Submitted âšâš5â© âšmonthsâ© agoâ© by âšSeagoon_@aussie.zoneâ© to âšmelbourne@aussie.zoneâ©
So far today:
Still to do:
Iâm exhausted already. May resort to bort lunches.
jells I was planning on doing garage stuff, but the cold got my arthritis and MD all fucked up so His Lordship took me to noodle about shops instead.
Thatâs so cute!
I had a proper feather duster that I stupidly left lying around and the dog got to it ripped all the feathers out. I have a lambs wool one that he eyes off now đ
I used to play with her as a kitten with the duster to get her to stop randomly attacking me. Didnât work lol
No cleaning, just playing with meeee!
Kill, kill, the floofuthing!
Bedtime I think. Alarm is set for 6am. Getting back into the swing of a routine for when Iâve found a new role.
Goodnight everyone, from the fluffy butt household
Oh her precious little face, I could kiss her on her little forehead. So cute! Hope you only see this message when you wake up tomorrow morning!
Right. Iâve setup a trial Entra tenancy to practice on. Iâve got my server 2016 VM setup ready to practice a faux migration.
A lot to learn!
Do you have proxmox? if not, worth a play to familiarise yourself now that a certain company is shitting the bed. You can also practise virtualising some machines.
Great stuff. I really should have one myself rather than using prod as the test bed.
I signed up for a free trial for a month which gives me enough time to get familiar I reckon.
If I can complete this migration, Iâll be over the moon. Also going to try enrolling dummy devices Iâve created on VMâs to see if itâs possible.
Fuck! Yesterday, the man decided to kill his sickness with garlic and chillis. Today, Iâm living in a second hand garlic cloud. đ€ą
Which end lol?
All the holes.
You donât want to know about the jerk chicken then. Hot enough to have consequences.
When I say garlic and chilli what I mean is a tub of toum and a tablespoon of Carolina reaper paste chaser. Jerk chicken wouldnât make a dent.
i never found garlic or chilli to help. Honey and lemon, an aspirin and rest helps
Yeah a normal person would do that.
If itâs a cold Armaforce does wonders but itâs a tad pricey.
Used to use it all the game and would avoid colds and similar stuff by taking it early.
Itâs like olive, echinacea and something else.
Insomnia. Again. So, DDT meet my Tommy. A bit of a belted around alley cat, but đ€đ€đ€
Cutie!
What a cutie! And clearly well-loved đ€
Yeah, he needs a bit of a restuff & buff. Scared to attempt it myself and the really good Bear Hospital people have retired.
Adorable!
My month long trip to the UK has ended. I have landed in Melbourne. I am sad, now that Iâm back to work from tomorrow. Someone give me tips to beat jet lag?
Too late for my jet leg method which is changing your sleeping pattern to Melbourne time a day before leaving/continuing where possible on the plane :(
Fists with your toes?
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Kinky
Enjoy the sun while itâs here, I got back a little over a week ago and after a bit of a sunny weekend the relentless grey was punishing đ How was your trip? Any highlights? I imagine itâll be hard to adjust after a month awayâŠ
Re jet lag, I use melatonin to help reset my circadian rhythm, but you have to bring it in from overseas or order it off iHerb, the OTC stuff here (unless youâre over 55) is homeopathic.
The trip was amazing! But I also felt I had enough and wanted my space after living with family for a month. I had to sleep on an air bed due to lack of space so am vvvv grateful to be back on my bed đ„Č
Highlight would definitely be Cornwall (county on the SE of England with beautiful coastline views and sceneries). The Cornish pasties are to die for đ€€đ€€
Also, re: melatonin, how often do you take it and whatâs the strength?
I napped too hard and now I am feeling yuck and discombobulated.
First time making cauliflower âwingsâ, a bit time consuming and a fair bit of mucking about, but came out really nice especially after dunking them in the sauce - made with my lovely homemade hot sauce - and then doing another 5 minutes in the air fryer.
Unfortunately the green manzano peppers I used for tonightâs arroz verde ended up spicy as well (Russian roulette with those things), so everythingâs clearing out my sinuses.
Discovered a bottle of mead in the fridge from goodness knows how long ago and poured myself a rare little tipple with soda water to wash down the spaaaaaice đ„” đ¶
I have been to Outside. The giant purple wooly cape is totally justified. Zero fuck
I have a friend who wears a knitted green mohair cape, it looks so elegant and warm on her. Itâs a short cape and sheâs so slender.
Elegant isnât the word for mine. Itâs electric violet and made from an opshop blanket. (Best way to get wide width 100% wool!)
you getting any, or is it all melbcats?
It was all Melbcatâs, but I managed to lure her to a better spot
Interesting little thing Iâve noticed: my organisation (and thus their complaints page) blocks all the connections from our IP (we have a static IP). Switch to data and it works, turn on a vpn (even a foreign one) and it works.
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Thatâs just dark.
And probably kind of dodgy too⊠Thereâs nothing that I can think of that would prevent access to their website besides them making a conscious effort to block IPs they manage
Nah. Iâm taking my ~bat and ball~ book and glass of water and going to bed. Big busy cold week coming up I might as well get some rest in. Night all.
Youâre a monoball I see
Just like BB-8
Yeah I had to read it twice.
Up stumps!
Good night!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!
Was a great game with some dodgy calls and maybe some questionable tactics as well.
Sorry for your loss :(
Weâre used to disappointed but it still hurts đ
I donât know what the screaming is about but Iâd like to join
I do. I was watching it.
Arguably some dodgy umpiring that could have turned the game the other way.
I decided to learn mandarin! Day two and Iâm bad at it, as expected. But I managed to use words I know to form a phrase!
ä»ć€©ć€Șć·äș
I sure hope thatâs right.
Today is day 259 of learning Spanish and I can still barely speak it, so good work
yes it is right
\o/
Ni Hao Ma
Hao.
Hereâs hoping my weather app has bugged and that itâs not actually going to be absolute zero on Friday!
we dead
I tried to be kind, ants.
I tried to be discouraging. I tried to be dissuading. You did not listen.
Now youâve got the coopex.
Decided to go to MKS today so I could combine it with a cuppa at a friendâs place as she very recently had to put down her cat (who Iâve looked after many times - little black thing).
Itâs still a raw experience as she thought she was coming home with her cat and some medication, only to have to make a life and death decision in a split second and return with a permanently empty cage - it breaks her that she wasnât even allowed to hold her beloved friend in her last moments. Poor kitty always had a few health issues but nobody expected her to be gone so suddenly. My friend is under great financial pressure too and I feel badly with how much sheâs struggling on centrelink, while also doing a course thatâs so full on that thereâs no way she can work part time. She feels she couldâve saved her cat if she wasnât so poor and it eats away at her⊠:( I think Iâm going to go round again one of these days with some food packages as itâs the least I could do even if itâs not worth a lot financially. Saves her time and energy at least and feel less miserable on the little she has. (She would not accept a loan under any circumstance)
The big plus was getting to share some cracking vadas from MKS (the best - seriously perfect every time), and giving her some little things from Japan that she loved.
Another friend came over later to help me move the last two heavy planter boxes back to my balcony so Iâve got all my buddies back now, yay! Feels nice and secure to have a full balcony again and get back into regular maintenance. My one healthy hobby đ
Pruned back the manzano hard as itâs gotten way too leggy and lopsided. Meant I had to take off some green fruit along with the surprising bushel of ripe ones, but surely theseâll ripen off the plant. Onto some watering and fertilising, stocking up on veg, and cooking for the week ahead.
Dear god Moorabbin dfoâs parking lot is a shitshow
One handed bunnings snag consumption is more challenging when the serviette is still in place.
My tongue is really dancing today
Iâm watching old Sherlock Holmes movies and itâs so nice to see all the expressions of friendship between all the men.
Iâm feeling incredibly low. The weather doesnât help but life just feels very difficult for a lot of genuine reasons.
Amassing quite the collection of half bags of frozen chips over here.
I changed the sheets yesterday and put on my trusty soft-touch blanket that Iâve been using since 2015. Game changer! A pain to put on as only half is tucked in (so I can wrap myself like a burrito and it doesnât come loose). But 500% warmer and so toasty that I fall asleep much faster and donât even need socks, let alone any heating.
Problem is I think Iâm starting to oversleep, heh. Mustâve been 10-11 hours last night⊠woke up at 9am today⊠waking up at 6:30 on Tuesday and Wednesday is gonna be a biatch. Beyond overjoyed at the sun being (partly) out though. Will not try and force myself to do heaps today as next week will be full on, but need to condition myself out of sloth mode too.
I think I nearly fell asleep somewhere between 12 and 1. I was having tons of success with just focusing on relaxing rather than trying to sleep, but it hits a certain point and my brain just snaps and falls back on its defences. Mrs b said to make sure I wake up early, haha thatâll be a no thanks.
Went to Panton Hill Winery today and it was like going to regional Italy.
Iâd also say it was like going back in time, but from what Iâve heard regional Italy is already like going back in time.
Set the temperature of a/c to 19. Iâve gradually being working downwards to see how I feel at lower temperatures and whether itâs going to be acceptable. Seems ok so far.
Iâve recently learned that to avoid feeling a stretch behind the knees during a hamstring stretch, simply bend your leg a little bit.
'tis time i dig up them scarf and beanie
curry on stove cooking, much housework done, house doesnât smell catty anymore, even did some work on my terrace garden
Iâm feeling so much better :)
bull@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
I have photographic evidence of possibly the exact moment when my brain flipped from being interested in ninja turtles to being interested in ladies.
This is me and a 22 or 23 (I think) year old Kylie Minogue at my dadâs work xmas party one year. Judging by my style/pudgy face Iâm going to say it was around 1990 or 1991. I hadnât seen this photo in decades but my mum sent it to me over the weekend.
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just_kitten@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
The thing is, I canât quite tell whether youâre looking at Kylie, or into the distance at some kind of airborne bandannaâd turtleâŠ
tombruzzo@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
My god, look at her. Imagine meeting her in person. I remember the Spinning Around music video came on Rage one time and I understood the appeal then.
Pilk@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Why was Our Kylie at your dadâs work Christmas party?