Daily Discussion Thread: Fri 22 Sep 2023

Whoohoo! MRI results came back and the neurologist says all clear. Well, his exact words were "there's nothing major" but I'll take that as a good thing. Also my psych appointment for the ADHD assessment has been brought forward from November to next week. I hope they confirm it because it would explain a hell of a lot and I can get finally get treatment.

I cried when I got my ADHD diagnosis. And my psychiatrist was like "don't cry!" And I'm like "happy tears!". It's such a great feeling! Though of course, you have to grapple with the idea that "oh my god this explains everything. I didn't have to struggle through life!" And then you get sad again.

colander kitties

bonus cuteness

How do 2 cats fit in the one colander???? One of the mysteries of the universe. Or possibly cats have a portal to another dimension that they can tuck inconvenient limbs into on a temporary basis. I am also curious about the portholes on the fridge.
- More like how did they stay in the colander? Cats are liquid
- the wall between this dimension and the cat dimension is very thin on my land
  magnetic spice jars on the fridge
if i fits i sits
Please continue posting pics of your beautiful cats 😻
Omg SO cute!! The ears! The tails! ALL OF THEM!!
SQUISH THAT CAT
- But not through the colander …

- nice light with the doggo this afternoon

Edit - some idiot has brought a cat to the dog park on a lead

Hehehe. It's like he's waiting for a lift or hitch hiking.
lovely photo

Bill and Ted report.

Ted is a very happy cat and when not running around exploring he's chirping saying "Hi everyone, what's up?" or "Is it dinner yet?" or sitting in a sunny spot being chill or sleeping in his little bed.

Bill is not so happy but will slowly settle down.

I'll try to get some more pics today.

You'll need to get or make a suitable hat for Ted - like Bill's dinosaur hat.

Fuck it. The heaters going on. This is ridiculous.

I’m ahead of you there
Same. It's Friday night, the one night we most deserve to be warm and cozy.
I've even lit the fire. This mornings cold toes have frightened me into it.
- Only reason mine wasn't lit was I was feeling under the weather and crawled back into bed.
  It's set up and ready to go for tomorrow.
Oodie is on.
Heater has been on half the day

It sounds like I'm going to have to break lease and move.

Housemate is not dealing well with uni, and keeps ranting about wanting to fight someone. When I told them to turn the tv down from arsehole levels at 6am, he started punching up the clothes horse.

Any chance of evicting HIM? Sounds like he's the problem, not you.
There are DV break lease options. Not sure if they apply here or not.
RUN!
Get to da choppa
Or literally anywhere else safe

Good news everyone the ageratum survived the night in the fridge.

The flowers for the wedding on Sun. is sorted hooray

cool, ageratum is a lovely flower, it has a very nice blue that goes well with pink and cream
( am I the only one who read Bottom in Farnsworth's voice? ...lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxoNhqmEsnY )
- They seem to look quite nice next to the cherry blossom.
  The neighbour has kindly offered a bunch of stuff from her nice garden too so it's all looking very doable :)
  Just a shame the roses aren't out yet. Would've flexed HARD with the just joey.

going to the state library to smash out some assignments I've been woefully avoidant of all week...... hurray

Good luck. Currently in assignment purgatory.

PSA: Mernda & Hurstbridge lines part suspended due to fatality incident at Jolimont Station. Buses replacing trains to Clifton Hill, then delayed services on both lines. Best find another way to get home tonight. Was on the station at the time and saw the incident. Not nice at all.
Hopefully will be fixed by the end of the football match at MCG, but don't bet on it.

That’s awful, poor person. And poor you - are you ok?
- No problem. Not my first rodeo. Will be doing self-care all the same. Thanks anyway, as I have to admit it was a bit of a shock to witness. But the cops were great - and they referred me to a trauma survival service which surprised me more than I thought it would, so to speak.
I wondered. That would normally be my way home
- Strong recommend for choosing an alternative method of transport if possible.

That little ventolin-adjacent pill last night successfully reset my lungs with no observable side effects.
I am coughing like a normal person again.

I’m so glad you’re feeling better
- Thank you!

I crash napped and went out late again only to catch another snail creeping towards my seedlings. He mysteriously became airborne.

Also the internet capitalism insanity continues and I’m in the mood to rant.

Edit: Oh yeah, the Pantone thing happened a year ago. It’s not new. I just found out about it

My parents bought me a delightfully funny present for the new fourby.

Edit - no idea why it flipped the image, also no idea why I can't flip it back..

