Discussion Thread 🌞 Thursday 19th day of June 2025

Thankfully ol' girl's op went mainly well yesterday. Hopefully moving out of ICU back into the ward today or tm. Knew it was somewhat major surgery but not really ICU.

Probs going into care/rehab afterards for a bit which will piss her off. With any luck might be able to bring her in some proper soup in a week or 2.

So bit of a waiting game to see what recovery is like and go from there.

so many hugs , I hope she gets better very soon
Glad to hear it went well, I imagine the recovery will be tough on all of you!
Good luck to your mum!
I'm glad to hear it went well mate ❤️
All the best to your mum - I hope she has a speedy recovery

I have an afternoon appointment so I bravely decided to try and work on my slides from home.

This is how that's going...

Oh dear, I can see productivity levels dropping to an all time low.
- It's been two hours and I've only just started doing anything relevant. Meanwhile she is constantly headbonking my hands when I try to type. And curling herself up into a different but equally comfy position every 10 minutes. I walked into this...
Aww. Le purr
- I got about 60% done before it was time to go and that involved regretfully relocating the cat about 10 times in half an hour. I wish I could tell her I love the attention, just not right now!
  I will try and finish the rest when I get back and then watch something on my laptop so she can nestle on me at length.
What an absolute cutie!
Gorgeous little princess. Melbcat is a bit heavy for me to do this but maybe next time an improvised baby wrap might hold Sox close and stop the headbonking of your hands

trying to eat a tuna sammich. The kittens are massing. They have taken the kitchen and the hallway. I have barred my office, but cannot hold them for long. The paws scritch at the wood....mews. mews in the hall. I cannot get out. I gobble mouthful after mouthful until my chest chokes with bread. A bell rings behind me....I cannot get out....They are coming.

This is why you always have an extra tin for them
Light the beacons and Rohan will answer!!!

My resignation has been officially announced, so now it’s real. My manager has checked if I’m still comfortable with the decision and it’s a resounding hell yes.

Now I just need to somehow stay awake after a lunch wrap that turned out way too greasy and heavy.

Congrats!

How much bacon it took much bacon if adding to a bolognaise sauce that will contain chicken?

ham is fine, but bacon?
chicken?
( it's in my traditional italain cookbook )
- Well let’s just say I’m using what I have at the moment.
I reckon a small amount of bacon just to add a bit of depth to the flavour. I wouldn't fry it too much beforehand, just a little. A chicken based Bol can be a bit meh (or some I've had were), so adding just a little bacon or something cured and strong tasting is a good choice. Maybe I'm just biased because I love the richness of beef.
I don't know, but 85 Italian Nonnas just fainted
- Bacon no no?
- It's blasphemy
As much as you like.
Yes

screams

it be like that.

Finally feeling human enough to try one of the new toys I got before The Crud hit. Very much room for improvement, but I think we shall be friends.

They look awesome.
My pic of the bunch would be the ones with strawberry jam.
- Thanks. It's melted smashed up boilt lolly. Which turn out to be a bit hard to find
rawr

Just got home from work. EOFY sucks the big one. Kill me now. (after I've had this glass of wine that magically leapt out of the fridge and into my hand) Really should eat something. Later.

And old boss messaged me with a link to a a position he's advertising. Same salary as I am on 2 year contract vs 3 years that I'm on right now.

I'm not a huge fan of the new workplace, but cannot imagine working for him again. Top bloke, great for a chat and a beer, but absolutely shocking manager.

My message will be as follows 'Thanks for thinking of me with this role, however I'm enjoying this new job and want to see how it pans out. Maybe in another year or so'.

Work dream. Lame.

The worst. Hope you can daydream at work to compensate 😁

I stopped on the way home and got some Maccas for dinner, ordered chicken nuggets so they would be easy to eat while driving. I received chicken wings instead, which failed the easy to eat test but were very tasty. I'm not sure how the staff in those places can handle busy periods, it was absolute chaos in the kitchen there.

I also got some petrol - drove in the wrong side of the pump on autopilot, but remembered before I got out and did a loop around to the right side.

The pets are very glad I am home (and that they finally got dinner). I put away the frozen stuff I brought up, and Miss Meow took the opportunity to explore the garage and van a bit while I had the door open. I also put out the bins, the new pet fencing I put up worked well - I can reach the bins easily over the fence, and don't have to worry about Mr Woof while I have the side gate open putting them out.

Are wings more expensive than nuggets? If so that’s a win!
How are miss meow and mr woof going at the new place?

I'm back at my old place today. It looks really tatty without the furniture hiding things. It's amazing how dirty walls can get. Vacuuming is improving things slightly, but it really needs a good renovation (if it's not knocked down entirely).

I've dismantled Miss Meow's old cat tree, when the weather warms up I'll use the pieces to make her an outdoor tree in the covered area.

Next main task is a quick cleanup of my nasty carpet stain. It was caused by a dented tin of plums fermenting and spraying juice everywhere. But it looks like a murder scene.

