Mickey wishes you all a great day!
Daily discussion. đ Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
Submitted â¨â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago⊠by â¨Seagoon_@aussie.zone⊠to â¨melbourne@aussie.zoneâŠ
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StudChud@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Both looking comfy!
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Wishing Mickey a great day too, filled with naps and snuggles!
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Went out and got a cheap laptop for TAFE. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Got a coffee for a treat as well :3
calhoon2005@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Nice Ryan reference there.
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm gonna need you get alllllllll the way off my back about this haha
Cendana@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Hope you got more than just one of those shitty HP Streamâs.
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Itâs a HP, but not a stream, ew haha
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
F me, was that the name of those CHEAP shit 200 dollar ones in the electric blue back in⌠wanna say 2016? 2018? Man I have PTSD about those things.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Going to bed now even though I know I probably wonât fall asleep until like 11. Bed too comfy looking I been fantasising all day about climbing back in. Will put a solid dent into my current audiobook: 11.22.63, which has been excellent so far
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I saw the series with James Franco, itâs a totes awesome story đ
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
So fucking tired urgh
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
light dinner then early night
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Agreed. Heading to bed now. Goodnight â¤ď¸
Alamutjones@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâd like to report an updateâŚ
Chookâs flight feathers have definitely grown back. He just zoomed around my head
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Holy fuck itâs cold. Getting out of bed at 2 degrees sucks even if youâre working from home lol Have a great day everyone â¤ď¸
Baku@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
3 here apparently. 12 inside
oztrin@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
3 here (or there) felt like 2. All I know was I went đŹ when I opened the front door.
And todayâs the early day as well, though the easiest of shifts.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
ok dudes, Iâm off for a walk in the park and a little shopping , later đ
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Well this is fun. We have an intruder at my worksite and weâre under lockdown now.
Well Iâm in my car at the moment and no oneâs allowed entry I presume until they resolve this.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Depending on the nature of the worksite, thatâs a pretty risky move by the intruder! My workplace is mostly occupied by menopausal women with sharp objects.
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Well mine is a female dominated industry but it wasnât that this time.
Just an update though, the situation is now resolved and weâre allowed to come back on site. Everyone is safe and ok and unharmed.
Baku@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I was waiting to see a new psychologist at a place in sunshine once, and all of a sudden this dude came in, yelled at the receptionist, then started throwing things. It was kind of morbidly hilarious, because they had some sort of roller shutter system on the reception window (which was already that Perspex crap with the little paper tray gap thing) that they deployed as soon as he started trying to break things, all the keycard door things started flashing red, and all the staff ran away from the reception. Meanwhile I was just sitting there with bins and bags flying past my head âum, hello? Anyone?â
Not knocking the reception staff, but in hindsight it makes me laugh how they all ran away so quickly. It was almost comical how quickly it all happened. I didnât get to see the aftermath, because after about a minute of old mate throwing things around, the psychologist I was seeing came out and took me to the psych rooms as if it was business as usual. Frequent flyer, Iâm guessing
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
They should have taken you with them into lockdown, at least thatâs the procedure for me normally at work.
In my opinion you shouldnât have been left behind alone with that person and exposed to potential danger but Iâm not sure if their protocols includes taking in patients into lockdown.
Pilk@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
The fake audience/cheering on the triathlon is so cringe. Itâs looping over and over again â the race will take nearly two hours.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I wish theyâd stop talking.
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Why are they using tinned audience?
Pilk@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Literally just for excitement reasons, they need audio for the wide shots and stretches where the crowd is a bit thinner. It does make sense â nothing wrong with sweetening the broadcast a bit â but they could use a longer loop!
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Itâs become apparent to me some of my problems at work are coming from my managerâs poor communication skills.
Itâs time to move on in my own terms before that decision is made for me.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Welcome to the Daily Chair. All the tacks are out now, all approx 200. Iâve tidied the work area and am ready to attach the linings, the springs then the padding and covers. Yay.
I have also been buying some tapestry fabrics to make some scatter cushions, 2 big cushions for the big chairs, and two smaller ones for the dining captain chairs.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Turning all those bits into a functional chair seems like basically witchcraft. I am very impressed.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
How did you get into this awesome hobby?
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
What is a dining captain chair?
dumblederp@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I was told that the two armchair dining chairs in a set of fining chairs were called the carver as it was the meat carvers chair. So maybe the main dining chair?
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
might be a strange question, but any time I figure out something about myself mental health wise its almost always a âOh shit. Its THAT easy?â kind of thing. It always seems SO obvious in retrospect! Curious to see if anyone else has the same thing happen to them.
For example: if youâre always telling mates to take a deep breath have a sit and let things come to them, then you go and actually do it yourself and youâre like âfuck, that was the key all along?!â
ajsadauskas@aus.social â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
@TinyBreak @Seagoon_ This probably isn't quite what you're looking for, but it does involve a phobia.
I'm a little scared of heights, and a lot scared of falling off ladders.
The last place I lived was an old cream-brick 1960s-ish flat. It had really high ceilings, with that "popcorn" (possibly asbestos?) texture.
I was living there by myself.
One day, the light bulb in the living room blew.
