Daily Discussion Thread: 🍫🫚 Sunday, August 25, 2024

And thus begins the beginning of the chillo season.

At front is an orange hab , ones at the back are thais. Took under a week to pop which was surprising.

oh god, that is so cool .🙂
- Well, hopefully not as a Hab
Thanks for the reminder, I wanted to give them a go this season and wasn't quite sure when to jump in. I planted Jalapenos last summer that have actually survived winter somewhat, but had almost zero heat. Planning to get something a bit hotter this season

Dammit I've snapped an underwire. Everything was go so well today too. ☹️

FREE THE TITTIES
- As I'm at work that could get a bit controversial.
Just pull the wires on both sides out so you’re even. You don’t want one up tit and one down tit
you'll have to get it out asap as they can be dangerous
- If I manage to stab myself we have paramedics on site so I should survive. Do you think I could claim it under workcover as a workplace injury?
Ah bugger! I've never actually snapped one, just had that slow extrusion of one side out through a tiny gap, a millimetre at a time until my boob is being uncomfortably prodded.
- I've had that a few times, and one time the wire just worked it's way out the side so far it was basically an overwire!

@just_kitten@aussie.zone Ended up saying happy birthday to SIL. One more forced dinner out for the year (bday) then I don't have to worry about them until xmas :) Which is an awful thing to say.

🙂 are you me
I swear I can't bear eating out with my BIL, he has the manners of an arsehole. I was going to say pig but pigs have manners of their own.
I try not to look.
Wise and strong! It seems like that's the best choice to avoid drama as much as possible. I don't think it's awful at all to be relieved that you can avoid dealing with people who've displayed such entitled and childish behaviour. Doesn't matter if they're your own blood relatives even.

My dog did something that I've never seen him do before. Waited until the kid got up from the kitchen table to blow her nose, leaped on to the chair, skinny body stretched out, front paws on the table and hoovered the rest of her meal up in seconds. He didn't even stop when I walked in. This is why I have rules about pushing chairs in.

Kid now understands why they need to follow the rule too!
I had a dog that loved walking around on the dining table, so any time a chair wasn't pushed in she would be up there, whether there was any food or not. The other dog I had at the time would just sit on the chair like you'd expect of any invited guest.
- She took a risk walking 3 metres to get a tissue. She lost her meal.

Hello everyone 🫡 Hope you all have a great Sunday!

Sammi woke me at 4:00 for snuggles and purrs. Not exactly complaining, given the circumstances.
She requested breakfast a little later, and after a little trial and error, chicken creamy treats seem to be the way to go.
Still going to take her back for a follow up with the senior vet as soon as I can, but I'm a lot more hopeful than I was yesterday.

Sweet Sammi, eating is a good sign!
Edit: you can download these PDFs for free, and do it on Sammi. The Feline Grimace Scale - it should help to tell you if Sammi is currently in pain. https://www.felinegrimacescale.com/
I use that, and TPR (temp, pulse rate, respiratory rate) Temp - use a rectal thermometer, temp shouldn't be above 39c. (Normal range: 37.2c - 39.2c)
\ Pulse rate - if she lets you, you can feel for the femoral artery underneath their back legs near the groin. Time it for 15secs and multiply by 4. No higher than 200beats per min (normal range: 160-200)
\ Edit: you can also use your hand under their front left leg, next to their heart if you cannot find the back leg artery
\ Respiratory rate - watch their breathing, when not purring! Time it over 15 seconds and then multiply by 4, shouldn't be higher than 30 breaths per minute. (Normal range: 15 - 30).
Of any of these are above their max thresholds, then Sammi may be in pain. Obviously she is unwell, but this may be helpful in the future or to anyone else unsure when to take their cat to the vet :)
Edit edit: Grimace scales seem fanciful but are used on lab mice, rats, and rabbits, cats and I believe dogs.
- The feline grimace scale is amazing. I can tell from my cat’s face and body language when she needs help and follow it up.
  She sometimes tries to hide it but when I see those signs they never lie.
  Edit: Melbcat also sometimes does a light rapid breathy purr that seems like a pain purr. Sometimes purring can be a self soothing thing during pain or distress

The person 2nd to me in my tipping comp has tipped the same as me for the first game today.

I lead by 3 and with that I’ve won my tipping comp! Woo hoo!

