Daily Discussion Thread: 😎 Friday 29 November

FINALLY!!!!!

Hello weekend.

Everyone's having a good time 🌟

Finally back home now

Well I'm off to sleep for 16 hours, see you all!

Welcome back! Night night, and try to sleep in if you can.

Changing my Facebook profile photo to me playing a gig was a great idea for getting into a new band.

Back in Vic now. Was briefly here for a few hours this morning (driving from Pinnaroo, SA, to Balranald, NSW

Energy and patience levels very very low. Only just left Echuca, so still a few hours from home. Probably gonna get back about 9:30. Sure hope past me tidied up before leaving (genuinely don't remember)

Anywho, I sorted out my shop yesterday. Will be delivered tomorrow evening, so I can have a sleep in. Gonna smash some KFC tonight, and might order some lunch in tomorrow. Who wants to cook

Edit: KFC has been smashes. Also remembered that I ordered an ABBA vinyl from Kmart (which they apparently sell for black Thursday or whatever the stupid sale thing is called). I don't have a vinyl player but oh well, I'm a top 0.05% ABBA fan according to Spotify

So the solution to being overworked from the general manager is:

Wait for it:

FUCKING TIME MANAGEMENT!!!

because of course im sitting around jerking off all day and not busting my ass the whole time.

I'm out as soon as I have a new offer. I don't want them to match it.

Now they get what they pay for. The pace slows to match the salary.

because of course im sitting around jerking off all day
Maybe that is the solution...
- It's not like I haven't considered it lol
Time management = the person who bought up the issue IS the issue.
I hope you get a better offer and can make like a tree
- Exactly.
  So fucking short sighted. If they're annoyed now, they're going to get a reality check when I move on.

@Force_majeure123@aussie.zone shout tonight.

Had some beers, had some whiskey, had some weed.

All of you are looking extra good tonight 😘

Just saw some lightning. Had a look on windy.com and there's a big storm heading due south. Has nearly reached Whittlesea.

Ooh, looks big. But also looks like it's getting blown Southwest towards Gisborne and might miss most of Melbourne. Whatever, just bring on the cool change please.
I think I’ll just be on the outer edges of it but I’m seeing a very cool lightning show.
Mowed and watered lawn... if there's a storm. All the better... I'm gonna go fight my neighbours now
I'll be enjoying that storm soon enough then
Just saw it down my way as well.

Boyo just tried to get in the shower with his coffee mug. This does not bode well for incoming meeting with mortgage banker.

Its something in the air. I sat here reading emails thinking "man, teams is quiet today". And it was, because I hadnt even opened it yet.
- 3 of my managers are off today. Might be an apology for some meetings and get this gardening shit done and over with ASAP.
I guess shower coffee isn’t as common as I imagined.
- Next hot trend is shower wine (I totally don't do this).

Morning everyoneeeee 🤗 TGIF.
The weeks are zooming by so fast for me at the moment. I feel like I blink and it's Thursday and then the weekend. Not sure if this is good because I'm not feeling like work is dragging on so long all week, or bad because life is just slipping by quickly

What time is beer o'clock for you today?
- About 5 when I get home

Is there anything more dramatic than a cat whose food bowl is only 95% full?

You do realise the cat will starve should the bowl get to only 90% full?
A beer that's 95% empty 🍻🍺

Whatever I save on rent and gas connection fees at this place I'll definitely be making up for in air-conditioning - despite having the extractor fan on and blinds and windows firmly closed the place is a furnace. I can feel the fire from behind the blinds in this west facing bedroom. It's hotter than it is outside.

