Trying for 11 hours sleep. Will no doubt be back at 2am posting about how much insomnia sucks.
Night all ❤️
I’ll probably be awake then, too. Sigh. I’m so over not being able to sleep (well, I can eventually get to sleep but then keep waking up in the early hours, when all the thoughts are bad and everything’s a catastrophe).
Can’t wait for Friday night when I can take a Restavit
Totally forgot about restavit!
I had a bit of a brainwave. The pet ramps and steps from Kmart aren’t great and the op shop didn’t have much destroyable that suited…
But Big W has a $180-ish recliner. It will be low quality and small and will get scratched up from brand new, but the leg support part could be walked up like a ramp. It’s something the old baby could easily get up and down from without jumping and hurting herself. I would pay that much for a cat tree if she could comfortably use it.
We’ll see. I’ll decide if there’s room and maybe sell the unwanted dishwasher and tv. Maybe I could sew some heavy duty fabric reinforcement over the sides to absorb the claws wrath.
If you have a TK Maxx nearby they seem to have pretty solid-looking pet steps quite cheaply.
They look good! I just thought a ramp would be easier
The modem has arrived, so I should be able to set up the internet and security cameras tomorrow.
Today I will pack lots of stuff in the van so I can go up early tomorrow. I want to get some cleaning done, probably mopping the floors, cleaning out the dirt in the door channels and the outside of the windows at a minimum. Plus a quick vacuum of the carpeted areas. If I can get a few more things assembled as well it would be good - I might leave the bedside tables until last, given I can use the box they are in temporarily.
Anyone remember that guy from The Other Place who was pretty hard done by and had a bunch of kids and he and his wife found out another was on the way with, like, basically moments to go? I wonder how he’s doing.
vaguely. I was a bit sus on a few details of that story, but I wasnt around all the time so totally possible I missed some details.
I was sus too but I’m ultra cynical at the best of times and have learnt to reserve my opinion, haha.
I was never sus on his story, just his timing. But he got some great support out of it, so fair enough.
I speak to him occasionally. He seems well enough
That’s good to hear!
Good to hear. Was thinking about him and the kids the other day.
Yes, his username contained “g” or “gee” right and the number 2?
Edit: This bloke?
That’s the one, thank you!
I remember that, G 7 or something? Or was that the nickname for the child?
Spent quite a bit of time in hospital if I remember.
Sad to hear that the funds weren’t used for the purpose people thought it was originally.
I wound up hiding that account. A bunch of people chipped in to help him with something specific and he spent the money on something else, then lined up to have another kid. Fuck’s sake mate, wrap it up. Just felt they were always in a ditch and posting about all the digging they were doing to keep themselves there. e: I remember, it was “the snip” that people chipped in for.
yeah i mean accidents happen but its not hard to NOT have a kid. I wouldnt thought if your backs were to the wall the last thing youd be doing is
NSWF
blowing in the mrs raw.
But thats just like my opinion I guess when I had spend 30k to have a kid.
TBF the vasectomy thing seems to have been a joke and the GFM does not mention a specific use of the funds (though it was reactivated for a second round of donations and not sure if the listing was edited). I’m not fully across the lore, I mostly skipped over it too.
he was a really nice guy, i was quite shocked at how poor they were too, 😔
I do!!!
He was super positive all the time too. Hope he’s doing well.
Looks like he’s got a solid job now, so that’s good!
For real? Super happy for him.
Speaking of people from the other place, there was someone who had just gotten an ADHD diagnosis, was on here for a bit in the beginning?
More Nepal:
One of my faves, in this village one kid got so wasted he fell into the latrine on the way back from a tea house but it was so cold it was frozen solid. We were all wasted so pulling him out was an effort. His lucky day.
This was in Kathmandu and probably the most confronting thing we saw. Funeral pyre.
Ah… maybe the extra pain relief yesterday was a bad idea. Melbcat was in a fair bit of pain through the night because she felt able to jump up and down from the chair and aggravated her arthritis.
I might put something on the chair so she can’t until I get the pet steps
service desk teasing security for getting locked out of their account will never not be funny to me.
beach walk 🙂
What a gorgeous view!
One way I can tell I’m enjoying, or at least tolerating, this new job is I’ve been here since January and I haven’t felt the need to jump on Seek and just see what’s around. That’s impressive considering this is a mostly in office job, but it’s close to home, the people there are chill, and I’ve been getting some actual results in the work I’m doing.
I was always passively looking at my old job at the more ‘interesting’ workplace, and same with the work form home job that sounded great on paper. I used Marketing Cloud in both of those roles and I feel like that was a big reason for me not liking both jobs.
They say people don’t leave organisations, they leave managers. Maybe we should add shitty tools to the list of things people leave too.
I can has new cat channel screen
looks like the Bat-Channel
We do get those, and the ruddy hungry possums
I made biscuits. They’re not particularly pretty but they’re highly delicious.
Butterscotch biscuits
with real butterscotch 🤤
Man I wish I had the energy and space to build stuff suited for Melbcat. It’s sad that I haven’t been able to catify the crap out of this place for indoor enjoyment in her golden years
I can’t help with the energy but if you want to trek out to Springvale sometime I’ve a heap of tools and scrap wood.
Thanks, unfortunately energy is the biggest factor
Going to treat myself to more frozen chips to air fry and some eggs.
Been a really shitty couple of days dealing with stuff, the least I can do is buy food for myself.
you seem like you could do with some hugs 😘😘
Take care Duenan :)
Thanks!
I love chip n egg.
Now I have 18 eggs due to the egg shortage :/
I enjoyed thunderbolts. Sets things up nicely for the future as well. not sure about Iron Heart. Wakanda Forever left a pretty bad taste in my mouth in that respect.
Have you read the Warren Ellis run of Thunderbolts set after Civil War? It’s a great, really fun read. Norman Osbourne is their leader and you see how much fighting spider-man has ruined his mind.
No I havnt read many comics at all tbh. Never really figured out how to get into them.
It can feel impenetrable sometimes but there are certain jumping off points. If you’re familiar with Civil War and are broadly familiar with Marvel characters you can just pick up the Thunderbolts trade paperback. Otherwise, Civil War is good on its own (the first one at least), you could read that then follow the storylines from there.
Finished early because fuck it why not.
