• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I want to know why my very top lemon, at least 2.something metres up was eaten by something (guessing a rat) and they ignored the many lower ones. Is it sport? showing off? Big respect but that would not have been easy.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    2 months ago

    I’ve been reading stuff on the internets.

    Wikipedia is wrong!!

    The Edit Wars are getting worse.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Any improvement Sammi had was minimal, so I phoned the vet and they’ve admitted her for observation and further tests (including hopefully an abdominal ultrasound).
    Cross fingers for us.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I was surprised by the Wattle Festival and just the sheer size of it yesterday. We only did part of the main street of Hurstbridge and we hardly got to the whole thing.

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I was going to go last year - they were running steam train specials out to Hurstbridge. Don’t know if they did that this year. Unfortunately we missed our train which made us miss the other trains and it wasn’t possible to recover from, even though it was a shuttle train

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        Yes, they had the steam train out again. I might try to get the kids on there next year because they were getting tired around 11 and we had afternoon plans. We got to see it leave before we headed off at least

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    8.5 hours straight with no lunch break (by my own choice because I didn’t want to spend even longer outside). Ugh, I had hoped it would be a short day today - it was easy at least, mostly support for someone else and driving - but just a lot of time standing around not working on my assignment, while my brain and guts are in stress overdrive again. I’m glad that my work now ends when I leave, but whose bright idea was it to reintroduce ongoing stress with uni!!!

    I’m going to just eat and lie down for a bit before I attempt to do any uni stuff. I’m 70% of the way there. Just need to skim through enough articles to cite them appropriately…

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Vet just called - as before, nothing detected in the external examination and nothing in the blood tests. They’re going to x-ray her and if nothing shows up on that, organise an ultrasound. Also they’ll give her fluids and an anti nausea injection since she has been vomiting on and off since Thursday.

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    One thing I’m really quite good at is packing to go on a trip really quickly. I’ve got like 3 laptops, an ipad, a 27" monitor, a media streamer, PS5 controller and all manner of cables, my clothes and my CPAP machine all fitting snuggly into my trusty suitcase. Then I have my backpack of stuff and a tote with foodstuffs and my blender. All took maybe 30-40 minutes and there was a shower in there too.

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Okay there’s a lot to unpack here…

      D-do you need 3 laptops and a monitor? Why do you need 3 laptops and a monitor? How long are these trips? Drug dealers only have 2 phones, what purpose do 3 laptops serve? By media streamer do you mean like a Chromecast/whatever that Amazon knockoff is?

      And why do you need to bring a shower in your bag?

      When I took my 5 day or whatever it was trip to Mildura, I took my phone, my tablet, 2 cables, 3 power banks, and a pair of headphones. Similar story with Sydney and Adelaide

      When I was away for 3 weeks at the various hotels/AirBnBs, I took my phone, laptop, tablet, headphones, a power bank, chargers and while I was at the BnB, I brought my PC and 1 monitor (I didn’t bring it with me to either of the 2 hotels), I also brought a raspberry pi planning on tinkering around with it to kill some time, but I unfortunately forgot the little mini micro nano HDMI thingy, so couldn’t actually do much with it (could’ve done some config and set up SSH without first setting up the pi but eh). And I thought that was a lot

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This TAFE course seems pretty fun. The wifi signal down this end of the house is abysmal though, and because the repeater I had laying around needs LoS to the router, it doesn’t actually help at all.

    I was meant to do a janky under house ethernet setup today but the person I had convinced to crawl into the spiders lair (aka under the house) is sick. As soon as I do I swear I’m setting up a janky mesh network

    Anyway the course seems nice. I like the diversity. There’s more people around my age than I thought there’d be, as well as a few older people. The trainer gives off nice but stern aunty vibes too, but seems sweet

    Also also, every time I have to meet new people, I’m always astounded by how close my mental pictures are. Just through 1-2 emails and their name and role, I can usually figure out what they’ll look like before I ever actually meet them. It’s like a party trick at this point

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I just finished. It was nice. I still don’t really know wtaf I’m doing, and feel rather out of place, but there’s a bit of an uncontrollable smile on my face at the moment

      Edit: they also seem to have some support services available. Obviously I’ve never studied anywhere else, so have no frame of reference to compare it to, but I booked in a video call with someone to learn how to use the LMS thingy (it is very janky and not at all intuitive)

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        LOL that’s hilarious. There is actually that stray cat that everyone thinks is a massive chonker, but is actually just really floofy. It seems happy to go wherever if there’s a bit of ham involved, maybe that’s a solid idea!