Off to have dinner with a friend shortly but I think I'll need to have the AC on timer while I'm out so that I can sleep in this damn place tonight 😮‍💨

It might be worth having a little air or foam mattress to sleep in a cooler room when it’s bad. I also would put tinfoil on the sunny side windows.
West facing bedrooms are the worst
- So much about this place that is just absolutely not what I'd choose or want, and I'm still paying so much, sigh. Not gonna focus on that tho.
  My mum might visit for a bit in Jan so I was thinking of getting a roll up foam mattress anyway, used to have one in a swag but I've given that away. At a stretch I could sleep on the couch with my legs bent, or resting on the arms
I’ve had some success with taping those silver car window screen things to west-facing windows. Its unsightly but does block the heat
- Used to see those at other places, looks so ghetto but I might seriously consider it (and too bad if it reflects right off into other peoples windows across the carpark) because it's just untenable otherwise. I've just come home and the air-conditioning was on for an hour and then off for an hour and it's still hot as fuck in here, there's no cross ventilation even with all the windows open now.
  Wish I had a way to stick them on the outside of the windows, that's what needs to stop getting hot in the first place

FFS someone backed into my car when doing school pick up. Thankfully not much damage and to their credit they hung around to give me their details, but jesus I do not need the headache.

I can empathise,I’ve been hit twice in the past year in the school scrum and one of those accidents took my car out for 6 weeks.
Actually I shouldn’t say accident. I should say negligence. People lose their fucking minds during that time.
Itll be okay, especially with one of these bad boys 🍻🍻

Looks like telstra / bigpond mail is borked since 7am-ish (for outlook at least) for a lot of people.

One of those times when you can throw your hands up and say:

instructions unclear, deduced fault is hamster

That's enough work for today. Sign off. Going to have a bit of retail therapy before heading home, but I won't last long if it's super crowded at the shops like I think it'll be.

All flights are booked for the end of the year trip. Three flights and I suspect they’re all going to be very different experiences!

Where are you off to?
- Singapore and Japan, very excited!

Thank you for the support these past few weeks, I can catch up via the recording of the class I missed today.

sorry for posting so much, I'll pull back and let others have space to vent

It's ok mate. Everyone is stretched so thin mistakes happen.
Nothing a little beer can't fix 🍻🍺
We do not allow that 🐈
It’ll be ok… I’m sure you can catch up, and one missed class won’t be a problem. If you want to you could email the lecturer and just ask if there’s anything you need to do
If you want to vent go ahead. Be you. Don't ever hold back. Let it out 💜

First cicadas of the year are shouting in my front yard. They're bloody loud.

I've been hearing them for a couple weeks now. Somehow feels hotter when I hear them
I once heard of someone collecting the shed cicada shells and spray painting them gold, to use as Xmas decorations. Should you want something a little different at this time of year
- That would be beautiful! So many insecks are beautifully geometric in design, and gilded would look stunning! And the cicada isn't using the shell anymore so why not. So far I've just been putting the shells in the compost, but painting them might be a lot more fun.

I'm a bit concerned about following these instructions.

earth and world are the same character/word in Mandarin 🤷‍♀️
( in the old mandarin I learnt 0
- That's actually a reasonable explanation for this wording, could be a direct translation from the original 满地 the second character 地 can mean earth/ground/soil and can mean planet Earth (地球) when combined with a character meaning ball/sphere.
What have you d- wharblgarbleglub
- 😂😂
Noah, get the boat.
Did the angry war god write this? Lol
I promise not to dream this tonight.
Hey there 🍻🍺

Lawn has been mowed. Meetings ended. Shower and lunch had. Time to tidy up one more thing workwise and the weekend is here.

Also - new Kendrick album slaps

Damn (pun intended) you know what would go well with his new album? A beeeeeer 🍺🍺
new music? what is this new music you speak of 🤔
- 'Tis a rare occasion that I listen to something past 2006

How good is it when you go to a coffee shop and your favourite barista is there so you know you're gonna get a good cuppa. That's a little win today 👏

Possibly the best ever.
- I have to stop myself from saying "Thanks mate....I love you" when receiving my coffee.
Absolutely!! I sometimes get a large and the staff discount depending on who is working 😁
where everyone knows your name
- She calls me Love 🙂

I wonder if aussie.zone will fall under the proof of age law now.

