Hi everyone, long time no see :-)
I’ve been absent for a bit - I think I crashed a bit after Covid, but I am alive and well and getting back on track.
Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday 20th February 2025
Submitted 2 months ago by melbaboutown@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
Comments
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 months ago
just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 months ago
It’s good to hear from you! I was worried you’d joined the many who have departed for one reason or another. I hope you’re able to take things easy for a while.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 months ago
It was a bit weird - I thought I was better, but I just couldn’t be bothered doing anything. Then I actually got better and realised I hadn’t actually been completely well after all! A bit like having a dream that you woke up, and then actually waking up.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Welcome back!
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Welcome hooome!
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Good to see you back again!
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 2 months ago
🥰💋
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 months ago
[deleted]RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Thank you. It is nice to know I’ve been missed 🙂
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 months ago
It’s good to hear from you!
bacon@aussie.zone 2 months ago
🥂
Duenan@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Welcome back!
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Great to see you back!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
yay, happy to see you again 😘 good to hear you are getting better
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Yaaaay! ✋🏼
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Alright references are about to be completed.
🎶Re-sig-nation time, COME ON!
🎵do do do-do-do
🎶It’s time for a resignation!
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Are you resigned to your fate?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 months ago
🎶 so shove your bad times and your workload too🖕🎶
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Got some crap news last night.
Very Sad don't read if your not up to it
The animal rescue reached out to us the other week to ask if we’d noticed anything wrong with Jill (the rescue kitten). Apparently she had some balance issues or trouble using a back leg. We were sort of steeling ourselves that she might come back to us (we told them if she had any trouble finding a home she was always welcome with us.) They were talking her to the vet to get checked over. We hadn’t heard anything so followed up yesterday only to find she didnt make it. She passed shortly after we spoke to them the other week. They dont know exactly what was wrong, but she apparently had some issues. We are shattered. She wasnt even our cat but… fuck man. just… fuck.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I love when the government calls on a private number and asks me to confirm my name, DOB, address, etc. “Absolutely not, I have no way of confirming who you are”. They seem shaken by the process given their atrocious security protocol there’s no way I’m giving a private number any of that info.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I got a bit more news. For the morbidly curious I guess.
More Sad Stuff
turns out she had too many genetic faults, Nothing anyone could have done. She wasnt in pain. Thank Christ. I was terrified her previous owner had abused her or we’d failed her in some way. The rescue wont tell us what the vet bill costs so they are just getting a donation in her memory.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 months ago
kinda sad Geoffrey the dog update
He has more purple lumps. He has also lost quite a bit of weight and isn’t eating much. Also also vomiting bile. Lacks energy. His liver function wasn’t too good a couple of weeks ago. The vet were going to do surgery today to remove the lumps, but the last lump was quite expensive to remove. Multiply that amount by eight lumps and my aunt could not afford it. So they called my aunt and they didn’t do the surgery because they think something underlying is going on. He will be getting a blood test today and then an ultrasound when the consultant can come come in. That’s him on the right with my aunt’s other dog Image
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Sitting in a new area at work and people are super friendly.
My usual grumpy self is suffering silently but somehow enjoying this.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Morning y’all
just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Enjoy your last sub-25C day for a while! 🌞
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Sup insomnia gang 🛏️
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Thank you Melb for posting today’s thread. 😘
Good night everyone, sweet dreams
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 months ago
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Now that it’s after lunch, it would appear everyone had fucked off for the day.
I might join them.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I have rediscovered Legend from 1985. Ridley Scott, Tom Cruise, Tim Curry, and and unimaginable quantity of glitter thrown at wind machines. 3/5 unicorn farts
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I went to a talk about the food and beverage industry this morning. The topic of these things is always AI, and the people who hype it the most feel like people who understand it the least.
There was one example that was quite useful, but it technically falls under machine learning. However, a lot of machine learning has been rebranded as AI because that’s the hot thing at the moment.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Alrighty. The 2nd referee was just over to catch up and has completed his part of the form.
Let’s see what happens. I was worried that letting him use my computer to do the reference check might put up some red flags but we’ll see what happens.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I can’t settle to work this morning
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I have been touched by the sun, also, it’s generally not a good idea to bring crabs home.
day out looking at houses and walking on the beach has been attained
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Changing guitar strings around Gibson is fraught with danger for everyone involved
just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Okay so I’ve always had this problem with the hot water tap in the shower where if you turn it far right enough it turns on again and goes to full blast (not an analogy for conspiracy theorists, I promise). I have usually been able to turn it to just the right point to get it to stop running without starting again.
However as of the last 3 days or so the showerhead has been dripping incessantly and getting worse and worse. Right now it’s a constant trickle. I tried to turn it off completely at the mains and IT STILL WONT TURN OFF (and I can see it’s my meter for sure as when I have the tap running I can see the mini meter spinning).
This is beyond an attempt to DIY fix the shower tap, right? Contact the REA asap instead? The main bother is the dripping at night as I can’t sleep. Nobody’s charged me for hot water so far so that’s not the issue … It would be costing the owner a lot though I imagine
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Oh I moved all my meetings into a block from 11am to 2pm so I can sleep in and finish early?
Well, well, well lol
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 months ago
If my dog saw me get something from the fridge he likes, he’d do a little Irish jig but now he sits nicely like a drug detection dog.
Duenan@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Damn, I thought I had less work to do today but found a box of stuff I need to get through, maybe that’s a tomorrow job.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I found a playlist on Spotify called VB is the best beer. It’s 7 hours long 😂
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
SETTLEMENT COMPLETED
I fucking now own a house
kermit arms
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Welcome to the club. Get reading to spend whatever is left of your savings at bunnings
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Bunnings is a danger, but I’ll be walking distance to Poynton’s which could be worse 😝
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 months ago
in our case it was the goddamn extractor fan for the kitchen and the ducted heating flame sensor.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Ha! Dishwasher (leaked and went kaput) and shower leaks here
tone212_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Congrats! All that stress and anxiety over the process has paid off.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Congratulations!!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Congrats 🎉🥂🍾
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 months ago
HUZZAHHHHHH!!! Congratulations!!!
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Congrats! When do you move in?
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Next Thurs for the truck
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 2 months ago
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
Buy a plunger (if you don’t have one).
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
We do, but there are better ones
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Congratz!
Grackle@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Congrats!!! I’m at the other end of the process and I’m about to have my first meeting with my mortgage broker so I’m terrified.
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
So much paperwork! Watch out for car spaces being on a second title.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Congrats!!!
Duenan@aussie.zone 2 months ago
🥳
Party time and celebrations!
I think it’s time for a big feast!
just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 months ago
ALL THE CELEBRATING 🎉🎈🥳
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 months ago
WAHOOO!!!
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Woo! 🏡🎉
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4810hS8weQ
congrats 🙂
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Woohoo! 🥂🍾