Daily Discussion Thread:🩸🤝🥪 Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Well the meeting wasn't too bad. Still got blamed for the inadequacy of the project team, but the heat was lower than expected thankfully ❤️

Edit: Just got a call for another job that pays 1/3rd more. Fuck it let's see what happens.

That project team that you didnt even set up or have any control over? and thats been long established since before you joined? Classic management.
- Bingo. That the head PM is mates with my manager is absolutely classic blame diversion.
It sounds like the client is blaming you because you're the main person they interact with. You have no control on the actual work that gets done on their account.
- All I can do is hassle the project manager or project engineers to get updates.
  Today I was told in the future if I need to escalate, go straight to the general manager which is cool at least

Got my payslip.

Picking up the car on my birthday Saturday!

It's all coming up millhouse!

Also, a story in 2 photos:

Then meowing for my to get her down....

You softy. I would put a tin of salmon on the floor and walk away.
- I am absolutely a softy lol
I have an understanding, but no words.
- Watching her scale the security door with claws out, hanging for a bit, then doing the mad jump to the top of the door is nuts.
  And all in 30 seconds from a standing start lol
Yay for the cat righting reflex!

Bro rocked up last night finally to 'see' mum.

Just sat there and spoke about himself for 30mins.

Cunt. At least the old man is seeing him for who he really is now.

Pretty obvious won't be getting much help from bro.

Anyway so I've left the kitchen with a bit of a mess and I need to see what happens (I usually clean up). Pretty much testing severity / independence. I'm hoping I'll get a serve because that means she can see it, she can do it, how well she does it and mood which will be a good indication for steps that follow (for now). Low risk easy test.

Good luck and so many best wishes for your mum. 🫂🫂🫂
- Thank you seagoon means a lot :)
Man it sounds like you're having a fucking rough time right now.
Try to find a little time for yourself just to rest if you can.
I hope everything works out OK with your mum ❤️

Surprise! 1st strawberry from the patch this season. Was watering and thought.... hmmmm..... something red is hiding there. 🍓

Congrats! Looks luscious!
- It was a very nice surprise!
That's so cute! Who gets to eat it?
- It's all mine... gotta have some rewards!
Nice one! There is nothing like a properly ripened fresh strawberry.
Woo! Few things in my horticultural life have excited me as much as the first strawb of the season!
- I knew you'd understand my delight!
😋
yum 🙂
- It was!

Open mic is tomorrow at 9pm if anyone wants to come have a drink :)

Edit: I'm sorry I'm going to cancel. I've been dealing with this stomach bug all week and it's just gotten worse and worse.

Id rather not go, than give a lacklustre performance :(

Rest well buddy.
It's been a stressful week for you on top of being sick and I'm sure that's not helping you get better.
Look after yourself!
Rest up man. We'll be there for the next one :)

Had one hell of a psych session... big emotions. Good session but the kind that you need to sit down and process for 30 minutes afterwards. I had thought I might pack my shoes and some other stuff tonight but it isn't happening. It's been a big week and more to come with the real move coming up.

I am not being lazy or weak, I am pacing myself 👍

Go you for attending the psych session! Good attitude, put your feet up and relax a bit. You deserve it!!!
hugs
I was just thinking to myself today that no one starts or does everything at the same time. And starts are the hardest as learning curves are real and take a lot of work. Life naturally just spaces itself out with different demands happening at different times. Systems are set up at different times, skills learnt at different times.
Life is naturally paced. That's how people can do so much .
It's how I did it as a teen even. Got some education. Got a job. Moved out. Did more education. One big start at a time.

Interesting thing just happened. I was in the middle of writing a reply, but the time stamp said that I had responded 5 minutes ago. Yes, it was the time stamp for that reply. I checked.
This means that the DT is actually a portal that allows time travel into the future. Albeit not very much future. Not enough for stock market speculation, dammit. Has anyone else had this happen to them?

That explains why I see some serious shit every time a post hits 88 comments.
- 🚗⚡⚡⏰
No, just 2 DMs from a user I don't recognise, one responding to something I wrote ages ago and another saying hello. Post history has a lot of removed posts and comments.
- The user starts with a D doesn’t it? Has been sending a bunch of us messages as well.
  I advise you block them.
- I think the" hello" person was spam to everyone. From memory the removed comment was something about finance and most likely a scam. They've been blocked from the Melboune sub.

Magpie meowed… I think I’ve been feeding them too much cat food.

That's adorable lol

ffs I have been banned for 3 days from one of the fossil reddits ..lol. Some nonce posts a picture of a blue rock he got from Blue Rock Beach and asks if it's a fossil.

