Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 25 February 2025

RESIGNATION IS DONE!

Catchya fucking later.

(I still have 4 weeks notice though lol)

Edit: the person I've been seeing is taking me out to dinner to celebrate. Absolute legend!

they actually want you to see out your notice?! Really?! I'd be politely pointing out that if a customer asks why your departing you wouldn't be comfortable lying. That should solve that problem fairly quickly!
- Dude the new manager still doesn't know what my job is exactly, or what it entails lol
  He's asking me in my fucking resignation meeting about it 😂
  And you're right. That's a good point. I'll bring it up in the stand up tomorrow morning.
the owners must have noticed by now something is very wrong with how the company has been run
- Apparently they're cool with it.
  It's owned by venture capitalists. So they're stripping it of staff ,and offloading all the work onto whoever is left.
  They're also telling staff to get as many projects signed off as soon as possible to make them look good to a buyer I presume.
Yay!
Just don't burn down your bridges just incase. I've seen some weird times where it's come back to bite people.
- Totally. I've been very professional and am preparing my handover notes over the coming weeks.
  This whole thing is going to fuck over my favourite people at this place, so want to make it as easy as possible.
WOOOOO!!!!!
How'd they take it? It's probably all old hat for them by this point.
- I think they thought I was bluffing.
  And the new manager seemed to be on the back foot during the meeting.
  He kept asking me a bunch of questions about what my job is lol
FFFFFFFFFFFFFREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM
HELL YEAH!!
So good to hear! Congratulations! 🥳

oh, and flailing kermit arms, I just signed the lease for the house by the beach 🙂 big exhale, it will be so nice there, like a holiday

and an easier and cleaner house to live in

I know I say this a lot, but I am so grateful for this space on the internet. Thanks y'all for being rad. Being able to celebrate, commiserate, rant, share, joke - I really appreciate it.

Hope everyone finds some light and joy in your day today.

sending those good vibes right back atcha 😘
this is a kind place
I know exactly how you feel ❤️ This is pretty much the only place I comment anymore.

I got a slow blink from one of the strays!!!!

Well that's it, time to get the good gin out lol

Tonight's wave!

At a really fast shutter spd. you can see it's way less splashy than you think in person.. it is blobby!:

This reminds me of those gorgeous photos of a single drop falling into a glass of milk and the rebound energy makes a perfect coronet around the edge of the impact zone.
That is absolutely gorgeous!
That is so cool.

Early lunch because NOTHING is functioning at work.

I soothe my angst with a crispy pork rice bowl

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- Thank you

Mate, just don't go. Look after you. You owe nobody anything. Hugs ❤️
You're not behind, you 1) survived 2) are getting healthy and 3) are starting to thrive.
that's a bigger accomplishment.
- I agree. ::: spoiler spoiler It's really tough going through all the emotions and pain of getting out of bad relationship dynamics. I look at my sibs and some are happy with the way thing are, they are the abusers, and others are miserable. They are the victims. But none seem to make efforts to question or change . They seem more stable but stable as what? :::
One thing I've learned is that you can go for two hours then bail. You don't have to be the last to leave, you can even be the first. I'm the oldest and brokest of my cousins.
You have no idea how much that shit sets you back in life. While other kids are building skills and confidence and networking you’re stuck in survival mode and start out at a massive disadvantage.
Look at it like this. If you’re not able to thrive to that level yet and unable to provide whatever it is that they want, is it really your fault? What did they give you? It was their job to build you up and since that didn’t happen they don’t reap the fruits.
I think they get what they gave. /shrug
- I bet Spud gives them more time and care they ever gave her.
Ignore can function multiple directions. Hugs.
You are amazing and we all love and respect you so much. 😘😘😘

Aldi has a kind of crappy web site. I can't search their list of grocery products. I made apricot chicken but had to get the apricot nectar and french onion soup mix from Coles. I prefer to avoid colesworth where able.

I wish they had home delivery, they would then get all my business.
very crappy! though BOM is top of my shit list at the moment.
- "https is for losers" - BoM probably.
- beta BOM is good
I hate it. I remember 15 years ago you had the option to make a shopping list to price everything out and then you could choose to print it.
Now for a lot of things you can’t even see the prices or what they have. I get why but it still sucks
I didn't know that they even had an online list of those. Thought it was mostly for corporate guff, and photos of their catalogue.

I just had a dream about buying a new guitar.

Well, time to start saving lol

Don't let your dreams be dreams. Do you know what model you bought?
- Fender Bass VI
  6 string "bass" that's strung with higher strings and used as a guitar. Sounds mean as fuck in drop F or Drop G.
  It's 800 so it isn't a million bucks lol
  I've got some gigs coming up with the new band so would be nice to have this.
Follow your dreams.
- You can reach your goals.
New Job Present! What's on the wish list? My last guitar purchase was in 2012 so I'm well overdue, I'll shop vicariously through you =)
- So this is technically a bass, but it's being used currently all over the place as a guitar with lighter gauge strings. Because of the build, it's pretty much perfect for heavy, down tuned music!
  This place doesn't have one, but I reckon I can find one by next week

Home. Deeply fried. I must stare mindlessly for a while

I was doing an annoying dance at Melbcat and I definitely think her vision is improving. Confusion… her head and eyes tracking movements… disappointment in her eyes… yeah she can see me! And from metres away.

