Happy Hump Day, Team!
14 more days to go…I think
Submitted 3 weeks ago by LowExperience2368@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
Happy Hump Day, Team!
14 more days to go…I think
You’ve got this buddy and we’ve got lots of cricket coming up. 💜
You can do it.
It’s hard, I feel so miserable and drained at the moment.
Amazing day today - drove down to Goolwa and caught an old/heritage “SteamRanger” train run by a Redhen railcar (the steam loco wasn’t operational, apparently) down to Victor Harbour. Amazing views out the window - it pretty much drives along the beach for about half the route
View:
And those of you who pay attention to my ramblings may recognise this little guy:
In case you don’t, that’s a Vline H Set, the kind that used to run the afternoon/evening peak trains from southern cross to Wyndham Vale/Melton (or Bacchus Marsh)! I think it may have gotten a little lost, seeing as we’re in a teeny little town in SA! I don’t actually think the Victor Harbour line is still connected to the main Melbourne-Adelaide line like it used to be, but in any case, that’s a broad gauge line (for broad gauge H sets), while Melb-Ade has been standard gauge since the 90s
Speaking of the junction with the mainline, this morning we stopped at Mount Barker Junction station, and managed to find a way inside. Pretty neat:
We also went to a little station called Littlehampton which seems to have seen better days:
Then we topped it all off with a trip on the Victor Harbour horse drawn tramway!
You should write a book Baku
Agreed!
Maybe, these are some of my less interesting experiences. I think the time I just casually hopped onto a bus into Adelaide when I was 15 without much plan was a more interesting tale
I, too, am soooooo envious.
Take me with yooooooouuuu! ✨
NO ME lol
And why shouldn’t Littlehampton have its own chook shed? Just needs a bit of wire mesh, a floor and some chooks I reckon.
This is as much fun as the airport at Mt Gambier back in the 80s during the pilot strike - literally was a tin shed and a coke machine with all 3 of Mt Gambier’s taxis waiting outside in the boiling sun. I believe they’ve upgraded it since.
I remember when Tulla Terminal 4 was a tin shed and a coke machine 🐅
I believe they’ve upgraded it since.
I think someone stole the floor :(
Told the GM that’s leaving that I can’t keep up anymore. He said I should make a task list and present it to my manager.
Let’s see if they’ll be reasonable or not.
Wishing you the best and hoping that something can be worked out with your manager.
Thanks mate :)
I did this to myself because I work my ass off and they just kept piling it on!
Standard employer behaviour
Document! clockify is a good app with a free level that lets you break up and track work. Even a week or two of that broken into projecta/projectb/ admin/staff management/adhoc queries etc is enough to give you something to point to and ask how to change things. Or if you are asked to do something you can point to it and ask which thing should slide.
(I mean this is totally a do as I say not as I do situation!!)
Thanks for the heads up!
I’ve got an excel sheet going, and so far I’ve got about 50% of things I need to complete asap.
It’s sitting at 30 hours not including my day to day work.
And that’s only half so far lol
cant believe it all went to shit so quickly. is this due to the pay dispute?
Do you mean the 2% company wide raise?
Yeah I think that hurt some people really badly. Everything was fine for me until:
If I hadn’t taken leave, I wouldn’t be so far behind, but it was approved. That’s the bit that’s annoying me. Why wasn’t someone keeping track of my clients while I was away?
I’ll probably end up staying until I get probation in January as it’s proving difficult to get a role right now.
At least then I’ve got security while I look elsewhere.
I hope don’t jinx myself with this.
This morning I had more little meetings voicing my concerns and problems and my mental state and initially they decided that they’d assign extra staff to aid me at the end of the day,
It’s now been decided that the problem I’ve been having at work has escalated enough now after a serious meeting today that the person will not be able to use the service that I look after and therefore will not be interacting with me at the end of the day.
If that is true and holds true for the rest of the work year I’m really relieved finally, it may not stop everything but it will certainly mean I don’t end the day feeling super crappy and stressed about everything.
