Daily Discussion Thread: 😒😑🥱 Monday, 9 December, 2024

Sky is pretty
Finger is sore
I don't want to do
This assignment any more

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Apparently this is our 1,000th post!

(It said 999 a couple mins ago)

So it was only fitting that I was perfect again :)

I've already checked out of working for the year. These next two weeks are going to be a slog.

I hear you. And there's a mad rush to get a bunch of projects done.
- I have a tiny window to work with after UAT is signed off and before the change freeze comes to deploy the next release to Prod. No pressure, but if you don't get this change through this week Nath, it isn't happening until late January. 🤞

Ah yes. Hello "I didn't do anything to provoke it" random back pain from just walking normally.

Ah middle age.

Also, I'm fucking starving. Success.

Well well who do we have here?

Make sure you don’t start getting suss deliveries over the next few days.
If you do you know whose fault it is.
That explains a lot.
- She used to be so tiny lol

I've taken the dodgy finger to the doctor. I expect a tetanus injection and antibiotics are in my near future.

Edit: tetanus injection aquired, antibiotics prescribed and medical certificate for three days issued.

Had a nasty infection in one finger once from pruning a rose bush. Including the red streaks up my arm. Ended up having to have the hosepipe penicillin shot in my butt and another tetanus shot in my arm. Could neither sit down nor lift anything for at least 3 days. I think this was actually the start of my needle phobia.
- My worst infection was from a coral graze on my leg. I had a lovely biro outline drawn around it to measure the spread of redness, and antibiotic and tetanus shots. I think any pain from those was overshadowed by the badly sunburnt butt I got while snorkelling, which made sitting down a rather painful affair on its own. Queensland holidays are such a delight.
Ouch.
Hope it clears up quickly.
youse guys are scaring me
- Just don't jam dirty things into your finger and you'll be fine. And if you do, don't assume "she'll be right", because fingers have lots of intricate moving parts that can get messed up.
I’m glad you’re getting it checked - finger infections can get nasty really quickly
- Dr Google predicts a long stay in hospital followed by amputation. I don't think that's likely, but it is one possible outcome if not treated promptly.

Ugh, another long work day. I worked so hard last week but we just got more work poured down the pipeline (probably will tomorrow as well - before it becomes 2 weeks before Xmas and I hope to hell we don't get anything more). Plus laptop still doing its random sleep BS. Blah :(

I'm super, super grateful I don't have to throw a shitty commute with train delays into the mix though.

Now I need to cook (, Jesse!) For tomorrow's lunch. Waah. Not feeling it. Zucchini slice would make sense... no cheese but I have nutritional yeast... doooo eeeet, body...

E: I gotta say I am so effing PUMPED for Severence s2 early next year, bring it on!!!

I did a thorough clean up of my kitchen today. Swept, mopped, cleaned the dogs mat and bowls and temporarily replaced them with some plastic ones because he might get thirsty or hungry. Cleaned out the fridge, dropped some deli meat in the bowl.

What did he do to show appreciation? He didn't like it in his bowl so he slapped it up and down my freshly mopped floor including my foot, deciding what position he was going to inhale the slab of silverside.

They're precious creatures! Ours refused to go to bed last night because I took her out to the back yard for her wee, not the front yard. Apparently the front yard has all the right sniffs for bedtime rituals.

OMGosh happy Sydney day!
If you're catching PT, don't forget to gaze in awe at how much more high tech parts of it are than here. Oh, and I guarantee unless you're moving there, sitting on the 2nd floor of a train never gets old

FFS. FUCK EVERY SINGLE BANK IN THIS COUNTRY

I got a banner popup (in the app) that my term deposit account has some unspecified problem and I need to call them. So I call them. Then they say "thanks for calling. One of our online support agents will be assisting with your enquiry today. Please see your app or web banking for more info. Thanks for calling!" And hung up! You arseholes. Why would you do that? Why can't I just talk to a fucking human you stupid piece of arsehole robot thing

I'm having deja vu to when those unauthorised transactions happened a few months ago and after sitting on hold for 2 hours they told me I had to do it through the app

What's the fuckong point of having a phone number if its only purpose is to hang up on people you scumbags. I guess bank of Melbourne is now on my shitlist, right along with CommBank