Actual melbcat footage when you started dancing:
- Nah there was a little bit of judgement there. Which makes me so sure that she could actually see me

Pretty bleah fieldwork out west with awful dust, and the woooorst traffic. I think I need to make sure I leave that part of town by 3pm so I'm not stuck tearing my hair out on the M1 (even paying a princely $7+ to go through the tunnel is aggravating)

I feel so mad. I'd treat myself to a pizza but I've already had a takeaway spinach roll for breakfast and a servo sanga for lunch. No more reckless spending, it's pasta with broccoli, celery, peas and vegan chorizo for dinner tonight (easy to make!)

Dishwasher people have contacted some service agent who's then supposed to get in touch with me in 2-3 days. I don't know how long I'll be without a dishwasher for. Still disproportionately frustrated about it.

Grateful at least for chilled coconut water to calm down with...

E: after a buttload of garlic, I am sated

I reckon toll roads should have an SLA where if it takes over a certain length of time due to traffic or incident, you get a refund.
- I'm just glad I don't live in Sydney where toll roads are almost essential/unavoidable now unless you have an extra hour to spare.

Carefully packed by room type and labeled boxes have devolved into throwing random items into shopping bags. So many sneeze fucking dust bunnies!

that's my life next week
- May the packing faeries descend upon you

Tax time. Cheating since the doggie isn't mine. Just outside my work.

Meow
- There were lots of pats and scratches involved but no woofing.

Crawling round my engine bay, looks like I fixed the oil leaks like a god dam baller. I mean I tightened the three nuts with oil leaking around them - two in the rocker cover and one in the timing chain cover. But nonetheless oil leak stopped.

Oh man in my youth I owned more than one car where the lack of an oil leak meant it was probably out of oil :D
Hopefully it's all good now! Getting timing chain covers off of anything made this century is a ballache :(
- On my 40yo diesel Toyota the timing cover is right there. It's so accessible. Fortunately it was done at 215k and I'm only now at 260k.
i know this sounds weird but I like fixing cars

Cleaning out the freezers today as it's bin night. There is.. a lot. Ol' girl had a habbit (when she/we did the shopping down here) of doubling down on shit that we already had. Also brings duplicates of stuff from melbs down and heaps end up in there

Now she's not shopping so it's time for the purge. Some of that shit would be 5+ yrs old. Difficult to know what's good / bad for a lot of it. Seems like a waste but relatively not too bad considering how long it's been.

Does anyone here keep an inventory of stuff in there? Tempted to do a spready (or 2) and slap it on doors to keep it tight. But it might be one of things where it could be an idea but will never work properly.

I have a small freezer that needs to be defrosted every 6 months so what I do is live off that until it's empty and then restock it. I know that nothing has been in there longer than 6 months.
With the fridge - freezer however I label stuff with a date on them if I've repacked meat into freezer bags.
- I label stuff with a date on them
  I think this is where it's gone a bit wrong heh. 6 months seems like a good thing to aim for. Hrmm.
- same
  I don't label tho, I put food in containers and then when I run out of containers I have to use what's in there ...lol
  I don't repackage anything
No inventory but I clean out the freezer every six months by just not buying anything and using everything.
Yup. A5 magnetic clipboard stuck to the front holding a bunch of freezer inventory pages. .
We slash the appropriate number of boxes when we load 'er up, then X out when we've eaten it.
^(AMA about organisation, I've been working around the hubs adhd for years :P) ^

I fell asleep and was late with my antibiotics again. I’m going to try and get back on schedule.

Also BigW sells mandolins?!! $139 and $159. A few years ago on eBay there was nothing under the $300-400 mark.

But I haven’t even touched the ukulele that I settled on as a (much) cheaper compromise. Not past tuning it. I could try again but the beginner songs are really not to my taste and with how little energy I have I usually just give up. lies in bed like a log

Edit: Ok yeah Melbcat can see! She was looking for another treat and zeroed in on a (clean) piece of paper litter that she’d tracked. Had to stop her eating it. She wasn’t following a smell so she had to be able to see that something was there.

Edit 2: Ugh another sketchy person cutting through right past me. I’ve had a break from it being at night but the past two nights there’s been three. Being on guard does not make for good sleep.

Loooove the snek and the blind red panda (?)
- Sleeping tabby cat 😺

Freezers almost cleaned out.

Will do the rest in 2 weeks.

Felt criminal but glad it's done. Clean slate.

I will do better going forward with any luck.

I have been looking at an area of Ballarat on streetview, and as well as being 15 years out of date it appears the car covered a large area with a leaf stuck to the camera. Not helpful, Google.

Melbcat was following with her head and eyes while I scrabbled my hand back and forth! Staring and locked on. She can definitely see from a few meters away now.

She’s getting grumpy because I’m tuning the ukulele and she hates the sound. I tuned it the usual way but might see if I can change it to D tuning just to know how.

