Discussion Thread: Sunday, 9 March 2025

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Hambam has had enough.

Took him to the dog park at 9am so not hot it's now 3pm and he's been in this state since we got back trying to find new patches of cold floor. Threw 3 balls chased them well enough, then he wandered off chasing another dog so had to go get him, twice (he doesn't care if you call him back, just in his own world). All up about a 3km walk. Intensity of the walk out of 10 would be a 1.

I love him.

He's hopeless.

He gets a lot of compliments.

But he's hopeless.

Heart of gold so he deserves a good life.

I got a new dog recently (not a puppy). He is even more stupid than my previous dog, and that says a lot. I didnt know it was possible for a dog to be entirely uncoordinated. Hopeless doesnt begin to describe him.
He is the very best boy.
- We might need photographic evidence of this Very Good Boy...

hey, fellow kids. Been a while. How are we all? I see we are all making serious food decisions...

Realised that not only I didn't leave the house today....I barely left the couch.

In other news Yakuza pirates of Hawaii is fun as heck

Have you done the Kaho side quest?!
- Not yet. Don't spoil it please.
I’m only up to Kiwami 1 though I have finished 3 when it originally came out on the ps3
I have a long way to go!
- First one I played was like a dragon. Did 0 decently, finished Kiwami and infinite wealth (so good)
  Not sure if I can manage all the old ones.
  My son played them all and digs them.
  I'm a huge fan of the main characters.
  Got a soft spot for Ichiban

I'm stuffed being out late arvo/evening, saw a movie with some of my favourite people! I have much to ponder, the movie was extremely awesome and thought-provoking!

I have a big day with the fam tomorrow in the SE. Gonna give dad those photos for him to scan with his scanner. He was stoked! He just forgot to reply and I so overreacted 😅 so it will be good to try and date the photos with him, based on my age, and location!

I'm making a cherry tart to take to my sister's place for dinner tonight. It uses 1kg of cherries, but I still have tons left in the freezer. How one little tree so badly attacked by cherry slugs that every year I expect it to die can produce such abundance I do not know.

Finally found a gap in the packing/unpacking/cleaning schedule to redye my hair. Feel a zillion times better for not being a faded out drab! The grey eyebrow bits still have much to answer for.

that one time i decided to dye my eyebrows at the same time, just a gentle smear of dye , right?
half an hour later I looked like groucho marx
after I finished my hair I got to work on forehead and eyebrows, I got it all off but it was so red from all the rubbing ( stop laughing ), was so embarrassed to go out
i just pencil them in now
- If you ever do decide to tint them again, the 1000 hour one has worked well imo. I've used other dyes and they all turn out way too bold.

I'm so, so fucking glad I have air con tonight.

Last bougie breakfast for the hams today. Kibble w/ egg and basil topped with some parmesan lol. Actually ate the basil.

Probably the most polite dog I've met with food. Set it down in front of him and he just stands there for a minute looking at you wondering what the catch is.

Here he is wondering if there are seconds (hopefully vid works this time):

I have never seen a video work here. 😔
- Same, always have to open in browser.
Ahh he's so damn glorious!!
aw, and he is so loved, so many dog toys , looked how beautifully he's looked after 🥰🐶

Happy 2nd Saturday guys.

Thank you Brion

Good Night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘

I dreamt that I crashed at an old friend's place and woke up to her cooking breakfast listening to Bauhaus while dressed all the way goth'd up. I was thinking in the dream if I should mention how good her breasts looked with the corset, bolero and little mesh covered cleavage window they created. The girl and I were friends 15 years ago but drifted, we had an honest friendship where such things weren't inappropriate, she was doing a science PhD.
Then I changed dream channels and went back to school as mature age, and an uppity Indian mean girl gave me shit for my daggy backpack but it turned out that she was my Indian friend from high school's kid so I snitched to him about his kid being a brat. I'd also bought new boots and class was being held on tablets with rainbow lead pencils for notes.
Dreams hey.

I keep refreshing the BOM app thinking 29.3C at 11pm must be an error :| fuck me. So grateful for air-conditioning.

