Daily Discussion Thread: 🌚 Wednesday, 15 January, 2025

Totoro & Mr Lemur wish to send squishies to everybody who needs them today

my friends . 🙂

Our two tier health care system is doing my head in right now.

No private, means I could wait up to two years for a small procedure.

Getting private now, means I'm waiting 12 months before my coverage kicks in.

Going private without insurance could costs me upwards of 10k (which we don't have).

Some days I hate what's become of this country.

What does it cost in Thailand?
- Around 5k with flights. Definitely considering that option. I've also been bombarding MPs and Senators with inquires about our current state of Medicare. Won't do much, but makes me feel better.

anxious brain was REALLY not wanting to get on the train this morning. The amount of bullshit flooding my brain was insane "I'm gonna puke!" no your not. "I'm gonna pass out!" Good, then we might get some rest. "we could go back home to bed!" but you'll just lay there play with your phone and you wont feel any better for it. Tried to sort of be curious about it and give it the space it needed to unwind, but by the time I hit the halfway point it disappeared anyway. Classic.

That was me yesterday. Anxiety can get in the bin. Glad you got out of it
I hate that. Stupid anxiety
Me, signing in at work…
Brain: undefined sense of impending doom YOU’RE GOING TO DIE!!

Diet is dieting, many of my clothes don't fit any more, pants are way too big, but I still have some old stuff that I am too big for and that doesn't fit yet

i might do this diet another 6 months and see how i go 🙂

Proud of you goonsy!
- Thank you. 😭
Good on you! At least you're eating sensibly, unlike various people I know who are doing this strictly carnivore diet (which, based on their description, sounds to me like a recipe for constipation, high cholesterol and heart failure). Go Seagoon! 💪🏼
- I'm eating more fruit now too. 🙂 but I still have the occasional bad food, like 2 vegie spring rolls for late lunch.

Hugs 💜
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so many hugs and best wishes
Hoping for the best! Fantastic your aunt found the lump though, many owners don't know how to feel for that sort of thing (not disparaging owners ofc! That's what a vet is there for!) so it sounds like it has been caught early. 8 years is relatively young for a small/medium breed (8 is old for large breeds), so there's a real good chance Geoffrey can pull through. 💜💜Sending you my love and good positive thoughts! 💜 He is very loved, it is so apparent!
Fingers crossed it's something easily treatable and Geoffrey will be back to his happy self soon. He's a very handsome boy with a lovely name.

It's a big Bolognese day for me today, lots of sauce to hand pour into jars 🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🍝

My partner has taken the kids camping for a few days, solo parenting. She has ADHD so she decided to take a vyvanse to help her focus for the camp setup. The photos coming through are like the ones you see at camping trade shows... Camper canvas is perfectly tight, awning is perfectly set, guy ropes same length and equidistant.... So funny

I dunno whats better, camping trip the kids or house to yourself!

Flat clean. Lovely coffee meetup with a friend.

Today’s off to a good start

Every queen has her throne

Resisting the urge to send so many Please Explain messages. Somebody staple my phone shut?

Update: vendor conveyancer has been fired! Regrettably not literally out of a trebuchet. Alas.

You want some lead time between dismissal and trebuchet anyway. Gives you plausible deniability
- you can guarantee the list of people/suspects who would want to trebuchet her is long

Tonight's wave

Wasn't going to go but glad I did. Not a soul on that beach.

I got the anxiety today fuck. Heart beating like drum, a sinking feeling in my gut as if something awful is coming, my brain won't shut up.

💜💜💜
That's a lot to carry. And it can be really hard to give yourself the kind of grace and gentleness you give others.
Maybe a walk would help slow things down?
Sending you loads of love and kindness. I’m glad you can recognise what your brain is doing, but brains are bloody hard things to reprogram. I hope you can take some time for yourself and do something kind for yourself that will bring you a little bit of peace and joy. You are very loved by this lovely little corner of the internet!
YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON.
YOU ARE AN INTELLIGENT PERSON.
You ARE A TALENTED PERSON.
YOU ARE NOT WRONG.
that is what you have done wrong
everything they have told you is the opposite of reality
hugs, you are with people who know and love you now. 😘😘😘
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Hugs. I hope you're doing alright. You'll get through this just like you have everything else

Time to find a new doctor. She refuses to give repeats and now won't take any calls. My script runs out Friday.

Yay.

