So the cattery messaged me and said I’ll find out if I got the job by the end of the day Wednesday, because another applicant had to delay their trial shift.
Now me arriving 10 minutes early to mine looks real good methinks 🙏
Discussion Thread 🧶 Monday 1 December 2025
Submitted 20 hours ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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StudChud@aussie.zone 25 minutes ago
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
It’s coming down hard out there and there’s sunshine.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
Peak rainbow weather. Look to the east, there may be pretty colours there.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
A few more yellow poppies are out and the vermilion nasturtiums are rioting. They don’t seem to need any help so I’ll leave them be. Boring.
I want to buy some water soluble oils but don’t know how to dispose safely of the wash water, don’t know what to do if cleaning or thinning does require linseed oil, and honestly I don’t think I can shift myself to actually use them.
Depressed as fuck and art blocked to the point I don’t even want to practice 😔 Can’t even pick up a pencil and practice.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
take some photos of your flowers
pick some flowers and put them in a vase
You have created something beautiful. That is art. 😘😘😘
and for practice, get some colouring books , it’s easy, relaxing and kinda practice
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
I have adult colouring books but don’t really get anything out of them.
I’ll have to remember to donate them somewhere for Christmas gifts. I have a stack that I don’t use.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Put the manky paints stuff on some kitty litter then bag and bin it?
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
That’s actually a really good idea. Maybe I can wait till I’ve binned the used litter and tip the dirty paint water in the bin on top of it.
Just a bit worried because it may contaminate quite a lot of water during the cleaning, too much to absorb without wasting expensive clean litter, as a review said that soap and water cleaning was very inefficient and they ended up eventually resorting to solvent or linseed oil anyway. And the ‘soluble’ paints didn’t thin well with water.
Safety ramble
I could use a few drops of linseed oil for thinning only and wash brushes with odour free solvent with all the fans going full blast, but that’s like doing traditional oil paints anyway and really does seem like it needs a studio and safety measures I don’t have. If not for me, for my cat. She likes to be right in the thick of things. And the cost of the materials… Evaporation and disposal of the solids is possible but not practical in a small space and if there’s a lot of liquid. Acrylics are a lot more practical in every way but I just really don’t enjoy working with them. They’re so thin and smeary, low quality and streaky.
Ah well… I do have to learn to draw worth a damn before I begin painting anyway.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
This hot dry weather coming is just the thing I need so I can clean the wool rugs and hang them out.
Am missing the beach but too tired and it’s a bit wild out there still
Catfish@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
Nice thread YarraByte, spin me a yarn
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Be careful, he might balls it up 🧶🧶👆⤴️
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
Spin us a yarn you’re Yarrabyte, spin us a yarn tonight
For we’re all in the mood for a narrative and you’ve got us feeling alright
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
I read a “theory” that the Piano Man is actually performing in a gay bar and it cracks me up whenever I hear the song. I love it.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
The last coat of paint has gone on the lawnmower. I failed to keep the paint off my hands this time, so I’m now sprorting yellow spots. We should have a couple of mostly dry days coming up so I’ll be able to get out and cut the grass and see how much difference to new sharp blades make.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
Always wanted to sharpen my mower blades.
Also you’d mow more quickly had you painted it red.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
My last lawnmower was basically a glorifies whipper snipper and had a plastic ‘blade’. Having to worry about things like sharpening a blade is a new thing for me.
I don’t really want the lawnmower to go too fast, I generally keep the speed control closer to tortoise than hare, so red could have been a problem. The yellow is all underneath so is mostly invisible anyway & I’m pretty sure the red thing only works if you can see it.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
Sometimes I get so bored at work that I do actual work.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
Currently I’m making to my own work.
12 months worth of marketing newsletters is almost done. It took 2 days.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
I feel lucky that getting bored at work means I can get on those backburner projects you always wanted to get around to but never could
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
I get most, if not all, of my work done by 11 am each day. Afternoon is dedicated to catching up on tv shows etc.
Anything comes up work related, it gets done straight away.
It’s a good way to avoid boredom :)
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
Can I have your job?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
I love this
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
Shame on you!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
omg, Ted loves watching the new Frankenstein movie 😻🧟 I’ll get a pic
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
yes, he is floofy,
and it’s late spring and I’m chasing him everywhere trying to brush his knots out, you would think I was killing him the way he carries on
I may have to get him sedated again to do the defluffing/deknotting
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Submit to the brush Ted! Otherwise you’ll need a lion shave and you’ll have a mullet again
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Buy that churu stuff and as he’s licking you brush.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
it’s late spring
*allegedly
Catfish@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
Floof alert!
