Daily Discussion Thread: 💖 🎤 💖 Tuesday, August 13, 2024

I've got some smell and taste back! 🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️

Fantastic news!!! 👃🌻😊
And hopefully in the next week or so, you should make a full recovery ☺️
Awesome! Spice everything up and taste the rainbow! 🙌🌈
roses and jasmine and your guy 💖

Holy moly, I got a 92 on my last assignment. That is a pleasant surprise.

Wait - the guy who writes books is good at writing assignments? Who could have predicted this plot twist?
- I'm actually terrible at writing assignments (I'm about a 70-75 average student), but this was a video assignment so even worse.
- 😂😂

Chef is sick.
Proof: 📃

Help yourself 🚚

To aid with recovery..
- Do your clinicians do home visits?? 🥺
- The best cure. Thank god.
I'll grab this 🤧🥖 sneezed on baguette in a go bag 👜 just in case I need a sick day myself soon.
Oh noe! Chef, here is some herbal tea, soup and pills to help you feel better. 💊💊💊💉🍸🍵
- Thank you witch, delicious
  mmmmm soup from the cauldron. Thank you.
Hope you feel better soon. Here’s some brandy which will help if it’s an upset tum (or so my mum used to say). It will at least distract you for a bit if nothing else 🥃💐
I just saw you have a cold - brandy will definitely help with that
- Thank you. I hope my staff behave while I am distracted.
For you Chef.
🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔
Burgers always make people feel better.
- the perfect combination of nutrients! thank you
Gibson hopes you feel better soon 🙂
- Thank you Gibson 🐟
- Wow, Gibson is a chonker. Can we just eat Gibson's food?
I'll just grab a coffee and some peanut butter toast.
You get better real soon. 😘
- Thank you
🐋🍝🌸🌼🧀
Get well soon 🤕
- whale pasta with flowers and cheese, the recipe germs fear

On the train last night some guy kept sneezing next to me without covering his mouth and now I'm sick.

I went to the office and let my manager know and she said to go home. Which was really nice.

Teams meetings all day tomorrow anyway, just didn't want to be away from work. The difference between sectors is dramatic.

I got up and walked away from someone on the ferry who kept coughing wetly. I can only hope she was recovering from something, but I was not taking the risk.
- I'm still piiiiiiiiised about when my expensive trip to Mildura was ruined by some lady who was coughing all weekend. I think I ended up with a combination of food poisoning and the cold while stranded hundreds of KMs from home in almost the middle of nowhere.
I still see far too much of this in public, and it makes me mad, especially as someone who hasn't been able to work for the past week from covid. Some people either learnt nothing from the last few years or simply don't give a damn and it shows.
Fkn ferals! Crawling all over the trains and trams, coughing and snuffling, wiping their faces with their hands and smearing it everywhere like angry monkeys throwing their shit.
Why don't the Geneva Conventions on Biological Warfare extend to the common disease-ridden citizen?
Don't even get me started on buses.

Rejected for a job because I was basically too good (?), but they've invited me to apply for a more senior role coming up next month. Not really sure what to do with this information.

at which point they'll tell you that you don't have enough experience for the senior role. Why? Cause they're fuckers.
Least thats my experience.
- The more senior role is very similar to my last job, but yep, every chance there'll be another amazing candidate so I'm certainly not holding my breath.
It's great they offered to put you forward for another position. I've had that excuse and no one knows what to do, like 'so you don't want to employ competent people?'

Is the general experience today feeling tired?

More like bleeeeaaaaahhhhhhhh/bored.
But I am also tired.
I slept in until the middle of the day and I still feel a little underbaked
- Your prescription is to go out and enjoy some sun tomorrow.
I hope it’s only because I had a bad sleep.
Hope I haven’t caught covid or something.

Hullo from Auckland!! Spent the day trying surprisingly mediocre wine with a group of fun people from right across the globe! I am surprisingly exhausted!

Today is dragging like crazy.

