• ThornburywitchEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    We’ve had a break in at our office overnight! So far nothing appears stolen, but the office is crawling with cops blowing fingerprint dust everywhere.

    • tombruzzo
      4·
      3 months ago

      Work break-ins are always a fun break-up of the usual routine. One happened at my old job and even though there’s all this expensive musical equipment, the guy just tried to make off with some laptops and cheap guitars.

      It looked like the guy was homeless though. So he was more just trying to get whatever he thought would sell, which is quite sad overall

    • SpinMeAround
      3·
      3 months ago

      I’m half an hour late for mine and still have no idea what I actually want to eat…

      EDIT: Can of tuna and some bikkies. Delicious.

    • Duenan
      3·
      3 months ago

      As usual I’ve had coffee for lunch

  • CEOofmyhouse56
    12·
    3 months ago

    Cheers 🍺

    *This post is dedicated to all the adorable cats of Melbourne and beyond 🐾

  • MeanElevatorEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    For those who care, Canada beat the USA in the 4 Nations hockey tournament, in overtime.

    A great day for Canada, therefore the entire the Commonwealth and largely the world.

    • CEOofmyhouse56
      6·
      3 months ago

      I shall proudly wear my Canadian hockey cap, t-shirt and puffer vest this weekend. Seriously I have the collection. (Saved from the skip a few years ago). 🇨🇦

    • NathA
      5·
      3 months ago

      I sorta do and don’t. I didn’t know the event was on and this news doesn’t change my day in any way.

      But if I were asked who I’d prefer to win in a(ny) sporting contest between Canada and USA, I’m picking Canada!

      • MeanElevatorEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        It was kind of like an all-star tournament with USA, Canada, Finland and Sweden sending their best. It’s been a long time since professional hockey players competed in the Olympics, so this was a bit of a trial run before the next winter games.

    • TinyBreak
      5·
      3 months ago

      Mate i dont much care who beats them I’m happy to watch america get their asses kicked all the live long day. Always an added bonus if its the “snow aussies” (I recently heard them called that) take a win as well.

      • MeanElevatorEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        The game was closer than I’d liked, and to be fair, the US team is absolutely stacked. Next Olympics are going to be fun as heck.

  • TaleyaEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    -wake up

    • win10 work machine rebooted update overnight closing all open docs despite explicitly being told not to cheers ya fuckhead
    • Win7 machine decides it now hates name resolution
    • tweak dns / set to dhcp, no go
    • flush dns no go
    • pull up dns repository and see some freah adobe hell in there
    • use win10 machine to scoop latest blacklist for hosts file while i’m at it
    • win 7 machine won’t talk to win10 machine or ping (talks to everything else) but win10 can ping win 7

    Oh. It’s gonna be one of those days.

      • TaleyaEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Oh i have *nix boxxen, i keep the winturds to keep my hand in professionally

      • TaleyaEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Also i know the go to is "try linux!!’ And it’s solid advice, but dumping it unsolicited is about as useful as a fart in an elevator. Don’t be the fart.

        • tombruzzo
          3·
          3 months ago

          Sorry. Debian’s good because it has a longer update cycle, and you can opt out of them completely if you’d like. So you don’t get things suddenly breaking on you.

          I feel like Linux also plays better with remote desktop services as any version of Linux can do it, you don’t need the pro or enterprise versions like with Windows.

          And mounting network drives can feel more complicated when doing it in the command line, but I like the transparency of working in there than Windows’ wizard.

          That’s been my experience at least, I’ve just been tinkering and don’t actually work in networking

          • TaleyaEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            I actually built a multi session MINT termserv for work to baby the users away from windows. Had a looooooot of linux people saying it was preposterous despite the fact this is what fucking linux was built for and trying to mock me, someone with 20 years experience who spends 90% of my time balls deep in production deb servers and proxmox (irony of ironies, I personally run slack)

            …i have a very dim view of a lot of online *nix touters. The dunning-kruger, it is real.

          • TaleyaEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            Yeah it gets a bit like that. Where’s that jon stewart “you’re not helping” gif :)

            (I mean this very lovingly as a non partisan tech: don’t proselytise guys…)

            In other fresh hell it threw the bootloader, fixed that, disconnected my actual content (non-os) drives so i can fuck about with the validation, thought 'i’ll give her a clean while i’m in here" aaand the front bezel 14mm intake fan is also pooted. (Lives behind the hdd cage, so a hassle to get at). Got plenty of 12s, even a spare 24, no 14s.

            On my bike to the shop i go…

            • TaleyaEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              MY FUCKING BIKE THREW ITS BACK TYRE ARE YOU SHITTING ME

              there’s a hole in my bucket dear liza dear liza…

  • tombruzzo
    11·
    3 months ago

    One of the great things about getting into work early is there’s no one there to notice you got in 5 minutes late

    • MeanElevatorEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      If you’re in early how are you 5 minutes late?

      Or do you have an early start that you happened to be 5 minutes later for?

      Please clarify, brain not braining yet.

      • TaleyaEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        Started at bumfuck am, but got in a wee bit late

          • TaleyaEnglish
            6·
            3 months ago

            You’re an adult, they can go fuck themselves over five minutes

            • tombruzzo
              4·
              3 months ago

              I don’t think they’d care too much, but they also can’t pull me up about it because they don’t know

      • tombruzzo
        4·
        3 months ago

        It’s more a place where you can get in whenever and finish 8 hours from there. I was technically a little late in but damn if I’m leaving at 4:05

  • just_kitten
    10·
    3 months ago

    That was an alright sort of day. Feel like I’ve been operating on autopilot… anyway it’s good to be home to a pre-cooled lounge room, time to heat up a hearty dinner and enjoy this week’s tv! My favourite thing about Fridays atm 🥳

    What’s everyone’s plans for the weekend? I’ve got to list these dang little items on fbm before my rental inspection in two weeks, and probably do more bulk cooking. Nothing much else otherwise. Try and finish Juice, I guess

    • Seagoon_
      6·
      3 months ago

      looking at houses

      getting rid of stuff

      reading

      writing in my art journal

      • just_kitten
        2·
        3 months ago

        House hunting and decluttering can take up so much energy, it sounds like it’s a move for a good reason though? And at least not rushed

    • CEOofmyhouse56
      6·
      3 months ago

      Saturday recovery. Sunday prepare for the week. Washing that loves the outdoors.

