Daily Discussion Thread: 🚒 🔥 🏭 Thursday, July 11, 2024

I definitely feel different to how I did last week.

I guess, more confident, or maybe sure of myself?

It's not surprising in a way, but I didn't notice what I lost now that I have it back.

You rock gibsy. I went on a job hunt last year and got knocked back or ignored by every application I sent. It knocked my self esteem and confidence really hard. You went to soooo fucking many interviews, and if your experience is anything like mine, probably sent in 10-20x more applications. I can't imagine going through that and still putting on a brave face and going into interviews with a positive outlook. To be completely honest, I think I would've shrivelled up and died.
You're a hell of a lot stronger than you realise, and if you were that confident with all of those rejections, you must be easily the most confident person on the planet ordinarily
Edit: also, I really really appreciate all of the comments and ideas you've left when I've shared what's been happening here. I hope that my bad days haven't brought your mood down, you deserve to celebrate and enjoy the moment
- That's incredibly kind of you Baku ❤️ I really appreciate you saying that. It was getting really fucking hard but you can't give up because what's the other option?
  And it's all good about replying to what's been happening for you. It doesn't bring my mood down at all. I just wish you didn't have to deal with this bullshit mate.
I think in light of recent events you’re probably super happy and relieved as well.
You’ve been through a lot with the emotional roller coaster and to come out of it on the other side is of great relief.

Sooooo I got the call. It's sounds promising. I won't go into too much details because it's early stages but it is a potential writing collaboration idea I had and they are receptive to the idea.

They're gonna talk to their people and see if and what can be done and we can work from there. I'm hopeful. It's going to be so cool if it comes to fruition.

Get paid, think "hmm that's a bit much", check psyslip, per hour is off. Have had payroll biff it up before, so send a quick heads up "oi you typoed and overpaid" boss says "oh yeah forgot to tell you, your hourly rate went up. So did your super".

On top of the tax cuts that's an extra $200 in my pocket. Marvellous

Nice one!
- Best part is it's the b'day of friend doing it very tough on disability atm, and i got their paypal deets XD

I just want to lay in my new bed and new mattress and forget work ever exists.

I thought you had a new better job?
- I've been in this job for over 2 years now. Wouldn't say it's better. Cruisey but frustratinging because basic things are made more difficult in the name of 'security'. 1 minute jobs take 5 minutes etc.
  I am studying education though, but that's long term.
Does it feel like heaven?
- It is very comfy. And I have slept so much better.

My sky pretty has a crane

Now let me explain what this crane is doing.

It is building an exclusive 55yo and older community called st. clare in kew. Shit out of luck if you're 54 but the joke is on them because the grand kids will visit and you're back at square 1.

If you squint it looks like a giraffe
- Or a Brachiosaurus.
- Heh I was thinking the same. Just had a look, Giraffe life expectancy is about 25 yrs.. it's going to have to move on before residents move in.

ah good another eye infection. Love it. The same week daycare jack up their prices they send home headlice and eye infections. Brilliant!

You chose to spawn because…
- technically, my contribution was just aiming for the cup... but I take your point.

I've been informed that it's Vegas' 10th birthday on Saturday! I need to figure out what to get him. Think I'll hit up the butcher but I might have to wait until Saturday to do it so it doesn't spoil the surprise, because he'll smell it. I'll swing by the big pet shop too and see if I can find something he might like.

Edit: Oh it's also my nanna's 98th birthday tomorrow. I don't think she wants anything from the butcher.

Leg of lamb! Old people love lamb.
- Everyone loves lamb! Unfortunately, Nanna also lives in Mildura so no lamb for her. Not from me anyway.

Home in bed with the dog, weed, oxy and a salmon bagel.

I love salmon bagels, but for some reason my brain saw this:
Rest well!! Hope the recovery is easy and smooth!
😻
Chefs kiss, perfection

I have some potentailly really good news coming today. I'm probably jinxing it by even hinting at it now but I'm excited if it happens.

did you also stash a block of chocolate somewhere and forget and now have to hunt it down? Im gonna find it! Its half a block of darrell lea rocky road ffs.
- Rocky Road wouldn't be in my top 10 tbh. :D
Does it involve any prospects of rogering or getting rogered?
- No Jolly Rogering at this stage. However, she did say she has potentially exciting news too and waiting confirmation so...stand by...maybe?
I just knocked on wood for you, so that should cancel out your jinx, methinks.
- Haha thank you.

