School holidays. Took the kids to the zoo yesterday. Saw Nellie. Took some photos. Also, bought a 2024 Numbat calendar on clearance for the cute numbat photos in it for $2.
Warning: I may start randomly spamming cute numbat photos at the thread in the coming weeks.
Booked a short holiday and cruise for next month.
My brain: “maybe I should work on my health and fitness leading up to that!”
Also my brain: “eat fried potato. Now.”
A fried potato isn't that bad. It's got a lot of kilojoules if you're counting, but it is also fairly unprocessed. Lots of supposedly diet snacks are actually worse for you than a fried potato.
Processed food is the devil. And it's everywhere in our diet. If the ingredients list on a snack is more than two lines long and has a bunch of numbers, it is worse for you than a fried potato.
After about two months of holding out for op-shops to have a muffin tray, bowls and large jars at a reasonable price, I've bought them all at bigW for about half of what the salvos were asking. One place wanted $10 ea for large used Moccona jars, ffs. Used jars should be 50c imo.
Op Shops seem to have stupid pricing these days. They have so much stuff being donated that they dont always even accept donations, and then instead of putting reasonable prices on things to sell quickly they mark it up so much it's often not worth buying.
I've been going to op shops all my life and I think they've finally lost my business. The clothes and kitchen ware cost more than new. Interesting items seem to be marked at their maximum ebay value, eg, the donkey kong hand held for $250!
it got popular, cant blame 'em for trying to make a buck. Can blame 'em for trying to make a buck on Kmart donations though. The anko shit was rough when it was brand new, certainly no better now.
Burwood East RSPCA Op Shop is still priced like most places used to be! Got my trench coat for $7. Basically everything ends up on the clearance rack eventually too.
I am grateful I put petrol in my car yesterday, so today I can drive straight home from work without stopping.
Edit: Bonus gratefulness - the food cupboard had some slightly squished lemon butter pastry things that are really yummy. I am having dessert first tonight.
Grateful for a roof over my and my family's heads. If you ask this question every day, I will give this answer every day, because I was homeless for a time as a teenager and have never forgotten.
Grateful that I did mine and partners washing yesterday, so I don't feel guilty about not doing any today haha
Grateful to witness the fog this morning. I could see the city from Brunswick at 8.20am, and when I got back at 9am-ish I couldn't even see the street lol
After the admin were arseholes again, I'm grateful that I have a guaranteed position if I decide to walk.
After having stayed in shit jobs more than once because there wasn't anything out there, it's such a relief that I do have the option of saying '"fuck this shit, I'm out" if need be.
I'm also grateful that I only have to interact with the office maybe 10% of the time and the rest is with clients.
Grateful for being able to keep warm in this cold weather. I know it’s tough for many people with cost of living, and rentals built like tents where there is no option to improve the place.
Someone required a bath today due to a pootastrophe. He's still little under all that floof. Wasn't a fan of the hair-dryer but happy to have a sit in front of the fire. Thankful he is so placid, he didn't enjoy the process but it was just some grumbles.
Morning all! Just woke up from a crazy dream where myself and four other unknown (to me) people were on the run in the States, which at one point involved stealing a heavily modded Chevy Wrangler from Donald Trump (he cried. He loved that car. Lots of people, the best people, said it was a great car). It was a comedy/drama kind of dream, very entertaining, and I did not want to wake up. Stupid bladder! In the dream we made a toilet pitstop and while I went I suddenly thought, "HEY, YOU'RE NOT DOING THAT IN REAL LIFE ARE YOU‽” and I suddenly awoke and I was! I haven't wet the bed in 40 years! I didn't wet the bed much, luckily, just my multilayered night attire. Very weird experience and a helluva way to end the dream I was enjoying.
Getting the cat into the carrier was a task. Helped when I threw a towel on him and bundled him into it.
But the yowling on the tram had me cackling; had to get right up close and go "pss it's me I'm here" for him to stop. I think he was upset because my partner was holding him, and then left to the train when I got on the tram.
Now we're chilling in the waiting room. I expect Mickey will beat me up somewhat when we get home lol
There have been vaccination shortages anyway, so you might not have been able to get it done. Miss Meow was due for hers 6 months ago but the vet didn't have any available so it got put off.
Mine all had boosters in December. One of them then shared cat flu with the other two in May. Even the dog got it. In fairness, it was mild in the dog and the two she gave it to, but she was quite unwell herself. Don't sneak out the door and get picked up by the ranger, kids.
I better stock up on the Berserk deluxe editions now Booktopia is closing down. They had them for the cheapest I've seen aside from second hand on marketplace
Cat is fine, he's eaten, bit me, ran around, went to the loo, and is now yowling in the hallway because I closed the bedroom door to keep the heat in the living room.
