Daily Discussion Thread: 🐥 Thu 18 Jan 2024

Just put down a deposit for a wood heater for the living room.

I cannot wait for winter with a roaring fire and scary movies.

Coffee in front of a fireplace is one of lifes simple treasures. even just sitting and watching a roaring fire on a cold night.
- Reading too. Less screen time is one of my goals for 2024.

Lovely sunrise, hot air ballons over Carlton, biridies are up and cheeping, Bill and Ted are patiently waiting for breakfast.

I miss the Young Seagoons already. They fill the house with so much love and joy 😭

Some dude on the escalator at Spencer Street just farted in my face. Pure, unadulterated methane right on my inhale.

I feel sick 🤢

light it up
- I had a lighter, no idea why I didn't think of that lol N E X T T I M E
I shouldn't giggle at this image, I'm sure it wasn't funny for you. But I can be a little juvenile sometimes.
- Funny definitely! Not at the time tho, smelled like death
Especially with the price of methane these days, what a waste.
Hot af
- Hot, yes. I choked a bit ha

Marketplace win: this item is not available!!

Miss Meow's unused climbing poles should also be heading off soon to be destroyed by another cat that really enjoys scratching them to pieces.

Edit: cat poles now also gone, yay!

GO BACK TO BED!

This is getting repetitive now.

I love how you assume that we were in bed in the first place 😁
Zzzzzzz
I'm just up to take some meds 😫
With bloody pleasure

Vet is giving Gibson some pain relief just in case she hurt herself, but there's nothing outwardly wrong.

However, I have to sedate her in advance next time as she was rather unhappy with the vet....

Excellent news!! I'm glad everything went (semi) well for everyone.
Edit - my toddler grade spelling.

oooh they finally were stupid enough to parrot the line that "the driveway is unsafe to use".

Specifically in regards to traffic during access and egress.

I'm fairly certain both the council and vic roads are going to have something fairly expletive to say about that....

I have been fighting with auspost literally for years. Finally just submitted a complaint to the ombudsman, sent the reference number to AusPost and my issue was miraculously fixed and I received two different apologies.
- Oh that's heartening, what was the issue?

Up at 6am for the “cat trying to puke on carpet sprint to the tiled floor”. Grrr

Urk. That pumping sound they make 🤢

According to auspost there is no driveway and even if we had one it would not be safe to use at any time of the day.

well 1) I'm standing in it right now and 2) I got six pages (now) of logs from aramex, fastway pet circle, tnt, temu, couriers please, budget direct, amazon, soilworx, civic, eco247, DHL and indeed, Auspost yourselves that says you are fulla sheeeeeet

I have successfully completed two tasks today that required phone calls. I am really terrible at those - I'm not sure if it's because I will take any excuse to delay a phone call or because the times I like to sit down and do organisation type stuff generally fall outside of business hours.

I'm so tired and I still have two days of work 😭😱😵💀

- aww

Definitely feeling the mileage today. And that's without taking one of the clients to Oakleigh for escorted shopping. 😂.
In other news, the cops asked me yesterday if I had a spare key so they didn't have to call in a locksmith, so I took it down to where the car's being held and had a chance to look at it - it looks fine from the outside aside from missing number plates. They've taken a few things that were inside the car including the bluetooth thingy, but I couldn't tell if the radio was still there.
Just gotta wait for forensics to go over it, and then the insurance company will get it and go over it, and then all being well I get it back!

Consider getting it detailed if insurance doesn't cover that.

Doing my best to stay out of this "doctor killed in home invasion" and "Old man pushed into water" stories. Not doing a good job, I admit... but man what is going on here lately?! Be interesting to see how this plays out politically. Andrews would've already called a presser, announced another well-meaning-but-ultimately-useless-taskforce. If Libs had half a brain cell to share between them they'd be attacking the Allan government on being soft, and I hate to say it but that'd be a pretty easy picture to paint at the moment.

crime ain't upticking. Reporting of crime in sensationalised ways is. The fact you went straight to the politics of it is your answer as to why.
- It's also a classic example of the availability heuristic.
  Two notable youth crime events happened recently; therefore, youth crime must be increasing. It's a non sequitur. But it does unfortunately work on the populace -- and has since time immemorial.
- I'm not saying crime is up. I'm saying high profile things are up. yes it sells news, but then again, a doctor being killed in a home invasion probably should be news.
It's not the government though? It's a judicial issue.
- Correct. But government write the laws. They invest or ignore public housing or rehabilitation programs, drug policies. edit: Also need to point out that facts have not baring on a channel 7 "special "investigation""
Melbourne/Australia just seems to be getting more feral.
Edit: Cripes, now I’ve seen about the tent cities and shipping containers being rented out with single beds inside. It’s fucked
I find it depressing. Yeah I know they are young, but there are zero real consequences for their actions, the kids are probably laughing and boasting of their horrific acts thinking they are top shit. It’ll be a slap on the wrist, released on bail and free to go do some more pushing off piers, bashing, robbing, murdering. Our government has decided this is acceptable because it’s not happening in their own back yards, so there’s no plans for rehab programs, penalties, interventions etc. It’s awful.

