Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 30 January, 2025
Submitted 5 weeks ago by briongloid@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Your friends look pretty shifty.
T156@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Those potato cakes look pretty nice.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
The seagulls seem to think so.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Yaaay my street is on fiiiire
mysticgreg@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
What’s on fire?
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Massive factory fire up near keys road. 22 vehicles and counting
eatham@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Well I’ve been doing the right things with my face, which is good to know. The Dr prescribed me some antibiotics so it doesn’t get infected, and I made the nurse laugh with my home made wound pads. I’d bought some from the chemist but they just weren’t absorbent enough. So I thought, what if I cut up a nighttime incontinence pad and sealed the edges with wide adherence bandage tape? Works a treat, is comfortable and has a stay-dry cover.
Eagle@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
A woman’s mastery can not be contained! Many years ago my old dog had bone cancer at the top of her eye socket area. She was very well cared for but occasionally she would develop a weepy wound. A party liner stuck to a cute bandana was the easiest way to manage it. My vet was in hysterics when he first saw it.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Lol, “panty liner bandana” might just have to go on my Future Usernames list!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
hope you feel better soon 😘
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
OMG so cute! I keep a few tiny items in the bottom of my sewing box because otherwise things are packed away and I don’t get to see them as often as I’d like. So recently I saw the first tiny socks, singlet and stripey beanie they both wore as newborns 😍🥲
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I love miniatures and when you have a kid everything is miniature. Must keep going though.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Aww! 🥰
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Im taking a day off day. It’s 10am and I’m starting to crack already.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I chucked a sickie today. Tired of crying at my desk!
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Just saw the news on the AA accident in Washington. 😭
(I have a reli that travels frequently using AA (they’re not on that flight). I feel ill. So awful for all involved.)
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I just saw the footage for the first time a moment ago on tv after hearing about it on my way home.
It looks horrific.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Same, I always feel a shock when I hear of such accidents.
tone212_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Honestly the US can’t catch a break right now. LA fires, Trump, and this all in the same month.
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Feels like a Friday.
Oh why can’t it be Friday already?
fullkitwanker@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
So, yesterday I managed to injure myself in the most ridiculous way possible while playing tennis. We were warming up serves, and the other guy was easing into it with some slow servew. Naturally, I decided to match the energy by being incredibly lazy, barely moving my feet and just waving my racket around like a disinterested Jedi.
Then, out of nowhere, he unleashes this rocket of a serve. For reasons I still can’t explain, I just stood there, completely unprepared, and decided my best move was to swing wildly at it. Of course, I was ridiculously late, and instead of gracefully returning the ball, I managed to deflect it into my racket, which immediately ricocheted directly into the bone right below my knee.
Ensues excruciating pain and I had to pull out of the first game (and asked my tm8 to play a singles instead as the format was 2 singles and 1 doubles) while I winced and iced my knee.
Safe to say, I won’t be making any highlight reels anytime soon. 😭
Pilk@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
On the contrary, this belongs on the highlight reel. In super slow motion.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Tibialis or Patella. Tib shouldn’t hurt that much from a tennis ball. Have a read up on Osgood-Schlatter syndrome.
fullkitwanker@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I don’t think I explained correctly. I hit my racket on the tibia. It’s quite bruised lmao
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I’ve got a meeting Monday with an SLT member. If the outcome of this meeting is poor, I’ll be retracting my request for a raise and moving on.
The straw has broken the camels back.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I’ll be retracting my request for a raise and moving on.
Nah. Dont make it explicit. just say “You understand the consequences of this. right? you understand what this may cost the business?” Let the threat be unsaid but hang in the air. gives you more maneuverability and them a second change to ponder the risks involved.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
“Understood.”
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
The workload is untenable man. We had a client offboard who had historic issues with the larger org.
The owner of the company that got sold rang him today in what I assume was a check to see if I’m worth the raise.
There was no chance of saving this client. First time I met the guy he straight up said “I’m not renewing”
The client was unhappy because he felt “ignored”. We have weekly meetings. I action everything he asks for.
There’s literally nothing else I could do.
Not good enough apparently.
Too much work, not enough time. Stress when not working. Constantly worried about work. No time to just relax.
If I get a better offer, im out. If I get the raise, I’m waiting till I’ve moved house then I’m out.
