Submitted â¨â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago⊠by â¨Baku@aussie.zone⊠to â¨melbourne@aussie.zoneâŠ
Todayâs weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 14°C, max - 25°C. 95% chance of no rain
And so the time has come.
The blackmarket vapes are fucking my lungs.
To the chemist to buy some patches and gum.
These next few days wonât be much fun.
If youâre seeing a doc, you can get a prescription for a legal vape.
Good luck. đ¤
Be careful combining patches and gum. I use gum and the nicotine hit can be pretty strong. Itâs a stronger effect than smoking. Remember to park it in your cheek instead of chewing or youâll get a tummy ache.
Thanks for the heads up!
get the nicotinell, theyâre cheaper and work much better ime.
donât mix with gum, youâll get horrible heartburn
Cats are so soothing and have the ability to keep you happy and calm to be around.
I envy you.
Iâm getting a drink with one of you tonight. Does this person know I am meeting up with them? Maybe! But I like the idea of you all checking behind your doors and in your fridge just in case Iâm hiding there with a 6 pack waiting to jump out and introduce myself.
This will be the first time I meet a DT-er. If Iâm never heard from again I expect a reality tv show game like the Mole to identify my killer. My only clue is: They are among you!
The only fridge here is a bar fridge, if youâre in that Iâd be impressed and frankly a little horrified.
Pray for Mojo
Bring pizza shapes please.
youâll get BBQ and youâll like it. Or cheddar. Like like cheddar too.
Who can it be knocking at my door?
Make no sound, tip-toe across the floor
If he hears, heâll knock all day
Iâll be trapped and here Iâll have to stay
Pray for mojito.
If itâs me can you bring extra beer plz
We see you.
Chucked that sickie today after it hit 9am and I felt no desire to move. No regrets. Definitely feeling better than yesterday but I think I just need a day of rest entirely to myself to fully recover. I do need to do the laundry but thatâs about it. Oh, and pack for my tripâŚ
Mmmnnnn ⌠pork & chive dumplings laced with soy & worcestershire sauce. I am a contented woman.
Yum!
Speaking of nightmares, I saw Nosferatu on the weekend, a remake of the 1922 silent film.
With Robert Eggers directing, you know you are in good hands and this one does not disappoint. The story is the one we all (mostly) know and is straight forward and uncomplicated. So based on this, how can Eggers set it apart from the original, (or even the hundreds of other vampire films) ?
He has a real knack for the period piece. If you watch his other films (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman) the historic details are so flawlessly portrayed that you become immersed in a way that they almost disappear.
But my absolute favourite thing about this film is the cinematography. The whole thing looks like a Doom metal album cover. Itâs Goth. Itâs creepy. Itâs claustrophobic and beautiful. Iâll share an excerpt from a movie critic:
âThe force of the monsterâs unknowable malevolence seems to distort the movie itself, making it shudder and break down. Itâs made with the most modern filmmaking technology but feels like an artifact from another century,â
That pretty much encapsulates my experience
5/5 plague ridden verminđ
Iâd love to make time and catch this one. Iâve only seen The Witch so Iâm keen on the rest of his work too
Sounds cool. I might go see it at the imax .
Walked back from the shops in my quest for eggs and I melted under that sun. Doesnât matter if itâs 25 degrees, direct midday sun in January bites. And good news, I secured the goods.
In a vast improvement on yesterday I have managed the whole day out of bed. Itâs mostly been lying on the couch, but still an improvement. Dr Meow applied a purr poltice and Iâm thinking I might even have enough energy to make some dinner.
Will spend today driving home. The holiday has been great, but weâre about ready to sleep in our own bed.
Facing a 6 hour drive in the morning - better get some sleep!
Drive safe! So jealous of the road trip,ong drives are one of my absolute favourite things to do. Gotta wait till April for my next one.
maccas stop 3 hours in?
We saw a rock instead. Had lunch there.
Not that weâd go there, but there were no maccas anywhere on the route until Perth. We were going to drop into Yummylicious 30 minutes into the journey, but it turned out they didnât open until 10 and we werenât going to wait around an hour for that.
Going to be warm up hit the next 4 days.
30, 31, 32, 35.
Going to make sure I have cold drinks and stuff to cope with it.
Oh lawdy. Well itâs one of those times Iâm heading west and itâll be cooler for once, I guess⌠Glad someone will be coming to water my plants but Iâll have to give them a big drink before I go.
If there was a Lucky Cunt Award Iâd be in the fucking running. Washing machine has sprung a leak underneath. Fuck Fuck Fuck.
