Discussion Thread Tuesday 15 April 2025

Bill having a sleep in. 💖

Riiight. Peter Mac appointment has confirmed that I am alive and likely to stay that way. Flu vaccine and shingles vaccine accomplished. Lamb chops for dins with potato mash & veg stir fry purchased. Time to veg out until time to cook dins dins. Or maybe YT & chill.

Just gave blood.

I have now been implanted.

Not an alien baby or anything dramatic, a dental implant. It is not too bad but a bit ouchie.

Quite a large head for her body lol

Needs all those neurons to build TP forts!
- The polka dot tummy is my fave lol

Eyyyyy. Looks like I get to vote on 3 May as well! But not in the Australian elections... in the Tropical Soup ones instead - which I'm not eligible to vote for from overseas. Instead, through sheer luck, I get to vote hours before I leave! What luck.

Not like it makes a difference in a place that is a de facto one party state but hey...

Up with a massive pain in my stomach. I woke my girlfriend up because this was almost Go To The Hospital level but it has dropped off again now

Fingers crossed it eases up mate.
- I managed to get back to sleep and only woke up a little while ago. I only feel like this when I take codine so I don't know what has caused it
Hope you’re doing ok now
- I'm better now but still not 100%

Things I dream about:

Women

Friends

My sick telekenetic saw blade that I use to murder this massive skeleton zombie that knows martial arts

Cats

Guitars

I dreamed about being outside too long and getting sunburned. Your sick telekenetic saw blade sounds much more interesting.
- It's rare I promise you. Most of my dreams are somewhat lacklustre.
  For example: I just dreamed that I lost my shoes on a bus and couldn't find them.
  Riveting lol
I got an anxiety one where something bad was going down and I couldn’t get to the ‘dial’ part of my phone to call for help. Boo. Various versions of this dream pop up when I’m stressed

One of my rental applications has been passed to the owner to look at, giving me a sudden case of FOMO. What if I accept a place and could have got something better?! I haven't even looked at the place yet and I'm already having second thoughts. Hopefully the other place I applied for will come through for me first, it looks about 9.5/10 on my wish list instead of 7-8 ish.

I don't know what your experience has been like up until this point, but the market as awful for renters.
Maybe go have a look. You wouldn't want to miss out on something and end up waiting ages for another one.
- I'm definitely going to have a look. I'd also rather have a certain place to live than hold out for perfection and end up homeless. But I also don't want to just grab the first thing available and end up somewhere that I don't feel happy.
  I do have a couple of months up my sleeve, so it will probably end up being about how I feel when I see it in person. There is always that element you can't really tell untill you are there - something to do with the way light falls and air flows and whether you can see sky when you look out the window.

still unpacking and putting things away, I'm up to repacking all of Miss Seagoon's things.

She kept a jumper I made for her quite a while back and she still wears it when she's here

That looks great. I'd be wearing it all the time too.
You are so talented Seagoon! Holy cow, that is an AMAZING jumper. I'm almost surprised it hasn't been worn threadbare. Miss S is so lucky
That’s fantastic work
Gorgeous!
I’d wear it every day
Thanks. It looks great on her still. 🙂
( I followed a pattern so I can't take all the credit.)

When i am godking those who choose to rev obscenely noisy engines in wee hours through residential areas will from that moment onwards shit themselves every time they place their keys in the ignition

Husband has added caveat "unless they're into that"
- If we're talking godking omnipotence here, just have them explode in their car, their car can explode too.

easter has been sorted 🙂🐰🪺

someone doesn't like easter
- Boo to them.

Another rental application in. Unfortunately the inspection is today & I can't go because of a dental appointment. But it looks perfect for me in the photos, hopefully I can be considered and get a different inspection time. The place does have too many yuccas. I'm not sure if the excessive green of the lawn is photoshop or if the previous owner did some serious watering before selling to make it look nice but I'll be surprised if it is not dead and yellow in real life. But the house layout is great, there is a sliding door I can put a dog door insert in and an area that looks like it would be perfect to put some vegies in without much effort. So fingers crossed again on tihs one.

