Submitted 8 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
So I’ve completed 3/4 knowledge assessments, and submitted 2/4 practical assessments. Tomorrow is prac day, so I can ask the questions I need, finish up the one assessment I still need to do, and then submit those. Then I’ll check the last quiz tomorrow afternoon, and attempt it, note down any questions and save it for Friday. Once that last one is done, I’m finished with my classes for the semester and can enjoy some holidays!
I still can’t believe I’ve changed my trajectory.
Well done. You’ve worked your butt off and now you’re kicking ass!
☺️ thank you! I couldn’t have done it without the support of you and the DT! 💜
I admire your organisational skills and motivation, good on you!
yay, happy dance 🙂
Eeeeeee!!! 🙌🙌
Not long back from the vet.
Results of second and more comprehensive ultrasound - Sammi has pancreatitis.
Hopefully they’ll be able to control it with cortisone injections.
Also she got a bravery award from the ultrasound people and the staff said she was a model patient and love her. Which is nice. 😊
Aw poor baby, pancreatitis is so painful 😣 I hope that if she is back with you, that it is a mild form of it and she’ll make a full recovery! She’s a toughie and I’m positive she can pull through! 💜💜
No wonder she felt so poorly!
Poor baby :( Such a good girl.
Melbcat was on steroid tablets for a while, didn’t know there were shots.
Oh ouch! Poor squish
Poor Sammi cat, she has been through a lot. At least there’s answers now. I hope the treatment works tok
Oh poor Sammi. Fingers crossed for the treatment 🤞
poor sweetheart
she needs all the hugs
She’s still Very Cross with me, so most I can manage is a stealthy head snuggle 😂
Poor fluffball. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery ❤️
Looks great. Do you polish the shells yourself?
No, they are all natural.
Nice!
Beautiful!
Onto my sixth load of washing today and I might squeeze in a seventh as I think the sheets will dry quickly (been doing clothes, towels, oodie, blanket, doona cover/pillowcases…) What a relief, i havent changed my bedclothes in ages and the whole house feels so much fresher now that all of this is getting washed.
Going in and out has also definitely helped break the monotony of today’s work, which I just have no mood to do at all. People suck!
Surprisingly easier to disconnect from work thoughts with this job.
It only matters when I’m sitting in front of the laptop, and then, it’s over.
Kinda nice for a change.
I’m normally happy being frugal, it’s been a way of life for so long. But I have to say I’m getting really sick of it being so severely enforced. Especially as disability = hard mode.
I’m not happy with the direction Australia is going for any of us. As much as people tighten their belts corporations and banks take more, the government cuts more. The severity of this could have been avoided.
It’s great to be frugal, but shitty to have absolutely no other choice but to have it so ruthlessly rammed down your throat. The farmer struggles for a minimal return, consumers pay a premium for bare essentials and the fat cats and shareholders in the middle get all the cream. Grocery shopping is essential and should be treated as such, with essential items price protected, but time and time again governments are gutless wonders.
This is exactly how I feel and about housing too
so many hugs
in times like these our friends and family is our greatest asset
I have been well fed.
Nothing beats a simple beef sausage and bread with tomato sauce with some coleslaw.
I’m now kicking back on the coach trying not to fall into a coma now.
Government House.
All meetings cancelled. Party time 🎉
All meetings finished 💥
pakige…
Two days with “we couldn’t deliver”. Two days I’ve been here all day. Either they are not trying or they can’t figure out how to operate a buzzer.
And so the enshittification of everything continues.
Looking forward to the post apocalypse, just so I can build a shack and call it my own. Defend it with some pitchforks and I’m sorted. May the enshittification continue so that one day I may own a home lol
It’s so nice how little my work have for my regard they schedule some randoms to have a meeting in my ‘office’ and not tell me.
So work from home today.
I would just sit in there and carry on working. Perfect time to slurp coffee or tea as loudly as possible.
Lol. Sadly I do not have your shit-stirring abilities.
And have loud conversations on speaker phone…
thats pretty poor!
Par for the course for this place.
so how many items did they steal from your office?
They stole my cubicle walls a few weeks back. Which means no one can see my ‘sometimes I feel like a t-wreck’ with a picture of a sad looking T-rex on there picture. And also my garfield ‘I hate mondays’ picture.
