Submitted âšâš3â© âšmonthsâ© agoâ© by âšBaku@aussie.zoneâ© to âšmelbourne@aussie.zoneâ©
Weather forecast today (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 21°C, max - 41°C. 80% chance of no rain
Remember to slip slop slap and keep up with your water intake today! Itâs a hot one!
To give people a little hope in these trying times⊠am I the only one here doubting it will hit 40 today? Was just outside and yeah itâs warm, but I donât feel it in my bonesâŠ
Temp is currently dropping: www.baywx.com.au/melbtemp2.html
At the moment itâs predicted to hit 41 at 5pm.
Going to be a steady climb in temp till it that point.
Itâs already 2° above the predicted temp right now
Salt. Specifically (in this context) the salt of sweat.
Seriously, if the cloud cover persists then the temp will probably stay low. As soon as the sun comes out the temp will soar. Looking at windy.com the cloud cover is pretty patchy so I donât hold out much hope for a reduced temperature.
I can see some wilting tomato and potato plants outside that disagree strongly with your assessment.
And I see the temp is rising again.
So⊠does anyone know the best seasoning to use on hat? Asking for a friend.
Got my aircon set to cool the home this afternoon on a timer, god bless!
Busy at work, 5 days to go, or 4 depending on how you think about it and so much admin left to do, I donât think Iâm going to be able to do everything I need to do.
Abandoned the study, moved to the dining room with that sweet sweet AC.
Shutters are slightly cracked. Evap is on upstairs and humming away (not the best, but provides some relief). Split is on downstairs. Current temp sitting around 21°.
Yeah the rain this morning really doesnt help the evap hey. Can you move the office downstairs?
Managed to make it through the entire day with that 3 hours of sleep. Iâm only feeling a little tired at the moment, but I know once I flick the light off, Iâll be asleep within 5 minutes even if I donât feel that tired now
Goodnight Baku. Sweet dreams.đ
Goodnight everyone.
Night night goonsinator!
I am excited for vegables. Was strict meat and eggs for a week basically to kick start keto. Now tmrw morning I look forward to: 1 steak, 1 avo, 1 zucchini, and a half punnet of mushies. Cooked in butter. Have had like two salads in the last week but Iâm missing veges. Going to keep up with on meal a day keto for the foreseeable future, just W more veg
TBBT.
I donât find picking on people funny
I am fond of a good mocking! But TBBT is pretty shit
Young Sheldon was great though
Hard agree with you on this one. Whole show feels like picking on an autistic person. How the fuck is that funny?!
Seems like the cool change is here! Or at least itâs much colder outside than it is inside (32°C).
Yes, looks like itâs hit the cbd - went from 38 to 28.
Iâm still keeping the AC on for a couple hours as the bricks are still hot and emitting heat. 22C at night is still much hotter in this apt.
Yep itâs here in Fitzroy as well. A bit windy which is helping move some of the hot air out of my apartment that has been closed up all day.
Iâve been pleasantly surprised at the lack of major fires today. Super bad day for it with the winds. Thereâs one evacuation in progress north of Ballarat, and a few stay informeds around the state (as well as one for a gas leak/âexplosives hazardâ) in Broadford, but there easily couldâve been multiple major bushfires and a few "itâs too late to leave"s issued today
Got my power bill for the first 30 days of my tenancy. Could be worse, at first I was all SIXTY DOLLAS?! but then realised my previous two months at my old place (same provider and reseller) with zero AC use were 56 and 57 bucks each.
That first digit bias is real. Maybe using the AC wonât be that pricey. Should see what the power usage is like after running it for >24hrs over Sun and today (so nice inside, even the bedroom is tolerable). 26C on economy mode, could be ok?
At least Iâm saving about 10/week without gas and not needing to pay for water and hot water.
On tram home after trekking thru city shopping. I am DRIPPING. This tram is meant to be air conditioned, I think itâs on its lowest setting đ„”đ„”đ„”
Be grateful the heating isnât on
Movie talk. War of the Rohirrim.
It was very good, a meaningful story that merits watching a few times. Sort of like Beowulf.
