so far today I’ve done all the washing, designed and printed IMMENSELY satisfying just right fitting compartment boxes for my toolbox for bits and bobs, run the first lot of distillate and done a 10 walk. Very niiiice
Spring has truly sprung when my elderly neighbour is out watering his lawn daily again.
Mine’s still soaked. How the F can it need watering?!
It doesn’t need watering. He just waters it.
Rest assured Melbourne weather will whiplash and smack you with a cold freezing change. Shit Melbourne weather can often go right on till December.
Once spring hits, he’ll water his lawn while it’s raining. Nothing can stop him.
I made chicken burritos for dinner. 🌶️🌶️🌶️😵💫 it was delicious
I made speghetti bolognaise.
I cooked probably more pasta than I needed but I’m stuffed!
not possible to cook too much, just put left overs in fridge or freezer 👍
Oh I ate it all 😃
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need to find a diplomatic way of saying “If you had’ve actioned this when I called it out +12 months ago you wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place. This isn’t my job and you cant keep asking me to do shit cause ya’ll cant be fucked doing the work yourselves or even trying to figure it out”. Didnt even make it to 10am before I gave up today.
“It is my recollection that the last action on this item was sitting with you…” and of course attach the pertinent emails/documents.
“as per last year’s email”
Tbh I’d unironically do it 🤷♂️
i love orange juice
what’s not to love, those big bottles of fresh juice with pulp are yum
My fruit and veg shop sometimes sells freshly squeezed bottles with lots of pulp that they lay on ice. It’s awesome
yesssssss my precioussssss
I’m watching Fantasmas and this is the most bonkers thing I’ve watched all year.
rambling
Despite wanting to have nothing to do with the modern world at times this feels like the most cathartic TV series ever. Like someone compressed all my millennial stray thoughts and anxieties and imagination and feelings into an insane fever dream of interwoven comedy sketches. There is really nothing like this out there at the moment.
It’s the writer of SNL’s most famous sketches like Papyrus and Wells for Boys doing an entire season of wack which is like a dream come true (okay, I see he’s done another TV show that I have to track down).
I’m glad TV like this gets made; and I’m glad it isn’t as insular and navel-gazing and obnoxiously value-signalling as I feared it might be. There’s an endearing, lovable heart behind the turbocharged surreal/ironic humour.
Worth a watch if you feel like it’s time for something completely different… and want to process life a little differently.
PS Bibo is my favourite character. angrysound.mp3
Cool. This is definitely on my watch list. 👍😎
I have a feeling you might hate it hahaha. But it’s a fairly quick and breezy watch
I’ve watched two episodes already.
It’s awesome. 🙂 It’s just like living in new york 😹
Hey Melbourne Metro if you could turn the heat down on the trains that would be super, because I didn’t feel like sitting on the surface of the sun today.
H-O-T T-O G-O!
Flinder’s full of P-S-Os!
A friend brought me some xs men’s trackies that were on clearance. They are a bit big but they fit more comfortably than the women’s /shrug
Melbcat has been refusing her wet food for a few days (still eating treats and biccies). I’m going to have to give her meds directly and then feed the wet food after. Also a bit worried about her breathing and might have to return to the twice daily puffer.
It feels way too early for hayfever to set in but seems it has
I’m not overly fond of the colours women’s trackies come out in, they tend to be weird seasonally trendy colours which I don’t like, whereas in the men’s section it’s all black, grey, navy, khaki. Much more practical.
Yeah, I prefer the more classic colours
Faark! Elec bill just under $800.
Not buying cheese this week.
And I was shocked at a $90 bill for the last month… But like you, usage consistent with previous years, just that costs have shot up.
Far out I’d die from a heart attack with that kind of bill.
yeah ours is looking that way. I regret jack and shit, we’ve had the house to 20c all winter. I got fucking chillblains every year in teh old place, fuck. that. noise.
Ha! Even with both heaters I could usually only get a section to 13 and fuck the rest. This house truely sucks.
yeah did my time with that. I do not regret that aspect.
Holy shit! Thats more than double mine and we ran the heater almost every day with basically 0 solar input.
Worth having a look at whats using all your juice. And that your power company is not sticking it to you. Ovo was cheapest last time I looked.
It’s the old as shit radiator. Consistent usage with last year, but price increase. One of the reasons for needing to move.
Would it work out cheaper to buy a couple of the $15 heaters from Kmart and plug them in each room you want heated? Might not be able to heat while rooms, but surely at those prices, it’s better to use hearing to take the edge off, and using layers and savvy planning for the rest (ie only heat the rooms people are in, and try to concentrate everyone into as few places as practical)?
I agree. Couple of those oil column heaters in the bedrooms, a knock off oodie and electric throw or 2 in the lounge room. Would be a fuckton cheaper.
Don’t. No. No anko stuff.
My anko heater from Kmart burst into flames last year. And it eats electricity like a fucking beast.
I heart Anko
jeez. naughty anko!
So so naughty
Anko, so hot right now. Anko.