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I’m having an unbelievably hard time of life. I’m just not getting a break.

    Melbcat is feeling more comfortable with adequate pain relief though, ate some wet food and is cuddling. I’m waiting for Tuesday and counting down to receiving the antibiotics

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    3 months ago

    Payday today!! I’m trying to get the enthusiasm levels up like all you Wednesday pay people from last week, but when you have a strict budget it’s all divided up and spent before you get it anyway.

    It is nice seeing the car money creeping higher though - I’ve gone from “could buy another car the same as mine if I crash it” level to being able to get something that’s a bit nicer. Slowly moving towards the point I can buy a car I would actually choose to buy without being forced by the death of my current one.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Monday pay people represent! The boss does our payslip in the morning but our pays sometime during the afternoon, so it’s a small “yay” when I get the email and a bigger more relieved “YAY” when the bread is in the bag.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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        3 months ago

        We used to get the pay slip available on the pay system some random time during the day, but there is no email or any notification so you just have to keep checking if it is there. Recently they started doing it earlier so it is there over the weekend which is much better. We have a stupidly complicated pay structure with varying penalty rates so we always have to go through and double check everything for errors (although not everyone’s math skills are up to the task, so they probably get away with a lot of mistakes).

        My bank now notifies me when the actual money goes into the bank, so that is always nice to see.

    • melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      my pay doesn’t land until Thursday night, dammit. I much preferred a previous job where it would arrive on a Tuesday afternoon. somehow that feels much more civilised.

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Despite being directly the in projected storm path, we were spared the brunt of it.

    Wind and rain for about 15 minutes and then some small hail.

    Overall, not the worst we’ve had.

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Cousins in Sunbury had it bad like 20 minutes before it hit us. I think we were on the edge of the clouds and they got the centre.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      I was gonna say, not that bad out here either. Fair bit of lightning and thunder but no hail or anything. Apparently emerald copped it though.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Apart from the power going off for maybe half an hour, which was kinda fun tbh, it wasn’t as bad as we were expecting.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I was living in Horsham when the power station blew up on a hot day in November. I was watching one of those mid Arvo money programs on tv (the millionaires chaser or whatever), then the power went out. Then there was a bang. Then there were sirens. Went outside, and there was a gigantic black plume directly in front of us (we were on the other side of town, but a small town and the lack of high-rises makes it easy to see such things). Then like 2 hours later we got a text message from powercor, saying the power is out. Was a bit of a “ya think???” Situation, but from memory they fixed it the next morning

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    train went pass south yarra
    spotify ad 2000s Dad Rock Mix

    excuse me what
    -find the playlist- WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS AND GOING UNDER ARE MUSIC FOR OLD PEOPLE NOW?

    okay

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I don’t have a dog, and don’t have decent photos of the last dog I did have, but I have many photos of Toby. Toby was a dog that one of the workers at my last place used to bring in most weeks. I haven’t seen him in over a year though, but he’s a good boy.

      He always looked angry, but never really acted angry. He barely even barked. Still looked like he was having some violent intrusive thoughts though

      Sadly I don’t think I have any photos of happy Toby, because as soon as he saw the camera, he’d turn away or put on a frown. He was a tired little guy though, and by the end of the night he’d conk out on the couch and adopt the belly rub position before going back to sleep

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Inherited doggie from my mum after she was put into a home.

      Been awhile now so no longer with us.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      I haven6got a dog but there are 3 dogs important to me. One is this guy and the other was this guy. Both dogs helped my son get over his fear of dogs. And then there was Rook, the 2ish year old jet black great Dane, who is a great big baby who lived down the road from me. Unfortunately his owners were evicted so the landlord could do extensive renovations and I don’t see him anymore 😢