Daily Discussion Thread: Tue 22 Aug 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Tue 22 Aug 2023
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Daily Discussion Thread: Tue 22 Aug 2023
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Just been almost non stop AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA from 7am to 4:30pm working with different groups of people on full-attention topics when I normally hardly talk to anyone, AAAAAAing in the rain back home, brief 15 minute interlude to cuddle sox and shove things around, then another AAAAAAA trying to get the suddenly bewildered and upset sox into her carrier (Praise be to Churu), now to AAAAAA in the rain 40 minutes away to do a rundown of cat and house things at the next place before they go away, dinner with them, drive back (hopefully more of an aaaaaaa), then start packing shit like mad because I thought I had all of tomorrow to move over but actually I don't
Gosh I feel you. I'm used to talking a little bit with my boss for the occasional question or to ask the freelancers to do things, but I've been training someone who is my underling (Iunno what to call her tbh, underling sounds fun) and it takes up so much of my day. She's on holidays but she comes back tomorrow so I imagine I'll have to do that again. And then having an Uber driver talk to you, like please don't, I just want to get home. Today's driver wasn't so bad, yesterday's was non-stop.
I enjoy training people in terms of the engagement and reward of seeing people learn something new, but I am absolutely WRECKED by the end of even 2 hours unless I am extremely well prepped. Accomplished but wrecked.
I have been around people so much today - and have another few hours of actively engaging with people tomorrow - that I'll need to isolate all of Thursday and Friday lol. Seriously considering an out of office message
Catnap with the cat = best nap
Can confirm
Desperately need a week off work to do this …. But saving annual leave up, due to having survived 2 rounds of layoffs this year and the forecast isn’t looking any better now.
You know you've really hit adulthood when you get a new vacuum cleaner and immediately start vacuuming with excitement to see how much dust it can take (answer - a lot!)
Mmyeah suck it, take it all
😂
Ugh today's not a fun day. I don't have much energy and I'm getting annoyed at everything
Casual Bison out for a stroll down the road this morning 🦬
What did the Buffalo say when he dropped his kid off at school?
Bison.
Far out. Imagine hitting one of those on a dark stretch of road. Game over.
User name checks out
Elbow reveal?!?
Exposed!
Whoaaa that's a beast!! Beautiful landscape, too!
Last night my kid yells from the kitchen "I really don't like opening containers in the fridge". Me " Why not?" Her "because I don't know what horrors you have stored in them". I guess she came across my congealed lamb stock with the fat still on the top. Luckily she didn't get to see the pumpkin I "rejuvenated" ready for tomorrow's soup.
Me to bar guy: it literally takes 30 seconds to send a text message to ask someone how they are and show you care.
Him: you're underestimating the amount of time it takes for me to text
🤦♂️
Him: you’re underestimating the amount of time it takes for me to text
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/5ccb1d67-8486-42bc-8513-baa3fe215794
You need to show him voice-to-text!
If anyone has found my brain can they please let me know? Reward offered. Many thanks.
My concentration and focus is totally out the window today, I just spent way too long trying to remember what I was in the middle of doing at work after being interrupted by a phone call. Simple tasks seem way too hard today.
It's gonna be a long week...
The most unrealistic thing for me in time travel shows and movies isn't the time travel itself, but the fact that a lot of the time the characters seem chill wearing the period appropriate clothing. Send me back and I'd be spending a hell of a lot of time thinking how utterly stupid I look, I mean it'd be fun, but I wouldn't be like ok guess this it for me now as put on a pair of 70s platform shoes or some 18th century breeches and stockings.
I think you'd find that you'd adapt very quickly. If everyone else is wearing the sameish clothes you'd get used to it very quickly. The clothes wouldn't be a fancy costume, or stupid, they'd be normal fashion. Speaking from doing amateur theatre a bit in the past - clothes I wouldn't be caught dead in out in the street feel quite OK if everyone else is wearing similar. And I survived the 70s platform shoes back when they were normal fashion. Don't miss them - horrible to walk in but you had to wear them or be square.
I still enjoy 70s clothes. I wouldn't want to time travel back there though.
Was threatened by a methhead on Separation Street out Northcote way this morning. I've reported it to the cops (who actually took me seriously, I'm kinda shocked), but is there anything else I should be doing? On my way to work right now but feeling super unsafe.