Onya mate 🎉
- 🪇
Foomptball
I am amazed that you’ve been able to tip anything. I won my tipping comp two years running, but this year I’ve just been a complete mess. It is a mystery
- I tipped a few upsets earlier in the year due to West Coast suddenly winning games early and Gold Coast winning games at their home but losing all their away games until recently.
- Also with that said there have been some really bad weeks with tipping and tons of teams losing when they should have won their games.
  Been that sort of a season this year.
🍻
- Cheers! 🍹

Bit of rain on the way

Stawms closing in on Ballarat - it's coming, just not here yet.

I’m watching the footy game at the moment. This could get ugly.
Just watching that rain gauge on my iPhone slowly inch left.

Omg I'm eating out ATM in a busy place and I just sneezed into a napkin in a way that made a seal with my mouth. It came out as an enormous squeak squeal thing and turned everyone's heads. Eek.

Atleast you didn't do a little wee at the same time.
There he was in a busy place
\ Shoving his food into his face
\ When the urge to sneeze suddenly took over
\ He grabbed a napkin to keep his composure
\ But a seal he made with his dainty mouth
\ An uncouth sound, it's all gone south
\ The cafe turns their heads to him
\ As he sits in silence with his sin.
- My mouth isn't dainty 😢
- 🙌🏼
that’s the first step to being a casual vacuum cleaner
We’ll look on the bright side. At least it didn’t fly back into the face of someone else.
There’s no coming back from that.

Round 2 is coming and wow the lightning is so cool to watch, very flashy this time.

And lots of crackle.
- And now torrential rain with crazy wind, holy crap
  Edit - the chaos is over but that was a super strong storm when it got going, lucky the worst part didn’t last too long. The wind was insane with hail mixed in.

Had donuts cravings this morning that demanded satisfaction. The Paris theme ones really hit the spot, especially the creme brulee 😋 Still riding the high of Miniest winning "Most Creative Costume" award at her parade on Friday. Costume made it home intact, so now I have a giant wearable book in the loungeroom 😂

Ooh power just went out!🔦🕯️

Yikes!

Hehehe I can hear Mickey biting my partner's knees while they're on the toilet 😂

"What is going on?"
\ "Why are you so mean!"

I have eaten 4 scoops of double choc chip ice cream.

Oh it was so nice.

TIL I need to clean a gutter.

If you have stuff to do today (I need to go get a haircut and buy a cpl things before new job tmrw) get it done before 2-3pm!! Should be nice weather until big bad storm hits around then

Christ in a cream cheese sauce
- Delicious 🤤
All going well I'll have time to get home from work & take Mr Woof for a neighbourhood stroll before it hits. The afternoon plan is to hole up inside and roast a piece of pork for dinner, should work out well.
All the better to trap me into finishing my assignment 💪
2-3pm is when i arrive at the marvel stadium
- RIP. You are going to get drenched

There was a Rush cover band playing at Max Watts last night, I wish I could have gone. Usually I'm not one for cover bands but it sounds like these guys play Rush songs exactly the way they did, and they were doing Moving Pictures and the song Hemispheres in full

I was there! It was pretty great actually. Hemispheres was incredible and the crowd really popped for YYZ. Overall very well done, and some very impressive skills on show.
- I knew it would be good. Playing some of their songs is impressive enough I'd like to watch anyone do it, not just the original band

Mother trucker I slept so much last night! Another 10 hours solid? Some unsettling dreams that were an extrapolation of the deeply excruciating arthouse film I watched on Friday (dark lighting, endless rain, depressingly small and crowded concrete living space, and drawn out toilet scenes). I would've loved some sun today but no dice, so it's time to pack up my things and go to uni...

...though I also just want to spend today curled up and blanked out. It's okay. Next weekend. Next weekend I will be able to take a real breather.

I reluctantly turned down an opportunity to catsit for a friend next month because the driving to work/uni/my home (to check in on plants) was gonna be heinous, on top of not having my usual comforts. I do NOT want to burn out again this soon. But... cat.

You were probably tired if you slept that much. The body has a strange way of making up for sleep eventually.
Maybe for the best if you were going to find it challenging to catsit with all the travel involved.
There’s some sun trying to get through the clouds here.
- Yeah saw a bit of sun poking through on my way to uni but mostly grey. I definitely think you're right about the tiredness - the mental strain of my studies and all kinds of internal scripts running in the background about whether I'm good enough, memories of past uni experiences, etc and nobody to really talk to about it all (who'd get it), certainly takes a toll.

pollen so much, hay fever bad, even poor Bill has red watery eyes.