The other one I put an application in looks like it might be ok, but there are a lot of maybes that you can't see in the (out of date) pictures that could make it unsuitable too, so I'm not bothering with the crossed fingers for that one.

Edit to add: this is what happens when you plant one little yucca

15 years is about what I'm dealing with. Stick to potted ones.
- Yeah, the trunks on those are massive and look like they are damaging the fence. Who knows what the roots are getting into. In another 10-15 years the small one that's been put in against the house will be causing some serious damage too.

I got a Liberal party email in my inbox this morning. Clicked 'modify preferences' and noticed some of the things they're tracking:

👀
This is actually super interesting. Consider screenshotting it all and send a tip to the Guardian. I'm sure the Libs aren't the only ones using these predictive analytics stuff though.
This is why political patties want your email and phone number -- so they can add you to a database and enrich it with data scraped from profiling platforms, data brokers, ethnicity predictors and other commercial data sources.
It's spooky and feels wrong.
- Yeah, that was first thought actually. Thought I'd consult the DT hivemind first though 😊
An annoying thing about political emails is they're exempt from regular opt-in and spam laws so you pretty much just have to block them. Very interesting what they're tracking here though
- So annoying.
  I reported one of those Trumpets of Patriots ads and was told they were exempt from complaints because they were political no matter how awful and targeting minorities
  It really made me angry how they were allowed to get away with saying such awful things and lying.

Woke up about an hour ago, I was surprised how late it was. I was wondering if I'd work from home today but I guess it's a day off at this point

So a heads up to anyone who has a Harmony universal remote - they've decided that come may you can no longer update them. As in you can no longer program them at all. They're useless.

I'm pretty sure that's a violation of consumer law given they're deliberately crippling a hardware device that you own...

Ok, who broke the Bot? Fess up.

We spotted him during our joint operation last night.
Maybe it's got an RDO?

You might have to keep going back to them, and it may not be their fault (although they should have told you when you made the request). When I had the finger infection the doctor said new govt. regulations mean they are not allowed to order a repeat on antibiotics, even if they know you are going to need more than one pack.
- Yeah, I’m keenly aware of antibiotic stewardship 😣
  I wasn’t aware of the new guidelines so fingers crossed that’s the only issue. I’m hoping that I might be able to get a pack each 5 days without a fight…
  This isn’t ideal for me either. But unfortunately due to being immunocompromised and having already had a root canal the infection roars right back every time I finish. Starts spreading into my jaw and neck.
  I’m just trying to contain it until I can get the extraction so I don’t end up in hospital with sepsis.
I don't know if you can still do this but it's worth a try, if you have a regular GP ask them for antibiotics. That's what I did when I had abscesses before I got my wisdom teeth out.
- Yeah, I’ll definitely be hitting them up again. I have a telehealth tomorrow so can ask if I get nowhere with the dentist.
  Just a bit worried about getting a months worth

kinda taking a rest day 🙂

Good morning! Oops, too early!

It's fun being able to hyperfocus on stuff but not being able to choose what that thing is. I'm starting to get calluses on my fingers from just picking up the guitar, to the detriment of my piano practice and assignments.

Time to drink some water and get a move on.

Yesterday's Scary Emails I Didn't Want To Look At And Felt Like Shutting Off The World Over were looked at this am (frog, swallow, etc). They were not as bad as expected. Just need to get one document signed by supervisor who I'm meeting on Thursday.

Work, otoh, has my crank level dialled right up today. Clashing with some poor assumptions and lack of communication (imo) around the scope of this job. I'm used to writing my own quotes for these kinds of things and having full control over managing client expectations including reinterpreting their own terribly written scope. Now I'm spending much much more time than I expected on this... well, it's not my fault or problem at this point, it'll take what it does to meet the scope as directed, and if the company bears a loss on it that's up to them to be tighter about quoting 😇

I can't wait to get back to my usual role because I still resent this side of the job... Luckily this is maybe the second time I've had to do it in nearly a year.