What an utter disappointment this government has been. Absolute reactive, populist nonsense.
No wonder they are rarely in power. Not that the Liberals are any better mind you.
- There are no penalties for parents or kids that flout this, kids can easily get around it with parents ids or vpns, and Albanese even admits that they will and that them being able to is beside the point. So… what is the point? It’s just performative security theatre and a convenient excuse to increase surveillance.
  The Liberals are worse by far but both parties are terrible.
- We can all be Simon.
- I think they're forgetting that all the people they're banning are going to be able to vote soon, a large portion the election after next. Depending on when the election is called, I'll probably be voting in the coming election myself. They were already hanging on to my vote by the skin of their teeth - now they've gone and completely lost it, and I'm not even directly affected by their BS.
  Sure makes my yearly VPN subscription worth it ¯⁠(⁠ツ⁠)/⁠¯
I hope it doesn’t. It’s very likely that I’ll choose to leave any platform requiring it rather than comply and I like it here
Aussie Zone is definitely captured by the new laws because the definition of "age-restricted social media platform" is so broad.
However, the legislative rules (which are not published yet and can be changed at any time by the relevant minister) would likely exclude platforms below a certain size. The rules are the same document that will include Snapchat but exclude video games, for example.
I think once the rules are published there's going to be a lot of criticism and, hopefully, revisions. It doesn't make sense that Aussie Zone be so restrictive about user age.
- Oh great so the small community of absolutely fascist incels planning the night of a thousand aryan rapes skate on by while julia childs cooking class gets a jackboot up the arse
- Online gaming isn’t covered… as least according to one source. Lemmit DT Minecraft server? Some old free game and make a guild? 🤔
  Then again it has similar issues to things like Discord in that it’s fast paced and hard to catch up on at your leisure. I know everyone has different work and sleep schedules.
  I’d totally be down for an old school v bulletin forum if that could sneak under the radar in any way at all. Potentially even volunteering for mod services if absolutely necessary. However I’m not sure if the software or whatever is as secure as modern tech or whatever. Not really my field. Edit: Holy crap hosting isn’t necessarily cheap.
  Edit 2: Oh man… what happens with places like Whirlpool :(

ow, just cut the tip of my finger with the new knife, it has set my teeth on edge, just a tiny scrape but 😬

Oww! 🩹
ouch.
Sharp knives are sooo dangerous and yet so much safer than dull ones.
Good luck with the mending

Anyone getting anything interesting with these BF sales?

I always find it’s never stuff I want or what I want is sold out or doesn’t have that great a discount.

Edit: FML, bye bye $400+ for my flat rear bike tyre.

I picked up stuff last week from pre-black Friday sales. This sale is so big I can't keep track of it.
I've noticed a lot of things that are usually discounted are just part of the sale and it only counts if there's a code that stacks
- It is hard to keep track of! I feel like they pretty much run all month.
thinking about a koala mattress. 30% off minus another hungy.
- Kind of feel like good mattresses are worth the money. Heard good things about Koala.
I've been fucking temu's bullshit lottery back so I cleaned up $40 worth of stuff I was gonna buy anyway for free XD
- Who doesn’t love freebies. 😎 Nice!
I saw some good stuff on sale at my local bottle shop, it was some of this stuff 🍻🍺
- Yum! Enjoy!
I picked up a few things last week when things went on sale but apart from that I’m staying rather resilient so I can save money.
Awfully tempting though.
- I think it’s good to resist, otherwise you end with stuff you probably didn’t really want/need.

Hehe on top of bigpond / outlook borked now a 4G outage in kew estimated restoration date 6th Dec.

That's me done for today lol.

Can't win them all.

But what you can do is have a beer 🍻🍺

A hard earned thirst needs a big cold beer and the best cold beer is the one that's been waiting for you in the fridge. Cheers 🍺

You know it 🍺🍻 cheers
- Cheers 🍺

Got back late after work to buy some essentials to last the next fortnight.

Bought some honey ham on special and I found one of those massive meat rolls I ate while ago on clearance for 5 bucks as well.

Debating if I should have it tonight or tomorrow.

Exhausted now and hoping to chill for the rest of three night with some gaming and background movies or shows.

Happy Friday everyone.

