RAIN! THE MARGE IS HEREE!
Yep pouring down here in Thornbury. Fast moving and won’t last long, but the garden really really needs it so I’m grateful.
All the new plants I put in today will be very grateful - I gave them a good watering, but this sort of soaking is what they really need.
I’m glad I don’t need to watch the amount downloaded on the home Internet any longer. Between my kid downloading most of his Nintendo Switch library to his shiny new SD card on Christmas night and me downloading 100 GB or so off Steam tonight, it would have blown away whatever limits my account had.
To think, I took a screenshot of an especially heavy download session one time in the 90’s, where I managed to stay online for almost 24 hours and downloaded 139 MB! One session!
I’m glad most home internet has gone unlimited, too. In my comparison spree, I didn’t even see any that were limited, though I’m sure they still exist somewhere
My thing that I feel like I got to grow up seeing get better isn’t internet speeds, it’s mobile data allowances. The first phone plan mum had that I remember anything about had 2gb data for $30 a month. When I got my first phone plan, that climbed up to 5gb for the same price.
When I moved to melbs, I ditched Telstra and doubled it at Optus with 10gb a month. I switched to boost for a little while who were offering 15 a month. Then when I turned 14 and could sign up for Amaysim, I switched to them and started getting 30 a month. Then after I’d been with them for a year, they just all of a sudden upgraded me to 55gb a month at no extra cost. I’ve only ever been on a $30/mo plan.
Having to keep an eye on data usage was fun haha. Even when I was on 10gb, I had to setup a little thing on my phone that would automatically turn my data off every 100mb so I would be more aware of my usage. I never had any left by renewal time, which means I had to have used an average of 280mb per day. Not a lot without wifi
I hear you. My current upload since I moved into this place is 43tb. And download is 18tb lol
I remember struggling to download 1.6mb for a shareware game over an hour ot so…
I might have 18tb total storage capacity in the house (5 phones, 3 tablets, 5 laptops, two servers, one desktop and external storage). I sure as hell don’t have 43 tb. What the hell are you transferring?
Mostly Virtual Instruments. One drumkit can be upto 170gb. A piano could be 120gb etc It starts to add up after a while.
A nightly image of my c drive is created and uploaded as well for safety.
I have all my important studio projects syncing to google drive in real time.
And then I have a seedbox running torrents. I have a couple of 10tb server hard drives for storage.
What sort of upload speed you got?
I’ll check when I’m up. It’s 1000 megabit download.
Probably 50 then.
Come September you should get 100 up.
(unless you have the SMB plans which go up to 400 up for maybe $300-400 monthly)
Thanks for doing thread, @TheWitchofThornbury! 🖤
Sky pretty.
Shadows…how do they work? 😾
Should get one of those dangly things that hang in the window that put rainbow prisms on the wall
That’s not a bad idea!
Upload Download. Many loads are happening.
I haven’t checked internet speed since moving into this house. Is 54 mbps any good?
Is that upload or download? By Australian standards, that’s acceptable. 50 up is about as good as you’ll get for now. 50 down isn’t the best, but should be fine for one or two people who only make light usage of it mixed with the occasional Netflix
You probably have room to upgrade though, unless you’re on truly ancient technology
Thank you. It’s download speed. We got an offer to install FTTP and I didn’t follow up on it. Maybe I’ll check it out.
If it’s free, I say absolutely fuckin go for it. There aren’t really any cons at all that I can think of. They’ll need to do some wiring obviously, and there’ll be a device installed outside somewhere, and I believe usually a new port inside that’ll replace your old phone port or whatever you currently use. But there aren’t really any disadvantages to it besides needing to find a few hours to be at home for them to install
(If you’re in a rental, I don’t believe the landlord is actually allowed to say no unless it’s heritage registered. If you own, I dunno, you might have a couple of screw holes to patch at most)
Many loads are happening.
Mostly laundry in this house. Internet speed irrelevant.
A load of laundry, a load in the dishwasher & I just loaded up the green waste bin with weeds. And if I can get all the planting done today that will be a load off my mind!
Yeah I was referring to this morning’s thread comments, but that got me thinking about what I’m paying for versus what I’m actually getting with the download speeds.
I’m told that is good.
Thanks.
Love getting a box of Nan’s Christmas bikkies 😍
so cute and such a treat
^Obligatory Cat Tax included^
The only downside is having to share them with my partner 😂
Tax Invoice
1x Nan’s Bikkies Genuine Biscuit range - $0.00*
10x Nan’s love - $0.00*Total: $0.00
Total tendered: $0.00
Change: $0.00* - Taxable item - includes CST
😂😂 I love this!
no smileys
Why even is today a no emoji day
condition of entry
sad face
ditto
Well I don’t mind it that much I guess. It gets rid of the whole “passive-aggressive smiley face” thing
I got bored. Exercise your vocabularies peeps.
What’s this ‘share’ shit? When my elderly friend brings me the traditional Christmas container of chhena jili, chhena poda and other assorted indian delights His Lordship knows that shit is mine, not his.