I have boilt the rice for dinner in lemon ginger tea. It is good.

what an awesome idea
I have a rice cooker, I suppose I could put a tea bag in there along with the water and rice

thinking about getting my master bedroom windows tinted. Its only a problem this time of year and despite blockout blinds you still get a tone of light. Cant stick the curtains down cause cats love hanging out on the window sills. Anyone done tinting or found a better solution?

We have external roller shutters. They let in 0 light when fully closed.
- This is the way. No they are not trendy, but for keeping light out and keeping heat out in summer they can’t be beat.
- Oh man I love those things! Would love to get but MIL 🚫
- I like these, dont think the mrs is a huge fan though. and I'm tipping it might be a bit more expensive than tinting.
I've only done privacy frosting before but the application process is the same. It's a very easy DIY job and the film is inexpensive on ebay and I'm sure other places. All this to say you could definitely set aside an hour or two to DIY it and see the result.

Got lunch out with a friend today, just getting breaks and a coffee right now.

We’re having Vietnamese for lunch today, I’m tempted to go for the beef pho, half thinking Bahn Mi but I’m not sure if it’s any good at that place.

Anyway looks like I lucked out and won’t be getting petrol at a lower price.

What did you end up deciding?!
- Sadly the place we wanted to go to had closed down so we went Japanese.
  I had a tempura seafood udon.
  Now I’m out having a coffee with my friend in a cafe.
Try the banh mi!
- Jury is still out at the moment.
- Place closed down :(

I have an assignment due tomorrow, and this is where my bouncing off the walls energy is going.

maybe it's not men per se, mr seagoon is awesome at looking after himself , me, not so much
i think it may be family circumstances more than anything
Just fyi - watch out for him raising the dose of the “melatonin” if it isn’t working. As vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin and taken too much or too often can result in toxicity.
You know a very stubborn person might do it so be careful. Edit: Sorry, he already has raised the dose of the actual melatonin to three times the recommended amount. It isn’t safe to do that with vitamin D. https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2022-07-06/vitamin-d-overdosing-toxic-effect-how-much-should-you-take/101205656
The melatonin would just get less effective with overuse and potentially cause rebound insomnia
- That's the thing, we only put like 3 vitamin D pills in the container. And no melatonin.
  Thanks for the link :)

Got myself a flirc. My god, this is a tasty tasty bitch.

Catching up on my 1001 Albums to listen to before you die list....and I could really do with much less Tom Waits.

I get music is subjective, and I can see how his stuff is appealing...but critically acclaimed?

Music critics need to get their shit together.

He's a take it or leave it artist generally...but you can't walk past this banger
- Okay you got me with that one.
- That’s brilliant! 😂
I liked his album Real Gone so I grabbed a bestof and pretty much hated the whole thing.
- Just finished listening to Rain Dogs. I didn't hate it, but didn't love it.
  Happy to skip any future albums that may be recommended.
  CW Stoneking is much better.

i think i got a very mild back strain today, all i did was stand up straight and try to pull my gut in , i tried not to laugh

i'll be ok. just tired from such a busy day

good night, sweet dreams everyone 😘😘😘

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Here's one for @Catfish@aussie.zone

I want one.

Wow! And @Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone I believe
So many tiny curves scare me, but so tempting.! And the lack of blathering on makes it even better. Will be watching more of this person's work.
- Yeah, something to aspire to. Her and Cornelius just fill me with awe.
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You know what really sucks?

When you're a certain level of chronically ill/disabled you have a lot of time on your hands. But then you're too unwell to actually do much of substance with it, or even concentrate enough for learning >:( It's not restful or easy at all and neither is it fruitful.

It's like that guy who broke his glasses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last