Daily discussion thread: 🐨 Saturday, May 25, 2024

Feels like I've been going flat out even after settlement day, so this is the first chance I've had the space and energy to have a little celebration.
Couple of dishes from the little Chinese cafe which is a bit of a local institution, the bottle of bubbly the estate agent gave me when we sold the house, and sitting down to finally watch Bridgerton. Ahhh.

Jeez. Massive house fire a few doors down in kew.

Thing just collapsed in front of us all...

Everyone safe.

Poor cop telling everyone to stay away. Not an easy task when there are 200 people watching on she gave up.

Jeez that's what the structure fire warning I saw earlier today was... middle of a hike and got to a rare spot with phone reception and an unexpected ping.

Good night everyone 🐱

goodnight fluffybutt 😘

Guys, I think there's somethinf wrong with Ozbargain. It's meamt to help you save money, but instead it's making me start a whiskey collection?

Has this happened to anyone else?

I'm zonked from the gym. Early dinner, some music making and video games then off to bed.

Plans for the day abruptly derailed by realisation of failing silicone job at base of shower wall right in the splash zone.

Try getting through marine epoxy grout you fucker

Tell it to respect your boundaries. If it doesn’t it’s getting cut out of your life.
grout attachment on an oscillating tool?
- Old stuff was straight silicone, so lots of swearing, picks, blades.....but l'epoxie be situated in lovely clean voids and curing merrily away since 8:30 pm.
Still, shower pan under tiles should keep things waterproof unless the membrane has failed?
- 60 year old house, 40 year old bathroom
  failure was at the transition between wall tiles and pan

I trimmed my beard, shaved, gave myself a haircut, showered and was seconds away from booking a room up on the border for the night but then all of my motivation just fell away. I might just stay home and save my money, then go for a drive and find some mountains and start a new audiobook tomorrow just for a day out.

I do need to source some lunch though.

I have marketed.

I have procured

fruit
veg
chorizo
pork chops
fresh fish
felafels
milk
honey
coffee
bread
soap

And a partridge in a pear tree

Spicy ramen flavoured Twisties...

exist
are pretty spicy
are pretty gross

I saw them the other day and decided they'd probably suck
I tried them a little while ago and agree with your assessment
Wicked cheddar zig zag twisties for the win.
- Oooh gotta try those. Cheese twisties are my downfall figure wise.

I really really love electric blankets. In the top ten of humanity’s greatest inventions for sure.

Fam from Queensland visit on occasion, are in awe of the electric blanket during winter visits

Up early today. Cleaned house (family effort), mowed the lawn, went to the gym, had GyG for dinner....now chillaxing with beers with my feet up.

Gotta appreciate the little things.

A pummeled charity koala and a crate of VB please

🥊🐨🍺

Hrng

This kids gonna drive me insane and if he doesn’t the wife will. I said a 4pm nap was a bad idea, lo and behold who was right? 8pm and he won’t go to sleep. He’s gonna be up till 10pm again I can tell. And im a bad dad if I don’t do my part in helping fix a totally avoidable situation of my wife’s own creation.

Bad dad, no.
Bad partner...maybe.
Parenting is full of mistakes and misjudgments.
You and your wife are in the same team and need a united front.
One fucks up, the other fixes it.
It gets worse when kids become toddlers and older.
Take it on the chin, help out and keep it in your pocket as a favour in the future 😁
I used to stay up late and play video games with my son next to me on the couch when he was little.
You got this mate.
Lie on your bed with baby in your arms. Breath slowly and rhythmically to imitate sleep . Baby will copy and fall asleep.
- great advice, and he does for about 60-80 seconds before he fights it.

This is the closest I've ever been able to get

Had a go at cleaning the kukri last night. Lemon, salt, baking soda, vinegar...

First time it has been used. It's never been sharpened (by me) and that went through a lemon like it was nothing (sharper than my chef's knife). @Thornburywitch@aussie.zone was right that edge keeps. Will need a few more passes but something tells me it's a very old blade and it'll be difficult to get shiny.

