Weather forecast today (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 14°C, max - 31°C. 100% chance of no rain
Time to start closing the windows, freezing the ice blocks, and preparing the fans (or wallet if you’ve got proper air conditioning)!
Captains log, 6pm:
Little has been done. The perfect Sunday.
It’s taken me 3 years to figure out where I got Gibson’s brush from. The reject shop!!!
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Visited the castle. Visited the beach. I stayed in the car because I don’t do sandy cracks.
Which castle?!
Larnach.
Permission from Birthday Child to stay home because “you’re hurting”.
I love you, Birthday Child. I will donate to your Lego Fund generously and spoil you rotten at Christmas
Birthday Child has been raised well! Good on ya kiddo
Little kids (and dogs) are the best people. Rest up!
Phew, I’m glad it’s sorted! You should go rest up jonesy. Get well soon!
What an awesome little person :)
Someone who drove past my place chucked half eaten McDonalds all over the road. It was attracting birds and gong to become disgusting in 40c weather tomorrow so I picked it all up. The street is not your trash can assholes.
I am so sick of that , the streets are becoming so disgusting. This is not right, it’s so anti-social.
My local parks have gone back to locking the gates at night. So many people eating at the park in their car and chucking their shit out the window.
omg omg omg, I found an original book from 1912 by Professor Flinders Petrie, he’s like the guy who invented modern archaeology. It’s typical of much archaeology of the time, called Biblical Archeology, it’s interesting nonetheless.
I’ve read some of his essays in compendiums but not his books before. He’s quite scientific about it all, unlike Carter, who I’ve also read, but who was an adventurer and treasure hunter , not a scientist. Carter’s book was about the discovery and the objects he found.
This book is full of plates and rice paper covers, hand drawn maps and has an awesome embossed cover with hieroglyphics. The hieroglyphs look like they would have originally been in gold leaf, they are all black now.
That’s so cool!!! What an awesome find!
I love old books and especially old books about old places, with maps and pictures and adventure. 😄
Run it through this if you are interested in potential value. It’s not very old, but apparently in good clean condition from what I can see there. The weird angle on the printing is, well weird. https://www.vialibri.net/
Thank you. It’s in fair condition, has some foxing and the spine is only just starting to fray in one spot.
It was $5 and would probably go for 30 on that site but I’m just excited to read it. 🙂
Read and enjoy!
🙂
Chocolate in the fridge, yay or nay?
Tomorrow? Yay.
Yay
I’ll go one further and offer chocolate from the freezer. Good way to force yourself to slow down else break your teeth 😂
Happy to report back lunch was good. He ended up not bringing momos and we ended up not going and getting coffees because of the temperature. We substituted for bahn mi and Bundaberg ginger beer (though I had a coconut one instead)
Good chats were had. I’ll admit I was feeling a little bit put out cause I had a plan and misinterpreted the message of momo cancelation as a general cancellation like half an hour before we were scheduled to do the do, and I’d set everything up for momo. But it was fine. He stopped at that Luke’s bahn mi place, so I can now say I’ve tried it. Definitely don’t think it’s worth the hype fwiw. Better places with cheaper prices and no or short lines in either sunshine or footscray. But it is like the only bahn mi place here so I can see why people go to it (it’s cromulent just pricey and I don’t believe in waiting half an hour just to order food)
There was an ulterior motive though. When he moved out, he left a lot of plants and pots and gardening stuff to me. He’d bought it all when he moved in to liven the patio up a bit, but I realized I can’t care for it all once I move and it’ll all die if left here so I have a considerable amount back to him. I’ve got a more manageable amount of plants now, and the plants have a better chance of survival
In more disheartening news: a rant about systemic problems
In more disheartening news though, both of us suspect they may be closing this lead tenant house down. They’ve completely stopped all non essential maintenance, and they seem to have stopped looking for either another lead tenant to replace the one that moved out Oct 2023, let’s lone him. Or another kid to replace me or the other nutcase that was here. Honestly the house is a dump. It’s got good bones, and is in a very posh area, but they never bothered to maintain it, so over the 30 or so years they’ve owned it it has pretty much disintegrated. They bought the house in the 90s for 300 grand, and current estimates place it at about 1.4-19mil if they were to sell it. They could easily turn it into a block of flats and sell each for probably not much less if they wanted to manage that and could definitely make a pretty penny
It’s kinda sad. They’ve taken a regressionist viewpoint recently. When I moved in there was a program that existed for people transitioning into LT from resi that was for building life skills, things like learning to cook, clean, do basic maintenance, etc. Through shitty management and a lack of direction and communication, the programs focussed kind of got lost and they ended up going over budget and never really got the results they anticipated. Rather than reforming it, they decided to cut the program pretty much entirely. It now exists only for people who are at immediate risk of being kicked out and sent back to resi. That more or less means that there’s nothing now for people moving in, and no way to build new skills and figure out how to live by ones ownsome. And that’s quite representative of how the entire system is currently going at the moment. They came up with fantastic (genuinely, not sarcastic) programs and things that filled a real need, but failed to implement them all properly then got antsy about spending, so now they’re axing all of them which’ll just create worse outcomes for the next people that move in.
I was trying to go through my photos to find photos of the garden and plants I inherited for you all, but I got really caught up on the photos from when I first moved in
Things have really changed. And at that, changed for the negative. I typed out a really really long kinda rant about it all. I realised pretty quick I wasn’t gonna post it (too personal, too long, irrelevant), but it was useful to type out my feelings. There’s a lot of bottling up happening there
Things were so good when I first moved in though. Helplessly watching it gradually turn to shit was difficult and is even harder to look back on
Banh Mi > Momos.
