Discussion Thread ๐ Wednesday 14 May 2025
Discussion Thread ๐ Wednesday 14 May 2025
Discussion Thread ๐ Wednesday 14 May 2025
There's a couple of projects happening near my train station so the carparks are filled with trades. Had to park a bit further than usual and missed my regular train by like a minute.
I don't know these new train people. They're not my regulars!!!
Spent the entire ride judging them so hard.
6:30 Train people for ever!!!!
6:37 Train people might as well be sewer mutants!
Beep Beep and a round of applause for Chef StudSpud The Starchy who performed most excellently during our absence ๐๐๐๐๐๐
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Two shots of vodka, stewed prunes and a stargazer pie, please.
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Caviar on toast please.
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Hmmm. Jellied eels and a cup of weak tea, three sugars and milk ta love
Jellied eels
hrmm
Just looking at a few pictures of that..
hrmmm
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I had one of those "I need to make a sudden life change" dreams.
I wonder how things will play out.
I had a dream that I was in a car and we were all randomly stressed and then a little tuxedo kitten literally fell from the sky through the window on my lap. I think someone somewhere was sending me a hug.
Or that you need a tuxedo kitten in your life.
I've been craving a change for like a month now. New job, new phone, new bed new SOMETHING. Even just rearranging a room might be nice. i haven't done it yet cause I'm trying to understand the impulse.
Am listening to Mushroom Case daily.
Anyone got an equivalent podcast for the Diddy trial? Stuck at home for a while, need trashy entertainment....
The Trial of Diddy perhaps?
Haven't listened to it, but it came up on the search ๐
The Case Against podcasts might be good yoo
One of the boys had a fever and had to be picked up from childcare early on Monday. This resulted in the week up until now just being a fog of Trying To Get Things Done. Things are somewhat back to normal so we'll see how things play out.
I got Bazzite working on the old work laptop. Silly me didn't disable Secure Boot. It loads straight into Steam Big Picture on startup, so I wouldn't use this version as my daily driver, but it would be great for handhelds and loungeroom PCs.
Also, Sleep Token have dropped a new album. I know some people on here dig them. I'm listening to it now.
Missing ballot papers found at election workers home
Love it when ads line up with content like that ๐
I did the training, I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to happen.
They were already counted ballots so not a massive deal - no missing votes phew
Given the outcome, would it have really made a difference?
Belated thanks to our local Witch for the motivation brew. It's taken a while to kick in for me as it usually is, but here I am finally sat in the uni library with a blank Word document open! And a tab open to ChatGPT where I'm about to explain what my project is about and to please help break me out of my stupid block to just start writing.
Edit: who knew that just having ChatGPT just open and trying to draft up a question on how to structure one section would do the job - ended up smashing out dot points for the intro and aims in one hour. Now onto the method section (should be easiest to fill out) and then sketching out the results section to discuss with supervisor tomorrow.
Oh that's awesome! It's so painful when you just can't concentrate on THE THING. Once you find that trick that lets you lock in and focus its all go. Hope its a downhill run now
Gosh yes that wall of inertia might as well be the entire Himalayan range for how seemingly endless and insurmountable it is. As always, time pressure (meeting with supervisor tomorrow) really, really helps...
I've also had a second coffee today which is 99% of the time a bad idea but it's helped me push on - I've accepted I will be periodically frying my nervous system for the next several weeks to get this goddamn thing finished.
At least I've picked up a whole lot of ready to eat food today so I can not think about cooking for a while! I do need to cook this salmon I bought on Sat evening though...
I was at a PD presentation today and then later on had a look at the Other Place (using my phone), and up popped an ad for the very specific thing the PD was about.
I didnโt google anything related to the topic, and only used my phone to check messages a couple of times.
That was a little too much of a coincidence. Bloody technology, snooping on me. Very creepy indeed.
They say the apps don't need to use your microphone to listen in and present you ads but this sort of thing happens far too often.