Oh, you can't redeem a McMuffin using Macca's points anymore. What's the bloody point then.

Free coffees. But medium is the only value for points now, sadly. I'm actually maxed out on points so I really need to start redeeming some stuff.

I went to get a chicken burger from Red Rooster. They left me sitting at the drive thru window for ages after I’d ordered at the box. Eventually I saw one of the cooks walk up to the guy who was meant to come and see me, he had my burger in his hand and must have said “can I give this to the drive thru?” or something and the guy said yes so he comes over and hands me the burger, says have a good night and closes the window. Notice that at no point had I paid.

I don’t know if it’s just because I’ve been playing too much cowboy video game but I just left with my burger. Peeled out of there like I’d pulled off a heist. So I’m officially an outlaw now. Life is rough on the other side of the law but it sure is excitin’! Yeehaw!

You dead. They have your number on camera
this is your gateway crime
remember us when you make it to the top wanted list

Every single day I have been sorting and clearing out boxes. Today it's getting rid of some sewing supplies I will never use. Maybe some one else can get some use. Yesterday it was a bunch of books, some dvds and some kitchenware I didn't want.

Aaaachew!

💊💊
- Much appreciated.

safe and sound on the train

Now that is some rain.

fuck, it's like I would expect in a tornado

It’s on like donkey kong here in Docklands it’s friggin bonkers

Ok it may not be that big. Carry on.

Oh shit, it’s Sabbath already.

yup

Get your knickers off the clothesline errybody.

At my casual retail job, I don't get a consistent number of hours. Last year, they asked me if I wanted to do a three hour shift that starts at 7am on a Sunday which is every week. I said yes due to the consistency and the pay being good. But I find myself being unable to sleep at a reasonable hour, and so every Sunday, I am extremely groggy and irritable. It's been a year of this, and I ruined the relationship I was in because of emotional impulsivity due to lack of sleep. I also consistently make little mistakes during the shift that I wouldn't make if I had slept properly, which also probably affects the way the managers see me. I tend to daudle getting ready because I'm so tired and am usually in a rush to get to work. I also don't get to go out on Saturday nights, which I guess isn't that much of a dealbreaker, but still kind of sucks. I've figured something has to change. I feel like if I can't even wake up at 6 without being a freaking insomniac, I don't think I'll be able to hold down a job. I don't know how I'll be able to wake up for placement if I do teaching or some allied health course.

So it's either, I force myself to wake up at 7am every single day and keep the 6am wake up on a Sunday, in the hope that I'll be able to sleep better and improve my sleep hygiene. This is coming from a night owl who somehow just comes awake when I'm supposed to sleep. I'm thinking this is probably the better option for now because I don't have the energy or time to write cover letters.

Or I quit and find a more predictable part time job that will allow me to take annual leave during potential placement next year. This will probably help with giving me a sense of routine.

and I ruined the relationship I was in because of emotional impulsivity due to lack of sleep.
pretty sure the guy was a dick and that had nothing to do with anything you did
- Agreed.
Your partner being tired from working weird shifts is part of a relationship. Your ex sounded like a dick head. That's not on you. I had a few women break up with me when I was studying and being a bouncer, yeah honey I work thu/fri/sat nights and sleep all day. That's the job, what did you expect?
Takes two to tango. Please, only accept HALF the blame for the 'relationship' failure. At most. I know this is hard, but thinking that everything is your fault and your fault alone is at best 'magical thinking' and at worst can get very dark indeed. Also, lack of sleep is NOT the sole and only cause of emotional ups and downs. You are a good person, dealing with some issues re scheduling of time and energy. Which are solvable.
Seriously have a sit down and push for shifted hours. Just straight up tell them you cannot work these hours any more, don't elaborate why. You don't owe them answers on that front, but you can suggest alternatives. I'm a hardwired nightowl, i've found that starting 10am onwards tends to be a good compromise

And there's a Wattle Festival on in Hurstbridge today. We're planning on that being our morning thing so I better make sure the family are stocked up onantihistamines

I read that as Waffle festival and was very excited for a moment. I definitely need to have breakfast.
- Honestly, why isn't there a waffle festival? You can do so much with them

Who are you supporting?
- carlton

The second round of Weather has coincided with the thankful resolution of 2 hours of panicking over losing my phone and retracing my steps a billion times.