Nope.
Family plague update.
It turns out Dad and Stepmother BOTH have Covid
AAaaaaarrrggghhh. And especially having survived the worst plague years - and the timing just before xmas sucks too. Hope they both feel better soon. Chookers to Chook too.
😮 Damn, there’s a bit of it going around too. Hope they recover well from it.
Truly a gift of the seasons :( hope they come alright soon.
✅ dishes washed
✅ clothes washed
✅ clothes dried at laundromat
✅ clothes put away
✅ soaked beans cooked
✅ breakfast and coffee had
Time to hit ze shops for some milk and OJ. Maybe a small box of ice lollies.E: is my local Coles just shit or has Proud & Punch stopped making pure icy poles without “cream”. I am disgruntled. Considered all other ice cream options and then decided fuck it, I don’t need that in my life, OR OJ, got my favourite coconut water on half price instead.
Driving back the sun was already stinging like a MF, so make sure to get that sun protection on today!
Then chop and cook up the veg and tvp for hoppin john, wash up all of that, switch on the AC and do a few hours of work (to make up for short days next week) until my friend turns up.
I’m in awe at the productivity. Getting to the cafe to grab a decafe was an effort today lol
Kitten why are you so productive! I’ve been procrastinating :/
Because I haven’t had only 3 hours of sleep! I did spend half of yesterday in a fog with a bad headache…
Ayy 3hr sleep club. I’ve lost my caffeine tolerance and had an iced coffee with 160mg, it kinda fucked me up. Helped a friend move house a little this morning and now back home to follow Dr William Nelsons Jamacian arthritis protocol.
I actually think 3 was the “perfect” number. It’s weird how sleep works like that (for me). If I got another hour or an hour less, they’d be equally bad, whereas 3 hours left me as energetic as 8 or 9 hours, just for not as long
Young man, do not expect this to last…
Oldy, I’ve done it all before, I know the timeline 😆
Seriously as long as I keep on moving, keep on talking, keep on doing, I’ll be fine. It’s when I slow down or sit for too long I’ll conk out
I suspect our wise feline-pescine comrade is insinuating there will come a time when 3 hours simply won’t even be an option (bar the copious use of pharmaceuticals). I tend to agree.
Enjoy being able to function at all on such little sleep while you can!
Old people I know seem to always fall into one of 2 categories. The first are people that do like 2 hours of sleep a night and act all “she’ll be right” about it. The second go to sleep at 7pm, and “sleep” for about 10 hours, but actually wake up every every hour or two and basically actually sleep for 2 hours anyway
Ah well, just one of those things that happens once you turn 30 I guess, like making noises Everytime you stand up 😂
I think it comes down to sleep cycles. We go in and out of deeper levels of sleep, and if you wake up at the right time you feel more refreshed than if you are woken up from a deep sleep. The cycles are a few hours long, so a three hour sleep can mean you wake naturally at a good time, but an extra hour might mean you wake up half way through one.
Okay testing phone… ello?
e: Hooray it worked
You sure? I couldn’t hear that.
I’m supposed to attend a child’s birthday party today, but I’ve massively overdone it and can barely move.
What do
Sleep. Apologise. Catch up with them separately and give said kid a nice pressie. If you need, tell them you are aiming down with somethibg and don’t want to spread it.
Unless you are someone actually helping with the party etc it’s all good.
Depends, whose child?
Sister’s kindergarten-sized kid. Little asked me specially
That’s a tough one. Tbh I’d probably grin and bear it if the youngin asked me specifically, but at the same time it’s not going to be great if you’re feeling like crap the whole time.
Oh yeah that’s different… You might need to push through. 💪🏻
Update to my broken window opener and closer dealy:
I generously applied WD-40 and managed to get it to close \o/
Opening it will be tough though I imagine. Alas.
Wd-40 is not really a lubricant.
If you have some light oil, eg sewing machine oil, or silicone spray, that might be better. Work it back and forward a few times to distribute it evenly.
But be careful applying those. They can be messy. Less is more 😉
WD-40 is all I had on hand, really.
Yeah, if it worked 👍😬
Oh, I hadn’t read this before I replied to your other comment - thank fuck you got it to close! Better closed than open for now. Can you get your landlord to replace the winder soon? From what i hear it’s not a difficult fix
I’ve passed it on to the landlord via the lead housemate, but we’re currently waiting on her to fix the back fence and that’ll be pretty expensive.
He(the lead housemate) has a thing about trying to keep rent down by not bothering the owners, basically. Our rent went up anyway, but not by much so he is sorta on to something considering how bad the market has been.
Argh. Yeah look tbh I did the same at my old place - when I got the blinds replaced as the old one literally was going to fall off, bam, rent increase (even though it’s improving the sale price of the house and tax deductible! Fuckers)
I did have to give in and ask them to do my old stuck winder though as it was letting in a lot of cold air heading into winter and that sucked big time. I think the LL’s partner just did it himself.
Your situation sounds serious enough to be worth getting fixed…
Ooft I feel you. Some bright spark painted most of our windows shut…
Bedroom still so hot. Ughhh. Windows shut and I feel like I’m suffocating. Might need to try the sleeping bag in the lounge tonight
External temp has dropped a bit - crack a window?
Can’t. Stop. Hiccupping.
I’ve found skolling a lot of water and then holding your breath afterwards works 100% of the time, 50% of the time.
They’ve finally gone, hooray. Possibly because a small cat kept smooshing his face in my face and complaining that I wasn’t giving him enough attention. Or not.
Good kitty :)
So that’s how you spell skolling.
