I agree with everything in your comment (and what a fantastic word to describe the evening - velvety indeed). I will confess I do also enjoy walking with headphones on; I’m not always up for a conversation and I do find the music and landscape heighten my experience of each other. Particularly great when one is feeling fragile or vulnerable. But then you do lose that aural experience of the neighbourhood which has a lot to offer too, when you’re ready to receive it.

But there is so much to drink of when travelling by foot. For anyone who loves plants it’s a no brainer of course.

The caveat is walking along awful, car-centric stroads like Bell Street or Nepean Hwy - ugh. Or some of the outer suburbs with boundary to boundary houses and nary a tree. Those can be actively stress inducing.

And Claratyne sales figures.

Oh sorry, MissGod will be attending a 80s,90s,00s fancy dress as Kurt Cobain and oddly enough, I don’t actually like Nirvana so I’m not sure what you’re referencing lol. What does the uterus thing involve?

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It had some little blemishes I didn’t want to go in the soup

I reckon a pub bistro is a great idea actually!

One thing I noticed this trip is that just about everywhere, they’ll tell you how much a 15%, 18% or 20% tip would be on the bill or on the screen if you’re paying via a console so you don’t have to do the maths yourself very often anymore.

The thing which really stings is that their food and drink prices are starting to look like ours but it’s USD so with the AUD being worth ~64c to their dollar, meals and those tips are insane. I would not recommend Australians take a trip over there right now unless they’ve got plenty of money to spend, unless they eat and drink on the cheap by cooking for themselves or doing the cheapest fast food only rather than any sort of table service. I’ll give you our most extreme example, even though this meal was comped by the casino for us so we only paid the tip. That meal where I had Petunia the fancy steak… that was $70 for my steak + $10 or so for the mac and cheese side + $20ish (from memory) for my drink. All up our bill was $300 + $50 tip for 3 of us which was only like a 16% tip. I’ll do you the favour of converting it and tell you that it’s $543.61 AUD.

Back down to earth, I could not go anywhere for a sit down meal which came to less than around $40 AUD for myself after tax and tip. Whether that was a basic bacon and eggs type breakfast or something for dinner. Another fun example is I took 2 short taxi rides in Vegas which cost me $70 AUD total. I think the amount on the meters were around $18 USD each but then add your tax and tips. Absolutely insane. I am lucky enough that I have plenty of disposable cash so I simply wasn’t keeping track of how much I was spending, but just being mindful of it. I don’t know and I don’t want to know how much that trip cost me, even though I could easily look and figure it out.

Over there? Depends on how much I spent. Minimum 18%, often 20%, sometimes a little over that if it was cheap and they were great. Can’t punish them for their dumb system. Just can’t let it happen here.

Thanks SC. You’re right. I mean I didn’t even think I would make it beyond the phone interview. I think the interview being with the CEO really threw me off or maybe I just felt that and he was impressed with some of my answers. I don’t know. I’m just going to assume the worst and let it go because usually thats when something good happens haha.

Thanks spudsy. Between Interviewing and getting the second part of an assessment to see if I’m on the spectrum it’s just been a big fucking day and I got a lot of emotions going around. But self care is in progress, had a hot shower, got a cup of lemsip (because for some reason it helps calm me down) and dinner is hot mexican sausages in bread with some chips and corn and peas. I think some One piece live action and HALO is on the cards for tonight.

Thank you you for this. This has helped me feel a lot better this morning :) Culturally we all seemed to be on the same wavelength and I think i said the right things in terms of culture and why i want to work for them. I didn’t even think I would make it past the phone interview and I told them as when thanking them for the privilege and considering me for the role. But yeah, interviews really stress me out and I just can’t process the questions properly and my answers come out as superficial or rushed as a result. Hopefully they saw something worthwhile in me :)

I’ll be glad to sleep in for a bit. My sleeping of late has been horrible and I hope I can fix it up.

The nice weather for the next week is really going to help having a nice lazy morning with breaky and a coffee.

I hadn’t made a real coffee in awhile. Maybe need to get back to it.

I wonder if I’ll be able to finish off any RPGs I’ve got lying around during this time.

I finally got around to finishing off Xenoblade 3 and now going through the Future redeemed arc.

Oh I’ll do a little bit but not too much. I did that last year and I think I copped some sunburn.

Left my sunscreen at work too :(

yep already looking forward to going to bed!

Thank you Lady Spudness of House Starch!

Cheers fella, I’ve been mucking around since the last reddit purge, Just losing a bit of faith.

Cheers Spud. The level I operate at is Alphablokes, Sports Bizarre etc podcasts on the way to/from work and kid duties, and copious amounts of washing, cleaning and cooking as my new recreational activities of choice in the evening, been a cunt since the butler quit. At work is being questionably professional while running a blue collar workshop in a white collar industry. I love my team, kids, and wife, and they don’t hate me. Win, win.

Nah nothing like that. Most of it was just out of date because I haven’t been drinking. Not an overly conscious decision, it just sort of happened over time. I still like a drink but I just don’t find myself choosing to drink.

Thank you!

Zombie Army 4 on XBox game pass. We’re all… Not fantastic gamers so we stick to co-op only games these days out of fear of playing against younger and better gamers!