Discussion Thread 🎒 Sunday 6 July 2025

Ah, nice

looks like heaven 😊
- Close 🙂 North Stradbroke Island

The gangs all here.

Gotta admit getting squeaked at impatiently by the kitten is pretty funny.

She's already learned how to be a cat.

Did you get tail hugs today?

Not the most glamorous photo but I'm pretty happy with how this batch of red beans tastes - would've diced the celery and green pepper smaller but it was good enough considering how little space I have to work with in this wretched kitchen.

Making green rice in the rice cooker wasn't a great idea, I've got green flecks everywhere to clean. But I got there in the end. Just waiting for the rice to rest and dinner is up!

Nice 👍
As long as it’s yummy!
Sully’s on tv tonight. I think I have my evening movie set.
- It's a good film even if you know how it turns out. The NTSB is unreasonably villainish though, even the real life people involved disagreed vehemently with that bit
yum 🤤

Beep Beep 🚚
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Can I please have the last two slices of someone's birthday cake?
- 🍰🍰
Force is giving off major 'waste not-want not' vibes and I don't want to miss out on the zeitgeist. Could I please have the last two slices of someone's pizza, and coffee.
- 🍕🍕☕️
Imaginary crumpet please with peanut butter.
- 💭💭🥜🔨
an apple burrito and a coffee please chef
- 🍎🌯☕️

I applied for a bunch of jobs, so I treated myself to the last two DLCs for Cult of the Lamb that I was missing. Gosh I love this game, the sound design and soundtrack are amazing, and the gameplay is toight! ^{like a toiger}

Is any of the dlc content more than just costumes?

Dream:

I was trying to climb this roof and no matter what, couldn't do it. Was terrified of letting go and jumping back to the ground.

Eventually ran out of energy and fell. Turned out it was a negligible fall.

Ended up just walking around to get where I wanted to go instead.

Seems allegorical.

Edit: I think I figured it out. This is about performing again. I don't need to write new material which I've been struggling with.

Covers will do just to get out there again.

Reminds me of a line:

"... I've been trying to dig my way out of the ocean, and punch a hole in the sky.."

Old manager tried to make me look bad again. I delivered the greatest possible fisting I could whilst remaining within the boundaries of being professional.

What the actual fuck is wrong with this dude?! How old is he?
- He's 55.
  His problem is that I showed him up. The team did an incredible job this year, almost double what they did last year and he can't hack that someone is doing a better job.
  I've got a meeting tomorrow with my new manager who's slt in the morning so it'll be good to have a chat.
  Because later in the day, I have my 3 month "Check in" which sadly includes the old manager.
- absolutely no comprehension of how other people actually see him
- Here's my response

Took the boys on the train to the Preston Market. I'm impressed with the place. I'm surprised I've never been here before. I've lived around Preston but never near or in Preston before, so that's probably why. But I should have checked it out sooner

I suggested Preston market but everyone else went "nah" and we decided to try Pipeworks market for a change. I've never been there. Jesus Christ what a shithole.
- I haven't been to pipeworks yet but good to know. Preston has enough mix of new and old to feel like both an establish and trendy new market

Yo. Today is a crumpet day, which brings me a small and private joy

Team crumpet. I had mine with maple syrup.

This guy has caught the DT vibe, and he's not even from Melbourne! Inconceivable!

goon bag surfing

I am going to Hobbiton with Miss Seagoon tomorrow. She is so excited even tho she has been before and she said she doesn't know a bigger fan than me.

We are going on the tour and then having a banquet/second breakfast. Staying in Hamilton, having a bit of a look around then coming home to up north.

We are also looking into going to the northern most tip of NZ later in the week.

In malacology news I found the lip and centre of a triton, a most sought after shell that you often see in museums.

I woke up early this morning and had a look at the stars, so many and so bright. It's nice after so many years of living in the city to see stars.

The cloud over Bream Bay was spectacular , just one long cloud.

I have now collapsed and removed sticky tape from the boxes I am planning to use as a weed barrier in the garden. Unfortunately I also discovered some more polystyrene, so I've had to throw that in the bin instead of being able to recycle it. Fortunately I don't have much other rubbish as the bin is now almost full. The next step is to start on assembling shelves and trying to get a bit of order into the chaos in the garage.

Miss Meow came into the garage for a bit of an explore - she scaled the heights of the van, had a look around and then realised it was actually pretty boring in there and went back inside to the couch.

Lugged something heavy (first mistake) to somewhere I forgot to check was open (second mistake) and now my arms are so jelly from the two-way trip that I can barely lift this cup of tea to my mouth.

Getting out of bed may be the achievement for the day. The body, it aches.

NGV today?

Seems a nice day for some Impressionists

if miss seagoon is up to it we go to the beach later, I can see a beach from my seat at my desk 😃

Ordered new lenses for my prescription sunnies. $400.

Ouch.

Recently tried on some (i think) fancy photochromic type things and the difference was fairly amazing. Wasn't any magnification just clearer. Heard how much they cost and nup, I'll live in my little blurry world for now.
- I had photochromic lenses for a while. They change very slowly when it's cold, nearly blinding you when you walk back inside on a cold day, and they do not get dark enough to be good at being sunglasses. Leaves you wondering what the point is.
- Believe me man, if I hadn't had my eyes checked like, 10 years ago on a whim, Id be happy in my little blur lol

Super early night. Up at 6:30am and Im too mentally tired to be of much use.

Goodnight everyone, have a great night ❤️

Pondering spinning up an au-specific home automation comm. anyone interested?

I don't even know what that is.
so tell me about it 😊
- Home automation is basically smarthome stuff. Except the comm i'm thinking of would be more focused on home assistant, which is an os that lets you create an in-house server for everything. So no using google or tapo or eight billion other apps because omg device need internets, you can cut them off, they're locked into your house and controlled by you.

I should be doing chores but Melbcat and I are having a lie in. She’s being the little spoon between me and the computer.

I did throw some washing on when I had to get up so that counts!

Edit: Also I cracked the doors to air the house and reseeded some of the cat grass. Need to buy more seeds

aw🥰
- Sometimes she even helps me with the computer. So it’s a polite wrestling for control of the keyboard. She’s a great typer

another slow day here

I am making sure i stay caffeinated ☕😊

When are you flying back to Home?
- The 16th in the evening 😊

Sunshine is out, it looks like a beautiful morning today!

I have succeeded in unloading everything from the van, but still need to move some of the stuff out of the way so that I can move the van out of the garage. I have one set of shelves up and a rough plan of where I want all of the shelves to go, it's just going to be a bit of a hassle moving everything out of the way so I can put the shelves up and then put the things I've moved onto them. Hopefully next weekend the weather will be ok and I can either move a bit of stuff temporarily outside or move the van out the front for a little while to give me room to work. I'll also need to make a trip to the tip to get rid of a few things like an old gas bottle and tin of petrol.

Instead of jambalaya I decided to try red beans (with rice) - utilising the original recipe being something you can cook and cook for hours on a low flame. These beans have been on the stove for like 5 hours and I'm now adding them to the sauteed vegetables and spices and vegan chorizo for another 1-2 hours while I faff around with other shit, like making "green rice" with poblano chillies and some parsley but none of the oil, aromatics and other usual stuff. Let's see if it can be done in the rice cooker.

when's dinner?