I have house! 🏠
Still no power, but that should be connected some time today. I’ll need to figure out how to light the pilot light on the water heater at some point, but’s not urgent. I won’t be actually moving in for a few weeks.
It is as expected a bit on the dirty side - just the expected layer of dust etc. that accumulates in an empty house. It does mean I won’t have to do a perfect clean when I leave at least - but I definitely need to add window cleaning to my to do list sooner rather than later!
For afternoon fun I shall measure all the things, then assemble a bed and side tables and a couple of cat trees.
In other good news for the day, the accidental foam couch makes a quite comfortable temporary seat, so I have something to sit on before the furniture is delivered.
Yay! Pilot light - if it’s like my old gas water heater, there’s a ignition button you push a few times and hold once you hear gas, then watch for the flame to appear underneath and continue to hold the button for a bit, then release.
Also account for the time for the water to heat up, so maybe do this 24 hours before you need hot water.
My old water heater used about 16 matches and a complicated pattern of pressing and releasing the gas button. It never occured to me new ones would self light.
It is an instantaneous heater, so no waiting required.
This is wonderful news. 😄
I like how one of the kittens has a little moustache.
lol last pic is an album cover!
edit: wait no they all are :)
Dude that’s a damn good point!!! Hahaha
While I’m here: the H90 continues to impress. It’s an endless box of inspiration man. Im going through each algo, one by one. And each algo has say, 10 presets and there’s 60+ algos.
That’s not taking into account mixing 2 together. Only shame is that I would have loved a 3rd effect slot. But it has fairly quick program change so that helps.
Hours and hours of playing!
Parental advisory: excellent content
they are truly lovely cats
I’ve mentioned it before, but my new gp is fantastic. She listens to everything I say, she hasn’t tried to bullshit me on anything. I stuck with my old shit gp for far too long. Literally wasting my life. If you’ve got a shit gp, at least roll the dice and try a new clinic if you’re able. Pay the transfer fee and forget the headache. They’re not all grumpy arrogant wankers.
Having a good GP (or GP clinic) is such a comfort.
Happy for you mate
I’m having this dilemma too, current GP clinic has had some changes and the doctors I liked best have gone or have reduced hours so hard to see. Been going there over 10 years. Can I be bothered to look for somewhere new and start all over again, and maybe would land on another mediocre clinic anyway. Your positive experience makes me want to have a look around.
It’s not starting over. You get your records transferred. Think of it more like changing school between yr8 and yr9, it’s a bit different but it’s the same thing still. Better than keeping on with the bad service, hoping the abusive relationship gets better. No one else can advocate for you in this situation.
I had a new amazing one too. The bugger went off on maternity leave!
Donated blood this morning. People might think I do it to save lives, but they’d be wrong.
It’s so I can get drunk of 2 beers tonight.
the fact that you just saved a life is a nice little side bonus!
Gonna offset that shit after the 4th beer when I go drag racing through my neighbourhood.
Too many people alive these days.
India and Pakistan may take care of that for you sadly. And its not like the russian’s didnt try.
winning
Hard rubbish down here tomorrow. Guy next door has a kiddy slide and I’m really tempted to take it.
Youth is wasted on the young as they say.
But honestly the amount of perfectly good stuff people chuck is wild.
Boyo once did a demo job where they had seemingly left everything, clothes, crockery the lot. Too rich to give a shit apparently.
I used to see that attitude when I was living in Carlton. Rich students would just leave an apartment full of furniture and even their car when they finished uni and went back home to China. Their stuff would end up on the footpath.
Yes, the student dump is quite a thing. Some places you can get astonishing stuff in Hard Rubbish. Miss it, this area does individual booked pickups.
One of my fav YTers is doing a house reno in Japan and it’s amazing to see the state of a house in Tokyo that’s been abandoned for 10 years. So many unopened, unused things, it’s totally bizarre.