Really glad I took a break from fieldwork today, just chilling at home all day - although I'll have to go out during midday again tomorrow - and then a full day of work fieldwork on Tues and Wed 🥵

Still 26 :(

At last! A diet/nutrition article that talks about the 'burden of decision making' in the context of diet. One of my pet peeves is that this aspect isn't given enough weight.

worth a read whatever diet you're on or not on

"On any given day, humans make an estimated 300 decisions about food'.
hrmm that seems like a lot..
Good article though.
- It's one of the things I like about meal prep. If I make a dozen chicken curries, a dozen chilli and a doz apricot chicken, that's a months worth of meals if I eat at least one every day. Pita salad protein wrap for another meal. Suddenly my food decisions are way down. Fruit and nuts for clean nibbles. Ice creams on a stick, two biscuits or PBnJ for dirty nibbles. Water or protein shake for drinks. That's most of the thinking taken out of it. Every few weeks I crave something I haven't made myself which is usually banh mi, hsp or pizza as that's what's good around here.
- Seems about right for me:
  Go buy tim tams; NO
  Go buy tim tams; NO
  Go buy tim tams; NO
I know diets are really hard. I know will power is a big issue and that I'm not weak, I'm normal. If dieting was easy there wouldn't be an obesity epidemic.
This is why I love the shake meal replacement. I have no prohibitions to make opportunities for failure and to feel bad. All I have to do is eat way less of what I normally do and have a meal shake instead. I am doing something instead of not doing something.
And it is really easy. I don't have to cook anything special, just the same , just much less. ( and I cook pretty healthy anyway, I have always added 3 x the amount of vegies to a recipe and don't often use premade dishes)
- I'm finding giving up bread really hard. I have reduced my intake but fresh Vienna from the bakery is holding me back. I will not lose sleep about it, instead allow my self to enjoy the occasional slice or two.
- Which meal shake brand(s) are you liking?

My cherry tart is complete, now I just have to work out how to get it safely to my sister's place. I'm also not sure if it is going to be safe to take it out of the tin - the filling rose a bit high and has stuck to the sides a bit, trying to remove it could lead to a total collapse. At least the jar of vanilla custard should be stress free.

Leave in tin for transport - then get someone else to remove it from the tin so it's their fault if it collapses.
Cut in half, put half in a container and the other half in your belly.
Problem solved….
- Or I could just make another one tomorrow for my belly - I have plenty of cherries!
Leave it in the tin during transport. Put on plate when ready to serve.
- I think this will be the safest method.

I have Done Moomba.

A couple of rides, watched the Birdman Rally, watched some wakeboarding, ate some ice cream…I’ve had a lovely time, but am ready to not move for the rest of the day

What about the most important part? The Labour Day march by our unions with their historic banners?
This is the true meaning of Moomba. A distraction from Labour Day and union ideals and participation . Moomba was set up by Melbourne business associations
- I caught a union march a few days ago. I have covered all bases

Got the storage wall of the garage twintrack up yesterday, today was moving the bench we salvaged from the laundry, putting the doors back on and stocking tools.

Was. I very rapidly realised i was hot, pissed off and very very overloaded. So i went full ASD and grabbed my giant crate of screw packets and tubs and sorted sorted sorted while blasting DS9 in the lounge. Did i wash my hands way more than i "should"? Yes, but fuck should, today was about pandering to me.

And now it is brie and fat cats and ds9 s4. So there

Today I am aiming at packing ten boxes and staying cool.

About to have some vegemite toast and now I'm trying to count how many decisions I'm about to make.

You decided to post about it which counts I'm pretty sure
300 decisions about food a day is wild

Anyone seen the Me We campaign going around? I'm very glad to see campaigns like this, and the consent one going around. Yeah we can't control other people's behaviour, but if some of society get exposed to campaigns like this, hopefully one day it will diffuse to people who are harder to reach.

I think there should be a more aggressive campaign to do with sun safety. Plenty of people around me are still glamorising tanning, and I still have gotten a couple of sunburns from being outside and forgetting to apply sunscreen.

More weekend tomorrow!!