You definitely deserve one 🍻🍻🍻🍺🍺
Home Sweet Home Duenan. 🍺
- now i've got 'sweet home in a trailer' stuck in my head

New person coming to meet… house of course is a tip. I’m still feeling like shite

I know my issues cannot compare to yours, but my abode is also a tip! Partner with untreated ADHD (we're working on the untreated part lol) and me with CPTSD = no executive functions present here 😂
Try not to stress about the state of your home, friend, you are doing your best and that's perfect! We do what we can, when we can, please don't beat yourself up! 💜💜💜💜
- Thanks Spud. I managed to pick it up a bit and all went ok

Didn't take lunch because I was waiting for something to come through then had a meeting. So I took it now for an early trip home. A nice way to end a Friday

Hey mate you should have a beer about it 🍻🍺

while I fully understand and support the "fuck you, pay me" and "act your wage" ethos of millennials and genZ, some of the stuff I've dealt with this week honestly has me questioning which one of us actually grew up inhaling leaded petrol fumes.

It's the microplastics I suppose, that and hardly any millennial or genz will own their own home or do the great things they dreamed of doing.
It would make anyone resentful enough to just phone it in and not give a flying fuck.
But yeah, prolly the microplastics lol
- prolly the microplastics
  I had one of those once and don't have a house so theory checks out :)

That walk was a lot… I crashed and woke up now.

I believe it's possible to make your own gesso - there must be some recipies out there on the net. Dunno if cheaper, but might be better quality. Artists generally not being super rich and are creative.
- Oh it absolutely is. I remember seeing something about using leftover latex house paint and perhaps chalk. But that’s a fair effort
  Edit: actually checked and there’s a recipe that’s more doable but I don’t have a large enough quantity of white acrylic paint and don’t want to use glue as it can yellow.
  Anko gesso is very cheap - it’s just the acquiring of goods that’s annoying
I have to say it was fun though.
fun is awesome 🙂

Last night toddler was dawdling through dinner. I asked him if he was still going and he nodded. I asked him to show me him eating something then. He looked at me like he didnt understand so I gestured eating something. His face lights up in recognition, picks up his fork and starts chewing on the handle.

I mean.... Close enough I guess.

Times like that, my wife looks at me and exclaims 'he's YOUR kid!!!' 😆
- haha theres some debate. He has my cheeky nature and temperament, but he is 10x more handsome than me.

The ceebs are incredibly high today. Just done with the year. Donezo

Openly counting down the amount of work days left.
- I'm tempted to change all our digital signage to just giant countdowns...
I feel like I'm just limping to the finish line at this point.
Agreed, ceebs are definitely off the charts here too. Just feel DONE.
Three more weeks until we turn the lights off here at work for another year.

Vitamin and mineral content for cat food doesn't exist, just Crude Ash % (which is the % of vitamins and minerals after incineration). I found a whole metric fuckton of vetmed papers detailing the minimum requirements for cats, but no packaging has a breakdown of what vitamins and minerals they contain.

I don't want to google every bloody ingredient.

Interestingly, Fancy Feast and Purina are much more transparent than Dine or Fussy Cat. Thanks Nestle, I guess lol