Had 3 days off caffeine. Caved this morning.

Back on the caffeine choo choo train.

I'm down to about half of what I used to have and keeping it for earlier in the day, I think it's working as I'm sleeping better
- I'm a social caffeine consumer. It doesn't seem to have much of an effect on me and I carry on just as tired as I was before. I don't really drink it on my own, but I do like the taste of a good mocha so if I go for coffee with anyone I'll always get one.
  Unless it's summer, then I'm getting me an OJ and there's nothing anyone can do about it

Here's an odd one (to me at least).

P's are going to a funeral tm and everyone has to chip in a $fiddy.

Extremely wealthy family. I've never heard of that before. Is that a thing now?

I understand they're expensive but just never seen that before.

Extremely wealthy and they’re insisting people chip in for a funeral? That’s extremely tacky.
I’ve heard of people asking for donations to a charity rather than flowers, but never for the cost of the funeral.
E: it would be tacky even if they weren’t wealthy
P’s are going to a funeral tm and everyone has to chip in a $fiddy.
Why though? For what?
- Entrance fee?
yeaaaaaaah nah. Unless its someone I'm super close with I cant see me ever doing that.
Staying wealthy by being (extremely) frugal? That seems... very weird.
That'd be a pass for me.
What? I gave up going to funerals in the late 90s but have never heard of this.
Very odd, I’ve been to a lot of funerals and never have been asked to chip in.
It’s up to the family to organise and decide what to do with the funeral and it’s their responsibility to finance it and everyone’s else role is to pay respects or to celebrate their life.
The only time where I might have to was when they organised a after lunch or something but I didn’t go so no idea if that ended up being split.
Me either - sounds dodgy to me. Is the funeral going to be catered??? If so, why???? Usually funeral expenses are covered by the executor of the deceased's Will as a first charge on the estate. The whole "after payment of funeral expenses and just dues and taxes" bit that nearly every Will starts off with.
Sounds like the beneficiaries of the estate want to maximise their slice of the pie to me.
Touch the corpse for $200

I forgot to take my douche out of the shower and the plumber is in there.

FML FML FML FML

Edit: not a pipe leak or water ingress. It's my fucking washing machine. FML FML is the re gonna make me pay for this? Fuck.

Bit rude to call your partner a douche
- Fkn LOL!
Lol, been there! not a douche, but another adult toy. They must've seen it but said nothing. I said nothing. We all just pretended it didnt happen.
- They must've seen it but said nothing. I said nothing. We all just pretended it didnt happen.
  Same same same same 😭
- I heard the shower turn on, and realised I forgot to remove it all. A douche and a couple of different dildos. I want to cry lol

Passport came... for my daughter who lodged hers after mine. 😔

the country cannot be without its CEO
- Mine should be coming next provided the dog didn't apply for one.
Ooooof that's gotta sting

Did a pantry clean out today. Chucked out so much expired bottled goods, powders, etc... Found a packet of Stroopwafels, out of date by 7 years.. Yes, I ate them ,and yes they were great.

Morning! It's Thursday! Which means it's almost Friday which means it's almost the weekend!!! 👌👌😮

Pull a sickie and it's Friday. Want me to pick up a post surgical assistance requirement note for ya?
- Already had a sickie on Monday and got short notice leave day approved for next week 😭 going to have to suck it up. If you can get one with a blank date though....

so, I have no feelings about Celine Dion as a singer.... but as a person who can't sleep, I am finding her documentary fascinating and admirable

She's incredibly strong. I saw a clip of her seizure and it kills me. Her voice and power is rare and incredible, and for her to slowly lose that is devastating. She's earned her spot amongst the best singers (the trifecta: Whitney, Mariah, Celine).
I still love and listen to her Eurovision entry. It's how she got so big. She sang in french but was competing for Switzerland, as a Canadian. She changed the economy of the LA strip by doing residencies, which bought in massive revenue and made doing residencies viable for other artists again (previously they were usually for those past their music peak). Her philanthropy, her kindness. If anyone doesn't deserve her condition, it's her.

