Daily discussion thread: 🍃 Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Gah. I spent all day and night troubleshooting tech and why things weren’t charging.

Go out and buy a replacement part and I think everything is suddenly working and connecting together.

Felt like I just wasted money today figuring that out or just having it fixed magically.

Well at least I went and stocked up on spices which was the original aim of today.

Coffee time!

ooh, what spices did you get 😻
- I picked more mild Moroccan Hoyt’s.
  It’s so nice!

poor baby 😭

I am never up this late, but I took Mr 10 to Hamer Hall to see the MSO play Return of the Jedi. Fantastic performance, and a good excuse for a day off school tomorrow/today. And I am that tired I cannot think.... goodnight peeps. Sweet dreams.

Holidays....start.. ..NOW

(Narrator: actually holidays start in about an hour after greeegy has done the last few jobs unfinished yesterday...)

People, people! Please do not attempt to use a portable fire pit indoors! A very smart otherwise friend just made a very bad mistake.

I wish I had one of those and a proper yard to put it in... Marshmallows and bevs
Oh dear. Did they burn the house down or just give themselves smoke inhallation?
- No persons or felines harmed. Nor purportedly furniture. I fear for the floorboards.

Just remembered supermarkets closed tomorrow morning, so got to get a few things today.

Oh shit, are they? Till when?
- Most will open at 1pm tomorrow, so just closed for the morning.

Think I've broken my boyfriend slightly... now that the nights are cooler, I haven't been turning the fan on to sleep with and suddenly he's having awful sleep. Last night it was a bit warmer, so I turned it back on and he slept so well. White noise ftw!

Could you buy a little desk top one to sit on the bedside table?
- Ooh, that's a good idea! Thank you!
I turn my fan on regardless of season, because I can't sleep otherwise. If it's cold, I just face it away from me and keep it on the lowest speed.
- I think I'm going to need to be doing this! We've moved into a house that might almost be "too quiet" for him to sleep without it anyway! I love having the fan on anyway because it makes snuggling easier!
I have my google home/nest mini thing on my bedside table which I stream noise through when I don't want to use my fan. That helps me. I often listen to rain storm sounds but there's one track which usually gives me pretty vivid dreams https://open.spotify.com/track/0YTKlaMszVp6rja34CzUDs?si=d12d51059ab243e8
Might not want to try sleeping to that on repeat without spotify premium though, it might throw ads between plays.

Well that's finally one saga over. I have wheels again! I think I've grown grey in my eyebrows from the stress.

Tomorrow I shall start organising insurance, put in a dashcam, look up places to get quotes for a new head unit, set up direct debits for rego, shop for seat covers and all the rest. And tidy my godawfully messy carport with months of dead leaves and crap accumulated. My neighbours will probably be rolling their eyes and sighing, "at last"...

That is good news.
You should organise insurance first (you should have done that before you picked it up). There is a cooling off period so you can cancel if you find a better deal when you have time, but you don't want to be without it.
Congrats! That must be a relief!
- I feel so much lighter and free, even though I'm once again chained to the regular expenses of a car. No more faffing around with carshares at odd hours, constantly checking PT times, carrying around a coat and charger, leaving things behind at home, saying no to catchups...

Hello possums.

Hello koala

Cooked chicken carcass in a plastic bag. Sure.

It's the eve of a 4 day weekend. Sadly I have a day filled with BS meetings that actually require my mental presence.

Happy Faux Friday!
- Thanking you kindly

Dear boss:

If you try and do something and it doesn't work so you throw it up to me that's ok, just fucking tell me. Don't go 'oh I was gonna do it but was too busy you do it'

Signed: the woman who prepped and went to build a server only to find the PERC is fucked.

My first time watching Zoolander and Zoolander 2. I have no words to describe what I just saw.

Zoolander is one of my favourite movies. It's absolutely genius
I love that MUGATU jumper with his name in bold across it.
What is this? A movie for ants?
But... Why male models?

What wildly inappropriate thing should I do while completing this workplace behaviour course?

Add the words 'Alpha Male' to your email signature.
Bonus points if you're not actually a male.
- Alpha male attack helicopter?
Doing lines and blowing hookers in the bathroom.
Strip stark naked and dance around your desk hollering 'Death to the Machine!'
- Might need to turn the heater on first

forgot to have second coffee
will have one and get up late tmr
breakfast might be delayed

How does a pampered house cat get her claws so sharp?😖 Melbcat is tap dancing in my lap to get comfy, pulling threads out of my good trackies and the skidding with her weight is dragging her claws through my flesh.