I’m sorry. I’ve been seeing a few people post about this. Unfortunately the housing crisis, decades of mental health cuts, increased costs of living and lack of supports over covid seem to have worsened it
Indeed. This country (and tbh, the west) is fucked, and this is but a symptom of it. I'm just gonna focus on not letting it get to me for now.
Sounds awful, hope you’re ok. I don’t think there’s much else you can do. If confronted again best thing is to avoid engaging and if possible move to somewhere where there are other people around. They will hopefully loose interest and go elsewhere. When they’re in a rage there’s nothing you could say/do. Just avoid. I saw one in a shopping centre car park at the weekend yelling ‘what the fuck you’re looking at cunts’ and marching aggressively down the lanes. Took the long way back to may car to avoid crossing paths. I wish meth didn’t exist.
Thanks mate. I fully agree; both the users and the general public are endangered by it. Ultimately though we need to better police sales and importation; by the time it's in people's hands, it's too late.
Too early for lunch, but I'm hungry and can't focus.
Stupid empty stomach
So this methed out woman was banging and yelling around midnight last night, trying to get into the apartments next door. I can hear her now down there again, having a big tantrum and cussing.
#innercityvibes
There's a sex worker who marches up and down the street here from time to time, occasionally I'll wake up with her ranting to herself. She seems to be talking to other people in her mind and it makes me so sad to think of her predicament and know the kind of background to potentially having DID. I know a few people who have systems and it's just fucking horrendous the lives they led to get them there. I'd love to help her but the one time I asked if she was ok as she was sobbing into a tissue, she said she was fine, then hurled abuse at me when I was about 50 metres down the road.
#innercitylife
#innercitypressure
000 time?
Nah, she moved on. It's just the nature of my immediate surrounds haha
And I’m now a dreaded member of the burst hot water bottle gang…
Oh no! Please tell me no burns. I've nursed too many people with burns from them.
Was pretty lucky, just a light scalding. Cold water and burn aid to the rescue.
Found the rest of my old school reports while sorting stuff. My God some of those teachers' remarks were bitchy.
Fire will be therapeutic, methinks.
grade 2 was assessed as having grade 6 reading and math
godamm fucking parents, teachers and schools did fuck all to nurture my potential 🤬
Ooh.
I found a few recently too. We had a thing where the p's had to sign off on homework stuff. I was really bad at forging their signature.
I forgot to look at the forecast yesterday.
Apparently it's raining.
Wow reddit Melbourne has gone downhill and I never strayed far from the daily thread anyway. So much bullying and typical insensitive garbage from the mouths of people with internet connections. I finally deleted the app from my phone so I can't read it when I'm out. I can't imagine twitter dying a slow death will improve it either.
I'm getting into the groove of this new job. Seem to be fine with the low earnings which I'd hoped. I don't go out, don't drink or drug and most entertainment I find not good after 30 years of being somewhere or other in the business. I'm sure plenty of things entertain others, but its definitely a cheaper way to live. I don't need a gym, work is hard and physical. Cats almost always wake me up about 15mins before my alarm would go off. I seem generally happy.
I seem generally happy.
Right on. Keep doing what you're doing then I guess.
Thanks, yeah. Joining the local community garden is on my radar. They have a working bee every month.
Generally happy is good. 🤗
Generally happy sounds good to me. 🥰
Kiddo chucked a tactical on the way out the door, all 3 of us copped it. No worries, we get cleaned up. As we're taking his top layer off he poops. no worries, start cleaning that up only for him to let lose a piss covering everything. Yeah that one was harder to clean up.
You got the trifactor. Not a nice way to start the morning.
The only way is up now!
Is 10pm too late to rotate my bed? Having a sudden bout of motivation. Hahaha. Might fade once I start it.
If your neighbours won't hear it, go for it! I sometimes get late night motivation to do random shit and I feel absolutely compelled to make use of the energy while I've got it.
I'm not doing mine I'm not helping this situation though.
Halp. I’ve hidden my box of cookies so well, I can’t find them.
Nvm, remembered where they were while typing this… 😂
(Also did search most of the house. Gonna be great when I finally lose my mind.)