I haven’t had many issues with their heaters. Always get your electronics test and tagged yearly if you can, and make sure you keep the elements free of dust (use an air duster monthly to make sure nothing accumulates on the heating elements)
Not worth the risk. They’re shithouse. 🤚
Heaters are definitely something you don’t want to FAFO with. I got lucky with an op shop find of a decent oil fin heater and then being gifted a nice DeLonghi wall mountable electric heater in almost new condition after my neighbour passed away…
Don’t know. Already only heat the central part of the house. Have a heater of our own too to actually move air. Wanted to be gone by March to avoid this!
I don’t understand how your bill can be so high?
How big is your house and how many people in it? What kind of appliances do you have?
Uninsulated 2bed, 2 people. Landlord specials.
Even so…it does seem unreasonably high given the parameters. I wonder if the power company is doing an estimation rather than a proper read.
I need to give my manager a daily summary of the things I’ve worked on everyday. Things are a little light on today so this time will be an exercise in creative writing
Went to Soi 38 for the first time after work. It’s a Thai restaurant in a parking garage that’s been around for ever and is super popular. I feel like I got punched in the face with flavour … so sour, salty and spicy. So delicious.
The Daily Chair. The other day I bought an outdoor thermometer for the terrace just to check that the nights are warm enough for me to do painting. It’s consistently 2-3 degrees warmer than the temps weathermaps gives for this suburb and it needs to be over 10 , which it is, so that’s good.
I just finished doing a very fine sanding, then a wipe down and another coat of black stain. This time I was very careful to watch for drips.
It’s a really old chair so I just have to accept that it’s going to look knocked about even with restoration. Gen-you-wine shabby, not fake …lol
Lol, the ABC’s doing 1am Wednesday quizzes now.
Are you smarter than a year 9 student?
9/10, I got the 24hr one wrong. But in my defence, it’s 2am and I’m in bed about to do sleepy-doos. Apparently I’m in the top 36% of quizzers, which I guess says a lot about the average person taking a random quiz at 1am on Wednesday morning. Also, seeing as I barely passed year 9 and didn’t take the NAPLAN, I count that as an absolute win. Go me.
I-got-one-question-wrong-can-you-guess-which?
I love that we’re all in the same boat here
I got that one ‘wrong’ too. Ugly construction of question, not entirely correct, and very outdated. The rationale is to connect all the adjectives that describe the noun ‘train pass’. Which contains another adjective - ‘train’. So why didn’t they hyphenate ‘train’ and ‘pass’? I wouldn’t call their ‘correct’ choice as normal usage here in Aus. Maybe hyphenate ‘twenty-four’ cos this functions as a single word but the ‘hour’ surely doesn’t need it for clarity any more than ‘train-pass’ does. Bad question really.
Question 3 is deliberately misleading and wrong. It should be ‘24 hour ticket’. I wouldn’t hyphenate at all (see Goonsey) and no-one writes out time like that. In fact the classic “elements of style” which is a writing bible says you should use numerals for numbers greater or equal to 10 and write them out in words less than that.
That question is some stupid twat adult getting their kicks by making 14 year olds squirm. Or an adult who doesn’t know their grammar.
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Completely agree with you.
Australia doesn’t hyphenate, nasty American habit.
Spotify brought out a musical generation thingy
Apparently based on my musical taste, my musical generation is 99% not my generation, 1% my generation. Love that
As a millennial I don’t know why this surprised me
How do you do, fellow zoomers?
I got the same one, but it doesn’t make sense. Are they only “analysing” our most recent listens, or all of our playlists? Because I have a lot of playlists comprised of 60s, 70s and 80s music, but have been listening recently to those Finnish musicians Käärijä and Erika Vikman lol
Also got Gen Z. I’d love to know how this works. Is it based on when the music was released? If the artist is from a certain generation? I don’t get it.
Lol, no idea. Käärija and Erika are both millennials, but their music has been released in the last 5 years. Maybe it’s based on release date and most listened to playlist?
According to apple music I’m a: Shut Up and Give Us Money! Well, gotta appreciate them being honest I guess.
Mine is skewed thanks to the child using my account…
How do I find this out? I couldn’t find it anywhere, but it might be because I’m using the cracked client…
Probably. It just popped up when I opened it for the first time at midnight. Never got anything like this when I had a cracked client
Alarm went off during a nightmare, one where you knew something terrible was going to happen but it hadn’t yet dropped yet. Certainly puts a downer on the day.
I had absolutely wild dreams last night. First part of my dreams consisted of evacuating a high rise when the fire alarms went off, but I said “yeah nah fuck off I’m 47 stories up” and took the lift. Second dream consisted of being in Frankston for some reason, and there were SES people putting out a fire and removing a downed tree from the road. But they found illegal fireworks, and they took them home and set them off that night. But they screwed it up and blew up the entirety of Frankston. Third dream consisted of random bugs killing each other, it was really weird and uncomfortable, but not a nightmare
Mine was about a fire too I think, or something was going to explode. And you knew everyone was gonna die but its like it was stuck on rails and you couldnt change the outcome. Deeply disturbing.
