Submitted 5 days ago by Baku@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
Today’s weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 23°C, max - 38°C. 90% chance of no rain
I didn’t think I was going to have a contribution to bird day, but lo and behold, a lil birdie ran on the bricks right in front of my camera!
What’s the ID, bird peeps? It looks big but would’ve only been small in person
If it’s little it might have been a blackbird. But they usually have yellow beaks.
Probably a Little Raven in Melbourne.
Raven - either Little or Australian (I can never tell them apart). We don’t have Crows in Vic
That’s an excellent pic!
No jelly gang🫠
I’m definitely sick - I have the air conditioner off and am sitting wrapped in a blanket. Now I’m about to head to bed. I consulted a rat who doesn’t think it’s covid, but it’s definitely one of the plague varieties going around at the moment.
I picked up the flu which is random for this time of year. Rest up!!
represent
I’ve been doing sewing repairs for the young seagoons and it’s really hard. Much of their clothes are specialist hiking clothes and made out of hitech fibres, fibres that are hard to sew. Stretchy dense fabrics and the actual material of the fibre is hard and difficult even when using a special hardened needle.
Are you using a glovers or mattress needle? I also used to find thimbles really helped (or on secondhand leather, pliers)
Nipped out to the shops for a couple of things, still foul outside. Onto season 2 of Blue Lights, such an entertaining show. Even if it kind of is copaganda. I can’t get enough of those northern Irish accents. And Stevie and his lunches 🥰
One thing I’ve noticed since coming back is how quickly my attention span/ability to just be has gone back to shite though… I should throw my phone away, honestly.
It’s an oven out there. Just hung out the washing. It’s been 5min, I should probably go back out and pick it up, it’ll be dry by now.
I hung out 2 loads yesterday, so humid here it took the whole day and night to dry
Might have a beverage . Do some cooking.
🍻🍺 I’m off work for the next four days, so I’m also having a beverage(s)
Oh lucky 🍻. I’m taking holiday later this month. Cheers
FUCK YEAH 🏏🇦🇺💚💛💚💛💚💛💚
Woo hoo!!
So good.
It looks like the cool change isn’t coming through until morning, like 7am. If your house is hot it could be a good day to check out your local library or see a movie or three.
Keep those fluids up! It’s already 37C here at midday.
Holy shit, I had the air con on for a few hours yesterday and used 10kwh more electricity than usual
$5 just to keep the inside temp below 30 😐
Maybe that’s perfectly average and expected, but that’s the most electricity I’ve ever used in a day (at least while I’ve been paying the bill). Do split systems use that much?
It’s already 31 inside, I don’t really feel like I’ve got much other option but to turn it back on, but the moment it’s bearable it goes straight back off :/
Holy moly! Maybe I shouldn’t complain then lol
If you don’t mind me asking, how many people in your house, and how many bedrooms in total? Any gas?
(Just asking for the sake of comparisons)
Is this a smart meter? I wanna get one of those.
Yeah, the moment it’s bearable I switch it off too. But then I wonder if turning it on and off stops being efficient at a certain point.
Yep! I think the idea is that everyone will have one by 2030. For me it actually works out well, because I have no clue where my power Maine/metre is. I’ve got a switchboard/circuit breaker box inside, but I don’t have a metre anywhere on my property. I’m guessing they’re probably all located on a wall at unit number 1 or something, as from what I can see, my neighbours don’t have one either
It’s pretty neat, although I can only access my usage data the day after. I’m pretty sure data is reported to them hourly, but my supplier just chooses to only tell me about it the next day. Having a smart metre also means you can get a little sensor installed that monitors your live energy usage and reports it back to your phone in near real time. You generally need to be in close proximity to it though, so it wouldn’t work for me being on the other side of the lot
Well worth it though! Don’t fight them if they want to install one for you!
I used 22kw yesterday, the highest I’ve gotten to recently is 26kw. That was with a large split system in the lounge running all day keeping everyting in the low 20s, plus one in the bedroom running all night (plus a few hours before bed to cool everything down).
Normally I would be around 10kwh on a fairly mild day, but can go up closer to 40kwh in winter when I need a lot of heating.
Oh wow, that seems quite high! How many people to your house and how many bedrooms if you don’t mind my asking?
I’ve got gas heating, oven/stove, and hot water, so the biggest power draw I have is the portable air con. My energy usage varies a bit, but is generally between 4-6kWh, occasionally dipping down to 3, or poking up to 8. Any more than that is abnormal for me, even if I use the dryer and aren’t proactive about keeping lights off
You know that sticker on appliance that shows the electrical ratings? Look for a number that says Watts. So say your appliance is rated 500 Watts, then in one hour it will use 500wh. Divide by 1000 to get kWh. So 0.5kWh. Then you can multiply by number of hours to get the total used. Eg if it ran for 3 hours, that’s 1.5kWh. (More or less. Could by slight variations due to start up power draw, fa speeds, intensity, etc.)