I hid my last replacement credit card so well that I couldn’t find it and had to cancel it. Then I found it after the new card arrived. Think I’ve lost my mind already
E: although I would be more motivated to find biscuits, so there’s that
Gatekeeper of Gozer
My work team is down to 7, from about 16 a few months ago, and we've been really feeling it. Today, the three of us who I'd say are the most experienced/proficient are all off sick. Kinda want to log in as 'appear offline' just to see how fucked it is today. 🍿
do it
I really wanted to chill and watch a movie today but have too much to do. 🥺
I slept in today 😩 luckily it was only by maybe 45 minutes so I got to work in time, just means I'm a bit stanky (luckily my deodorant came in the mail yesterday). Y'all didn't need to know this but I have no journal to write my thoughts in haha.
Am fat.
edit: i just meant i feel fat from eating dinner 👀
Noo in the biz we call it an underappreciation of carbs
It’s the optimal shape for a potato.
and fatless potato tastes horrible
hi fat, am bacon
No.
?? Potat is zero fat, it needs much added as per @baconmash@aussie.zone
Yeah, eating my heat energy for winter hasn't worked out.
You sound cuddly
Breakfast for dinner. Bacon, scrambled eggs, avo on toast with side of haloumi. Was supposed to make a pasta bol but couldn’t be bothered. I enjoyed that more than I thought I would.
I've got a big pot of mandarin, lemon and orange marmalade on the boil and the house smells delicious. 🍊🍋
it's very sweet, not very tart at all
Diju know ( said in Michael Caine voice ) that doing jigsaws without looking at the box is fairly difficult 😂
I didn’t know, Alfred.
"Well it is."
One of the funniest memories I have is being in the car with two stage actors (brothers, and semi professional sort of quality) who were having an argument about something whilst I was driving them to a rehearsal. One started doing a Michael Caine voice to add some emphasis to a point for some reason, then the other one retorted back in his Michael Caine voice. Suddenly, Michael Caine was having an argument with Michael Caine in the back seat. Was funnier than it sounds, and I had to slow down as driver because my eyes were watering.
God, it's weird when your glasses become a part of you (not literally) and then now you have to pay to get a whole new pair of glasses!
Not excited for looking at "mens" glasses and for the sellers to ask if I want to look at the "womens" glasses. Like damn my glasses don't need to be gendered too!
I'm a woman and my daily pair are from the mens section of Specsavers. I love my glasses so much I got a second identical pair lol
I think my sunglasses are from the men's section, whereas my glasses are actually sunglasses turned into reading glasses.
But the reading glasses/sunglasses that I'm looking at are both from the women's section because... sadly, they suit me. And I can't just get my current glasses because they don't have them anymore which is disapointing.
I’ve had times when I go to bed or step into the shower with them on and forget.
Been wearing them ever since I was a kid and it amazes me that sometimes o forget to take them off.
Yeah there's been times where I wear them in the shower and then go "oh idiot!"
I've been wearing them since I was a teenager, I did wear glasses as a kid but I think I lost them and never got new glasses, but yeah it's been over ten years since I've worn them. But I think in the past maybe 5 - 7 years I've started wearing them constantly. They're mostly reading/computer glasses but I just wear them all the time essentially because I never know when I need to read something.
I've been going through my seed collection making plans for summer, and after trying to figure out where I am going to fit everything I have made a momentous decision: I'm going to get rid of the outdoor seating area and put in more garden beds. I liked the idea of having an area to sit outside, but in reality I don't use much. Hopefully I can get some money from selling the furniture & chimenea to offset the costs, but I think I can make some raised beds there fairly cheaply, and I have leave coming up so I should have time to do the work.
Vertical gardening? 😃 (Mileage may vary)
I don't have a lot of vertical space that isn't either already in use an/or against fences where the neighbour's trees tend to suck the life out of everything. I do have plans this year to try and grow a pumpkin up and onto the shed roof, and have used an old bed frame to make a trellis over the compost bins to do the same there. I've also been growing zucchini vertically, but the staking method wasn't right last year so it kept collapsing, I might try a multi-stake cage style this year. My other main vertical plan this year is to try to get a luffa growing into the neighbour's tree on the fenceline, they can be a bit rampant so it might manage to tangle through it quite a bit if I'm lucky.
Create some seat high beds and turn the edges into seats.
