Submitted 1 week ago by Baku@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
Today’s weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 15°C, max - 26°C. 90% chance of no rain
Alright. The pain has eased enough that I can walk and make something to eat.
It’s amazing how a small muscular change in a shoulder can induce absolute agony, nausea and exhaustion.
Why I am so good at procrasti-chores? I am just barely trying to get down to what I need to do in terms of today’s meeting, but in the meantime I’ve cleared so many nitty gritty issues - filed a PHI claim, made a dentist booking (last available for the year - procrastinated for AGES on this), contacted old water company to get credit refund, inquired about 2025 parking permit, found out medical whatever letter process, sent a bunch of emails and put in a bunch of calendar appointments etc…
okay, focus, focus, spatial sampling, do the voronoi polygons or whatever, come on
The brain is funny like that - “oh I have to do this shit thing? Well I’m gonna do the other shit things instead, for the dopamine hit. But! I can’t do fun things or I’ll feel guilty! So admin chores it is!”
Nailed it - that’s exactly what my troll brain is doing :|
Trying to find dopamine in all the wrong places…
So relatable.
Whoa that’s a productive day in my book! Even though it was a distraction to your other task but still, give yourself credit for the things you ticked off the list.
Such a good term!
I am a professional when it comes to these. 😂
Better than procrastiscrolling or procrastigaming, i figure! Maybe I’ll call it… procrastiductivity.
My watch: Congrats, you had a great sleep last night!
Me, having gotten up to pee three times and tossed and turned between each of ‘em: In what fuckin’ world?!
My watch used to tell me I had the worst sleep ever, and easily only scored a 40/100 while I actually had an amazing sleep and was the most well rested in months
Argh, I really want to stress over this but this year my payday will actually fall on the Christmas public holidays and a bunch of things that need to be paid off have fallen on either side of the holiday days.
This is going to be a major headache if I can’t work out something and sort it out.
In all the salaried positions I’ve worked in the past 22 years, if pay was due on a public holiday it has always been paid early.
I’m hoping mine does early too as opposed to the other side of the Xmas holiday.
Pretty ordinary sun rise but it will be a nice warm day today. 🌞
Getting the house ready for the young Seagoons today.
I’m excited for Monday 😎😎
Bit of a cool change here today - only 36. 😃
Results of bird survey: I don’t have many birds in my yard. Two galahs flew over, and two doves briefly landed on my neighbour’s roof.
Did Miss Meow help?
She sulked in her haunted house for a while because I stopped her using my stool to get over the gate to escape. Then she spent some time trying to spot birds with me, and when that didn’t work out she started some weird cat game that involved lots of pouncing and batting at something invisible.
I can spot you a couple of blackbirds and a mynah
I’m surprised I don’t have any blackbirds around as I have put down lots of mulch they normally like scratching in. But I don’t recall seeing a blackbird in ages. I do have an occassional mynah. I did have a pair of currawongs and a wattle bird this morning, hopefully they will come back for the next survey.
Good stuff Medicare. You renewed my card (due to expire in a couple of months) and cancelled the old one before I got the replacement. And you told me none of this so I only knew about it when the psych couldn’t process the rebate 👌🏻
Well good thing I had just done an hour learning to calm my need to prepare for random shit to go wrong and that I do actually have agency in the world /s
That’s awkward. The myGov app is good for getting government cards instantly, just in case for future.
Yeah. I don’t have the app but luckily could jump on the website and found it pretty quickly.
People who do whole baked potatoes in the oven. Do you do wrapped in foil or naked?
Stab a hole or two in the spuds, parboil in microwave, then naked. Foil is for beetroot only.
Foil! And salt’n’butter 🤤
Wrapped to cook then naked to crisp the skins at the end
I agree with your first method
Wrapped with butter and salt. And now I want one!
Foil then naked at the end.
Naked on a small pile of rock salt. Par boiled first.
Skewered on metal and foil with butter and garlic
Found a “sorry you were out” delivery card for the missus in the bushes down the side of the house. Luckily only a couple of days old. Am puzzled how it got there as our mailbox is of a type that would make it very difficult for it to escape somehow. Anyway, looking forward to what that is when she collects it. It had better be some sort of full rizz skibidee pressie for me.