Love Glenn Robbins 🤣

Well my day has started out badly. Was rushing out and turned out of my car port too sharply and fast and ended up damaging my rear car door and scraping it along brick work.

Fml

Dug deep enough to peel off paint and even warp the end of the rear door and the chassis a little.

Car will function still and not sure if the damage will cause any ill effects.

God I hate my life and this hurts so bad

Dab some nail polish on any scratches deep enough to reach the metal to prevent rust.
- I rang one of my friends to ask. Going to see if I can get one the closest shade to my paint
- Nail polish? I don’t know anything about nail polish.
  What do you suggest I get?
- I think I might be scared of doing more damage to my car using that combination of its strong enough to strip paint.
Arrrghhhhh. Car pain is the worst pain. 😞 my heart hurt for you just reading that. I hope the rear door damage won't be too bad in the long run
- Got some long nasty marks and dented a little.
  Definitely hurts the heart. As long as the car still runs I suppose but still 😢

I am such a nong! Didn't set up a reminder to chuck a cursory amount to grow my savings balance for two whole months and missed out on like $400 of the bonus interest which is why I signed up for this account in the first place 😭 I could've really used that! Talk about stupid tax...

...oh well, can't turn back time, have put in a reminder now; I'll get this month's at least. After that, one time chunk coming out to buffer me for the rest of this year, and every month after I'll be trying to get as much interest as I can out of the remainder.

Can you set automatic payments?
- I don't know why I didn't before, because all my bills etc are automated, but I've put in a reminder atm instead of an auto payment because while bills need to come out on a set day and are stuck in a separate account, I kinda want to make use of the flexibility with the bonus interest transfer since sometimes I've juggled things around a bit and don't want the transfer accidentally coming out of the wrong account... okay it isn't a really good excuse. I'll just chuck in an auto payment but ALSO a reminder a day before so that I don't accidentally go into overdraft

Happy Friday. Cheers munchkins 🍺

Cheers! 🍻
- Cheers mate 🍺
Sent off the email I've been dreading sending all day! Cheers indeed. Time for that nice falafel bake thing I treat myself to sometimes. Bit cold out there.
- Cheers. It is a bit cold tonight. What is a falafel bake? Pics if possible please.
Cheers!
- Cheers buddy.🍺 What's for midnight snacks? Spring rolls, party pies, chilled flowers?
cin-cin 🥂
- Cheers luv 🍺
🍷happy Friday!
- Cheers chook 🍺
Cheers
Happy Friday 😢
I really need a drink to drown my sorrows but I lack bottles of anything.
- Cheers buddy. I hope things get better for you next week.
Beer o'clock, confirmed. 🍻
- Sure is. 🍺
🖤🥃
- Cheers mate 🍺

Have done about 80m of the new watering system and just hit it with 600kPa kapow mfer! Take that!

It took it.. that's great. Starting to feel a bit more confident it'll be at worst a moderate to good design.

But hearing water course through them pipes was satisfying.

All i need now are the pressure reducers / backlfow, filters, air + flush valve thingos and that's the first 1/3rd done.

it's a real "Hoodie and loud punk rock" kind of mood today.

Morning everyone.

I have no interest in knowing how you’re all going to vote. I won’t ask that.

But there is a pretty good short primer on Aunty ABC today about what the constitution is and where the Voice would go in it if it passes

Great share, thank you.
This is super helpful because even I just have no idea what is being asked and I'm pretty politically minded.

If you choose to talk about something to someone that they don't necessarily care about, the whole subtext is sharing how you're feeling, right?

Ok I didn't phrase that very well. What I don't like is how I listen to people's shit and am patient with them, even if I'm not necessarily interested in the topic, yet other people wouldn't do the same for me.

Is it not a basic human decency thing to do?