Have you heard about wicking beds? This website looks fucking terrible https://www.waterright.com.au/ but it's the only method I'd recommend. Regardless, creating an under bed watering system saves heaps of water and creates stronger healthier plants as they have to send roots down further. I made a bunch of them at my last house and a mate and I made amazingly productive ones he over-engineered during one of the city lockdowns where I couldn't work but the bush had almost no covid so was open. If you use the "Colin Austin" method and not one of the youtube ones the idea is that over time the soil becomes a hotbed of microbial action and this creates food which is healthier and better for your gut. The website is hard to navigate for a reason, he's annoyed people steal his idea and don't use to try and make better health outcomes and profit etc... He's an interesting chap that's for sure.
Unfortunately the budget will not stretch to fancy wooden beds - I'll be doing a mix of brick and bamboo edging, as I have those in abundance.
You weren't kidding about the website being a mess. I think what he refers to as a sponge bed is close to what I am planning to do. A layer of clay on the bottom to hold in water, then a layer of wood which rots & becomes spongelike to hold & release water, then the soil etc. on top of that. I've seen reports of people having good results from that, and it avoids using any plastic.
Good bot
Happy Tuesday! One day closer to Friday.
Question - what's your go-to breakfast? Mine is nothing at the moment, or just a protein shake.
I usually skip brekky and just have a larger lunch, but if I have a full day planned, I'll have either weetbix or jam toast
kumquat marmalade on toast
I swing between Chobani raspberry Greek yoghurt and three weetbix with milk.
Toast with home-made jam or marmalade (either my own or what my Nan sends me) and occasionally I add a boiled egg. In the summer I'll swap it for a bit of pureed apple (also home-made, ocassionally I throw in some pear) or yoghurt.
Home made spelt sourdough toast, one with Vegemite or Promite, the other with Strawberry jam or honey.
4x (Aldi) Weetbix and HiLo Milk. Plus 1 - 2 coffees.
Cereal tbh. Though I've been mixing it up with porridge or the breakfast burrito I made a few weeks ago.
Pick and mix combination of: potato, sardines, baked beans, eggs, rice. Normally two or three of those together
I discovered https://locationhistoryvisualizer.com/heatmap/ and I'm kind of amazed at how much I've travelled. It's certainly a lot more than I would've thought I would have 6 years ago
I do really need to get out to Albury, but unfortunately everyone else has the same idea and it's basically impossible to get a damn ticket now, unless I leave at 5am or go via coaches/the XPT
Bairnsdale? Im so so sorry.
Bairnsdale was mainly just passing through - the real fun was in Paynesville
Goodness me you really get around!
I do indeed!
Who knew that playing happy music makes you happy. 🤗😊 mighty bosstones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGMUAMevH0
Oh I’d forgotten about this group! On the playlist now.
Here is another happy song ! Mint Royale
The film clip is good too!
that's such a London sound 😊
I had spaghetti on the menu for dinner tonight. The sauce is already made, I literally just had to heat it and boil pasta, but it seemed like way too much effort. So I made Pad Thai instead. My brain is seriously weird.
Has anyone found a Lemmy app that gives notifications for replies to comments?
Thanks in advance, I'll respond to you in four days when I notice your reply.
Not push notifications, but Voyager at least has notification badges within the app that show up on the main screen on opening. I have sync (browsing, posting, commenting) and voyager (direct messages) both installed for this reason.
Time to return to the grind, parents are here to relieve me of my nursing duties so it's off to work for me tonight. Not going to lie I would rather be doing the nursing, I don't like people, but I do enjoy playing the role of Nightingale (after all I did study to be a nurse until I discovered my weak stomach for certain bodily fluids).
My mum wanted to be a nurse like my nana and uncle (her mum and brother) but blood and needles freak her tf out, so she didn't go that route. I don't blame you though, nursing someone is a lot better than work, but I'm sure your roommate (iirc) still appreciates it regardless.
So occasionally I'll throw a bunch of white shirts into a bucket with sard oxy wonder + or whatever it's called these days for 36 hours.
That's not colour run..
Completed some of the exercises but soon realised I'd run out of time and have to rush, and I hate rushing. Miniest felt ready to go back to school but her brother still not well enough. Struggled to get my shit together this morning. Got woken up at 3ish in the morning by someone rummaging around the kitchen for food, and I couldn't get back to sleep 😒
No bueno regarding the 3am wake-up, but you did some exercises! Big accomplishment!! 💜💜💜
Aww thankee!
Today ended up being an expensive day. I started off sorting out seeds to plant, have now decided on a major garden redesign/extension. Then I discovered my heat tray has reached the end of its useful life and needs to be replaced, and while I was looking at those I ended up with a few more grow lights as well.