I don’t even get those anymore. By signing up to the Auspost app, they’ve just assumed that I’m not interested in receiving cards anymore
It’s kind of annoying, because not everything tracks into My post. Surprises often don’t if they’re handwritten. Yet they just expect me to be a mind reader and know they tried to deliver it and I wasn’t home or whatever
I have successfully completed my assignment. I don’t think it will go very well - it is a reflection of what I have learned and plans for the future, and I believe I lack the optimism they are probably hoping for. Oh well, at least it is honest.
You go, rusty!
Look I’ll admit I’m the one who fucked up here. BUT: When I said “should we test this further” i was told “nah it’ll be fine”.
Again, my mistake. take full ownership and wont point the finger at anyone, I pulled the trigger. But in my heart of hearts I know the idea (which obviously turned out to be wrong) was endorsed by senior folks.
How is it your fault when you brought up testing and were told it’s no big deal?
Sounds like you were backed into a corner mate.
It was my change. I proposed it. I did the leg work. And I packaged the wrong version of it not knowing the limitations of the platform. Fair there werent any guard rails to stop me fucking up, but I still did it.
Today I finished reading another book on Western calligraphy, I learn something new in every book.
was also good to get some validation that using thinned paint for colours rather than coloured inks is the best . I’d been doing that for that years
morning all…I’ve been quiet because its been a time but I’m here. Right now I need some advice - I left my spag bol cooling on the bench and left it there overnight (about 8 hours). Its now in the fridge
Should I eat it?
Have your say!
Is that the sauce or the sauce+pasta? Was there a lid on it? What is approximate ambient temperature of kitchen overnight? Likelihood of feline (or other) bandits? ‘On the bench’ could cover a multitude of scenarios.
Basically, if there was a lid on it, and the kitchen got chilly overnight you might be OK. No lid and warm overnight temps then a hard no. If cats/ants/cockroaches have dipped their paws in it - hard no.
Spag Bol sauce is not as fragile as a cream sauce like alfredo, but still … Rule of Thumb is to put such stuff in fridge as soon as steam stops rising from it.
Yeah I was just too tired and fell asleep
I would eat it, only because I’m poor and can’t waste food 😂
It should be okay, but then again, perhaps not. Idk what grows on cold spaget
I would eat it
Cast iron stomach crew represent!
haha yeah I can’t stand wasting food either. Deeply engrained that one
My gut can get a bit sensitive so I probably wouldn’t. My partner however has an iron gut and would be 100% fine with it. So I guess go with your gut?!
Eight hours gives a fair bit of time for bacteria to multiply, so there is a risk of food poisoning if you eat it. Boiling the food will generally kill the bacteria, but if they have produced toxins they can take a bit longer - Staphylococcus aureus takes over an hour of boiling to destroy the toxins they produce. There has probably not been enough time for significant levels of toxin to have been produced (how long that is depends on the temperature, so not possible to really know, but it takes over 10 hours at 37 degrees, the lower the temperature of the food the longer it takes).
I’d probably eat it, but would definitely make sure it is brought to the boil and simmered for a while, not just reheated.
I would not.
100% eat. More than 12 hours I’d be increasingly sus. Also hate food waste…
I would eat it. Cooked food lasts longer than raw food.
I wouldn’t. Look, if you can’t see anything in there, and you had a thorough look through and kept a lid on it, it’s probably fine, but I personally wouldn’t
I would :)
You’re not supposed to though (I think 4 hrs-ish is the suggested limit).
Thanks ATO for reducing my HELP by $522.51. Now I only owe -checks notes- $11,668.75. still $1,200 more than the actual loan. 💀
Would have been nicer if they refunded the difference they took out of our pay packets.