How is it not even 11 am? (Posting this at 10:50)

Office is less busy than usual toi

I've had 2 meetings that have dragged like you wouldnt believe which really isnt helping! "Ok if there isnt any more questions.....?" "Oh, I've got one!" Bro how about you sit down and shut the f up. You dont need 15 of us in this meeting to ask this question.
- I have one of those this afternoon.... already dreading it
- We also have someone who does that in meetings, often when they’re wrapping up. It’s all I can do not to scream STOP. TALKING. NOW!!
I know right? It's really going slowly and I feel like crap today.
Yup, woke up super early and now I'm drained af. Might take a nap and then do my writing for my prac assessments.
- Map sounds glorious

I care so little for US politics and I am already tired of hearing about that train wreck, despite actively avoiding it. I can't escape it I figured it must be close to the election so I googled it.

We got another 3 months of this.

I was absolutely here prior to "the change" and now I'm all here for it. It went from "good guys gonna get smashed" to "Holy shit good guys are gonna win and bad guys gonna get their asses kicked". Love a come from behind story.
I loved the Olympics even more because of this. 2 weeks of barely hearing about it was bliss.
I wish Americans would stop this whole superiority complex thing they have, and acting like everybody needs to know about it
Chief. Your country is falling apart, basically a 3rd world country with rich white people, and you literally had Trump as president. Nobody else gives a fuck about who wins your shitty little race race. Your country is beyond repair either way. Also, US politics aren't the default politics, and the US isn't the default country 🤷‍♂️

Miniest testing negative for covid 💪🏼 my test still very faintly positive. Mr P's test still strongly positive and he is spewin' about it. The first to get it and spread it to us is still positive, he really thought he'd be in the clear by now. But he's the oldest and a smoker, which I think must be a factor in his slow recovery? Ran out of tests so will have to test Elder when the ones I ordered arrive this arvo.

Edit: Elder minipeeler has tested negative! I'm sooo relieved!

There was some silly article years ago about how being a smoker (tobacco or weed) could help against covid.
I called bullshit and I'm pretty sure it's been disproven too lol. Guarantee you his smoking is prolly why it's harder for him to get over it (as a flip-flopping quitter)
- Given Mr Peeler kept walking through the living room for a ciggie, in this case it sounds like it wasn't the smoker who got sicker — it was everyone else!
  Anyways, fantastic news that you're all starting to recover 😊

antigratitude: i have a cold
gratitude: telehealth is freeeeee and i get a med cert so i get paid for being sick

s2g if they wanted to fix the state deficit, put fucking ticket cops on chesterville road. The number of defects and speeding fines would buy us a whole new rail system.

I did a 5 year stint in st Albans, and it was always funny seeing how many people would run the red light, or speed, along Taylor's Rd, particularly at the Arthur Street intersection. Never really saw cops around much either. I liked to tell people who'd never been to st Albans before that it was because the last time cops tried to park up and fine people, the kids in the area through rocks at their windows, and then we all teamed up and tipped their cop car over. I think the more depressing reality is that there were probably only 5 cops at Keilor Downs police station, and most of them were preoccupied with domestic violence calls, and the resulting paperwork. Ironically Taylor's Rd is the nicer end of town, too

Shout out to my goodest girl: the Staffy X Kelpie. I'm trying a new walking technique to reduce the pulling cause its all gotten a bit shit since kiddo joined us. She was always the better of the 2 dogs but with the new technique she had it dialed in within like 5 minutes. She was a nightmare on a lead when we got her so to see the progress she has made was just been awesome.

The other dog we wont be talking about here.

