave the heater on all night and you should be fine.
Cheesy scrambled eggs with mackerel and chilli-crisp
::: spoiler spoiler :::
Hmmmm. At the moment I'd say about 50% of my meals have fishies
Of few things in this world I'm sure
Who knows what's behind each door?
But if one thing is always true
Is it the desert being red, or ocean blue?
No. But when I open up a tin of fish
It will always, always be delish!
😍
i miss the blue swimmer crab chilli scramble at ten square in the city. it's still on the menu, i just dont work in the city anymore.
also the octopus/smoked eel omelette at operator 25 was pretty fucking good too.
Whats on for the weekend everyone? Tonight im heading to a party at Max Watts run by the Rainbow Serpent crew, should be massive!! Tomorrow night will be moving my current mead to secondary to age on oak!! Sunday i have an axe throwing marathon, its only 2 weeks till the Asia Pacific Champs and Sunday will have 10 or more of the current top 20 in Australia throwing so will be a really good warm up :)
It has not been a good week. The weekend will be spent recovering from the week.
(Kid) Footy and Hockey seasons are finally over. This is the first weekend of not needing to up at 7am for various sports. I need to get my sleep cycle under control. Spent a day and a half sick/sleeping and I'm still not quite back to normal. My watch says I slept from 3am to 7am, but it isn't counting the bit where I crashed at 8pm and slept to nearly midnight.
Also, a friend/workmate passed away this week. We're gathering this evening for drinks and memories/tears. He was roughly my age, with kids a little over my kids' ages. This feels too close to home, like that could have been me but for a roll of fate's dice. It could be my kids facing life without their dad. Cancer sucks.
Belated, but sorry to hear about your mate. Reading that gave me chills, just imagining it happening to me or someone my siblings' ages, though I have no children. That's particularly rough when it's someone you worked with. Hope you've got some good strategies for handling the grief at work.
That sounds like an awesome weekend! Will you be competing against the big guns? Are there amateur/novice divisions, or is it all or nothing?
I will be competing against the big guns yes, im currently ranked 6th in Australia in the ruleset the marathon is running in. There is essentially two rules sets, standard and premier, premier requires a much higher level of accuracy but anyone can compete in either rule set. The marathons are usually capped at 24 people, so there will be a pretty big range of skills. The Asia Pacific Champs in 2 weeks is an invite only finals under the premier rule set, there were qualifiers around Australia early this year, the top 2 from each venue went straight into finals and then the rest of the spots went to the people with the highest averages in qualifying :)
That's awesome! Congrats on qualifying and good luck this weekend!
I've got a disc golf comp on Sunday. Teams match play format, so a bit different to usual and should be fun.
Another question. At your level in axe throwing, is it largely mental game that decides the winner, or other factors?
Yeh everyone can throw really well, so consistency and doing well under pressure are really important. The mental part is definitely where i need to work on the most, the closer i can get in match play to the way i throw in practice the happier ill be :)
I plan to put some manure on the garden in the morning tomorrow, followed by a dentist appointment. Sunday I will be working all day.
I don't think I will be winning any best weekend ever awards this week 🤣
Haha never know :P
My dog has no balls to lick so he grooms his toys instead whether they like it or not.
::: spoiler spoiler :::
Then he tries to give it to me knowing it's wet.
Hmmmm got the job (VPS) but it was never explained that it was a fixed term contract until I just got the offer letter, I was under the impression the whole time it was a full time contract, so it ends after a year and if they don't have the budget I'm out of a job potentially? Exactly the sort of thing I wanted to avoid and why I was willing to take a paycut otherwise why not just work as a contractor?
spend the time applying for permament positions
Being in VPS on a fixed term carries over all your leave and progression through any other VPS job and department.
Start looking after 6 months for another longer role. It's what pretty much everyone does.
Also, welcome aboard comrade
Is it a "contract" or "permanent fixed term"? The latter gives you leave entitlements and other benefits (that I can't currently think of) of a permanent employee
Can't believe I was wearing shorts yesterday and now I'm wearing my super thicc wool tights.
I also just wanna go home and play Starfield, though I do get my new glasses tonight so that should be exciting. Sad to retire my current ones.
Maybe next time I might go all out and buy the $249 pairs because they always fit the style I like, damn you Specsavers...
so I've figured out car wise what Im going to do. I've all but sold my car to pay for the mrs's car's loan. then im gonna get her car limping, sell it off and buy something brand new with a warranty. Its gonna cost a fortune, but given I stand to lose close to 20k on her car, and I'm having to sell mine to offset that I dont see we have a lot of other options. What do I do if I buy second hand and it blows up again? But I hear back from the diagnostics (mid next week) I dont know how much its going to cost to fix (If even possible). So I dont know the financial damage so I cant really order anything. Stressful. I just want this done and buried so I can move on.
