Weather forecast today (Melbourne CBD 3000: min - 13°C, max - 22°C. 90% chance of no rain)
I’ve already checked out of working for the year. These next two weeks are going to be a slog.
I hear you. And there’s a mad rush to get a bunch of projects done.
I have a tiny window to work with after UAT is signed off and before the change freeze comes to deploy the next release to Prod. No pressure, but if you don’t get this change through this week Nath, it isn’t happening until late January. 🤞
Late January sounds like a more sensible time to me, people are winding down (no fucks to give) and will be going on leave soon. Any way you could find a “problem” and leave it for future Nath to deal with next year? 😁
Future Nath already thinks I’m a jerk. No need to make matters worse.
I’ve got multiple clients with projects that need completion before support for the product ends December 31st.
And today a client threatened to bring in lawyers if we didn’t do exactly what they said. Which is not in their contract.
That was a fun convo
I am grateful that my role has minimal contact with the customer side. My lovely project manager handles all the meetings. That said, the customers and I usually like each other whenever I do deal with them.
I have favourites definitely. Not these guys.
Apparently this is our 1,000th post!
(It said 999 a couple mins ago)
So it was only fitting that I was perfect again :)
Sky is pretty
Finger is sore
I don’t want to do
This assignment any more👏👏👏
Well well who do we have here?
That explains a lot.
She used to be so tiny lol
her ears are huge 🙂
Indeed lol
Make sure you don’t start getting suss deliveries over the next few days.
If you do you know whose fault it is.
I’ve taken the dodgy finger to the doctor. I expect a tetanus injection and antibiotics are in my near future.
Edit: tetanus injection aquired, antibiotics prescribed and medical certificate for three days issued.
Had a nasty infection in one finger once from pruning a rose bush. Including the red streaks up my arm. Ended up having to have the hosepipe penicillin shot in my butt and another tetanus shot in my arm. Could neither sit down nor lift anything for at least 3 days. I think this was actually the start of my needle phobia.
My worst infection was from a coral graze on my leg. I had a lovely biro outline drawn around it to measure the spread of redness, and antibiotic and tetanus shots. I think any pain from those was overshadowed by the badly sunburnt butt I got while snorkelling, which made sitting down a rather painful affair on its own. Queensland holidays are such a delight.
Ouch.
Hope it clears up quickly.
youse guys are scaring me
Just don’t jam dirty things into your finger and you’ll be fine. And if you do, don’t assume “she’ll be right”, because fingers have lots of intricate moving parts that can get messed up.
I got bamboo splinters last week but I did dig them out and then absolutely soaked in savlon for a whole day
I’m glad you’re getting it checked - finger infections can get nasty really quickly
Dr Google predicts a long stay in hospital followed by amputation. I don’t think that’s likely, but it is one possible outcome if not treated promptly.
I had an infected finger once (don’t pick your cuticles, kids), and took a while to go to the dr so it was getting worse. She said that you need to stay on top of them as infection can travel fast in fingers, with not great consequences.
A friend’s brother pricked his finger with a needle threading popcorn onto a string and got a very alarming infection that made his thumb swell up alarmingly. I also know someone else who got a splinter or something near a finger joint and was surprised to have it surgically treated as a full emergency. It’s definitely not something to take lightly.
sweats with a tiny splinter on a knuckle and a cut on another knuckle while doing potting mix
Ah yes. Hello “I didn’t do anything to provoke it” random back pain from just walking normally.
Ah middle age.
Also, I’m fucking starving. Success.
Teach kitty to make biscuits on the lower back.
Ugh, another long work day. I worked so hard last week but we just got more work poured down the pipeline (probably will tomorrow as well - before it becomes 2 weeks before Xmas and I hope to hell we don’t get anything more). Plus laptop still doing its random sleep BS. Blah :(
I’m super, super grateful I don’t have to throw a shitty commute with train delays into the mix though.
Now I need to cook (, Jesse!) For tomorrow’s lunch. Waah. Not feeling it. Zucchini slice would make sense… no cheese but I have nutritional yeast… doooo eeeet, body…
E: I gotta say I am so effing PUMPED for Severence s2 early next year, bring it on!!!
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OMGosh happy Sydney day!
