First week in a higher role nearly over and I must say I’m enjoy it.
Slightly more busy and dealing with new people (who are all super patient).
Best part of it, is I actually have some influence over large decisions. So far my input has been welcomed and respected.
Fingers crossed my old boss stays in his role and I can keep this one 😁
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I know I’m going to get called preachy and whiny or whatever but here goes:
Please wear a mask. I get that the anti-maskers won and social pressures make you feel self conscious, and people absolutely do give weird looks when they see people wearing masks, but the current sickness going around is totally preventable.
I have a chronic condition and even a mild illness can massively reduce my quality of life. I’m required to frequently go out and be in close proximity with people, and it’s at the point where most people I see have a cough. I just want to not be at risk.
KN95 masks are a good balance between efficacy and price. Those blue surgical masks are easiest to find, but aren’t great. N95s can be too expensive.
Please please please just consider wearing them when out.
Besides all that it’ll make for an easier adjustment when Pandemic 2: Electric Birdflugaloo comes around.
…you bitch about my mask, I’m a gonna show up with my fucking 3m 100PM respirator on. Bright pink and hardcore vader noises.
Actually I’ma gonna get another one and art it up. We’re living in a cyberpunk dystopia anyway, may as well dress for the occasion.
Personally I’m going more for a Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan look
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I like your style!
I find it easier to mask up when I leave the house and just keep it on, taking them on and on is also unhygienic
I never stopped wearing a mask. I’m very possibly immunocompromised and don’t want long covid. During lockdowns I’d always get dickhead men trying to intimidate me for wearing a mask and pick a fight about it. 🙄
But I really wish it would become just normal and accepted to mask up like in Asia. It’s polite, it’s hygienic, doesn’t really cost much and you could be saving yourself or someone else a nasty flu. And frankly anyone who doesn’t do it in a pandemic is not being logical.
Happy to oblige, you won’t get any arguments from me. I don’t give a damn about antimaskers or weird looks, but being a large solidly built middle-aged woman in steel caps can tend to put people off talking to me on public transport about their antimask bullshit. I’m the only one in my house with a job, and as a casual employee I can’t afford time off due to totally preventable illness. The colds/flus/whatever they are going around at the moment are dynamite. My MIL is 90 and frail, my partner has many health issues, and I don’t have time for people who think they’re clever passing their ignorant bigotry towards the immunocompromised. I’m sorry you and Melba have had to deal with mean spirited inconsiderate twits. It’s actually easier to be considerate anyway.
Concrete pump in the fog this morning. I got a war of the worlds vibe. Like a giant leg in suburbia.
So where’s the rest of the spider crab, and how big is it?
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Hey I think I drove past that a couple of weeks ago! It looked like something out of some sci fi horror movie
Not that one, most concrete pumps look the same. I walked by again this morning, it’s all gone, there’s a fresh slab poured and they’ve absolutely annihilated the nature strips with heavy vehicles.
Oh, okay. I’ve never seen one of those before, but the houses looked similar which is why I thought I knew where it was.
That look is AV Jennings 1960s Suburbia. They’re being replaced with rendered polystyrene McMansions.
I gotta say… as someone who often feels like an outsider it’s kind of nice that everyone else is sick when I am too. I feel like I’m a part of something.
One of us! One of us! :D
I feel like an outcast, I got sick about 3 or 4 weeks ago and now I’m fine but I don’t want to catch anything again for the next month if I can help it.
Yeah nah… I’m not sick but happy to be an outsider!
Team lurgy checking in
These damn kids and their ticky tocky trends smh my head. /s
2 more hours before these guys go and I can leave the house. They’re just pouring concrete now.
Hard to relax when people are all over the house. Been here since 9am.
Sorry, just whinging. I like my place to myself and fluffy butt. It feels intrusive.
it will be even nicer to have nice flat floors, the cat won’t know what’s where!
But belting marbles around will be less fun😺
au contraire, we moved from a higgeldy piggledy house to dead flat and Misha has gone 400% more apeshit
Sometimes when I pick up the guitar, something really personal comes out. It’s rarely recorded, it’s never on purpose.
And no one hears it but me. And that makes it special.
I know how wanky that sounds, but it’s true. I’m probably not explaining myself properly
Gibson hears all and knows all
Art is art, public or private. It is a reflection of us as humans, to put something so personal out into the universe. So uniquely you.
It isn’t wanky, not to me at least, for whatever that’s worth ha! It’s human. No one will ever read everything I write, all the words left private, unread, unseen. But I do it for me. You do it for you. We just gotta be humans about it all, I think.
