Inducted a guy at work employed by our labour hire company, who admitted that he has no fixed address and slept in his car out the front of work last night.
He's framing it that he's doing van life but I could see that there's likely more to it.
I've put him on to a community pantry and I'm bringing him some bedding, basic toiletries, and a towel tomorrow. He said no initially but agreed when I told him it was things my husband wanted me to throw out anyway.
Really threw me with how open he was with it all. Left me really checking my privilege too.
in this economy there's no shame in it. A person could be in a two wage family and they still can't find a place because there is a housing shortage. It's like musical chairs.
Today we finally had to move my nana into respite care. She’s not taking it well. Neither are we
Today Mr Omoikiri is having his wisdom teeth out. And while it’s completely routine and there no danger in it, I’m sick with worry and waiting around to get the call that he’s fine and I can go and pick him up.
Today I have to review this 80,000 word thesis and get to back to my supervisors.
I am so mentally and emotionally drained and my day isn’t even half done.
Oh, that’s a lot all at once. Best of luck for Mr Omoikiri and your thesis review, and that your nana becomes more settled in respite. It’s so hard for people in that situation to understand that it can actually be a good thing for both them & their carers. Have been through that with my dad & understand what you’re going through. hugs
My boy Rocky has been doing so well at school, we've been promoted from Advanced Beginner to Intermediate! We'll be focusing more intensely on our heel work and extended stays now
Day 9 of 30 day exercise plan. It's working! I looked in the mirror this morning and noticed subtle changes in my body which are really encouraging and positive. I'm so happy! I can't wait to tell my manager at work. She partly prompted me to start thinking about it in the first place. She had to do a test where you run on a treadmill for 10mins while they monitor your heart (pressure test). While I'm physically strong (lifting and carrying 20kg sacks of potatoes will do that to ya) I thought, "Could I run on a treadmill for 10mins? I'm strong but I'm not cardio fit at all." Then I started thinking, "I'll be 50 this year, you gotta do something about it. Do something for yourself. You're overweight, just like your parents were, and they did nothing about it and died!" Sorry for the morning dramatics, but I didn't want to end up like that.
Well done! I've started doing more exercise as well. Tummy has already responded. Thank you planks and push ups and leg raises. That a load of squats and a decent walk moving to long walks again should see me ok. My gait has changed, my centre of gravity as well so my balance is less intuitive than it was and yesterday showed me I'm not flexible enough. Decent journey ahead, but I'm still not in bad shape luckily.
I can't see any reason why the bot did not post last night. There was no error, it just didn't do it. The only thing I can think of is that midnight is causing a problem, I will change the time to a couple of minutes after midnight and see if that works. Every test post I have done has worked as scheduled with no problems. Fingers crossed for third time lucky I guess.
The new wifi dongle arrived this morning, hopefully being able to connect directly instead of piggybacking off the phone will give it more confidence to stay out late and mingle.
You sure thats what you want? Next thing you know bots gonna bring another bot home for some fun, and you have to listen to awkward teenaged bot sex through the wall.
Maybe get it to be a Lunchtime Bot for a couple of days as a warmup. Have it pop in at midday to say hello, then it can get to know people & find out we’re not too scary
I've been seeing occasional odd behaviour on the server that seems to be database maintenance related. It happens sporadically throughout the day, with no pattern that I can see. When it happens, I've noticed a few brief periods of errors browsing the site. Its possible your bot has been unlucky and attempted to post during one of these times.
I'm hoping lemmy 0.18.1 will resolve this, I know there has been a lot of effort put into optimising database queries etc. If it doesn't, I'll dig into it further and raise a github issue with the lemmy devs.
For some reason it didn't even try to post, so it definitely wasn't an error from the server. It has been triggered to make the post at the right time for every single test post I have done, which is why I think there might be something specific about midnight that is causing some issues.
Damn Bot. It was awake all night. No crashes, no timeouts. It just didn't post anything. I'll have to sit down for a debrief and try to figure out what went wrong. After coffee.
Well, with how it is going so far it would be easier to just set an alarm at midnight to do it myself 🤣
Once I get it working it will be nice though, especially if I can get the pinning working at some point. That might take a while though. I'm also hoping one day to have the bot make a comment in the previous thread when the new one is posted, but given the current rate of progress that will probably be sometime in 2027.
I have 5 tabs opened of shit I need to finish today, and I keep getting interrupted. Afternoon is filled with meetings...which is when I'll end up doing my work
My psych always talks about "what do you need". And I've gotta be honest, today I've got no idea.
I feel a bit flat. Might try and do some small jobs around the house and see if that gets me feeling a bit more accomplished.
I spent way too much time today perfecting my pay calculation spreadsheet. But is now a little neater, includes more automation, and calculates the super I should be getting as well as the pay.
We have a ridiculously complicated pay structure, so I have 7 types of leave, 6 types of overtime payment, 6 different penalty levels (there are more, that's just the ones that apply to me) and a few allowances. We also get paid basic wages for the period finishing on Friday, but penalties and overtime are for the period finishing on Wednesday. And our standard work day is broken into normal hours, rostered overtime and leave acruual, so the hours used to calculate each type of pay are different. So it is really hard to figure out whether we are being paid correctly without a computer and complicated maths.
I've managed to get to the point that except for mistakes my calculations only differ due to minor rounding differences, and I can project future income for my budget fairly easily too. NGL pretty pleased with myself.
Well done. It must have been a lot of work to get that worked out.
I’ve been doing a very rudimentary budget every week or two to make sure I’m on top of everything and it’s so complicated without everything you mentioned and takes a lot of time!
I've been working on it for a couple of years and improving a bit at a time. Now that I'm in the habit of recording things like the utility bills and petrol it's becoming a lot more accurate, and I can make better forecasts for the future. It's also been very educational, and there are a lot of similarities between complicated excel formulas and the way the code for the bot is written, so it has probably helped with that too!
Thanks @Thornburywitch! The bot was not the only thing malfunctioning, just after setting everything up nicely and getting ready for bed, I nearly bricked my rather expensive work device the night before a field visit.
Thanks to a stray comment on an old post online, I finally managed to revive it over an hour later, even though it honestly felt like some dark magic and only worked after about 9 tries (and some stress relieving cleaning). Certainly some witchy intervention there as well, I suspect.
Still having sporadic internet problems, and went to look in comms box to see what I could find.
Comms box is in laundry next to fridge. I opened freezer door and looked in there.
This sums up my day so far, and is probably the reason I won't be getting a job in IT anytime soon.
don't beat yourself up, His Lordship is literally one of the biggest SEO experts in the country but if the internet shits out he runs into my office and dances madly in place crying and pointing to the Chrome Dinosaur.
(this is what happens when a software engineer marries a sysadmin)
You got the fun diag time now. With the internet issues, is there a pattern? Does it stop browsing then come good without intervention, or is it just s l o w? Is it the entire network or just one machine? Wired or wireless?
No pattern, and D: all of the above, which is the most frustrating part. My clever bro hardwired the house several years ago so there are network ports in each room, plus wifi, but it’s all working/not working randomly across all devices (a couple of wired desktops and other machines over wifi, and the tv).
A smart switch was installed recently to reboot the system each night, which I suspect might be the issue (although the expert disagrees). I may have also tweaked the patching, but don’t think that broke it because I’m good at patching and problem existed before & after that.
Smart switch has been removed and things have improved somewhat but not entirely. Sigh.
I’ve also reached the stage where listening to IT people speak is like listening to another language that I am not fluent in, lol
ok, so the packets and the ping is them trying to work out if it's your modem shitting out, or the physical lines on your network breaking somewhere. So if I wanted to see what's going on I'd set the PC in His Lordship's office and the one in the loungeroom to both ping the modem. One drops out but the other one's still talking, i know that's one specific route. Both crap out, the modem's stopped talking 'cos that's the only wiring place they have in common.