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
What a beautiful floofball
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
He’s purrfect!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
Today is fucking rough. Personal reasons but yeah.
Defs down in the dumps.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Hugs 🫂❤️
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Hang in there bro.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
Sending lots of gentle love and hugs! Let me know if you’d prefer a silly joke or a cat photo or both!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
Thank you :) cat photos are always welcome
Eagle@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
A bad day does not equate to a bad life. Sending hugs, chocolate and compassion.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
more hugs
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
hugs
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
Operation UnKAOS is going really well.
I have learnt to not let mission creep eat up my time.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
Pakidge!
I decided I wasn’t happy with how well the food processor kneads bread dough and decided to get a bread maker. It also gives me another option for making yoghurt which is a good thing, I usually make it in the rice cooker and some times I want to make both rice and yoghurt and things get awkward.
Myers had the model I got on special, so I price matched it with Appliances Online and bought it through them. It’s funny to think when I was growing up Myers was considered a top store with great service and now I’d prefer not to buy from them if I can avoid it and don’t really trust their customer service to be up to scratch. How the world has changed.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 58 minutes ago
Same here re Myer. Last time I went I stood in the store for a good 10 minutes and was not approached once by a staff member. This would’ve been unheard of with the Myer of my youth.
Also let me know how you go with the breadmaker. I’ve been a little tempted but I’m sticking with my stretching-and-folding sourdough thing for now.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
Husband. I might use the big vacuum cleaner in my office. Me. It’s good to use the big one sometimes as the robot doesn’t get the edges well. Husband. The robot doesn’t clean in here. Me. Do you bring it in, do you switch it on Husband. No. Me. Then how can it can clean.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
Nothing like some sneaky 15c hail 1st day of summer.
tone212_@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
Heater is on ❄️
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
same
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
I am resisting the urge.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
Sorting through jewellery I have bought, repaired and jewellery findings for bad parts that might be made with toxic metals.
a lot of things I buy are not cheap and they are just fake , they even fake safety certs
throwing out some new things, 😠remaking some and substituting with safe old parts
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
It is December. The tree is going up
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
2 more weeks for me
but I will put up some solar lights outside and then they can stay up all year
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
How is it December already?
Not sure if the tree is going up in this house because I have a dog that pees on almost any corner he is capable of lifting his leg on
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
I have a cat who would make it his personal mission to attack attack attack.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
If I put a tree up I’d be sacrificing my clothes horse space so that ain’t happening. Then you gotta tear it down a month later. I can’t be bothered with that shit.
Taleya@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
I put it up early to terrorise the husband who has not yet even thought about presents
Catfish@aussie.zone 12 hours ago
Ditching the polyfil doona for 100% natural is the best sleep thing I’ve done in forever! It’s not totally hormonal bullshit, it’s not cooking yourself in a plastic bag every night
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
I love natural fibres but hate cleaning and caring for them
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 12 hours ago
My girlfriend tried to use her laptop to look at some Black Friday stuff last night and she’s just getting sick of how slow it is. It ‘upgraded’ itself to W11 a while ago and that’s part of her problem. The other one is probably that it’s only running on 8gb RAM.
I think she wants to run a debloater finally but I may get her to covert over to Linux completely. If I did she would actually be more all in on Linux than me, I still have Windows on one of the drives of my main computer.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Yeah as soon as Win11 came in it ate all my storage and processing power. Now I only really use that machine for one game and everything else if possible gets done on my phone…
It’s such a bad OS
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
She still uses Chrome but Firefox isn’t that much better these days. We’ll debloat it but I can get a laptop off work for the price of a 1TB SSD so maybe it becomes a project or backup laptop.
Whatever we end up doing I think I’ll put bazzite on there for her because it’s similar to the steamdeck she already has and it’s main colour is purple, which is her favourite colour
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
So what is everyone doing on this very rainy day? 🌧️☔🙂
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Bedrotting :(
It’s a sucky day and I know I should try to get up and do something productive but I just can’t. I don’t even want to do any art
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 13 hours ago
Have to take Miniest to an appointment and decided last week to take the day off for it. Also going to take the opportunity to make some boring but important phone calls that I can’t do on work time.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
Welcome back YarraByte, hope you’r feeling ok.
bacon@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
Beep Beep 🚚
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LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 16 seconds ago
Tried to get some rainbow photos. Didn’t capture all the colours, but turned out interestingly to me.
For a rainbow to happen, there needs to be a storm. ImageImage