That’s an incredible improvement, nice work! I really didn’t think you’d be getting that stain out
- I didn't think it would come out that well either, it seems like the colour didn't actually soak into the carpet fibres so it was able to actually wash out.
That’s a big difference, what did you use?
- Bissel carpet cleaner and lots of water.
Whoa. Tell us your secret!
- Carpet cleaner and lots of water. I actually forgot to pack the cleaning fluids so that's just using hot water. Going over it with proper cleaning stuff would probably get the last bit out. I'm surprised it came out as well as it did.

Need to summon the will to cook so good scraps don’t stink up the bin for a week.

I don’t feel so well today and tired as well.

A fresh, warm cinnamon scroll for late breakfast. No regrets.

The sugar & caffeine high might get me into my work day, we'll see.

Yum. I'm having a lentil dahl pie for early lunch.
Coffee & mini jam donuts over here, mmm. Definitely powering me for the morning!

No, brain, you do not need to investigate whether computers still need disk defragmentation…

SSDs - no. Standard hard drives depends. IIRC (from when this thought struck me and I could not resist the rabbit hole) Linux ext type file system doesn't really need it and Mac/windows do it automatically. So unless your disk is nearly full and / or you are doing something weird it is a thing of the past...
Such a lovely thing though...all those bits sorting themselves out...
- I used to love watching the graphic as all the bits moved along, and then happiness if the computer worked better afterwards

Had a bit of a snack and a glass or two of water.

Feeling. A little bit better now.

Need to keep drinking water just incase I’ve got something to flush it out and I need plenty of rest.

Help! I am trying to write a job application for a secondment position and it’s like pulling teeth. Haven’t written to selection criteria for years so am very rusty, and the procrastination is kicking in. So far have called Medicare and done other life admin, and the vacuuming is looking tempting.

It sucks but if you look up the STAR method it will give you some structure. Then you can just fill in the blanks instead of writing things from scratch.
I also saved all my selection criteria responses in a master document so I could just roll them out for other applications since so many positions ask for the same thing
- Thanks, that’s a good tip. I know I can do all the things, but somehow writing it down formally is difficult
Put the selection criteria and some of your key words into chat gpt. Don't use what it produces word for word, but let it help you build your application. I hadn't written an application in 20+ years but it got me the position.
- Oh, good idea. Chat gpt definitely writes better than me, lol. It’s been nearly that long between job applications for me, too. I’d like something different but there’s a lot of work involved in changing jobs and I’m very out of practice

28 Years Later releases today 🧟‍♂️

I can't wait to read all about it, but I definitely can't watch it! I hope you love it!
I still need to watch the first two but my friends are already buying tickets for 28 years. I'll just have to piece it all together

Poor norflands just can't catch a break this year huh

We just need floods and pestilence and my bingo card will be full
- Shhhh!
  knocks on wood
- It's just next to Darebin Creek and well, the pestilence was in our living memory, so let's not tempt fate...
- what has happened now?
Visiting Northland is a game of roulette - will I be stabbed, suffer smoke inhalation, or get run over by a rampaging car? Maybe all 3 if visiting on the same day?

Recycling question.

Do youse guys remove packing tape from cardboard before putting the cardboard in the recycle bin?

I always do but it seems a lot of work.

I try and take off as much as I can.
- okay

After a pretty busy work week things have settled down today. Managed to knock off my major tasks and it's halfway through morning.

Hopefully people will forget about me and leave me alone for the rest of the week.

Motivation levels are slow today, only just managed to get started on work after sitting around for an hour.

It's going to be a slow day.

Also unlucky today, have to cover a duty at lunch.

Today I visited the centrelink office for the first time in 18 years. I walked in and froze. It's changed so much and it's quiet which was a contrast to the last time when some cunt was having a melt down, throwing chairs and punches and the cops were called.

Instantly thought of the old centrelink in fitzroy
I think they prefer us to do everything on line now
medicare is the same, they do not like walk ins
- Yeah. I did everything online but I had to go in to show ID.
It was meltdowns and yelling or people crying back in the day at my local one
- Yes! I remember it as a combo of an airport waiting lounge and a rough pub.

I like to play the same music when I do particular art or study. It puts me in the frame of mind I want.

I listen to Morricone when I do chinese calligraphy. Interstellar is going to be my new computer studies music.

Super busy day today, so many little jobs but important jobs, more painting, I want to study, I must make a list

might finally finish unpacking my stuff 😹

( I think that 2 hour kinda bush walk wrecked me yesterday afternoon )

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cup of tea and porridge please chef
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Chocolate yogo and Mac and cheese please 🤤
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Coddled egg and buttered soldiers please
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1 more sleep until I can set up the drum kit. Come onnnnnnnnnn

yayyyyy 🙂

I miss the sound of the early morning recycling bin chimes. 🍾 🍾 🍾

Ha. Cartoon characters are very satisfying to draw and colour.

Oh wow!

Pretend you're a teacher or a lecturer in a subject you're passionate about, and someone says, "What's the point in learning about this? It's so boring and not useful!"

What would you say? Wrong answers only.

Can you put your hands on your head? Now stay like that until you learn some manners you little prick.
- This is the best one.
Be that as it may it’s important to learn.
If not then you’re welcome to leave. (Especially if it’s at uni)
"That explains why you're here then"
Yet here I am. Having to listen to you.