Pings are basically just tiny little "HELLOOOO" messages sent between equipment that request a hello back to check the line is working. The "packets" message you get back is the response (and there's more data in that simple response, but that's a bigger thing that needs technical divining, packet sizes and shizzle tell you if a line is degrading)
I resisted the urge to make druggie jokes (got any ‘pingers’ haha!’), even though I’m SURE they’ve never heard that before and would find it absolutely hilarious
Miss Meow just walked over the laptop and tried to update the bot. Apparently she wants everyone to see the number 87.
I have set the bot up to run at 5 minutes past midnight, fingers crossed this one actually works, I'm running out of options to try if it fails again. I've turned off all power management options in the wifi adaptors, and it now has the new adaptor so can connect directly to the router instead of via the phone as a hotspot. This whole thing is like launching a rocket, all the tests can go well and the main launch can still fail! Come on @[email protected] we believe in you!
purged my comments, all quite useless
my contributions tend to be pointless
left my stupid prose, i suppose for posterity
from them I only gain shame and no money
sorry for bringing this place, and all of you down
i shouldnt openly display a virtual frown
just an attention seeker, selfish and crude
i want to be kind, but downvotes tell me i'm rude.
do not perceive this jerk,
demoted to witness, just lurk
some of my rhymes made you smile
but the rest are stupid and sad
just bad, and personally vile.
:::
<3 I love seeing your comments even if I don't engage with them.
People will downvote no matter how innocuous the comments are. Someone downvoted my comment where I said today's going to be a slow day. Guess Sonic didn't like my comment. Oh well.
If you have many downvotes I can only assume they are recent wanderers from Reddit who are still primed for the fight and have not yet learned this is a safe space where its OK to be nice.
I personally enjoy your posts and consider you a great contributor in the community. It would make me sad if you just lurked.
No! I can't believe you have haters. Fuck the haters! I love everything you post
Edit: I was speaking with someone yesterday and I literally brought you up as a regular poster I loved.
::: spoiler one, just for you.
Walking around on cool winter nights
Beautiful city and pale gold lights
So many people minding their business
No animosity, just inner stresses
When out of the darkness a looming face
Approaches out of the weeknight race
They know my name, and my highschool
Panic, frack, who are they? You fool...
They come in fast, too fast to avoid
I gotta think fast, my memory is devoid
"Hey...you," I say "It's been too long!"
"I know right," is the reply "remember when..."
Ah shit, I think, no, I don't remember a thing
Applied fake smile and say "Yeah haha sure thing!"
And still their face doesn't ring a bell
I don't know who they are, circles of hell
"We ought to catch-up,down a pint, and reflect"
"Sounds like a plan, just hit me up" I deflect
Then off they speed, just as quick as they came
Do they suspect I still don't remember their name?
:::
I've been busy and not able to attend this thread as I normally would, and can I just say: Thank God you're here! I was actually worried about you! I'd noticed you deleted your posts before I even got a chance to read them and I thought, "oh shit, what's going on here? Are we losing an attendee? Are they succumbing to self doubt?" One person might downvote, and it doesn't matter. You know why? Because fuck 'em, that's why! It might be an occasional drunkard stabbing at the wrong bit of their screen.. or they might just be a gutless wonder who can't express themselves- unlike you.
We love you and all of your thoughts. What gave you the idea otherwise? Downvotes? Its a shame we can see how many ups and downs.
I'd rather not have the sinking feeling either and was getting a few last week, but they've stopped. This is all of our safe space, and we're here to support you.
Lucy the dog’s stitches are out and she was very brave,no signs of apprehension, just excitement to meet the other dogs in the waiting room even the ones bigger than her. If anyone has got tips on how to keep a Jack Russell calm and stop trying to run everywhere, let me know:)
Hahaha. Keeping a Jack Russell calm. My tip is you can't unless you give them small snacks every 10 seconds. They have batteries up their bums. Source. I have one.
My mum had a jrt that did his anterior cruciate ligament when he was kicked during a robbery. The only way we could keep him settled was to either give him a bone from the butcher that was almost as big as him or to be sedentary ourselves so he would be more inclined to sit with us.
A++ thread name, Thornbury Witch! Morning all. Conference starts today so I have to put on work clothes and interact with people. I really hope they’re alright at asking questions to keep a conversation going!
I have noticed as my depression lifts more and more I stand straighter. Just little things like that are making me feel good about myself. 😊 Good feedback loop.
I pastuerized some mead last night for the first time to kill off the yeast so that i could add things for secondary flavour/aging without trigging further fermentation. The base mead is strawberry/raspberry and it is split into two 5L vessels. In one i have added some wine tannin and 0.5L of strawberry juice from berries we picked recently and in the other i have added 0.5kg of dried sour cherries. They both look amazing colour wise now and they smelt great. Will give them a taste later today before they go away for storage. The cherry one is so dark at the moment you cant even see a torch light through the liquid
This sounds awesome. Were you somehow able to pasteurise them in place (i.e. in the fermentation vessels) or did this involve transferring them to carboys or similiar for secondary?
I transferred to two 5L glass carboys so that i could leave the lees behind and then i sat them in an esky of water with a portable sous vide machine attached to the side :)
I took Mr Woof out for a nice walk at sky pretty. It was very cold, but the orange glow behind the silhouette of leafless tree branches was rather nice.
I went via the post box to "return to sender" some random letters from Commonwealth Bank for people who do not live here. Mr Woof was very concerned that the greyhound we saw out walking too was up to no good. He is very suspicious about the motives of other dogs.
Since you've got an older kid I suppose your a good person to ask. How old were they when you took your first holiday?
I've heard holidays with young kids being described as less like Holidays and more like Away Games.
First overseas holiday at 5 months, we went to Japan. Second overseas holiday was Europe at 18 months.
Japan was incredible and so easy with a little one. Everyone was so friendly and helpful, plus it really helped that kid1 fell in love with sushi.
Start planning. Yeah, the flight can be hell, but that's only a few hours out of your holiday. The other part is the awesome holiday.
if anyone is looking for a social event/ board games, I run a blood on the clocktower games night every fortnight on a Wednesday at Melb central lion hotel from 6pm. Next is on 5th of July.
Good morning Australia. Yesterday's sourdough turned into a rock on the outside but at least it's still soft on the inside. Spent half an hour painstakingly sawing off the crust. At least I have a cake for backup breakfast.
Oh. Don't mind me I've never baked bread before but I'm thinking about it and I've seen a lot of recipes that suggest using a Dutch oven. If you're still on reddit check out r/breadit.
Teapot hunting time. I'm leaning towards the retro branded enamels atm, can put them on my little heater dish for hot tea on demand. (we don't need fancies, pretty much exclusively black tea drinkers)
There is a very cute tea shop in Sassafras that has many quirky tea pots. I wanted so many of them and I don’t even use teapots! Worth a visit is you are out that way.
tbh we'd probably go the more industrial end - quirkies don't tend to lean towards VOLUME which is what we're about. I'm lookin' at ones like this, there's the bushells/arnotts/billy variants
I was out in the field all day today talking almost non stop while training a new colleague, so walking around has kept me warm and since I've avoided peak hour both ways I now I have a pile of motivation I need to jump on before it expires tonight. Tomorrow I will be back to wanting to hibernate.
Luckily I have some really nice warm hand knit jumpers. A few years ago I found lots of wool at the op shop, in sufficient quantities to make jumpers. My Mum is a knitter so she was able to turn it all into clothing for me. I've been wearing those a lot this year.
Just went past the Melbourne Recital Centre on the tram and saw that there was a huge amount of prams parked outside, and immediately I knew, the wiggles are performing there.
Unfortunately not atm. I just got to my bus (train line not running) currently stuck in traffic 😔 and I’m starving. Last week stuck in traffic took a little over an hour just to get to my stop (not replacement bus)
I mean myki price will always go up each year but the fact that stuff are being build and we have replacements buses… they shouldn’t raise the price. Perhaps they need money to continue. I heard Victoria is in really bad debt. The highest in Australia, I think from back in lockdown
Yeh it's just not a happy situation for anyone (except maybe the constructive companies). It really stings when you are paying for a degraded service. I feel like for some of the roadworks the benefits are barely noticeable for the commuters too but oh well it be like that sometimes.