I predict he will now run around a bit, eat some dry food, and have a snooze in the blanket nest I made for him on the couch.
Also, don't buy Friskies dry food. Twas what was causing Mickey to spew bile. He hasn't spewed or hucked once since I switched back to Fussy Cat Grain Free dry food. So, there you go lol. Told the vet that too, he said he'll note it for the future. :D
It's not as good as a door but I'm using an old plush blanket on a small tension rod in the doorway, with one bottom corner slightly open so the cat can slip through. (The top edge is folded over and sewn with long backstitches for a really rough casing. Sturdy safety pins might also work depending on weight)
I had an old blanket nailed across my laundry door for a few years. I have now made a curtain with some discounted insulated curtain fabric I found instead, it hangs on a tension rod with shower curtain rings sewn onto the curtain. I managed to sort out a pelmet as well to help keep the heat in/out better, using some extra fabric and a couple more tension rods. Miss Meow has not discovered a way through (which is good, if I wanted her to I would do the raised corner) but Mr Woof is happy to push it aside so he can get through to the dog door.
Oh, shower curtain rings are a good idea. (Then again they might require buttonhole bars for the hooks because I don't want to cut holes.) Do you find any heat escapes out the top?
That's what I put the pelmet over the top for, it seems to work well - the laundry it blocks off is really draughty and uninsulated and the cold and heat does not really get though at all.
I sewed some tape across the back with gaps to put the shower rings through, which means the top of the curtain is above the rings rather than hanging below, which also reduced the gap air could get through considerably.
Smart! I'm in a rental so might have to skip the pelmet though (I find even masking tape leaves sticky marks behind and the poor quality paint is fragile)
I spent an hour after work last night completing (my least preferred) job application's third party test. Apparently I rank significantly higher than others of a relevant testing pool. Lovely. Next they want me to give them a four minute video response to some questions...
Meanwhile. My preferred job is cold-shouldering me after telling me I'd probably hear yesterday if I made it to the in-person interview. They are playing hard to get. I'm their best applicant I bet. But I'm still sad I haven't heard yet.
In a past role when I was short staffed and hiring people, I was often lumped with interviewing people on top of my regular duties. It is a lot of extra work. It also took longer than I expected. I was often a bit late getting back to people for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes, candidates had to reschedule. Sometimes, more urgent work came up and I had to do things other than processing the applications. Suddenly, your last interview isn't Tuesday, but Friday instead.
I was never more than a few days late - the best candidates usually had more than one offer to consider and I'd lose them if I didn't get back to them. If they told you Wednesday, I'd give them until Monday before giving up.
The knockoff oodie has arrived, and even the S-M is huge on me. I'm skulking around the house like an evil wizard but it is warm.
(Before the oodie was a thing I had been thinking about sewing a monk style house robe out of blanket fabric. I should have done it and run for the patent office, become rich!)
Fog or low cloud has rolled in over Richmond. Outside air temp has gone from f**king cold to biting cold. Hands are burning after going out to buy a coffee. Wasn't like that when I got to work this morning at 9 am.
They have provided the lazy inspiration for countless hours of low effort BBC documentaries.
Walking Roman Roads with Dan Jones. About Roman roads in the England. I thought it might be a little interesting. First he didn't walk it , he drove in a Range Rover, he said on account of the weather. He could have used a cart instead. 🙄 Then he visited every tiny museum along the way and looked at the easy stuff like swords.
Imagine how different it could have been. Dan could have suited up like a centurion with a 30 kg back pack and walked it like a Roman. Could have eaten Roman food. Talked about all the people of Roman times who used the roads, could have even "met" some re-enactors on the way to St Ives.
0.5 hobbits , he didn't even meet up with a Druid wizard on the way to Wales, which he could have. ( caveat, I fell asleep for two episodes )
Some oven dude came out to fix a burner a few days ago. He fixed the burner, but fucked another burner and igniter (sparky things).
On two of the burners, when you turn it down, then back up, all the igniters start sparking and doesn't stop. Very odd. turns out if one igniter isn't sparking, they all spark as a safety thing so there's no explosion.
Took some methylated spirits to the sparky things which helped but the big trick was re-sparking, so when they all start going off, just push one of the burners' dial and it stops. Never seen that before.
Oven dude was gonna hit me for a few hundred just to have another look even though he didn't do it right.
So, happy to get it going again without any more hassle.
Ducked out today after I had lunch, sausage and bread with tomato sauce is so underrated.
Got a free drink from maccas then went to the supermarket to exchange a sauce I accidentally picked up and swapped it for the one I wanted for cooking later in the week.
It was cold and felt a little hazy out. Surprisingly there was so much traffic out there, almost like peak hour.