I am not an op shop person generally, but I felt like going to one today. Reddit told me the best area for op shopping is Elsternwick with 5 op shops and 1 bric a brac shop. Unfortunately none had what I really wanted - old train books, mags, newsletters, etc (the Vinnie's in Bacchus did and I bought heaps of them a few months ago), but I bought a few things anyway. I go to op shops mainly for finding cool stuff I can't really find anywhere else, not so much the prices. I got a coin bank type thing that looks like a royal mail post box from the UK (at least I think it's meant to be a money tin), a few books, and a set of 3 photos of paris on canvas frame things for 12 bucks.

that's cool
- Yes! It was a good find

Beep Beep 🚚
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Could I please have a peri-peri chicken burger. with pineapple and beetroot.
- 🐥🍍💔🍔
I could do with some fish and chips!
Potato cakes needed too.
Please chef.
- 🎣🍟🥔
A bottle of scotch and a straw please.
- 🎋🧴
Just in time for lunch! Could I please have an emu burger, with blue cheese dressing and a fried egg on it. Hoisin sauce instead of ketchup.
- 🍳
  🐦‍🔥🍔🔵🟤
Fisherman's basket, please! And a shaved ice on the side. Thank you chef!
- 🐡🎣🦀🦐🍧
  🦑
PERFECT timing! I'm on bit of a health kick at the moment, so I'd like a plate of nachos bigger than my head please!
- ^{🧔🏻‍♂️}
  🌽🛢️🍅🧅🧄🌶️
Can you do my favourite from yesterday pls 🥺
I'm sorry for threatening to riot and tip your food truck over, I'll be good :(
- We are denying your favourite until you deliver a riot
Oversized beef burrito please
- 🥩🌯
Hmm chicken sushi and a bottle of peach ice tea. I'm living on the edge!
Thank you 🙂
- 🐣🍣🍑❄️☕️
Deep fried broccoli with blue cheese sauce and some pan fried salmon (on the rare side)
- 🛢️🥦🔵🎣

How good's a breakfast burrito and a black tea for brekkie? Stuff of champions!

Breakfast burrito is my love language. Except for when places feel like they have to be too fancy and start throwing spinach in them.
- Yeah I prefer making it at home tbh cause I can just sort of throw leftover veg together. I doubt roasted pumpkin is traditional but damned if it doesnt work!
Apparently you can make them and freeze them.
- thats what this was, a bag of fozen burrito mix, fried up in the pan a bit, chucked in a wrap with some cheese and sauces and away we go.

Alright tough love time: Everyone is running their own race, and everyone started with their own unique handicap so you cant compare anyone elses life to your own.
BUT: If you're not happy with where your at? Fix it. Process the emotions, work through everything then get up dust yourself off and keep going. Sadly no one else is gonna step up and help you out here, so its up to you to live the life you wanna live. Set some goals and make 'em happen. Rome wasn't built in a day, but it would never have been built without starting out and some tough days.
- Thank you for this. Next week is just me laying the first brick of my own Rome then.
  You're the best, Tinybreak 💜
Better to be working towards a career you will enjoy later in life than to have stayed in a career you hated for the sake of being financially stable earlier in life. Yes, it would have been better if you found what you wanted to do career-wise earlier in life but it doesn’t always work out that way. I think what you’re doing is brave, a lot of people would have stuck to their existing career, too scared to make a change. The money and holidays will come in time!
I'm ten years older than you and have only worked out careers that I don't like. Hecks is only a problem if you make money. Due to lifelong research I'm an associate professor in being broke and feeling like I have enough. I had a super fun 20s & 30s. I've eaten the double dick of lockdown then hernia for being a massive hermit. Pulled my super out during covid because there's just something about it that I'm sus on, possibly just simple financial iliteracy on my part but gimmie my money. Impermanence, you ultimately cannot rely on anything other than your own mind/thoughts. Once I'm able to work again I'm considering scaffolding and getting back into jiu-jitsu. I've always enjoyed physical work over intellectual. My first degree got wiped out by arduino. I don't like the myotherapy industry in Australia, the way to make money is to run a clinic (rent seeking) not be a therapist. Plus any job I can leave at the job is a bonus. hits vape, pops another endone
so many many hugs
half the battle is setting your own goals, not the goals of other people and society
at the same time remember you are part of team, you are not alone, it's you and your partner against the world