Me too. I don’t know where the time has gone but I’ve managed to whittle the time down today without being able to relax and do my own thing and it’s already dark outside.
I think it’s time to enjoy the rest of the day/night now.
Ouch. That’s quite a bit of time. What is it compared to if the trains were working?
Hope you’re rigged up. It feels cold again tonight.
Don’t fear you’ll be home soon and you can get dinner soon after.
I had to look up the song as well but I know the song but never knew who sang it and the name of the song but I’ll never forget the opening few notes on the piano.
Finally home. Wasn’t feeling the cold tonight as much as I’ve been running around getting stuff done, shocked I wasn’t as cold. Home now heater on. Going to rest for bit first lol tired. I don’t think anyone can forget the opening piano part
Me too, it has been pedal to the metal from 7am to now. But I've whipped up a quick dinner and will put in a few extra hours of work because Wed is my last session with Short Term Awesome Psych and I might not be very productive after that.
Once I get this burst done I'll be able to take it a bit easier rest of this week.
Excellent! Chin up and look after yourself. Remember to squeeze in “me time” or a treat yourself like idk ice cream, a movie whatever that makes you happy, even if briefly
Oh absolutely once I hit about 8pm I'm going to sit back and enjoy the next episode of Mad Men. Ooh you've just reminded me I have a choccy bar in my bag as a treat. Anything nice planned for yourself?
I plan to continue watching law and order suv (season 22) and I bought some candy, those scoop ones at Flinders Station so that will be my treat after dinner. Half way home now yay. Might rest for a bit once I get home and then shower before dinner
oooo auspost wanna play funny buggers? I've got an ASD fixation and a tendency towards cuntishness. I guarantee those fuckers I'm a lot better at funny buggers than they are
(cunce decided to not only not even attempt a driveby for delivery, or even use a local LPO literally across the road, or even the parcel centre two blocks up but drop a small, letter-box stuffable parcel of cat fountain filters in a parcel locker in the next fucking suburb)
When I was growing up my parents always said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" or "you don't learn if you don't ask questions". So now I feel bad when I see questions being posted on reddit and I think "that's a stupid question. Im not even going to reply to that". Like I get that some people were given the unfortunate parents stick and weren't taught stuff but we have internet now guys. We can research. We can ask questions before we ask strangers.
Oooooh I hear you on this. Like hello there’s google. Try searching yourself and if you’re still confused, maybe ask in a DT instead of a whole melbourne post 😒
The stupidity tends not to be so much the actual question as it is the inability to take appropriate actions to find the answer. If you want to know something taking some steps to do at least basic research yourself is appropriate, then if you need to know more you are in a position to ask reasonable questions. A lot of people prefer to just ask someone else and expect them to put all the effort in, and there is rarely any point in actually answering them because if the answer is not simple and easy they just lose interest anyway.
Sometimes the stupidity is people not recognising questions there is no known answer to. I saw a lot of them at the start of Covid, people were asking things like exact details of how long the virus could live on surfaces or how far it could travel in air. Which is pretty stupid when you are talking about a virus that had only just been discovered. I suspect a lot of those type of people are the ones who went down conspiricy and anti-vax rabbitholes, just because those were the types of people who appeared to offer answers.
See those kinds of questions are ok in my book. People are curious. The questions that leave me floored are I/my girlfriend/my mother/my next door neighbour/ was involved in a car accident and it was their/my fault. I'm insured let me stop you there. How about you call your insurance agency and ask them any questions you like. THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE THERE FOR. THAT'S WHY YOU PAY THEM. Sorry I didn't mean to yell but it's that fucking obvious.
Yes, yes, yes. I was trying hard not to sound like a smart-arse. Personal opinion is different to seeking facts. Just pick up the phone and get a confirmation from a professional because on here we are all plumbers/gynaecologists/police officers/tax agents etc we can be anything we want to be.
If there's something you need to know that pertains to something like work, I don't think there's stupid questions. But when it's things that are easily Google-able (like whenever I'd see on r/writing "can I write x character" like yes... you can, can you write it well, now that is something we can't answer) or is something very insensitive (like asking trans binary and nonbinary people if they've had the surgery). But yeah, I cringe whenever I see things that, y'all could've Googled.
So after reading your comment about the font size, I found you can use thumb and fore finger to spread the screen of where you’re reading. Like instagram and looking at photos except you don’t have to hold it down. Idk who’s making the changes but I’m not a huge fan of it. But I’ll eventually get used to it
I'm building my tolerance back up.. On account of my kids so far just not being ok with any type of heat... I'm slowly sneaking in an extra drop or so into their "plain" Bolognese sauce... slightly evil laugh
It's totally worth it! My kids are into foods on the spicy side because of the same approach. My daughter adds cracked pepper to her sandwiches. My son loves to add Tijuana or Oaxacan oil to his noodles. My daughter adds this oil when she makes guacamole. Chef's kiss
Love it! I love how most of the music video is the record spinning. When I was a kid, in my room I'd put on a record and listen while I watched it spin around. It was mesmerising and calming.
My new goal is to not spend enough time on Twitter to hit the ridiculous 600 tweet limit. Reddit and Twitter really have done me a solid and forced me to reduce my social media engagement.
Whoooo. Almost 12 hours straight of working. But then I remembered I had no hours for last Thursday because it was a non starter after an intense psych session. Guess I'll have to do a long day tomorrow as well so I can make up enough hours to cover this Wednesday in addition...
Ok I can do this. Everything i need to do has been written down. Shower, episode, sleep. Won't be heading to the office tomorrow, looking at that shitty weather. I've seen enough insane driving over the last 2 weeks.
Have to take my dog to get her stitches out today, I hope she doesn’t get too agitated. She normally doesn’t mind the vet, even when they do unspeakable things to her rear end, but after having surgery she is not too keen on going back. When we went to get her bandage removed she vomited. Hopefully today is the last time for a while🤞
Nah, this is lemmy. Mastodon is the fediverse 'twitter' equivalent.
Edit: from Wikipedia: The fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is an ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other.
Yikes. Went to the shop and forgot about the whole hyperosmia things after a headcold which hit today. Walked past someone on the street and that perfume was way intense for at least 50m after walking past them.
On the plus side you do get nice nature / tree / plant smells. Would be nice to have that sort of upper respiratory stuff in spring. Would smell delicious.
Back to work after a week off (which became overshadowed by my ear infection). I’d checked my email on Friday and thought I’d dodged the anticipated “welcome back!” Email with a list of extra shit to do in addition to my existing workload. Nope…it’s there, just been sent at 7pm. Ugh.
Pain is all gone, thankfully, but my hearing is still muffled.
I have to wait a few weeks and have my ear re-checked as the eardrum may have been damaged when I experienced the worst pain (work wasn’t happy for me to leave early to have it checked at the time).
Oh I didn't journal yet. Time marches on. I had a visitor today. I'm chalk and cheese to when I saw them last.
Cat plays, aa, job looking a bit. Nothing else. This is nice.
This movie is a much needed counter to prevailing attitudes that arose from "Me" 1960s
Men have feelings too.
Grief is a normal part of life and no, therapy doesn't cure everything nor is always appropriate . Sometimes lives are sad and absurd and that is ok.
Today was a rushed cooking today so went to the shops to pick up some green curry paste - tried the Marion's Kitchen brand for the first time (normally I am an Ayam brand girl) and it turned out well! I did add some kaffir lime leaves into the curry so that might have also helped
A seagoon Wordle post at this hour? Has jerboa finally shit itself and is showing early posts at a recent hour? I'm confused! Did you post 30 minutes ago or am I going mad?!
Nightclubs are usually themed in some way. Be it the style of music or the type of crowd that goes there. Like Revs is house music, drugs and dancing; My Aeon is trance music, drugs and dancing; Star bar is B/C grade footballers, the women who like them and drinking. For something nice with your wife I'd see if the Exford still has tango/flamenco dancing on Monday? night. You're both Asian yeah? There used to be Asian nights too, there probably still are. Dream on Queensberry St may still exist, but they ran all different sorts of nights, a lot of Drum n Bass from my experience, nice crowd, not my music.