Animation so inventive , sets a strange mood. Mythic characters in a real setting sets a feeling of timelessness, a fairy tale once upon a time.
Characters were good too .
If I didnât know better Iâd say GDT was involved, what with the inventive animation, the empowered women and itâs about the Rohirrim, but it might just have been the jackson production quoting his lines.
3.75 hobbits
Couriers please you fucking numpties
Fuckin incompetent couriers đ
Before anybody tries to decent them, about 10 metres away is a gigantic, vehicle sized, wide open gate he couldâve used. But he couldnât be arsed
In other news I got a pamphlet in my letterbox about âlabour indoctrinating children with gender-fluidityâ yeah⊠Righto lol. Honestly the sort of person with the intelligence to leave a parcel on the side of the footpath is definitely the kind of person that believes âimmigrants are ruining the economy!â, âlabour indoctrinate$ children with the gay!â, and âpetter Dutton will save the economy!â
Lol! The postie just like âfuck this shit Iâm outâ đ
Iâd be sending those photos to the courier company tbh, thatâs bullll
I had a CP driver walk up my driveway and throw it over my back gate. I was literally standing behind him.
Today kind of sucked
I think the man and I have kept the economy going with a consumption of pies and coffee. Oh and beer.
A plain pie, beef pie or beef mince pie is wrong. Itâs a mince pie. A vanilla slice is not called a vanilla slice custard square thingo. You will be met with confusion, recognition then a smirk all within seconds. Coconut maybe included. A nice surprise. A large coffee is in fact a medium. An extra large is a large and rarer to find so will elicit a very eager YES PLEASE. I think NZ is sponsored by Speightâs. Itâs everywhere. On tap, at the bottle-o, 2nd aisle of every supply. Milk, bread, eggs, a six pack.
I really miss my little dog and doona covers.
A plain pie, beef pie or beef mince pie is wrong. Itâs a mince pie.
Donât the poms eat a fruit pie thing they call a âmince pieâ? Itâs like a Christmas thing I think
A lot of places just call basic mince pies âplain pieâ or similar which I donât mind all too much
They do indeed. So do Australians - check out colesworth. The original âmince pieâ would have had beef or pork mince in it. It was a protein/sugar/vitamin blast reserved for celebrating the 12 days of Christmas (which go from Christmas Eve to 6th January) before the peasants went back to eating pottage only until Easter. Its a small pie that can be made in quantity and handed out to all an sundry to celebrate the holy season. Which was a thin Christian layer over a much older tradition of celebrating the darkest coldest time of the year with fire and good food and good company.
So far so good with todayâs weather. Only 34 at my place, air con doing a lovely job of keeping it nice inside. Washing dried super fast on the line. Managed to get a couple of chores done too.
27 deg inside my house (just got home for my last early finish day before xmas). Loving the coolth. Havenât checked the thermometer in the back courtyard but I reckon thatâs gone 40 easy as itâs a sun trap. There was a few drops of rain as I was getting off the tram.
34.5 at my place, but my Mum lives north of Melbourne and its almost at 40 there.
Iâve decided todayâs kitchen theme is âprobioticâ. I have yoghurt culturing and started a new pot of sauerkraut. Once I am off the antibiotics I will have some reinforcements for my intestinal microflora ready to go!
just kiss someone and youâll get the correct flora back
Fuck yeah sauerkraut! I could eat that by itself for breakfast lunch, and dinner đ€€
Letâs see who wins today:
Place built in 1914, upstairs in shade no aircon. Câmon bby hit over 40âs.
Winner gets an icypole and electrolytes.
27° in my bedroom. We have air con though, Iâm just trying to fight against the zero insulation and the aircon being on the other side of the house
fight against the zero insulation
Weâll fight together baku. Runner up also gets an icypole.
21 here, havenât turned on the evap yet.
Sorry.
Waiting for the smoke detector people. Will they by some miracle make it within the assigned time slot this year?
Stay cool guys.
Smoke alarm dude may have been on time, but he moved the alarms for the third time in as many years. I refuse to believe the regulations have changed that often. They are now all out of non ladder reach so I canât hit the button when they get set off by humidity. Four times so far this afternoon. TheVoid literally shat himself.