Do the dishes tomorrow. They can wait.
Log off and ignore the stupids. It's hard but worth it.
Give melbcat a hug.
Give yourself a hug.
Find something comforting to watch or listen to and just sail of mentally.
You got this.
- Thanks. I’m just plowing through them quickly so I can have clean dishes (cutlery went in the machine because no way) and will be buying more disposables.
  The problem is logging off from the stupids leaves me with emptiness and the extra special stupids irl.
  I’m feeding and medicating Melbcat and will probably have to just Restavit the crap out of myself tonight to get some sleep.
Getting back to yourself after depression or being knocked for a loop takes time. Remember: you can just stop anything you start, whenever and pick up whenever. Yes, even halfway through.
- I don’t think there will be a ‘back’. I’ve tried everything for decades and nothing has worked. Just some days I can white knuckle it more convincingly than others. That’s all.

Wow. Passed out so well on that nap I legit thought I had slept through till morning. Super strange dreams. Trying the get harrison ford to his plane but he was having a heart attack and simultaneously missing my own plane and being yelled at and also trying to figure out work stuff. Ugh. I am glad my brain got whatever that was out of its system but I am not a fan of being kidnapped into a 3 hour sleep while it worked.

I'm having the weirdest dreams off the weed for a while now.

It's past my bedtime and I'm only just heading home 🥱🥱🥱 it's so busy in the city. Don't these people like their homes and their beds?

It was pumping yesterday too. I think everyone's soaking up the last of the late night summer vibes. And maybe some people don't have aircon in which case I totally understand.

Had a beach day yesterday after barely going all summer. Sand, sun and ocean waves fix all problems. Also perfect temp yesterday and barely any breeze. And caught this amazing sunset. Followed by best sleep I’ve had in weeks.

I want to go again today. Wish ocean was closer.

That's so beautiful. 🙂

The gym is kicking my ass big time.

Just had another 12 hour sleep. It's great in a way because I know it's working.

It's just a bit intense.

Edit: just went for an hour walk and yeah. Don't go outside if you can avoid it lol

The stupidly heavy antique drill press has been sold and is on it's way to a new home. 😁

Decluttering is getting more and more complete every day - the prospect of moving house definitly help, it's amazing how many "maybe" items turn into a hard no when faced with the prospect of packing and moving them.

When I'm decluttering and I come to a few maybe/maybe not decisions I know that's when to stop altogether. When I come back to it, that decision is so much more clearer.
Are you ever going to use it?
Will you ever open this book or listen to this record?
Will you ever wear this again?
- Have you used it in the last year?
Such a nice feeling when stuff moves on. I think I’m past the decluttering hump so things are getting easier, but it does seem never ending.

Fucked up last night and got boba with a friend. My body must be extremely sensitive to caffeine, or I just drank it too late because I couldn't sleep until 3am last night despite waking up at 7am yesterday. Was supposed to do some uni work and go down to the beach with the fam, but my head is pounding. Going to take it kind of easy and hopefully get my work done. Not going to let this ruin my day.

Well I woke up Sunday morning, with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt

35/50

Cheers Cobbers 🍺

Just had a look at windy.com - there's a nice little batch of rain headed our way. Which the garden sorely needs.

It makes me sad how much it shrinks the closer it gets to the bay 😭 but I'll be grateful nonetheless.
It's oppressive tonight! Help, help! I'm being oppressed!
I've received 0 drops of rain and it looks like the rain band is dying out. So crap, my garden is tinder dry.

mickey 17 is a lot of fun

Has anyone ever plugged their desktop pc into a large 4k TV for gaming?

If so, how was it?

Theres a game I want to play with friends but it's only on pc and I don't want to sit at my desk to play it.

Curious what other peoples experiences are.

Should be fine - https://i.imgur.com/6V69xZL.jpg
- Holy crap lol
  Cheers :)
- Oh my god that made me laugh
I’ve ever only done it via a laptop with a direct hdmi connection.
With my pc I had to use steam link which went through the network. Sort of worked but crashed eventually after playing around with it for a couple of hours.
- Thanks for the heads up :)
Yes.
We have a pc permanently slaved to the tv for media and gaming. It's fucken awesome.
You do need to blow up the font sizes to be able to read system shit though.