What are you guys hoping for from a nightclub? Their portrayal in movies isn't generally what happens in actual clubs. Drinking, drugs, dancing and fucking are the common reasons for people to go, but not the only reasons. Given you're already a couple, I'd look for dance classes over clubs. Drinking and drugs, well it may be worth your while, I wouldn't expect any racism at Revs or MyAeon. If you're looking to get sexually adventurous, there's sex and swingers nights out there, not really my thing.
Just don't switch partners if they announce to. Rock, Swing, Flamenco, Tango, Salsa are all fun partnered styles. Find a casual place, go for a month, then move onto the next place.
Inducted a guy at work employed by our labour hire company, who admitted that he has no fixed address and slept in his car out the front of work last night.
He's framing it that he's doing van life but I could see that there's likely more to it.
I've put him on to a community pantry and I'm bringing him some bedding, basic toiletries, and a towel tomorrow. He said no initially but agreed when I told him it was things my husband wanted me to throw out anyway.
Really threw me with how open he was with it all. Left me really checking my privilege too.
in this economy there's no shame in it. A person could be in a two wage family and they still can't find a place because there is a housing shortage. It's like musical chairs.
and hugs for being so caring 🤗
Definitely no shame in it. These days more so than ever.
He's got a really good attitude about it all. Well kept, in good spirits, and generally seems to have his head screwed on right.
Really impressed that the labour hire agency gave him a chance instead of putting him in the too hard basket.
That’s such a nice thing you did for him.
Being in a not such a nice spot myself I appreciate that others are still helping people with things out of the goodness of their own heart.
I still feel shit that I can't do more. Better than nothing but yeah.
We grew up at risk of homelessness and my early adult life was on the edge.
Growing up, if it wasn't for generous hand-me-downs, public housing, and Centrelink, my life would have ended up on a completely different course.
Today is a really hard day.
Today we finally had to move my nana into respite care. She’s not taking it well. Neither are we
Today Mr Omoikiri is having his wisdom teeth out. And while it’s completely routine and there no danger in it, I’m sick with worry and waiting around to get the call that he’s fine and I can go and pick him up.
Today I have to review this 80,000 word thesis and get to back to my supervisors.
I am so mentally and emotionally drained and my day isn’t even half done.
Oh, that’s a lot all at once. Best of luck for Mr Omoikiri and your thesis review, and that your nana becomes more settled in respite. It’s so hard for people in that situation to understand that it can actually be a good thing for both them & their carers. Have been through that with my dad & understand what you’re going through. hugs
Sending positivity. ✨
Big news!
My boy Rocky has been doing so well at school, we've been promoted from Advanced Beginner to Intermediate! We'll be focusing more intensely on our heel work and extended stays now
So proud of my little munchkin!
Day 9 of 30 day exercise plan. It's working! I looked in the mirror this morning and noticed subtle changes in my body which are really encouraging and positive. I'm so happy! I can't wait to tell my manager at work. She partly prompted me to start thinking about it in the first place. She had to do a test where you run on a treadmill for 10mins while they monitor your heart (pressure test). While I'm physically strong (lifting and carrying 20kg sacks of potatoes will do that to ya) I thought, "Could I run on a treadmill for 10mins? I'm strong but I'm not cardio fit at all." Then I started thinking, "I'll be 50 this year, you gotta do something about it. Do something for yourself. You're overweight, just like your parents were, and they did nothing about it and died!" Sorry for the morning dramatics, but I didn't want to end up like that.
Here's to positive changes! 💪
Well done! I've started doing more exercise as well. Tummy has already responded. Thank you planks and push ups and leg raises. That a load of squats and a decent walk moving to long walks again should see me ok. My gait has changed, my centre of gravity as well so my balance is less intuitive than it was and yesterday showed me I'm not flexible enough. Decent journey ahead, but I'm still not in bad shape luckily.
good on you! for me the mood enhancing effects of exercise are absolutely worth it aside from any other benefits.
Congrats on making positive change, the start is always the hardest but its so worth it :)
I can't see any reason why the bot did not post last night. There was no error, it just didn't do it. The only thing I can think of is that midnight is causing a problem, I will change the time to a couple of minutes after midnight and see if that works. Every test post I have done has worked as scheduled with no problems. Fingers crossed for third time lucky I guess.
Bot is cinderella confirmed.
The new wifi dongle arrived this morning, hopefully being able to connect directly instead of piggybacking off the phone will give it more confidence to stay out late and mingle.
You sure thats what you want? Next thing you know bots gonna bring another bot home for some fun, and you have to listen to awkward teenaged bot sex through the wall.
Maybe get it to be a Lunchtime Bot for a couple of days as a warmup. Have it pop in at midday to say hello, then it can get to know people & find out we’re not too scary
Or maybe it still thinks it’s in Indonesia
Doesn't the instance restart every hour on the hour?
@[email protected] is that still the case?
No, that was stopped prior to the upgrade to 0.18, as it would have been contributing to federation issues.
I've been seeing occasional odd behaviour on the server that seems to be database maintenance related. It happens sporadically throughout the day, with no pattern that I can see. When it happens, I've noticed a few brief periods of errors browsing the site. Its possible your bot has been unlucky and attempted to post during one of these times.
I'm hoping lemmy 0.18.1 will resolve this, I know there has been a lot of effort put into optimising database queries etc. If it doesn't, I'll dig into it further and raise a github issue with the lemmy devs.
For some reason it didn't even try to post, so it definitely wasn't an error from the server. It has been triggered to make the post at the right time for every single test post I have done, which is why I think there might be something specific about midnight that is causing some issues.
Oh ok no worries. FWIW I just witnessed the server side issue in the last 5 minutes. Received error pages etc.
not a timezone issue? thing was gonna trigger earlier than expected at 0000 utc vs utc+10?
No, it has the timezone in its programming and all the tests have triggered at the right time.
Damn Bot. It was awake all night. No crashes, no timeouts. It just didn't post anything. I'll have to sit down for a debrief and try to figure out what went wrong. After coffee.
And they say robots are going to take our jobs one day
Well, this bot IS behaving like people I have worked with before, so maybe it’s on to something…
Well, with how it is going so far it would be easier to just set an alarm at midnight to do it myself 🤣
Once I get it working it will be nice though, especially if I can get the pinning working at some point. That might take a while though. I'm also hoping one day to have the bot make a comment in the previous thread when the new one is posted, but given the current rate of progress that will probably be sometime in 2027.
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Thanks for your tireless service <3
just joined today :D
👋hey hey.
Welcome. 😘😘😘
Have absolutely zero motivation today for anything. Didn't go the gym, barely interested in work, don't feel like doing yoga or even going for a walk.
Boo!
Saaaame. I'm clicking between the same reports on work to try and inspire myself but it's not working. Just massive CBFs.
I have 5 tabs opened of shit I need to finish today, and I keep getting interrupted. Afternoon is filled with meetings...which is when I'll end up doing my work
I’m right there with you today :(
Right there with you. Only got 1/4 of what I wanted done over the weekend cause of the weather, and its sucked my motivation out of me today.
My weekend was actually productive but my energy has been sapped. Seriously no idea why or how. I'm well rested so should have plenty!
My psych always talks about "what do you need". And I've gotta be honest, today I've got no idea. I feel a bit flat. Might try and do some small jobs around the house and see if that gets me feeling a bit more accomplished.
I spent way too much time today perfecting my pay calculation spreadsheet. But is now a little neater, includes more automation, and calculates the super I should be getting as well as the pay.
We have a ridiculously complicated pay structure, so I have 7 types of leave, 6 types of overtime payment, 6 different penalty levels (there are more, that's just the ones that apply to me) and a few allowances. We also get paid basic wages for the period finishing on Friday, but penalties and overtime are for the period finishing on Wednesday. And our standard work day is broken into normal hours, rostered overtime and leave acruual, so the hours used to calculate each type of pay are different. So it is really hard to figure out whether we are being paid correctly without a computer and complicated maths.
