Weather forecast today (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 14°C, max - 21°C. 25% chance of at least 1mm rain
I’m so excited guys. We leave for NZ tomorrow. My very first OS holiday. Eeeeeee.
Remember to accept when your hosts offer you first crack at the sheep. Its just polite.
Hahaha.
Just don’t let a scientist mess up his experiment and create the dreadful Black Sheep 💀 no having a crack at those, though many have tried
YAY enjoy!!! NZ is awesome!!!
Thanks
So exciting! Have a great time, appreciate the natural beauty of the place because it is next level.
If you’re going to Queenstown, make sure you stop off at Fergbaker and get the combined chocolate / almond croissant. Thank me later.
We will be in Queenstown so this will be on my radar. Thank you.
WOOOOH!
Remember, if you encounter a slight language barrier, talk really loud and correct their pronunciation.
My husband does an excellent Maori accent and I’m scared it’s gonna slip out at some point.
He’ll be accepted as one of them. Or bashed on the spot
No middles ground
I’m thinking it will get a laugh or a punch.
Gotta pick your audience carefully.
very first OS holiday
ooh have an awesome time :)
Just be aware when ordering brekkie they don’t hold back. Easy to have eyes larger than :)
Unreal. Thanks
Oh yeah, I remember I put on kgs in 3 days!
Hope you have a lot of fun!
I will. Thank you.
Safe travels! Happy hour starts a once you clear check in and security.
Hahaha. I’ll be getting there at midnight so happy hour will start early next morning at the nearest grog shop.
You’ll be on airport time, which makes it totally normal and judgement free to have a drink at any hour of the day - so why wait until the morning? 😈
If you insist.
Enjoy!!!
Thank you
kiora means g’day.
Good to know
You’re going on an adventure 🙂🏔️🐏
Yessss
I expect to see a version of this posted here on your return…enjoy. NZ is just so spectacularly beautiful.
Will do!
Have a lovely time! NZ is great.
Thank you.
CEOofNZ coming at ya
Hahaha. Make sure you do a lot of drunken shit posting on Friday night. Keep the fires burning. 🍺
It would be my honour 🍻🫡
👍
I am so excited for you! 🖤
Thank you.
I am so excited for you!! I can’t wait to hear all about it!
Thank you.
All packed and ready. I’m told I will be holding the special sim card. I will be the human WiFi while the others suckle from me. I have had a giant coffee. I will not be sleeping tonight.
Enjoy!
Thanks
Bon voyage 😘😘😘
Thank you. I hope you have a great holiday with the young Seagoons when they get here. You must be so excited. 💜
I’m so excited for you!!!
I know, I’m excited for CEO too, it’s infectious … 😄
Thank you. 💜
eeee safe travels!
Eeeeeee. Thanks.
Have a fabulous time!
Thank you chook
'tis the season
I have that on DVD!!! I love that film so much!
(I also have the first season of The Muppet Show, that I need to swap for the second season with dad lol. I want a copy of The Muppet Movie (1979), I used to watch it all the time on VHS in the 90s)
That looks awesome. 🙂
Thanks. Very fun to draw.
Love it! I loved the Muppet Show growing up.
Awesome wrongness
and I’m having tomorrow off🍻cheers
I move to create a third weekend to be positioned on Wednesdays. Those in favour?
Aye! Wednesdays off is a very civilised custom. We should adopt it immediately.
For 9-5ers Mon-Fri, I’ve always been on the side of Friday or Monday off for this debate, having three days in a row means you get two days not thinking about work, whereas a mid week day off means you just get another typical Sunday of dreading the next day.
🍻
Cheers gooner☺️
Already on it lol! 🍻
Cheers potato!
Have a great night!
Thanks, I can’t go too hard. I’ll be up at dawn. A bit of renovations starting tomorrow so I have some marshaling to do. I might even lift a finger
🍷!
Cheers D
Yay you! I’m not, but 🍻anyway :-)
Cheers anyway 🙂
Forgot my meds this morning, wrong day to choose to walk to work (though the walk is actually quite nice). Had to use work car to duck home at 11 and take the meds because I was not coping. Rest of day has been utter shite. Am phenomenally tired and getting grumpy and resentful and feeling unappreciated. Reaching end of tether. Everything looks bad right now especially the huge pile of dishes that makes me want to cry.