ThirteenâŠ
That is totally not on. Can you disconnect it so you can stop it going off until they can come back and fix it?
So Iâve ended up with a gift card to one of my mot hated shopping places.
David Jones.
Overpriced and almost nothing that interests me there.
One possible thing I could do is use it to buy a laptop bag or am I better off spending my own money and claiming it as a tax deduction?
Can you use it to shop online?
Yeah, from the David Jones website I assume.
wait for the sales and buy online
Wait for sales and buy a gift. I got my friend a $110 chopping board for $50 during a sale. Meanwhile myself I use a $3 tiny plastic thing
Hmm I rather buy 100 dollars of kippers if I could.
I got a $100 one and bought a bottle of gin.
Ooohh booze. Might have to look into that.
Does David Jones sell gift cards? Can you use your David Jones gift card to by a better gift card? đ
Iâll have to look into it.
I havenât tried that at David Jones before but have been refused at Woolies and Jb hifi recently.
Can your employer provide a laptop bag? It wonât hurt to ask. Then the gift card is all yours. Prices are the same as Myer, there no difference between them compared to how it used to be years ago. There will be good sales for Boxing Day, so you can maximise the gift card. Some plush towels? Any kitchen items you need?
I might try asking about that, didnât think about that to be honest.
I donât really know what I need or want from DJ. Thereâs like random things that pop into my head like a new mattress protector or a cotton blanket or coffee related items but itâs a hard one.
Got an appliance youâve been pondering? It might have just gotten $100 cheaper for you
Not at the moment, bigger airfryer sometimes plays into my mind or a better toaster since mine is halfway not working.
Sounds like itâs trying to rain outside
Why is it still going to be 38 at 7pm when I finish work and need to go buy groceries đ I thought I would be safe
So we get far more hot days in Perth than in Melbourne. If you ever get a Perthy telling you to harden up: Melbourneâs heat is worse than Perthâs. Perthâs weather comes from the west and every afternoon we have a sea breeze come in (Fun fact: The sea breeze used to be called the âFremantle Dockerâ because it brought the ships in to dock) to take the heat away. The evenings are far nicer. In Melbourne, that heat tends to come from the north. It moves down into Melbourne and just settles over the city. You can get days where the minimum is still around 30.
Perth doesnât have that. Even on 40 degree days, our minimum temperatures tend to be in the low-20âs. We can still sleep. Remind anyone from here of that sea breeze if they ever get smug about Melbourneâs hot spells.
Agreed. Been to Perth and prefer it in the summer because of the sea breeze. Melbourne sucks sweaty ass cracks when itâs summer.
Punishment for your arrogance in thinking youâve outsmarted the weather gods!
Not to jinx myself, but I think most clients have a change freeze at the moment.
Letâs see what happens.
yeah but is it an actual change freeze? or is it more of a change âsuggestionâ? I only ask cause the CIO just pushed through a non urgent change.
So youâll be âenjoyingâ one final Post Incident Review before Christmas? :D
None of the clients want to kick off a project at the moment. So a change refrigeration?
Boss: âOk, what are we working on this week?â Me: âI mean I showed up, do I get points for that? gotta be honest with ya, there aint lot to do given the change freeze.â
Looking for a bit of advice from you good folk.
I am under very heavy suggestion to undertake some form of mindful, de-stressing activity that is not running or cycling (which I already do but tend to get a bit competitive with myself about).
Having never done either, can someone with practical experuence of both give me some idea of relative pros and cons of pilates and yoga? or what the hell all the different yoga types are and what is best for a novice??
Mm. 4 hours sleep, already warm as fuck in my room.
Do not like
scratches neck so uh hey anyone got that best of slade album? 'cos my copy of cum on feel the hitz has gone missing and I am in the mood to incessantly play wot u dun
Bit of jaegermeister, some water, and ice. Whereâs this cold change, batman?
Emergency trip for Zylkene because the bottle was finished. (Glad I went out the back way or I wouldâve had a run in with the severely creepy neighbour.)
Eugh. Bad warm
StudChud@aussie.zone âš3â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Quick walk to get some iced coffees and holy shit itâs already warm af. Even the wind is warm! đ€ź