Discussion Thread 🪁 Monday 7 July 2025

As there are so many cat lovers here I will introduce you to Kat, a stray of 9 years.

Just remembered Peter Dutton will never been Prime Minister and it really warmed my heart

That's always a good fact to remind ourselves of during these dark times, I appreciate the positive energy
This an onion at him 🧅
- Yes I know, when onions and potatoes collide chips happen

My real life birthday.

Will be a quiet day as everyone is away and also my car rego has expired but hope to renew it later this week so I can go out.

Happy birthday!!! I hope you can treat yourself to some game time at home at least. And the weather today has been gorgeous.
- Thanks!
  Been playing all day, might need to take a break soon.
Happy birthday wishes to you!
- Thank you!
Happy Birthday D. 🎂
- Thank you!
Happy birthday 🎂
- Thank you!
Much safe cake for you 😺
- I think I’m finally going to do the berry strudel tonight.
Happy birthday! Enjoy the sunshine 🌞 🎂
- I had a nap on the recliner with the sun coming down.
Happy birthday!! Enjoy the quiet, hope you can do something lovely for yourself! :)
- Video games and movies and tv all day me thinks!
Happy birthday :)
- Thanks buddy!
Happy belated birthday from me Duenan, I hope you had a great day!
Happy birthday! 🎂
- Thank you!
Happy birthday!!
- Thank you!
Happy birthday!
Happy bday 🎈🎂
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Happy Birthday! 🎂🎂🎂
- Thanks Witchery!

"what are you up to after work man?"

"Sorry bro got plans aye".

They're so plump! Well fed kitties.
They've sorted themselves by colour.

I am home. Tropical sun was amazing. Family was ...good. I had fun. But I am tired and in dire need of introvert time. Bed at 8 tonight I think. Back to work tomorrow though.

That's a pretty fast turnaround for going back to work! I used to do things like fly in on Monday morning after a holiday but need an increasing amount of time between flights and work these days. Hope you can fully recharge tonight and the rest of the week is chill. Really gonna need to tap on that stored sunlight with the weather forecast for this week.
- Yeah I would like to have a day to regroup but it was an awkward time to get away. I bit the bullet and got a woolies delivery of easy but decent food so I don't have to think too much about food prep. And thanks for the heads up. Hadn't checked the weather 🥶🥶

Waiting on the ferry. Would highly recommend North Stradbroke.

I've been there. My "Uncle's" mob was from there. The Walkers. His mum was Kath the poet and his son was Raymond the school teacher. He was Dennis the leader of the Australian Black Panthers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Walker_(activist)

Meeting went really well thankfully. All is sorted now.

Thank fuck.

Well that's gotta be a major win!
- A huge sigh of relief honestly.

Happy World Chocolate Day 🍫

And here I am getting off sugar.
Dang it
I shall treat myself to a piece of chocolate after visiting the GP today
Or perhaps also before…
Sounds like a good excuse to have chocolate for breakfast, thank you!
- I could go a choc chip muffin right now.
Where is my dark chocolate?
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Of all my luck they’re going to do maintenance on the power grid again and I’ll be without power again for Sunday.

Why do they keep doing this doing my holidays!

I better set the timer for the heater so it’s at least somewhat warm when I wake up and need to figure out food if the maintenance doesn’t end early.

I'm up!

On my way to Hobbiton, I need a big first brekkie

luv u all, will check in tomoz

have a great day 😘😘😘

Have the BEST time!!
Don’t forget second breakfast for the long walks!
I hope you have a wonderful day there! I visited a couple years back, it was so fun. The gardens were an unexpected highlight too. The whole setup is very photogenic! Enjoy!

Now that Erin Patterson has been found guilty I'm interested to hear everything that's going to come out that couldn't be shared publicly while the trail was ongoing.

I'm also glad I can stop visiting news sites for updates now because holy shit it's depressing.

Channel 7’s got the chopper out in Morwell to show us Erin being driven in a prison van from the court. Riverting journalism right here.
I'm looking forward to a book.
Not over yet. Stilll sentencing and possible appeal process!
- Very true!

As there are so many cat lovers here is a pic of my cat

Aw! Looks so soft and sweet!!