Training is draining. Today is day 8 of training in new job and I’m tired. Still another week and a half at least of just training. Feels like my cup is full but they just keep on pouring, and now that stuff theyre pouring is spilling out of the cup onto the table, dribbling off the table onto my pants so it looks like I’ve peed myself. Peed myself with excess knowledge.
be grateful it is water not curry
i was there three thousand years months ago and now i can confidently answer the new trainees’ questions
making my own notes also helped a lot if they allow you to bring it home to study
No train, no gain, Force! cracks whip You shall imbibe of The Knowledge until it flows out of all your orifices like a jacuzzi!
No but srsly that first firehose/info dump is hectic especially if you have superiors whose brains maybe work differently and just go at full speed in bursts and expect everyone else’s to. Hopefully it all gets less overwhelming after the first month
I’ve been training myself pretty much. Using the company “Ai”.
Peed myself with excess knowledge.
Don’t know why, but this is just hilarious to me.
Today’s little “hobby from a distance” is looking at vinyls and high end hi-fi equipment I can’t afford
A Baku can dream
I hear you. Just picked up the Pro-ject Debut Evo and the S2 Tube Pre-amp. Vinyls are also holding their value, so I’m curious how rebuilding a collection will be.
I really want to get into the vinyls, but most of them seem to be between 70-170 bucks a record. And then there’s the whole player + preamp/amp, and speaker situation 😭
I’ll have to stick to being gobsmacked at a distance
For me it’s travel and dining out in various places whilst I’m doing it sighs
When I win the lottery I’m getting these;
Daaaaamn.
sigh
when it comes to sound systems the sky is the limit
When I was a teenager I was learning German and saving money to go to Europe. Disability put a stop to that, it’s not a realistic option now, but I wonder what life would have been like if I had been able to emigrate.
I’m aware that the living costs are also high in Europe. You don’t necessarily get an aged pension as an expat. Jobs could be competitive and social norms difficult.
But you know. Longer term leases and tenants rights. Building standards. Less of a meth problem. You wonder.
Any of you sewing types successfully Re-elasticated a bottom sheet? I suspect attempting such would be economically inefficient and I should rag bag it.
Bailed on work early to get to GP appointment. My lovely GP is running behind. 30min+ and counting. I need to be elsewhere at 5.45pm. I also parked in the city to make my appointment.
I could have gone home and walked in if I knew. Damnit.
How is it that some people can give you a pep talk about looking after yourself and not getting dragged by other people, then text you a rant about their own dramas an hour later? How much time do you think it takes to get my brain de-stressed and back on track, Doris*?
*Apologies to any actual Doris’s out there.
I’m reading the Alien 3 screenplay by William Gibson after watching Alien: Romulus. It’s great to see Newt and Hicks get proper character moments in a follow up story. And from what I understand, the story does things with the Aliens we haven’t seen on screen yet.
Also, it sucks that they killed off Newt at the start of Alien 3, but something had to be done about her. At the end of Aliens she went into the sleep pod, so she would look a lot like she did once she came out.
The movie languished in development hell for years. As a teenaged girl she’d look very different in Alien 3 to how she did in Aliens. With all the production problems behind Alien 3, it seems like the easiest option than come up with an in universe reason why she’s aged. If they went with Gibson’s script and got Alien 3 out 2 years or so after Aliens they could have covered it up a lot more.
Forecast changed to sunny today, best time to be wfh. Washing machine running overtime after having taken a break for 10 days. The air is bitingly cold though, not sure how dry my clothes will get
wtf, it’s going to be 15 next thursday
I was craving lasagne but don’t have any lasagne sheets, so I’ve made a mock lasagne with layers of fettuccini instead. Now I just have to wait for it to bake.
I wuz thinking, there are about 60,000 people living my area and there is one little electronic waste disposal service at the library.
Where are people really dumping their unwanted phones and other electronic goods?
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is the net slow as dogshit for anyone else?
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I just got a random email from someone saying they love reading my books and I am one of their favourite authors ever.
I figured it was just a spam email since I get them frequently - usually wanting to sell me something - and its too my author outlook email which is advertised in the books and on my twitter profile, etc.
Check the email address and it’s from an education email address - so the ones they give assign to kids at school.
Could still be a bored student taking the piss, but I choose to believe I just got my first ever fan e-mail.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Oh wow! Straight to the pool room.
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Right!
I’d love to say thank you but the way the world is, it probably isn’t a good idea.
Duenan@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I would have loved to have you in as a book week author but my clientele are just a bit too young I reckon.
That nice fuzzy warm feeling when someone appreciates your work is so heartwarming.
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 8 months ago
It is an amazing feeling. Really motivates me to keep going when that motivation can be lacking.