When I had to switch my cat to an all-wet food diet recently I was talking to my vet about what I was feeding, and he said "oh Dine? Yes that's the yummiest wet food." It wasn't until I was on my way out that I started to wonder, um, how does he know??
- Pfft tell that to Mickey, he's a fickle fae. Sometimes he loves dine, sometimes he's not interested, hence why I have both Dine and Fancy Feast, keeps it fresh for him hahaha
  And I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Vet has tried it hahah but more likely they've just gathered that data from their clients lol
I'm wondering if the cat food Ted loves, fussy cat dry food, is bad for him, he's become so fat. I'm weaning him off it and onto mostly wet food.
- It’s really hard to work out what food is good. The high protein grain free ‘paleo’ ones are decent though, as the carbs from grain fillers can mean cats get hungry again fast (like us with Chinese food) and it makes them chunky.
  It’s expensive especially on such a low income but I always make sure there’s enough money budgeted to keep Melbcat on Taste Of The Wild for her allergies, and lucked into a fairly decent homebrand wet food she can eat.
  Edit: Here’s the Taste Of The Wild which the vet agreed is pretty good. I get the non chicken one.
  More wet food is great idea as it hydrates and keeps them fuller and more nourished. I give Melbcat the Smitten tuna mince wet food which is AAFCO certified but I can’t find the nutritional info.
  Note - Feeding her such high protein food is bad for her kidney disease/CKD but she’s allergic to the prescription foods and refuses other low phosphorus options so I just feed what she can eat. Feeding her so much fish (almost exclusively) is also not good but I am doing the best I can in the circumstances.
  Edit: I use https://www.petfoodreviews.com.au/ to check options out but unfortunately it only seems to review dry foods
- Phew okay, so I literally just wrote out and took photos of all the food Mickey gets:
  Dine wet food is the worst: it does not indicate at all what the Crude Ash % NOR Crude Fibre % is, so difficult to determine whether it has all vitamins and minerals, however the ingredient list, while small, does contain Taurine. And the ingredients are easy enough to Google.
  Fancy Feast/Purina wet food is way more transparent, with crude ash, crude fat, crude fibre, and crude protein % listed, as well as having a detailed ingredient list that can be googled as well.
  Fussy Cat Grain Free Dry Food (salmon, whitefish, olive oil flavour, 2.5kg bag) is okay, but also does not list crude ash % either, and while they do have an ingredient list it is quite vague (e.g. it lists Meat Meal but it could be poultry, fish, or beef derived). However, this brand does contain Omega Fatty Acids 3 and 6, which is not recognised as essential nutrients for cats by the AAFCO Cat Food Nutrient Profiles.
  I think the better brands would be Hills Science Diet, however Mickey did not like it.
  Trying to provide a well balance diet for cats is difficult due to each cat being very individual (same with humans, some can eat heaps of junk food and be fine, whereas other humans would get sick). It involves heaps of research to work out the best diet your cat can handle, which can be assisted by vet recommendations.
  Contrary to popular belief, Vets are not paid by the cat food companies to shill food, they get maybe a branded notepad and pen, or merch. So a vet who specialises in cat diets, based on blood work, is almost essential for cats with diet issues (be it over or under weight, emesis, diarrhea, lethargy, etc).
  I do not recommend a raw food diet, as it's basically inviting in salmonella. If you wish to cook your own food for your cat, first consult a holistic vet who will do blood work and assessments to determine what would be best nutritionally, and get human-grade meat cooked up to at least 60C to kill off salmonella, bacteria and pathogens.
  Wet food is essential for hydration as well.
I find that too… wish there was more regulation and transparency. I try to just get nutritionally complete and/or AAFCO certified food.
And it helps that Melbcat often gets her bloods done

I bought some cheap RFID passport sleeves. I thought about putting a small sticker on each of these. The man is not on board.

Update: Too many themes to choose from. It maybe a decoupage of stickers.

You deserve a beer 🍻🍺
- Why, thank you sir. I shall return the favour 🍺🍺🍺
Probably a dumb question, but is it risky carrying them without the sleeve? I haven’t travelled with my new fancy hologram one yet
- After forking out over $1200 for 3 passports I'm gonna stick them in a $3 pocket whether they like it or not. So my answer is definitely yes.
  Where does one buy a hologram holder?

I feel like my creativity is really suffering. I’ve tried to do more technical art exercises instead, I have really good references ready to go that will help me practice specific things, I have cheap materials I don’t mind burning through and I’m kind of starting to understand the concepts.

I’m just too sad and stressed out to do the work. Which can be repetitive, rigorous and carry the fear of failure.

It’s this stressful depressing environment. I’m constantly fielding other people’s craziness and bullshit to protect myself and have no energy left over for what I actually want to do.

And now a lot of stuff that used to be more stable is changing in unpredictable ways so it kind of worsens it

anything good happen today?
Tell me one thing. I double dog dare you.
- I dunno man, I did repot my neglected rosemary plant yesterday and ate some squares of dark chocolate today. I’m working to try and improve my life no matter how bad it gets
- 🙂🙂🙂
there is no failure in art
I got a kids harry potter colouring book and got the very first thing wrong and had to do it over. I give no fucks what anyone thinks about that.
otoh, I think you're doing great. You're very creative and experimental , just keep doing what you're doing and you'll get results.
😘😘😘
- Thanks. I just can’t seem to consistently put pencil to paper

Oh so nice outside. Nice cool wind.

Ooo yeah, it be heating up outside.

