Goals for today

Chuck a sickie - done

Grab coffee and pastry from Lebanese bakery

Purchase new Assassin's Creed game

Get high and play new game

Oh man, I'm so embarrassed. It was my birthday yesterday and many beers and cocktails were had. In my drunken stupor I mistakenly texted the word 'fuck' to my mother-in-law in the UK. I was mortified when I realised but it was too late, she'd already seen the message. I am cringing just typing this.

I has done a pizza

Was hot only got half way through rest is for tomorrow.. had jalapenos, that bullseye sauce and some home fermented habanero sauce.

Hawt.

Holy shit....it's only 1030 and my goals have been achieved.

I fucking rule

There's a guy I work with whose lunch becomes a community experience very often.

He's Korean and his wife is an excellent cook, so the transition from "his lunch" to "Food For The People" is swift

Tried talking to my parents about how shit my mental health is.

I only got to talking about how I feel, not some of the things that were bothering me and was met with,

"Grow up!"

And

"Oh no, is an ant crawling on you again,"

And

"Just get off social media," (which I have reduced my intake of)

So I don't know if I'm just bad at communicating how I feel. I think it's because I got emotional, and that made them might’ve made them feel threatened.

The "no" voting reply guys are relentless and, call me paranoid, it's hard not to conclude that we're being subjected to some kind of large scale attack.

And could we just be the testing ground for disinformation campaigns that will really kick off for the 2024 Presidential election?

PSA: Today I found out how to cook easy peasy cheesy crusted crumpets. And they are YUMMM. Strong recommend. Perfect with a light fruity white wine, or possibly a crisp light beer.

I wanted to say something important regarding aliens and climate (we're fucked) and shit but I think my true belief is in carbohydrates I need these carbs.

Neighbours irrigation system has either failed or just been left on. Their front garden is basically flooded and they're away at the moment.

Same neighbour which destroyed my shed wall and hasn't bothered to build a retaining wall.

My mind is conflicted. Do I care or do I not care.

But I do think there are lessons here.

1. Be on good terms with your neighbours
2. A tap at 600kPa with a pipe diameter of 12mm if left running will cost you $1500 a week at current yarra valley water rates

Cats are dying, to avert tragedy I better dash to the supermarket to get their favourite food

Yesterday was abysmal. Lost an earbud tip, lost one of my earrings, got stuck in the rain, but I walked 11k steps AND that stool I bought was such a brilliant idea!

But time for PAX day one, hope y'all have a fantastic day!

I took leave this week with the aim of doing things around the house and sorting the very cluttered shed, but the weather has been against me and yesterday I saw a rat going into the shed.

Not scared of the rat but I’m a bit worried if I disturb it, it might think that coming into the house is a good idea.

Thank God they've gone. I love my dog and all but if he didn't bite people he would've gone too.

Happy Friday everybody and cheers 🍹

My car won't start. Probably just the battery but I was planning on buying some supplies for tonight since the others will be going to the Weezer concert. Ah well no wine for me. I'll just have a vodka or two instead.

I too encountered fresh poop on the road.

Melbcat is being so cuddly and cute. She’s not happy that she’s not allowed outside though, she wants the sun. Unfortunately if she absconds I’m not up to chasing her, and fishy fertiliser went on the plants.

The vegie seedlings have spent their first few nights outside. The first night was an accident due to exhaustion but after seeing they didn’t get eaten they are now tentatively outside plants. (This may change when I add the next wave of spinach seeds. Snails seem to smell new seedlings.) Edit: They're getting their second leaves! They probably enjoyed the rain even if it washed out the application of Powerfeed.

The watering can bothers me. Spraying the contents everywhere from a decent hole during use is a problem. I’m deciding whether to complain and get a new one or just patch it with Sugru to avoid plastic waste (which means another order and another delivery fee - and will the patch stay in place?). I wish I could just physically go buy shit myself to avoid having constant issues.

I’ve also frozen up on art. There’s a lot of informal support and resources for learning cartoony or anime style art but I don’t really like that style for myself. I like fine art. But it’s pretty intimidating to want to be that good. Where do you start

Hey Melbourne people. What’s the best food delivery service down there that I could send a sick friend a voucher for? Uber eats?

G’day you lot

I did not walk the 3km home from Kmart as I got sucked into getting some storage things and a replacement shower caddy for the frankly terrible one that came with the unit and every time I use it I think "I need to get a new one" and promptly forget. Anyway I have those and then after over 10 years living in Australia i have finally stepped into an actual Ikea in this country (surprise, same layout everywhere!) and got a squeegee - the original thing I came to this shopping centre for - and a hanging storage thing for my closet (another "this is annoying, I should fix it (and then forget about it)" situation), and a set of 3 cool storage hooks that look like the arseholes of Richmond supporters.

I did my best to say no to things that seemed nifty but that I don't need and can make do with what I have. And now I'm extremely overwhelmed from being in cheap plastic shops for so long and feeling kind of gross about buying new things so I'm going to cook some food from scratch when I get home

I have been popping into the gözleme place over the road every few days for the last 2 weeks trying to get a sujuk & tasty cheese gözleme but they either keep just selling out for the day or waiting for a delivery of the sausage. Today I finally have obtained one and I am pleased :)

If you ever see it on a Turkish menu, it's a lovely spicy (not too spicy, just enough to make it interesting) sausage. Don't be scared of the sujuk (sometimes spelled sucuk) it is your friend.

Love wfh. Can take a nap anytime!

Finished my daily "morning walk" and "food cupboard" quests. Mr Woof picked up a few more sniff quests, and we finished the "man in a hoodie" quest today - it didn't lead to an ongoing chain, we identified he is walking around the block multiple times while keeping an eye on a fitness tracker. We failed to get an explanation for the fashion choice of a hoodie with shorts.

I'm not sure if looking at my life like a gaming list of quests helps or hinders getting things done. I officially failed the "put the bins out" quest this week, and have really not made any progress on the main gardening quest line. Unfortunately I don't live in game time, so these things don't just wait around indefinitely for me to do them.

Ugh, was going to build a mobile mitre saw stand but then saw guides on making a flip top. Awesome, then I have saw table I can flip to also be a mobile workbench! but then cutting the ply would mean dragging out the table saw so I should probably put that on skates since it's gonna get a lot of use building cabinets in the future, so I do some nosing on that and everyone is building little platforms to put their tables on and why don't they just get lockable castors on threads and bolt them to the existing bolt-down holes on the table saw feet? Is there a reason for this? I need to know as the table end height would dictate the mitre saw table so I can set them the same height and use it as an outfeed......

For anyone going home late, rail transport is currently a disaster. Power fault between Southern Cross and North Melbourne has cascaded across most of the services that run through the city.

There may be replacement buses at Flagstaff, but not confirmed just yet.

EDIT: No-one seems to know what's happening.

EDIT 2 (23:45): Trains are beginning to resume.

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Voting done. There was a queue, but not too long only had to wait about 10min. Maybe because it was around lunch time.

So cold, oodie on, heater on.

Realised too late that I left a sheet outside before I went out. Whoops!

It's also been awfully dry of late. Since I don't have a humidifier, nor the money for one, I've taken to abusing the evaporative cooler by blowing the output through a heater, in the hopes it'll damp things up a bit.

For someone who loves dressing up and Halloween, I really cannot figure out what to be for Halloween. My options so far are: Sporty Spice, Wednesday Addams, Shego from Kim Possible, Kim Possible, or a random miscellaneous witch?