Mr P did demolition for a while. We didn’t pay for cleaning sprays for ages. One time they found a whole lot of stuff for making fake IDs. Boss had dibs on the jewellery.
I did a bunch of removals jobs loading a house into the truck and straight to the tip. Threw out a bunch of good stuff. Sad really.
Absolutely disgusting. Convention bump outs are the same. So much perfectly good stuff in the skip when a few phone calls could rehome it all.
I used to live in hawthorn and the stuff put out in hard rubbish around there was incredible. Would have scored a lot of nice furniture except I couldn’t carry it by myself
Woke up in the early hours with a very upset stomach, Cerys is running around shrieking for food! Ffoooooooooddddd! And i’m doing the thing where you lie there hoping it goes away or trying to gather enough ooomph to take something or at least die in a slightly more scenic location and she’s dancing on my corpse screaming FoOOooOOdD! and i hit the point of ok this is happening and bolt for the toilet with cat on hot pursuit thinking she’s got me now oh yea, i’ve bowed to her will and then i drop trou, unleash hell and she realises
i have made a horrible feline mistake
And then i lock the door.
The sounds grim. There’s nothing like a pet waiting for you when you’ve finished purging. have you finished now cos im hungry?.
I hope it’s nothing too serious. Get well soon.
I thinks it’s the horrible rewenge of the buffalo chicken burger combined with a few too many allergy meds and guts that have never quite sat right after cancer. Thank christ we have a bidet
arms length hug
Off sick today to make my dreams come true. I have all the ingredients I need, now I just wait until I’m extra hungry. Pics to come
Potato dreams?
🙊
I have bed!
That took a lot more work putting together than anticipated, and I still have to screw down the slats. I’m happy with how it looks though. I don’t think I’ve got enough enthusiasm left to start on the side tables today, I might have a start on the dining table and cat trees instead.
I still don’t have any power. Hopefully it will be done soon, I’d like to have it on before I leave.
Edit: I also have dining chairs and a hanging light to go over the table. I don't have the table yet, so I made the footstool fill in 🤣
looks nice!
Mr woof will love all that grass
Turn those boxes 90 degrees and tada, they’re side tables.
My kid is going for her driver"s licence on her birthday on Thursday. It’s gonna be a good day or an even better day. 🙂
Yeah. She has a professional lesson tomorrow then we’ll book her into this. Thanks.
Finally home!!!
@[email protected] Ive got the game you’ve been playing! I’ve avoided any spoilers.
Also guitar and cat!
I cannot wait to hear what you think of the game!!
That trailer was insane!
yay
I’ve been such a bad influence on a few people here.
It’s such a good game and the soundtrack is amazing as well to go along with it.
Probably best to avoid my videos.
The early ones I have are from optional bosses but there are some story ones mixed into my channel now.
Let me know if you need any pointers.
It’s a wild ride.
Edit: Kitty!!!
I’m 7 hours in and utterly obsessed. It’s such a beautiful game!
I got to you too!
The combination of everything really makes the game special.
I’m thinking I’ll wait till tomorrow night because I won’t be super tired.
All I saw was the trailer and I was hooked! Bought it as soon as I could.
Hell yeah!!!
Probably for the best, you’ll be hooked!
So does anyone else think that the leftovers that the kids ate was actually the leftover beef, not the beef wellingtons. They talk about meat, potato and beans, nothing about pastry. I know the mushrooms were “scrapped off”, but I reckon they just ate beef, not beef prepared as wellingtons.
I’m trying to work out what the motive was. Assuming it wasn’t accidental which it possibly wasn’t. What did she think she was going to achieve?
the local rumour is that the inlaws were nasty religious extremists
so maybe get them out of her life or stop their influence
still not the answer, she could have just taken her kids and left
Oh damn, that changes things. I did wonder why she kept in such close touch with her ex (?) husband and in-laws if they were separated but maybe there was an element of control that I didn’t know about. Perhaps they threatened to go to court pursuing grandparents rights if she left and she tried to take out as many family members as possible to avoid them acting as flying monkeys.