It's a blue rock.

more reddit adventures

antivaxxer is harassing me

and horribly cruel mocking political post against a poor white woman , for her looks and race, is allowed to stand

Little whiteboard fell of the wall at 3am and frightened the bejesus out of me.

Broken sleep. 😠

Good start to the day, Marketplace buyer showed up & was very friendly. I have a couple more that will hopefully show up today too - I'll have to convert all my cash to proper digital money soon! 💰 💰 💰

I'm really hoping some more cupboards sell soon, I'd like to be able to use my carport again. If any are remaining after this weekend I think I'll put them up free on the Buy Nothing group.

Glad to hear you got rid of that couch. I'm reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and I was worried your couch would get stuck in some physically impossible fashion and you'd have to saw it into pieces
- I think it is @just_kitten 's couch you are thinking of, which is still pending pickup tonight. So the impossibly stuck couch is still a possibility. Hopefully if that does happen the horse in the bathroom situation will not follow.

Melbcat has been wrangled for her meds… she’s forgiven me and is now curled up as the little spoon

aww, hugs

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo!!!

RIP
I must keep a constant supply of cheese in the fridge or Miniest will kill me
- 🐀
As long as you haven’t run out of smoked fish…..
- No I restocked recently thank God

Went to pick up some extra food for a few days and came across some bargains

3kg bag of oranges for 5 dollars and a bag with 4 bunches of chinese broccoli or something for 2 bucks.

Felt like I made off like a bandit and has left me fairly happy with myself.

Also this afternoon was way smoother with almost no hassles compared to yesterday’s drama.

Edit: I also grabbed some red wine and pink moscato.

Orange juice freezes spectacularly jsyk. I like to make ice cubes
- I’ll probably just end up eating them.
  They’re fairly big oranges and I lack a juicer too.

is there a stomach bug going around? Kid got sent home with the shits yesterday but was in great spirits and wasnt on a hold so went back today and seems fine. Meanwhile I've got this feeling at the top of my stomach a bit like i wanna spew, but not quite? Had it for 3 days now, and it just comes and goes. not actual digestive changes however, its a bit weird. edit: feels like there is a rock at the top of my stomach.

Yeah man it's been about 3 days now and I'm utterly fucked. Running to the bathroom every 20 or so mins.
Fucking sucks.
I saw something on the other site with a graph regarding gastro cases in Australia (or Victoria) and there was huge upward spike recently.
- This makes me want to touch the poles and buttons on the tram even less.
My girlfriend has been in bed all day with stomach problems so it feels true from my end
Gastro has been going nuclear of late, my son's kinder was just about deserted a few weeks back when it ripped through...

Waking up to the sound of rain, the rubbish truck and birds chirping.

What could be more Australian?

Oh and a fender bender at the top of my court. No one hurt but definitely both drivers were at fault.

Weekend lawn mowers going then a whiff of a barbie in the late afternoon.
- The local drunk bogans at the tab ranting about their losses
Kookaburra

It’s going to be a blood agreement sandwich kinda day

Someone might take the big couch off me today. Please turn up this evening for the love of God. It would be such a relief.

What's everyone's favourite dessert?

If it's cake I'd say chocolate for me or black forest as long as it doesn't have cheese in it.

I also like making a bowl of jelly with fruits in it.

Tiramisu hands downnnnn
good vanilla ice cream with raspberry coulis
chocolate mousse
black forest cake with brandied cherries
chocolate mousse or eton mess probably.
A hot pie or crumble of some sort with a side of ice cream, can't be beat.
Creme brulee
Lemon meringue pie. Extra points if those waves are huge.
Favorite dessert is, well, dessert. With the caveat that I'm not all that fond of coconut as a texture or flavour. So any dessert that does not contain coconut is a contender for favorite. I suspect the real answer is whatever dessert I am eating at the time.
- not all that fond of coconut
  I'm hoping that doesn't extend to the ol' bounty bar :(
Anything chocolate: cake, ice cream, mousse, sauce, melted, whatever, just chocolate anything 😂
Not Cadbury tho, that brand has gone to shit
madeira layer cake with grand marnier cream and fresh strawberry filling
Tiramisu or old fashioned trifle with real custard and port
- Trifle. Yesssss
That's... a really tough question.
Vanilla ice cream with berries. Caramel cheesecake. Choc ripple with raspberry jam.
Tiramisu or black forest cake or chocolate mousse.
This is hard because I eat dessert items whenever and only try new ones if I’m out at dinner. Haven’t had anything recently that’s been memorable.
Though do love me the lemon tart and tartin at Babka in Fitzroy.
Lemon meringue..... Strawberry cheesecake... . Apple pie..... can't choose between them.
I'm not really sure. My tastes have been changing again as I have gotten older. It used to be anything with stupidly high levels of chocolate. Now I'd go more for something creamy or custardy.
- I make a delicious apple cake served with lots of cinnamon vanilla whipped cream
Biltong
- Contrarian.
Black forest as long as it doesn't have cheese in it?
Let me reread that.
Ohhh, I see what you meant.
- Sorry. Like a layer of cheese cake.
  I very much dislike cheesecake.
Kids size callipo, pineapple and raspberry flavour.