Cleaning it did reveal some detail like how they poured a little bronze or whatever in a few bits which is a nice touch.

500-7000 grit sandpaper then a buffer/polisher and cutting polish could get that to a mirror finish if you were keen.
I've been looking with interest, I just can't figure out how to use that knife. Next stop, yt for some videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ZIY2i1t2s
- Ooh super interesting vid. Love how it's shrouded in so much mystery.

Even though I've been back in Perth a few years now, Aldi's snow week here still amuses me:

None of the snow gear moves at all. This stuff would have been gone in the first few hours in Melbourne. I think this is actually the second week, too!

The ski gloves are excellent as bicycling gloves in cold weather - if Perf ever has any.
I saw my local Aldi team having a post-snow-sales celebration bbq out the back of the shop the other day.

So much cheese on pasta bake this week. I'm so gassy I've formed my own personal atmosphere.

Edit: the sun through the clouds is beautiful today

Still in fog at my place
That’s a nice view.
Waves at you from the ground.

Every light sniffle or cough I have picked up over the last couple of years has developed into a brutal sinus infection. I do not like this new chapter in my life.

I had one that lasted for literal years and still have issues. Antihistamines for a short period while using the Flo bottle or something similar can help
- Oh I think I have some antihistamines somewhere... hammering the flo bottle already. Thanks!
Same. It's dreadful. That Flo bottle, eucalyptus oil antihistamines and a beanie to keep my sinuses warm is just basic winter kit at this stage.
- Oh I should try the beanie too. Thanks.

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Meeee too! Crumpets with honey and tea please Bacon.
- 🥯🍯☕️
Bacon and egg muffin please
- 🥓🍳🍳🧁
oh, yes please. May I have some crumpets with honey and a cup of tea?
- 🥯🍯☕️
Oops. Breakfast request in wrong spot.
Toast with cheese and jam, and a cup of tea
- 🍞🧀🍯☕️
Rice and corn with furikake, soy sauce, chilli crisp, and sardines on top
- 🐟🐟
  🍚🌽🎊🍶🌶️

Market GF pie acquired, sauced and demolished.

Bag full of veges for roasting and soups. Couple of easy meals for the freezer to avoid take away. Even got some honey and eucalyptus drops for this post flu foolishness. Coffee drunk. Puppies patted. This is a good Saturday morning.

Ahoyhoy

I always dreaded going to the post office on Saturdays because the queues would be long, the packages would be piled up everywhere and nobody had their shit ready when it was their turn. This morning however, only person in there was paying bills and there was a few tubs on the ground of packages but nothing like what it used to be. The purse strings are tight here in the inner north.

In other news there are far too many pictures of me in my new passport of varying sizes and colors. 0/10 do not recommend.

I stole the pics his lordship didn't use last time he had his passport done and they're left fir random encounters in strange places around the house. Unexpected husband!

another boring day of resting

Went and grabbed a weeks' worth of dinners for what ends up being like $7 a meal at the South Melbourne Market and that's awesome BUT it was getting a little late to cook something so I grabbed a crispy chicken Caesar wrap from maccas on the way home. I mention this because I asked them to add a bit of that new spicy fiesta sauce to it too - which they wouldn't do for some reason - but sold me a little tub of it so I can add it myself. Which I did. And it was incredible.

I might email them now and suggest strongly that they add it to their lineup and I am not the kind of person who does that.

Holy crap. I was meant to go for a short nap and fell asleep for 4 hours :(

There goes my day :(

Edit: fixed spelling mistakes while I was groggy

Today is my "wash everything" day. All items of bedding inc. pillow and doona, and clothes, and my work backpack which is getting a little smelly. Going to take 4 loads but will be very content when I'm done

Going to the market. Requests will be taken

A job so I can get an orange friend for Gibson to boss around.
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Bacon and egg roll please
One large rock.
- _^_🪨_^
Churros if the truck is there. Extra sauce. And a 2nd hand book of art in the 17th century if easily available.
- I do know just the chap to put you in touch with for the book. There’s a specific guy who’s exceptionally good for art books
Lemon tart pls.
2 live quail and a bunch of chervil please

I'm taking the pressure off. No art, just sharpening pencils. That's my hobby now. /s

It also leads nicely into whittling and woodwork. If I had a slab of wood, glue and sandpaper I could even carve a handle into one end and make my own sharpening sandpaper block. I have some fence staples to hold the paper layers on. And then that could lead into making one for knives or making strops...

