Daily Discussion Thread: Sunday, 26 January, 2025

Back from the community breakfast. It was a pretty good time, they had a small accoustic band and..

I still like fire trucks!

The little hall where the event was held.

Cricket anyone?

Giant pencils along the path into the primary school next door.

The food tent. There was yabby Mornay, lamburgers, sausages, bacon and eggs. Delicious! The Minipeelers and I helped cut up all the bread rolls. It was good fun and I wore a mask so my weeping face didn't scare any small children.

Goodnight ❤️

I’m headed to the market. Can I get anything for anyone?

I started off the day with a lovely Sunday sleep in. Unfortunately I was supposed to be at work, so I followed up with a bit of a rush and a late mark. Why do these things only happen to me on high penalty shifts?

It feels so odd to be around people. Where I live there are fuck all people around. I feel so out of place lol

Happy Australia Day 🇦🇺 💚💛🍺

No sleep gang checking in. Woke up abruptly, jerkily turned over, hurt back in the process. Did not know ‘injured back due to nightmare’ was on the list of random injuries that can happen when you get old list. Well anyway, guess I‘ve ticked #10348 off the list.

Someone's under the table already.

This represents our household

Ugh I hate this fucking apartment, it's such perfect Goldilocks weather out there, beautiful cool air and Sun not too hot, meanwhile it's a solid 5-7C hotter in this horrid old dogbox with zero cross ventilation. Can't even open the windows until 8pm when the sun isn't beating down on the hellish west facing bedroom windows where most of the heat is coming in.

It's also been a day for minor bombshell events in the family: mum wants to move back to the ancestral country a lot sooner than expected, with all the huge discussions that comes with it...

...and a young niece's sudden coldness to her beloved aunt and uncle (almost like a foster family to her) turns out to be mainly because she found out said uncle's tiktok account follows almost exclusively onlyfans producers. I feel very conflicted about the second one, I really would like niece and her aunt to rebuild their relationship (niece is quite vulnerable due to parent's ugly divorce but also kind of sheltered). But also it's not my business to get involved in other people's marriages. Though if that aunt - i.e., my cousin - found out later and knew I was aware but didn't tell her, she'd be livid. Ehhhh iunno. I've had a cider and some chips and I'm kind of done for the day now

Always was, always will be https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CmcV0dC3N3s

Brunch with family in the city and a wander in the sunshine, how absolutely lovely. Now home for relaxation and probably soju. Cheers!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-26/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/104816658

Quiz?

Glorious sunset out there!

Though by that I mean...

Sky pretty.

Managed to conk out early but overheated and woke up at 1 -_-

Had a shower and am cuddling with Melbcat.

She’s managed to spit medicine on herself so I’m going to have to spend some time cleaning it out of her fur with a damp face washer. It’s surprisingly stubborn to remove once dry.

That can wait though. She’s being so cute

Cheers peeps 🍺

I'm done!

Whatever is left can wait for Tuesday.

Now my weekend can start. I've never watched pokemon so I downloaded all the seasons.

Let's see what the fuss is about.

Edit: man this theme song is awesome lol

I’ve made a big plunger of coffee which is chillin in the fridge for making iced coffees with, a big wedge of watermelon, Roast chook to make rolls or salad with. Ready for tomorrow’s weather.

I've got about 3 or 4 hours of work to do today. Trying to get it all done today so I can have a day off tomorrow.

Never again. I'd rather fall behind than lose a weekend ever again.

I'm sending the manager a message tomorrow requesting an urgent meeting. I've brought the timeline forward.

They have until the end of next week to decide.

Absolute cheese tragedy….

My truffle cheddar went mouldy. 😭

Lucky I have resumed with other cheese.

I am so tired, must have some kind of bug, hope it isn't covid.

Another wave.

Having a lot of trouble facing the chores. Do I give up and go get some sun? Really need to get a bunch of clothes organising and food prep done today because I have a busy day tomorrow.....but sun.