I've managed to get to the point that except for mistakes my calculations only differ due to minor rounding differences, and I can project future income for my budget fairly easily too. NGL pretty pleased with myself.
that is ridiculous
Well done. It must have been a lot of work to get that worked out.
I’ve been doing a very rudimentary budget every week or two to make sure I’m on top of everything and it’s so complicated without everything you mentioned and takes a lot of time!
Not that you’ve done that is it time to R&R?
I've been working on it for a couple of years and improving a bit at a time. Now that I'm in the habit of recording things like the utility bills and petrol it's becoming a lot more accurate, and I can make better forecasts for the future. It's also been very educational, and there are a lot of similarities between complicated excel formulas and the way the code for the bot is written, so it has probably helped with that too!
Thanks @Thornburywitch! The bot was not the only thing malfunctioning, just after setting everything up nicely and getting ready for bed, I nearly bricked my rather expensive work device the night before a field visit.
Thanks to a stray comment on an old post online, I finally managed to revive it over an hour later, even though it honestly felt like some dark magic and only worked after about 9 tries (and some stress relieving cleaning). Certainly some witchy intervention there as well, I suspect.
Thanks both
Still having sporadic internet problems, and went to look in comms box to see what I could find. Comms box is in laundry next to fridge. I opened freezer door and looked in there. This sums up my day so far, and is probably the reason I won't be getting a job in IT anytime soon.
don't beat yourself up, His Lordship is literally one of the biggest SEO experts in the country but if the internet shits out he runs into my office and dances madly in place crying and pointing to the Chrome Dinosaur.
(this is what happens when a software engineer marries a sysadmin)
Ha! Kinda relieved it’s not just me
joins His Lordship in pointing and wailing
You got the fun diag time now. With the internet issues, is there a pattern? Does it stop browsing then come good without intervention, or is it just s l o w? Is it the entire network or just one machine? Wired or wireless?
No pattern, and D: all of the above, which is the most frustrating part. My clever bro hardwired the house several years ago so there are network ports in each room, plus wifi, but it’s all working/not working randomly across all devices (a couple of wired desktops and other machines over wifi, and the tv).
A smart switch was installed recently to reboot the system each night, which I suspect might be the issue (although the expert disagrees). I may have also tweaked the patching, but don’t think that broke it because I’m good at patching and problem existed before & after that.
Smart switch has been removed and things have improved somewhat but not entirely. Sigh.
I’ve also reached the stage where listening to IT people speak is like listening to another language that I am not fluent in, lol
packets… ping… something something…
ok, so the packets and the ping is them trying to work out if it's your modem shitting out, or the physical lines on your network breaking somewhere. So if I wanted to see what's going on I'd set the PC in His Lordship's office and the one in the loungeroom to both ping the modem. One drops out but the other one's still talking, i know that's one specific route. Both crap out, the modem's stopped talking 'cos that's the only wiring place they have in common.
Pings are basically just tiny little "HELLOOOO" messages sent between equipment that request a hello back to check the line is working. The "packets" message you get back is the response (and there's more data in that simple response, but that's a bigger thing that needs technical divining, packet sizes and shizzle tell you if a line is degrading)
Ah, thanks for the info - very interesting!
I resisted the urge to make druggie jokes (got any ‘pingers’ haha!’), even though I’m SURE they’ve never heard that before and would find it absolutely hilarious
Oh that one would barely register since CardiB fucked up Wireless Access Points.
I've had FTTP connected for nearly a week now. I STILL haven't found time to get everything hooked up and working.
Miss Meow just walked over the laptop and tried to update the bot. Apparently she wants everyone to see the number 87.
I have set the bot up to run at 5 minutes past midnight, fingers crossed this one actually works, I'm running out of options to try if it fails again. I've turned off all power management options in the wifi adaptors, and it now has the new adaptor so can connect directly to the router instead of via the phone as a hotspot. This whole thing is like launching a rocket, all the tests can go well and the main launch can still fail! Come on @[email protected] we believe in you!
I sense a conspiracy at work here.
Maybe she sabotaged the bot the last few times when you weren’t looking.
Sounds like Miss Meow is trying to destroy the bot.
~ Midnight bot ready to launch. Stand by please.
Well, if we have another launch failure I'll blame her! Maybe as a black cat she feels midnight should be her domain?
We shall leave it in her capable paws. 🐾 ⌨
Morning! Babysitting a friend's 1yo for the next few hours. She is such a ray of sunshine in this gloom! Always makes me so happy 😊
👋hi
::: spoiler more selfishness i suppose.
purged my comments, all quite useless
my contributions tend to be pointless
left my stupid prose, i suppose for posterity
from them I only gain shame and no money
sorry for bringing this place, and all of you down
i shouldnt openly display a virtual frown
just an attention seeker, selfish and crude
i want to be kind, but downvotes tell me i'm rude.
do not perceive this jerk,
demoted to witness, just lurk
some of my rhymes made you smile
but the rest are stupid and sad
just bad, and personally vile. :::
<3 I love seeing your comments even if I don't engage with them.
People will downvote no matter how innocuous the comments are. Someone downvoted my comment where I said today's going to be a slow day. Guess Sonic didn't like my comment. Oh well.
If you have many downvotes I can only assume they are recent wanderers from Reddit who are still primed for the fight and have not yet learned this is a safe space where its OK to be nice.
I personally enjoy your posts and consider you a great contributor in the community. It would make me sad if you just lurked.
No! I can't believe you have haters. Fuck the haters! I love everything you post
Edit: I was speaking with someone yesterday and I literally brought you up as a regular poster I loved.
::: spoiler one, just for you. Walking around on cool winter nights
Beautiful city and pale gold lights
So many people minding their business
No animosity, just inner stresses
When out of the darkness a looming face
Approaches out of the weeknight race
They know my name, and my highschool
Panic, frack, who are they? You fool...
They come in fast, too fast to avoid
I gotta think fast, my memory is devoid
"Hey...you," I say "It's been too long!"
"I know right," is the reply "remember when..."
Ah shit, I think, no, I don't remember a thing
Applied fake smile and say "Yeah haha sure thing!"
And still their face doesn't ring a bell
I don't know who they are, circles of hell
"We ought to catch-up,down a pint, and reflect"
"Sounds like a plan, just hit me up" I deflect
Then off they speed, just as quick as they came
Do they suspect I still don't remember their name? :::
I think it was... Steve! and the Phys ed class thing remember??
Pls don't lurk chud.
We need you!
hugs, everything you write is welcome here
I've been busy and not able to attend this thread as I normally would, and can I just say: Thank God you're here! I was actually worried about you! I'd noticed you deleted your posts before I even got a chance to read them and I thought, "oh shit, what's going on here? Are we losing an attendee? Are they succumbing to self doubt?" One person might downvote, and it doesn't matter. You know why? Because fuck 'em, that's why! It might be an occasional drunkard stabbing at the wrong bit of their screen.. or they might just be a gutless wonder who can't express themselves- unlike you.
We love you and all of your thoughts. What gave you the idea otherwise? Downvotes? Its a shame we can see how many ups and downs. I'd rather not have the sinking feeling either and was getting a few last week, but they've stopped. This is all of our safe space, and we're here to support you.
I would get down voted heavily every single night on reddit
fuck'em , I post for the upvoters
Have my upvote.
Love your posts and rhymes, and please take no notice of downvotes - I reckon we all get them now & then. Please keep posting, too!
Just did the remainder of the washing / drying from indo trip and $50AUD flew out of the dryer.
Only brought $200 in AUD, exchanged $100 of it to IDR and now I've ended up with $150 AUD.
Lucy the dog’s stitches are out and she was very brave,no signs of apprehension, just excitement to meet the other dogs in the waiting room even the ones bigger than her. If anyone has got tips on how to keep a Jack Russell calm and stop trying to run everywhere, let me know:)
Jack Russell and Calm really don't belong that close together in the same sentence!
Hahaha. Keeping a Jack Russell calm. My tip is you can't unless you give them small snacks every 10 seconds. They have batteries up their bums. Source. I have one.