I will put on some music, do the dishes, boil some pasta, chop up the asparagus and zucchini and garlic and an onion, make a pasta dish and call it a night. Then ignore everything else. I can do it.
E: I did it. Limping towards 9:30pm but I made a big dish of pasta (decided to flavour it with some Szechuan peppers for a change!) enough for tonight and two lunches. Washed up all those dishes as well. I think when my pay comes through I’ll be looking up bench top dishwashers in earnest
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gees, so many hugs,
maybe eat premade food for a week until you are rested, no shame in that 😘
I already did that the last two weeks, the fact that I had no time to work extra hours in my previous fortnight’s pay and had to buy a new phone plus that stupid $200 fine means I can’t afford a 3rd week of it. I’m currently living off my returned bond from the previous place until I get paid Friday. Won’t be rested until a few days after Xmas!
Every few months I need to attend a pharmacy to grab a medication. A lot of people who take this medication are ex substance users.
I have a great relationship with the owner, and she often is quite flexible and friendly with me. At times I’ve had to call her mobile to get her to explain something to the pharmacist whose serving me because they’ve made a mistake.
Generally their treatment of people such as myself is quite poor.
The pharmacists she employs absolutely hate my guts. I think they’re annoyed that someone who they consider scum is doing quite well. And to be honest, I play it up when I’m there lol
I love every minute of it.
If you want to play the superficial status game, then I’m going to rub it in your fucking face lol
/rant
I just don’t understand, aren’t they supposed to be people who want to help others?
Sure. Normal people. Not people like myself and others like me.
All healthcare is like this for us.
I do get it. I was taken to emergency by ambulance once , just in a terrible crippling pain, there was a nurse who I could tell actively hated me and thought I was faking. I had pink hair and an old detroit tshirt. The doctor brought in neurosurgeons and I was diagnosed with severe sciatica. Nurse was still angry and basically dumped me on the street when the specialists were done. I had to hail a cab myself.
obviously thought i was a junky . what a bitch
Yep. Being followed around shops because you have weird hair and piercings is one thing, poor healthcare because of incorrect assumptions is a whole different matter.
Even if the assumptions are correct. It’s not a reason to treat people like they’re refuse.
True. Apologies for seeming to imply otherwise.
It’s all good :)
Its sadly true.
The ones who try to belittle me, are the ones I make sure understand where exactly they sit in societies bullshit superficial capitalistic ladder.
Nurses and pharmacists. It’s always those 2.
Am Nurse, can confirm that some nurses have forgotten that they are not superior beings.
So I’ve been reading about Healthcare Batman. He has been caught.
He’s very handsome so that will be good for him in a jury trial.
He’s ideologically motivated , that is very bad in a jury trial.
He’s a vigilante who doesn’t believe in accountability, which I don’t agree with.
His target was a totally evil man and the world is well rid of him.
US and state governments have failed the American people by allowing such evil to exist for decades.
This will be an interesting trial.
Idk that I trust they caught the right dude tbh lol feels too easy
But he is hot af 🔥🔥🔥
That topless photo…
I dunno, it seems that insurance company finally got a taste of accountability /jk
Group chats with the girlies and the gays are going feral over him. That mugshot though. 🥴
This whole episode came at precisely the wrong time. Even if it could nucleate a revolution there’s just no way it would happen under the incoming presidency. Hopefully a nice reminder that most Americans are more similar than they are different on most issues.
He’s from a very wealthy family. Like, they own country clubs and nursing homes, wealthy.
Went to private school, and was considered wealthy by their standards even.
If it’s really him, it’s going to be an interesting trial given his family’s resources.
Let’s keep in mind he hasn’t been found guilty yet. He’s just a “person of interest”. Although he’s been charged, it’s also worth keeping in mind that the rich always get the benefit of the doubt and the innocent until proven guilty mentality. No reason he shouldn’t get the same
Also, he hasn’t even been charged with murder yet. Just carrying a false ID, illegal possession of a firearm, and a couple other felonies/misdemeanors of related nature
The opening scene of Fahrenheit 451 has been going through my mind the past 5 days. It starts with a man being hounded, just a man, guilt or innocence did not matter, the fact he was out and about and ran was proof of guilt". The chase was a show to satisfy the bloodlust of the public and give a show of justice. Totally terrifying.