I was just getting all the meat off yesterday's roast chicken for lunch sandwiches and Bill Cat was begging real bad, but I know him, he won't eat it but he does like stealing chicken from plates!!

So I put some pieces on a plate and put that on the small table in the living room then walked away. He is stealing it right now and I can hear him eating.

Stolen chicken is yummier. 🤭

The spoils of the heist lol
My old dog was a bit like that, only he preferred to tip over your glass and lap up the wine. Didn't like it in a bowl, had to be licked off the floor. Weird.

Morning! Woke up because too hot. Now window is open but the night is so noisy. Good time to catch up on deleting emails.

Sky pretty

"loss of signalling control" they're calling it. That's freaky. How do you just lose control of all your signals?
there was a comment on reddit the other day about how ww3 could break out and they allys would ride in on the stony point line to save is culminating in the first battle of Frankston. I pondered how ride of the valkyries would sound on a stolen 90's WRX's ruined sound system.

Went out, came back unable to unlock my laptop despite typing in correct password. Noticed that some of my keystrokes are not registering.

Looks like one of the cats managed to strategically position themselves on the keyboard just right to activate the filter keys prompt and the "yes" button on it.

nobody else still up?

🥛
- I could use some hot milo. Really need to add that to my shopping list.
Fucking noisy hospital.
- Bugger. Having trouble getting to sleep there?
I’m still up!
- champ!

I had a shit sleep last night, but this time it was entirely my fault. I was waiting for a game to download, so left my computer on but hopped into bed at about 11:00ish where it was warm (♥️♥️♥️ electric blanket). Next thing I know it's 7am. I left my lights on and had my computer screen lighting up the rest of my room but apparently tired me didn't care. Also had my electric blanket on the highest mode which is really hot, but good while awake so I'm really thirsty now

Also, I called the PAL again last night to amend my police report to also include the Xbox theft and provide the serial number of the MacBook which I managed to track down through iCloud. Unfortunately they said once the report's been made, they can't amend or update it and I have to call the local branch handling the case. I guess I'll do that today

Was in Brunswick today for a dentist appointment. Ended up wandering around afterwards. God I miss it. Maybe I'll head back in 6 months if all goes well with this job.

It makes coming back to where I live so depressing. My mantra for the last 6 months has been "all in good time".
And so it will be once again hopefully.

In other news, I found an amazing new Middle Eastern instruments library that will expand my compositions significantly. It doesn't have as many functions as my other one, but it has a wider variety of instruments and they sound good right out of the box.

Exciting, it is a lovely place. Can't wait for you to join me in listening to the local pop sing and dance on a Friday night lol.
Awesome about your instrument library! I love to hear anything you're willing to share! I really like the piece you shared last time, the one that was in your head for ages :D
Everything is coming up for you, friend! This is joyous, and you deserve every ounce of goodness that comes from it!!
- Thank you so much ❤️
  Yeah it's been a crazy few weeks. I'm just keeping my head down and hoping for the best.
  I grew up in Brunswick in 90's and it's changed so much. I've got a lot of memories running amok along Sydney road lol
  It's definitely interesting these days. More lively for sure and as much as it's changed, its still got the old school Brunswick vibe. Especially past Blyth Street heading towards Coburg.
All in good time, I like that.

Taking today off was a good call. I was woken up a bit after 1am from tooth pain. Hopefully it starts settling down a bit more today.

Anti-gratitude thread 🤬

Woke up at 6 and fell back asleep, so didn't make the gym class and now I don't have time to go today.

Also kept listening to a podcast last night beyond the sleep timer because I got invested, only to wake up to find the rest of the podcast was played whilst I slept.

