Discussion Thread 🛼 Friday 11 July 2025

Was a good idea to come down here. Needed this. Back tm though but that's okay.

Got a shitload done. Good escape.

And..

First fire in about a year down here.

I am so so very lucky to be able to use this place no questions asked. Mental health wise it is a godsend rn. The space, shit to do, beach.

Enjoy man :)
Sounds like you've had a real hard few weeks
Fire! Rest, relax, chuck some potatoes in that thing.
That looks really nice. 😊
Bonfires are so nice.

Knocked off early.

Cheers 🥂

Edit

Love all youse guys 😘🥰😻
Cheers 🥂 🐈

Goodnight all ❤️

Night night!

While out for my grocery shop I ran into an old friend and we ended up catching up for awhile on things.

I didn’t want to leave but I was coming to the end of my free parking.

Had a good time!

cool 😊
- We probably haven’t seen each other since Covid.
  Since she’s had 2 kids and is currently on maternity leave from work.
  Wish we had more time but maybe if things work out we might meet again next week.

Melbcat is being very squeaky and squirmy. She’s learned to cry for the heater to go on, for extra snacks of wet food, and sometimes for no reason I can see. I’m hoping she’s just jealous of the computer getting attention. Maybe she just wants love.

I’m playing games way too much but right now it’s just what I’m doing.

cats be cats 😊
- She never used to ask for anything but I’m hoping she’s just got more confident to voice her needs. It might be her age too

omg omg omg

we are going to visit a beach right on the Pacific Ocean tomorrow , not on a bay, right on the ocean

I think I will go in the water a bit 😀 just a little

Hmm my Aunty tried to ring me.

I let it ring out.

A couple of weeks ago she tried to persuade me again to get the others to agree to the settlement of the will.

I refused to do it and told her so.

Nothing to screw a family up quite like fighting over a will.
- Tell me about it.
  I told her last time I’m not in contact with any family members and I don’t want to be involved.
- what is worse is not challenging a fake will 😡
I'm stressed just reading your post.
- You don’t need to get stressed.
  If I had answered the phone I would have pushed back quite hard and yelled at her.
  She’s trying to use me and I know it.

Finally home. Guiness in hand. Butt in couch. Game loaded up. Cheers dudes 🍻

Cheers buddy 🍺

Righto ladies n gents, it's time to get rekk'd. Cheers 🍺

Cheers 🥧
I gave apple and blackberry pies from Aldi
- They are the best pies. Yum. Enjoy.
I am SO ready... but gotta wait another few hours 😭 Whatcha drinking tonight?
- Gatorade lol
- Beer and soju. Might have a little Mary Jane later and trip out to the lights.

Had to have a serious chat to the team today.

I've put a target on my back by giving them a lot of autonomy and they were starting to get complacent.

I got the message across I think, without being too confrontational.

Probably good to remind them that there is a consequence for not getting past a certain threshold if you’ve given them autonomy.
You’re ultimately accountable for them.

Had an excellent swim with a new best amount of laps in a row which feels bloody excellent. Hopefully haven't killed myself for the class tomorrow.

Now for wine, because balance. 🥂

Of course my period starts on the full moon. All signs point to me being a witch, but I didn't get my letter to Strewthwarts School of Bewitchin' and Broomin', just saying.

Getting better at drums.

If I slow the part down by 50% and play it a few times I can speed back up and play it well most of the time.

I kinda like being a beginner with an instrument. I love that learning experience when you go from nothing to doing reasonably wel.

Pork roast is in the oven for dinner. I had a big piece so I've cut it in half and will do some sort of pulled pork for tacos with the other half. I put it on late so it won't be ready for a while, I might need to organise cheese and crackers to tide me over until then.

So I got my sleep study results back after a fair wait. Yeah it turns out that not breathing might be the reason for the fatigue. Off to dig into savings and go CPAP shopping I think (#thuglife)

I am low key excited - maybe I can function like a real person finally. Any tips from anyone else in the mask club?

If you have any annoyances that can be solved with 3d printed parts, hmu. Mate of mine had me make him a custom bendy thing for his hose 'cos it kept snagging on his bespoke nightstand
- ooh thanks
Have you got health insurance?
Check your extras cover. Many funds will reimburse you part of the cost for a CPAP machine. I know the one I work for will.
- Nah. I keep a little emergency fund instead so that's ok. At this point I would pay anything if it solved my issues

2.5h left... On the plus side I got an unexpected Monday off! 3 day weekend wooo

Werq

Yay: I'm getting a bonus! I totally forgot they give them out at this time of the year

Nay: not sure how to handle tax vs salary sacrifice into super. Especially with having to wait one whole year to claim any additional tax back.

I kinda really really need the cash so think I'll take most of it as cash even though it'll be taxed to all buggery. I swear to god I have not had to think so much about tax rules my whole life until this year.