But no more physical hobbies or tools. I just run out of energy and drop them.

I know you are half joking but, if you are enjoying the sharpening and looking after the tools, go for it. You might find you are motivated to draw/create just so you get to calmly shape the pencils again! They look amazing btw.
- Thanks, I'm just trying not to spend more money or accumulate more stuff
  Also could I be trusted with a knife collection...
Some duct tape on the back of a strip of sandpaper can help it last. Write the grit # on the tape.
Have you found this guy on YouTube? Alphonso Dunn He also likes a whittled pencil. Also, he's got some good tutorial type videos.
- Nice, I'll take a look

Beers, music, and the new update to Slice n Dice. Perf Saturday evening

What beer? I'm downing Pirate Life XPA and it's goooood
- I have so many pain meds can't drink at all. 😔

The young Seagoons drove there from Sydney last year, said it was totes worth it. It's very very far.
- Can confirm. The drive north from Adelaide is just amazing. I pulled over one night off the highway, drove about 1km west along very flat easy ground and camped for the night. The stars were just unbelievable.
I went there back in 1991 - budgeted a week's stay in Alice and side trips to Uluru and Kings Canyon - both were mindboggling and a week wasn't long enough. If going, do it properly. Either fly or drive there, and reckon on spending at least 10 days seeing things in the area. There's a lot to see. Some crazy good museums and art galleries too. If driving, take a 4wd or a VW Kombi - the roads are NOT good. I went in September, after the first fall of rain in several years. The wildflowers were off the planet incredible.

I'm going to the chemist for more robitussin, any other chest infection things I should get?

Maybe a humidifier/vaporiser if there's an easy way to get one and mould isn't a problem.
Other than that maybe some eucalyptus oil (bottle or spray) so you can put a little on the shower floor and breathe the vapour in when and if you're up to a hot shower. (Be careful not to slip or let pets lick the oil.) The moisture thins and loosens the mucous so you can cough it out more easily. Get some Vicks if you're not up to the shower.
Also easy foods so you can constantly keep eating while resting. Protein bars, Up N Go or premade protein shakes and salami/jerky if you can't leave bed, tuna tins and soup if you're more able to get up. Lots of protein. Lots of fluid and tea.
Also if you don't have anyone to gently thump your back lean over the edge of your bed so gravity can help you cough your airways clear. Plenty of tissues to cough and spit into. Baby wipes and sanny. Bin nearby.
Hot water bottle for the chills and paracetamol for any fevers.
Edit: Also garlic and onion if you can eat them, especially in chicken soup
Source: Used to have frequent horrific bronchitis/chest infections
Garlic, horse radish and vit c if mucous is an issue. Will dry it out and stop the post nasal drip that makes you cough.
My dad's cure was hot milk with butter, honey and garlic.
It won't not work.
- I feel both our dads are kind of in the 'fuck that guy' category. At least you live on the other side of the planet.
  Replace the butter and garlic with fresh lemon juice and ~40% alcohol and we're talking.
Humidifier and eucalyptus/tea tree oil. Just a bowl of boiling water and a towel over your head will do if you can’t get one. Liquorice is an expectorant too.
- Like in Crocodile Dundee.
Irish moss. Tastes like arse, will kill a cough stone dead so you can sleep

Telemovie review. Burning Patience. A sweet movie about people in Pablo Neruda's village. My question is, did he become a poet because everyone in his village was a poet and they lived in a beautiful place or did they become poets after reading his poetry? Maybe a little of both.

Everything I've seem from Chile has been good.

I really recommend this. 4 hobbits.