So we decided to turn over a new leaf at work. Turns out my old manager is under extreme stress for me to succeed in my role. From the way he was saying it, it sounded like there was some hectic shit going on in the background.

He apologised to the 2 dudes he shoved and he's gone back to being normal.

So that's a win.

We worked twice as hard (literally) at last week's eofy event than the same time last year, however there is a backlog of work because we're understaffed and the expectation from the old timers is that we work 12 hour days every day to get it done.

That's not how things work these days. It's not the late 90s.

And the world isnt going to end.

Would have been nice for someone to say "good work leading the team dude".

I get why people buy lottery tickets.

I hope you don’t have keep doing 12 hour days, that was burning you out.

I have a kitchen table again. The seventeen house plants my parents left me to babysit have returned to them

I do hope you inserted some triffid DNA into at least some of them?

Is the only place to buy those posh lighters only at smokos or the internet?

Was thinking of getting one as a gift, but since I don't smoke, no idea where the proper place to get one is.

Smoke/vape shops will have quite a selection, places like the Reject shop will have some at the cheaper end of the market. Pay attention to how the item is refueled - you want the kind where you can get the injector refills from Bunnings in the bbq section. Cos those lighters are only good if filled with fuel. And the cheap ones tend to leak which can be a problem and a fire hazard.
Even for a smoker they're not a great gift imo. I had a zippo that I never used as it smelled and needed filling too often.
- I see. What would have been a better fit in that case?
Do you mean a Zippo, or something else?
- I think so? The metal clicky lighters you used to see in James Bond films and the like.

I was thinking of doing noodles for an easy dinner tonight, but I think my noodles are still in a box somewhere. I'm not sure I have enough enthusiasm for anything else. Maybe cheese and crackers, I'm pretty sure I can find all the ingredients for that.

Simple is good. Sometimes you need it nice and easy.

Jury is coming back in on the Mushroom Trial...

Guilty on all charges
Guilty! I’m shocked, did not expect that.
- I was convinced she'd done it a month ago. I did not hear the defense testimony of the past few weeks though - so I didn't have the complete picture.
  I am surprised. Not that she did it, but that the defense testimony hadn't swung the jury to "Not guilty".
- Me neither
Guilty
Edit: meaning I was wrong with my hung jury prediction.
Verdict yet?
- Guilty on all charges.

Goodnight everyone. Thank you for putting up with my constant drama posting.

Sleep well ❤️

Lol been sleeping and playing CotL today, so just heard the news. I guess it isn't wrong to say Erin is a murderer.

I still wish I could understand what the motive was :/ it's so senseless

Some of my colleagues reckon she wanted notoriety. What a way to do it though?? And sound like a total idiot on the stand...
- Hm I dunno about that but if she thought she could get away with it she was pretty stupid lol

Finished Interstellar after being hooked on the soundtrack. I don't know if I can do space movies anymore 😕

City sleepover for work. We're doing a workshop on our project management software so I don't know how much work will actually be done. I just hope the dinner is good

@CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone

How did you end up cooking the apple strudel last week?

I think I m going to try it tonight

I didn't have the strudel. I had the danish. I cooked it in the airfryer. I followed the oven directions but reduced the temp to 160 and kept my eye on it.
- Oh I didn’t know there was a danish. Guess I’ll do the same it’s my air fryer.
I had the strudel and I just chucked it in the oven. I didn't bother glazing it with milk as the instructions tell you to, there's no need. It just comes out a bit less shiny and glossy, but equally delicious.
- That’s ok, I didn’t plan on adding anything to it.
  Will do the same!

Regarding the Back to the Beginning show:

I have always been of the opinion that aging rock stars should take a step back and reflect on the glory days… and try to be satisfied with what they have accomplished. (and step aside for the modern talent) Nobody wants to see an elderly person in a wheelchair try and re-live the glory days on stage and end up being an embarrassment for themselves and their legacy.

So, as troubling as it may be to watch Ozzy belt out the classics at the Back to the Beginning show while sitting in a giant leather chair throne., he still sounds unbelievably amazing for his age and condition. astonishing really.

That’s really it I guess. I haven’t had the chance to see all of the sets yet, however the generational range of the bands seemed as good as could be expected.