Lol! As if! 😂
Besides, the jokes on them at the moment; I’m not working 😂
I got home around 5 and fell straight asleep. I’m one of those people that needs 9 hours, not 8, to be truly rested. Don’t get it very often, but a few nights of 7 hours of sleep in a row result in a very tired Baku
We built the couch, but it’s not that comfy. Apparently I paid so little attention to it I didn’t even realize it turns into a bed. Kinda neat, but sacrifices do come with that. Like the armrest on one side just not existing, and the mattress thing (which is kinda more like a comforter) also being one of the cushions. It’s okay
Also I didn’t measure the table, and was forced to order it online and in a hurry so I’ve realized it’s too short for the chairs I got. I think I should be able to find little feet somewhere I could drill into the bottom to give it a few extra cm, which’d make it better. Table is almost but not quite done. Few more things to put on it. Dryer guys rocked up 2 hours later, but apparently their van broke down and they got a flat tyre. But they brought it inside, plugged it in, and took all the rubbish so that’s good
Picked up the 3 parcels from Kmart that we’re chilling at the post office for a week. The one from NBN is still in the process of moving from Dandenong South to somewhere else. And that fake Australian stock thing I ordered has finally shipped and should arrive today or tomorrow
Just about wraps everything up in a neat little bow. Just need to really get into the packing so I have less to do on moving day
“In every generation there is a chosen one. He alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. He is … Abraham Lincoln the slayer.”
Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter. I give this 3.5 hobbits for originality , fun and really good production.
Migraine :(
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Currently on day three of no carbs, one meal a day. It’s office Christmas lunch today so I’ll be cheating on the “one meal a day” part, but going to stick to meats and salad. Feeling pretty low energy and had a headache yesterday but it ain’t so bad
It’s been a week since the killing of the health insurance exec
I have some thoughts.
The one thing the US general population and the media have not been discussing is that one of the big reasons insurance feels so expensive is because wages are one third the buying of what they were in the 1970s.
Low real wages is why everything feels so expensive.
And then there is denial of treatment or only allowing less expensive but less efficacious treatments. This makes people angry and they would probably be less angry if insurance was cheaper.
There has been no discussion of what governments have been doing and should be doing to stop insurance industry fraud and abuse. Using the justice system is not discussed or has been dismissed as being pointless.
There are still few statements by any politicians other than statements saying killing with guns is bad.
Every statement by medical workers has been anti-insurance. They hate the insurance industry ore than anyone. Newspapers have not interviewed one single health care worker about their experience.
I’ve been watching House, the tv series. Not one episode shows the time consuming battle doctors and admin have to go through to get the ok and to get money. That’s not very realistic is it. Maybe we need a show where the battle isn’t against germs but against insurance and the clock
Looks amazing! 🤤
I’m so knackered. I’m just not bouncing back from activity like a normal person. Woke up at like 9-10ish and did the meds and food in intervals.
I’ve been trying to rest up for going to the dentist today but haven’t managed much more sleep. I’ll have to do the meds stages again and need strength to shower too.
For fucks sake is everybody on the road today off their fucking heads? 2 near misses in the last 15 minutes!
1 bloke ran a stop sign and almost t boned us. Not a care in the world. Not even a sorry wave
We stopped to let a car in, and some munted tradie floored it out of a driveways a bit further down the road. He very nearly hit the person we let in. The person in front of us had to swerve into the gutter on the other side of the road to prevent it…
Green is us, yellow is the bloke we let in, red is the fuckwit that floored it out of the worksite without bothering to look
The Deeming v Pesutto judgment will be livestreamed this morning at 10:15 for anyone who may be interested.
Don’t ask me to predict the outcome, but it seems likely Deeming will win on at least one or two of her claims. Will have to see.
I feel like I should really reduce my screen time or at least social media… the stress and brainrot are real. It’s just hard when there are barriers to doing stuff physically or outside.
Reading and art are the obvious things but I’m also pretty brain fogged. Maybe I’ll just start playing single player games again
The crying of lot 49. I don’t think I’ve read a book that sets up one premise and pivots to something else so quickly. It’s impressive how much is packed into such a short book. I feel like I need to read about it then read it again
Explain to me how to unlock a herald sun story? Please? …com.au/…/bb3aeef9f8aca168dc4e2f830b244c1b
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Mr Woof was getting a bit aggro about something out the front. I expected it to be the usual person walking past or kids playing ball. Nope, there are two uniformed cops out the front watching an argument between who I assume is a mother and daughter that obviously got a bit heated. I guess police matters probably justify a good woof.