Back inside now all warm and almost time for a coffee.
Cold enough that even my colleagues were wearing a puffer jacket indoors. I chickened out and drove in rather than walking because my fingers damn near fell off just in the few minutes between car and office. But my body is definitely feeling the effects of being sedentary :/ I'm going to try and walk in tomorrow for sure.
There's still a deluge of work coming through, but at least I'm not handling it solo - I can't wait for my other colleague to be back after the school hols so I can palm off some other stuff, sit down and improve some of these processes before the can gets kicked even further down the road into the next universe.
Thinking of making some pulled pork-style jackfruit now, for lunch tomorrow. Off I go into a rabbit hole of recipes.
Back into making a Surviving Mars colony. Saw on Reddit that someone found coordinates for an absolutely massive crater map, so I'm building my colony in there. No colonists yet, just my drones setting everything up first, but damn have I found a great place to build a habitation dome; right next to rare metals, a vista, and two water deposits. Got some sick breakthough tech as well.
It's so dang good! I keep coming back to it because I keep having ideas for colonies haha! Gotta set my domes up the right way, make sure the silly earthlings don't get sad lol
I tryin wean myself off the stupid moany earthlings ASAP. My first batch of settlers all have the sexy perk so we can get going with the matrianborn as soon as possible.
Aw yeah, love making the first batch of settlers sexy AF to get out of the founder stage. I like to get as many resources I can, set up water, oxygen, and elec. I keep the domes turned off until people arrive. All the specialists, who then get pissed because there's no non-specialists to work at the grocery shop hahahah
Today is a write off I think. All I've achieved so far is eating three times for two meals and going back to bed at noon. Phone isn't usually allowed in bed, but I'm making an exception.
Can't even fall asleep, but it is warmer and more comfy
Welcome to weird dream storytme. Evil robot taxis with Indian accents will steal your wallet and Optimus Prime is singing this charming number https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uhVN-yA11Pg
100% humidity outside - that explains why EVERYTHING is currently very wet. And foggy. Might be the same tomorrow, weekend's looking promising for some sun though. My split system was being weird, blowing hot and cold, but the internal unit air filters were quite clean. Gave them a wash anyway. Maybe I need to create more space in front of the external unit and give it a bit of a vacuum or something
I have a big wooden framed painting/print handing up on a stick-on picture hook, must be a good 3-5kgs. And it's been up the whole 4 years I've been here, no issues.
That said, at my previous place in the CBD I had it hanging up on the same sort of hook (different brand iirc), and it fell and smashed my partners widescreen monitor. We had only been together for a year and a bit, and we were in lockdown, I thought for sure he was gonna leave me haha.
I use the hooks from woolies, I forget the name. But yeah, 4 years and it's fine
If I lay my head down on my desk I think I'd be asleep in less than a minute. I slept ok last night, but running outta juice now. No coffee today isnt helping. Lets see if this tea can help, there is a lot riding on its shoulders.
Can you get ikea delivered down there? Not everyone loves it but the Malm is pretty solid! It survived the start of me and the wifes relationship if that counts for anything and is still with us today.
The bed is old. It needs to go, the screws are stripped to the point I'm not sure it could ever be taken apart lol. And the mattress is uncomfortable. I may as well have a whole new me.
With that kind of money I'd look at Patagonia as well. There's a cheap Aldi and Macpac ones listed on ozbargain right now. My complaint about mine (macpac) is that it's kind of short, I'd prefer a warm jacket that at least covers my bum / overlaps with my pants.
I've seen a few of these things around, they're a bit overkill for our mild winter in Perth. I had no idea they were so expensive, though! My youngest wants one - because fashion. I was looking at the Anaconda range, They were in the $60-$100 ballpark (for kids jackets - not sure if adults are the same).
I haven't tried them, but Huffer are having a 50% off sale on their puffer jackets right now and I'm eyeing it off. I've heard a few people rave. They're around $500 full price, so a sale is worthwhile.
My Excel spreadsheet is refusing to play nice with my OFFSET functions. I do not know why, the exact same formula is working with other cells, it just won't let me create them with a different original cell reference.
Edit: have worked out a workaround to do what I want. I think this might be a better way of doing things anyway so maybe Excel did me a favour.
Would a 1000A jump starter be enough to start most cars?
The question is less about jumping my own car (it's a 2L ICE), but more about, if a friend comes up to me or I see a random struggling with a dead battery, what are the chances 1000A is enough?
But have jumped my wife's friend once, and came across two scenarios requiring a jump this past month. I just helplessly watched a guy wait an hour for RACV to turn up lol.
Gooloo brand was recommended by Project Farm on youtube.