Fittingly, it turns out my phone was lodged in my umbrella... I must've dropped it in there when I left it loosely open and upside down while going to the bathroom or something.

that was a very stressful 2 hours though fuck me.

This lightning is intense

It was frequent enough to read by in burwood and I literally verified that.

One big boom. And…

…..transition into post coital snuggles
.....Carlton's dreams have been crushed.
- Sadly not. Freo didn’t win so Carlton are back.

Beach doggo is a spent doggo

How was he with the storms?
- He's cool with them....sort of comes up to me to tell me about them, if you know what I mean

Power came on and it was a shame in a way because we were having a discussion about the internet: which would you rather, shitty internet or none at all?

was on the train at the door admiring the storm when
some guy next to me started talking about the weather
so i obliged
yes i love thunderstorms
yes i do have an umbrella
and you?
he showed me his
umbrella
opened it too, which is a big nono
it is july in lunar calendar — ghost month
this is how you get ghosts

i took a few more looks at the sky
walked away from him
sat back down

big nono
bad juju.

Good morning

A big thank you to @dumblederp@aussie.zone for hooking me up with an optiplex. It started without a problem and I've got it running how I want it to now.

Time to check out some of the selfhosting communities and see what I can do with this thing

Glad to see it getting some use.

All hail hail

Oh bloody hell the one time I am away for work and I miss all the spring storm excitement. Got lots of cool vic emergency notifications though

Edit: fixed fat thumb typing

I had roast pork for dinner and it was amazing. There is just something special about a good roast.

So worth the effort. :)

Another protest in the city.

But the one thing that caught my eye is the number of Toyota Klugers in the police fleet lined up on the street. And then there's us having to wait months maybe years for a delivery lol.

Think they’ll bail when the rain comes?
What was the protest for?
- Israel and Palestine war. Didn't pay attention to which side it was though, wife and I both starving so we moved quickly.
- Free Palestine rally
  Edit: assuming its the same one anyway. That ended a bit ago now

Looks like the cbd and the inner east copped it. Only minor here in Thornbury. Rain yes, no hail and not much thunder.

I think the dramatic purple section passed a bit to the south of me (outer east). There was lots of dramatic flashes and ominus rumbling but nothing too bad. Maybe getting out the emergency torch etc. warded it off.
It was good times from my apartment

It's started steadily raining now. No sign of thunders yet. I'll keep youse updated. Unless I nap.

Eep. That’s a lot of colour on the radar.
I'm waiting for the rain so I can go for a walk. Fucking love walking in the rain

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BEEP BEEP HELLO BACON
COFFEE FOR SPUD PLS I BE ACHIN'
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Fairy bread & red cordial please
- 🧚🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️🍞🌹🤝
Everything waffle please.
- 🏠🏔️🎠🎢🛣️⌚️💽🧭📺🔌🪛🧱⚙️🔮🧇
Seafood mee goreng and whatever drink goes with it best plz chef
- 🦀🐙🦞🦐🫵🍜🥛
Brussell sprouts ramen and a large champagne please Bacon.
- 🥬🍜
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Ham and cheese jaffle please
- 🍖🧀🥪
Either Udon yasan or sushi Hotaru
- 🍜

5 hours on PT today to see a doctor.

I'm getting myself a cheap car in a few months if everything goes well. Been so fucking long since I've driven. Might need some lessons I think.

Or a small motorcycle/scooter if you don't go anywhere far.
Before covid, did daily round trips CBD-Camberwell. Fuel, insurance, maintenance all up is about the same as a monthly Myki pass.
- Hmm. Maybe a postie bike spray painted black would do...

Market shop great success. I have veg for the week, salami, meat for the week, raspberry tea (love you Polish Shop), dumplings, tortellini and fresh library books.

The guy who runs the Wesh van must really like me. He gave me free mint tea with my lunch

"... dumplings, tortellini... "
In English it's incorrect to list these two like that. Tortellini falls into a subset of 'dumplings', so either don't include it in the list (as you already have by listing dumplings), or specify which other types of dumplings you got as well as the tortellini. 👌
- Mmmm, pedantry. 😁
  Veal tortellini and chicken and shiitake dumplings, listed separately because my ramen’s going to be very weird if I mix them up
- Ask your new co-workers tomorrow what they think of this. Report back.

