Ducked out today after I had lunch, sausage and bread with tomato sauce is so underrated.
Got a free drink from maccas then went to the supermarket to exchange a sauce I accidentally picked up and swapped it for the one I wanted for cooking later in the week.
It was cold and felt a little hazy out. Surprisingly there was so much traffic out there, almost like peak hour.
Back inside now all warm and almost time for a coffee.
went in and out showing sparkies where things were and fucking hell this weather can fuck right off. This is 5am weather, not midday
Yeah. It’s definitely next level cold.
I’ve got the heater on and wearing an oodie. Hope I’m not getting sick.
It’s not very motivating weather but the thought of food and cooking gave me enough motivation to swap out the jar of sauce.
w00t w00t brewery now on its own dedicated circuit and His Lordship can commence with the going of apeshitness.
OK if there’s a brewery, that MAY affect the accuracy of the landlord sniping… :D
eh waves hand winging them is fine
If there’s apple cider involved I’ll be there in 5 minutes!
I better stock up on the Berserk deluxe editions now Booktopia is closing down. They had them for the cheapest I’ve seen aside from second hand on marketplace
Morning all! Just woke up from a crazy dream where myself and four other unknown (to me) people were on the run in the States, which at one point involved stealing a heavily modded Chevy Wrangler from Donald Trump (he cried. He loved that car. Lots of people, the best people, said it was a great car). It was a comedy/drama kind of dream, very entertaining, and I did not want to wake up. Stupid bladder! In the dream we made a toilet pitstop and while I went I suddenly thought, "HEY, YOU’RE NOT DOING THAT IN REAL LIFE ARE YOU‽” and I suddenly awoke and I was! I haven’t wet the bed in 40 years! I didn’t wet the bed much, luckily, just my multilayered night attire. Very weird experience and a helluva way to end the dream I was enjoying.
Hugs. Trump has that effect on people.
Lol must be the diaper he reportedly wears
It’s fricken cold
Thank you Captain Obvious
No, I’m Major Pain
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Porridge with honey and cream with coffee please. If available, could I also have a small army of cats to settle on me and keep me warm too.
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🌾🍯🥛☕️Thank you. The cats shared the leftover cream and licked the porridge bowl clean. Win/win.
May I please have some hot
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Thankyou. The serving size for hot seems to be much smaller today than I recall it being. Are we suffering from temperature shrinkflation?
No, we are just too far from it looking at it from our beds instead of the dining chair
I wish I was in bed, instead of at work where it is very chilly this morning. It’s been an indoor puffer jacket kind of day here.
our hearts are in bed
Pulverised robot cock please
Sir this is a Wendy’s
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One of those hollowed out bread loaf things filled with cheesy soup
Make that two plz chef
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My Excel spreadsheet is refusing to play nice with my OFFSET functions. I do not know why, the exact same formula is working with other cells, it just won’t let me create them with a different original cell reference.
School holidays. Took the kids to the zoo yesterday. Saw Nellie. Took some photos. Also, bought a 2024 Numbat calendar on clearance for the cute numbat photos in it for $2.
Warning: I may start randomly spamming cute numbat photos at the thread in the coming weeks.
Do that. Not spam if nice photos. Maybe spiced ham?
We wanna see Nellie!
You gotta understand that most numbat sightings are super fleeting and look like this:
Just setting expectations now. 😃
Ooooh! So pretty. Her eye-liner is on point!
I love Perth zoo. You don’t realise that there are native animals exclusive to WA only. It’s such a well planned zoo.
Fog or low cloud has rolled in over Richmond. Outside air temp has gone from f**king cold to biting cold. Hands are burning after going out to buy a coffee. Wasn’t like that when I got to work this morning at 9 am.
I just legitimately heard a loud bang. One. Quite the boom, bass-y, set a bunch of birds off. I hope it was the local dipshits house.
I have a tip on fire near me.
Oh hey, it’s on vic emergency, in Springvale. I hear multiple sirens. 3 units attending.
Three units attending is just a baby fire, barely worth mentioning. A noteworthy fire would have something like ten times that many.