Thanks, I appreciate the intention/sentiment, but I do know how energy ratings and usage works. The porty doesn’t have any stickers (pretty sure it’s at least a decade old, and whatever adhesive was holding the sticks on had long since disintegrated by the time I got it)
Watts are also just the product of amps x volts. I’ve got a smart plug in one of my boxes that I could use to determine how many V/A it’s pulling and then work out wattage based on that, but I don’t think it really changes much. I’m gonna use it anyway on the days like today where the weather is a bit difficult, even if probably costs about $10-15/day to run (my assumption based on yesterday’s cost and running time). The “bury your head in the sand and deal with the fallout later” approach, if you will
My bird theme happening is that I saw a family of noisy miners and a magpie using the bird bath. Noisy miners have unfortunately set up camp in the surrounding trees and are monopolising the bird bath, but at least if they are here, then the bird baths in other peoples yards are free of harassment for other bird species.
That’s a common issue with those sorts of birds and any really good resources, they try to keep them for themselves and drive everyone else away. If you want to provide for the smaller birds too you need to have smaller bird baths and flowering plants that provide some nectar but not too much - anything too good the big aggressive birds bully them away from. That’s one of the main things I’ve learned so far from by Backyard Biodiversity subject.
I have mixed feelings on the miners because they are natives and it’s just their nature, but it’s a unnatural balance because of the suburban garden habitats. The magpies don’t seem too deterred, even though they get harassed at times too. I don’t have a huge amount of space but maybe I’ll look into some summer flowering plants and put a second bird bath elsewhere.
That’s what happened in my back yard too. I set up a birdbath and within a disappointingly short space of time, I’m talking about an hour, I had those Indian Myna birds bullying away all the birds I sought to attract. Not wanting those pests to set up camp, I relocated it to the side way where it is now a very shallow bee drinking station (too much human activity in close proximity for birds so they don’t use it).
noooooo I just found out ethique don’t do their body bars or other stuff no more. I love my pumice mint
Seems like they’ve done a bit of a rebrand/restructure too - and no more moisturiser. They had an awesome one that was perfect in winter.
wen cool change need dunda stom
thank you i’ll hide somewhere inside the library and stay overnight, unseen, unheard.
I guess my apartment isn’t so poorly insulated. Just got home after a nice lunch out thinking I’d need to blast the AC, but I’ve just got the fan on me and I’m pretty comfortable!
It might also be possible that you are a lizard
Hmm well I do need to moisturise a decent amount… and I do switch between hibernating in my apartment for weeks at a time and going out and basking in the sun… And I do enjoy eating ants, months, and many other insects… You might be onto something
I’ve start a thread on !cricket@aussie.zone
So Day 5 of the NY…
The space rearrangement is working really well. It is definitely is a mood booster and I somehow have started a gallery wall which I am even more excited about. Three pieces up and I can probably accommodate another 4-7 frames, depending on size and arrangement. It makes me actually want to be in the space, even if it is the dining area. (Using the dining table as a partial bar top may be also a little more enticing, haha.)
No complaints using Linux Shred. Not sure why. Last drive currently being nuked by loading the OS via USB. So far, so good. That means (as sad as it is) tower be gone tomorrow! I am also relieving myself of my giant Philips iron with its massive water reservoir that never worked quite right (it works perfectly fine, but how it steams is just odd to me). Why I hung onto it so long, I don’t know. Back to a regular sized iron (a Tefal was obtained today).
If only offloading/spring cleaning had always felt this good! Still got a bit to go, but I feel… positive.
Thinking of the birds today, I love seeing the crested pigeon (here dubbed the sprouts pigeon in this household) in the park. They just kind of look rebellious, LOL.
They’re punk pigeons with their little mohawks
I’m doing the massive spring clean this week as well. Very much looking forward to it!
it is 26C so i should get up and start doing stuff
I did the same lol
watching a movie in a sitting position, eating snacks, and hydrating count as doing stuff
I haz discovered I like wrapping packing tape around things…
Plz help. 🤣
Good morning little munchkins 🤗
Good morning. I have about 3.5 hours of driving left to do can someone do it for me please.
Hmm well I haven’t driven since pre-covid. I do have a full license. I’ll leave it to you if you want me to take the risk for you
What about us large munchkins
Good morning to you too! 🥰
I forgot to post something bird related! My tribute today is to the Maggies and ravens in my street, I love watching their morning antics and their little society. And the birds which raised a baby in a nest they made in the back of my staghorn. Also the pigeon that lives in the supermarket. Smart bird, it’s always cool in there and there’s plenty of food. They’ve tried to shoo it out but it’s way too clever, bobs under the aisle into the next aisle away from its pursuers lol. There are black and yellow cockies that come every year exactly at the time the pine trees in the local park have young pinecones. If you’re not careful you’ll end up copping a projectile from above.
