Daily discussion thread: 🤕 Monday, April 22, 2024

Tunnel progress.

Was feeling antsy about my job situation but just heard from my ex colleague about how ex-boss is continuing to be unreasonably snarky and critical to the point that he is pretty much just quiet quitting now despite being one of the most reliable and consistent people in the team. I feel relieved and vindicated in my decision to leave even though I didn't have anything lined up after for a while.

I'm so annoyed right now.. moved into a new role and workload is fucked. It's not going well. Management is ignoring it.

Also a massive massive thing has come about from a client I initially spoke with, spoke to a lawyer about (where another colleague didn't bother), it's now turned into possibly a class action, or at least a shit tonne of work for our firm. I'm getting no shout outs or anything for me recognising the potential. Not even from my direct management.

Had a pizza for lunch. Drying laundry in the sun.

Making a cup of coffee and just relaxing today.

Bottoms log, star date 000002...

The 1 month outta date lasagne use by was ruse likely pedalled by the Big Lasagne cartel.

All systems nominal.

I think it was ok for Arj Barker to ask the crying baby to leave. No hate for kids, but if you take your baby to a comedy show, or any theatre show, and it’s making noise please gracefully exit and let the performers do their craft and people watch the show uninterrupted. Hundreds of people paid for tickets to see a show, not listen to a grumbling baby.

I think the Christian name resume is working... Interesting.

I've fallen into the trap of giving Melbcat a treat any time I eat a peppermint or a cracker... she now tells me when it's time for a treat and is trying to get me to feed her the whole bag. I don't think I run this house anymore...

A small tunnel mysteriously appeared in the lounge room while Miss Meow was napping. She has so far determined it does not seem to be a threat and gone back to bed. Time will tell whether it is worthy of more interaction later.

I swear these appear earlier and earlier before Easter every year..

Bill Cat fast asleep just sprawled out on the floor

Got removalists arranged. Phew.
Attempts to sell extra furniture are proving futile thus far - one secondhand place fiddled me around for ages before saying no and am waiting on another. A couple more avenues of enquiry... argh. Also hard rubbish has been rearranged, partly because I didn't leave enough room for the bins and partly because it'd been messed up when people rummaged through it. grumble

Mrs has got the car fixed. Damage wasn't as bad as it looked apparently, it was the material of the chair disintegrating on the panel itself thank god. Car's looking brand new again. I thought maybe we'd learnt out lesson, then she almost took out a cupboard in the garage. Far out man.

The price of my private health insurance (with extras) keeps on going up and up to the point where I don't get enough value out of it anymore. Looking at options for just having basic hospital/ambulance cover and it's still so expensive. Almost $100 a month. Having insurance seems like a luxury these days.

out all day yesterday and dehydration headache was not fun

Our favourite air freshener appears to be out of stock everywhere. Woolies and Coles list it as unavailable at all the stores. Bunnings are saying it's deleted. The website is still up, but I think they're going out of business.

This is devastating. I've been using this brand since I met my wife, no idea how long she's been using it. I'm at the point where I'll buy every bottle a store has - 5 year's supply if I must rather than trying to find something else.

I can't stop laughing at this pic and I don't know why lol

🚨🚨alert! Unauthorised facial hair deletion. Who is this weird teenager?! Stranger Danger! 🚨🚨

One of those days where it feels like the universe is just having a good laugh at me!

I was just about to go to sleep and I got another one of those Medicare phishing messages. Just like last time I reported it through phish.report. pretty much a carbon copy of the last one on friday. With a bit of luck it will probably either be moved into client hold or blocked by safe browsing before all the normies start waking up.

I really wish there was something done about phone number spoofing. I imagine it would become substantially harder for them if these drongos had to actually be A. Within Australia, B. Provide ID, and C. Be subject to the same limits as everyone else

I've got my kids' laptop to auto login to their user and got Gcompris to startup as a default program. I should put an ad on marketplace to convert people's old laptops into learning centres for their kids

I swear Mrs Field’s cookies are just depressing now. I used to love their standard choc chip one. They were so sadly pathetic, small, mis-shapened…

I couldn’t bring myself to buy one. What happened? 😭

I very rarely go on the train. Had to change trains at Richmond en route to the Car on the other side of town. Got to see a lovely contrast of technology, a shiny and quiet new HCMT gliding in like it's the shit, a doddery old diesel V/Line on the next platform, and my train is an old Alstom that looks like a cheap tin can on the outside (I hate the corrugated look) and doesn't sound nearly as quiet as Shiny New Train...

Anyway, this might be the last time I take the train in quite a while. It's pretty cool people watching. There is a guy whose hair is a messy, matted nest, with uneven facial hair and oily skin, dead eyes and a defiant scowl, but he's wearing a clean, fresh, neatly pressed suit and tie! I'm going to guess IT. e: he got off at Malvern and had a nice-looking but well used laptop bag with him. He must be head of IT.

So the other day I was trying to find a song I was pretty sure was in the hottest 100 of 90-something. Hit the wrong playlist (99) but found a song I liked the song of, but accidentally skipped and ended up on Army by Ben Folds. i got really into to, decided to look it up on youtube and then youtube auto played this Ben Folds - Exhausting Lover

Anyway that's how a series of fuckups have allowed this song to play on repeat 100 times today! Join me tomorrow for livetweeting finding the laundry: Spoiler alert I've almost certainly left a tissue in the pockets again.

I'm watching Mr Inbetween again because the man hasn't seen it and I can't stop saying "vagankle".

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going to be a beautiful day again 🌞

and question

Just watched another apocalypse movie, this time The Quiet Place. Makes me wonder, how come we don't get movies where there has been some massive overnight worldwide change that makes everyone's life better, why is it always bad?

aspirin has been taken

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Pretty pumped for a three day work week!

I have seriously been sucked into these Chinese feudal multi-verse dramas.

Me and YT need to go on a break… BUT it’s soooo hard!

I keep hurting my bad shoulder again. First while pulling the doona up from behind me last night. Then today I pulled a big bag of kitty litter down from a high shelf, lifted it to refill a litter tray, and tore some junk up for the bin

Oh god, I just watched Baby Reindeer

two things, no three,

you just can't tell who is going to become a stalker, I had one, a guy I had never met and didn't know asked me out, I kindly declined, he got nasty immediately and then stalked for months.

I'm so self conscious and unsure that half the time I think I'm a bad guy. Watching that show , omg, not one thing the abuser did would ever cross my mind.

and lastly, and the most important thing, what this series is about, is male sexual abuse. 😭

Another thing in the show, friends and family, people who love us, will help us. Abuse makes people feel alone, don't let it.

Just watch the show.

5 hobbits

I had a 9pm smoothie. Honestly not bad

My op shop finds for today are a 1950s japanese bead necklace and a book on planning painting projects

I tried those hot rod things everybody's been ranting and raving about. Not a fan. Krushers better tbh

@Seagoon_
I have no idea why the lady in question thought it was ok to take an 8 month old to a comedy night. Surley the other patrons are their to listen to Arj''s sthick not the baby. Same if someone is on the phone.