(I wish I had the money and commitment for a different instrument but this is purely for occasionally messing around with before giving up again. This is the best option for my budget and space!)

D tuning is fun.
You could also potentially get a capo? Kind of makes it tricky though with such a small number of frets, but I used to spend hours playing with a ukulele sized capo. Wouldn't recommend getting a guitar sized one because it makes playing chords hard. I think I got one for around $5 from ebay.
Another cool thing to do is doing a 'duet' with another instrument. You can play chords and go onto YouTube and find a video of someone playing a different part of the song on a different instrument.
Possibilities are endless. Even if it doesn't seem like it :)
- Ah I might not spend any further money on it but thanks :)
  I am very lazy and filling time while resting

Catching up with someone from high school that I lost contact with, all because I messaged her happy birthday. I'm excited!

Ted is trying for second breakfast.

Alfie was trying it on me this morning as well. He has such a shriek of a meow and is a fantastic liar.
- It's a perfect name for a very cool cat 🐈‍⬛

Breakfast time for Ted. 🙂

I worked with a dude who had a rude nickname for everyone in the office that he used behind their backs. Never learned what mine was but I'm sure there was one.
- presidential material
talks shit about them behind their backs
My feelings on this is that you should always say things to people's faces (or say only things you would to their face if need be) before talking shit behind backs. I know usually it's not clear cut but still...
- I do enjoy classic rock 🤘
  But grey rocking is the way to go. I was going to use that manager as a reference as they are always nice and helpful to me, but my perception of them has shifted a bit.

We've got a big lot of stuff we want done by end of this year (brewery refit, garage/ workshop sorting and repointing, garden stuff, jobs ranging from full bore rebuilds to swapping out a tap or clearing a junk pile) and set ourselves a system where you have to do at least an hour a week on any one of them - doesn't matter what, could be planning, purchasing, clearing, mounting, etc - or chuck money into the reno budget. Penalty for failure to act that week: $50.

So far his lordship owes $150 loool

- at $10 a beer that would last me 1 week
- considering I rarely drink, nope, that goes into the reno budget (one of those super savers that gives you bazonga extra interest if you drop in a minimum and don't make any withdrawals for the month)

This cheap Dell keyboard at work is killing me. It's so unresponsive and at times you'll type a double letter and it won't register one. I think I need mechanical switches because this rubber membrane just isn't good enough.

cheap and nasty, but unkillable. You can see why companies use them.
- Certainly cheap and nasty. I might do the same as my headphones and find a cheap mechanical somewhere to use at work. Scan the receipt and list it as a work expense
I've found that you just have to treat them like a mechanical typewriter, and type like you're hammering in nails for them to work some semblance of properly.

really bro. I've been asking for weeks why Im getting phone calls for you, you claim to have no idea so I look up your signature and there is my damn number!

Really bro? you've NO idea?!

Anyone else get recommended this video on Melbourne's outer suburbs? The guy says all the right things but the vibes are off for me. He interviews a Liberal MP, his other videos seem sussy, and to me he has 'Liberal Party Member Face'

Was recommended that video too.
I ended up watching this one.
Seeing suburbs designed for cars like that makes me want to become an urban planner.
- I live in Mernda near Donnybrook and Kalkalo and I hate it. It's why I ride my bike as much as I can and I want to get a cargo bike to take the kids around.
  I'm so lucky I found a job over in Epping so I don't have a long commute. I can leave by 7 and be home by 4:30. I've been meaning to talk to my manager about just taking a half hour lunch break so I could be home by 4 even.
- Must be the time for it. We’re all seeing it
- I feel like the Liberals can seem authentic talking about a lack of urban planning because Labour has been in power for ten years. But I don't know how you could be convinced they'd be any better.
  I wonder if they're trialling funding people to go do extremely locallised video essays on sympathetic subjects? That's what this guy's channel seems to be all about.
The only political party he follows on Instagram is the Victorian Socialists 🤔
- That's reassuring. He has a video on the safe injecting rooms here. Watching that one should be illuminating on his opinions
Yeah I did yesterday.

Pho again this morning 🍜🤤

Is it not too heavy for breakfast? It seems pretty hearty.

I'm glad it's a nice day to dry washing, I have just picked up a bunch of sheets gifted through a buy nothing group and will have a couple of loads. There are a couple in there that have some great patterns on them. They've probably been sitting in the cupboard for years as the unwanted top sheet out of a set, finally their time has come!

Edit: a few of the sheets are pure polyester. They will not be making it to the bed and are going straight to the "other projects" pile

🤮, the interwebs is full of that stomach churning pic of trump

There used to be a browser extension when abbott was PM that turned every picture of him into kittens. Probably something similar for trump lol.
- There was also one called something like un-baby. Very useful.
As in singular? :p
All of his pics are kinda gross
- this is the worst i have seen in a very long time

saw a kick ass guy the other day, he had a spiderman suit on under his shorts and tee , no face mask tho

who does this ?

Yo

ffs, looking at ptv page, the map takes up 75 of page, menu for planner is a small column on left, either I don't know how to use the page or they fucked it up

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Did someone here have a launtel internet referral code recently?