AJ Sadauskas @ ajsadauskas @aus.social

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@Seagoon @Catfish I'm just generally impressed by your handywork! ☺️

(It's seriously a million times better than I could ever hope to do. You're far more talented than I! ☺️)

@Seagoon @melbaboutown They also start fraying in fewer washes than they used to. And the elastic on them goes sooner too.

As for window cleaning, my tip is, if you want a streak-free finish, try using scrunched up newspaper instead of a cloth.

@melbaboutown @LowExperience2368 Huge hugs.

There were signs up around the apartment block where we live recently warning about a homeless guy who had been trespassing, and to call strata and the police if you see him.

Just from the photo, he looked creepy AF!

Apparently he spent a couple of nights in the basement carpark, and cut power to the building's alarm system one night. (The strata managers only found out after they reviewed the CCTV footage.)

And anyone angry and drunk shouting homophobic slurs is always scary.

So I can definitely relate to how you must be feeling!

You're doing the right thing by trying to help. But I agree it really is shameful how much our pollies have cut the social safety net these past 40-odd years (and both major parties are to blame!). It means people who need help often don't get it.

Take care, stay safe 💜

@rcbrk Group head?

@CEOofmyhouse56 @underwatermagpies You inspired me to stop by the local Baker's Delight for lunch.

They didn't have any of those custard buns with coconut flakes (I looked!), but I did get a cheese and tomato bun.

@LowExperience2368 I've got 15 minutes to wait for a compulsory company-wide Zoom call.

Not enough time to make headway on any of my tasks for today, but too ling to do nothing.

How's everyone else's day been so far?

@melbaboutown Haha

Yeah, they're good at figuring out the hooman's schemes.

With Miss Mimi, we couldn't crush up her tablets and hide them in her food because one of our other babies likes indulging in other people's meals.

We tried these meat-flavoured pill pockets. She got wise to them within a day. She got good at eating the pockets and spitting out the tablet.

We tried this contraption that flings the tablet down her throat. She got wise to that.

We tried crushing the tablet, mixing it with water, and syringing it. She got wise to that.

We tried hiding the medicines in different places. She came to recognise the sound of the bottle opening.

We tried giving the tablets in different places.

We tried all the things. At best, they worked for a day.

At worst, she bit wifey's finger accidentally.

Most of the time, we thought she took the tablet, only for her to spit it out later.

The joys of having a sick cat...

@Duenan Out of curiosity, what blend?

(We've got an old coffee machine that work was getting rid of, but I'm yet to pick up coffee beans for it. I'm open to recommendations! ☺️)

@Duenan @wscholermann When you're still wide awake at 2am, you'll think to yourself: "Y'know, that was a damn good coffee" 😹

@TinyBreak @Seagoon This probably isn't quite what you're looking for, but it does involve a phobia.

I'm a little scared of heights, and a lot scared of falling off ladders.

The last place I lived was an old cream-brick 1960s-ish flat. It had really high ceilings, with that "popcorn" (possibly asbestos?) texture.

I was living there by myself.

One day, the light bulb in the living room blew.

This ceiling was high — I could just barely reach it from the second- or third-top rung (and I wasn't game to go any higher).

The light had one of those glass covers that had a screw in the middle, and then a couple of hooks on either side. After about 50-odd years, it was well and truly rusted and didn't want to budge.

Well.

After two goes, taking around half an hour each time, I finally managed to get the bloody cover off.

Then another 30 minutes to get the old bulb out.

Then another 30 minutes to get the new globe in.

After spending around two hours — basically the best part of a Saturday afternoon — trying to change one light globe, I was done. The cover can wait for another day.

Unfortunately, a few weeks later, I got a notice that the real estate agents wanted to do an inspection. The joys of renting!

That weekend, I asked wifey to come over (we hadn't moved in together yet) and help put the cover on.

Ladder out. Clip. Clip. Clip. Screw.

She had the cover back on in, like, two minutes, tops.

I think I might have actually said something along the lines of: "Shit — it's that easy?"

The moral of the story?

Find a handywoman, move in with her, and get wifey to do it 😁

@melbaboutown @Seagoon Poor Melbcat, hope she gets better soon.

And I don't envy you, especially if you had to feed her the tablets.

One of ours went to the vet recently and was given antibiotics.

Within a day or so, she figured out the signs and began hiding in a cupboard as soon as either of us opened the drawer where they were kept. Or she heard the pill bottle open.

It then took bogh my partner and I to hold her down while feeding her the tablet.

@CEOofmyhouse56 @Seagoon You just reminded me of something thst happened a couple of weeks ago.

When we first adopted our babies, wifey used to often give in and give them scraps from what she's eating. I never did.

Fast forward a couple of years.

I'm eating dinner in the living room, wifey's having dinner in bed.

She was joined by all three cats.

Mewing incessantly.

"Why do they always leave you alone at dinner time, yet always pester me for food?" shd asks.

I reply: "Because you trained them to!"

@mysticgreg Unfortunately, they're now owned by the same conglomerate that turned Red Rooster into a home brand KFC knockoff. And also Chicken Treat (ask your friend from Perth, they'll tell you).

@mysticgreg @Baku Not surprised about Carl's Jr.

I went out of my way to try one when they first came to Australia, and underwhelmed is an understatement.

It's basically Hungry Jack's, but somehow worse.

I remember trying Oporto when they first opened a store in Chapel Street. A good friend of my ex-gf insisted we try a burger at this joint that's like Nando's but 1000x better.

Even as we were trying to find parking at midday in the side streets of South Yarra, insisted it would be totally worth it.

(This would have been around 2004-ish?)

I was dubious, but went along for the ride.

And I remember that it was actually not that bad.

And that's not something I've ever felt eating their food since then.

I thought it was just me!

@PeelerSheila @melbaboutown Unfortunately, they're going out of business. But, if there's still a Body Shop still open anywhere near you, their hemp honey lip balm works well.

(If there isn't one still open near you, various online stores that also sell them...)

@naught101 @lostfaith It predates the internet.

Back in 2000, a guy named Robert Putnam wrote a book based on his research into why there has been a breakdown in community in America: http://bowlingalone.com/

(If you ever hear someone use the phrase "social capital", they're alluding to his research.)

@calhoon2005 Haha Any kind of buffet or all-you-can-eat situation doesn't count!

@Seagoon Wifey is trying to claim that it's really not that uncommon to mix Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes, Nutra Grain, and Weet Bix together. And to eat this particular cereal combo for dinner.

I'm not doubting her... I just haven't come across this combo before.

Anyone else here mix three different breakfast cereals?

@Seagoon Loud crashing sound in the bathroom, then cats come sprinting out.

Do I even want to look?

@Duenan @Thornburywitch Hawthorn is currently on 7 wins, with games still to come against West Coast, North, Adelaide, and Richmond.

On recent form, percentage aside, I could definitely see them ending up in the finals...