145 Comments
Nath@aussie.zone · 18 pts · 2y
School holidays. Took the kids to the zoo yesterday. Saw Nellie. Took some photos. Also, bought a 2024 Numbat calendar on clearance for the cute numbat photos in it for $2.
Warning: I may start randomly spamming cute numbat photos at the thread in the coming weeks.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
Do that. Not spam if nice photos. Maybe spiced ham?
Eagle@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
We wanna see Nellie!
Nath@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y
Nath@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y
You gotta understand that most numbat sightings are super fleeting and look like this:
Just setting expectations now. 😃
Eagle@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 2y
Ooooh! So pretty. Her eye-liner is on point!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
I love Perth zoo. You don't realise that there are native animals exclusive to WA only. It's such a well planned zoo.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 2y
Booked a short holiday and cruise for next month. My brain: “maybe I should work on my health and fitness leading up to that!” Also my brain: “eat fried potato. Now.”
… it was delicious.
Nath@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 2y
A fried potato isn't that bad. It's got a lot of kilojoules if you're counting, but it is also fairly unprocessed. Lots of supposedly diet snacks are actually worse for you than a fried potato.
Processed food is the devil. And it's everywhere in our diet. If the ingredients list on a snack is more than two lines long and has a bunch of numbers, it is worse for you than a fried potato.
Baku@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
dumblederp@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 2y
After about two months of holding out for op-shops to have a muffin tray, bowls and large jars at a reasonable price, I've bought them all at bigW for about half of what the salvos were asking. One place wanted $10 ea for large used Moccona jars, ffs. Used jars should be 50c imo.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 2y
Op Shops seem to have stupid pricing these days. They have so much stuff being donated that they dont always even accept donations, and then instead of putting reasonable prices on things to sell quickly they mark it up so much it's often not worth buying.
dumblederp@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 2y
I've been going to op shops all my life and I think they've finally lost my business. The clothes and kitchen ware cost more than new. Interesting items seem to be marked at their maximum ebay value, eg, the donkey kong hand held for $250!
TinyBreak@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
it got popular, cant blame 'em for trying to make a buck. Can blame 'em for trying to make a buck on Kmart donations though. The anko shit was rough when it was brand new, certainly no better now.
Baku@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 2y
the brotherhood have lost it, they are charging $30 for old jumpers with any label except kmart
and they have some weird idea that old means vintage and collectable ( it doesn't )
savers might not be a huge charity but at least they are reasonable
I give away my moccona jars to neighbours in my courtyard, I just put them out in the common area, they are always gone in 10 minutes
Aradina@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
Burwood East RSPCA Op Shop is still priced like most places used to be! Got my trench coat for $7. Basically everything ends up on the clearance rack eventually too.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
got a win outta salvos the other weekend, glass keepcup for 2 bucks.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 2y
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 2y
I am grateful for fast home delivery of groceries, saves my back from carrying and I don't need a car.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
I am grateful I put petrol in my car yesterday, so today I can drive straight home from work without stopping.
Edit: Bonus gratefulness - the food cupboard had some slightly squished lemon butter pastry things that are really yummy. I am having dessert first tonight.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
Grateful for a roof over my and my family's heads. If you ask this question every day, I will give this answer every day, because I was homeless for a time as a teenager and have never forgotten.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Same here. Glad you're doing OK now.
StudChud@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
Grateful Mickey is better.
Grateful that I did mine and partners washing yesterday, so I don't feel guilty about not doing any today haha
Grateful to witness the fog this morning. I could see the city from Brunswick at 8.20am, and when I got back at 9am-ish I couldn't even see the street lol
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
I am grateful for chocolate, and warm socks. And painkillers.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Grateful for a roof over my head with a fluffy companion
For being able to make music
Having resilience and enough stubbornness not to give up on what I want.
And for the amazing user here that offered to be my reference
oztrin@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
After the admin were arseholes again, I'm grateful that I have a guaranteed position if I decide to walk.
After having stayed in shit jobs more than once because there wasn't anything out there, it's such a relief that I do have the option of saying '"fuck this shit, I'm out" if need be.
I'm also grateful that I only have to interact with the office maybe 10% of the time and the rest is with clients.
SituationCake@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Grateful for being able to keep warm in this cold weather. I know it’s tough for many people with cost of living, and rentals built like tents where there is no option to improve the place.
Eagle@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 2y
Someone required a bath today due to a pootastrophe. He's still little under all that floof. Wasn't a fan of the hair-dryer but happy to have a sit in front of the fire. Thankful he is so placid, he didn't enjoy the process but it was just some grumbles.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
Awww poor fluffy
Eagle@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
It's been a day Gibson. He's all worn out. A very valuable lesson in being body slammed by your sister while burying your poo.....
just_kitten@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
I would die for those toe fluffs
Eagle@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
He's still a baby, by the time he's grown up it'll be like a mop on each foot!
just_kitten@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
Oh I didn't realise he was a wee kitten! I thought he was just small. I can't wait to see him in his full glorious floofiness. So much fur to love.
