Banh Mi > Momos.
Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌅🌇🌄 Sunday, 15 December, 2024
Baku@aussie.zone 1 week ago
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.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 week ago
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