Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 6/7/2023
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 6/7/2023
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So how’s it going?
Nobody will care, but I'm struggling to concentrate at work because I bought a new MTB and it arrived sooner than expected.
Here I sit, while it awaits my attention in the garage at home, all by itself in a strange new environment.I did consider pulling a sickie, but I'm not like that (karma, superstition, etc...). So, I'll put in a leave day tomorrow for a long weekend. Nonetheless, I'm gonna be as productive as a carrot today.
8I hate that feeling. Used to get mail delivered to work and sometimes they show up in the morning. Having to wait all day to play with new toys is excruciating.
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My kid woke me up at 3:30 this morning for snuggles. I didn't get back to sleep til 6 but he certainly got a sleep 😬
It's struggle town at work today
7I bet the snuggles were nice though
2Nothing like lying in bed with your kid, they are back to sleep, you can't move or it will wake them, and they reach out their leg and loop it over yours, then slowly over the next hour slowly twist themselves around until their heel is kicking you in the face. Brings back memories.
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Get on the bus. Hmm, weird feeling in my stomach, but I did skip breakfast.
Sit down at the office. Ok definitely feeling a bit nauseous now.
Un-ideal.
6Morena!
It's almost the weekend! Anyone have exciting plans?
I might take a trip up north to see the new motorway between WW and Puhoi. It's about time I took my bike out again too
6Hmmm, good idea. I haven't driven the new motorway.
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I finally got a VM spun up on one of the servers....I will be setting up my engineering workstation.....so installing software for the next two days (at least)
6The novelty of winter has worn off, and I would like to be warm now please.
6Request denied.
5Having lived in a place where winter means everything gets blanketed in snow, I find there's not much novelty to the NZ winter :(
4Up in Auckland, and it's been great having some sun today. Forecast says we're in for some wet and miserable again soon though :(
3The sun is out in the South of the South Is. Beautiful day.
3Yeah it came out in Christchurch eventually, so I'm starting to defrost a bit finally
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Spent the last couple of evenings trying to get myself acquainted with Anno. Both times I've found myself back to playing good ol' Rise of Nations again. I'm still to find an RTS game that comes close to RoN...
4I wish I could help you but Rise of Nations was awesome. I guess it still is! I've got no suggestions for anything better. I used to plan LAN with the flatmates but that was an age ago.
3Rise of Nations.. now that's a game I've not thought of in a long time. I distinctly remember using cheats and dropping nukes everywhere.
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Computer says no
2Meta by way of Instagram throwing it's hat into the social content aggregator ring: https://help.instagram.com/788669719351544
2It's absolutely horrifying to browse. It reads like one of those fake twitters you find in a videogame.
Just a bunch of brand accounts and preselected celebrites all there with carefully crafted jokes about how it's the new place to be
3There's previously been a bit of a discussion on it here (but more focused on whether we should federate with them or not): https://lemmy.nz/post/103679
It seems they aren't federating at the beginning so we will see how it gets on. Honestly I thought the beginning would be when they most needed us.
1It'll be interesting how it's going to play out
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