      • just_kitten
        3·
        3 months ago

        Another Saturday chill day person? People often assume I prefer to have active Saturdays and chill Sundays like many others, maybe a hangover from when Sundays were for rest and church and all that but I desperately need my sleep-in and recovery day on Saturday, not Sunday.

    • Duenan
      6·
      3 months ago

      Shopping tomorrow early as possible at Southland for groceries and a click and collect.

      Staying cool and catching up Severance if I don’t get to it tonight.

      I think cricket match might be on tomorrow so I’ll try and catch that too.

      At the moment I have no idea what groceries I want to get so that’s a bit of a bother.

      • just_kitten
        1·
        3 months ago

        Is it that you’re not sure what you’d like to cook for the next few days? Maybe get whatever’s on special and make up something out of it, that’s often fun.

        This week’s Severence was really emotional and definitely moving some characters forward, I’d be keen to hear your thoughts.

        • Duenan
          2·
          3 months ago

          Sorry for the late reply.

          I don’t have much of an ide a what I want to eat for the next week or so. Usually I have some sort of an idea but I’m sort of drawing blanks.

          Will do. I’ll put it on today in the afternoon.

    • PeelerSheila
      4·
      3 months ago

      Miniest needs new shoes. I need new work boots. Shopping whilst avoiding the heat. Tackling Mount Washmore. Not much I guess.

      • just_kitten
        4·
        3 months ago

        Tis a warm weekend and perfect for scaling that treacherous peak. I need to wash some woolens that have been sitting in my clothes basket from when I moved in…

    • anotherspringchicken
      4·
      3 months ago

      I’ve got an unusually busy weekend lined up, seeing some friends and also visiting the kusama exhibition and maybe someone’s birthday drinks. Along all the usual chores - lucky it will be good weather for drying laundry

      • just_kitten
        4·
        3 months ago

        Oh nice! A good social weekend can be really rewarding. I have a really quiet weekend and been feeling anti-people recently but also recognising I need to socialise a bit so that it doesn’t sink into total social dysfunction heh.

  • Rusty Raven M
    9·
    3 months ago

    I am very much over trying to move and photograph heavy things to sell. Especially because there is not much room to move them in. But I’ve been having a good run on Marketplace and hopefully these will all be cleared out and I can stop tripping over them. buying that antique post drill press seemed a much better idea when I didn’t realise how big and heavy it was! Getting it to the front door if I manage to sell it is going to be quite a workout.

    • melbaboutown
      3·
      3 months ago

      I’m not sure if you already know about these or if they would be useful but there’s something you can slide under heavy things to help move them. Furniture lift tool thingy.

      Consisting of a lever and four little platforms with castors https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sz5SSe4cgnA&pp=ygUJI3JhaGFlc3lh

      Edit: They had them at Bunnings but I’m sure they’re not exclusive

      • Rusty Raven M
        4·
        3 months ago

        They are good. I’m pretty sure I used to have some, and am now wondering where they went. Unfortunately they wouldn’t help in this case though - it’s all stuff like old tools, including a really heavy old drill press that is designed to be mounted on a post - my guess it is around 40-50kg, with handles and things sticking out everywhere to make it even more awkward. The rest is at least only heavy because there are so many things - including a rediculous number of hand saws. I’m not even sure where they have all come from, but begin to suspect that someone has been sneaking into my shed to add extra struff! It’s amazing what 20 years of living in the same spot can see you accumulate.

        • melbaboutown
          1·
          3 months ago

          Oh damn, yeah. Maybe the people buying need to bring a burly mate and a wheeled dolly

  • Bottom_racer
    9·
    3 months ago

    Just trapped a wolf spider in the sink. Couldn’t get out. Damn fast buggers. But I will be merciful.

    Gonna take it outside

    E: Oops. Resident magpie saw me do that… RIP wolf spider.

    • dumblederp
      8·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, I’ve hurt my knee. Pes anserine bursitis at a very educated guess. Got a bag of Epsom salt glad wrapped to it… And elevated.

      • PeelerSheila
        3·
        3 months ago

        I didn’t know you could use Epsom salts like that, it honestly never occurred to me. Does it work well? I’ve always just dissolved it in a bath.

        • Rusty Raven M
          4·
          3 months ago

          Apparently using them like that can also help to remove a splinter. It didn’t work for me, but that’s probably because the “splinter” turned out to be a small stick requiring surgical intervention. But the whole osmotic pressure thing is supposed to work on normal splinters.

          • dumblederp
            3·
            3 months ago

            It’s magnesium sulfate, mangnoplam splinter gel is pretty much Epsom and a carrier like solugel or Sorbonne.

        • dumblederp
          4·
          3 months ago

          It creates some osmotic pressure to pull edema. It’s a bit of an old timey solution. Whenever I recommend it to clients I was sure to inform them that the science was weak. It’s cheap, low risk and easy to self manage. I was always bad at the business part of being a therapist.

    • Seagoon_
      3·
      3 months ago

      I must have walked at least 5k yesterday, probably my longest walk in a year. I’m a bit tired but also glad my back isn’t sore from it. 🙂