Sedation is the only way to keep a JRT calm! Some suggest those lick mat things.
My mum had a jrt that did his anterior cruciate ligament when he was kicked during a robbery. The only way we could keep him settled was to either give him a bone from the butcher that was almost as big as him or to be sedentary ourselves so he would be more inclined to sit with us.
Ohh a bone might work but generally she just gives you a look “ well aren’t you going to cut it up for me?”
A++ thread name, Thornbury Witch! Morning all. Conference starts today so I have to put on work clothes and interact with people. I really hope they’re alright at asking questions to keep a conversation going!
I have noticed as my depression lifts more and more I stand straighter. Just little things like that are making me feel good about myself. 😊 Good feedback loop.
Nice one!
little wins 😊
I hope this grows to as bigger community as reddit had. I miss a couple of groups like Carsaustralia and Daddit.
I look at reddit here and there and visit the old DT sometimes. Only to see what some mates are posting. It's become a bit shit hey?
I hope the hockey community takes off here. Game day threads were great for talking shit with randoms.
This still seems to be in it's infancy. Give it time and it'll grow.
Yep gotta make posts and stuff I guess. Be the change you wanna see. Looks like their is a hockey community under lemmy.ca.
I'm already subscribed. Still a bit quiet there for the time being.
I was a fan of daddit too. Best I've found here so far is ![email protected]
Oh cool. Stupid thing doesnt give me the option to subscribe though.
Subscribing to communities easily is not something Lemmy does well.
Sometimes you have to cut paste community name into your home instance search engine (occasionally multiple times) before you can subscribe.
I pastuerized some mead last night for the first time to kill off the yeast so that i could add things for secondary flavour/aging without trigging further fermentation. The base mead is strawberry/raspberry and it is split into two 5L vessels. In one i have added some wine tannin and 0.5L of strawberry juice from berries we picked recently and in the other i have added 0.5kg of dried sour cherries. They both look amazing colour wise now and they smelt great. Will give them a taste later today before they go away for storage. The cherry one is so dark at the moment you cant even see a torch light through the liquid
This sounds awesome. Were you somehow able to pasteurise them in place (i.e. in the fermentation vessels) or did this involve transferring them to carboys or similiar for secondary?
I transferred to two 5L glass carboys so that i could leave the lees behind and then i sat them in an esky of water with a portable sous vide machine attached to the side :)
I took Mr Woof out for a nice walk at sky pretty. It was very cold, but the orange glow behind the silhouette of leafless tree branches was rather nice.
I went via the post box to "return to sender" some random letters from Commonwealth Bank for people who do not live here. Mr Woof was very concerned that the greyhound we saw out walking too was up to no good. He is very suspicious about the motives of other dogs.
First day back at work after a holiday. Planning next holiday in another tab.
Since you've got an older kid I suppose your a good person to ask. How old were they when you took your first holiday? I've heard holidays with young kids being described as less like Holidays and more like Away Games.
First overseas holiday at 5 months, we went to Japan. Second overseas holiday was Europe at 18 months. Japan was incredible and so easy with a little one. Everyone was so friendly and helpful, plus it really helped that kid1 fell in love with sushi. Start planning. Yeah, the flight can be hell, but that's only a few hours out of your holiday. The other part is the awesome holiday.
Oh yeah no chance I'd do overseas. Interstate would be pushing it for the first one.
Alright, one practice flight, then go overseas...haha. It's great travelling with a little baby/toddler, and it creates so many wonderful memories.
But yeah, start local, but don't not go overseas because you think it'll be too hard. It is hard. But also incredible with a kid
aspirin has been attained , headache soon to disappear 😖 then a walk maybe
if anyone is looking for a social event/ board games, I run a blood on the clocktower games night every fortnight on a Wednesday at Melb central lion hotel from 6pm. Next is on 5th of July.
ASHES UPDATE: Australia have won the second test. 🎉 2 - 0 lead. I'm going to bed.
Good morning Australia. Yesterday's sourdough turned into a rock on the outside but at least it's still soft on the inside. Spent half an hour painstakingly sawing off the crust. At least I have a cake for backup breakfast.
Is the crust too tough to make crumbs from? Makes a nice home made coating for chicken.
The crust went "crack" instead of "crunch".
Ah. I bet the bread is still tasty though. Most of my attempts at bread fail because I always seem to get the oven temp/cook time wrong :(
Do you put it in a Dutch oven to cook?
Normal oven. Mine has a "bread" setting that only uses the lower element and has higher temps. I did moisten the outside before baking it.
Oh. Don't mind me I've never baked bread before but I'm thinking about it and I've seen a lot of recipes that suggest using a Dutch oven. If you're still on reddit check out r/breadit.
Yeah I cooked bread for the first time in like May I think? And I used a Dutch oven, worked great!
That's good to hear. I really need to bake bread now. Wish me luck.
I believe in ya! I followed this recipe, though it does take like a day.
That's easy. Very doable. Thank you.
Teapot hunting time. I'm leaning towards the retro branded enamels atm, can put them on my little heater dish for hot tea on demand. (we don't need fancies, pretty much exclusively black tea drinkers)
@[email protected]
oh noooo you've invoked the Tea Demon!
There is a very cute tea shop in Sassafras that has many quirky tea pots. I wanted so many of them and I don’t even use teapots! Worth a visit is you are out that way.
tbh we'd probably go the more industrial end - quirkies don't tend to lean towards VOLUME which is what we're about. I'm lookin' at ones like this, there's the bushells/arnotts/billy variants
It is hard to find the motivation to do anything when it is so cold.
I was out in the field all day today talking almost non stop while training a new colleague, so walking around has kept me warm and since I've avoided peak hour both ways I now I have a pile of motivation I need to jump on before it expires tonight. Tomorrow I will be back to wanting to hibernate.
this is a cold winter, have had to buy some warmer jumpers and a woolly hat as my other ones are really just autumn jumpers.
Luckily I have some really nice warm hand knit jumpers. A few years ago I found lots of wool at the op shop, in sufficient quantities to make jumpers. My Mum is a knitter so she was able to turn it all into clothing for me. I've been wearing those a lot this year.
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Thankyou, that helps a lot. Completely fired up now. Unfortunately I now have a cat on my lap, so will not be able to do anything anyway.
I watched the mouse last night as it inspected my trap, it knows.
Edit: I just checked the trap again since last night, either a different mouse came back or the same one couldn't help itself..
and the spy mouse didn't warn the other mice
Visiting family in the states, can wait to be back home in Melbourne. I’m dying for a decent coffee, only a few days to go!
Enjoy the warm weather
Today is going to be a slow rough day, I can feel it. 😩
Just went past the Melbourne Recital Centre on the tram and saw that there was a huge amount of prams parked outside, and immediately I knew, the wiggles are performing there.
is the indent styling.. fixed? good job lemmy old mate
new computer is fucking sweet. having to buy a bunch of new peripherals for it is less fucking sweet but i'm getting there
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🥪🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥫🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉
Steamed broccoli on toast with an avocado and prawn sauce and a cup of tea please.
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Thank you. I hope to have enough time to eat it today.
All the coffees please. Triple srength.
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Have you any allergic to work meds?
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may I have millions of peaches ?
million 🍑
Just enough peanuts to render me incapable of working today please
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Thanks 🙏 can you write me a med cert too?
Apologies I am not a doctor and we do not do forgeries at this hour. I can write you a medusa certificate if you want.
Ok sure I'll take it
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A bit late for me to get today but maybe I might be able to squeeze in a late order.
Fruit salad with the apple juice infused oats, bercher muesli I think it is?
Oh and an orange juice too please.
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🌾🍋🍎🥛🥣
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I feel like I’ve been running around like a headless chook today! 😥
Time to sit down for a cuppa?
Unfortunately not atm. I just got to my bus (train line not running) currently stuck in traffic 😔 and I’m starving. Last week stuck in traffic took a little over an hour just to get to my stop (not replacement bus)
It's crazy isn't it this big build BS. I can't believe we still have to pay for it lol. Hope you get home soon!