You know her better than anyone, of course you're going to worry about her!

It's a PEP training session. We've just started but it's been alright because it acknowledges we have to work in Office 365 and how to work in there.

The main thing this session is reminding me is how much I hate Microsoft and how poorly implemented all of their products are.

Workplaces should get everyone to do sessions like this so everyone knows how to use their software, and how to use it consistent with the organisation as well

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Something to wake me up, please!
- ⏰☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
Full English breakfast please, no beans.
- 🍳🍳🥓🍗🌭🍄🍄‍🟫🥔🍅🍞☕️
A restorative bowl of pho please
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Shakshuka, fresh pita, pickled onions and some hummus.
Thanking you kindly.
- 🥚🍅🌶️🧅🧄🫓🧅🫘🔨
A cup of tea please, and a chocolate coated avocado sammich.
- ☕️🍫🍞🥑🍞🍫🧥

Boogitty, boogitty!

Let's see how this meeting with SLT plays out.

This week is going to suck. I hate late shifts at work. 1130 to 730 ☹️

Is that 1130am to 730pm, or 1130pm to 730am?
- AM to PM - but I'm a sook

Does anyone here have tips about doing side gigs on an ABN? I created one for shits and giggles a couple of years ago but never used it. Now an opportunity might have come up where an org wants me to do a sort of training/workshop thing for a few employees. I intend for it to be a once off (maybe a second session at best) - set scope, hours, lump sum - but idk how I should be reporting all of this in terms of tax and what documents to generate and keep.

I guess my ABN should be on the quote and invoice... GST?! and do I issue a receipt... I will Google things after dinner but if anyone has any personal tips (esp anything that's easy to overlook) I'd be very grateful.

E: now I'm getting truly lost in the weeds with personal services income and whatever. Geez. I'm glad most of my income is from a job at a company

Check your employment agreement - it might say you need need your employer's permission to have a side gig.
You have to issue invoices with your ABN on them. I use Xero for my invoicing, but my side gig is my whole gig so it's worth paying for proper accounting software. There's probably a cheaper (or free) option out there for creating invoices.
If you're not registered for GST as well, then I think you don't need to charge any GST for your services (do a check on this). GST reg is needed if you'll earn over $75k in a year.
You declare the income for your side gigs in your tax return and pay tax to ATO at that point.
- Thanks heaps for the advice. Yes I've already run this one past my employers and they're good (actually shockingly good considering the details).
  Really don't intend to do this more than as isolated one offs so I think I'll find something free. Won't earn 75k+ a year from it either but I'll have a look into what services attract GST etc.
  So the tax only gets paid at tax time, not progressively... That's good, I might keep this extra income as a buffer and when it comes to June 2026 I'll probably throw it into super to reduce marginal tax on it. If it works like that.
  Thanks once again, personal experience is really helpful!
- This is correct re GST. If you start getting towards breaching 75k in a year you have to register for gst. Before that you just write clearly on the invoice that no GST is charged (so they know how to put it through for their BAS). https://www.ato.gov.au/businesses-and-organisations/gst-excise-and-indirect-taxes/gst/registering-for-gst
I can ask Boyo, but it will be out of date. Do not use the gig apps if a physicss as l trade, they take too high a percentage.
- Absolutely no apps involved, it's just between me and another company I know at this point for some very specific skills. Pretty much like doing a favour and getting paid for it, except I have to issue an invoice and make it all official and shit.
You shouldn't need gst for a small amount unless this place needs you to be GST registered. Use some free accounting software like Wave if it still exists and operate as a sole trader.
Talk to your accountant if you have one. They'll give you this advice for free as they make their money from doing your books if you make it big
- I think that place should be fine without GST but I'll definitely ask when I chat to my contact tomorrow. Need to ask if professional indemnity insurance is required because I ain't doing it if so - I really don't intend to do this for the broader industry, not worth paying monthly insurance...
  And I've never used an accountant bar the one time years ago when I was on WHV tax rates for half the FY and needed help lodging. I don't think I'll earn enough from this one off event to warrant getting an accountant but... if they ask me an additional time, I might get an accountant to help. I do have a family friend who is a CA so I might ask their advice. Lots to think about to do it the right way! Wish I could do it for cashies lol.