Ok, apparently I had to go through the app and click a bunch of buttons to find a number that works. For some reason it seems the number they publicly list and the app demanded I call is the number to open an account or like a HQ number or something
This other number was better. 15 second hold, 1 transfer, another 13 second hold, problem solved in about 30 extra seconds. Apparently when I signed up they only needed me to verify 1 form of ID but for a term deposit they require 2? I don't know. I'm not sure why the app couldn't have told me that instead of just saying "there's an issue with your account. To resolve call us or go into a branch". Would've been a lot better if it just said "We require you to verify your identity again. Please go to the service tab to verify"
I maintain that's poor user experience and they should do better, but both of the customer service people I got were efficient and very polite. Maybe BoM can go off my shitlist again. Hanging up on somebody is very disrespectful though, and their robot should be publicly shamed
E: actually, when the first lady transfered me, it seems to have sent all of my details to the other guy. I think that's good design. It always pisses me off when you get one line, go through everything they ask, then they transfer you and you have to go through everything again

Been struggling through a box of drumstick ice-creams that clearly had both been dropped and melted at some point on their journey to the supermarket. Had to put this last one in a bowl lest it crumble in my hands. Thoughts and prayers.

I call them "pre-chewed".
- Could be worse. This is how one of those mini drumsticks I got in a HJs meal a few years ago:

Mmmm pasta bolognaise

F me. D day for this project I am working on is approaching and folks are only just starting to take a look at the email that was sent back in october.

Too bad the project manager quit otherwise I'd be having a go at them cause all this work somehow falls to me.

This is Gertrude, I think she's a Isopedella victorialis (Victorian Huntsman). Or she's a juvenile male lol.

She's been keeping the top floor of my building clear of insects for the last week or so. Until this morning when the cleaners came - I think she got sucked up 😭 anyway, in possible memoriam, Gertrude; the finest pest controller on level 4

Huntsman tend to wander a bit, she may have decided her work there was done and moved on. But if she did get sucked up that is at least a cleaner end than the gradual leg reduction that they often endure at end of life.
- gradual leg reduction
  :( I did not know that.
RIP Gertrude. Will be much missed until the next one moves in.
Today was a bad day for boost to not support spoilers.
Poor Gert.
Forever in our hearts.
- RIP Gerdo
Might be male as I think the females have relatively bigger abdomens
Edit: Yikes I hope not. Perhaps the vibrations scared them and they hid. Or Mickey had a snack…
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Aww, poor Gertrude. Hopefully just gone for a walk and not to spider heaven
Now that she's dead shes going to haunt you for stealing her moth breakfast. Isopedella victorialises never forgive, and they never forget.

Was a bit of an idiot last night and now I'm hungover. Thankfully working from home, but because of a house inspection. Thankfully it happened at just about bang on 9am so now I don't have to spend the whole day waiting for it!

Advised cerys last night if she didn't stop being such a little turdholster i was going to drop her in the toilet and repeatedly hit flush. This did not appear to have the desired effect

You just gave her ideas of what to do to the other cats 🙀
Weight the lids shut

Had a great class tonight. The actual class wasn't the most interesting, it was all about ethics and legislation. Bleh. But we finished about an hour early around 8:10, but I stayed back and had a nice chat with the trainer and another classmate. I'm fond of them both. I don't know how to describe it, but they're both the sort of people you look at and can tell they are shallow, and are genuinely kind people in their day to day lives

I also had many questions to ask which made a change. I like to ask questions in these classes, and like to check my knowledge and understanding, but sometimes we have to move on too quickly, or I just don't have anything I can ask. Probably sounds like a dream, but I actually do enjoy learning, if it's something I'm passionate about and is delivered in a digestible format

just 2 weeks left. But DAMN if they arnt gonna drag.

I feel this.

I have a question DDT fam…

When you have things to do, like you know, a list of tasks say for the day or next day, do you visualise yourself doing them (when you think about the task)?