If I don’t get the raise I’m stuck here till I move house first.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
🤞
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
managed to score a doctors appointment cause the mrs wants me to get a blood test and just check everything doing ok. might set up the spare bed as a fallback option tonight as well. See if I cant convince the mrs to do that thing married couples often do before they fall asleep (assuming Im up to it, which there is serious doubts right now). Hopefully that, some melatonin and a chamomile tea will be enough to get me across the line.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
All the best homie.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
cheers! Heres hoping something works.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
she cares for you ❤️
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
she did NOT appreciate my joke the other week when in hospital. A nurse commented it was good of her to bring me in and i joked “Yeah she just wants to be here to make sure she doesn’t miss the opportunity to pull the plug on me”.
Aradina@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-30/…/104874994
I was wondering what that giant smoke plume was
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
You should see it from south road, looks like a fuckin’ massive approaching storm front
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
For my cat fam…
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I doubt I could resist colouring those in
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
This is my life hack: I have now started cooking early (during the summer) because the sun beams in through my windows at around 5 making me hot and sweaty. I don’t want to eat when I’m sweating buckets. The man and the kid come home around 3 and 3:30 and they’re hungry so this suits everybody. Now I can relax for the rest of the evening.
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Cricket!
I’ve got a dual setup happening so I have both of the matches on at the moment.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I think the plan with this job is to learn the project management software they use, catch Project Manager Brain, and then just get really good at tracking other people doing the work instead of actually doing the work
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Congratulations on the Senior Project Manager and Principal Project Manager training course. Getting paid to do it is even better 😋
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I’d love a few half days to sit around learning what’s urgent and what’s not. This place has an internal agency for a lot of the work I need to do, so the better I get at briefing them and following up on tasks, the better I am at my job. The dream is to get to the point where I get so good at managing things I don’t need to do the gruntwork, without actually having any direct reports
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
bacon@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I’m at that miserable early stage of a cold where I feel cold and fatigued and brain foggy but otherwise my orifices remain closed and dry so I don’t look sick yet
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
certainly something going around.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Today’s much better all around
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Made myself a real coffee today at work.
Everyone’s come in early today, argh, it’s too early to see everyone today.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Slept in after waking half the night. Garden is tidied up a bit more, might do a load of washing, cooking is already done, I’m taking in some nice pants I have because they are too loose now
just a weird day of doing a little of everything 🌞
SituationCake@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Chillies- All I do is put them in a ziplock and throw in the freezer. Nothing special at all, and they come out perfect if all you use them for is chop up for dishes as needed. Don’t even need to defrost them, easy to slice. I you have too many for freezing, maybe homemade chilli jam or a sweet chilli sauce might be an idea?
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
glut of them
Ooh good problem to have :)
So many ways to preserve them. I’ve still got a bunch from 4 yrs ago in the freezer and they’re still good (mushy when thawed but still hawt).
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I love this problem. 🌞🌞🌞
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Knockoff time
🍻?
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I’ve discovered the true use for Instagram… Alan Partridge clips.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Goodnight everyone ❤️
bacon@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Beep Beep 🚚
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It’s time for me to pick between piano and guitar. Because I’m more beginner at guitar, I was thinking a piano piece a month just for fun and continue lessons with guitar. But I’m becoming demotivated, because my left hand has been randomly locking up doing practically anything, and I think it could negatively affect my playing. So we shall see.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Just took Elder to a meeting at his school to get ready for the upcoming year. Feeling very excited for him right now 😃 Far less exciting is after I drop him off at home I’m going to one of those urgent care clinics for my face. It’s been weeping for a week due to the ti tree oil incident. I’ve been cleaning and dressing the wound several times a day and wearing a mask over top to hold it all together/conceal it, but I want some advice about whether I should be continuing with a “wet healing” regimen or attempting to dry it out to stop the weeping.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
well that was brutal. Got to sleep after 2 hours, slept for 10 minutes got woken up by the kid sorted him out then lay awake for the next 5 hours. Thats my third night of rough sleep. Anyone tried any of those instant script or telehealth script places? thinking might be time for some melatonin cause this cant go on.
Pilk@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Something disheartening about going to the service desk and asking for directions to some swimmers marked as In Stock online, and the worker saying it’s likely that I can’t find them because every single size of that item (except 3XL) has been shoplifted.
This is Big W QV and they must get slammed by theft. He was already dealing with someone walking behind the counter and pocketing boxes of Pokémon cards and had walked over to me with a handful of discarded packaging from toys that had obviously been lifted as well.
I mean it’s not nappies and baby formula getting pinched.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Early night tonight. Have 2 interviews tomorrow which I’m excited about!
Hopefully this saga ends soon.
Goodnight ❤️
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Sending so many good lucks. 🍀🍀🍀
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Good luck!
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Good luck!
Also good luck to Gibson those shadows aren’t going to chase themselves.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I hope one of these comes through for you and we’re there for you if you need it