Eagle@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
He's 9 months, and growing like a weed.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Oh my gosh. He needs 10cc's of treats stat!
StudChud@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Awwww he looks like he needs a cuddle 😍
Eagle@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Many snugs have been had!
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Aww, what a sad little face.
Eagle@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
He was a bit baffled by the whole thing. Many hugs and snugs and it's all better now.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
oh poor sweetie
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y
Morning all! Just woke up from a crazy dream where myself and four other unknown (to me) people were on the run in the States, which at one point involved stealing a heavily modded Chevy Wrangler from Donald Trump (he cried. He loved that car. Lots of people, the best people, said it was a great car). It was a comedy/drama kind of dream, very entertaining, and I did not want to wake up. Stupid bladder! In the dream we made a toilet pitstop and while I went I suddenly thought, "HEY, YOU'RE NOT DOING THAT IN REAL LIFE ARE YOU‽” and I suddenly awoke and I was! I haven't wet the bed in 40 years! I didn't wet the bed much, luckily, just my multilayered night attire. Very weird experience and a helluva way to end the dream I was enjoying.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 2y
Hugs. Trump has that effect on people.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Lol must be the diaper he reportedly wears
StudChud@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y
Getting the cat into the carrier was a task. Helped when I threw a towel on him and bundled him into it.
But the yowling on the tram had me cackling; had to get right up close and go "pss it's me I'm here" for him to stop. I think he was upset because my partner was holding him, and then left to the train when I got on the tram.
Now we're chilling in the waiting room. I expect Mickey will beat me up somewhat when we get home lol
Eagle@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 2y
Getting them into the carrier is the most stressful part of a vet trip. That and the bill.
StudChud@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
All done and home now, he's fine. Bit my leg, par for the course.
Bill wasn't bad, $90 for his vax and another set in a month, as I realised I never got him vaxxed last year 👀
In my defense, he's indoors only, and has only been unwell once when he was a kitten lol
RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
There have been vaccination shortages anyway, so you might not have been able to get it done. Miss Meow was due for hers 6 months ago but the vet didn't have any available so it got put off.
StudChud@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Ahhh this make me feel like less of a pet-parent failure lol. Thank you heh!
Hopefully your Miss can get hers soon!!
Baku@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
Eagle@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Mine all had boosters in December. One of them then shared cat flu with the other two in May. Even the dog got it. In fairness, it was mild in the dog and the two she gave it to, but she was quite unwell herself. Don't sneak out the door and get picked up by the ranger, kids.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Lol, wouldn't be the first time I heard yowling on the tram
StudChud@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
I actually thought there was a child behind me, until I realised it was Mickey 😂😂 I couldn't stop giggling. He sounded like a whingey baby hahahahaha
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
The vet requires me to drug my cat the night before I bring her in.
She's so funny when she's a little doped out lol
Taleya@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y
w00t w00t brewery now on its own dedicated circuit and His Lordship can commence with the going of apeshitness.
mysticgreg@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
OK if there's a brewery, that MAY affect the accuracy of the landlord sniping... :D
Taleya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
eh waves hand winging them is fine
Duenan@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
If there’s apple cider involved I’ll be there in 5 minutes!
tombruzzo@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y
I better stock up on the Berserk deluxe editions now Booktopia is closing down. They had them for the cheapest I've seen aside from second hand on marketplace
StudChud@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y
Cat is fine, he's eaten, bit me, ran around, went to the loo, and is now yowling in the hallway because I closed the bedroom door to keep the heat in the living room.
I predict he will now run around a bit, eat some dry food, and have a snooze in the blanket nest I made for him on the couch.
Also, don't buy Friskies dry food. Twas what was causing Mickey to spew bile. He hasn't spewed or hucked once since I switched back to Fussy Cat Grain Free dry food. So, there you go lol. Told the vet that too, he said he'll note it for the future. :D
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
hugs to Mickey and fussy cat for the win 😸
melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Poor Mickey! Melbcat is on grain free as well.
It's not as good as a door but I'm using an old plush blanket on a small tension rod in the doorway, with one bottom corner slightly open so the cat can slip through. (The top edge is folded over and sewn with long backstitches for a really rough casing. Sturdy safety pins might also work depending on weight)
RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
I had an old blanket nailed across my laundry door for a few years. I have now made a curtain with some discounted insulated curtain fabric I found instead, it hangs on a tension rod with shower curtain rings sewn onto the curtain. I managed to sort out a pelmet as well to help keep the heat in/out better, using some extra fabric and a couple more tension rods. Miss Meow has not discovered a way through (which is good, if I wanted her to I would do the raised corner) but Mr Woof is happy to push it aside so he can get through to the dog door.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
Oh, shower curtain rings are a good idea. (Then again they might require buttonhole bars for the hooks because I don't want to cut holes.) Do you find any heat escapes out the top?
RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
That's what I put the pelmet over the top for, it seems to work well - the laundry it blocks off is really draughty and uninsulated and the cold and heat does not really get though at all.
I sewed some tape across the back with gaps to put the shower rings through, which means the top of the curtain is above the rings rather than hanging below, which also reduced the gap air could get through considerably.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
Smart! I'm in a rental so might have to skip the pelmet though (I find even masking tape leaves sticky marks behind and the poor quality paint is fragile)
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y
I spent an hour after work last night completing (my least preferred) job application's third party test. Apparently I rank significantly higher than others of a relevant testing pool. Lovely. Next they want me to give them a four minute video response to some questions...
Meanwhile. My preferred job is cold-shouldering me after telling me I'd probably hear yesterday if I made it to the in-person interview. They are playing hard to get. I'm their best applicant I bet. But I'm still sad I haven't heard yet.
Nath@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y
In a past role when I was short staffed and hiring people, I was often lumped with interviewing people on top of my regular duties. It is a lot of extra work. It also took longer than I expected. I was often a bit late getting back to people for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes, candidates had to reschedule. Sometimes, more urgent work came up and I had to do things other than processing the applications. Suddenly, your last interview isn't Tuesday, but Friday instead.
I was never more than a few days late - the best candidates usually had more than one offer to consider and I'd lose them if I didn't get back to them. If they told you Wednesday, I'd give them until Monday before giving up.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
Thank you Nath 🙏
StudChud@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
You got this! I believe in you! Hopefully your preferred job gets back to you, but either way you're gonna move up! 💜
melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 2y
The knockoff oodie has arrived, and even the S-M is huge on me. I'm skulking around the house like an evil wizard but it is warm.
(Before the oodie was a thing I had been thinking about sewing a monk style house robe out of blanket fabric. I should have done it and run for the patent office, become rich!)
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
the one I have is a 7X
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 2y
Fog or low cloud has rolled in over Richmond. Outside air temp has gone from f**king cold to biting cold. Hands are burning after going out to buy a coffee. Wasn't like that when I got to work this morning at 9 am.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 2y
What have the Romans ever done for us?
They have provided the lazy inspiration for countless hours of low effort BBC documentaries.
Walking Roman Roads with Dan Jones. About Roman roads in the England. I thought it might be a little interesting. First he didn't walk it , he drove in a Range Rover, he said on account of the weather. He could have used a cart instead. 🙄 Then he visited every tiny museum along the way and looked at the easy stuff like swords.
Imagine how different it could have been. Dan could have suited up like a centurion with a 30 kg back pack and walked it like a Roman. Could have eaten Roman food. Talked about all the people of Roman times who used the roads, could have even "met" some re-enactors on the way to St Ives.
0.5 hobbits , he didn't even meet up with a Druid wizard on the way to Wales, which he could have. ( caveat, I fell asleep for two episodes )
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Special credit for the Lego model of a Roman Inn at one of the museums.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
You'll have to read Mary Beard's books on ancient Rome for some well researched and written history
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
I'm old, I've read all the stuff, I even went to Rome with an atique atlas and saw the places
travellers tip, antique atlases are not good guides to modern cities
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 2y
There is a ghost on my stovetop.
Some oven dude came out to fix a burner a few days ago. He fixed the burner, but fucked another burner and igniter (sparky things).
On two of the burners, when you turn it down, then back up, all the igniters start sparking and doesn't stop. Very odd. turns out if one igniter isn't sparking, they all spark as a safety thing so there's no explosion.
Took some methylated spirits to the sparky things which helped but the big trick was re-sparking, so when they all start going off, just push one of the burners' dial and it stops. Never seen that before.
Oven dude was gonna hit me for a few hundred just to have another look even though he didn't do it right.
So, happy to get it going again without any more hassle.
Fuck that oven guy though.
Baku@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 2y
It’s fricken cold
Catfish@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Thank you Captain Obvious
melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
No, I'm Major Pain
Aradina@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y
Seven days until pay day, when i will probably be able to afford a new heater that can actually heat! The old 4 fin radiator struggles.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 2y
Behold the puddle of fluff in front the of the heater
StudChud@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
The best kind of puddle. Much comfy! 😍
Duenan@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 2y
Ducked out today after I had lunch, sausage and bread with tomato sauce is so underrated.
Got a free drink from maccas then went to the supermarket to exchange a sauce I accidentally picked up and swapped it for the one I wanted for cooking later in the week.