I'll get to see the 'business' side of work today. I think it will be interesting, especially given you'd only usually go to work under unpleasant circumstances. It will be nice to sit in on proceedings knowing they're not about you

That felt intense and I was just listening in. It would be exhausting dealing with those sorts of cases all day

I can't find the stupid Christmas Elf! For the last week or so my son has been making comments about how much he liked the mischief the Elf got up to.

So today I made an effort to locate it as I'm solo-parenting at the moment & need to be prepared for the 1st Dec. And I can't find it! I know it's here somewhere..

I've managed to score a new Elf (he'll be a relative of some sort) and if the old one shows up we'll tackle it then. New Elf is currently hidden in car.

They really are cheeky!
Elves like beer too, maybe leave a cool one on the counter and don't look for a while?🍺🍻
- You know what? I don't drink anymore but I might grab a couple of coldies on the way home & see what happens. Might have to sample one to see if it's palatable.

It sounds like you are struggling more than usual. You need to reach out to either a person you trust or a support service.
Engagement Engagement - news and content designed to instill fear, distrust, and hopelessness in the name of capitalism, profits, and division between social classes.
This place is threatened by the new, unclear laws. Very few people here would want to provide IDs just to have a safe space to vent, and even less of us would be willing to give up our anonymity to continue having a community (WhatsApp, telegram, signal, even texting).
It will only further our disconnection from a wholesome safe space. While I do have a few people blocked on this thread, I come here for safety, for connection, and to be kind to those of us who need that. We are all human, and humans are social animals, for the gubmint to take away our anonymity is to deny humans the social connections they require to maintain a semblance of stable mental health.
It's fucked up, the world, the government, the companies that seem intent on dividing us and removing our empathy to prevent us from organising and protesting. If we are too busy arguing with each other, then we cannot organise ourselves against the true evils of this world.
I don't have much to say to provide hope in these dark times, as I also feel the weight of the world and the fears they ellicit. But for now, we still have each other, and that's what I'm focusing on.
hugs
It doesn’t include online gaming or YouTube if that’s what you’re talking about. How do you feel about gaming or everyone making shitpost videos for each other to comment on?
Edit: Ok now they’re saying YouTube might be? Make up your melons… Scuse AMP link https://amp.9news.com.au/article/1436a0e0-facc-47cd-9d46-14d87ebd4b9e
They’re being frustratingly vague and contradictory but I see messaging and ‘educational’ platforms may be exempt so trying to work out how to rules lawyer this shit
Sounds like you are struggling. Yeah there’s some bad stuff out there but also lots of good. To live well we need to not fixate on things we can’t change. That’s a death spiral of frustration and anxiety and anger and overwhelm. Please reach out to people or services if you need to! For this forum, do you mean the SM age legislation? We don’t yet know exactly how it will work and I reckon with the speed that the government moves it could still be ages away until they figure out the tech required. And I’m sure some smart peoples will have some very easy solutions for how to stay anonymous anyways. I don’t think we are doomed, not right now anyway.
BTW I’m not entirely opposed to some controls on what kids can view in the internet, there is some nasty stuff out there that is really bad for the mental health of kids. I don’t know what the sensible compromise is though.

Woolrest and pillows washed. Sheets are just going on. Too bad the machine is too small to fit the doona, that'll have to wait for its 6 monthly wash. Windows all open and the place is being aired out. Bracing for tomorrow.

Nice beer will cool ya down mate 🍻🍺

Trying to power through meetings today so I can mow the lawn and have some celebratory beers.

Looks like I'll be done at the damn peak of temperature, but that's okay. It'll make the shower post mowing so much more satisfying.