I mean myki price will always go up each year but the fact that stuff are being build and we have replacements buses… they shouldn’t raise the price. Perhaps they need money to continue. I heard Victoria is in really bad debt. The highest in Australia, I think from back in lockdown
Yeh it's just not a happy situation for anyone (except maybe the constructive companies). It really stings when you are paying for a degraded service. I feel like for some of the roadworks the benefits are barely noticeable for the commuters too but oh well it be like that sometimes.
Not to mention this increase is happening with the whole inflation. Feels like bad timing
Me too. I don’t know where the time has gone but I’ve managed to whittle the time down today without being able to relax and do my own thing and it’s already dark outside.
I think it’s time to enjoy the rest of the day/night now.
Yeah I’ll rest/relax when I get home. Hungry, soooooooo hungry
What’s on for tonight?
Will it take long for you to get home due to all the PT stuff going on?
Depends on traffic. Last week took a little over an hour, not counting the fact I had to walk home after getting off the bus.
Currently still in the city.
Inching my way through town Bus is slow, getting a headache from hunger And I miss you (food!) And I want you (food!)
And how I wonder (when I’ll get food)
Lol if you’re reading it, trying singing it to Vanessa Carlton’s A Thousand Miles
Ouch. That’s quite a bit of time. What is it compared to if the trains were working?
Hope you’re rigged up. It feels cold again tonight.
Don’t fear you’ll be home soon and you can get dinner soon after.
I had to look up the song as well but I know the song but never knew who sang it and the name of the song but I’ll never forget the opening few notes on the piano.
Now I’m going to try and sync your lyrics to it.
Finally home. Wasn’t feeling the cold tonight as much as I’ve been running around getting stuff done, shocked I wasn’t as cold. Home now heater on. Going to rest for bit first lol tired. I don’t think anyone can forget the opening piano part
Me too, it has been pedal to the metal from 7am to now. But I've whipped up a quick dinner and will put in a few extra hours of work because Wed is my last session with Short Term Awesome Psych and I might not be very productive after that.
Once I get this burst done I'll be able to take it a bit easier rest of this week.
Excellent! Chin up and look after yourself. Remember to squeeze in “me time” or a treat yourself like idk ice cream, a movie whatever that makes you happy, even if briefly
Oh absolutely once I hit about 8pm I'm going to sit back and enjoy the next episode of Mad Men. Ooh you've just reminded me I have a choccy bar in my bag as a treat. Anything nice planned for yourself?
I plan to continue watching law and order suv (season 22) and I bought some candy, those scoop ones at Flinders Station so that will be my treat after dinner. Half way home now yay. Might rest for a bit once I get home and then shower before dinner
Nice plan. Definitely a day for a nice hot shower to unwind. Think I might do that myself, I'm just about to finish up with this stuff.
Sounds like a good plan.
cricket. what a test.
This last wicket is killing me.
fucking a.
Yes. Fucking finally. I love the sound of smashing wickets.
Argh! Boyo has locked himself out again. Keys, phone, wallet, lunch, it’s always something. Absolutely certain it’s diagnosable!
Chain it all together in one big bundle.
So refrigerated phone or rotting lunch.
The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
oooo auspost wanna play funny buggers? I've got an ASD fixation and a tendency towards cuntishness. I guarantee those fuckers I'm a lot better at funny buggers than they are
(cunce decided to not only not even attempt a driveby for delivery, or even use a local LPO literally across the road, or even the parcel centre two blocks up but drop a small, letter-box stuffable parcel of cat fountain filters in a parcel locker in the next fucking suburb)
Flipping 'eck it's freeeeezing
Cleaned the bathroom yesterday which was nice. Tonight - the kitchen.
When I was growing up my parents always said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" or "you don't learn if you don't ask questions". So now I feel bad when I see questions being posted on reddit and I think "that's a stupid question. Im not even going to reply to that". Like I get that some people were given the unfortunate parents stick and weren't taught stuff but we have internet now guys. We can research. We can ask questions before we ask strangers.
Oooooh I hear you on this. Like hello there’s google. Try searching yourself and if you’re still confused, maybe ask in a DT instead of a whole melbourne post 😒
The stupidity tends not to be so much the actual question as it is the inability to take appropriate actions to find the answer. If you want to know something taking some steps to do at least basic research yourself is appropriate, then if you need to know more you are in a position to ask reasonable questions. A lot of people prefer to just ask someone else and expect them to put all the effort in, and there is rarely any point in actually answering them because if the answer is not simple and easy they just lose interest anyway.
Sometimes the stupidity is people not recognising questions there is no known answer to. I saw a lot of them at the start of Covid, people were asking things like exact details of how long the virus could live on surfaces or how far it could travel in air. Which is pretty stupid when you are talking about a virus that had only just been discovered. I suspect a lot of those type of people are the ones who went down conspiricy and anti-vax rabbitholes, just because those were the types of people who appeared to offer answers.
See those kinds of questions are ok in my book. People are curious. The questions that leave me floored are I/my girlfriend/my mother/my next door neighbour/ was involved in a car accident and it was their/my fault. I'm insured let me stop you there. How about you call your insurance agency and ask them any questions you like. THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE THERE FOR. THAT'S WHY YOU PAY THEM. Sorry I didn't mean to yell but it's that fucking obvious.
Yes, yes, yes. I was trying hard not to sound like a smart-arse. Personal opinion is different to seeking facts. Just pick up the phone and get a confirmation from a professional because on here we are all plumbers/gynaecologists/police officers/tax agents etc we can be anything we want to be.
Right? I mean sure there’s maybe one or two of those but come onnnn
If there's something you need to know that pertains to something like work, I don't think there's stupid questions. But when it's things that are easily Google-able (like whenever I'd see on r/writing "can I write x character" like yes... you can, can you write it well, now that is something we can't answer) or is something very insensitive (like asking trans binary and nonbinary people if they've had the surgery). But yeah, I cringe whenever I see things that, y'all could've Googled.
Our little avatar thingos turned into square shape. ? I didn’t receive memo.
My font has gone small.
It’s a lawless hell-scape I tell you
Same!
So after reading your comment about the font size, I found you can use thumb and fore finger to spread the screen of where you’re reading. Like instagram and looking at photos except you don’t have to hold it down. Idk who’s making the changes but I’m not a huge fan of it. But I’ll eventually get used to it
Also location where you used to tap reply has been moved and replaced with cancel. Super odd
Also Red Raven has a Big M badge now. It’s so fetch.
I would tell you to not make fetch a word but idc. I like the word fetch. It IS so fetch
I think she's collecting stuff for her nest.
Very annoying! I keep deleting comments thinking I’m posting them
Why, yes, I do believe I will add some zip to my curry
yum, I just put a tsp of that in a small serving of guac and will be using liberally on my white chilli which is still cooking 🤤
I'm building my tolerance back up.. On account of my kids so far just not being ok with any type of heat... I'm slowly sneaking in an extra drop or so into their "plain" Bolognese sauce... slightly evil laugh
It's totally worth it! My kids are into foods on the spicy side because of the same approach. My daughter adds cracked pepper to her sandwiches. My son loves to add Tijuana or Oaxacan oil to his noodles. My daughter adds this oil when she makes guacamole. Chef's kiss
Yum! This sauce is on my kitchen counter - use it all the time 🤤
That's a good brand, I wish their bottles where bigger as I use them too quickly.
That's a .rar accomplishment.
Finally got an inbox with the new Mlem app update. Yay! Looking profesh now.
Ohh that’s a nice update!
Been using wefwef the last day or so.
Back is still painful. Got a corset. It helps. lots of sleeping and resting.
::: spoiler Music Now I want you try to tell me how I look
Tell me, please tell me how I look
Fantastic Man - William Onyeabor
Cheering myself up with some afro-funk from 1979 Nigeria; the elusive William Onyeabor and his funkedelic bop. :::
Edit: Thank you for your sweet words, DT.
Forces of Nature, saints and sinners:
Admire yourselves in your mirrors!
One-of-a-kind human-wonders,
Of carbon and magic, lightning and thunder.