It was cold and felt a little hazy out. Surprisingly there was so much traffic out there, almost like peak hour.
Back inside now all warm and almost time for a coffee.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
went in and out showing sparkies where things were and fucking hell this weather can fuck right off. This is 5am weather, not midday
Duenan@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
Yeah. It’s definitely next level cold.
I’ve got the heater on and wearing an oodie. Hope I’m not getting sick.
It’s not very motivating weather but the thought of food and cooking gave me enough motivation to swap out the jar of sauce.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 2y
Turned the heater on before I had a sleep in. I feel like shit...
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
So it's not just me who can't sleep with a heater on. I get allergies from the dust and if it's loud it keeps me awake.
exception was Detroit where I had to put the heater on, regularly -15 at night, or dead
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 2y
Jesus christ. Now that is cold lol
I just have a mild headache and a super bad mood 😔
TinyBreak@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
water. Tons and tons of water.
Baku@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 2y
Even the vape shop in my dreams wasn't selling stuff anymore lol
just_kitten@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 2y
Cold enough that even my colleagues were wearing a puffer jacket indoors. I chickened out and drove in rather than walking because my fingers damn near fell off just in the few minutes between car and office. But my body is definitely feeling the effects of being sedentary :/ I'm going to try and walk in tomorrow for sure.
There's still a deluge of work coming through, but at least I'm not handling it solo - I can't wait for my other colleague to be back after the school hols so I can palm off some other stuff, sit down and improve some of these processes before the can gets kicked even further down the road into the next universe.
Thinking of making some pulled pork-style jackfruit now, for lunch tomorrow. Off I go into a rabbit hole of recipes.
StudChud@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 2y
Back into making a Surviving Mars colony. Saw on Reddit that someone found coordinates for an absolutely massive crater map, so I'm building my colony in there. No colonists yet, just my drones setting everything up first, but damn have I found a great place to build a habitation dome; right next to rare metals, a vista, and two water deposits. Got some sick breakthough tech as well.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
freaking LOVE surviving mars. My comfort food.
StudChud@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
It's so dang good! I keep coming back to it because I keep having ideas for colonies haha! Gotta set my domes up the right way, make sure the silly earthlings don't get sad lol
TinyBreak@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
I tryin wean myself off the stupid moany earthlings ASAP. My first batch of settlers all have the sexy perk so we can get going with the matrianborn as soon as possible.
StudChud@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Aw yeah, love making the first batch of settlers sexy AF to get out of the founder stage. I like to get as many resources I can, set up water, oxygen, and elec. I keep the domes turned off until people arrive. All the specialists, who then get pissed because there's no non-specialists to work at the grocery shop hahahah
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Pretty sure there are washing machines and other abandoned tech on Mars, maybe you can just collect them and reuse the parts.
👍🏻
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Nuy7mFIsE
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 2y
-2.5. Brrrrrr
Aradina@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y
Today is a write off I think. All I've achieved so far is eating three times for two meals and going back to bed at noon. Phone isn't usually allowed in bed, but I'm making an exception.
Can't even fall asleep, but it is warmer and more comfy
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 2y
Tonight I am sewing up the patch work for the chair covers 🪑
Catfish@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
Welcome to weird dream storytme. Evil robot taxis with Indian accents will steal your wallet and Optimus Prime is singing this charming number https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uhVN-yA11Pg
just_kitten@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
100% humidity outside - that explains why EVERYTHING is currently very wet. And foggy. Might be the same tomorrow, weekend's looking promising for some sun though. My split system was being weird, blowing hot and cold, but the internal unit air filters were quite clean. Gave them a wash anyway. Maybe I need to create more space in front of the external unit and give it a bit of a vacuum or something
wscholermann@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
StudChud@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
I have a big wooden framed painting/print handing up on a stick-on picture hook, must be a good 3-5kgs. And it's been up the whole 4 years I've been here, no issues.
That said, at my previous place in the CBD I had it hanging up on the same sort of hook (different brand iirc), and it fell and smashed my partners widescreen monitor. We had only been together for a year and a bit, and we were in lockdown, I thought for sure he was gonna leave me haha.