Bahaha, love it! I had a similar thought tbh, but the dealer I'm looking to buy from is 100km away. Thats gonna be an expensive tow, and fair confident the cars not gonna make it under its own power.
I'm sure I heard an ad this week.for a dealership offering $3333 more than a written quote from elsewhere.
I’m sure they are out there. Trouble is I don’t even know if it’s cost effective to fix mine. Mazda quoted like 20k in the worst case scenario. The cars worth maybe 17k? I’m not paying what it’s worth to sell it. I’ll just piss it off to a wreckers.
I love it when the man goes walkies on his lunch breaks. He finds the most incredible places that sell snacks.
Don't tell Las Vegas but I'm pretty casino'd out. I'm not exactly sure who I am now but I've had zero urge to drink. Even when offered free booze I've been getting lemonade/soda or water.
Anyway it's 7:15pm and I've decided to lock myself in my room with some gummies, lemonade and a cup of donut balls while I watch Ahsoka.
Have given in and chucked the heater on, my little finges are like icicles.
Right. The heater's on.
I dont feel too bad about it, solar is JUST generating enough to cover the heater so I may as well. But I suspect thats all the solar is gonna be good for today.
i'm sorry, but i don't care for finals talk. especially in an open plan office situation...can you take it to the break room please? i mean, i'm 20m away and can clearly understand everything you're saying
Ha
fucking christ. trying to access work sever via vpn on a win10 laptop, vaguely mutter to myself "ugh you running sl-o-o-o-w is that why you're reporting as offline, baby?"
Windows fucking suggestion pops up with "Slow machine? check this" to which I say the only true and proper response of #YOU FUCKING WHAT MY SON
and prompt destruction of all microphone permissions.
This is a machine that has been gutted of bloatware and cortana, btw. Never. Trust. the cunce.
See, as an only moderately tech-savvy person this makes me nervous
as a highly tech savvy person I am fckin enraged. There's a reason why this is the only win10 machine in the house.
What's the primary desktop OS in the house?
Mix of win7 and debian, with slackware on the lamp.
Ah the good ol win7.
Last decent os m$ ever made. The ps2 of operating systems
Going for a run today was a bad idea. I thought my calf had fully healed, but 2km in and it started seizing up again. Probably put me back a few days. Real shame too, as my pace was probably my best yet, and I didn't even feel tired, but will just have to wait and see next time.
Guess I'll just stick to swimming until after my work conference.
take it easy, mmkay 🤗
Thanks! Will do 😄
https://youtu.be/EuRjmzz6qL0?si=fvQGBd_Ilm6JuvoV
For anyone that needs a reminder that you're "hot shit"
Love you all!
It's very wimdy. 😲 The front door flew open unbeknownst to me, ( the lock mustn't have been snibbed ) so when I opened the back door a vacuum literally sucked a heavy vase off the window ledge which then smashed on the floor.
I've got that weird air thing at my place too. When you open the front door another door in the middle of the house slams shut. When I first moved there it used to freak me out👻
the venturi effect in action 🤬
Family movie night. Encanto.... maybe viewing number 10?... I think my equivalent at this age was Back to the Future. I feel I was cooler.....fight me
Kids movies are so soft these days. No cool factor.
No clouds allowed in the sky....
If the power board has a reset button, reset it. If it doesn't get one that does.
Take the lamp and try it in another power outlet. Also try taking the globe out when it has cooled down and put it back in.
I froze to death this afternoon. The stupid wind was bloody cold.
I’m going to have to heat up the hot water bottle and stay under blankets tonight.
You just made my day. I hope the BOM isn’t pranking us.
My major case of hunger-grumps-crisis has been averted by hummus with pine nuts and crackers, phew!
I was way too spicy for the public.
Chips, cheese and gravy here.
Holy shit I just saw what happened on Bourke. I regularly take the 86 / 96 and I use that specific stop a lot to get to work. So scary! Will keep the affected in my thoughts
the mall seems to be a target 😔
Wtf. Was it deliberate? Why does this keep happening
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-08/car-crash-and-injuries-melbourne-cbd/102834612
Well why did you let him out in public you fucking goon?
I just saw the new report on TV.
Apparently a life was lost as well :(
I just got back from the CBD, the incident would have occurred sometime between 6-7pm-ish. I didn’t see it becuase I was having dinner near the GPO, but walked up Bourke St about an hour ago. Lots of police, fire, ambulance, sirens and police tape.