One year she made a box up for each of us, I think it was my partners and I first Xmas together. Since then, we’ve become one Cronenberg entity, so we have to share the box now 😂
With how much I hype them up, it would be against the festive spirit to deny my partner his share 😂😂
But if your mate, makes you delicious treats, they are yours and his lordship can languish 😂
Food pantry win today - I got a whole chicken & some crumbed tenders. This answers both my “what should I make for dinner” and “what should I take for work lunch tomorrow” questions.
Silly question - how does the chicken stay cool and safe to eat? Is there like an esky or a public fridge
No fridge or anything unfortunately. Mostly it is put out frozen & you can judge whether it still feels cold. Otherwise it is up to you to judge for yourself wheher you think it is ok based on smell etc. - and it is usually at/past expriy when donated to start with. Happily the chicken was still frozen solid when I got it, sometimes things are a bit more iffy.
Wish my area had a decent food pantry! For an area with such expensive real estate people here can be remarkably scummy. “Visitors” from an even scummier nearby suburb would most likely pillage everything and trash the pantry. We had several little libraries trashed in the last few years. Food donations around here are limited to well meaning church groups with their packages of mostly expired food. Sad.
There are definitely people around here that do that sort of thing too. Someone stole one of the cupboards once, and there was someone doing lovely things like hiding fish at the back of the cupboard. There are also people who will just take everything.
The lady who runs the pantry puts a lot of work into putting out just a little bit at a time of the good stuff so there is not a big amount to take at any one time. There is usually plenty of bread, other things are only occasional (or if you go at the right time in the evening when they are getting the supermarket deliveries there is more). I get a fair bit because I walk Mr Woof past it twice a day, but it’s often empty (except for bread).
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Score!
Thanks witchy
I got 11ish hours of sleep. Very very very much needed. Still feel like I could use a bit more though, but I’ll probably call it here
Hubs just destroyed incel ideology by pointing out danny devito fucks and I can’t stop laughing
I agree, but it is Danny De Devito after all.
Set up podium tennis. Children have massive fight with each other. Have a few angry hits myself after they storm inside. Why HIT can’t HIT we HIT just HIT have HIT fun HIT like HIT a HIT normal HIT fucking HIT family HIT It was hard to put in the lawn because, although lush and spongey to walk on, the ground is so hard. Gonna need a deeper hole. Brought it in so it doesn’t get rusty when it rains, which it looks like it will soon. Now I feel a bit flat because the fun thing wasn’t fun for them. I’m gonna stop pouting and make some bolognaise I think.
podium tennis
Have to admit I have no idea what that is.
Actually I think it might be called totem tennis and I miss named it? It’s a pole you stick into the lawn with a tennis ball on a long string attached to the top on a spiral so it spins around when you hit it. You get a couple of bats with it and you can play solo or with two people.
Oh yep I’ve always known that as totem tennis. Never years of podium tennis
Yeah I misremembered the name. Doing that a bit lately whilst not working. Apparently working in a factory keeps me sharp. God help me 🤦🏼♀️
How about tennis ball on a pole? :D
I’d never call it that, and IRL would probably jovially correct anyone who called it that, but at the same time, I wouldn’t be confused if I heard/read it. I’d know what you mean
totem tennis
ooh I see, had one of those as a kid too and there were fights :)
I’m finding the cheapo manual auger I got ages ago has made doing clean holes in tough ground a lot easier. Surprisingly seems to be getting more and more use. Could be worth a thought.
An auger 🤔 I feel like we’ve probably got one somewhere… or is it an awl I’m thinking of? I think I’m remembering we have an awl for making holes in leather etc. Geez, a couple of weeks with no work and I feel like my brain’s turning to mush lol 🚫💡
totem tennis and it’s great fun
Still sick. Fucking hell. Hope to be better by new years eve :(
Hope you feel better ASAP!
Thank you ❤️
Got a crook back today and it’s not even a shagger’s back. How sad is that.
As far as everyone else is concerned it’s 100% shagger’s back.
It’s not his birthday.
I thought birthdays are for shagger’s neck
Shagger’s neck is for the young and horny in the backseat of a small car.
It’s someone’s birthday though. Might as well celebrate that.
True. I’ll celebrate opening a new box of tissues so you don’t need to tell me twice.
Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋Cba doing a grocery shop so can I get one of everything please chef?
Also the coal is working: 🚶♂️☠️🦪
If only you’d both agreed to my terms…
It’s all inside this box. We got it from Pandora. 📦
Thanks chef, but when I opened it all that was inside was darkness and emptiness with some weird writing that even Google translate couldn’t make out. I assume that was the invoice?
Thank you for introducing the internet to the text.
Unfortunately for all three of us, it was the text stuck in the lid of the box.
Discount Turkey please
🐥
Front yard planting has been done. The augur to go on the drill worked well & made digging holes one handed much easier. I was very careful to make sure I was wearing gloves.
A couple of the plants might not have survived the wait, but I planted them anyway in case they are able to regrow from the roots. I’ve just got a few more plants to go in the shady spots and down the side of the house and that will be everything.
Augers, so hot right now :)
