Discussion Thread: Saturday, 1 March 2025

Looking after my Aunts' Hamish the border collie next week for a few days.

Thankfully dogs can't talk cause he's getting some premium eye fillet and won't dob me in.

I looked after a friends dog for two weeks and after I dropped it off and was leaving the dog got in the car with me to come back to mine.
HAMBAM RETURNS
Hammy!!! He deserves all of the premium eye fiillet!

Me and my dingo.

Lindy Chamberlain vibez I'm glad you're with us
- I got The Family vibe.
- That dog was in the bed during my home birth. It used to steal toys for me.

Mustang man. 4:45am. 😴

Motorcycle man’s place is for lease which is great, but somehow someone worse had appeared.

One of the reasons I got rid of my mustang was because I felt so guilty any time I needed to use it outside of regular hours. It was fun to drive, but it was so obnoxiously loud.

Myki checkers on number 3 heading out of city, just at commercial rd

Don't you mean Lumon spies?
/j ?
- I saw a young woman dressed like Miss Casey yesterday. Same hair, sweater and blouse.
  In a perfect coincidence I myself was looking to buy a new a trench coat.
- 🤣

Took the paddleboards for their first spin this morning and oh my god it's love. We both fell many, many times are now rather exhausted, but the weather was so peaceful for it, the water was gorgeous and just had the most fun we could. Lots of laughter. Can't wait for more. Definitely need to work on our core strength though, wowzers.

Is it nap time yet?

Yes
It feels like a sleepy kind of day today, so any time you want can be nap time.
Already had one :/
Just got up from one, considering another.

I need to write an email to the boss about workload and am struggling to find the right words. Don’t want to be whiny but need to make my case clear and be tactful. Of course, when awake and overthinking at 3am I composed the perfect email in my head and have now forgotten it. Hrmph

Maybe time to make use of some AI generation.
- Ooh, good idea. I’ve put it off until tomorrow but will definitely run it through something

Ow my goddamn stomach :(

Have gym-ed. In pursuit of sushi for protein

So I'll be staying home tonight due to stomach issues. Will have to save my 10 years sober celebration till next week.

Does it trigger you if people comment here about drinking? (Like on Friday afternoon for example)
- Nah not at all. My addiction was to the worst chemicals you can think of.
  I've never really been an alcohol person even when I was at my worst. Just never really liked it that much.

I ordered a schooner and received a side eye haha

It's one thing I wish they'd embrace down here more. A midi is not enough and sometimes a pint is too much
- I had few pints and forgot what state I was in hehe
- The shape and heavy base keep the last mouthful chilled too.
Back in uni we should phonetically coach the. American exchanges to order a skewwy a noow

I think I'll get an electric drum kit instead of a new guitar.

Could be lots of fun!

Also

I was going to do the same last year but I have no room. Go for it and have fun! Start a one man band.
There's a drummer and guitarist on YouTube called Aaron Paulsen who does videos playing the drums and guitar and the same time. He's going more into internet humour territory these days, but his earlier videos should suffice.
@Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone
On Freecycle Inner West
- Holy shit thanks!

I'm going to the street party early (before the party, really) because the Minipeelers love the feeling of walking down the middle of Sydney road unimpeded!
ah, so young you don't know the origin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhPnCHBiEs

Stunning morning. Cafe breakfast outside with three games of chess (one win each and a draw), then an hour long walk home in the blissful sunshine with my friend, talking about how shit my old job was (she's still there)

4:30 on a sat arvo you bastard

That looks fun :(
What happened 😬
- When they changed the houses galvanised pipe over to copper someone thought keeping the galvanised riser for the front garden tap was a grand idea. Galvanic corrosion

Good early morning. 🌚

It's getting significantly darker in the early morning now.
- it is, only three weeks until the equinox and you can tell
- It definitely is. I hit the part of my morning routine where I was ready to start our morning walk and it was still pitch black. I've ended up haveing to bring forward coffee instead.

Day 2: have not yet met fatal misadventure involving a cat and a staircase.

Have you gone to put a bunch of stuff in a box, only to find that the cat has got there before you yet?
- We're more taking things out and finding a cat in the way at this point, but totally.

Anyone loving their liquid hand soap at the moment? What have you got stocked?

I use turps and my tears of anguish.
I use soap in bars.
I use a detol hand liquid soap.
Usually Colesworth or Aldi generic liquid soap in Aloe or whatever. It got a bit harsh with frequent use though so currently trying a lemongrass Australian Botanicals bar soap. Still drying but not causing flaky skin.
Or I just use up bar soaps I didn’t like on my hands.
Avoid the bamboo soap dishes though, they go mouldy
Sukin is good, and doesn’t seem to upset my sensitive skin. Smells nice, too
I like this one I use it for the kitchen to get rid of smelly hands.