agree to nothing, delay and obfuscate, non committal and just keep saying "lets not try boil the ocean here"
They'll let you go by 10am.
- “lets not try boil the ocean here”
  Holy shit I am so stealing that.
I need to do some gardening tonight, so I'm dangling the soju carrot to make sure I get it done. No gardening, no soju. Soju while gardening is a possibility. Jelly sake for the boyo.
- I have yet to purchase the beers. Part of the reward is browsing and selecting.
I once had the genius idea that I should bolt a cupholder to the handle of the mower for mowerbeers. But then the realisation that the vibrations would turn it into a flat frothing mess put that one to bed.
Unless I just put a nice single malt there instead... 🤔
- Don't give up on your dreams.
  YOU can be the dampening force.
- That’s when you buy yourself a Foam Dome. Literally using your head
- Some time ago on a lovely Saturday morning, I decided to do full on gardening. Weeding, trimming branches on trees, mowing..all that jazz. My reward was a cheeky beer when I felt I accomplished a fair bit. So off I went, starting at about 10:30 am. Felt like I was working for a solid 4-5 hours and had probably 4-5 beers. Realised I was a bit tipsy when all was done....and it was about 12:30. Managed to do all the work and get fairly sloshed.
  Had a nap and woke up at like 4 pm with a mild hangover.
  Never again.

Office cleaner went absolutely bananas with the cleaning products this morning. Even with the windows open I'm a bit like this

There is an internal opportunity at work, right up my alley. The direct report is someone who I've really struggled to like. I can't fit more work on top of study/family/existing work, but its just for 6 months. I am tempted, because opportunity is fleeting and I might be able to slow down the study bit for that period of time.... arrggh. What do I do?

You go for it! You miss 100% of the shots you dont take.
- Lol that phrase was painted in the ECA centre at my school 😂
  We also graffitied "gotta risk it for the biscuit" on the fence nearby 😂
Personally, unless the pay was significantly higher, i wouldn't risk it. Working with someone I couldn't like would make it that much easier to burn out
- No $ per hour increase, just more hours so a pay rise that way.

I am exhausted. Bank delt with and huge delivery of cat stuff rescued from where idiot deliver driver dropped it. Almost a kilometre away. Grrr!

I reckon you've earned this 🍻🍺
- Why thank you! Back atcha 🍻

Uni internet has gone down... I guess it's a sign

A sign to.... Have a beer 🍺🍻

🎵 🎶 🎙️ Just meet me at the... APT! APT! APT! 🎙️ 🎶 🎵

Legit question - why isn't education/teaching an apprenticeship instead of a 4 year (mostly) theoretical degree?

because they want it to be a respected academic based profession, not just looking after kids
- Few teachers I've spoken to reckon they come in under prepared because they don't have classroom experience (and don't use uni stuff, all they learn is in the classrom). Just seems silly when it's so important for learning to be able to do the planning and get the experience.
Because if you didn't go to uni, you'd miss the most important thing about tertiary education, the beer 🍻🍺

Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘

Collar me, don't collar me

I got my spine I got my Orange crush

I did a bit of gardening early and still ended up dripping with sweat. It's one of the worst things about wearing glasses - just sweating is not so bad, but it drips onto your glasses. I did get a bit of weeding done and planted some potatoes (and harvested a few from another patch too) so that's something. Hopefully I will be able to get a bit done tomorrow, but it is predicted to be pretty wet so it might not be possible.

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Is it too early for a cocktail? Even though I’m still at work, lol)
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Something something something, here's a beer: 🍻🍺
- Thank you
Chicken burrito with all the spicy stuff please. Extra guac
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I'm watching the Bleach anime, and it really holds up despite its 900 or so episodes lol

Painting of harry potter pictures has commenced. 👍

Best of Sun Rockabilly lp. the singing cuts right through me 😶 no hobbits. I'm throwing that lp away.

Next up. Songs of the Sea by William Clauson. Title is a homage/pun on Sons of the Sea, a very famous sea shanty of the 19th C. we know it best as "Sons of the 'Scray" the anthem of Footscray FC.

It's a nice record and TIL about "fo'c'sle songs", songs off duty sailors sing

drunken sailor, not clauson, irish rovers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw

Wasn't that Elvis' record label?
- It was, Sun is hugely famous, that's why i bought it but this record stank. Not Elvis quality.
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You know what else sailors loved? 🍻🍺

Today's old vinyl finds, some more old Aussie jazz. Frisco Joe with In an 18th C Century Drawing Room. 1954. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpKoK7s-Fiw

I remember Smacka being famous in the early 60s, after that jazz in Australia seemed to die. 🤷‍♀️

Frisco Joe is itself a homage to Joe Frisco, a turn of the 20th century vaudeville and jazz performer

Vol 2 Huckleberry Finn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv3nT0-Z8fI