At least they are all fairly cheap these days, and raising my own seedlings and fresh herbs indoors is definitely worthwhile. I never seem to manage basil and corriander in the garden, but I've got a few pots of each that were rescued from supermarket discards and are now happily growing in the lounge room and giving me a continuous supply.
All of my skin is so itchy right now, I can't stand it, but wont do anything to sort it other than scratching the itches.
hugs, it's spring, the season of itchy
Winner winner
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Pita-bread dinner.
I think the tradies fixing the heater at work are here early, because I swear the notice said they'd be here Wednesday and Thursday...
Luckily Critical Role is keeping the noise out, but during my lunch break It is so loud.
Timed my grocery run well - got back just as the rain started. Light rain, but still.
Will relax a bit more then start on more of Operation Sort Shit. Probably the back room as it's at the can't-walk-through-it stage.
TIL about open source cola
Hey thanks.! There is a TIL community over at Lemmy World as well, I keep meaning to post there.
I've been re-watching next gen for the third time and I can't see how people say the first season is inconsistent. It's great. Okay the black oil blob person thing was a bit silly, but the tribute to Natasha at the end was quite sweet. Cooking chicken drumsticks in the air fryer tonight, random seasoning. Hope it goes ok. They were $3.60 for a kilo, seemed legit.
A Lifehacker article says sterilising new potting mix is unnecessary unless it’s for seeds… However. Due to energy constraints I’ve planted up a single unsterilised test pot. I chose the cat grass seeds as they seem tougher, cheaper and easier to get than the heirloom seeds.
This potting mix is definitely coarser and lower quality than when I did the spinach over lockdown. Seems to be a few little pieces of mulch in there. (For the baby spinach I got a good quality tomato and vegetable mix, sterilised it, mixed in slow release fertiliser and put a thin layer of special seed starter mix on top for them to germinate in.) It also warns about microorganisms. But it does have plant food that wouldn’t be ruined because I didn’t use heat. I guess this will tell me just how precious I have to be.
If anything happens with damping off or mould I’ll sterilise everything and do the extra steps for the other plants.
I wish I had more physical reserves, more space, and didn’t have to worry about moving. (Or the cat absconding.) I’d love to have a catio and a vegie patch
Edit: Melbcat keeps not eating her wet food :(
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Hi brains trust, can anyone recommend a place (preferably close-ish to Docklands) for a roast meat lunch on a Saturday? I promise I’ve Googled and I’m having trouble finding anywhere.
Sorry not quite meeting the brief, but since no other answers, the only place I know in the city is Melba Brasserie at the Langham. They have roast as part of the buffet. But it’s fancy.
So I got a smartwatch (Galaxy Watch 6) off the Samsung EPP.
It registered very high stress levels during social events and... work meetings including those where I don't have to speak much, and medium/low while driving, and it barely registered any reading when chatting about anything and everything to my wife.
In reality I feel the complete opposite, idgaf much about the social event (only there because I drove my wife there), the work meeting is just a regular design walkthrough/planning/standup/etc, nothing serious, and I still feel a little bit nervous driving lol.
So I picked up another clearance item today and it’s a creamy pasta salad with parma cheese and chorizo.
I’m not sure if I’m supposed to just dump all the cheese and chorizo on top or if I should toss it into the microwave just enough to melt the cheese.
Makes me think I should have picked up a head of cauliflower for 2 bucks instead. At least I know what to expect and it’s delicious.
Melt the cheese, the cheese must be melted
Source: me, i love melted cheese
A very credible source indeed!
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I can't seem to give enough fucks today, any chance of an assist here?
🐈
Time to put on the resting bitch face so that everyone avoids you at work today.
Please bestow upon me a coffee and a croissant, oh Mighty Bacon 🙇♂️
☕️🥐
Nasi Lemak with Beef Rendang please. I'd also like a replacement throat if possible. Mine is very sore and it hurts to swallow 😭
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I got the house! Party time! Unfortunately 90 day settlement maximum but gives me time to save for the new kitchen and flooring. W00t!
Well done! Please accept these complimentary mortgage shackles ⛓️😀
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Congratulations mate 🥂
Congrations!
Thank you.
Niceee. They end up accepting your lower offer straight away?
Congratulations!
Thank you!
Yippee!
🥂
Thanks!
Yay, congratulations!
Thank you!
Well done Dan!