One time my girlfriend showed me something on her phone and I started getting ads on mine. Either they're listening or they're scanning faces and delivering ads to known friends
just tried guzman y gomez for the first time, and I am full of regret and resentment.
I still haven't been and it doesn't sound like I will be.
LOVE GyG personally!
To me itโs ok but nothing to rave about.
It's the better fast food Mexican place. It earns some respect for allegedly being one of the reasons Taco Bell failed here, so that's nice
Thanks for the warning.
The margarita slushy is alright
OK fuck it. Doom the dark ages is pre-loading.
It's been a rough couple of weeks.
ookay, now I just have to book to NZ ๐ early july here I come ๐
Bring a jumper :)
So excited for you!
Finally figured out why I don't feel like I fit in, in the role.
I'm the only guy here who does not wear RM Williams boots.
I swear it's like a uniform.
Boots must really help when trying to herd emails or if an errant teams message hopped a fence.
RMW/Northface clone army
Haven't seen the puffers out yet, but getting ready for them.
Surely they go the RMs because they're one of the few brands that still use Goodyear welts on the soles so you can replace them. Not any fake poser reasons at all, surely...
Gotta be the main reason. That, and only that.
Turn up in RMs AND moleskin pants and one-up them severely
Don't forget the red/white calfskin vest and the big belt buckle. Cos the bigger the belt buckle, the smaller the property ...
Cat had a bad dream :(
Didn't know that was a thing that happened.
aw, poor sweetie,
Anyone want a gratitude thread? I feel like I've been looking at life through a negative lens lately, which doesn't really help.
So I'm going to start this thread. I am grateful for the beautiful autumn leaves I saw on my walk today. I will show photos next time, as the ones I took today made my location identifiable to any georainbolts out there.
I am grateful for Melbourneโs coffee
Do you have any recommendations that you wouldn't mind sharing?
I've wanted to mention I'm grateful for the community. Everyone's so great on here, I've been able to ask questions, get insights from people, and just keep up with what others have been getting up to. It's been nice
I love this community!
I am grateful I can go to bed shortly and close the door on this shitty fucking day.
Have a good sleep
I am grateful for the frozen calamari I forgot I had in the fridge.
I recently had some surgery (Iโm ok, nothing life threatening), and I am very grateful and appreciative of the lovely nurses who looked after me. They were wonderfully kind and skilled, eased my anxieties and made me comfortable. A very big grateful shout out for all the amazing nurses out there, they make such a difference when youโre feeling vulnerable.
I am grateful for my beautiful friend who I had coffee with today, their continued love and support has been a mainstay in my life.
I am grateful for the some what subsidence of this awful headache. Also that my new door arrives at 7am tomorrow so I don't waste the whole day playing wait for the Tradie.
I am grateful for frozen veggies, letting me get some easy nutrition in when I can't be bothered.
I'm also grateful for video calls. I have a meeting tonight for a volunteer gig and once I would've had to drive a fair distance and then probably freeze in a cold hall to take part. Instead I can participate at home in my slippers with the heater going.
Today as my train was travelling thru marshland on the way to the city I saw a group of spoonbill birds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_spoonbill
Swam for the first time in a long tome monday. Can I go again today or should I give it another rest day?
I vote tomorrow. Twice a week is plenty for returning to exercise.
yeah can always go friday I guess. Gives it a bit longer recovery.
How do you feel? I vote go again unless you're feeling particularly wrecked, in which case I still say go again but take it easy, just enough to move!
arms are a bit sore tbh.
got nearly a full packet of those tiny aldi chocolate chips that are stale and soggy. Surely I can do something to turn them into some muffins or a cake or something?
Microwave mug cakes. Iโd suggest hot chocolate or something to use it faster but choc chips are designed to hold their shape and donโt melt well
how many cookies to milk ratio?
I'm all set up for getting in the house to be on hard mode again tonight - a few pieces of furniture, a floor lamp and a dog door insert are all waiting for me. I think it will mostly need to be carried straight back out the van so I can take it up to Ballarat, I don't really have room in the house.