This ceiling was high â I could just barely reach it from the second- or third-top rung (and I wasn't game to go any higher).
The light had one of those glass covers that had a screw in the middle, and then a couple of hooks on either side. After about 50-odd years, it was well and truly rusted and didn't want to budge.
Well.
After two goes, taking around half an hour each time, I finally managed to get the bloody cover off.
Then another 30 minutes to get the old bulb out.
Then another 30 minutes to get the new globe in.
After spending around two hours â basically the best part of a Saturday afternoon â trying to change one light globe, I was done. The cover can wait for another day.
Unfortunately, a few weeks later, I got a notice that the real estate agents wanted to do an inspection. The joys of renting!
That weekend, I asked wifey to come over (we hadn't moved in together yet) and help put the cover on.
Ladder out. Clip. Clip. Clip. Screw.
Done in, like, two minutes, tops.
I think I might have said something along the lines of: "Shit â it's that easy?"
The moral of the story?
Find a handywoman, move in with her, and get wifey to do it đ
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Exercising to increase energy levels is all that for me. Iâm feeling sluggish and tired lately because I havenât been exercising. To get more energy Iâm going to have to expend some. Sounds wacky.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
The whole diet and exercise thing for me, as in healthy body-healthy mind. Having to exercise in order to get energy sounds like a ridiculous contradiction until you do it and feel it.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I know what you mean. Itâs kind of an epiphany. Thereâs a big difference between logically knowing something, and integrating it in your life.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
All the time. Only realised this with diet and exercise just recently.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Found this Maggie in our front yard just now, and Iâm not sure if thereâs something wrong with it or not. Itâs not at all scared of us, and I got quite close (<1m) with no reaction. Itâs eaten a few salada crumbs and had a drink, but does look a bit bunched, and is just staying in the yard. Is it worth calling wildlife rescue? OH thinks we should leave it and see how it goes.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Leave and see how it goes. If itâs still there tomorrow, then maybe call rescue. This is early pairing up season for maggies, so it might just have been tossed out of the parental nest/territory.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Turns out itâs missing its tail. I did end up calling and they suggested catching it and taking it to the vet, but it wasnât having any of that and is now on the neighbourâs roof. Iâll keep an eye on it and leave food & water out. Hope itâs ok, poor thing.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Melbcat didnât eat her meal and spat out her syringed meds this morning - right down the inside of my sleeve! Thankfully sheâs finished her antibiotics but she still needs her pain meds.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
hugs to Melbcat
Cendana@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
-hugs-
oztrin@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Hugs to you both.
ajsadauskas@aus.social â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
@melbaboutown @Seagoon_ Poor Melbcat, hope she gets better soon.
And I don't envy you, especially if you had to give her tablets.
One of ours went to the vet recently and was given antibiotics.
Within a day or so, she figured out the signs and began hiding in a cupboard as soon as either of us opened the drawer where they were kept. Or she heard the pill bottle open.
It then became a two-person job to hold her down while feeding her the tablet.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Melbcat knows what an oral syringe is and has formed a negative association with the phrase âuh oh spaghettioâsâ
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Far out this post viral fatigue is fucked. Third day in a row I feel like my brain has been cotton wool all day long. The coffees barely touch me. I really didnât feel too comfortable driving, I felt like I was zoning out way too often. Didnât even help that I got extra sleep because I didnât connect my phone charger properly overnight so it went flat and I slept right past my time to leave.
I really need to (a) fall asleep early and (b) stay asleep tonight⌠Iâm already in bed, fed and showered, I think tonight shall involve podcasts.
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Have you done a rat test by chance to make sure itâs not covid?
Whatever you ended up catching it seems to have really hit you hard.
I hope you feel better soon.
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I did one last week before going to the drs and it came back negative for covid and flu a+b. No idea what it was. But fatigue can result from all kinds of viral infections. Dengue was the worst.
The weather is definitely not helping with recovery. I do think i need some physical activity to get my blood flowing and improve my sleep, but not so much that Iâm knackered beyond any use. Wanted to try walking to work tomorrow but 2C and foggy in the morning, I donât think soâŚ
wscholermann@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
So lately I shut my bedroom window at night. That keeps heat in, but it can lead to a stuffy room.
On the other hand if I open it then obviously that letâs warm air out.
Hmm. Maybe I can try just opening it a crack. Or maybe I can open a window in another adjacent room to encourage air exchange.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Under 8 working days until⌠6 working days off. Just about counting down every minute.
Hope we all get some blue sky today!
Baku@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
So I saw this video of a dumpy house in Footscray (link), and on my first watch I barely even noticed anything wrong. My current place is similar. Iâm hesitant to draw an exact comparison, because our place isnât quite that bad (thereâs nowhere thatâs rotted through to the outside). Being a government property, theyâre also very strict on fire safety (probably good, being a wooden house), and put at least 50% effort into making sure the electricity situation is safe.
But theyâve neglected minor maintenance works for so long, that thereâs probably some quite large work that needs to be done. On one side of the house particularly, thereâs a lot of rot. Every year or so, they send someone out to replace them, but they only ever replace the worst panel. They just leave the rest of the rotted out panels there, and never really bother to look at why itâs rotting.