I'll answer because I think I'm the only one awake. If you listen to their drivel and they don't listen to your drivel then they are narcissistic cunts. Full stop.
- 🤷‍♀️ Drivel is where the real conversation happens.
- Wow, I honestly thought that I was just a super patient person with people and that what I had to say was stupid or didn't matter.
I’ll chime in too.
It would be pretty selfish of them if you were to listen to them and they wouldn’t want to listen to you because it doesn’t interest them.
It would be a decent thing to do for other people if you had to do it but not everyone’s decent about it.
Seems few people have the ability or wish to put up with any mildly uncomfortable feelings or situations.
For many decency isn't even something they think about if they are going to be mildly put out in any way.
And not everyone has the kindness or the patience .
So a bit of philosophy is that when helping someone it's meant to be done without debt, other wise you're not really helping you're just doing business. - A few stoics have this view.
However if your friends are simply taking when they need and never giving when you need, that is probably something worth addressing as it'll eat at the friendship. It's certainly eaten away at a bunch of my relationships over the years. I feel I spent my 20/30s trying to be a helpful compassionate person, but if I try to put that on a balance, people helped themselves to my helpfulness and compassion. When I had problems - depression, car accident, back injury, eviction, medical complications - I didn't hear from anybody. After all that I stopped trying to help people, I stopped working as a therapist, I gave up on people. After A FEW YEARS I started to get the occasional low-effort text message about missing me. It didn't make me feel like resuming my efforts as a useful person. It felt like they missed my efforts and not my person hood.
And on talking drivel: “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human” - Fyodor Dostoevsky.

- I think someone's opinion on this gives you good idea about what sort of person they are.

I’m goofy all the way, refuse to believe in the other way.
I was enlightened by this post. I always thought I was looking at a goofy bird face!
- Me too!

Found myself on the “Isle of the Dead” today

Was it interesting? Didn’t make it to the actual island last time I was there. Port Arthur is a fascinating place.
What else are you checking out in Tassie?
- Cracker of a day weather wise. Tour guide told tales of various people buried on the island. The whole area was a fascinating place in general. My first time there. We have a limited time in Hobart so booked various dinners, Salamanca tomorrow, MONA Sunday, taking care of personal business in the area. Just a long weekend really and been really great so far.😊

I just did party pies in the microwave for 4 minutes and then in the airfryer for 5 minutes. Cuts the time in half. Work smarter not harder people.

The funny thing is yous probably already do that. I am slow. Hahaha.

Oh and they turned out fabulous.

I quite enjoy normal meat pies microwaved and a bit soft.
Is that strange?
- No not at all. I'd rather a soft pie over a hard crust pie any day.

This is ‘use up leftover veggies’ and tofu dinner. Roasted, with some chili, Cajun spice and soy sauce to serve. Very tasty!

Tastes better than it looks, lol

That looks very pretty and I can see my mate zucchini there. 👍

Fuck I accidentally posted in the brisbane one but I deletoed that..

But here's what I was hoping to say.

I'm getting a potao cake today and it's stoic af considering what this w/e is looking like.

edit: and the ageratum still looking okay in the fridge so I think that's an okay flower

Indeed...

I will not have any caffeine after 12 noon ever again unless I desperately need to

I is going caffeinateded all day for like the next three days and then think about it.
- We'll be here when you start hallucinating...

It does seem morning runs are better. Who would've thought eh?... definitely not me. Just a shorter 3.8km this morning on account of having a meeting soon and needing quite a bit of time to stop sweating. Doggo back asleep.

On hold to Cennalink. Get your bets down as to how long I'll be on hold this time around.
Edit: 40 mins plus the five minutes on hold while they entered my deets.

39 minutes the first time, then you will get hung up on. Then 85 minutes.
- And when they do answer they'll tell you the opposite of what they told you last time.
- Just about but this time I didn't get hung up on (unlike last time when the line dropped out mid-call).
Approximately forever

Scheduled rest day in the exercise program today. It goes 3 days of exercise and 1 day off in a repeating cycle. However, and I'm not sure how long ago I started doing this, maybe a couple of weeks, but I started doing standing bicycle crunches whenever I'm waiting for the Minipeelers to answer a question I've asked. It goes something like, "What do you guys want for breakfast?" commence crunches while waiting for answer Child answers eventually and I cease crunches. I sometimes get quite a few in before they answer! They found it funny at first but now it's normalised. Also, I didn't realise how many questions I ask my kids!

What is a standing bicycle crunch?
- You stand with your feet shoulder width apart and your hands clasped behind your head (or resting on your shoulders, with your left hand on your left shoulder and right hand in the right shoulder). You bring your left knee up as you bring your right elbow down to meet it, then straighten up again. Then you bring your right knee up as you bring your left elbow down to meet it, and straighten up again. You don't have to actually touch knee to elbow if it's too hard (but it will get easier), the focus is mostly on bringing the knees up as high as is comfortable and creating the stomach crunch with your elbow and upper body movement. If you're doing it with your hands clasped behind your head, remember to not actually pull on your neck during the exercise. I find them to be easy and effective.
Oh that's such a good idea. I try and do things like squats while I'm brushing my teeth, but I like the idea of standing crunches while waiting for stuff.
- I wish I could do more squats, but half a lifetime of lifting in the workplace with my knees means squats kinda hurt after a while so I do minimal amounts of wimpy not very low squats.