Left over beef ragu pasta for lunch and I am so excited. Hurry up, 1:30pm.

Also wondering at what point I'll snap and stop making sensible decisions and run away to Europe for a month.

Tbh, running away to Europe for a month seems like an excellent decision to me

Friend I met up with today said she doesn't drive because her ex crashed into a tree after she broke up with him and thought it was her fault. But she has spoken to me about driving on the ring road with her dad and driving to her sport practice. It's just that she needs a ride whenever I go out with her. Another friend wants me to pick up her too good to go box which is a 10 minute drive away. I feel iffy about saying yes because she constantly asks me to check if things are in stock for her at my work and asked me to help jump-start her car because she had no one else. I don't mind doing a nice thing for a friend, but I just feel like these people are using me.

hmmm, that all sounds a bit like emotionally manipulative bullshit on their part.
Politely decline and see what happens.
- She's manipulative just like her ex was. I will not be driving her anymore. The other friend is also a user.
Yeah, I learned never do for another person what they can do for themselves :(

Ugh, no luck with confirming the couch move so far (and tbqh I'm really tied for time tonight). I'm starting to think it won't happen and I'll have to move it to my friend's place.

Meanwhile I have at least confirmed the movers for Monday morning, that's a big tick. Think I'm just going to take the day off so I can clean up after and shit

Clients asking me if I can do their work for cheaper. No! I give you a fair price right up, this isn't a negotiation. Yet I feel the need to say, yes of course I can do it cheaper. Then I come across as a pushover and the next time I do work for them, they'll ask for cheaper again.

ask them what work/services they want you to cut... j/k

sky blue, I did reading on the tram , got a new planner

and some art books

It was a successful trip. 🙂

It's literally raining here and it's not on the radar. 🫥

It is now raining harder.

Afternoon buyer has not shown up ☹️

It is very rude, Mr Woof has been waiting for his afternoon walk. She confirmed she was coming just a couple of hours ago!

^mrow

anyone else also turn the heater on out of sheer stubbornness rather than change out of shorts? I'm blaming the weather for being a tease. it got me in the mood and now its changed its mind? Too bad, I am wearing the shorts and I am going to enjoy it.

No way. I've got the door open.
- now it's windy and raining
  i might put non sandals on

🤝

Trying to play financial seer since our fixed mortgage term is up in December and we're trying to work out if we should lock in a two or five year rate in case it all goes to shit.

Musks antics are not helping

And got the 3s all this morning. Added to the 3am fright:

No rain forecast last night for this morning. Got wet otw to work.
Spicy cough going round at work. Back to masks.

Can we just not today. 😑

So Oporto are doing breakfast at the moment. Their stores open at 10 and breakfast goes until 11. Why have a whole line of food you only sell for an hour?

I know what you mean. The bacon could do with a bit longer on the grill too, I'll add.
- That was my experience with the bacon and egg roll. Some very wet bacon on an athletics carnival bun. I just want to try their deluxe breakfast burger before they stop doing it. As much as I feel chicken for breakfast is an odd choice.
why do breakfast starting at ten? How about a 6.30 start for real workers.
- I know. I can't go before work, you need to go mid morning after most people have had breakfast. Why bother doing breakfast if you're barely open at breakfast hours

I put a book in my satchel, today I start reading on PT 👍

rain

It's started again here too. Looks like I picked the perfect time for morning walkies, we only got a few drops while we were out.

For some dumb reason I clicked on a spider IG. Now my IG is full of spider-related content.

Like BIG spiders…

Goodnight from the Red room❤️

Kiwifruit chilli chutney has been bottled. Tastes pretty good. Flavours along the line of a sweet chilli sauce, just a bit chunkier (and greener!)

that sounds delicious 😋
- Looks pretty too!

@LowExperience2368@aussie.zone Are the emojis Corporate Brown Bag Meeting

I think it is Spuds blood donation
- 🅰️➕🩸🩸🩸❤️

Went shopping with friend who wants to rebuild my wardrobe. Bought nothing but she bought some cheap earrings, only to leave the bag of them on the bus. I followed the bus in the car and she ran to get her earrings.

Shopping is exhausting. Very lucky to have such a first world problem. But I hate shopping centres and browsing.

There is a special Hell for people who think bra shopping is fun
- Those weirdos walk amongst us!
- Wait... there are people who think bra shopping is fun?
- It sounds fun, but my wife has never taken me along.
  Yes, she hates bra shopping.

Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘

Night Seagoon!

After many phone calls tonight I can now finally have dinner.

Watching some shows then I’ll hit the sack.

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

Black pudding with strawberry ketchup and a baguette please. No more coffee, please, no more coffee.
- 🌭🍓🍅🥖☕️tea
Lamb shank, mashed potato and au jus please.
- 🍖🥔🧈🍯
A selection of items containing cheese, please.
- 🧀🪤🫕🍔🥪
2 x high-fat ribeye steaks, one potato, lots of butter please. Salt and pepper on the side so I can adjust to my pleasing
- 🥩🥩🥔🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈
  You shall ingest what we provide as is.

TIL The Cure has been around for nearly 50 years 🤯

Yes, but not all of it fantastic
- I haven't really paid attention. I have a few albums, mostly old ones.

I ended up with more kiwi fruit this week, so I am going to try a small batch of kiwifruit chilli chutney.

Edit: Chutney is currently cooking. I had a preliminary taste and it is hot.

Rain gone 🙂

Tanks filled happyclaps

Made a thread for tomorrow.

The friend who I'm picking up the food for is going to give me some food and I might ask her about GitHub to attempt to make a bot.

I've been looking into an RSS bot for here and it seems doable. There are options for creating posts, pinning them, and unpinning posts.
My biggest problem is getting docker to work
- If you need a local docker test env you can spin them up on rpis. I have a local k8s cluster for this although my private cloud can do the same... Shout if you need help. I'm bored and have time.
thank you 😘
I've been coding excessively since I was a child. I am 40. I'm happy to help and have offered to build this many many times in any lang and on any platform. So if you'll find it fun but need help DM me as it seems like no one wants me to do it :(

Ah man… I probably shouldn’t push myself physically. I risk injury and the pain and fatigue lasts for days.

I just get bored you know? I wish I could just get motivated to do art or keep learning languages. But nope. All the energy goes to surviving and then I just turn to the net and social media for mental stimulation.

I remember when I didn’t even have social media and was just… completely self sufficient. That’s when I was a lot more able to be physically active though

I used to read many more books.
And truthfully, if it weren't for the dt and you beautiful people here I wouldn't be on social media at all.

Weather is yucky out the, muggy as hell and raining on top of that.

Wondering now what I do for my dinners for the next few.

Maybe might go back to pasta bolognese or something.

I'm very indecisive at the moment and I don't think I'm in a good headspace at the moment. May distract myself by binging something over the weekend.

Your trash, my treasure. Tanks need filling, ground needs loosening for new paving dig and now i don't have to water plants
Microwave potato w baked beans
Microwave sweet potato w tuna and cheese
The possibilities are endless
- Microwave potato and bolognese.
What about rice meals? Stir fries, fried rice etc. One bag of rice, one bag of frozen veg and some soy sauce.
I hope things turn around for you soon. ♥
- Haven't done rice in a long while, I usually like to do it with something really saucy, cooking and cleaning sometimes is a pain for that even if I'm using a rice cooker.
my recipe for bachelor scrambled eggs.
make scrambled eggs by adding one spoon of bottle salsa per egg
or spring onion and a tsp of garam masala
have on english muffins
The unsung hero of cbf food is a chicken thigh fillet immersed in baked beans and bubbled up in the microwave. Chopping optional. Serve on rice or toast or spud or just by itself. Add veg and/or other flavorings like hot sauce if feeling a little less cbf.

Tv Review. Poker Face on Stan. This is like Colombo. A crime is shown to the audience and the main character, Charlie , manages to figure it out using her ability to detect lies and inconsistencies and find clues. Unlike Colombo it's original, Colombo was a copy of Les Diaboliques.

I like these shows, half the genius is developing all the situations where the main character is put in the situation of catching the bad guy/solving the crime.

This series has a lot of potential.

3.5 hobbits. Next series there may be less violence and less drinking on camera and then it will get broader appeal and 4 hobbits

"To create a work of art is to create a world" . This quote is the intro to my new to me book on Kandinsky. It's a cool quote, it's true. 🙂

Anyone know why power in moorabbin shat out last night?

Is it back on? United Energy is the distributor for Moorabbin and their website doesn't have an outage for it. But it does have an outage for Bentleigh, where they are doing a line repair, but that's only affecting 70 customers with restoration at around 1pm today.
- Yah, was out for about an hour between 1:30 and 2:30 this morning. Just curious, last time it was an emergency arm replacement on the corner of chesty and south
What time did this happen?
I mysteriously found my TV on when I woke up this morning.
- Blip at 1:36, full outage 1:47-02:29, going by the void in my camera logs