Waking up every 2 hours seemingly like clockwork to pee, although I don't feel too bad this morning considering the disruptions
Things in my parents' kitchen which I might want being at least 6 months past their best before dates
How slow it takes things to get sent. Bought an underdesk treadmill Tuesday last week and it got shipped out yesterday.
Ungrateful to TS for disrespecting my Queen Celine lol
- I think cult swifties are going to be confused, silently ashamed. No one disrespects Celine.
Today I have a day off. The Minipeelers have been sitting around all school holidays doing nothing and will want to do something today, something big. I've been working pretty hard and just want to put my feet up and do nothing and rest. I can anticipate what will happen when Miniest awakes from her royal slumber!
Still being sick, day 5 and no real improvement yet. So hard to get out of bed and do work when my body wants to rest. Glad it’s not Covid though, I’m testing negative. So I have anti-gratitude and gratitude at the same time.
My ex tooth hurts. The paracetamol/ibuprofin combo works fine as a painkiller, but because of the limits you can take in a day I can't take it often enough to remain pain free. So the next few hours are going to be painful so that I can take more later so I'll be able to sleep tonight ☹️
- @RustyRaven @LowExperience2368 you can combine paracetamol with non-steroidal anti-inflamatory such as nurofen or voltage to amplify the analgesic effect. Cold pack.
I had a sleepless night and my eyes feel sore from it. I tried to listen to a podcast as well but ended listening to it instead of falling asleep to it.
Im trying not to sleep or have a nap so I can get my internal clock back to relative normalcy.
I hate sleepless nights.
- I feel you. I hope your internal clock fixes itself soon.

Gratitude thread ✨️

Grateful for having all my meals made for today. I just have to eat!

Also my dog :)

The food cupboard had some apple scrolls and berry scones this morning, morning tea will be yummy today.
There were also a couple of empty jam jars of my favourite style to add to my jar collection.
I should be receiving a package both today and tomorrow - hopefully these headlight globes are not dodgy like the last ones I bought.
Grateful for Chappell Roan existing (I don't know if I want her, or if I want to be her... Prolly both lol)
- ME TOO
Grateful that all the urgent work/backlog is cleared thanks to my colleagues, and I have a very manageable workload again!! The stress relief is immense.
Also grateful that I have meals for a few days.
Grateful for feeling happy today. I don't want to jinx it but I also haven't felt scared or unsafe today.
Also I spent about 30% less at the supermarket than I usually do. Not much, but small wins

Gonna lose my shit at work. We asked for X to be done. Its a security time sensitive thing. Sent off a spreadsheet containing all the details they needed. They report back X+Y was done. When i asked why they did Y i was told that it was on the spreadsheet.

Why did you put Y on the the spreadsheet I hear you ask? I didn't! When I asked them to produce the working spreadsheet they sent us something totally different that cherry-picked data from the original but missed critical details.

If I were HALF as incompetent as this team I'd be out on my ass, but yet somehow this team is a protected species and can continue to fuckup till the cows come home.

And yet, if you start asking them to explain themselves you're the unreasonable one.
- I just sent back a really blunt "lets revist the ORIGINAL spreadsheet and prioritize, thanks!"

I really love the BCC feature on emails.

👩‍🍳😚👌

I've always wondered, if people reply all to an email that BCC'd someone, does the response also BCC that person?
I'm barely important enough to be CC'd, let alone BCC'd
- Nope. Mail client can't see the bcc recipients to include
- if people reply all to an email that BCC'd someone, does the response also BCC that person?
  I ... Actually don't know the answer to that lol
  I'm barely important enough to be CC'd, let alone BCC'd
  Don't worry, if you get a job/career that uses email, BCC will be your very best friend :D
I read that as BBC and thought you meant a documentary tv show 🤓

I’ve ordered some more trackies while I look for the other ones. Pakige.

I also need to get the next bag of Melbcat’s biccies that have been sitting at the post office for at least a week

what did you order? I've somehow burnt my hurley ones and the AS colour I've gotta admit hasnt lasted as long as I'd like.
- Straight up Kmart, sorry. Nothing flash

I packed clothing away when winter came around and now I can’t find my other pairs of trackies. Moral of the story, don’t tidy up or you’ll lose your pants

Product review. Found this honey in the pantry:

It. Is. Amazing.