Before I moved in, there was some sort of gutter collapse along the outside gutter, and it started funnelling water inside the roof. The old LT reported it and followed up once a week, and they never fixed it. Eventually something in the roof either shifted or collapsed and the water was no longer coming inside. But eventually whatever stopped it shifted and started funnelling water into the eaves along the outside below where the gutter collapsed. Then that section of roof collapsed. Then there was a big hoo hah where they wouldnât fix it because they thought it may have contained asbestos.
The spare YPs toilet floor seems like itâs been completely rotted out and is on the verge of collapse. Thereâs major flexing when you step on it, and there used to be signs of rot damage on the outside, but they seem to have replaced the boards that were rotten. Iâve shown a few people in person, and the general consensus seems to be that the floor has probably rotted or at the very least been severely damaged. But they wonât send anyone under the house to fix it until they have photos of the damage, and they wonât send someone under the house to check on it or take photos because idk, spiders ig.
I think the very worst of everything though, is that the stairs at the front of the house are at uneven heights. In October, we reported the very bottom stair not being attached to the staircase risking thing (it was resting on the brick pavement slightly wedged into the stairs), and they sent someone out to âfix itâ. What this dude did was move the bottom stair up a bit, nail some wood into the staircase railing thing, and then screw the stair into those. This sounds fine, but now thereâs a little gap between the stair and the ground, then a half gap between the bottom stair and the next stair, then a double gap between the 2nd and 3rd stairs. I was in Sydney at time, but was privy to a very angry message in the house group chat from the old LT, because he got home when it was dark, nobody told him anybody was coming to work on the stairs, and having lived here for 4 years, itâs pretty obvious what happened next.
Iâve heard so many people trip on it. The postie tripped on it, food delivery people have tripped on it, almost everybody trips on it. Now, 9 months or whatever later, theyâre finally planning on fixing it. Theyâre going to have a cknreter come out and install concrete stairs. I think thatâs going to look ridiculous, with brick pavement leading up to solid concrete stairs, which lead up to a wooden patio, but thatâs better than the current state. I did ask the obvious - why canât they just put the stair back the way it was, maybe screw it into the stairs, and at least keep things even and safe until they properly fix it, but apparently because how the stairs were was considered unsafe, and theyâve now âfixedâ it, they canât unfix it because thatâll make it unsafe again.
I could rant for a long time about the lack of adequate maintenance here (in fact I already did!) but it seems to be pretty standard in Melbourne for older homes. Itâs probably a little bit more shocking that we have such poor maintenance since the government owns the property, but I donât understand why we donât have better laws. Why are houses like the one in the video even allowed to exist? Why isnât that considered uninhabitable?
Do we have the worst housing condition standard of ârich/developedâ countries?
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Wow, that video. When I was a student in the 80s/90s we rented places like that in Brunswick and Carlton for $75 a week. Some places had floor collapsing or a roof with a hole in it but we didnât care because between 4 or 5 of us the rent was so fucking cheap. Now to ask $500+ per week for a place that requires the use of a âshit stickâ is fucking disgraceful. And the sheer gall of the landlord to turn up in a flash car like that smdh⌠in my day the landlord was an old Italian or Greek bloke who turned up in a Sigma or Datsun lol.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I donât know why the power elite chose for Australia to be poor with bad legal protections . They could have so easily chosen to be like Norway and they themselves would have been much richer too, not just the whole country.
So itâs not money.
I think they like other people to suffer and to have no power.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I hate to say it, but I think you are right in this. After all, how do you know youâve made it unless there are other people standing around suffering, and watching you with what you hope is envy. It isnât envy, but something much worse.
SituationCake@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Goodnight and good morning. May everyone reading this have a wonderful day.
Baku@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
You too, cakesy. Today is⌠A day.
tone212_@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
The tricks these BMX riders do are nuts. So entertaining to watch.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
I managed to get a trip to Kmart after the doctor today but really didnât like any of their trackie daks. They all had the wide rigid elastic waistband high and tight on your stomach and I canât stand even the suggestion of being squeezed. Or it digging in if you bend.
I donât want to have to sew my own stuff đ
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Late gratitude contribution. I am grateful for scotch.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Goodnight all. I think Iâve just had enough of today. See you in the morning!
Peddlephile@lemm.ee â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm having a pretty good day today. I hope everyone here has at least one moment of joy today.
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
zero sum gratitude thread!
Woke up at bumfuck oâclock and couldnât get back to sleep, but it meant I could get my big daily walk in before work and thus I blew past 10,000 steps before 11am.
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
PSA - Hot Chocolate Festival starts tomorrow at the Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula and Great Ocean Road Chocolateries! Usually some pretty fun and zany flavours.
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Anti-gratitude thread.
Sleep still shit and the sleep debt is compounding.
calhoon2005@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
My partner is experiencing having mental clarity for the first time she can remember after starting a trial of meds based on a recent ADHD diagnosis. This is a good thing and Iâm very happy for her.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone â¨9⊠â¨months⊠ago
Woohoo!!! Love hearing about mental health (and other health) improvements đ