Japanese curry complete. Food time!

Oooh lightning

Movie Review. Man with the Golden Gun. 1974 Bond Movie.

So boring I feel insulted. Not even Saruman could save this movie.

Sometimes the only reason to pay some attention to these movies is to see what was the fad at the time, in that movie it was king fu, and the gadgets, which at that time would have been really whiz bang and ahead of their time.

lol, in Live and Let Die 1973, bond had a digital watch, it had a red LED display , a few years before the general public had even heard of digital watches

2 hobbits because fiji is pretty

The Hamilton Pulsar P2 2900. Very cool watch but also unusual, in that, Bond traditionally wears Omega or Rolex.
- I is observant if anything. 👍
The old bond movies mostly suck. And that's ignoring the really awful stuff in them like the yellow face in Dr. No or the sexual assault in.. Well a lot of them.
I enjoy the Timothy Dalton ones though.

Now we have big wind

We have hail people.

Skies are dark but I’m getting no action yet. A red blob on the radar is making a bee line for my suburb but we’ll see. Love a good storm.
- Melbourne's own Chook raffle.

Ooly crap, it’s coming down.

I have made a 2nd instant coffee!

Pray for me!

I drink too much coffee and have done for years. But I also drink a shit tonne of green and other teas in the probably misguided belief that I'm balancing it out health wise. You get used to it after a while. When I was a barista people used to ask how many coffees I had per day and I had no idea lol.
- I do drink a lot of coffee normally. Up to 3 or 4 instants on a work day.
  On a weekend it’s one brewed moka pot in a large mug. Sometimes two.
  Today it’s just 2 instants and fairly early so I should be ok.
  Thankfully I don’t suffer from withdrawals.

Thunder is here and lightning too.

I can see purple on the rain radar. This doesn’t bode well.

quiz

25/50 today

40/50 I've surprised myself, some of those were guesses 😬
- I got at least one because I watched The Sound of Music yesterday
40/50. That’ll do me
35/50
Best effort in a while. I'll take that
30 out of 50.
Since the majority were wild guesses and I'm operating on too much stress and not enough sleep, not bad!
35/50 not too bad
20/50
- Good, I can hide with you in the back...
35/50
35/50 my guessing game is good today!

Never realised that Platinum Qantas get shown different flight and pricing options. Was tentatively considering travelling end of year—which I used to—but have avoided like the plague for donkeys. The difference displayed in pricing was 2:1.

I shouldn’t be surprised. I get better treatment on a lower tier by partner airlines internationally compared to flying domestically at home and Qantas planes wouldn’t know what a deep clean was if it hit them on the head.

so you were offered half price?
- Not for me, sadly. Someone else who looked up the flights who has Platinum, it seemed to display cheaper pricing. Not sure why. They’re able to book flights for two for about the price that I was shown for flights for one.

Sky noisy. Miss Meow is not impressed.

Going to the market, does anyone want anything?

Got thunder, lightning, rain. No hail yet. Smells good.

You know what...if I could choose my job again I would be a Minecraft streamer. It relaxes me so much, and I actually find it useful as a mindfulness exercise.

Check out Waxfraud onYouTube for some extreme background chill.

We have sunshine now.

I can just hear the rumbling now. It's gonna be a doozy. GET THE WASHING OFF THE LINE NOW.

Hope we don’t lose power today.

Hoping this storm is an epic one! On a related topic, what happens to Pokemon when theyre inside Pokeballs? Was it ever addressed cannonically? Are they stuck in there like a tiny prison cell, unable to move around or find comfort? Are they put to sleep or induced coma or something? Id like to know

Can vegans play Pokemon??
- I hadn't thought of that before. Wow.
- Given I talk as ll about sending my poor stat ones to the grinder
- No lie, my mother actually tried to ban me from playing/watching Pokemon when I was growing up as she thought it was animal cruelty, on the basis of getting them to fight but also trapping them in little balls

Booooooom.

Pitter patter, pitter patter.

Flash of lightning.

Ditto. One big boom…

Light drizzle here.

Think it fizzled out by the time it came by.

weather gone

Now that was a storm

Too soon?

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