Holy shit...
we actually live in Gotham City this explains so much 🤦♀️
Edit: oh fuck that only just happened wtf
Mr Peeler heard today that one of his cousins lost her short battle with MND today. It was only just over a couple of years ago she was fine, came over to our place for lunch. Here's hoping we can find a cure soon. I'm a bit of a stunned mullet, but Mr Peeler will be very upset as he was close to his cousins, having no siblings.
I'm so sorry. Sending you both my love.
Thankyou 🙏
argh, what happened to Spring?
Coming next week. Don't hold your breath.
AFLW - Danielle Ponter (Adelaide) has kicked a goal from the centre circle at Ikon Park. WTF!
I had to look for it and found the footage of it. That was pretty unreal.
https://twitter.com/aflwomens/status/1700051951168159853s=46&t=r9mAIrChwU7oF4nOLWSvww
Edit: direct link to video on twitter.
Lemmy is being a butt. It keeps logging me out and saying my credentials are wrong (they’re not) but letting me back when I close and re-enter. Only to do it again on navigating to reply to a comment.
Lemmy we need to discuss your pranks
I use it exclusively through an app now.
Try it in chrome
Fucking joy, opened the wardrobe and somehow managed to hit my head and left hand with the door. Got a lovely looking egg on my forehead now.
I swear to God, if I start getting concussion symptoms (or worse), I am going to be very annoyed. Assignment is due Sunday and I'm still 600 or so words out from completion, so I literally do not have time for this bullshit.
Suggested soundtrack for the day
This is the only good song ever released.
it's the best 😉
NtccJnr is home sick. Well, not very sick but not good enough for school. Heater has been cranked up and fresh warm popcornn is nownwarming our bellies.
Cough? Tinyest sounds like hes spent 50 years in the mines and has black lung.
Fireplace on.
Drinks poured.
Baldur's gate 3 installed on the PS5
Let's fucking goooooooooo
What's the tipple for tonight?
Tomatin Legacy whiskey with a Pirate Bay pale ale chaser.
And a large glass of iced water, of course.
Neat or on the rocks?
Neat in a glencairn glass.
My snobby whiskey attitude is that if you need rocks....you need a better whiskey.
But in reality I think the best whiskey in the world is the one you like, drank how you like it.
Enjoy whatever you got.
Rocks just get in the way although nice on a hot day or when you need to take it easy and "sip it" slowly.
the only drink I have with ice is baileys on a hot day
Bailey's makes sense. I like a jumbo ice cube in my cocktails.
If I had a nickel every time my data was compromised in the past year. I’d have three nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened three time.
(Optus in September of last year, AHM in roughly November of last year and now Dymocks) (Also I posted this in Thursday's DT not realising it's Thursday and I'm like "it's been five hours, why have I only gotten one like?" idiot... hahaha)
I got done in with Dymocks as well. I’m not happy about that at all.
I'm wondering if I have been done by dymocks, but I didn't see an email from them, 🤷♀️
I've just changed my password. But honestly, hackers already know my info from the Optus and AHM hacks.
Friday drinks. Order pizza.💃🪩🕺
ChatGPT says that could make a very interesting chicken pot pie.
::: spoiler Chicken pot pie recipe from ChatGPT G'day! You've got some versatile ingredients there. How about making a Chicken and Vegetable Pot Pie with a twist? Here's a simple recipe:
Ingredients:
Instructions:
Preheat your oven to 200°C (180°C fan-forced).
Dice the chicken breast and bacon. In a pan, cook the bacon until it's crispy. Remove it from the pan and set it aside.
In the same pan, cook the chicken until it's no longer pink. Remove and set aside.
In the same pan, add the pork mince and brown it. Drain any excess fat.
While the meat is cooking, chop your veggies (pumpkin, parsnips, and capsicums) into bite-sized pieces.
In a separate pot, make a basic white sauce. Melt some butter, stir in flour, and gradually add milk until you have a creamy consistency. Season it with salt, pepper, and any other spices you like from your spice cabinet.
Combine the cooked chicken, bacon, pork mince, and veggies in the pot with your white sauce. Add a few spoonfuls of leftover salsa for extra flavor.
Roll out your pastry sheet and place it over a baking dish. Pour the chicken and veggie mixture into the dish.
Fold the pastry over the top to make a pie crust. Brush it with a bit of milk to give it a nice golden color.
Pop the whole dish in the oven and bake for about 30-40 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown and the filling is bubbling.
Enjoy your Aussie-style Chicken and Vegetable Pot Pie! Feel free to season it with your favorite spices for that extra kick. :::
Note I've given ChatGPT custom instructions that I'm in Australia and sometimes it goes overboard. But at least it uses Celsius by default.
Please update us on the outcome!