Bougie honey ($22 according to the lid I have no idea how it got there or when I think it was a gift).

Should go nicely with your kukri methinks.

Been sick all this week. I should have taken more than one day off but there are meetings I want to get out of the way. My sense of taste hasn't been the best so I think I'll do a COVID test and if it comes back positive I'll take the rest of the week off

Had a stuffy nose last night, couldn’t sleep so put an extra pillow to keep head a bit elevated, and then woke up with sore neck. The irony of treatment for one ailment causing another.

I got an email from the regional manager in response to the complaint that I lodged last night. He wants to organise to meet with me tomorrow. Unfortunately I'm not available on Fridays so I'll have to meet him next week.

I'm not super keen about meeting people in person or discussing things over the phone, to be honest. Sort of get that way when people do that and promise the world and then don't follow through with it. Plus I feel like I am able to better articulate my points through email, but I seem to be in a very exclusive club with that.

I'll probably have to meet him in person, but I'll try and organise for someone else who's on my side to come so I have another advocate and a witness in case he tries to get out of whatever promises he makes. But then again I did that when I had a meeting with the former acting regional manager and he still refused to uphold his end of the agreement, so maybe it's all pointless

The whole point about formal minutes of a meeting is JUST EXACTLY THIS. So the participants can't wriggle out of undertakings given and recorded.
Baku, let me introduce you to the ancient and uncivilised practice of writing the minutes of a meeting BEFORE the meeting.
Start with the agenda of the meeting - a bullet point list of items to be discussed. These should be few in number. Ideally less than 6. You might like to send this bullet point list to the regional manager before the meeting so he knows what topics you want to discuss. For example :
return/repair/replacement/compensation of stolen/damaged goods
living arrangements going forward including repairs to locks etc.
what happens if someone else is moved in to your house without consulting you
personal safety
maybe another item that you consider necessary
These can be in any order - I usually put the most important one at the top but you might like to start with something that the manager can agree with as this can be a useful way to get co-operation on the other items.
Then, (not sending this bit to the manager) expand on each bullet point by adding 3 short paragraphs/sentences describing and/or discussing 1) What if you get everything you want when you want it AND who is responsible for seeing that you get it, 2) If you get something, but not all of what you want and who is responsible for each/what etc, and 3) You don't get anything, and won't get it in the future either.
Print this out (or save on your phone screen) and take to the meeting. As each bullet point is discussed, you strike out whichever of 1) 2) or 3) above that doesn't apply - for each bullet point. At the end, you'll have a list of what was discussed and what was agreed, and who is going to action each item agreed to.
At the end of the meeting you make the person read the document, and sign off on it if at all possible. If you like, give them a copy so that they have a record available too.
This is standard corporate practice, and will do a lot to concentrate their mind on doing things properly.
I'm in that club as well. Let him know while it's okay to meet face to face, you'd like to be able to send him an email prior to the meeting with your points laid out and ask that he sends you a follow up email after the meeting with what was discussed. Heck, write him one afterwards with what was discussed and get your advocate to read over it.
I'd be replying with a polite "I'd prefer to have this conversation in writing thanks".
Seconding Spin. Written or recorded. Don’t trust verbal anything
If they push you into a discussion by yourself it’s a good idea to get anything said in writing so they can’t lie and bs later. Do not talk to them on the phone.
Also great to have someone with more power present or bcc’ed in, good idea

Sky pretty

So nice this morning!