I don’t know much about dogs. But I saw a harness where the leash attached at the front of the dog’s chest. Maybe that was to turn them back around or to the side each time they raced ahead of the owner/pulled. Kind of as discouragement or to make it harder to act up.
Is that a thing?
Edit: Seems it is.
It’s called a front clip harness
https://www.vetstreet.com/gear/dog-gear/harnessing-the-walk-choosing-the-right-harness-for-your-dog#:~:text=Front%2Dclip%20harnesses%20have%20the,face%20the%20owner%20if%20needed.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/article/best-harnesses-for-dogs-that-pull/#

I've caught the today-is-dragging-itis bug. Far out I'm soooo done for the day. Bleurgh. I have to do a stupid employee goals thing too. urrrghghvbggvbfgj

Also really sleepy as I was up late helping a mate with their job application. It was actually my dream job, but I'm not in a position to have such a big change right now... and I think this person is a better candidate anyway. Certainly makes me think of where I could be in the future though

Oh man, employee goals crap is the worst. I used to take them seriously, but after a decade at my current employer they've proven that they're not worth a damn. NOBODY here takes them seriously any more, even my manager acknowledges it's all worthless and any goals or aspirations or training plans or targets will be ignored by the powers that be anyway. It's just a box ticking exercise here.
Also, what a great friend you are to have that kind of attitude and put that effort in helping someone get YOUR dream job! I just hope you don't sell yourself short, make sure you shoot for something similar when the timing IS right!
Now I believe it's time to will this clock into turning faster so that I can go home...
- Lol, turns out even my supervisor has no idea there were these employee goal things so it really is a total box ticking exercise...
  Aw thanks, that's really nice of you re: job. It's just been bad timing that this job was advertised when it was. I absolutely can't sacrifice my last shot at finishing this degree (would need to start redoing subjects otherwise) and I know I simply can't handle the chaos of transitioning jobs moving forward. I like that my existing jobs are somewhat braindead which leaves me more space to work with uni, life, etc. Whereas I'd be burning the candle at both ends wanting to put in 110% at the job while also finishing uni. I also needed some down time professionally after my last job.
  I'll definitely be putting in for jobs like that once I wrap up uni mid next year!
same, I just want to sleep today

At the reception for my CT and there is no one here lol.

Least I went private so I got an appt real quick, but it's like a ghost town in here 😱

Edit: nevermind, all done. I got lost but still got the scan 10mins before my actual appt time #winning

I was bangin 7 gram rocks, that's how I roll - winning
\ I have one gear: GO - epic winning
\ Are you bipolar?
\ I'm bi-winning
\ Win here, win there, win win everywhere

I dropped my phone in a public toilet this morning. I won’t share the gory details. I just thought you fine people should know.

I hope the dropping occurred pre-use. Is your phone ok?
This is the right time to catch covid. Allows the smell to dissipate without you having to experience it.
Are you ded?
Omg nightmare 😧
- I dropped it “after the fact”. I was mortified haha

I struggled to get home this afternoon. I kept wanting to fall asleep as I was driving home.

Made it home through had a wash then flopped on my bed and fell asleep until now.

I think my blanket last night was too warm for me so I’m going to change it out for a few days as it’s been warmer.

Anyway making some garlic bread now.

Hungry!

I've reheated some frozen pasta with sauce
- That sounds really yummy.

hmm, what does it mean when your site/capital improved value goes down in rates ?

New neighbours - of the kind our Baku knows all too well. Or possibly the site has been re-classified as flood-prone or similar.
- nah, we're still between an empty lot of trash and the sharehouse fulla smackheads. Definitely no reclassification of zones.
  maybe the smackheads were being extra smackey when they did the survey, there's one that's started wandering naked out into their front yard
- Ha. I love that I'm basically famous here now
  So grateful for the neighbours I have now
Your home and contents insurance renewal goes down next time around?
(yeah, right...)
Hopefully less rates?

It's nice to be able to dry stuff on the clothesline.

It so is, I've been putting a load out when my MIL isn't in the backroom of her place (which is where the back door is). Unfortunately she usually sits there so it limits me to before she gets up or when she has her afternoon nap.

I have a sore throat and a headache. Fun times. Plus side I guess is that I don't have anything on till this Arvo, so I can do a sleep in. But I got absorbed into a the YouTube "documentary" about YouTube drama. Oddly fascinating. Like watching a train wreck

hugs
YouTube drama can be weirdly fascinating at times. There's a 4 hour video on Nickacado Avocado and it's all so low stakes but incredibly important to the people going through it at the time
- Seriously. Most of these people need to go touch grass and get some perspective

So tired today so I took the day off. Allergies I think, my terrace is covered in pollen dust and my nose tickles as soon as I go out there.

