Today’s weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 23°C, max - 38°C. 90% chance of no rain
HAPPY BIRD DAY!
Today was not the day to lock myself out of my house, and I probably won’t get access to the spare key until 10pm. It’s too hot for this. Second time this has happened in 5 years, the timing of this one hurts.
RIP. Of all days… Have you been able to hide in a shopping centre or something meanwhile?
Yeah, I’m at my local council gym/pool which is where I was heading on the way to locking myself out. It’s nice and cool here. I’ll get some dinner after to kill more time.
How you going?
I’m back inside my place! I was able to get the spare key a little earlier than expected thanks to the parentals being very accommodating, so I didn’t have to wait until 10pm thankfully.
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It tastes pretty gross too, but irs great for killing off whatever is causing a sore throat.
Like the betadine gargle? I don’t think I’d gargle this stuff, it’s pretty gnarly…
I tried that once and immediately threw up. Disgusting
Got back about 45 minutes ago, apartment was hooooot but could be worse, at least it was a bit cooler than the outside. AC blasting like a mf. Esky tipped on the back floor of the car the one time I didn’t wedge it securely, it had yoghurt in it… Luckily there was a spare floor mat on top of the floor (from moving house) and only that received a dribble of the stuff. Promptly washed it out. Could have been a lot, lot worse.
Time for my crackers and dip and maybe some tv. This was the view from the hut I stayed in. I miss nature outside my doorstep so much. I can’t wait to move out from here
That’s one gorgeous view outside that window.
Hopefully the aircon will take the edge off.
Welcome back!
That’s a spectacular view.
That’s my dream view. Away from the hussle and bustle of the world…
It was really something else. Here’s the view on the other side…
I’ve had trouble falling asleep without my phone (or some sort of distraction) for ages but over there I could just stare at nature until it went dark and continue to do so in the hut until I was ready to close the blinds. I haven’t been able to do this for years
That sounds like bliss! I’m desperately trying to get fully remote work so I can live out that way full time in a few years
I feel like some sort of dessert but I don’t know what.
It’s alright guys. The man’s gone to get me something.
I’ve still got jelly and morello cherries.
I’d be surprised if you didn’t. That bowl was huge.
Jelly and custard 🍮
I’m tucking into a mini Christmas pud… for dinner. Its too hot to cook and I have some leftover.
Ice cream and jelly and a punch in the belly 😋
Good man. Let us know what he brings back!
It was a lemon roulade from Coles which was super sweet. Next time I’m asking for an apple turnover.
Plink, pause, plink, pause, plink of raindrops. Not a lot in it I think - hope we get a proper downpour.
Won’t be tonight by the looks of it but quite a downpour forecast for tomorrow.
I was planning on walking to work and back to get my blood flowing but I’m a bit chickenshit doing it in heavy rain and I’ll likely be on my feet for the rest of the week so maybe I’ll drive…
Big spring clean tomorrow. Looking forward to it to be honest.
Been a bit “slovenly” the last 2 weeks so this will make me feel a shit load better.
Also putting the ps5 away for a little while so I can finish off these songs. Sometimes out of sight, out of mind is best.
I’m going to nerd out for a sec:
There’s this guitar sound right. It’s a wall of distortion with an artificial reverb that’s used a lot in shoegaze/post rock.
I’ve been chasing it for almost 12 fucking years and couldn’t get it working because the distortion would overload the reverb and it turns into an absolute mess.
I figured it out yesterday. After so fucking long it finally works. The new reverb pedal is bought over xmas had a far higher headroom so wouldn’t distort with a high gain input.
Yaaaaaaay!
yaaaaaaay 🙂
Thank you!!! I figured it out last night so I couldn’t crank it loud. But today, after my decaf and breakfast, it’s getting absolutely cranked!!!
Siiiiick
It sounds so fucking cool. Like an ethereal wall of sound!
Not a bird contribution, sorry. But Mabel’s shenanigans this morning:
Her and her best mate at the dog park (which doubles as the local cricket ground) decided to play vigorous bitey face on the freshly painted red boundary lines. So now she’s pink. 🤦♀️
She’s very proud of her work though. I guess she’s just showing up for the Pink Test.
Gotta show support. Also I reckon Mabel would be a shoo-in for fielding on the boundaries. Might struggle to bat though - place her at 11 on the team?
It’s gonna be a ripper day Mabel. 🏏💕
I like recognising people’s pets. As soon as I saw the photos in my inbox, I didn’t need to read your username, it was just like “yep, that’s Mabel”
I still maintain Mabel is absolutely adorable
Seeing as we’re doing bird pics, here’s mine from Friday (sorry that it wasn’t taken today but thought it was so random it warranted posting)
oh noes, australia post has my address wrong and i need to send them my real address, to a url ending .xin.au 🙂
Send them a dick pic
I got that one too, forwarded it to Scamwatch
If you don’t mind, DM me the link. I like getting those domains shut down
i deleted without opening it
Fair enough. Personally I find it more entertaining to lodge a takedown request with their registrar and webhost. Usually good within ~12 hours
I should shouldn’t I.
Probably. But if you aren’t confident with technology and safely handling dangerous links, it’s fair not to
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I didn’t think I was going to have a contribution to bird day, but lo and behold, a lil birdie ran on the bricks right in front of my camera!
What’s the ID, bird peeps? It looks big but would’ve only been small in person
My guess is either some kind of small raven, or a thirsty sparrow. Maybe just a crow?
If it’s little it might have been a blackbird. But they usually have yellow beaks.
Probably a Little Raven in Melbourne.
Raven - either Little or Australian (I can never tell them apart). We don’t have Crows in Vic
That’s an excellent pic!
Chilli patch update!
No loss (yet). Habs are about to flower. Thais are very slow to the party but fruit for longer.
cool, I like how the various chillies have different kind of leaves
From memory I think there are a few thousand different types which is crazy. Here there are two heh.
I’ve always loved how you always go for a couple of staple varieties that do really well regularly and I go “I want them all, more pretties!” and they do poorly.
Ate too much fruit. Must nap…
My spirit animal:
No jelly gang🫠
I’m definitely sick - I have the air conditioner off and am sitting wrapped in a blanket. Now I’m about to head to bed. I consulted a rat who doesn’t think it’s covid, but it’s definitely one of the plague varieties going around at the moment.
Edit: plus I replied to a comment instead of the main post, brain is definitely fuzzy. I did manage to make more jelly though, so I’ll be in the jelly gang tomorrow, but right now I don’t have any set jelly.
I picked up the flu which is random for this time of year. Rest up!!
represent
Yesterday I noticed that the Aussie version of The Office was out so I’m guessing the NDA isn’t applicable any more. But damn you Amazon Preview for making me suffer through a whole test episode of that just so that I could fill out the qualtrics survey demanding they never subject me to that trash ever again.
Hahah. It boggles my mind that anyone thought this was a good idea when we already turn out series like Utopia and Fisk.