My pikag was going from tullamarine to Essendon fields, but then ended up in Dandenong South. That always seems to happen. Every time I've seen a parcel go from melb airport to Essendon airport, it always goes via Dandenong South for.... Reasons

I also did an in transit redirection thingo to a random post office in the south east just for the fun of it, and tulla seems to be their only facility that applies the labels. So it will probably look something like Melbourne airport > dandy south > Essendon fields > Melbourne airport > held for redirection > Dandenong South > Essendon fields > cranbourne

meanwhile I have one which was shipped yesterday from somewhere over the east side, I forget where exactly, went through Tullamarine last night and should be arriving at my front door of my parents place out in Melton any moment now (status is onboard for delivery as of 30 minutes ago)
sometimes they just get it right
bring me my weeeeeed mr postman
- Mines on there too. Let's see who gets theirs first.
  Ps not weed. Passport
- Haha having MC delivered feels like I'm doing something illegal. Even when I go to Prahan to pick it up at the pharmacy, I still feel so judged. Like the po-po are gonna rush in and arrest me as part of a sting. Which is dumb, I have TGA approval lol.
  But MC being delivered to your door - we truly are living in the future
My only thought is,
"Why?"
- Ahem : Agency workers who don’t
- Well the cynical part of me says they do it to add extra time and make express post a better option. When I was sick I ordered some stuff from chemist warehouse (box hill) through the express post and it didn't do this. It went from box hill to Melbourne airport and then from Melbourne airport to my house. Although it did get scanned a lot at the airport.
  The optimist in me says... Actually fuck it, there's no optimism when it comes to auspost, only cynicism.
Reliable sources report that Sunhine is semi sane and Tullamarine is utterly cooked.
- Can confirm
There's an auspost sorting facility down in Dandenong South, so I imagine it's just being sorted for distribution. Thought, anecdotally, there's been parcels getting stuck in sorting facilities for weeks. I imagine their packages fell off the conveyor lol
Edit: clarification because I had another coffee and am overthinking: it is at Dandenong to be sorted, it will then be sent to your local auspost and assigned a postie to deliver.
I'll have a chat with my aunt about it, she works for auspost. (Apparently posties/couriers can be very emotional and resistant to change lol love her stories)
- Yeah, it's just always struck me as a bit funny that Tullamarine to Essendon fields is like 5km, but they send it on a 122km detour to Dandenong South and back to Essendon fields.
  Also on Monday (before it processed at tulla) I lodged the in transit redirection thingy to a random post office somewhere near Cranbourne (I don't know the area very well), and eventually when it scans it gets held for a person to come and manually put a new address label on it. I've only seen this happen at tulla, never anywhere else, which is why I think once it gets to Essendon fields it'll be sent back to tulla again. Also, I imagine Dandenong South would be the local sorting centre for the post office I chose, so after it's redirected it'll probably be bounced back over there. Terribly inefficient

lovely morning out there, the clouds are tinged with red and purple and the birds are chirping 😊

It was beautiful otw to work, even with the crazy wind on the freeway.

Sky angry. Reminds me of old paintings of ships at sea during a storm.

got a giant to do list, thinking I can spread it out over two days

That wind is looooud

Just found salt and pepper in my parents pantry with best before dates of 2015.

The good news is that salt does not actually go off. Although I expect by this age the pepper is more of a placebo spice than anything.

Fuck this mortgage person! If you want all new paperwork when July arrives just fucking say wait. Doing everything twice is Brain garbage.

Back from opshop with some finds. I'm listening to another Peter and Dudley LP and found an old book, Seven Years in New Guinea about some weird guy who was sent to PNG in the 50s-60s to do ethnographic studies for the Aust, gov. They didn't eat him, as is evidenced by the fact he wrote this book.

teaching ravens to fly underwater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhS35f015SQ

I always feel warmer after dinner. ( spaghetti and meat tomato sauce )

Not long home from work - the yiayia isn't happy with the admin side of the agency either.

That's up to half of the clients or their next of kin who are pissed off with them.

Well, well.

Fried egg sandwich eaten.

Now for coffee!

Went out to a mutual friend's birthday, and holy shit, she knows so many people. She met people from uni, from dating apps that she befriended, from high school, through friends, it was actually crazy. I spoke to so many people.

My friend's partner told me that he keeps feeling like he needs to ask me if I'm okay? Not sure why, maybe I just give off that shy and quiet vibe? I wanna know how I can stop that. Also apparently I smile all the time - nervous defense mechanism.

“I shall defeat a bajillion ninjas with a box of pop tarts”

Just listened to the last chapter, Grey Havens, of LOTR, 😭 every single time

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