Submitted 6 days ago by Baku@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
Weather forecast today (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 14°C, max - 31°C. 100% chance of no rain
Time to start closing the windows, freezing the ice blocks, and preparing the fans (or wallet if you’ve got proper air conditioning)!
Visited the castle. Visited the beach. I stayed in the car because I don’t do sandy cracks.
Which castle?!
Larnach.
Family plague update.
It turns out Dad and Stepmother BOTH have Covid
AAaaaaarrrggghhh. And especially having survived the worst plague years - and the timing just before xmas sucks too. Hope they both feel better soon. Chookers to Chook too.
😮 Damn, there’s a bit of it going around too. Hope they recover well from it.
Truly a gift of the seasons :( hope they come alright soon.
Captains log, 6pm:
Little has been done. The perfect Sunday.
✅ dishes washed ✅ clothes washed ✅ clothes dried at laundromat ✅ clothes put away ✅ soaked beans cooked ✅ breakfast and coffee had
Time to hit ze shops for some milk and OJ. Maybe a small box of ice lollies. Driving back the sun was already stinging like a MF, so make sure to get that sun protection on today!
Then chop and cook up the veg and tvp for hoppin john, wash up all of that, switch on the AC and do a few hours of work (to make up for short days next week) until my friend turns up.
I’m in awe at the productivity. Getting to the cafe to grab a decafe was an effort today lol
Kitten why are you so productive! I’ve been procrastinating :/
Because I haven’t had only 3 hours of sleep! I did spend half of yesterday in a fog with a bad headache…
I’m supposed to attend a child’s birthday party today, but I’ve massively overdone it and can barely move.
What do
Sleep. Apologise. Catch up with them separately and give said kid a nice pressie. If you need, tell them you are aiming down with somethibg and don’t want to spread it.
Unless you are someone actually helping with the party etc it’s all good.
Depends, whose child
Sister’s kindergarten-sized kid. Little asked me specially
Update to my broken window opener and closer dealy:
I generously applied WD-40 and managed to get it to close \o/
Opening it will be tough though I imagine. Alas.
Wd-40 is not really a lubricant.
If you have some light oil, eg sewing machine oil, or silicone spray, that might be better.
But be careful applying those. They can be messy. Less is more 😉
Oh, I hadn’t read this before I replied to your other comment - thank fuck you got it to close! Better closed than open for now. Can you get your landlord to replace the winder soon? From what i hear it’s not a difficult fix
I’ve passed it on to the landlord via the lead housemate, but we’re currently waiting on her to fix the back fence and that’ll be pretty expensive.
He(the lead housemate) has a thing about trying to keep rent down by not bothering the owners, basically. Our rent went up anyway, but not by much so he is sorta on to something considering how bad the market has been.
Ooft I feel you. Some bright spark painted most of our windows shut…
omg omg omg, I found an original book from 1912 by Professor Flinders Petrie, he’s like the guy who invented modern archaeology. It’s typical of much archaeology of the time, called Biblical Archeology, it’s interesting nonetheless.
I’ve read some of his essays in compendiums but not his books before. He’s quite scientific about it all, unlike Carter, who I’ve also read, but who was an adventurer and treasure hunter , not a scientist. Carter’s book was about the discovery and the objects he found.
This book is full of plates and rice paper covers, hand drawn maps and has an awesome embossed cover with hieroglyphics. The hieroglyphs look like they would have originally been in gold leaf, they are all black now.
That’s so cool!!! What an awesome find!
I love old books and especially old books about old places, with maps and pictures and adventure. 😄
Run it through this if you are interested in potential value. It’s not very old, but apparently in good clean condition from what I can see there. The weird angle on the printing is, well weird. www.vialibri.net
Thank you. It’s in fair condition, has some foxing and the spine is only just starting to fray in one spot.
It was $5 and would probably go for 30 on that site but I’m just excited to read it. 🙂
London, Paris, Rome, Yea, New York.
😂
Funnily enough, I feel like I have heard about Fairlie in regards to coffee, but that may be because I’ve known heaps of kiwis working in call centres 😂
Fairlie is a one horse town. Also one pub which we did visited.