My last.fm 2024 recap thing just arrived. It’s less accurate than Spotify, because every now and then it’ll crap out and decide to just not count an entire week’s worth of music, or I’ll listen to something 5 times and it only counts it twice
But anyway, some interesting stuff fin there:
Some things are basically the same as the Spotify rewind. My top artists are hilltop hoods, flume, ABBA, the Chainsmokers, and the Rubens. But I listened to a total of 1,161 individual artists last year (23% of those were new to me) 2,165 albums (top were Walking under stars, loose, skin, under the sun, and colour by numbers), 31% of those albums were new to me 2,341 tracks, 30% were new to me. Top 5 were Cosby Sweater, Never Be Like You, To Her Door, Karma Chameleon, and Nothing Matters (bit of a depresso song. Was very into it earlier this year) For the more interesting stuff: My busiest listening day is Friday, and my most active hour is 3pm, but really I’m mostly listening to stuff between noon and midnight. But ivemoustened to something in every single hour of the day! Most of my music is, predictably, from the 2010s. My top album from the 2010s was Walking Under Stars by the hilltops. Next up is the 2000s, my top album from the 2000s was Loose by Nelly Furtado (♥️ man eater), and next up is the 80s. My top album from the 80s was Under the Sun by Paul Kelly I’ve listened to people from a few places around the world. My top artist from Nigeria was Rema, South Africa was Tyla, Russia was t.A.T.u. Ireland was Enya, and Argentina was Pez I listened to at least 61 days and 7 hours of music (up 6% on last year), an average of 64 songs per day, and my biggest listening day was November 25th when I listened to at least 225 songs! I’m a top 0.13% fan of Hilltop Hoods, and a top 0.02% fan of Cosby Sweater lol Top 11% of listeners on LFM. And they refer to me as a nostalgic, discerning, adventurer I’m also apparently the 60th top listener of the Rubens, and the 4th top listener of Under the Sun by Paul Kelly, and more specifically, the third top listener of To Her Door. That’s crazy!
15/20
Can’t believe it’s slip slop slap, slide on some sunglasses? I didn’t realise sunglasses were more important than hydration on a hot day. Guess you can all stop drinking water today then
16 !
(Not factorial)
Yeah, I suppose that makes sense. I still think that it should have covered hydration, too. Personally, I’d rate dehydration as a bigger problem than the risk of eye damage or whatever
14/20
The ED one surprised me a little and made me feels bit sad.
just saw another Qute train 🥰🚞
I Like Birds m.youtube.com/watch?v=32J5jCP1z9A
Beep Beep 🚚
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I still have not made the custard or finished the big kitchen clean.
However since the big green shed wants to charge me more in delivery fees than I would pay for the actual goods - I bit the bullet, yanked out as much of the grass from a small spot as I could and dug out a hole to plant 1 (one) of the rapidly embiggening golden nugget pumpkin seedlings. We’ll see if I’m able to do any more but I planted that one.
Yes, I shouldn’t have done that, I risked really injuring myself and will be exhausted and hurting for days. But it is said that copper wire was invented by two of my ancestors fighting over a penny.
I also took the chance to take some fresh dry soil samples. If I can’t get to the post office myself I’ll see if I can print a prepaid postage label or give someone money and ask them to send it
I have magpie pics but I/my house are in them. One shows a magpie about a metre from me and not afraid. I’ve stopped feeding them anything now because they’d begun approaching me and it’s probably good they stay cautious of humans. (And don’t depend on being fed.) Just the water dish now.
Really regretting mixing up my days… I got the urine sample from Melbcat last night and intended to take it in to the vet today thinking it was Saturday… :( Either it refrigerates til tomorrow or I try for a fresh one.
I washed/rewashed all the dishes myself last night (rage cleaning - had actually had a really shit day) and even cleaned out the cutlery drawer and washed the bits of the stove. I didn’t have energy to dry stuff or do the rest of the kitchen so I let everything dry on the rack/a towel overnight. Thankfully I haven’t seen any more roaches since I set the borax baits so hopefully they didn’t come for a sip. shudder When I put the stove covers and racks back and put away the dishes I can either make some dairy free custard or finish cleaning the kitchen. It depends on if I think I can handle the custard. My stomach has really been hurting.
Only one of the Jack be little pumpkins has sprouted. I didn’t treat it any differently from the golden nuggets so maybe it comes down to freshness. Maybe I might plant a few more.
I’m wondering if I can be cheeky and double up with two plants in each 20 gallon grow bag, and put the jack be littles in the 30 cm pots. Spare ones could go in the ground
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 days ago
oh noes, australia post has my address wrong and i need to send them my real address, to a url ending .xin.au 🙂
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Send them a dick pic
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 days ago
I got that one too, forwarded it to Scamwatch
Baku@aussie.zone 4 days ago
If you don’t mind, DM me the link. I like getting those domains shut down
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 days ago
i deleted without opening it