Happy Hump Day, Team!
The kid and I are deciding what toiletries we need to take and are only allowed one 20cm × 20cm ziplock bag each and everything has to be 100ml or less. What!!! This skin needs a lot of before, during and after treatments if it wants to step outside in the elements.
Is this for plane travel? That’s only the limits for carry on. You can take any size toiletries liquids in your checked baggage.
We’re only taking carry on backpacks.
Can you not buy toiletries there?
Why, when I have everything here.
Because then you don’t have to carry it. Plus for some reason shopping in new places is more fun. And as a bonus you don’t have to deal with power-tripping airport security who make you throw out your stuff even though it is actually compliant so you end up having to buy more anyway.
Now that I’ve finished the planting in my Mum’s garden I’ve started to make some more serious decisions about mine. I’ve neglected it a bit because I’m not really sure what to do with it, and it’s mostly filled with vegies gone to seed. I’ve decided to pull up everything in the main beds and replace with a mix of basic shrubs, mostly natives, and just keep the two raised planters with vegies in them. That should keep everything neat and be low maintenance, without costing too much. I’ll get cheap tubestock that will hopefully grow a bit before the house goes up for sale and fill in the garden a bit and I’ll fill in all the gaps with mulch. It will probably be a few days of solid work, but at least I won’t have to cart soil or do anything too heavy.
hehe I walked to the shops and survived.
I won that war.
But the neurologist long term neighbour rocked around to say g’day to mum and dad. Wasn’t a check up just hello. Fark me get two docs like that in the same room you are gonna get a lotta latin.
Ah yes, and how are the astroglia in your medulla oblongata on this fine day. Corpus callosum in good balance?
Bleh, even after the roofer turned up today the rain that swept through has caused another leak from the skylight and an area close to it.
Turns out from what I was told that there was a broken tile up there and something related to the skylight had to be patched up, guess that didn’t work though or wasn’t fully fixed.
It’s possible that if caulk was used, it didn’t have time to dry and immediately carked it. Sticking a plastic sheet over it may have helped but then they would’ve had to come back to remove it. May have just risked it to save you the money of them returning. It was either a definite return to remove whatever was covering it, or a potential return if the fix carked it.
That’s just my two cents anyway, I’m just spitballing.
I’ve got no idea since I didn’t deal with the roofer.
It’s a new leak sure. No idea if the repairs today have caused this or not.
Now that it’s at least confirmed I’d like it to stop raining now
First world problem : pizza or fish & chups? Cbf cooking tonite. And no meat in the fridge. Or freezer. Bad me. Must go shopping this weekend.
Boy that’s really hard. If there’s a potato cake involved I think I’d do fish and chips tonight.
Well… you’ve convinced me to have fush & chups! At home - eat through the freezer a bit. Have leftover slaw. Perfect summertime chow while watching more British cop shows
Pizza so U can have leftovers
To be honest a with a pizza there’d be nothing left over if I made one.
That’s why you get two!
You have convinced me.
Ahhh time to relax finally. What a day.
That’s a wrap on a really intense work week. Who thought taking 4 hours off last week would be so hard to make up over 3 days. Some weeks are cruisey but it feels like I’ve done a week’s worth in 3 days. And then I’ve got to get cracking on uni tomoz. Have dinner at a friend’s and no time or energy to make anything. Then dinner out with another friend Friday. I hope to be able to get everything unpacked over the weekend and just blob out a bit. I sure will tonight after seeing the psych.
Hope you have fun tonight and are able to get some stuff down then finally relax over the weekend.
🍍
Can’t sleep, pineapple will eat me
I reckon Kitten’s a bit too busy to go swinging?
There are other forms of hospitality. 😹🦩
GRRRRRRR the drainage I put in is draining, but it ain’t ocming out the hole.
If weather permits I’m gonna stick my endoscope on some yellowtongue and shove it up 'er
I have a task in my change this afternoon to execute a release pipeline called “Order 66”. The task has been worded as “Execute order 66”.
None of my colleagues thinks this is funny. 😞
I went bowling recently with work. My repeated loud calls of Over The Line! were neither appreciated or thought of as funny.
Love it! We looked at a product with a name from the halo franchise recently. I demanded if we go ahead it be called project SPARTAN. my boss looked at me like I’d grown a second head. Team leader loved it though.
Apart from my own personal struggles, I look at what the government is doing (or not doing) and think take me to Jesus now. I’m ready and I think I’ve lived enough.
Sometimes you have to not think about external things too much. Live your life as well and comfortably as you can, be a good person, be kind to others and be kind to yourself. That’s it. There are bad days and good days, sometimes bad months and bad years. Do what you can to live a good life, and let the world turn.
It is easy for us to get distracted by the big picture, and it can feel overwhelming when everything is is much bigger than us.
Remember that it is in the nature of our governments to disappoint us - this is because we live in a democracy centered on compromise. This is a good thing! This is another reason for us to have our representatives deal with that process - it allows us to keep moral clarity while they try to get the work done. We can sit in judgement of them while they make the Faustian bargains which keep the peace between those of us who would slay each other in the name of what we think is right. Sometimes, however, we need to look away from the sausage making. Give yourself a break, and come back to the body politic refreshed and refocused.
Would I change the system? Absolutely! Would most people agree with my changes… well… I’m not so sure… hence a system of disappointing compromises.