Time to take more stuff to the op shops.

Can you take a few bags down for me too?
Should you want boxes...

Cleaning, cleaning, cleaning

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I'm in the process of re-jigging my income/disability insurance converage and it has turned out to be a looong process. 2/3 of the way there, just one more policy to finalise and then I should be set up and not have to make any aplications ever again. It will just be a slow (planned) reduction in cover over the next couple of decades as retirement gets closer.

It would be great to have a crystal ball and know what the future will hold. It's a massive amount of money to spend to (hopefully) receive nothing back. But if something does go wrong I won't have to stress about finances or suffer a major drop in living standards.

Napped the day away and now I have a headache and regrets.

Napped a solid 3 hours this arvo as well, not looking forward to how I might fall asleep tonight...

Much achieved today. At peace with the idea of doing absolutely nothing tonight

Pinch, punch, first day of the month.

No returns.

Coffee. Had lunch. Gaming. Put the footy on. Nap achieved.

Severance and The rookie watched.

An overall productive day.

A bag of chips were sacrificed today however.

Went back to sleep and woke up overheating -_-

I’m trying to wean myself onto books so I don’t rely so much on my phone but it’s hard. It seems I still read fast too. Going to have to sort something out about getting to the library. Doing things digitally is just looking too much for me right now. I forgot my library card password or pin, I cbf working out Libby and don’t want to buy a kindle.

Coles is currently 40% off on some shampoos and CW is 50% off on a lot of hair stuff.

I’m a bit suspicious though because the last time I bought something heavily discounted it turned out that sunscreen brand was being pulled for not living up to SPF claims.

Actually having pretty good luck selling stuff on marketplace.

I managed to sell some boots on depop recently without too much hassle. Maybe the market is picking up
- It certainly seems a bit better lately. I've sold a few things recently, and there seemed to be a lot less of the useless inquiries to wade through.
I've got something up. Please lend me some of your luck.
- I put a couple more things up and I've got some chump offering 60% but they'll come tomorrow with cash. Sure buddy, sure. I don't negotiate either, I just say no.

Watermelon jelly setting in the fridge with a generous amount of gelatin to harden it up.

Will be ready for the hotter days coming up.

Boooooooooooooored.

:(

Bored is good. Hear me out.
Bored means you are physically well and are mentally rested enough to want to have something to do.
- I’ve never thought of it that way, that is quite profound.

The Aristocrats are playing tonight, I only found out this week. I'd really like to go so let's hope the boys go down easily enough

Someone nearby is having a party with loudish doof music. It’s 11pm on a Saturday. What are they thinking, to have fun or something? What about all us grumpy old people who are in bed already.

Mmm bed sounds good lol

Oh no, I am sunburnt!! I put on plenty of sunscreen before we went out, gave it plenty of time to soak in, but we were out on the water for about 2 hours. Oddly, my face is not sunburnt, but I used a different sunscreen (Aus Cancer Council on my body, Japanese Aqua on my face). Still had a blast and I've managed to avoid the burn all season.

Saw a guy that looked like Brendan Fraser Columbian drug lord , moustache and all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxcKmOUGY2w

I finally plugged in the secondhand tv. No signal. Guess I need to buy a coaxial cable…

I see them at Bunnings for like $8 and I think I have the appropriate outlet in my wall but is there any particular kind to choose? Was looking at this in 3 or 5 metres https://www.bunnings.com.au/click-5m-coaxial-pal-tv-cable_p0201534

Ps. Sorry if this sounds dumb. I’m not big on tv and for many years didn’t even bother to have one. I just got a very cheap secondhand one to watch dvds.

Check if the centre posts are male or female.
- This!
- I’m no expert but they both look to be female

Good night everybody . Sweet dreams. 😘

My stitching isn’t as small or neat as I’d like but I have to take longer wider ones to put less stress on the thin fabric and am trying to get it fixed quickly. There are more patches to be done.

Tried the meds in food again… Melbcat sat in her dinner and then sat on the comforter I’m mending. I’d got her to sniff the food on her fur but she wouldn’t wash herself. I told her she had ten minutes before I cleaned her fur and gave her meds directly so she did lick it off. But she’s refusing to eat the rest. I’m just trying to spare her a full oral syringe of everything she takes ;-;

Edit: I told her she had ten minutes to eat it and she started eating 🤯 She’s had a fair bit of it. Though it is the extra fancy food so unsure if that will work again