In my experience, appliances wait until all service personnel are on holiday to break down. Then they magically start working again as soon as the ultra-exxy emergency repair person sets foot in the house.
100% correct. Mine washing machine did a fake death on NYE. Its ancient and owe us nothing, but still not the ideal time to die with a load of washing in it.
oh noes. after a few recent flooding events water truly scares me. turn the mains off. learnt the hard way there.
Nah itâs not a pipe issue because I havenât had it on for days. I get the feeling itâs a seal on the pump.
Love that first one.
âNo, you see, Iâve already eaten its hand and suffocating it so whenâs breakfastâ.
Rip that 2nd one
went and got my phone repaired the other day. They are like âWe will take it out the back and clean itâ i was like âyeah i tried that, but by all means have a crackâ. Meanwhile they have the new iPhones sitting on the table for you to play with and maaaaaaaan that display is nice! even gives you a âwhat would it cost if you trade your phone inâ turns out yeah still 1600 bucks if I trade mine in. Nice display but we might wait for the new one to come out and buy the old one on the cheap
Also turns out it was just fluff in the charging port. The IT Engineer folks, how the mighty have fallen.
I have to get a fine sewing needle out and occasionally have a careful pick and scrape. Itâs amazing the pocket fluffy that comes out.
yeah I use a sim tray ejector. Apple told me off for this though, they said it might damage the pins which is probably fair.
Dude you have no idea how many times I failed to realise it was fluff in the charging port. It keeps happening and I keep forgetting how I fixed it last time đ¤Ł
Speaker ports on a phone can get blocked too.
If youâre careful and you use some bluetak you can also keep it clean that way.
I have a 12 mini. I got it when my eyesight was as better and I could read the screen easily. I took mum to get her phone checked out the other day and had a look at the new ones.
Nah, Iâll stick to the mini with the little screen. I love the compact form factor and I reckon that I will get a battery replacement and get another 4 years out of it.
Yeah if I do it itâll be september when this ones 3 years old. Its fairly scratched and bitten at this point so for 1k I dont feel too bad replacing every 3 years if it lasts that long.
Iâm still a bit feverish, with a bit of a cough and sore throat. I managed the heroic effort of mixing some jelly and am now exhausted. Iâm really not enjoying this whole sick thing.
Just dropped the computer stuff to recycling, but weirdly feel even more guilty, even though it was old (tower and laptop) tjey looked kind of brand new compared to the stuff that was being thrown out.
But⌠I put my adult pants on. Maybe this is one of the reasons I am so bad at throwing stuff out.
laughs nervously in hoarded ewaste
pull the hard disk and shove it somewhere. The rest of the computer is just bits and bobs
I donât think thatâs necessarily irrational. You can just drill straight through it to kill it. We used to do it an old job i was at.
Not me thinking that said hoarded estate instead of ewaste.
Doing better than me! Replaced my PC months ago, its just sitting missing a HDD on my floor doing absolutely jack all.
mine go through a cycle. Main box --> test rig --> file server --> by the time thatâs outdated, itâs either a retro box I can flog or absolute trash.
LOL, somehow this feels so familiar.
I refuse to throw out any electronics for the minuscule chance I might need them one day.
Boxes and boxes of esoteric cables, pc parts, keyboards and mice.
I salute your ability to throw them out.
Honestly I donât consider this the hoarding gene⌠Iâm with you itâs good practice.
Iâm actually going to be ruthless with out cables⌠(A few unused ones, too!)
I gave myself nightmares last night and I know I didnât sleep all night.
No more horror movies for me.
What did you watch?
I watched The Substance with Demi Moore.
It was very disturbing.
Same!! Read it, listen, maybe look at a picture, but a movie is no go for me.
Back from the shops. If any of youse want anything Iâll grab my little time machine and get it for you. đ
Finally remembered to flip the calendar page over. New firefighter & kitten. They all have a slightly odd plastic look. Not sure if dodgy makeup or overzealous photoshopping.
I chatting the other night about things that you buy and actually get a lot of use out of. I have these small folding tables that have literally served as dinner tables/laptop tables in front of the idiot box for years. (Iâm actually using one right now.)
I try my best not to buy crap, but Kmart does suck me in occasionally. I love how their giant ice cub\e trays are so cheap (MM Iâm looking at you for charging $15 when theyâre near identical and $1.75 at the big K.)
That said, I bought these chip clips (from Kmart). Yes, exactly that. Four in a pack. Two shaped like corn chips and the other two shaped like crinkle cut chips and I love them. These silly clips bring me such joy, being able to clip a plastic corn chip to a Doritos pack.