Love it! I love how most of the music video is the record spinning. When I was a kid, in my room I'd put on a record and listen while I watched it spin around. It was mesmerising and calming.
My new goal is to not spend enough time on Twitter to hit the ridiculous 600 tweet limit. Reddit and Twitter really have done me a solid and forced me to reduce my social media engagement.
How long does it take to hit the 600 tweet limit?
I think it’s still wild they put up those limits.
It took me a fair bit of time to hit it yesterday.
Whoooo. Almost 12 hours straight of working. But then I remembered I had no hours for last Thursday because it was a non starter after an intense psych session. Guess I'll have to do a long day tomorrow as well so I can make up enough hours to cover this Wednesday in addition...
Ok I can do this. Everything i need to do has been written down. Shower, episode, sleep. Won't be heading to the office tomorrow, looking at that shitty weather. I've seen enough insane driving over the last 2 weeks.
Yay a thread got made. Thank you @[email protected]
Have to take my dog to get her stitches out today, I hope she doesn’t get too agitated. She normally doesn’t mind the vet, even when they do unspeakable things to her rear end, but after having surgery she is not too keen on going back. When we went to get her bandage removed she vomited. Hopefully today is the last time for a while🤞
Dogs can and do get ptsd. Talk to your vet about it
Figured out the Mlem app, thanks to whoever suggested it! Still getting to understand the fediverse but happy to be here!
Interesting weekly report on the fediverse
Interesting! Thanks for posting.
Sorry what is the fediverse? Is this mastodon?
Let me help you with that. It's when a whole heap of servers get together and communicate yada yada yada zzzzzzzz. I hope that helps.
Sir, this is a Wendy's
Nah, this is lemmy. Mastodon is the fediverse 'twitter' equivalent.
Edit: from Wikipedia: The fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is an ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other.
This whole Lemmy thing is just a component of the “federated universe “, to include Mastodon, Kbin, and various other nodes.
The report highlights
rapid user growth (as well as a massive influx of spam bots)
The rumours about Meta dipping into the fediverse with a microblogging server
FBI raids on Anarchist servers
Other fun stuff that might be of interest to new people like me who are like a babe wandering the wood.👶
Yikes. Went to the shop and forgot about the whole hyperosmia things after a headcold which hit today. Walked past someone on the street and that perfume was way intense for at least 50m after walking past them.
On the plus side you do get nice nature / tree / plant smells. Would be nice to have that sort of upper respiratory stuff in spring. Would smell delicious.
Glad it's finally (pretty much) dinner time. I've gone through a third of a pack of vitaweats again.
Vitaweet with a little butter and Vegemite or peanut butter is a delicious snack (if you’re talking about the grain like rectangular biscuits)
Lol I wish I'd done that to slow me down but instead I just chainsmoked those vitaweats.
They are more-ish
Surprisingly. Especially the sesame ones.
I always grab the sesame seed one when I buy it
Thanks Witchy-poo for conjuring up this thread.
I honestly had no idea it was 3:20 already. I thought it was like two-ish? Wow, bring on home time! Which for me is in less than half an hour! 🥳
Woop woop!
Indeed!
Back to work after a week off (which became overshadowed by my ear infection). I’d checked my email on Friday and thought I’d dodged the anticipated “welcome back!” Email with a list of extra shit to do in addition to my existing workload. Nope…it’s there, just been sent at 7pm. Ugh.
How’s your ear going?
Pain is all gone, thankfully, but my hearing is still muffled.
I have to wait a few weeks and have my ear re-checked as the eardrum may have been damaged when I experienced the worst pain (work wasn’t happy for me to leave early to have it checked at the time).
Fingers crossed it’s all good and the muffledness goes over time. And boo hiss to your work for that!
Thank you 🖤
I ate chicken crimpys together with actual chicken. I’m right in the zone now.
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I can see your post here but yesterday all your posts were deleted. I got a bit worried.
Ok that's fair enough. ♥
I can see your post yeah.
Oh I didn't journal yet. Time marches on. I had a visitor today. I'm chalk and cheese to when I saw them last. Cat plays, aa, job looking a bit. Nothing else. This is nice.
What's the syntax for taging someone again?...i thought it was !@username@instance... But that doesn't seem to be right
type @username@ and there will be a popup link for you to click
Testing @Bacon@[email protected]
ooh too many Bacons!
no such thing
agree
Got it, thanks. Doesn't work on Jerboa though, so need to do on web.
Correct answer
@user@instance
what a nap!
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Someone turned the lights back on at [email protected]
Is it meant to be memes that pertain to Australia or any meme is an ausmeme by virtue of being posted there from an Australian instance?
It's still young so I think you'd still be able to help determine the community's identity. Personally, I'd prefer memes with an Australian flavour.
I'm assuming it's aussie memes.
C'mon ~ Midnight bot I have faith in you. 🤞
There is so little meat in these meatballs I’m not super I can even call them that.
New to me movie . Today, Manchester by the Sea.
This movie is a much needed counter to prevailing attitudes that arose from "Me" 1960s
Men have feelings too. Grief is a normal part of life and no, therapy doesn't cure everything nor is always appropriate . Sometimes lives are sad and absurd and that is ok.
I can’t remember if you pulled out Apollo 13 the other night but I put that up while I was waiting for the Ashes to start last night.
omg, I love that movie. 😊 💗 here's Jim Lovell doing some commentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY9IMlekQTI&ab_channel=TomWatts
Today was a rushed cooking today so went to the shops to pick up some green curry paste - tried the Marion's Kitchen brand for the first time (normally I am an Ayam brand girl) and it turned out well! I did add some kaffir lime leaves into the curry so that might have also helped
What are you picking?
Pictured: Tweet stating "$10 million right now in your hand, but there's a catch:
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A seagoon Wordle post at this hour? Has jerboa finally shit itself and is showing early posts at a recent hour? I'm confused! Did you post 30 minutes ago or am I going mad?!
I am also concerned that @Seagoon_ has entered another dimension...
Ok new thread created. Let’s head over! :)
Something tells me Patrick Cripps doesn't really shop at Cash Converters. I think that may be a fib.
Never would have guessed. He looked so convincing in the ad.
I guess that applies to Jeremy Cameron too.
Teaches me to trust commercials!
Any recommendations of a night club in or near Carlton? Planning to go together with my wife, it's our first time.
Nightclubs are usually themed in some way. Be it the style of music or the type of crowd that goes there. Like Revs is house music, drugs and dancing; My Aeon is trance music, drugs and dancing; Star bar is B/C grade footballers, the women who like them and drinking. For something nice with your wife I'd see if the Exford still has tango/flamenco dancing on Monday? night. You're both Asian yeah? There used to be Asian nights too, there probably still are. Dream on Queensberry St may still exist, but they ran all different sorts of nights, a lot of Drum n Bass from my experience, nice crowd, not my music.
Thanks:) okay the theme we didn't consider. Will have a chat later today.
And yes we're both Asian.
What are you guys hoping for from a nightclub? Their portrayal in movies isn't generally what happens in actual clubs. Drinking, drugs, dancing and fucking are the common reasons for people to go, but not the only reasons. Given you're already a couple, I'd look for dance classes over clubs. Drinking and drugs, well it may be worth your while, I wouldn't expect any racism at Revs or MyAeon. If you're looking to get sexually adventurous, there's sex and swingers nights out there, not really my thing.
Read out your post, her eyes lit up as soon as "dance classes" was mentioned.
We will likely drink. Definitely no drugs and no sex with anyone else.
Just don't switch partners if they announce to. Rock, Swing, Flamenco, Tango, Salsa are all fun partnered styles. Find a casual place, go for a month, then move onto the next place.
'Ello 'ello, ken yuu 'ear me?
Now, leesten carefully, I well say zis only once!
Crapshits. So I was cleaning the stainless steel toaster with proper cleaner. The matte part was fine but now the shiny part is all rainbowy. facepalm
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I think a bot is chatting me up on Reddit.
Got previously done by a bot awhile ago when others had the same conversation as I did.