Cherry tart update: The tart was transported in the tin, and was also successfully removed and held up well to being sliced. It was very yummy, my sister and I split the leftovers. I just had another piece as a pre-brdtime snack.

awesoooome
i have never made cherry pies or tarts with fresh cherries, you have inspired me 🙂

Urg. Doubted the rant so it's gone. Still feel yucky. Time for some vodka.

Contemplating having a drink tonight. Margaritas or Hard Solos. Hmm.

Margaritas. The salt will replace what you lose to sweat in the heat today. Plus hard solo is just expensive solo and vodka.
- First up, I'm inside with the air con on. Still working hard but without the sweat.
  Secondly, 30 pack of Solo + Smirnoff = Hard Solo or harder Solo if I choose to. Yeah pre-mixed Hard Solos are ok for travellers but I'm at home. And this is what I have chosen.
Why not both?!
- Maybe. Let's just see where the night leads to.🤷‍♀️
Mix it all together for a righteous jungle juice
- Let's see what the night brings.

The ice cream van drove by 🥰🍦

There's a few dozen decisions right there.
- It’s funny how that music triggers an adrenaline rush in me after all these years. It’s an instant Pavlovian response.
there's a place at qvc that sells yoghurt soft serve, maybe I can go halves or thirds
noooo, I must not , I had mousse yesterday
- I eat ice cream every day and I've lost 10kg in 3 months. Portion control & prioritisation. You need some joyful food.
  Living on cardboard isn't sustainable for me, it needs to be a lifestyle change I can stick to long-term.
  And frozen yogurt especially is pretty low in calories.
Reminds me of Eddie Murphy.

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Red chicken curry please, with bamboo and snow peas. How many decisions is that?
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Iced kimchi noodles pleaseee
- 🧊🌶️🥬🍜🧊

after much fucking around i got some new accounts

i wonder if I use a different browser on reddit i can avoid the block, still blocked

Use Opera, turn the built in VPN on and use a temporary email service to make a new account. It takes a while and you may go through a few accounts on the way. Avoid the subreddits you might've been blocked from. Lookup the list of bots that handle the blocking and block those too. Eventually you can change the email to your usual and you won't need to use Opera to access it. I added a counter to my username and added one to each new account. I'm blocked by IP on r/Australia. I'm still avoiding it for lentish and missing it less and less.
- And we love having you here more even if it's just for lentish.

Ok this is way too early. Sometimes I wish I could sleep in.

I'm rewatching Arrival after having watched Mickey 17 yesterday and going "what was that movie where they try to talk to the aliens". It's cracking me up that the top realdebrid result is from a torrent titled "41 best movies to watch when stoned (all High IMDB)"

I really couldn't remember so much from this movie though, so it's kind of nice watching it all over again. Can't believe it's 9 years old. I suppose in a few years the movie will finally be dated by the fact that they didn't use AI to analyse the aliens' language immediately

Easily ranks in my top 10 favourite sci fi movies. Villeneuve has yet to make a bad movie it’s astonishing
- I feel changed after watching it. It's truly a masterpiece. What are your other top sci fi movies? I'm feeling inspired
that's a great movie in so many ways, the science of it, the philosophy of it, the social impact and the personal decisions
and it's visually beautiful
- As someone with an interest in linguistics and semantics I absolutely loved it - especially in a family full of men who only think maths and engineering matters

Packing my reading books, I read a lot of autobiographies, I find them endlessly interesting.

so just a taste of what i buy/read, the dam busters ( husband loves this one too, he was a ballistics scientist ) , Storm over the land, The end of the beginning, we were the rats ( of tobruk )

why old books, i like to see where we came from so I can have some understanding of where we are now

4 boxes packed today so far, 6 to go

Finally found a Kodi plugin that works for EPL replays. Man, that VAR thing is a real drag....

What is an epl replay?
- English Premier League

Dodgy Tubi movie review. Battle Queen 2020. The producers must have looked up the legal definition of porn in their jurisdiction specifically to avoid it by millimetres. Plot plausibility and continuity somewhere in the sub-sub-sub basement. Fantastic for fans of impractical armour. 1 sequinned gstring for the maiming by titty spike.