Daily Discussion Thread: Fri 03 Nov 2023

Hallelujah. I can taste my food and my drink. Let us all rejoice. Cheers everybody 🍺

I went down the street. I haven't been out of the house since Monday last week. I haven't touched my weights in 2 weeks. I am tired but I'm still alive. That's my grumble for the day. See youse at beer o'clock.

The first of my raspberries is starting to turn red. I need to get my bags done to cover them ASAP.

Mum watches the news religiously and informed me that amidst Gaza and Hamas and everything, mushroom lady's arrest also made it to BBC World News here in Singapore. ...bet you any such wild revenge story in India or Nigeria wouldn't make it but anyway.

I'd really like one of those robo vacs but little dog would take it as a personal challenge to destroy it. Then I thought if I put a balloon on it, he might just leave it alone because he don't like balloons.

As BOM said, the weather up in Yarrawonga is bloody spectacular! 28 & blue skies. Looks like the Murray is the place to be.

Also, I think my new car was designed for the Hume Fwy. What an absolute pleasure it was to drive up here.

The man and I have made a whole $1.30 in tonight's pocket money. Not a bad effort.

This bottle brush thing has really decided to move this year:

I'm trying to get birds to use the bath but none of them do since the horse was put there.

Few bourbons in the motel, I've done my hair, booked the courtesy shuttle to the club for 6:30pm and I'm looking forward to my succulent Chinese meal. The Oriental Pearl goes hard. Going to enter the raffle and see if I can win me whatever it is they're giving away (hopefully not a meat platter).

Bonus pineapple shirt/cream shorts/bourbon combo pic

So, my work has bought in a new call centre manager, to help us re-structure how KPIs are reported, ensure coverage on the phones, etc etc. The business wants to grow so this guy is here to provide his experience and expertise to help.

One of the issues is missed or lost calls; a call will bounce between us until someone answers, or the customer hangs up. If they hang up, it's a missed or lost call.

This manager fellow sends an email that literally says:

"Yesterday we got through the entire day with only 1 missed call and yet today we have already hit 5. I would love a logical explanation if possible on this."

It's his job to figure that out (and the issue is obvious, if we're all on calls how do we pick up another) but his tone is so damn snarky and immature. It feels accusatory, when everyone taking calls is doing their best.

Guess I'll be looking for a different job, while I keep my head down here. He seemed nice, but this is so unprofessional in my opinion.

Idk, thoughts?

Exam one done! One more assessment to go, then my degree is done!

Oh, and fuck the BBC for not making Classic Doctor Who available on Disney+ for no discernible reason. There aren't any deals to navigate with it; there isn't anywhere to stream it (or hell, watch it legally)! I want to support that content, just make it available.

Bought a couple pairs of socks yesterday! Quite like the one on the right

Moobeans has been hoovering up the tiny expensive tins of low nutritional value and mostly ignoring her nutritionally balanced biscuits. And while springwater tuna is cheaper it’s basically the same thing.

I saw a big can of Smitten tuna cat food claiming to have vitamins and with no chicken listed (which is rare as they normally all have it) … I just hope it’s not like the Snappy Tom naturals which didn’t list poultry but caused a reaction just the same.

Fingers crossed the single can I bought to try works out. I’m a bit concerned it’s not great quality but either it at least fills up those hollow little legs and gives some vitamins while I sort out what’s up or it causes a painful code brown and I never buy it again :(

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble

I just ate a whole packet of Oreos for lunch

daylightcomeandmewangohome

Got a refund from a cancelled insurance policy and the buggers sent a cheque. What am I supposed to do with that? No branch close by and they had my direct debit info.

Sat down to watch a movie after dinner and the whole router shat itself and no devices can access the internet. It's still down but it thinks everything is normal 😵

Hopefully in the morning it's fixed by internet goblins

Time to start curating your collections on steam peeps. Because fuck steam. Deliberately disabling access to shit you've already bought is the highest order of bullshit

(GOG offer online and standalones of anything you've bought JSYK)

Yipe. The long weekend price rise has already started at the petrol station near me - 225.9. wince. Fortunately I managed to fill up cheaper down the road, as Felicia was just about on fumes.

ooo handy what can / cant get you a 10c deposit. Searchable database!

(turns out big M cartons are a noooope)

I bought some cheese and bacon rolls today and I have to say Coles have gone a bit lean on the bacon part. 😔

Also Burger Rings are no longer flavourful. 😔

So what's something that has disappointed you lately? Could be anything.

Ok I’m off to the races tomoz so I need some practice.

🍻cheers darlings🍻

This perma grey weather is quite shit and I'm over it.

Gardening Australia is such a good show ey.

Don’t normally watch horror movies because I scare easily, but it the spirit of Halloween watched The Popes Exorcist. It was a bit yawn. Russell Crowe has sure fallen from his glory days.

I've got a 4 day weekend this weekend and absolutely no idea what to do with it or what would make me happy. Sigh.

Mask making continues. I'm at the sewing the sides together stage.

Since Dr Who has been brought up. I have some books to possibly sell, but am mega not looking forward to the online faff about. Anyone?

I think I have the start of an idea for the weekend. I haven't taken my drone out of its bag for about 11 months so maybe I'll go find somewhere pretty to fly it. This time I'm going to be smart about it and remember to fire it up at home first to make sure I have all of the latest updates it needs. Got caught out last time I flew and had to do some IT in the field to get it flying.

Edit: got it worked out. The weather is going to be meh down here until Sunday so I'm going to go and chase the sun. I was looking at the NSW coast but the weather sucks up there too. Same deal along the Victoria southern coast. It looks like the good weather is along the Murray (27/28 & sunny) so I'm about to have a shower then spend 2 nights in Yarrawonga and reassess from there. Maybe I'll come home Sunday, maybe I'll move along the border up there for another night or two.. who knows? Guess we'll find out. ADVENTURE!

So that best seller La Roche-Posay sunscreen is $3.60 for a 5mL dose. That's enough for just your face for just 2 hours of sun exposure. Who the hell is buying it?

Just a heads up slower/cheaper nbn plans (25 to 50 Mbps) across all providers will go up in price very soon if they have not already by 5 to 10 dollars a month.

I wonder when The Strokes and AM will come back to Melbs. I went to the Arctic Monkeys concert earlier this year, best time of my life. They were unreal live 😍

On repeat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-W6whvn8Bs

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critical mistake. Used the airblower to clear off the dirt the dogs dug onto the pergola. The hayfever from the dust is intense!

Long weekend! I have a lot of cleaning/domestic duties to take care of, as for the past month I’ve been saying that job X and job Y can wait to the long weekend. And now they’ve banked up. For tonight I will be knocking back a few and chilling. So very needed. Burger craving to be satisfied.

cooking ( curry and fenugreek naans ) eating and dishes done

now for some music and more sewing

Work is extra slow right now, but definitely on cards to ramp up after the long(ish) weekend.

We're also in the midst of the a restructure and it's very obvious which people have been made redundant. Completely disengaged (can't blame them) but still in critical roles.

Are those $100 vacuums that Kmart sells any good? My current one might be on its way out, so I'm looking into a reasonably cheap replacement.

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I, somehow have managed to lose my unused Turkish towel I bought on holidays in Freo last year. I am so annoyed and can’t for the life of me figure out where I might have left it.

What happened to @PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ?