It’s starting to sink in now. I think I was a bit in shock yesterday.
God I can’t wait to start!
You mean the cafes closure? Same…
Ohhhh your job! Yes!
ooooooh whats the new position?
Technical account manager!
Oh sick, that sounds awesome! So a bit of tech but not support thats sick.
Thanks man! It’s still an MSP but mostly client work and doing planning for their tech roadmap.
I can do client stuff easily, but I’m not getting too excited until after the first month lol
Congrats!
Oof, that was not a good sleep… Had to sleep with headphones listening to YouTube because my mind just wouldn’t turn off and I was so paranoid and anxious. Everytime I turned over I was like “but now my back is to the door, what if somebody comes in”, and same goes for laying the other way and having my back to the window. Spent 2 hours trying to fall asleep, then woke up every 40 minutes or so in a sweat and had to get up and check that my door and window were both still locked
The worker who was here overnight gave me good vibes. Big Islander dude, seemed chill. No worries about my safety (logically, anyway). That’s probably why I got my 3 hours of sleep at all
Edit: after a shower, I’m feeling a bit less nervous. Just trying to distract myself with my usual routine. I also decided that not listening to anything so I can keep an ear out for any strange noises is a bad idea when this house is like 100 years old and makes even more noise than usual during winter, so I have some music on
Sorry to hear… :(
Is putting a chair back to the door help at all?
It probably would, but I’m not sure it’s worth the effort. As I discovered yesterday, this lock holds up surprisingly well to break in attempts (deadbolt) and kick attempts. The only way in is either a key (which is kept at the office and the workers don’t have access to), or a solid hip and shoulder in which case I probably have bigger problems
Baku you should get a wedge for your door. Super cheap and very effective.
stopped the shit outta my overbearing mother from catching me with my girlfriend back in the day.
I just found out there’s an ATV Buggy fun course not too far from my home.
You drive over jumps, through tunnels, water obstacles, over cars and lots more!
…I’m gonna die spectacularly
have you done the rally experience thing? that is AWESOME!
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A hot dog please and thank you.
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Ein Kaffee, bitte! 💜
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I would like to try a selection of all your fried foods please.
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An oil change and rotation please.
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Sorry catfish, noticed you’re out of blinker fluid. Gonna need to get that replaced before you can leave I’m afraid. Can’t let you leave without it - it’s unsafe and I don’t want to be sued when turn into someones lane. That’ll be $1,475, thanks. Cash or card?
Oh no! Here’s an NFT worth twice that.
Bacon taco please Bacon.
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A coconut drink and a cookie, please!
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Thank youu!
A suitably portable brunch meal that won’t take too long to make
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A surprise for elevenses, please chef
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Delicious, and now I can see time!
Oh shit yeah!
2 x 2 scoop protein shakes and maybe a piece of chocolate for being good?
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new york tropical fruit salad in a cup please
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Does the closure of the cafe mean you can no longer make my favourite - a mars bar wrapped in bacon, dipped in blue, white, and red food colouring, breadcrumbed, deep fried, wrapped in an american flag, covered in 17 layers of chocolate, breadcrumbed again, deep fried, dipped in more blue, white, and red food colouring, and served with little american flags on a stick?
I’m sorry bac bac, but if you’ve discontinued my fave, I will need to riot.
I would’ve but it is after eight and your promise of riot is too attractive to pass
Oh. Well I don’t really know how to riot, I think I need more people for a proper one. Otherwise I’ll just look like a crackhead
During lockdowns I found a website 1001 Albums to listen to before you die.
I try to do an album a day during the week, but sometimes cannot be bothered.
It’s definitely broadened by musical horizons, but has also introduced me to some absolutely crap (yes I know music is subjective) that is somehow popular.
Definitely suggest it to everyone.
Fucking hell I need to get better security on all of my stuff.