Yea. In the biz it's called hyperphantasia. Pretty common. For me I visualise things that can go wrong heh.
- Ooo, I was waiting for someone to mention what it was called.
  I do the same (what can go wrong). I totally see and visualise the whole thing.
Yep, definitely
Yes. I do a general visualisation for to do lists. I do a detailed step by step visualisation when I am learning something, I imagine myself doing the task or whatever it is.
Kinda. I'll look at my list and visualise in which order I'm gonna accomplish it. Like in my head I'm thinking "put a load of washing on then do some dishes".
Oh god no, If I have to write it down I already probably don't want to do it, the list is so that I don't have to think about it (because it's on the list). I'll get to the list when I'm in list mode.
I visualise the process not the procedure if that makes sense.
Depends how motivated and/or lazy I am
Sometimes if I'm lazing around in bed, I think about doing it so much, at some point, it actually flips in my mind to being marked "done", and then an hour or two later when I notice it is, in fact, not done, I realise I never actually did it despite thinking I did
If I have a list that I'm going through though, no. Unless it's something I'm stressed about. If I'm stressed about it but have other things to do first, then I can either stress about it so much I do everything else poorly, or I try to put it aside to stop myself from ending up in an early grave, and then forget about it altogether
(I'm not a very functional or productive human being, in case nobody has realised yet)
Nah I just follow the list

Have been doing life admin today, and I’ve got a new item to add to the list of ‘what I’ll buy when I win tatts’, and that is someone else to sort out the insurance

Ooh, and while I’m spending big I’ll get them to do the electricity/gas/etc comparisons, too. It’s doing my head in

I'd get a chef. Much prefer to eat than cook.
- That’s 1st on my list (after the obvious things like paying off debt and helping people)
I recently called my internet provider and asked them nicely for their new customer offer. It worked! 😁
- Nice one!

I think I'm going to have to be quite regimented about my eating times for the next week. The antibiotics need to be eaten at least 30 mins before and 2 hours after food, and have to be taken four times a day.

sky very pretty

Gorgeous the way the light is bouncing off the clouds this morning
Brown ducks, ibis and the cunningly named yellow-tailed black cockatoo on the morning walk.

sky pretty

I missed :(

Some movies I have watched recently:

Margin call (financial thriller drama) for fans of The Big Short 5/5

Longlegs (Horror) Excellent Nic Cage performance as a the deranged killer 3.5/5

Black coats daughter(Horror) supernatural, psychological horror. One of those slow burns 3/5

Election(comedy) Reese Witherspoon is a gem. 3/5

Goin South (comedy/western) a quirky little movie directed by and starring Jack Nicholson 3/5

The lost city of Z(biographical adventure) based on the experiences of British surveyor Percy Fawcett.4/5

Blackberry (biographical drama) charts the rise and fall of the Blackberry smartphone device.4.5/5

Nocturnal Animals(psychological thriller) a tense neo-noir written, directed, and produced by fashion designer Tom Ford. Great cast and story 5/5

Twisters(action) a fun sequel to the Twister movie from the nineties . 3.5/5

Kinds of Kindness(black comedy) 3 films in one. Yorgos Lanthimos writes and directs. Expect the unexpected with him and the great cast he used for all three stories.4.5/5

Maxxxine(horror) third instalment of the X series. Not my bag really 2/5

Gladiator 2(action)sequel to Ridley Scott’s hugely successful Gladiator film. Bit of a letdown. A carbon copy of the first film with a forgettable lead. I will revisit this one though 3/5

Deadpool & Wolverine(comic book action) I enjoyed the first two Deadpool movies immensely but this one just leaned too hard into the meta references More is not always better. A hugely financially successful movie thoug, so good for Disney I guess. 3/5

Alien Romulus(horror/sci-fi) the original Alien is a slasher film set in space. This current iteration really leaned into that. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was. A great young cast as well. I would probably rank it fourth in the franchise. 4/5

The Substance(2024) and The Fly (1986) double feature night (body horror) wow what a great pairing of the new and old(er). The substance is great a “Black Mirror” style of story with excellent gross special F/X and of course Cronenberg is the master of the genre with The Fly remake.4/5

Juror #2(courtroom drama) Clint Eastwood latest film. Very heavy 12 Angry Men vibes. Leaves you in thought well after the movie ends. Toni Collette always sensational. 5/5

Alien Romulus
MASSIVE disapointment. Not a single warbird in the whole film, nor a reference to the neutral zone!
- What you did there, I see it... you mustn't have been cloaked.
I saw Alien Romulus at the cinema and went in worried that it'd be yet another butchering of one of my favourite franchises, and was very pleasantly surprised. I'll definitely be grabbing it on Blu-Ray.
Ooo, The Substance with Demi Moore? I think I missed theatrical release. Was super keen to see.
- It is available to stream.