One thing at a time but at least that’s a load taken off me from a work perspective.
Oh man, I really really really hope this comes through for you!
First world problem : pizza or fish & chups? Cbf cooking tonite. And no meat in the fridge. Or freezer. Bad me. Must go shopping this weekend.
Pizza so U can have leftovers
You have convinced me.
To be honest a with a pizza there’d be nothing left over if I made one.
Boy that’s really hard. If there’s a potato cake involved I think I’d do fish and chips tonight.
Well… you’ve convinced me to have fush & chups! At home - eat through the freezer a bit. Have leftover slaw. Perfect summertime chow while watching more British cop shows
monSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
Here too. All hail to … to somebody.
I love thunderstorms so much
not here it isn’t
fucken’ hell, saw a guy on the tram in the seat across from get out his meth pipe and fill it up. His gf was already pretty manic and jumping around the tram.
How do people lose sight of what is acceptable and what is not? 😣
I do have to wonder about his story. A lot of things have probably had to go wrong for him to get to this point.
I guess when you’re chasing that high, it gets to a point where it doesn’t matter. It’s terrifying.
did you call the cops? I would’ve
You can text STOPIT to PTV and they send out ‘protection officers’ very quickly. OK to do for ‘unwanted sexual or anti-social behaviour’. 0499 455 455 is the number.
At least he didn’t light it up too 🙃
he may have, I got up and got off at the next stop
You’d be surprised :(
How may I direct your call? :)
Get me the guards office
Hate getting public transport late at night. Train from Collingwood to city, then train home from Flinders didn’t line up, 20 minute wait. Then another 12 minute delay on top of that. Feels like I went in a voyage to get home.
Travelling at peak - no problem. Outside of peak, not fun if you need to catch more than one mode of transport.
keep resting , hugs
Holy shit I had some weeeeeird dreams… calling Gina Rnehart about a rotted out power pole that I pushed over indoors at the Northcote Automotive Museum (?? It had a network of indoor roads…), having a tooth rot out (my dental hygiene is bad tbh), and @Force_majeure123 appeared out of nowhere with a comment saying everything’s going to be alright 😭
Everything is going to be alright 🤗
You’re the best, Force 😊 please do something about Gina Rinehart while you’re at it
dreams… calling Gina Rnehart
In the biz we call that nightmare.
I will be sure to report on any visions that crop up tonight especially if beach swims/doof choons/Bengal cats/chillos make any appearance. Hopefully not a nightmare but.
I had this lovely dream about shopping with a friend, that turned into something so awful that I wish my brain would forget it.
Oh no, those are the worst, the dreams that twist good things into bad… they have an extra layer of pain
This is definitely weird dream weather.
For real, two nights before I had some weird dreams/sleep as well, just too abstract to bother describing. Woke up feeling so unsettled
That’s a wrap on a really intense work week. Who thought taking 4 hours off last week would be so hard to make up over 3 days. Some weeks are cruisey but it feels like I’ve done a week’s worth in 3 days. And then I’ve got to get cracking on uni tomoz. Have dinner at a friend’s and no time or energy to make anything. Then dinner out with another friend Friday. I hope to be able to get everything unpacked over the weekend and just blob out a bit. I sure will tonight after seeing the psych.
🍍
I reckon Kitten’s a bit too busy to go swinging
Can’t sleep, pineapple will eat me
Hope you have fun tonight and are able to get some stuff down then finally relax over the weekend.
I have a task in my change this afternoon to execute a release pipeline called “Order 66”. The task has been worded as “Execute order 66”.
None of my colleagues thinks this is funny. 😞
I went bowling recently with work. My repeated loud calls of Over The Line! were neither appreciated or thought of as funny.
Mark it 8, Dude.