I realised that the drongo also nicked an Xbox I had in my spare room. I haven’t played it in some time, but apparently at some stage it’s become disconnected from my Microsoft account so I can’t report it stolen or get the serial number. My MacBook I’d just reset like a month ago and forgot to turn on find my device. And I got an email from Amazon that somebody was trying to reset my password. I rejected the request but realised I forgot to sign out of prime on a hotel tv, so I reset my password. Which deregistered my echo dot from my Amazon account, so I can’t get the serial number.
I thought I was good at keeping my devices secure and locked down. Evidently I am not anywhere near as good as I thought. I guess I’ve felt too safe for too long to keep up with maintenance and security. I suppose it’s a learning opportunity but I just feel like an idiot. Ugh
All this stuff doesn’t fall under the normal category, you were a victim of crime, which sucks but is not your fault.
But I could probably make it a lot more difficult to shift all the stuff he’s stolen if I caught it quickly and reported everything as stolen. Also if I had find my mac on
it happens
I change computers and lose passwords to email accounts, then what ever is attached to that email is basically fucked
at least i don’t have anything on my phone and I use bluetooth as little as possible and never ever use public wifi
echo and that stuff, not in a million years
even so, I do have various shopping accounts
My phone is probably the safest thing I own honestly. Strong password I change often, and googles rolled out their find my iphone knockoff that uses all the bluetooth and wifi stuff to ping its location back to base if GPS isn’t working. Apparently it doesn’t work very well yet, but I have faith it’ll improve. Or google will get a new toy and scrap it. really 50/50 odds tbh
there is not much on my phone , no bank, no gov, no myki, few apps, no location tracking, i keep wifi and bluetooth off when out
but I’m sure if someone was determined they could hack easily
I do have phone numbers
Bit of a server struggle to load the page just now. Anyway just finishing my last solid food pre-surgery. I hope porridge and a protein shake count as a light meal.
I think that’s about the time the server used to restart (is that still a thing?), and also runs maintenance tasks or something. Always slow for me around then
I am the cold. I slept bad. I had delicious left over pizza for breakfast and lunch. Mixed feelings about today
what kind of pizza?
Zucchini, eggplant, olives, oregano, garlic with non-dairy cheese.
The non-dairy cheese this place uses is really really strong in cheese flavour, which isnt ideal but it’s still good.
That sounds delicious.
It waaas.
I’m starting to feel more safe now. Still not 100, not even 30% honestly, but each day that passes, I feel 1 or 2% safer. I’m still jumping at noises, still lock my room when I go to the bathroom, and have a just I’m case knife on my bedside table.
I finally wrote an email to my care team informing them of the situation, they’ll probably start checking in more frequently, and will also put pressure on the org to replace my stolen and damaged stuff. The police assistance line said I should call the station handling the case tomorrow if they don’t contact me first, but tomorrow’s a busy day so I might give them a bonus 24 hours. My spare room is still a “crime scene” though, so I can’t work on cleaning it up, or go tinker with my projects.
In a kind of dark and twisted way, it’s also ironic that they moved him in here to cut costs (Resi is expensive), and in the end it’s probably coated them the same if not more. I’d say he’s caused about 1-2k in property damage to them alone, plus about 1.5k to me (plus another 1.5k in theft). They also had to have 24/7 staffing while he was alone, and even now since I still don’t feel safe, they’re still paying for an overnight worker. Really the only thing they really “saved” was not having to buy groceries for him, but it seems like he was bad with managing money, so they probably had to anyway. Seems like the cost cutting really worked for them 🙄🙄
Oh, also, I think I have permanent, irrevocable “I told you so” rights now…
That feeling of safety should hopefully return soon back to 100%.
Such a fucked situation that no doubt people in these agencies should have prepared for.
Don’t let them get away with not replacing your stuff. That’s the least they can do.
I already had a fairly low opinion of the department of human services. And yet they still continue to fuck up.
I already had a fairly low opinion of the department of human services
That’s why they rebrand every 2 years, silly! Since 2013 I think it’s gone DHHS > DHS & DoH > DHHS > DFFH & DoH. They split and merge the department of health and the department of human services more often than Melbourne rebrands public transport agencies and operators. For now, it’s the department of families, fairness, and housing, until they want to merge the department of health in again
DFFH always sounded like someone trying to say DHHS with a potato in their mouth, which is apt
I always thought “fairness” sounded strangely informal. Like why aren’t they the department of equality or something? “Fairness” just sounds wrong to me
It’s got 1984 (the book) vibes. The Ministry of Fairness.