Idk maybe I’m just a dumb dumb lol
it was the best song in the woooorld… 🎵
I have reconsidered and decided it wouldn’t be the best decision to go out this weekend. I can’t imagine being well enough by tomorrow. At least the new season of The Boys dropped today and there is plenty of NRL to watch over the weekend.
I guess for now there’s only 1 thing to do… 420 blaze it.
Hot box it, Bull.
Aw, poor bull. Rest up!
🚬 🌿 🥦 🌳 💨
I have Monday and Tuesday booked off for a break. I do believe I will take today off sick as well
Noice!
Short-staffed at work because people sick. People also sick at home. People sick everywhere 🤧 Holding sickness at bay with Bioceuticals Armaforce, Tolak Angin Flu sachets, and maybe my A– blood type. A special shout out to all of you who are under the weather. May you be back to your usual sunny selves soon!
Edit: also still wearing a mask on buses. They are really stinky sometimes and people coughing all over the place! Between people who smell like they’ve been cooking in their bedrooms and people who’ve been sleeping in their clothes for a month I am over it!
Wearing a mask all day, it really sucks
Sad news is my microphone ran out of charge 😔 Good news is the man has so many cords, power banks and nerdy shit that it’ll be up and running in no time 😀
Yell out if you need spares lol
Hahaha. It’s all good, mate. Tell me what you got in there? What’s ya favourite? What’s ya most helpful or used?
I have at least 5-10 of every type of USB cable. Plus any cables for monitors and TVs.
Guitar and microphone cables.
Bunch of spare USB sticks and USB hard drives and about 2 dozen wireless mice.
Favorite is USB C to USB C. Constantly need it for music equipment.
This collection has taken about 7 years, and it’s still growing!
He loves cables but this his favourite nerd toy
Fuck yeah that’s cool. Always wanted a proper one but ended up with a soundbar for now.
Is the good news actually sad news for the neighbours… hrmm…
I have not had any complaints nor requests 🤷♀️
jesus christ, neighbours are smoking shit so fuckign dank I can smell it in my house.
Both properties were built in the fucking 60’s so we’re not up each other’s arses, and this place actually has insulation and draught exclusion
I’d forgotten just how much I hate the smell of weed. There was a kid at the last place that would smoke inside and blow it into the heating ducts and then I’d end up reeking of it. The new kid here only smokes outside, but he stands just outside the door so it still makes its way in
I usually don’t care, but this is the weed equivalent of a burning car tyre
Hey Melbourne, please warm up before I arrive with my family next week 😁
Please mods discard the troll.
In July?? Brah… don’t like your chances!
Not a chance. Also, the plague demons are currently stalking the streets of this fair city. Suggest wearing masks pretty much all day everyday, as they don’t show under a balaclava which is recommended for personal temperature control. Recommend stocking up on oodies and ugg boots too.
Lots of germs going around Perth too, but based on this thread most of Melbourne is sick 🤢
Yeah, we’re a bit cooked at the moment. Even outside of this thread, almost everybody is coughing and sneezing on everything 🙃🫠
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i’m a wrangler, a schemer, a cobbler and a snagger of discarded things and unconsidered trifles. A repairer and a reuser. But most importantly, i also share the booty.
In other news, weird day today. Pic applies.
I used to list “unsecured skips” as an interest on dating profiles.
slides into your DMs on a garden trolley so, how you doin?
That would have gotten at least a look from me. I listed leopard print anything as a a No, and ended up with Boyo who is obsessed with it.
This lends a new meaning to the iconic Skipping Girl.
Driving slowly through neighbourhoods with stuff out for hard rubbish collection 👀
i’m a wrangler, a schemer, a cobbler and a snagger…
I’m a sinner, I’m a saint
I do not feel ashamed
I’m your hell, I’m your dream
I’m nothing inbetween
You know you wouldn’t want it any other wayEspecially not if it means you get a free decommissioned Inspiron 3525 and a 20 pack of rack studs
Cat boy Slim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqU11H9_Wqo
I thought this was going to be your version of Steve Miller’s The Joker for a moment there lol
Mum/Grandma’s birthday cake is done for tomorrow. Hopefully she likes it.
that’s beautiful 💝
Thankyou. It’s a massive cheat. Two woolies mud cakes underneath but I ain’t hot time for baking and decorating.
Did you do that? That’s some serious talent
It’s lollies and fondant and bought icing roses. I just put them I’m their spots. But it does look good.
Still the fondant went on smooth and stayed in place without bubbling, thin spots or tearing. And the decorations are on firmly with no leaking of royal icing or sliding down. Technique and stuff
It slid backwards a bit on the car ride. So much for the back seat passengers keeping an eye on it! But it was unscathed just a bit further back on the board. She loved it too.
Oh wow. I’m also making a cake tonight for a birthday tomorrow. I doubt it will be this pretty.
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