Fantastic day - finished it off with American ribs (I’ve never tried them) and tiramisu
The tiramisu is very alcoholic. The bottom sponge later is dripping with it. I thought it was meant to bake out, but it absolutely has not - super strong. But enjoyable besides that
The kid and I are deciding what toiletries we need to take and are only allowed one 20cm × 20cm ziplock bag each and everything has to be 100ml or less. What!!! This skin needs a lot of before, during and after treatments if it wants to step outside in the elements.
Ahhh time to relax finally. What a day.
GRRRRRRR the drainage I put in is draining, but it ain’t ocming out the hole.
If weather permits I’m gonna stick my endoscope on some yellowtongue and shove it up 'er
Apart from my own personal struggles, I look at what the government is doing (or not doing) and think take me to Jesus now. I’m ready and I think I’ve lived enough.
Can’t wait for the rain to stop so my neighbour can go out and water his grass.
You were somehow 6 minutes early lol
Every now and then someone does a cover that is just exceptional… Stand By Me - Stephen Wilson Jr.
Bleh, even after the roofer turned up today the rain that swept through has caused another leak from the skylight and an area close to it.
Turns out from what I was told that there was a broken tile up there and something related to the skylight had to be patched up, guess that didn’t work though or wasn’t fully fixed.
Urrrrrgh, on top of a task I really really really don’t want to do now my laptop is doing its go-to-sleep-every-few-minutes nonsense. Something about a wifi virtual adapter in the logs. I’ve spent about an hour troubleshooting (while it keeps going to sleep on me randomly). Hopefully I’ve fixed it. What an esoteric thing. I just want to lie down in the sun and sleep for a bit
My grass was yellow and very dead on Saturday, now it’s green and looks like it’s going to need a mow soon. Also left my indoor plants outside for a couple of days after not watering for a little too long and they look revitalised. Amazing what rain and humidity does for plants.
Hayfever bad
I’m really sorry once again for my tasteless joke. My doomscrolling had consisted of the wild suggestions that RFK junior had been kicking around for America’s health system. Such as removing fluoride from water - but also the proposal of having “wellness farms” (labour camps) for people who used illegal or legal drugs including antidepressants or adhd meds. I’m quite concerned about suggestions like that which slide easily into fascism and hoping that none of it actually happens over there - or filters down into Australia. As American culture or conspiracy theories can tend to do. I’m worried for the future. But even as dark humour and worry for growing fascism in America and possibly Australia, it was hurtful and not ok for me to say. I’m very sorry to survivors and relatives of people who did actually endure this. I just have to stop looking at or worrying about this stuff. And not smart off about painful serious things. ___
Now that I’ve finished the planting in my Mum’s garden I’ve started to make some more serious decisions about mine. I’ve neglected it a bit because I’m not really sure what to do with it, and it’s mostly filled with vegies gone to seed. I’ve decided to pull up everything in the main beds and replace with a mix of basic shrubs, mostly natives, and just keep the two raised planters with vegies in them. That should keep everything neat and be low maintenance, without costing too much. I’ll get cheap tubestock that will hopefully grow a bit before the house goes up for sale and fill in the garden a bit and I’ll fill in all the gaps with mulch. It will probably be a few days of solid work, but at least I won’t have to cart soil or do anything too heavy.
Seems the new storm bypassed us. Clothes can remain on the line outside for a wee bit longer.
so my ebay seller got back to me. We swaped out the faulty X for Sun. and I’ve gotta say, I’m having a stack of fun with it! Despite the fact that its insisting on holding my hand despite ~25 years of playing pokemon games it looks great on the 3ds. They’ve also included a bunch of OG pokemon so its only 1/4 of every encounter where i proclaim “WTH if that thing!?”
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
hehe I walked to the shops and survived.
I won that war.
But the neurologist long term neighbour rocked around to say g’day to mum and dad. Wasn’t a check up just hello. Fark me get two docs like that in the same room you are gonna get a lotta latin.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Ah yes, and how are the astroglia in your medulla oblongata on this fine day. Corpus callosum in good balance?
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
heh I’m hoping hm.
Miror quantum quisque in piscina reliquit.