Happy to report back lunch was good. He ended up not bringing momos and we ended up not going and getting coffees because of the temperature. We substituted for bahn mi and Bundaberg ginger beer (though I had a coconut one instead)
Good chats were had. I’ll admit I was feeling a little bit put out cause I had a plan and misinterpreted the message of momo cancelation as a general cancellation like half an hour before we were scheduled to do the do, and I’d set everything up for momo. But it was fine. He stopped at that Luke’s bahn mi place, so I can now say I’ve tried it. Definitely don’t think it’s worth the hype fwiw. Better places with cheaper prices and no or short lines in either sunshine or footscray. But it is like the only bahn mi place here so I can see why people go to it (it’s cromulent just pricey and I don’t believe in waiting half an hour just to order food)
There was an ulterior motive though. When he moved out, he left a lot of plants and pots and gardening stuff to me. He’d bought it all when he moved in to liven the patio up a bit, but I realized I can’t care for it all once I move and it’ll all die if left here so I have a considerable amount back to him. I’ve got a more manageable amount of plants now, and the plants have a better chance of survival
In more disheartening news though, both of us suspect they may be closing this lead tenant house down. They’ve completely stopped all non essential maintenance, and they seem to have stopped looking for either another lead tenant to replace the one that moved out Oct 2023, let’s lone him. Or another kid to replace me or the other nutcase that was here. Honestly the house is a dump. It’s got good bones, and is in a very posh area, but they never bothered to maintain it, so over the 30 or so years they’ve owned it it has pretty much disintegrated. They bought the house in the 90s for 300 grand, and current estimates place it at about 1.4-19mil if they were to sell it. They could easily turn it into a block of flats and sell each for probably not much less if they wanted to manage that and could definitely make a pretty penny It’s kinda sad. They’ve taken a regressionist viewpoint recently. When I moved in there was a program that existed for people transitioning into LT from resi that was for building life skills, things like learning to cook, clean, do basic maintenance, etc. Through shitty management and a lack of direction and communication, the programs focussed kind of got lost and they ended up going over budget and never really got the results they anticipated. Rather than reforming it, they decided to cut the program pretty much entirely. It now exists only for people who are at immediate risk of being kicked out and sent back to resi. That more or less means that there’s nothing now for people moving in, and no way to build new skills and figure out how to live by ones ownsome. And that’s quite representative of how the entire system is currently going at the moment. They came up with fantastic (genuinely, not sarcastic) programs and things that filled a real need, but failed to implement them all properly then got antsy about spending, so now they’re axing all of them which’ll just create worse outcomes for the next people that move in.
I was trying to go through my photos to find photos of the garden and plants I inherited for you all, but I got really caught up on the photos from when I first moved in
Things have really changed. And at that, changed for the negative. I typed out a really really long kinda rant about it all. I realised pretty quick I wasn’t gonna post it (too personal, too long, irrelevant), but it was useful to type out my feelings. There’s a lot of bottling up happening there
Things were so good when I first moved in though. Helplessly watching it gradually turn to shit was difficult and is even harder to look back on
Someone who drove past my place threw half eaten McDonalds all over the road. It was attracting birds and gong to become disgusting in 40c weather tomorrow so I picked it all up. The street is not your trash can assholes.
I am so sick of that , the streets are becoming so disgusting. This is not right, it’s so anti-social.
My local parks have gone back to locking the gates at night. So many people eating at the park in their car and chucking their shit out the window.
One last trip to the doggo park with hams soon.
Truly is hopeless off lead. Marginally better on lead.
But I do feel for him. At the park, a lot of people don’t understand that breeds’ behaviour… going prone, ears all over the place, aloof. Doesn’t really ‘play’ with the other doggos but still wants to be part of it (don’t think other doggos understand that breed either). Unlike most other dogs he won’t go up to people for pats. Completely disinterested.
Doing a bit of reading and apparently collies annoy the shit out puppy most trainers and make owners feel bad for not getting doggo to do what they’re told. Once you throw in a distraction and they become fixated, they’re truly in their own world. Can’t do much about that (not now at least).
Mr Woof is not a collie, but he does have that fixation thing - so much training advice centres around using treats or “high value objects” which don’t have any impact because once he is fixated there is absolutely nothing else of interest to him. If he eats a treat in that state it is only because it is the most expedient way of getting it out of the way! All the advice I have received about how to deal with that is to start further away from whatever he is focussing on when he is still distractable so that you can work on it gradually, but he is like an on/off switch, there is no in between to work with.