I use the hooks from woolies, I forget the name. But yeah, 4 years and it's fine
wscholermann@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
home made chicken cottage pie is in the oven
I'm pooped ...lol
bacon@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
Porridge with honey and cream with coffee please. If available, could I also have a small army of cats to settle on me and keep me warm too.
bacon@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈
🌾🍯🥛☕️
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Thank you. The cats shared the leftover cream and licked the porridge bowl clean. Win/win.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
One of those hollowed out bread loaf things filled with cheesy soup
oztrin@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Make that two plz chef
bacon@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
🍲🪤
bacon@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
🍲🪤
RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
May I please have some hot
bacon@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
🥃
RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Thankyou. The serving size for hot seems to be much smaller today than I recall it being. Are we suffering from temperature shrinkflation?
bacon@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
No, we are just too far from it looking at it from our beds instead of the dining chair
RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
I wish I was in bed, instead of at work where it is very chilly this morning. It's been an indoor puffer jacket kind of day here.
bacon@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
our hearts are in bed
Catfish@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Pulverised robot cock please
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 2y
Sir this is a Wendy's
bacon@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
⚒️🤖🐓
TinyBreak@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
If I lay my head down on my desk I think I'd be asleep in less than a minute. I slept ok last night, but running outta juice now. No coffee today isnt helping. Lets see if this tea can help, there is a lot riding on its shoulders.
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
I need a new bed. The slightest movement on mine and it squeaks like a rusty gate.
Any suggestions online to look for mattresses and bed frames?
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
I bought an Ecosa frame and mattress.
Personally, best mattress I've ever slept on.
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
I'll check them out. Thanks.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Can you get ikea delivered down there? Not everyone loves it but the Malm is pretty solid! It survived the start of me and the wifes relationship if that counts for anything and is still with us today.
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Can be delivered to Launceston but then getting it from Launceston to here is the problem but I will take a look. Thanks!
dumblederp@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Consider a box base for avoiding squeaks.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
In the short term, a graphite lubricant like for locks will help a lot. Cheaper than a new bed. I would not use WD40 due to smell and greasy residue.
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
The bed is old. It needs to go, the screws are stripped to the point I'm not sure it could ever be taken apart lol. And the mattress is uncomfortable. I may as well have a whole new me.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
It's quite cold enough here, but apparently Tassie's getting -12 and frozen lakes. No thanks! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-03/liawenee-tasmania-lakes-freeze-over-coldest-july/104051742
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
It is a tad fresh here. Thankfully nice and sunny.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Mrs has family over here atm, apparently it was -4 when they left for Melbourne the other day.
fullkitwanker@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
I'm in need of a good winter jacket puffer thing for office. Is it worth dropping ~450 on standard Melbourne uniform i.e. North Face Nuptse? 💀
dumblederp@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
With that kind of money I'd look at Patagonia as well. There's a cheap Aldi and Macpac ones listed on ozbargain right now. My complaint about mine (macpac) is that it's kind of short, I'd prefer a warm jacket that at least covers my bum / overlaps with my pants.
Nath@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
I've seen a few of these things around, they're a bit overkill for our mild winter in Perth. I had no idea they were so expensive, though! My youngest wants one - because fashion. I was looking at the Anaconda range, They were in the $60-$100 ballpark (for kids jackets - not sure if adults are the same).
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
I haven't tried them, but Huffer are having a 50% off sale on their puffer jackets right now and I'm eyeing it off. I've heard a few people rave. They're around $500 full price, so a sale is worthwhile.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
My Excel spreadsheet is refusing to play nice with my OFFSET functions. I do not know why, the exact same formula is working with other cells, it just won't let me create them with a different original cell reference.
Edit: have worked out a workaround to do what I want. I think this might be a better way of doing things anyway so maybe Excel did me a favour.
dumblederp@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
I just legitimately heard a loud bang. One. Quite the boom, bass-y, set a bunch of birds off. I hope it was the local dipshits house.
Eagle@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
I have a tip on fire near me.
dumblederp@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
Oh hey, it's on vic emergency, in Springvale. I hear multiple sirens. 3 units attending.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Three units attending is just a baby fire, barely worth mentioning. A noteworthy fire would have something like ten times that many.
Cendana@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Would a 1000A jump starter be enough to start most cars?
The question is less about jumping my own car (it's a 2L ICE), but more about, if a friend comes up to me or I see a random struggling with a dead battery, what are the chances 1000A is enough?
(don't want to spend too much money lol)
dumblederp@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
I don't own a jump starter, how often are you jumping your car?
Diesel needs more jump than petrol.
Gooloo brand was recommended by Project Farm on youtube.
The car manual should indicate power required to start the batter, possibly listed as battery size or cold cranking amps (CCA).
Cendana@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Long time no see Dumblederp.
Never had to, thankfully.
But have jumped my wife's friend once, and came across two scenarios requiring a jump this past month. I just helplessly watched a guy wait an hour for RACV to turn up lol.
Will go check it out, thanks:)
dumblederp@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Hey dude, I've long given up on Overwatch.
If you do get a jump pack, some have usb ports and will work as a big usb battery which is a nice extra feature.
Cendana@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
I haven't played any games at all in the past few months lol.
Sounds great.. I'll look for that too, thanks