We can also get distracted by our personal struggles, stuck in the small frame of our own lives.
I am currently stuck in my small frame too, my personal struggles have overwhelmed me and I have found my self seized, stuck, immobile, useless, rotting, failing… well, you get the picture I hope.
I am trying. Slowly, the gears will be oiled, and the machine will move, and I am going to build capacity and become part of a community.
That is the middle ground - the place humans used to live. The way humans evolved to live. Act local, build community, and simultaneously the big picture and the small frame both start improving.
This is easier said than done!
To be honest though, you are already doing it here! This is a community. These people would not see you return to your creator, and I am absolutely certain the creator will be willing to wait many years for you to come back. They will call you when you are both ready.
I am not trying to offer advice, as I do not know your struggles.
I hope that you can continue through them, and I hope that your growth and success inspires others to continue their struggles.
I hope that your success can inspire your community to more success, more unity, and a better life for everyone.
(This post turned out much longer than I had initially intended - tldr: “Keep at it, we’re with you”)
monSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
I love thunderstorms so much
Here too. All hail to … to somebody.
e: and it will wash off all the secondhand pizza off the pavements of Richmond. Yesterday just softened it up a bit and made it fragrant.
not here it isn’t
here now
fucken’ hell, saw a guy on the tram in the seat across from get out his meth pipe and fill it up. His gf was already pretty manic and jumping around the tram.
How do people lose sight of what is acceptable and what is not? 😣
I do have to wonder about his story. A lot of things have probably had to go wrong for him to get to this point.
did you call the cops? I would’ve
You can text STOPIT to PTV and they send out ‘protection officers’ very quickly. OK to do for ‘unwanted sexual or anti-social behaviour’. 0499 455 455 is the number.
And what?
and say there was someone presumably smoking meth on X tram. obviously not whilst your still on the tram with them.
I guess when you’re chasing that high, it gets to a point where it doesn’t matter. It’s terrifying.
At least he didn’t light it up too 🙃
he may have, I got up and got off at the next stop
I hope don’t jinx myself with this.
This morning I had more little meetings voicing my concerns and problems and my mental state and initially they decided that they’d assign extra staff to aid me at the end of the day,
It’s now been decided that the problem I’ve been having at work has escalated enough now after a serious meeting today that the person will not be able to use the service that I look after and therefore will not be interacting with me at the end of the day.
If that is true and holds true for the rest of the work year I’m really relieved finally, it may not stop everything but it will certainly mean I don’t end the day feeling super crappy and stressed about everything.
One thing at a time but at least that’s a load taken off me from a work perspective.
Edit: And thank you everyone here for your support and warm words of encouragement.
Oh man, I really really really hope this comes through for you!
Amazing day today - drove down to Goolwa and caught an old/heritage “SteamRanger” train run by a Redhen railcar (the steam loco wasn’t operational, apparently) down to Victor Harbour. Amazing views out the window - it pretty much drives along the beach for about half the route
View:
And those of you who pay attention to my ramblings may recognise this little guy:
In case you don’t, that’s a Vline H Set, the kind that used to run the afternoon/evening peak trains from southern cross to Wyndham Vale/Melton (or Bacchus Marsh)! I think it may have gotten a little lost, seeing as we’re in a teeny little town in SA! I don’t actually think the Victor Harbour line is still connected to the main Melbourne-Adelaide line like it used to be, but in any case, that’s a broad gauge line (for broad gauge H sets), while Melb-Ade has been standard gauge since the 90s
Speaking of the junction with the mainline, this morning we stopped at Mount Barker Junction station, and managed to find a way inside. Pretty neat:
We also went to a little station called Littlehampton which seems to have seen better days:
Then we topped it all off with a trip on the Victor Harbour horse drawn tramway!
You should write a book Baku
Agreed!
I, too, am soooooo envious.
Take me with yooooooouuuu! ✨
NO ME lol
And why shouldn’t Littlehampton have its own chook shed? Just needs a bit of wire mesh, a floor and some chooks I reckon.
This is as much fun as the airport at Mt Gambier back in the 80s during the pilot strike - literally was a tin shed and a coke machine with all 3 of Mt Gambier’s taxis waiting outside in the boiling sun. I believe they’ve upgraded it since.
Very jealous of your trip Baku!!!
I remember when Tulla Terminal 4 was a tin shed and a coke machine 🐅
I believe they’ve upgraded it since.
Urrrrrgh, on top of a task I really really really don’t want to do now my laptop is doing its go-to-sleep-every-few-minutes nonsense. Something about a wifi virtual adapter in the logs. I’ve spent about an hour troubleshooting (while it keeps going to sleep on me randomly). Hopefully I’ve fixed it. What an esoteric thing. I just want to lie down in the sun and sleep for a bit
Last time I saw a laptop-randomly-sleeping-every-few-minutes issue, it was the magnetic wrist band of a schmancy new smartwatch triggering the magnetic lid-closed sensor in the palmrest.
If only I had such a glamorous reason! But no, the laptop lid is closed and it’s hooked up to a dock. Event logs showed it had something to do with a virtual wifi adapter apparently. Dug around and found it hidden in device manager, with some power management option that I turned off and I think that fixed it…
You don’t have something like hot corners set up with that laptop do you?
Nab. It was something to do with the wifi adapter, weirdly. Think I fixed it