This is degusting behaviour, and directly puts your health at risk. I am personally petty enough to make a complaint if it happened to me.
- Yeah I'm done. Tomorrow morning I'm organising a new doctor. I'm considering putting in a complaint to be honest.
  Without that medicine I can't function.
  I've accepted this in the past, but not this year. Not when the stakes are so high.

So far this new manager is awesome! But let's see how things play out when i ask for a contract renegotiation.

He said "this week is a write off". Sounds good to me buddy!

whole month more like.
- Works for me man. The guitars and PS5 aren't going to play themselves lol

Changing jobs is so weird. I was at once place and got to know the people there, and now I'm just somewhere else. I know it's not possible but I'd like to still go to work where I was but do the job I'm in now.

After the revolution, the few people who have bullshit email jobs can go work at a local coworking space and if you change job you still go to the same place to work, that way you can still be with the people you enjoy being around, and changing job isn't some massive uprooting of your daily life to just sit at a different computer

Nice rain, good for an early night (if I can wrangle it; more melatonin incoming). Had TWO! coffees but still zombie mode all day.

All day in the field tomoz which is good while it's cool. Might get some blood circulating.

Today's challenge is not looking at the phone while going to sleep and maybe continuing this ebook I'm reading (The Wind Knows My Name) instead.

Super pumped for Severence s2 premiering on Friday. I might binge watch S1 on the weekend first as it's been so long and there are so many detail

E: sudden and inconvenient craving for real tempeh. With kecap manis and kang kung on the side. Might be time to visit Laguna on the weekend

sounds delicious 🙂

Channel 9 are pissing me off on so many fronts. For one, do they realise that just because it's called the Australian Open doesn't mean that they can only televise Australians? They're showing Tomljanovic on two channels ffs.

And then there's the relentless advertising for the horrific-looking Married At First Sight, I'm ready to sanction torture for anyone involved in the conception and production of that show.

I like tennis but I might just give up and read a book.

If you can stomach using their website, they have all the other matches streaming love through their website.

I have interneted the vendor's problematic conveyancer. First to guess their haircut wins a virtual lollipop.

I don’t think I can finish this bottle of QV wash.

Maybe it seems a bit picky but my skin is genuinely raw and irritated even just using it on my body. And the QV moisturiser makes my face burn. What is going on? What did they put in this stuff?

My skin never usually hurts like this.

Have you tried Cetaphil? I’ve got really sensitive skin and that’s one thing that seems to be ok
- Unforch they changed Cetaphil too
Toss that QV. if it burns it’s not good for you. The Palmolive wash did that to me and it was bad.
I use Redwin sorbalene wash, I don’t seem to have any reactions to it. You could try moving to dermaveen but you need to stop using the QV wash.
- Yeah I think I’ll give up on it
That really sucks. Its always been so reliable. As far as moisturiser goes have you tried just plain shea butter, or shea butter + almond oil? Its been a while since I made my own moisuriser (I have very dry skin so I tend to just use almond oil now and I've forked out for a fancy face moisturiser that's doing the trick) but you can buy shea butter in bulk, melt and mix with the oil to make it spreadable. I found it very plain and nice, but it is probably best for quite dry skin as its pretty heavy.
- I have to be a bit careful with oil as it seems to encourage malassezia.
Lotta ceramides in that, are you allergic to those, possibly?
- Cerave works for me so probably not? I’m seeing SLS in the wash and it’s very foamy so probably too harsh a cleanser. Not sure with the moisturiser - maybe a preservative
what kind of sponge/loofah scrubber are you using? That could be too rough.
have you tried pears soap
- Wondered if that was the issue so I just used hands

First day back in the office. Boo lol

Have to go visit a client later today, will be coming back home to finish my day afterwards.

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I’m contemplating getting my hair cut. I do need one…

whats the hurdle to getting it done? Almost as good as a holiday! love that razor down the back of the neck.
Get a pink mohawk, for funsies.

First day properly back at work, between arriving late last night and 3hr time difference and having had my brain completely switched off, I need about 50 coffees today...

maccas has a large for 2 bucks in their app.

Annnnd theres a trespasser at dandenong. Poor pakey/cranbourne cant catch a break. I'm going to complain to my member of parliament. Hey! Gus! I got something to report to ya!

how fuckin hard is it to put up a fence?!