Behold the puddle of fluff in front the of the heater
The best kind of puddle. Much comfy! 😍
Cat is fine, he’s eaten, bit me, ran around, went to the loo, and is now yowling in the hallway because I closed the bedroom door to keep the heat in the living room.
I predict he will now run around a bit, eat some dry food, and have a snooze in the blanket nest I made for him on the couch.
Also, don’t buy Friskies dry food. Twas what was causing Mickey to spew bile. He hasn’t spewed or hucked once since I switched back to Fussy Cat Grain Free dry food. So, there you go lol. Told the vet that too, he said he’ll note it for the future. :D
hugs to Mickey and fussy cat for the win 😸
Poor Mickey! Melbcat is on grain free as well.
It’s not as good as a door but I’m using an old plush blanket on a small tension rod in the doorway, with one bottom corner slightly open so the cat can slip through. (The top edge is folded over and sewn with long backstitches for a really rough casing. Sturdy safety pins might also work depending on weight)
I had an old blanket nailed across my laundry door for a few years. I have now made a curtain with some discounted insulated curtain fabric I found instead, it hangs on a tension rod with shower curtain rings sewn onto the curtain. I managed to sort out a pelmet as well to help keep the heat in/out better, using some extra fabric and a couple more tension rods. Miss Meow has not discovered a way through (which is good, if I wanted her to I would do the raised corner) but Mr Woof is happy to push it aside so he can get through to the dog door.
Oh, shower curtain rings are a good idea. (Then again they might require buttonhole bars for the hooks because I don’t want to cut holes.) Do you find any heat escapes out the top?
That’s what I put the pelmet over the top for, it seems to work well - the laundry it blocks off is really draughty and uninsulated and the cold and heat does not really get though at all.
I sewed some tape across the back with gaps to put the shower rings through, which means the top of the curtain is above the rings rather than hanging below, which also reduced the gap air could get through considerably.
Tonight I am sewing up the patch work for the chair covers 🪑
I spent an hour after work last night completing (my least preferred) job application’s third party test. Apparently I rank significantly higher than others of a relevant testing pool. Lovely. Next they want me to give them a four minute video response to some questions…
Meanwhile. My preferred job is cold-shouldering me after telling me I’d probably hear yesterday if I made it to the in-person interview. They are playing hard to get. I’m their best applicant I bet. But I’m still sad I haven’t heard yet.
You got this! I believe in you! Hopefully your preferred job gets back to you, but either way you’re gonna move up! 💜
In a past role when I was short staffed and hiring people, I was often lumped with interviewing people on top of my regular duties. It is a lot of extra work. It also took longer than I expected. I was often a bit late getting back to people for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes, candidates had to reschedule. Sometimes, more urgent work came up and I had to do things other than processing the applications. Suddenly, your last interview isn’t Tuesday, but Friday instead.
I was never more than a few days late - the best candidates usually had more than one offer to consider and I’d lose them if I didn’t get back to them. If they told you Wednesday, I’d give them until Monday before giving up.
Thank you Nath 🙏
What have the Romans ever done for us?
They have provided the lazy inspiration for countless hours of low effort BBC documentaries.
Walking Roman Roads with Dan Jones. About Roman roads in the England. I thought it might be a little interesting. First he didn’t walk it , he drove in a Range Rover, he said on account of the weather. He could have used a cart instead. 🙄 Then he visited every tiny museum along the way and looked at the easy stuff like swords.
Imagine how different it could have been. Dan could have suited up like a centurion with a 30 kg back pack and walked it like a Roman. Could have eaten Roman food. Talked about all the people of Roman times who used the roads, could have even “met” some re-enactors on the way to St Ives.
0.5 hobbits , he didn’t even meet up with a Druid wizard on the way to Wales, which he could have. ( caveat, I fell asleep for two episodes )
You’ll have to read Mary Beard’s books on ancient Rome for some well researched and written history
I’m old, I’ve read all the stuff, I even went to Rome with an atique atlas and saw the places
travellers tip, antique atlases are not good guides to modern cities
Special credit for the Lego model of a Roman Inn at one of the museums.