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  • Second last walk / ball throwing adventure for hams.

    3 days of 1.5hrs of pure ball throwing until he refuses in the morning, 1.5hrs of ball throwing / socialising with other doggos in the evening seems to be a solid strategy with him.

    Also had a pug and sausage dog have a go at him and he freaked out a bit which is a bit ridiculous. The pug was so imbred it could hardly breathe.

    then he complains about leaving the dog park only to walk home at a snails pace and collapse in the kitchen.

  • My shingles is scabbing, but due to the location it keeps cracking open and weeping, and it's making me fucking miserable. Also, keeping the heating on to keep me warm while I can't really wear a shirt is making my skin awfully dry, which is making my other skin problems play up.

    I just want it to be over, but I was warned it may be a long time before that happens... ughhhhhhhhhhh

    Sorry for the whinge.

    • There is a thing called Pinetarsol which might be allowed. It helps itch, but fucking stinks so pick your annoyance I guess

      • Strangely enough I quite like the tar smell. Am I weird?

      • I've been instructed to basically leave it alone, unfortunately, it's just me and the odd oatmeal bath.

        On another note I will say that I like Pinetarsol, I use it every spring when my skin stuff gets out of control with allergies and whatnot.

    • Would calamine lotion help or even paw paw ointment?

      • I was instructed not to do too much to them, I am allowed oatmeal baths though. It seems that it's a suck-it-up sort of thing once it starts to scab.

  • Oh Botty

    Well, you came and you posted our Daily

    We did while you were away

    Oh Botty

    Well, you've worked and you stopped us from posting

    And we thank you today

    Oh Botty

  • Incoming pity party: made it to the interview stage of a role that I really felt aligned so well with my skillset only to be told today that again, I was the runner up and there was just someone better. I really had to fight the urge not to full-on cry on the phone when they told me because I was so devastated. I was basically manifesting in my head my future with this job all week (probably not the best idea) because I thought I was such a good candidate and thought the interview went well. It's very rare for these roles to appear that suit my experience so I really felt almost like it was made for me but now all that hope is....gone. The only feedback they could give was just it went to someone who had different organizational skills so now I feel like maybe I just suck at what I do if there's people out there who can do it better.

    • Net hugs

    • Could they give you any further or more specific feedback? It’s so difficult when that happens, but given what you’ve said I don’t think it would hurt to say that and try to get some more information?

      Hopefully this just means a better opportunity elsewhere for you. 🤞🏻

  • Sigh I think I'm about to get dressed and go to impulse-buy a PS5 coz the Spider-Man 2 bundle is on sale and I want it. I guess it's not an impulse-buy considering I've thought about it for months but I didn't plan on buying a PS5 today or even this year when I woke up this morning.

    Let's just call it a reward for having my apartment and car clean and my life more organised or something.

  • Beautiful moment in the CBD. At the tramstop at the top end of Collins st waiting for my tram. On the opposite tramstop a late middle aged gent in jeans and a band tshirt with fairy wings on his back - dancing to music only he could hear. And the son of a gun could dance pretty good. Felt like joining in, but was carrying too much shopping.

  • Still no wallet.

    I’ve backtracked all my stops since I know I last had it, I’ve been to the cop shop to ask if it’s been handed in, I’m tearing my house apart…

    WHERE IS IT

    • At this point it doesn’t matter unless the object has sentimental value. Cancel every card you have!

  • 1964 The House Of The Rising Sun The best karaoke song of all time. You bet I belted that one out. The door's open so the neighbours got to hear. Lucky ducks.

    P.S. Everytime I call for an intermission the man plays Metallica.

    • That song is one of the few I can comfortably sing and carry the tune.

      I'm not sure if this was a number one hit but Shelter from the Storm - Bob Dylan, slaps like few others do

    • If its available, Do Wah Diddy is a super easy option. You only have to sing every second line (the crowd will enthusiastically fill in the rest), the vocal range required is really easy, and the song only goes for 2 minutes.

      My last girlfriend before I met my wife was Filipina and well, the Karaoke stereotype in that community is real. I had to build a small repertoire of things I could be dragged out to sing.

  • Finished binding the edges of my fave quilt, it was getting a bit frayed, and then washed it. More masks have been made. Made some scones for afternoon tea. Still heaps to do. 🥴

  • So much to do and it's already one of those days. I sewed a button onto the wrong side of the cuff. 🤓 Bought dark green ribbon for a belt instead of black

  • I feel like I’m in limbo at the moment.

    I have no motivation or/and no idea what I want to do right now.

    Only thing on my mind is making a coffee at the moment and sipping it.

    Argh! I hate when I feel like this

    • Go for a walk and fight a senior citizen.

      Absolutely no downside and it's good exercise.

      • I feel like that might give me living nightmares if I did something like that.

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  • Welp... I bought a PS5 during my lunch break. Now to be fair, it's $679, the disc version AND I get Spider-Man 2 for free (for non-gamers, Spider-Man 2 came out less than a month ago and it's usually priced between $100 and $125 depending on where you get it from). I mean I put it all on Afterpay, but I only have to spend $169.75 every fortnight so yay!

    Besides I also don't have to a) borrow my partner's PS5 when I put my hand up to review a PS5 game for my 2nd job b) when PS5 exclusive games are up for review I can actually do it without having to worry about a. and c) Play PS5 games when I want and don't have to wait every 2nd weekend for my partner to bring their PS5 or I go to their place and play it.

    • If you review games for a job, this is a work expense. Claim that $679 on tax.

      • I wish I could put it as a work expense. It's a volunteer position, so while I see it as a job, it's not a paying job (which is fine, I knew that going in, but I get video games in exchange so yeah). But man that'd be so bloody helpful!

    • Heyyyy twinsies!!

      • Look at us!

        Edit: Okay looked at your comment about you picking one up, but like totally agree with you on the whole "not so much an impulse purchase, but also kind of is" because yeah I knew that once I got my job I would look into getting a PS5 (also looking into the ROG Ally, but hopefully we'll get news about the Steam Deck coming to Aus... one of these days), but I didn't think today I would get it. But well look at that! Very keen to pick mine up tomorrow (or today I guess), annoying thing is, is that it doesn't fit in our TV console. It's one of those Ikea 1x1 square shelving unit things on its side.

    • Does this make 2 DTers that have bought PS5s today?

      • I think so... It's got me thinking maybe I should make it 3

      • Not surprised more people got it. A friend of mine got one too. Considering that PS5's are now more readily available than they were previously.

  • Two interviews lined up for today. Just when I had decided I was going to try the world of freelancing, my current work asked if I was interested in doing a secondment outside of my organisation (which could turn into a permanent job). Maybe I am. AND then a job I applied for a while ago has come out of the woodwork. Is the world trying to tell me something?

  • Noodling around and saw that old 7 Red Lines video turn up in suggested on YouTube. I clearly blanked out the INHUMANE PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE that is watching that video because I stupidly clicked and only made it halfway through before ragequitting and now I have all this pent up fury and trauma.

  • Finished my Jane Eyre (2006) rewatch, now to not let myself watch everything Ruth Wilson has ever done (again), that woman is insane.

    Honestly, the chemistry in the 2006 version is absolutely off tits, and for that reason alone it will always be my favourite adaptation of Jane Eyre.

  • Damn FRL, is it happening or is it not, what a shambles. I'm gonna guess their usual council contact has changed and they've fucked up the permit application with no Mr Niceguy to smooth things over.

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