Would something like hand cream be an ok gift for little ones teacher as a thankful? I know they get a tonne of chocolates and mugs so trying to think of something that might be helpful.
I genuinely read “mugs” as “drugs” and still thought it still made sense for a teacher.
I mean I know a guy…
Sure the teacher would love a white Christmas!
They probably need them at this time of year…
Yes
Related: it was a colleagues birthday today. I bought her a coffee and a pastry. When I brought it to her, she already had a pile of baked goods and a coffee on her table brought in by other ppl
Don’t give a cinema voucher I can tell you that much.
I am now thinking a gift card instead. I figure the cream, while nice, she may have skin allergies or not like the smell, etc.
The swelling in my finger looks to be starting to go down, finally. It’s still quite swollen but doesn’t give the impression of a balloon ready to pop anymore, which is definitely a nice improvement. The pain has also died down, so I’m back to working on my assignment (I got a short extension, to prolong my torture). My typing is very slow with one finger not working, but Miss Meow is helping, by putting her head on the keys so I can’t reach them anyway.
oh gees, it was pretty bad
hope you get better real soon 😘
“hey we need to move over 1tb before Thursday, can you help?” “Nope! but have a great day”
Client threatened to prosecute if we didn’t give them access to something they shouldn’t have access to.
All the best!
We had someone write an email citing the Freedom of Information Act (which is fine but doesn’t apply to things that are commercial in confidence).
When our team replied, they wrote that we are in breach of several amendments in the constitution.
We didn’t reply and flagged the person.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
lmao yeah good luck with that!
“hey we need to move over 1tb before Thursday, can you help?
I wish you good fortune in the battles to come.
“So, that’s it after 20 years, so long, good luck?”
“I don’t recall saying good luck”
Perfect
So, ah, yeah…I just increased the font size on my phone by a click…it’s not blurry anyomre
got mine dialed up to max. My wife laughs at me every time she uses my phone.
I had to make that same adjustment earlier this year. Curse these ageing eyes.
Staring at Monday in an early 1900’s house with no sisalation or anything really
Book a movie now.
Oh Jesus fuck. That was worth checking but also a shock to the system. I’ll join you in being dead and roasted.
free coffee at work. now THAT is how you win some favor.
Taking away the free coffee and removing the coffee machine has the opposite effect. Ask me how I know.
My work introduced a pod machine about 6 months ago which was a great call, but they were pretty unapologetic that it only had dairy. I understand that, but not one alternative ironically makes it pretty exclusive.
But yeah today was a barista and everything. Pretty impressed.
A barista? You milk that baby for all it’s worth.
I’ll do you one better: I’m oat milking it for all its worth.
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I love that coastal walk, one of a few parts of Sydney that makes me think it would be nice to live there.
That sounds so lovely!!! 😍💜🙌🏼
I just managed to cut the webbing between thumb and first finger on the dried oyster sauce around the top of the bottle. At least I’m already on antibiotics so I don’t have to worry about infection. All I need now is a good solid stubbed toe to complete my misery.
Please don’t touch anything else.
One gets tough webbing from opening stubbies. 🤷♀️
Have you bitten your inner cheek yet?
oh no. please not that! I’m hopefully safe for today, as I’ve just eaten dinner and can’t eat anything else this evening as the antibiotics need to be taken on an empty stomach.
then gentle hugs
You’re going to have no fingers by the end of the week at this rate
I think the universe is trying to take me out before I get my disability insurance finalised.
Have you considered welding gloves?
Or those chain-mail butcher’s gloves
I’d probably manage to get them stuck on my hand somehow and end up at the hospital while the Fire Brigade cut them off with an angle grinder 🤣
As stories I’ve heard about the fire brigade cutting things off go this is mild
Yes, any day it is just a hand they are removing something from is a good day. Some people like putting rings on inappropriate body parts, and when that ring is made of something really hard like titanium it gets a bit tricky.
Although kids manage to get themselves stuck in all sorts of interesting things. Plug holes and bits of bikes often, toilet seats stuck on heads occassionally, hands in lolly vending machines.