Yeppers, Lorne be packed again, fam.

::: spoiler The sun won

:::

Time to cook a batch of rice so I can do sushi tomorrow and not cook.

Time for brie and bbq shapes!

I wonder if it counts as being awake if I’m constantly hitting the snooze button.

Edit: I think I saw a native bird outside but it flew off before I could get my crappy plastic binoculars. It was brown with a long tail and made a rattling chattering noise. Didn’t look like a mynah.

Melbcat ate a good bit of her breakfast. I give her anti nausea medicine with the rest of the meds by oral syringe, and since she’s been picky about the expensive kidney friendly food switched back to the stinky generic tuna cat food she loves… At the moment she gets that with sprinkled toppings of Fortiflora and nutritional yeast, a spoonful of pumpkin puree, and today she got a dab of plain lactose free yogurt too. Baby girl eats better than I do ❤️

My golden nugget pumpkins look ridiculous with their plastic hats on but they’re not eaten or dead. The bigger fellow that got planted first even appears to be growing larger. The soil test results came back and everything is within safe limits.

::: spoiler spoiler I’m still a bit worried for them though. Pumpkins are heavy feeders that like manure in their soil and plenty of water. But this is dry sandy soil, with greedy tree roots extending in from someone else’s tree. They’re planted in half arsed unfertilised holes scraped out in the midst of the invasive grass because I don’t think I can clear it all. (I dug manure through to improve the soil many years ago before the grass invaded but that would all be gone by now.) They absolutely will have to compete for nutrients and water. I’ve also planted everything kinda late.

The smaller sized variety is growing in the paper cups and putting out leaves. They’ll be ready to pot soon. I could bum a lift for potting mix tomorrow (and maybe manure? adding a second bag of anything takes the delivery from $10 to $25 and it just keeps scaling up) but not sure if it’s good to go out in that heat.

The least taxed zucchini plant is sending up a few male flowers now but the others are not, and two are suffering from something that looks like powdery mildew. I’ll have to repeat the spray when it’s not too hot.

The tomatoes are doing ok. Wilting regularly between waters but I haven’t noticed the fruit splitting from moisture variations which was my worry with heirlooms. Only one is ripe so far but they seem to be setting an ok amount of fruit. I bet the birds and rats take notice soon. :::

Boing Boing 🦘
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I thought that little wonky wake-up nudged my sleep back in the right direction but then I napped all day again, getting dehydrated and having nightmares :(

This isn’t restful or fun.

What's your favourite thing about Melbourne?

Algorithm just served me up this - Yass!

American, but some things are universal.

Sky noisy

ok guys , I've started watching severance, done the first two eps.

it's some marxist north korean type mind control shit to give busy work to very highly intelligent true believers.... I think.

We did Mopa in Thomas town today. It's a nice spot with a lot to do, but my boys were mostly interested in the first section where there were ramps to put toy cars down

Changed my bedding, doing laundry. Might hang the sheets and towels out tonight to dry in the blast tomorrow.

I should probably make some jelly too. Need to check the water is well topped up in advance because birds and animals will need it. Maybe pull the smaller pots inside.

I’m still not liking this dishwasher. I’ve ended up using it regularly only so dirty stuff doesn’t build up and attract bugs.

::: spoiler Bitching I just have to do a load daily (or run two loads) due to not being able to efficiently stack many of the smaller items, then manually rinse everything under the tap and put it in the rack to drip. If I could stand long enough to just wash things in the sink I would straight up do that. But for now this is the go.

One thing I have found to be a problem though is the cat’s silicone bowls have absorbed the strong lemon-lime smell of the detergent which will absolutely turn her off eating. (I don’t find silicone kitchenware very good to be honest. It tends to absorb odours and be difficult to clean any oils fully off. The bowls have also stained yellow from pumpkin.)

Luckily they’re fold down travel bowls so I can try to get the smell out with baking soda or vinegar and pack them away. It’s just nice to have spares… Love it when two crap products team up. :::