She much prefers to be grubby and wild but I need to clean her eyes, have another wipe at the remnants of the ear drops, give her ears another wash and clip her nails.

@melbaboutown @Seagoon How often do you trim her nails?
A good scratching pad can help too.
- It might not. I have two, one blunts himself perfectly, the other is pointy as F. Same scratch trees etc never tried cutting them. Best guess is the blunt one spends more time in the tile end of the house, grout.

chili bread is in oven 🌶️🧀🥖

@Seagoon How'd the chilli bread turn out?

Price of Spotify going up another buck. Didn't they just increase it to $12.99 like a few months ago?

This is probably the last increase I'll tolerate though. I used a cracked premium thingy for about 2 years but then they offered a 3 month free trial and I thought 12 bucks was reasonable enough so I've been paying that for 2 or 3 years now. But then it went up to 13 and songs I like started disappearing. And they started forcing ads and concerts/merch down my throat constantly. Now it's 14 bucks and every time I open the app it's advertising some concert or something at me.

It's at the point where if I hadn't already been using Spotify, I wouldn't consider it as a decent option, but since all my stuff's on there I'll just suck it up. If it goes to 15 bucks I'm out though. I'll export my playlists and ditch it

[END RANT]

Edit: oh and what's annoyed me the most recently is that shuffle seems to have gotten worse. Sure Spotify, I have over 2,000 songs in my playlist, by I'm sure it's totally a coincidence that "shuffle" is choosing the same few songs every time I "shuffle". (Apparently they capped the shuffle at 150 songs to work better on low end devices or something)

If your on iOS see if you can get a gang together and start a family plan, works out cheaper and you get more iCloud storage for backup.

Your assessment begins now…

"The helmet interferes with my psychic abilities" "So will a bullet" - Dredd
Um, what are we assessing?
- I nearly thought it was our other Act of God who posted the original comment and was going to say contract law..
- Physics 101, force and momentum

That’s all that needs to be said.

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Just bought an Android Auto Wireless adaptor off Ali Express for $25. 😳... Will report back

So I watched Quiet on Set.

It's a post modern series that does very little other than look at very few facts and talk to victims about their feelings.

No experts in the child acting business, child safety or law are talked to. No forensic psychiatrists are talked to about the kind of people these criminals are. No solutions are explored other than, "we should stop this. "

But there ARE experts out there who deal with looking after child safety, there are experts in law regarding child abuse , there are psychiatrists who deal with child abusers in court.

Over all this show was nothing but victim porn that gave no solutions. I doubt the makers of the show even understand how what they did is very little help.

And I'm sure the adults interviewed about their experiences thought they might be helping other people in the same situation.

But without solutions it's very little help at all. It's just more exploitation.

I give it 1 hobbit for dealing with the subject of male rape at all.

Studios like to tell talent there are hundreds of people lining up to take their job so they should be grateful for what they have.
They never seem to apply the same logic to the creepy people making middling TV shows that any writer could helm.

I've mentioned a couple of times recently having some "real life" problems, but I haven't really wanted to talk about it much here while I was still processing everything.

My Dad has been diagnosed with lung cancer and does not have much longer to live. My Mum also has a fair few health problems and our current plan is for her to move back to Melbourne and share a house with me so I can provide more assistance. I feel a bit like I'm in the eye of a hurricane at the moment, everything seems perfectly normal right now but I'm constantly on edge waiting for that to change.

It feels like I should be doing something but there's not really anything to do at the moment, so I'm researching and making plans for every likely future possibility I can think of. Which probably means something completely unexpected will happen instead.

- They have. Everything was updated for both Mum & Dad last year after some health scares. The timing and details might have been unknown but it is not really unexpected at this point.
I'm really sorry. This sounds like a lot to take on.
It feels like I should be doing something but there’s not really anything to do at the moment
With kindness, I disagree. I think you should be spending as much time with your folks as you are comfortable with. Bugger everything else right now.
- I have been spending more time with them, but Dad can't do anything now, he can't really speak and is basically just sitting in his armchair with the TV on 24/7. It's not a very pleasant environment unfortunately. I'd love to be able to take Mum out to get away from it for a bit but she doesn't want to leave him alone for any length of time. We've pretty much all said our goodbyes because he could go at any time and now we are all just waiting.