You could ask the same thing and say "make it Mexican inspired" or "adjust this to make mini pies" or even something as simple as "tell me another idea".
That's really impressive
Op1: Cook the chicken salami and capsicum, add in can or tomatoes or a red jar sauce if you have it, have with pasta. Op2: pork mince and veg stir fry, using selection of spices.
Ok so you have a few different meals there. Fry up the mince and bacon. Add in some spice. Halve the capsicums and stuff them. Bake until soft. Top with grated cheese. Put them back in until cheese has melted. Any left over mixture make triangles with the pastry.
Roast pumpkin and parsnips. Poach/grill/Fry chicken boob.
Salami, cheese, bread = jaffle.
Salsa will go with all 3
Well go with the chicken and roast veg. Buy cheese tomorrow asap.
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Fry up a capsicum with the pork mince (and bacon?) Butterfly the chook titty, stuff with said mixture and roast until done with your choice of spices. Roast pumpkin cubes on the side, can cook while the chook does
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ya like wind do ya?
a neighbours tree fell on my new fence, so i don't like the wind very much rn either
My anal canal lied; that was not a fart. 🤦♀️😅
Today 12, next Friday 26. Already thinking of my plans for knock-off bevvies in the warm sun. Today ain't it.
I've discovered a new hobby. When there's a crowd gathering around a street performer or in today's case, a chase the queen card hustler, brush by the back of people just enough that they feel you touch them but not hard enough for a bump. Just keep walking. They'll check their pockets, it's hilarious.
Also it's a sunny 36 degrees here. Flying home on Monday night (your Tuesday) and from what I'm reading it's going to be a bit of a change in weather. I'm actually going to miss this summery weather. Hopefully ours rolls around quickly.
Being swish and making Negronis with chunky ice cubes in fancy glasses.
💅
I'm doing a lot of dancing tonight because it's cold despite the heater being on and I ate a lot of mini cheesecakes.
Carn the Blue baggers.
I never felt more like singing the Blues.
The four motorcycle round trips today was unpleasant, could barely stay upright and it was freezing. Thankfully they were only 5km round trips on 40kmh roads.
One more tonight. Hopefully wind is calm by tonight, am only going to book a car for the trip if it is raining or is forecast to rain.
i prefer this over 8-18C and the sun is shining and the wind is howling weather.
i don't need to think about whether to wear a jacket or not
yes it'll be 24C next week but are we getting 80km/h gust to go with that or will it actually be good weather...
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Porridge with hot milk and honey and some hot coffee please Bacon. I don't want to do a Mary Poppins on the way to work this morning.
carry some heavy books 👍
Good idea. I have to do a library trip anyway this weekend so doing this will be convenient.
🌾🥣🥛🔥🍯☕️🔥
Morning chef! Can I please have some minestrone soup that has been caught up in a huge gust of wind?
💨🥕🫛🍅🧅🫘🫕💨
I'll 'ave the 'ole lot in a bucket. And don't skip on the paté!
🌽🥕🥬🥦🦆
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A selection of sushi and some miso soup, please chef
🍣🍙🍣🥣
I'll have all the hot foods please. No beans.
🌽🥔🧅🍠🍳🥩🍔🍗🍕🥘🫕🍜🍝🍲🍛🥧☕️🍵
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crumpets and tea please
🥯☕️
ortolan bunting please chef
🦜
Morning chef! May I have a ham cheese and chutney toastie and a very large flat white please?
🍖🧀🍅🥪
🥛☕️
Yum, thank you!
We all have our moments, don't be ashamed.
Why are game downloads always so f*@*$n slow?
B I G G I G S
Edit: which game lol
I'm catching up to 2016 with The Witcher 3. Finally got it downloaded, then spent as much time updating keybindings on the game pad and mouse as I did playing. 🤣 I'm still working on figuring out the whole combat system and what button does what, and have died three times so far due to flailing ineffectually while maddly pressing the wrong buttons.
Putting in a little leave so I can spend a week at the end of the month enjoying my new (to me) car! Weather permitting, I might jump the border and hang around Port Mac, maybe even dig my wetsuit out and do some snorkelling at Ewens Ponds.
It's so silly, but finally having a 4x4 back has lifted my spirits insanely, I feel like a dog in front of his fully stacked toy box.
Ahoyhoy
Exercises completed except for one of the weird plank ones which started to hurt my neck and back so I abandoned it immediately. I guess it was all that shelf cleaning yesterday with myself at weird angles to get to hard to reach places.
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I enjoy it generally, but I think this is one of my favourite things about SYSK podcasts - http://sndup.net/wcpm
Bunnings relationship was never a love/hate. More of a hate/hate.