Daily Discussion Thread: Thu 07 Dec 2023

Welcome to Numbat Facts.

Numbats are the only member of the family Myrmecobiidae. This saves them a great deal of money not buying presents this time of year.

Just signed a new contract today.

Pay rise before Christmas, yaaaaas

I shot my first fly!!!

Sky pretty

Dins!

Again not a soul on that beach was perfect.

Rothenburg Christmas market! Unfortunately it closed so early that we didn’t get to go to it after dinner, which was sad. Also the famous Plonlein. Rothenburg is so beautiful. If you like beautifully preserved medieval walled cities, this is a gem.

Walking the doggo and a fly went up my nose....and didn't come out. I guess that's it then. It's been nice knowing you all.

I don't want to take anything away from the numbats appreciation week but can we spend a moment admiring the late David Bowie's fashion sense. It's quite a mild look this month.

when netflix fucked off password sharing, we cancelled our subscription.

I'm house sitting for a friend for a few days, and have just spent about half an hour mindlessly scrolling netflix and can't find a single thing I want to watch that I haven't already seen.

I feel even better about my decision.

Edit: I lied, I half-heartedly watched the Beckham thing

Dinner has been eaten and I'm still hungry. I was very close to eating the portion set aside for lunch tomorrow.

I think this calls for an emergency apple crumble. With custard.

Geez this flight to Canberra is packed and hot! Pretty chuffed with myself that I got everything done on time - dishes, bins, all the packing, really glad for this baggage scale I got from my brother as the gate staff were steadfastly checking all the carry on bags... For a 42 minute flight. Even though I don't have the satisfaction of having finished all my work projects I'm glad to be getting away!

This is a PSA. The BBL (big bash league) starts tonight at 7:30 with Brisbane Heat and Melbourne Stars. I know what youse are thinking yeah we love cricket but for those who have never watched it's a 20/20 game that's quick, fun and you get to watch a lot of slogs into the stands for charity.

Some players are mic-ed up and have a little banter with the commentators for a real feel good game. So guys get on it and support one of our Melbourne teams. Either the Melbourne Stars (green) or the Melbourne Renegades (red).

P.s. Stars home ground is the MCG. The Renegades is at Marvel. Melbourne and Sydney are the only 2 states to have 2 teams in the comp.

Sat as a passenger in a Tesla for a fair bit today and it's honestly mind boggling how so many people want to have a car with a giant arse touchscreen and almost no physical controls. There is way too much going on in that screen.

😹 going through my folders and found this old collaborative thingamybob. Peacocks, cowboy aliens, dinosaurs, and a FSM dispensing much plonk.

Welcome to my brain, it is a tad different

Work Christmas party tomorrow. 12.30 knock off and free calories. excellent 👌 Edit: it also seems to be the season indeed. Few work mates and I all wanted after works drinks and the first two places we tried were reserved for private functions!

It would be really nice if something encouraging happened. Just saying

have had to start using Firefox as YT is becoming unusable on chrome

The Minipeelers have a curriculum day today due to the school concert last night, so I have one element of my morning hustle eliminated. I get to enjoy breakfast, get myself ready for work and swan off 🦢

School concert was pretty funny in parts.. hats off to the enthusiastic fortnite dancing of grade one boys dressed as spiderman, brought the house down!

Be me,

Kinda chillin', a little nervous as the first of a new server build is shipping to site today (and this thing is an entirely bespoke build, from chassis to OS)

husband bursts in
HEYBARTYOUWANNASEEMYNEWCHAINSAWANDHOCKEYMASK OH GOD OH GOD I FUCKED UP THE DOWN PAYMENT FOR THE AIRCON IS DUE TODAY AND ITS $63 OVER 10K BUT WE HAVE A LIMIT OF 10K EXTERNAL TRANSFERS PER DAY ON THE ACCOUNT AND THE BANK TAKES 24 HOURS TO PROCESS A LIMIT LIFT FIXITFIXITFIXITFIXIT

Punkin: I am a cat. I detect this is now the perfect time to be an arsehole, for I am a cat with finely tuned reflexes, let me JUMP ON YOUR DESK AND FLATTEN YOUR KEYBOARD AS IF FIRED FROM A CANNON mwahahahahaha moustache twirl

Bastards are lucky I got the mum friend gene is all I'm sayin'.

So I finally finished Only Murders in the Building. Maaaan that was not the best season hey. It lost so much of itself. I mean, they hardly did any podcasting at all. Hope they can right the ship for season 4.

Darebin Library has stopped using Libby and just supports BorrowBox now. Kobo's can't run BorrowBox - this was the whole reason I bought a Kobo for my kid - boo Darebin - booooooooooooooooooooooo

Don't forget errybody today is HOT TAKE THURS. Don't hold back.

I missed a few this week Sun. through Wed. so we're working on that for next week.

Does it seem the weather forecasts have been way off lately to anyone else? For instance today was meant to be a top of 25 and I think it only got to 21.

Google's Gemini is seriously impressive. It's insane how quickly this AI boom has progressed and I can't wait to see the next 12 months of it.

Chag sameach For those who do 🕯️

Found someone selling these goofy ass posters. I'm thinking of getting the banana and the lemon one perhaps. Are they too goofy or just the right amount 🤪

64kwh yesterday. Jeeebly chreebles.

Sunset sushi is on the beach tonight

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Let U know.. which brings us to today's rave choon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC6daj__8ec

hot marge tomorrow

New cat toys from daiso have been obtained 😀😸

I may have had some tasty beverages.

oops i overnapped
dindin time

I’m trying to think of a way to ask the owner of the cattery about what happened during my cat’s stay without sounding aggressive or like a Karen. They seem like they could get prickly.

I genuinely just want to know what happened there.

I thought I’d prepared her well for her stay and covered all bases and they told me she was being so good but if she was repeatedly soiling in her carrier and had an asthma attack something was stressing her to the extreme. And the soiling wasn’t even mentioned or addressed, she just came home in a soaked reeking carrier.

I don’t know if I should send her back there.

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The Reddit Recap is one of the most underwhelming things I've ever seen. It has also angered me.

I normally have trouble with staying under the word count with assignments, but right now I have an answer that needs to be 100-250 words and I've only managed to stretch it to 21. Maybe I need coffee.