I'd be embarrassed as hell if the talk of the Brisbane Olympics was US celebrities. Just saying.

I'm old and immune-ish to the cringe now. I cope by not watching any aussie tv ( except bluey )
- Aussie wise, I pretty much only watch highway patrol. Putting crackheads and boganson a tv screen is never not funny

My headache resolved itself with a sleep. My sore throat regrettably didn't. I did too much raised voicing yesterday

I thought today was Wednesday. :(

It's OK I thought today was 1997
If it is Wednesday then I'm in the wrong place.....
If it's any consolation, the day is almost done, which means there's only 16.5 more hours until we pass the halfway mark. Every new hour is an hour closer to Friday!

To balance last weeks good luck getting third in line at the food market, today I got third last. I ended up with three parsnips so will have to do lots of roast vegie dishes. Also a leek and some potatoes, which would be much better news if it was still soup weather.

It is always rosti weather - and you have the makings right there in front of you. You could even include the parsnips if you felt like it.

booyah

Had a wild dream last night. I went to the shops to buy eggs, but they only had fancy ones that were $60 per dozen. I declined to buy them

I bought half a dozen pasture range farm fresh organic eggs for far too much money a couple of weeks ago. They were the only eggs left on the shelf
This week I didn't even bother with trying to buy eggs (totally didn't just forget). Did mean I had to substitute egg for milk in my brownie I made earlier. I didn't know what ratio to use, so I just eyeballed. Turned out fine

I... Did not realise they got Eli Roth to direct the Borderlands film... And they made it... PG13!!!!!????

I'm sorry, the guy who directed, produced, and wrote: Cabin Fever, Hostel I and II, and The Green Inferno, did a PG13 adaption of motherfucking BORDERLANDS‽

IT COULD HAVE BEEN AN R18 SPLATTER FILM GODFUCKINGDAMMIT

I want to get off this timeline

well that's proof positive this isn't the worst timeline. In the worst timeline it's Uwe Boll
- Oh god, oh dear god I never thought of that....
  Is this really the better timeline 😭
Maybe it was and the studio execs took all the good bits out to cater to a "wider audience"?
Yeah the timelines getting strange hey. First the trump thing, then Biden drops out, Australia comes 4th at the Olympics, Dutton backing "green" energy, High Jackman puts the claws back on... We keep swining between the good timeline and the darkest.
- Heheheheh High Jackman 😂😂
I've not heard good things about the movie. Also I think it did really badly at the box office.
Apparently it was filmed a few years back and then reshot. A stunt actor recently said it had a lot of head popping, etc. so it was probably R and went to PG.
tldr: studio interference (as usual)
- 😭😭😭
I'm so disappointed in the casting of that thing. And the pg13 is just stupid.
Loved borderlands 1 and 2, and this is what we get. An animation would have been heaps better.
- I love 1 and 2, would have loved 3 more if it wasn't a glitchy laggy mess 😱 I also loved the Prequel tbh, though I think I'm in the minority with that one 👀
  I watched the redlettermedia review, and I'm so mad. Apparently Eli Roth changed it to PG13. Wtf Eli?! I believed you! We all believed in you!
  Fucking stupid piece of shithouse adaption. I want to smack everyone into the sun. How dare they ruin Borderlands like that, they did the IP dirty.

There's just something that hits different doing Duolingo with music in the background, the music dims when the Duolingo audio comes on and then when the audio stops, the music returns to full volume.

Mine don't do that, but it would probably be a stress relief. Even when I know I'm right, there's always such anxiety I'll get a "BA-DOO" instead of a "BA-DONG". It's soul crushing

I think my parcel may have skipped a few steps here. Or did it actually teleport from Philips post office to Bayswater?

Pull chocks..