- movie night

Lunch!

https://imgur.com/a/fcfJxjt

ID: grilled ham & cheese with hot sauce

I believe those have earned the right to be called Croque Monsieurs. Elevated. Elegant. Extravagant.
- merci beaucoup!

Welp doctors are done and I was right I now have tendonopathy in my wrist. I actually hate being hypermobile.

Friday night conundrum - fish & chips OR pizza? Just don't feel like unfreezing something.

Fish and chips.
Either one is winner.
Fish and chips on pizza.
- The mind boggles! Could be worth a try though. Hrmmm, I wonder if my local would do this ....

trained my puppers to swing through the trees like tarzan:

https://youtu.be/7UqP4gw01Yc

https://youtu.be/2zdingmC61U

SPUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDD. I went past the bar a coupla hours back and saw a beautiful woman with longish blonde hair getting chatted up by a few guys. Was considering calling out Spud but didn't want to embarrass you. 🤭 True story.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck

I take it you didn’t want the pies to win?
I have mixed feelings too. Hehe
- I don't want to say anything that might incriminate myself. Rrrrrrr

Had a lovely dinner with with sister in laws extended fam bam.

They all flew out here for the big day on Sunday and it was a very good night. They are loose units all things considered was a lot of fun.

eyeing off a mesh system....jfc is there any of them out there that don't require you tying your internal goddamn network to an outside third party just to configure the goddamn things? At this rate I'll stick to my WAPs and individual SSIDs

I've been looking at them too despite the fact I don't even have any control over our network and already have a whole drawer full of networking bots and pieces

After the series of big days this week I really just don't want to... do... anything today. But I know that could be the beginning of a spiral that I'll feel shitty about later. Alright. I'll ~~finish unpacking my bags~~ (done), and start clearing out my work devices. I REALLY need to flash a new ROM on my personal phone, I've been procrastinating on that for years. Might not get all the way but if I can download the ROM and find the instructions on backing everything up, that's a start. And finally, I gotta set up a withdrawal from my savings to cover my rent and bills till the end of the year.

E: between last week and this, air purifiers have already crept up in price (or rather, old deals are ending). Gonna grab one asap.

- chicken Kiev's, garlic mushrooms, sweet potato mash, and butter carrots

N -1.5 hours to the preliminary final. I feel sick

1000 korok seeds!

What is korok?
- Collectables in the 2 recent legend of Zelda games.
  Gives you a joke reward for hunting all 1000 of them.
- Sorry, got distracted by Futurama. Korok seed collection is a non-essential side quest in Legend of Zelda: breath of the wild and it's sequel Tears of the Kingdom. Former has six hundred hidden in weird and wonderful places all about the map. Latter has a full thousand.

Just stumbled across an insta account I didn’t know I needed. Pebble of the Day. You’re welcome. https://www.instagram.com/pebbleoftheday/?hl=en

Imagine working until you're 92. And then only semi-retiring. The money can't be worth it.

It’s not the money. It’s the power.
if their main love is money, power and hate then they would think it is worth it

Get your dirty bird while you can - upcoming chicken shortage likely

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Went to Love Lust Lost last night and while I really have not much of an idea of what was happening, I absolutely loved it. Such a fun experience!

Not excited for my doc appointment because I have a feeling I have tendonopathy in my wrist. Hopefully because I've gone to the doctor earlier than I did with my leg that it'll be fine, because yeah I can't remember if I said it but I am probably going to have to do surgery on my leg it's just not getting any better.

Juicy footy game on tv.

1 point difference with the Pies in front.

1:37min left

I've got the cricket on now.

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Whatever Chef thinks would go with my weird new tea. It’s Cherry, cocoa, chilli.
- 🧈🥚🍞🍯🥓
Please feed me individual grapes floating in a pool of chilled champagne
- 🍇✂️
  🌊🧊🍾
Morning chef. Tuna mornay today please
- 🐟🌽🧀🍝
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, roasted or stir fried according to preference. And some coffee please.
- 🪿🌕
  🪽
  🔥
  ☕️

Here's a little tip for you gravy fiends like myself. When you make packet instant gravy because you can't be bothered making the real thing add your drippings to the mix. If you don't have any drippings add a bit of milk, just a dash. You'll look at packet gravy differently I promise. (I use Green's gravy granules).