I don’t want to get up and start work…

Ugh, I'm just wiped. I haven't been consuming the best food for a few weeks and it's starting to rear its ugly head. Gyah. Sads.

I just want the microwave from 5th Element. I feel this would partially solve my problems. Hehe.

chicken. Good.

Sent the REA a pet request form earlier this week. Can they say no? How long do I wait before I chase up on my application?

In addition to the other responses, they have two weeks to respond, no response by 2 weeks = can keep pet.
iirc, REs/owners can't deny the request unless they can prove to vcat they have a good reason.
"Renters who want to have a pet in the property must ask their rental provider (landlord) for permission. Rental providers must have a good reason to refuse the renter’s request. Rental providers can apply to VCAT for an order to refuse permission."
https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/housing/renting/repairs-alterations-safety-and-pets/pets

-34 minutes from smoke detector person’s eta. Will they make their 2 hour window or will I chuck a tanty and put the chain on the door?

Electrical check person showed up 6 minutes early yesterday! I mean, they'd had to cancel last week, but still, will take a win!
- Early might mean no pants! 15 min left. I know it’s not the tech’s fault, it’s the bloody offshore schedulers but GRUMP.
- 9:57 HA! Also defeated statistics by not being under 30 and a Kiwi.

Last night was a rough one. I got up to pee, then once I got back to sleep Melbcat stood on my locked but open laptop to restart a loud video. I settled her but a while later she was sick on the carpet, then she was fussy and got me up to sort her biscuits out a few times. I slept in stretches.

This morning she was straining for a little pee so I need to try and get a sample or sort a lift to the vet :(

I caught uber pets to the vet today if that helps. Hope she feels better soon ❤️
- Thanks. I'm not doing crash hot myself so I'm hoping to get a urine sample at home to drop off. I've prepared the trays in a way that has let me get a sample before - now we wait. 🤞
  I hope Gibson is doing ok

Trying 4 cookies. Banana Oat, Banana Cocoa Oat, Banana Blueberry Oat and Banana Cocoa Blueberry oat. Bit worried about the blueberry/choc one...

edit: Yeah.... no. No. Less said about all 4 of 'em the better.

Well of course, anything banana goes straight to the bin

I should not be trusted to train anyone on anything

Damn I just finished the last of all 1800 mahjong games in my mahjong games app. Now I have no more mahjong games to play.

I'm nearly better, I no longer feel like crying from pain and can sleep a bit better. Have seen so much tv 😀

I watched Painkillers, about oxycontin. The series is just like watching Narcos but with no shoot outs.

They could have used "Tuyo" ( the narcos theme ) as the theme tune for the sackler family

That’s a relief, I hope it continues to subside
- improvement is slow and I admit sciatica is a bit scary, especially upper back sciatica
I've been meaning to watch that, thanks for the reminder :)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtJ6yAGjsIs
  It's the same picture

Another day, another decal. This one is a bit hidden in the corner of the entrance.

That’s adorable, is that at your work or home?
- This one's at home.
Hopefully Miss Meow doesn’t go thumping into that corner.
- The sign says no cats allowed, I'm sure that will work.

Meeting. Bored

Anyone else got a wifi Tv that regularly shits itself when ads come on? This thing is driving me batty.

Ethernet for the win
- Rental…. Only get SBS, ABC, Tubi. No idea whv the internet others don’t work.

Melbcat is lucky to have someone who attends to the details like you 🫂
- She's a very special girl and deserves good care 😻

Why cold when summer

Melbourne
- :(

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Took today off work to try and shake the last of this cough. Codral Original seems to be kicking its ass which is good. Noticeable improvement since I started taking it yesterday.

Went to the Pancake Parlour for some breakfast for lunch and then saw The Beekeeper at the movies. That movie is dumb as hell but it means to be so that's ok. I do like that they're bringing a real issue to more people's attention and I hope lots of middle age/older people see it and learn from it (the bad guys are phishing scammers and it shows how they do it, in an easy to understand simplified way).

Jason Statham sure does kill and maim a lot of innocent people who are just doing their jobs though... but we look past that because it's a silly shoot-em-up movie.

Watching the tennis and seeing the ads for the pixel 8pro, and being satisfied with the refurb'd 6pro I just got.

Also.. Got new runners this afternoon. ASICS nimbus. Looking forward to running with comfort/support tomorrow.

anyone have the good word on where to buy a (good quality, nice looking) sofa bed? must be a good sofa AND a good bed, but emphasis on the sofa part. I also want to be able to see & sit on it before I buy it. Price not really an issue.

We bought a Tammy sofa bed (but not from this store, I just did a quick search) because it felt like a nice couch and the bed is very comfortable. The cover isn't removable, so you can't throw it in the washing machine, though.
- cheers, will check it out