Been doing physical work in a body not made for it. Ouch 😢 The coming days/weeks are going to suck.

The tomatoes are potted out but one of them looks extremely wilted and unhappy compared to the others so may or may not survive.

Also I forgot the mask and gloves. I really hope that I haven’t breathed potting mix microorganisms in and the tiny cuts on my hands don’t give me tetanus 🤦

you'll be fine, getting sick from potting mix is very very very rare.
- Fingers crossed, immunocompromised

I miss having employment that paid for an Adobe CC subscription. I do own CS5 from uni days, which kinda sucks now relatively speaking, but at least the jump from modern CC to CS5 is a lot smaller than the jump from CC to Affinity. I just can't get used to Affinity.

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I like Affinity. Especially their business model. Fuck adobe and their subscription BS
- I followed GenP instructions to the letter and I still got the inauthentic software banner. I might give it another go one day though.
I still use CS5.
It’s still a lot of program for what it is. I still do minor video editing, basic PDF stuff and photo and editing when needed.
I still use Illustrator for wordmarks and artwork to printers/screenprinters etc.
- CS5 definitely gets the job done, but I constantly run into things like no SVG support in Photoshop. Also, more modern issues like no support for variable fonts and stuff. But I can definitely get 90% of the way there.

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A bowl of pho please.
There's a rumour going around that the Virtual Health Inspector is cracking down on virtual food trucks, so please accept a complimentary top to bottom inside and out steam cleaning of your truck. It's the least I can do to keep you on the road so to speak.
- 🍜
  We are eternally grateful.
Pear juice for Simon
- Simon needs to get a bit of kfc into him. It does not disappoint.
- 🍐🔨🥤
- Thank you ❤️
The dream ice cream arrived last night and it was delicious. Thank you. 🍨
- Our pleasure.

LOL, don’t know what it is for a Monday, but it must be hot dad day in the Ikea service area. 😂

But I'm not AT Ikea today?!?
Oh...
- Haha, are you sure? I mean they were everywhere after that.
  Kind of like punch buggy after I left. 😂

None of the parcels have arrived or really been updated. The 3 I ordered from Kmart nearly a fortnight ago, are still sitting as "in transit" in my suburb, and have been since Tuesday. The one from NBN Sydney I think got confused when I redirected it. Express posted from Sydney, arrived in Melbourne like 15 hours later, then sat around as "held at facility - in transit redirect" at the LPO in the suburb of the new house for 3 days, then got sent to Dandenong South, then from Dandenong South to sunshine yesterday, and hasn't moved as yet

The 3 from China were attempted delivery on Friday, but apparently Amjad from the mad cow Express tried to deliver it for the 1 hour I was out on Friday with the gate shut, so took it back to "MEL_DC-01". There was also a sneaky last parcel I got off eBay, it was specifically marked Australian stock, shipping from wheelers Hill. Wheelers Hill my fucking arse. It's been a week without the tracking marking it received by the post office. 100% a dropship from China

(I know that seems like a lot of parcels, but the 3 Kmarts were all from the same order but they decided to ship everything individually from different stores. The 3 AliExpress ones were for a project, but all sent individually. And the NBN one was a connection device replacement, so I didn't pay for it. The eBay was for the same project cause I couldn't find a trustworthy seller on AliExpress)

Christmas parcel rampup. Everything is being flung from sorting centre to sorting centre as they try and load balance the volume
Dandy is running 24hrs at present. Sunshine isn't, but is on all 7 days. 'Somewhere else' tried banning the staff from having zooper doopers in the heat last week. They can fuck right off.
- Crikey. Even my primary school saw the merits in Zooper doopers on hot days (that is selling them at the canteen for 65 cents on hot days only)!

Is it OK to drink the water in New Zealand because I once drank the "island water" on Hamilton Island and I was very crook that night.

Totally fine!
- Wonderful thank you.
Urban areas are fine. There should be signs indicating you can't drink tap water if you go rural. Afaik

grumbles about damned cats

Meow...