If you’re catching PT, don’t forget to gaze in awe at how much more high tech parts of it are than here. Oh, and I guarantee unless you’re moving there, sitting on the 2nd floor of a train never gets old
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I did a thorough clean up of my kitchen today. Swept, mopped, cleaned the dogs mat and bowls and temporarily replaced them with some plastic ones because he might get thirsty or hungry. Cleaned out the fridge, dropped some deli meat in the bowl.
What did he do to show appreciation? He didn’t like it in his bowl so he slapped it up and down my freshly mopped floor including my foot, deciding what position he was going to inhale the slab of silverside.
They’re precious creatures! Ours refused to go to bed last night because I took her out to the back yard for her wee, not the front yard. Apparently the front yard has all the right sniffs for bedtime rituals.
FFS. FUCK EVERY SINGLE BANK IN THIS COUNTRY
I got a banner popup (in the app) that my term deposit account has some unspecified problem and I need to call them. So I call them. Then they say “thanks for calling. One of our online support agents will be assisting with your enquiry today. Please see your app or web banking for more info. Thanks for calling!” And hung up! You arseholes. Why would you do that? Why can’t I just talk to a fucking human you stupid piece of arsehole robot thing
I’m having deja vu to when those unauthorised transactions happened a few months ago and after sitting on hold for 2 hours they told me I had to do it through the app
What’s the fuckong point of having a phone number if its only purpose is to hang up on people you scumbags. I guess bank of Melbourne is now on my shitlist, right along with CommBank
Ok, apparently I had to go through the app and click a bunch of buttons to find a number that works. For some reason it seems the number they publicly list and the app demanded I call is the number to open an account or like a HQ number or something
This other number was better. 15 second hold, 1 transfer, another 13 second hold, problem solved in about 30 extra seconds. Apparently when I signed up they only needed me to verify 1 form of ID but for a term deposit they require 2? I don’t know. I’m not sure why the app couldn’t have told me that instead of just saying “there’s an issue with your account. To resolve call us or go into a branch”. Would’ve been a lot better if it just said “We require you to verify your identity again. Please go to the service tab to verify”
I maintain that’s poor user experience and they should do better, but both of the customer service people I got were efficient and very polite. Maybe BoM can go off my shitlist again. Hanging up on somebody is very disrespectful though, and their robot should be publicly shamed
E: actually, when the first lady transfered me, it seems to have sent all of my details to the other guy. I think that’s good design. It always pisses me off when you get one line, go through everything they ask, then they transfer you and you have to go through everything again
This is Gertrude, I think she’s a Isopedella victorialis (Victorian Huntsman). Or she’s a juvenile male lol.
She’s been keeping the top floor of my building clear of insects for the last week or so. Until this morning when the cleaners came - I think she got sucked up 😭 anyway, in possible memoriam, Gertrude; the finest pest controller on level 4
a picture of a huntsman spider, Gertrude
RIP Gertrude. Will be much missed until the next one moves in.
Huntsman tend to wander a bit, she may have decided her work there was done and moved on. But if she did get sucked up that is at least a cleaner end than the gradual leg reduction that they often endure at end of life.
gradual leg reduction
:( I did not know that.
Poor Gert.
Forever in our hearts.
RIP Gerdo
Today was a bad day for boost to not support spoilers.
Might be male as I think the females have relatively bigger abdomens
Edit: Yikes I hope not. Perhaps the vibrations scared them and they hid. Or Mickey had a snack…
🕯️🙏🏻
Aww, poor Gertrude. Hopefully just gone for a walk and not to spider heaven
Now that she’s dead shes going to haunt you for stealing her moth breakfast. Isopedella victorialises never forgive, and they never forget.
F me. D day for this project I am working on is approaching and folks are only just starting to take a look at the email that was sent back in october.
Too bad the project manager quit otherwise I’d be having a go at them cause all this work somehow falls to me.
Advised cerys last night if she didn’t stop being such a little turdholster i was going to drop her in the toilet and repeatedly hit flush. This did not appear to have the desired effect
You just gave her ideas of what to do to the other cats 🙀
Weight the lids shut
Was a bit of an idiot last night and now I’m hungover. Thankfully working from home, but because of a house inspection. Thankfully it happened at just about bang on 9am so now I don’t have to spend the whole day waiting for it!
Mmmm pasta bolognaise