In saying that, does anyone else keep their chips in the fridge after theyâve opened them? I swear by it. When I started doing it years ago it was a complete game changer when it came to chips going stale.
Anyway, LOL, whoever said money canât buy happiness. For that dose, $1.75. Hahahaha.
Oops, looks like theyâre on clearance. I think I better get a few more.
I got some LPs and cds from the op shop.
First two were some Joe Jackson. I dunno but they just did not sound good on this player.
The cd of Buckwheat Zydeco is cool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIsSgO-QYzA
I had a terrible time trying to get to sleep last night (for the people who have already slept: Sunday night). I couldnât shut my mind down, and I kept having flashbacks to a few years ago, not long after Iâd been moved to Melbourne. They werenât traumatic per se, but I felt EXACTLY the same as I was in the moment. The helplessness, terror, anxiety, dread, loneliness, panic
I donât know what brought it up but it was really shitty. I put on a YouTube video which is my usual approach to dealing with those thoughts (even though this was a lot more extreme than usual), and I stopped thinking about it, but I got really bad vertigo and dizziness and I think I was hallucinating. I could just about see blue lights swinging around even though I had my eyes closed and light off. Phone screen was off and upside down so it wasnât that, and there was no light in my room
Now Iâm kind of feeling a little scared to sleep again. Well, not scared exactly, more so dreading it. The emotional response it all brought up was awful, and I donât want to have to deal with it again
I drastically reduced the detergent and then ran a second short cycle of just water for an extra rinse. Still kinda taste the soap. Guess Iâll be rinsing everything myself. :/
(The only Finish easily available is a $16 1L bottle and I didnât see another gel so Iâm not doing liquid unless I find something cheaper.)
Also be careful as QV Wash has changed to something much runnier and harsher with shimmer I donât remember it having. Itâs quite stripping and drying now (and I donât have dry skin). Might want to skip using it on your face.
Melbcat has another UTI and will be back on the strong stuff đ˘đż
Do I pay $41.20 plus $11 tram fare return to the airport, at the mercy of timetables especially for the return leg when my flight arrives past 10pm⌠or $84 plus a bit in petrol to drive and park over 7 days without worrying about times. I think the latter is winning out and would be cheaper than uber too. So it shall be.
I spent nearly all of today in bed drifting in and out of sleep and wandering through various YouTube videos and wiki articles. It was nice enough in some ways to do nothing and rest but I felt kind of gross by the evening and havenât drunk nearly enough water. Feeling rather meh about doing one day of work tomorrow before heading off again but Iâll just start early and end early as much as I can and keep it simpleâŚ
Too wired. I only slept for five hours and drank a single coffee today.
No more for me. Iâm hypothesising that Iâm a caffeine lightweight because Iâm not eating three square meals a day.
potentially goes on stimulants
It appears that if you wake up at 1pm, falling asleep at 10:30pm, even with a sleeping pill, is impossible.
Lame.
We get the worm.
Fun fact - weâre in week 2 of 2025
Movie and tv review.
The Dead Donât Die. A fun zombie movie. 2.5 hobbits
Picket Fences, episode , Be My Valentine. 1993. 3.5 hobbits
I watched this series when it first aired, so long ago it was on a crt that had a cabinet and legs.
I remembered this particular episode as being one of the few shows that gives me that creepy feeling you get when you see someone or see a situation that is truly psychopathic and dangerous. I wondered what it was about this that made it like that.
Firstly, this series is about life in a mid western town , how eccentrics and life challenges are found every where, not just the cities. The show looks bright , lots of sunshine, indoors are always well lit, wide open outdoor spaces. Unlike city shows that are dark by comparison. This is what makes the scary episode stand out from the other soap opera episodes.
Why is it scary. Really good actors as the scary guys. Really good. The set up was long and the twist unexpected. The scary moment was the reveal that the guys were not "normal yet violentâ, but were scheming and sadists, laughing and enjoying the fear and pain of their victims. Did I say really good actors? These guys were intense.
How is it tv actors are different to movie actors?
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Phew. Finally some okay news about mumâs eye, pressure is way down. If that continues good chance vision wonât degrade more. Not really much hope for it getting better but Iâll take not getting worse.
Been so tense in the lead up to this appt. (people having a go at each other about unrelated things which wasnât good), but I think thereâs a communal sigh of relief here. Except for bro and sil because theyâre cunts.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Sending good wishes to all the Racer fam. đ