I just think trains shouldn't stop or slow down. Hose off the cartilage and viscera at night and she'll be right.
People should not be delayed and inconvenienced because of fuckwits.
- I am a strong strong proponent. Either we take this shit seriously, get these people proper help! OR we stop pretending to care and fit the trains with a blender attachment on the front. I was stuck on one for 45 minutes once 10m short of the station. We FINALLY arrive at the station, only to have to wait another 20 minutes cause the person got BACK on the tracks!
- Natural selection
- the problem is bone bits get between the points
That sucks man. My line has frequent "police action". Yay.
- inaction more like
One of the houses I looked at recently was right by the train. Zero fence. One could have a couple of brews go for a smoke and trip over the line. Not ideal.

Simon Townsend has died aged 79

Errand day tomorrow. If things go right, I may finally have more than 1 knife by tomorrow evening!

Obligatory fuck the government for just deciding that everyone under the age of 18 has no reason to want a knife except murdering people at train stations. Stupid rich arseholes

Edit: editors note: Baku means today, not tomorrow

If you want a prep knife, hie thee to the nearest asian supermarket.
You will get a janky wood handled knife that looks shitty af but will be the best knife you've ever owned and it will be like $3
If you can, get some sharpening whetstones (cheap ones work fine). Takes a bit of practice to use them, but once you learn, your knives will be the best tool in your kitchen.
- What about something like this? Sorry if that's a silly question and the differences are obvious
Kiwi knives are a nice enough cheaper brand. I've known a lot of pro chefs to use them and maintain the edge with a knife steel.
Damn, I just offloaded a whole lot of cutlery to the oppy yesterday. Although you might be able to get something at your local one, then upgrade to a better product later on
- Oh, kind thought springsy, but it's all good! I'd still have troubles at the OP shop. Think it's up to something like a 2k fine for selling me a knife :/
  I'm good on cutlery now, too. Opened up and washed all of my new stuff that I hadn't needed yet. Cutlery drawer is happier now
  (Much to everybody here's dismay, I've been forced to go spoons > forks > knives because the butter knives are too long for the left compartment and only fit in the one on the right
There are many ways to work around not having a knife. I have lots of suggestions if you can’t get one.
But a general purpose chefs knife is the best one to get if you can. It does almost everything with one item from slicing and dicing to crushing fresh garlic.
A serrated knife is also good for slicing delicate things without flattening them, like soft cake or a tomato. Bread knife, steak knife, I’m not too educated but I use whatever works.
A paring knife is less essential if you have a peeler but can still be useful for cutting up fruit or cheese.
Try and get a knife block too. Maybe a steel. I threw my knives carelessly into a drawer and now they’re blunt af…
- This is the one I've been eyeing. Currently got just this little guy
  Only kmart for now. One day (again when the budget allows), I'll get some of those higher end knives. Probably good to start with cheapies while I'm still getting my head around the whole cooking thing anyways!

today is a stuck brain kind of day

I think I will go for a bit of a walk

Accidentally left a plate out with some leftover hawt sauce on it last night. Ants ate it. I had no idea ants like chilli. They were walking around slowly in circles looking a bit confused. So had to internets it: They do eat chilli but it makes them confused because it masks their scent trail lol.

Depending on the type of sauce there could be a bunch of sugar in there as well
you're lucky, a bunch found a cum rag once in our house. That was a delight.
(not. sooo not)
- 🤣 They aren't fussy are they. ::: spoiler Titlegross story and drug usespoiler I remember many years ago a group of us were walking to the 7-11 after smoking an enthusiastic and excessive amount of bongs. One guy coughed up a large chunk of phlegm and spat it out. We were all like, "ew, Jesus dude!" On our way back from the 7-11 we noticed that the ants had got to it and were eating it. :::
Aw poor babies. I know they sometimes enter what's known as a death spiral, where they follow each others scent until eventually they all die. Not sure if this would cause the same thing, or they'd eventually snap out of it

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Can I get a brick sandwich delivered please?
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and good night everyone, sweet dreams 😘😘😘

I have completed watching the modern Planet of the Apes quadrilogy starting with “Rise” from 2011.

They are low key very entertaining movies. Every single one. Recommend.

4.5/5 for all.

oops

Thank you for posting Baku

Thanks for the appreciation Goonsy 🫶

Knives purchased ✅

Had an extra set of hands to help with the unpacking today. I've found it too difficult to get started on my own, even though I'm physically capable of lifting and moving things. Bit of a mental block I think

Update: we got through a bit. Unpacked a few boxes, moved a bookshelf, unloaded books, and I've started organizing the 2 categories of things (tech related + paperwork/instructions) into separate boxes. A few "oh yeah, forgot about that"s. Out of mojo now though