Imma trying to organise a few days away with the seagoons, maybe somewhere on the coast 🙂

This time of year? Hoowhee, you'll need all the luck. Unless you go before school holidays strike. After that, no chance.
- This term goes til the 20th (at least in public schools). Truthfully I wouldn't go anywhere after the 20th, with or without school hols

Been watching some tv and movies lately but not much.

husband has been watching House, it's just another detective show but it's ok.

I watched Poker Face. It's pretty cool.

Happy Valley. English police show, very good.

Spy with Melissa McCarthy. It's ok.

La Brea. First episode. It stunk.

Passengers, again. A very good movie.

A Kind of Kindness. Good strange. I like movies that have new and original ideas

The Favourite. Very good. Olivia Colman is just amazing as Queen Anne.

Voyage of the Demeter. Well made, well spooky, but I don't think there was enough story.

Glad you liked Happy Valley. S1 was truly outstanding. I haven't got to s3 yet.
Isn't House a doctor show with Hugh Laurie in it?
- I was thinking the same thing.

@Force_majeure123@aussie.zone

Can get in the
- Noooooo!
- 🔱🔱🔱 don't listen to this cretin! Eat the delicious fish🔱🔱🔱
Yeh boiiiii. I had a delicious cheesy sardines risotto for breakfast today
- Thinking I should have bought one more.
I thought you had chocolate bars there for a moment
- Nope. Just a bag of smoked fish.

Question: my new house has bayonet lightbulb fittings. That much I know. I can't work out if they're B22 or B15s though, and neither the bulb or fitting seem to say

It's probably a B22 being connected to the mains, and mounted in the roof, right? B15s are almost exclusively lamp fittings, I think? Safe assumption to make?

They'll be B22.
- Cheers

TIL I should not have hay fever tablets any time after 8 at night because 🫥

Really? What happens?
- 👀👀👀 cannot sleep because I'm wired

Ok maybe I retract my de-shitlisting of BoM. I tried to verify my ID again online, and apparently they couldn't verify it so now I've lost the privilege, they've flagged my account, and I have to go into a branch

Oh, also, somebody decided to close nearly every fucking BoM branch in the country, including the one that would've been my local. So cheers for that boys

Oh! Bank of Melbourne. Here's me wondering what your beef was with the Bureau of Meteorology! 😆
- https://aussie.zone/comment/13630278
Banks are awful. Constantly closing branches all while making record profits. It doesn’t help that ID has to be verified in person at a bank
So hard to get to one and if you’re working full time good luck on that.

Sunlight and physical activity is supposed to fix my sleeping pattern 😒 What gives? Just keep exhausting myself into crashes and instead of forming a better schedule still waking at the exact wrong times.

I’m doing some washing hoping the neighbours don’t hear it and sweeping the carpet. It’s harder than the vacuum but a lot quieter and gets tracked litter. Then tomorrow I can possibly go over for any finer dust that got missed.

Then once again I need to confront the kitchen… I’m tempted to just order that bench top dishwasher straight to my house right now but afraid it might get stolen.

If you've got the finances to, I say absolutely go for it and buy that benchtop dishwasher. Someone yesterday suggested appliances online, and that's actually who my dryer is coming through. According to their policies, they require your ID and card (or at least an ID with the same name as on the card) to be presented before they'll deliver it, and they won't leave it. Oh, also, you get to choose a specific delivery day at no cost, so you could line it up for the next day you're at home. (I think they also said they'll call you with a few hours timeslot on the day of the delivery, so although you don't get to choose and can't plan around it, you wouldn't necessarily have to be home the whole day)
Unless you're worried about somebody breaking in and stealing it. That I cant help with, unless your landlord wouldn't get shitty at you for bolting it onto the bench with some kind of anti theft system that'd probably cost the same price as the dishwasher
- Ah yeah I still need to sort new id.
  I’m sure given the chance some would. But I’m mainly thinking porch pirates

Scrocci, worst name for biscuits ever.

Sounds like a movie
😳
🤣
- It's half embarrassing, half makes you feel itchy in one's lady or gentleman parts, half makes you laugh.

Binged Black Doves on Netflix over 2 nights. Was pretty good.