I’ve now seen there was tension and ‘dad doing things to hurt mum’ but the article is paywalled.
To me that was language of a kid repeating what his mum had said, especially when it involved school (bills and reports). Though it’s also interesting that the “day of the lunch”, the dad dropped the son home but the daughter stuck with him until the evening. Though Erin did say that she felt the father favoured the daughter.
That’s so interesting!! It sounds like all her connections with the family had taken a nosedive in the year or so leading up, but it could have been her pulling away.
She never fed Wellington to the kids.
Yeah, but it was phrased as the kids ate “the leftovers, but she’d scraped the mushrooms off”, so it sounded like the leftover wellingtons, hence why the medical staff were scared for the kids. But what the kids are saying sounds like it was just beef.
Lies all 'round wow
Yeah
Not sure, haven’t seen the details of their meals but what was just on the news sounded really suss
Ooh what was said?
At some point in the past the mother went on a trip to the botanical gardens or something like that and took photos of mushrooms because she liked them.
She also drove one her kids an hour somewhere the day after despite saying she was feeling unwell to an instrumental lesson I think.
The lies are lying. So much isn’t adding up.
I am missing three out of four lip balms. I have accumulated that many because I bought one, then my mum bought a pack of three and gave me two, then the other one was because the first one was running out. I hope they’re in a pocket somewhere, because it’s driving me a bit insane.
Anyway, happy Friday! Cheers 🍻
They’ll be in that bag you haven’t used for a couple of months.
I’ve looked in there :(
Turns out I had five (was given one for free from work for some reason). Found the work one that I didn’t know I had, but not the ultimate prized one. Oh well.
If I don’t have a lip balm on me when out and about my day is ruined.
Cheers 🍺
I can’t cope if I lose a lip balm. They all have their type and place.
I just learned something new.
Starting to realise that anxiety is just like being physically ill. It fills nearly all our thoughts/prevents other thoughts. When we live an anxious life we are never bored, never have empty time to fill, it keeps us busy.
This year I have recalled a few times a strange little book I read many years ago, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, it describes obsessive and dysfunctional thoughts very well. ( not that I’m a sinner! ) The days and years fly by.
It’s not like being ill, it is being ill. Just because it’s less tangible than a worn tendon or excess urea crystals in your big toes, it’s still a pathology which impacts your health.
I am starting to realise that. 😔
When I had cptsd , and I had a bad case of it, it often felt like my illness was outside of me, that it was happening to me. I would tell myself that it was contained within me, it was me, even if the cause was outside of me.
Did you read “The body keeps the score” yet?
fuckin cheesemare influenced by watching Pokerface and eating cheese
5/10, for a nightmare it was pretty lame and not very scary at all
Had a nightmare about that Person From My Past choking me and then acting all innocent while I begged and pleaded for them to leave me alone, only to show how manipulative they were as soon as we were alone. Woke up and checked my call log, they haven’t tried again but am honestly surprised at the hold they still have over me.
Oh, and it all was happening in the house I grew up in Bendigo, so I guess that’s just another layer of ick.
because violent and manipulative people are like that 24 hours a day, that’s a lot of behaviours and events to rethink
every little thing they have done and do is fake except maybe when they are on their own and doing something like watching tv
and hugs, because there aren’t enough hugs in life
Cheers gang 🍺
*This post was proudly brought to you by the new yank pope who brought home the chocolates
🍻
this is one choice of pope I can get fully behind
it’s a very powerful political move against Trump and Putin and their religious extremist allies
🍺
CHURS 🍻🍻
Good on him and all, but where are my chocolates?
God only knows
2 hours to go!
Cheers!
Cheers for Ron 🍺
Potat is done, so beer can begun 🍻
You’ve earned it 🍺