Autocorrect strikes again! Betcha it was 'disused'. Or possibly used for storing medical samples in petri dishes.
"I don't really want to get rid of this fridge but I told you I'd advertise it and now I have."
Covid theorists in overdrive right now...
Iโm a grumpy little trash goblin today.
I'm a grumpy little trash goblin most days. Even on these days with perfect weather...
High five, fellow grumpy little trash goblin. The perfect weather is making worse.
Iโm grumpy every morning before my coffee.
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Saaaaaaaame.
It appears it's been long enough since I used a meal delivery service that I'm eligible for the free boxes again. I've ordered a few to make it a bit easier to juggle packing etc. over the next few weeks. Then when I've moved I'll have a shiny new address and should be eligible for more free boxes there. This will soothe the aggravation I felt after paying for a box and then receiving coupons for free boxes to give to everyone else.
Melbcat came over to a visitor for pats and reached up trying to get in their lap! She needed to be lifted for a cuddle but after they got up she jumped into the empty chair independently.
I didnโt think she was interested in getting up there anymore or had the mobility but maybe now I need to get a pet ramp and even buy a comfier (and destroyable) chair for her.
I wish sheโd take her 4cyte. That on top of the solensia and sheโd be able to climb the walls!
Edit: Sheโs still relaxing in her chair
Tea really aint cutting it. Do I double down and grab another or do I just jump straight to coffee?
Skip the coffee, just do meth ๐ซ
I'm STILL craving a smoke bloody 10 years after my last one and i was only ever a drunk smoker (IE the worst kind, bumming one off mates). Addictive personality says maybe meth aint a good idea lol.
Combine them both and have a cup of tee. Or would it be Coffea?
Coffee
blew nearly 60 bucks on food at gold class so decided to cheap out and go the tea. 2nd black tea worked fine.
oh. oh.
Did you go to bed with wet hair?
That was not me, it popped up on my Reddit feed from a cleaning sub. Apparently the guy has been putting some sort of hair wax in his bed every night before bed. The advice was that it can't be cleaned and to wax the whole headboard so it matches.
Oh ew. Looks like a dog's cocked it's leg.
It does look pretty awful. It's apparently real leather and very expensive too. I'm glad I stuck with wood.
Exhausted today. Woke up around 11 times in 8 hours.
I'm getting close to the edge of how much I can take.
been assessed for sleep apnea? a couple of mates said their diagnosis changed their lives.
When I was unemployed I didn't have enough to eat so I was waking up hungry.
This is why. Except now I'm not hungry but my body thinks it needs to wake up.
Crazy that I had people in my life I considered family at the time.
Life is wild.
so many hugs
may I suggest a diary so you can see any patterns during the day that might be contributing to such bad sleep
I might give that a go.
I have one last possibility I can't test until the weekend. If it's not that then I'm at a loss.
I can't believe I've been functioning for almost a year without a full night's sleep the entire time.
Coming home on the train. The stops and places didn't worry me, I did get a little start when a darkish bloke with a black hoodie, tee and black backpack got on.
I'll be ok. It was just a bloke
tall, dark hair, dark beard, a Mediterranean complexion , indeed, because it was a bloke that looked like that committed an act of extremist xian motivated terrorism when I was on the train on Saturday. That's the description I gave police, as well as another witness.
look up my post history
it was just a bloke, that one bad individual who did it , many men wear black and have black backpacks, there is no need to worry
We do tend to prioritise past experience over objective assessment. Understandable that this should have disturbed you. Kudos to you for applying rational assessment. Can take some time to make this stick though, so don't be surprised if these feelings happen again. Breathe deeply.
Today I am reading Iss. 128 of Philosophy Now , an issue dedicated to all the philosophical, moral and societal questions discussed and raised in the novel and movies Frankenstein. ๐ง๐งโโ๏ธ๐ง