Never read it, but I keep hearing about it. Is it a good book?
Classic dystopia novel. It’s not a long read I read it in high school at your age.
put that knife away, why are you leaving a weapon out for possible assailants
put wedges under your doors
I can get to it quicker than anyone else could. Nobody would get through the door without me hearing (their best option would be giving the door a good shoulder until either the door frame collapses, or the hinges snap.
Edit: also this dude stole 6 of our knives and a pair of scissors
don’t be foolish, you can’t be awake 24 hours
But I imagine I can be fairly easily woken up if somebody is beating down my door
what about stealthy people?
Don’t know how they’d get in. You could probably pick the lock, but I don’t think he knows how to do that. Can’t shimmy the lock because it’s a deadbolt. Can’t get through the window because it’s locked (it’s one of those old school locks you have to turn to lock/unlock), can’t unlock it from outside. As far as I can tell that just leaves the option of breaking the window, or applying enough force to the door that the hinges or door frame break off. Both of those things make noise
mornin’
Why hello there 🥓
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I hope you’re doing well and off your face @[email protected]
Surgery good. Hospital sucks.
Think of it as a budget hotel. 👍
More a hostel with lots of beeping. The three other people in my area having speakerphone conversations.
The beeping is utterly maddening. How the hell is anyone supposed to sleep?!
With ice cream and drugs and jelly and more drugs.
No ice cream, no jelly, the vege meal looks like spew.
And wait staff
sending healing vibes across the ether 🧠⚡💓
I think in our case the ether is the Yarra.
I got an email this morning to say my passport is on its way and the tracking number hasn’t updated on their system so I don’t know if it’s coming today or not but I’m super excited anyway.
Are you going on a holiday?
Yes
Hopefully we can get a few days in New Zealand this year. Next year Japan.
Beautiful.
Today’s “you must’ve had a shit day mate” award runner up prize goes to the young bloke in hi viz who exited his car as it was at a 30 degree incline on the back of a tow truck and had to climb down.
The winner goes to whoever is gonna be held responsible for the Derrimut factory fire.
On a brighter note, some really lovely news, I received a surprisingly chunky bonus from one of my jobs (despite not being there that long). I have the option of salary sacrificing it or having it paid out as taxed wages. I would’ve liked to put it all to super but frankly I could do with liquid cash atm. Buys me more time later in the year for when I can’t work as hard.
Now to whip up some hearty green curry. So good for throwing all the veg in!!
I dropped my kid and her friend off at the station and I said “watch out for gypsies tramps and thieves”.
And I got nothing back. Not even a smile.
Nah you’re not using the right lingo, you’ve gotta say eshays and bogans. I’d also throw in drongos, but gronks could work too
Bitches, eshays and sketchy people
Oh man. I love that song, totally forgot about it until now.
Despite being her first solo No 1, that song did not survive outside the 70s, I’m afraid.
Hey, it lives on in my house on a Friday night thanks.
I have a pretty substantial library of older music and didn’t catch the reference, so I guess so. I did guess it was probably a reference to some obscure old thing though
But every night all the men would come around
And lay their money downDo you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say…
Oooooo I have that sound effect on my microphone 🎤
I really don’t think you’re strong enough nooo
Touché Cher.
Put together my new bed last night. Added the mattress. Took a good 3 hours by myself, but it didn’t break apart (and only one minor mistake that I managed to fix without having to take everything apart). So I call that a win.
Slept like a baby. Bit sore today though. I guess a mix of putting the bed together and the new mattress.
Now it’s clean up. Soooo much styrofoam. The cardboard is in the car to take to the transfer station. Then gotta put the old bed in the car for the next trip. And then somehow get the mattress there.
In other news, my next Tassie western short story is releasing on Friyay!