Okay testing phone… ello?
You sure? I couldn’t hear that.
Warm day, I shall do all the wet chores so they dry quickly. Elderly mop: you should consider revising this plan.
Chocolate in the fridge, yay or nay?
Tomorrow? Yay.
Yay
I’ll go one further and offer chocolate from the freezer. Good way to force yourself to slow down else break your teeth 😂
Gas man arrived! He did the soapy water test (I forgot to last night before falling asleep lol), and apparently the seal on one side and the regulator on the other were both leaking. Lovely bloke though, he even relit the hot water system for me (I didn’t even have to ask)
Easy replacement, and apparently it’s quite common. Glad I didn’t ignore it and did trust my instincts, but I’ll be honest, I did do laps of it sniffing it up close a bunch last night. In hindsight, probably a bad idea, but it also wasn’t a particularly strong smell. I only got a quick whiff off it walking down the stairs and I wasn’t sure where it was even coming from
Also, TIL downer really have their fingers in all the pies. They run yarra trams, the entire Adelaide metro system, the trams on the gold coast, a bunch of buses and other PT, and I learnt today that they also maintain the gas network, at least AusNet’s. Apparently they also run parts of the NBN, those gigantic metal power lines with like 100 cables, spotless (street sweepers), the list goes on. Between them, Jim’s group, and Arnotts, we really seem to like these ‘everything’ companies!
IIRC Comdain/Muiltinet are the gas infrastructure people.
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Can’t. Stop. Hiccupping.
I’ve found skolling a lot of water and then holding your breath afterwards works 100% of the time, 50% of the time.
They’ve finally gone, hooray. Possibly because a small cat kept smooshing his face in my face and complaining that I wasn’t giving him enough attention. Or not.
So that’s how you spell skolling.
It’s been 3 months since we setup the “drinking fountain “ recirculating cat water bowl thing. It took 2 months for one of them to start using it and the other cat just refuses, like would rather drink out of a manky pond scum. I love Jimmy but, he isn’t too bright and it’s a bit of a wast of money for the water bowl thing.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/…/104701334
20/50 :(
I think a group of Flamingos should be called a charm on account of them being so charming.
Bedroom still so hot. Ughhh. Windows shut and I feel like I’m suffocating. Might need to try the sleeping bag in the lounge tonight
m.youtube.com/watch?v=va1aPJRur8w&list=RDva1aPJRu…
Just going to see if my Sunday rave choon worked on mobs.
Lovely day to day. Birds are chirping so I suppose I better feed them. 🙂🐦🐣
Why am I up >:( Oh well, better make the most of the morning before it gets spicy
Omg I’ve awoken to the worst pain wtf wtf wtf I think I slept on my wrist, because it hurts so much! I’ve popped some ibuprofen, but it hasn’t kicked in yet.
It’s taking my breath away, fuck fuck fuck, I couldn’t have broken it while I slept? 😭😭😭😭
Heading home from doing more tech support. We were cutting it too close to go home then run down to the retirement village so I got dropped off on the way.
No answer when things were done and buses were replacing trains so I had to walk to a bus stop and wait for one in this heat
Sleeping on the couch for the aircon. My wrist is better, still quite achey and tender, slightly swollen, but I don’t think it’s as serious as I thought this morning.
Just have to try not to sleep on it, somehow, considering I sleep like T-Rex in the fetal position lol
Was supposed to do chores, but like the irresponsible teen I am, I ran away.
Smashed out a ride to Apollo Bay and now am suitably lubricated with my wonderful neighbour.
Oh man… if I could do dairy I’d love to work my way through a tub of plain vanilla icecream
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Permission from Birthday Child to stay home because “you’re hurting”.
I love you, Birthday Child. I will donate to your Lego Fund generously and spoil you rotten at Christmas
Baku@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Phew, I’m glad it’s sorted! You should go rest up jonesy. Get well soon!
just_kitten@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Birthday Child has been raised well! Good on ya kiddo
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Little kids (and dogs) are the best people. Rest up!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 days ago
What an awesome little person :)