I remember when I looked into it I could salary sacrifice an extra $500 a month into super and only take home $250 less because of how PAYG tax works. You can sacrifice up to about $12,000 into super a year before you have to pay additional fees on it or anything.
It's worth doing if you feel you can afford it, as you're still getting that money, just further down the line.
- For real, if not for the silly situation I put myself in my clearing out all my readily accessible cash last FY, I would've put it all straight into super. Since my super is anaemic for my age and I am hoping to use the FHSSS in a couple of years if things go well.
  I decided to put about 25% of the bonus in salary sacrifice and the rest paid out, and have my extra hours this pay cycle counted as TOIL which I can use to buffer the unpaid leave time over my break.
  At the end of next FY I can always put the rest of the bonus money into super and claim the difference in tax back so if I understand correctly it is essentially the same as salary sacrifice, just at my own pace and with extra steps. I don't think I'll do regular salary sacrifice from my pay until I have a much better financial position, I kind of like being able to control the timing of my contributions and have the money on hand in the meantime in case shit hits the fan as a single person without much family support in Melbourne...
Has anything changed with your tax from when you last checked?
You mentioned something wrong with it last time.
- I called my super fund about why my voluntary contribution wasn't showing up in my ATO profile and had been changed to $0 in my in-progress tax return - they advised me that it was strange and they definitely notified the ATO about my contribution and to just wait and see if it resolves in the next few days as things could change while the processing is in progress.
  They also reassured me that if the ATO finalise the tax return without my contribution, I can get it amended and provide the documentation I received from my super fund, so I WILL get a refund instead of a bill eventually, but that will be annoying because I don't know how long it will take to process. I'm relieved I have this bonus money coming through because at least I can move on with my life

I hadn't been following any news about The Pitt for a while but all the allegations coming out now about Tracy Ifeochor (Dr Collins) being asked to leave and not being in s2 are really sad. I can't believe she is part of a virulently homophobic church that promotes conversion therapy. Like how do you even get into TV and film acting in the modern era with these kinds of strongly held beliefs? Puts a new spin on her portrayal of a character handling some difficult conversations about abortion...

Had that work efficiency session at the start of the week and I think I figured something out about why AI has been such a top down push in the workplace.

A member of the global leadership team was in the sessions, and she's all in on AI. She was telling us about all the work she was getting done with it, and it was just things like reports, presentations, communications plans, and risk strategies.

It's all just typing up a bunch of stuff that gets turned into PDFs and sits on the company Sharepoint. She's at a high enough level now she's not working on any of the implementation, so you can use AI to just write everything for you.

Really, you could probably download templates for all these documents and change the details specific to your business. It would be much better for the environment, but these people wouldn't feel like they're doing anything meaningful if they're just playing corporate madlibs.

I could use AI in a bit of my work, but I need to make Facebook ads, emails, and manage a website. AI can't do any of that, it's just an elaborate autocomplete.

And it's telling the perspective on AI is 'Look at all this amazing work I'm getting done with AI' and not 'The iPhone autocomplete can do my job faster than me, what's the point of my job?'

One of my only applicable use cases was a business case document. Copilot just wrote the most boring version of an SEO friendly article on Viva Engage, and even then I felt I had to step in and write some things myself to both make it more interesting and specific to the business. And say this goes ahead, AI can't put people into Viva Engage groups for me.

The CEO of the last place I was at was exactly the same with AI.
So fucking stupid.

3 times the dog went in and out the front door last night. The 4th time he tried I said "No. Go to bed". He repaid me by ralphing on the carpet.

Gibson does that sometimes when I say no more treats you've had enough.

I love you Friday.

My tram driver either has the hiccups or is smuggling a purse sized dog

Go on ...

Last day of my late-shift week. It has been a struggle but I've survived (so far). 7.30 can't come soon enough!

May beer o'clock come quickly for you.
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Start work in 9 mins. Currently in bed. Good thing it's WFH day. This might be a job for coffee....

Woke up at 6 to turn off my 630 alarm. Which I didn't. Got up just after 7 regardless and still trying to internal engine started.
Today might be struggle town.

Think I've caught something. Got a solid 10 hours of sleep last night, the just slept all day after getting my partner up for work. Just could not keep my eyes open.

I'm awake now, but I'm so so drowsy and blegggghhhh

That's no good. Try to take it easy if you can.
Chicken soup might help too 🐓🍲

it's early, wind is howling out there

i woke up to a tidy and well organised room, 😊, maybe I can get some stuff done today

quiz

7/10 better than I thought

This time difference makes me feel like I get up early and have a good start on the day 😊

when I get back I will live on NZ time 😀

I’m totally on board with that!
- It's the best idea I've had all week ... lol

Got tix for the Dracula ballet in September, I'm really excited!

Pirouetting vampires sounds magnificent
- I'm envisioning lots of swirling black capes

I woke up ( second breakfast wakening ) realising that the random coloured saucers I bought at the op shop will not do for watercolour painting. It's not calligraphy where I can just use anything because I'm just using black.

hair pulling continues regards my watch

I think casio uses two different phrases to describe a same function, interchanging use of phrase randomly, making it near impossible to follow instructions

one of the markings on the watch face is not explained at all. I suspect it's the off mode

i just wanna do a hard reset so I can set it all up properly, reset button doesn't actually reset, it sets

🤪

I think I have figured it out.

ta da, I have set my watch and even have a kind of idea how to use it 🥹

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Moon cheese and Saturn rings please
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Fish tacos, please!
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Udon with beef curry please 🙏
- I read that as ubon with cheese please.
  I’m sure what’s gotten into me.
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