Completing a cert that I’m over qualified for. Necessary but, man this is going to be a slow week…
Discussion Thread 🪼 Monday 3 August 2026
Submitted 2 months ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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calhoon2005@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Hands are hard!
these are good hands!
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Ayy, I’m doing a cert that I’m over qualified for too.
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 months ago
site: yeah we rebooted the modem but we’re still not online this is your fault
me: ok cool, I’ve raised a ticket, can you please send me a pic of the lights and any flashing sequence
site: We can’t find the modem.
me: …Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Ah IT. I love yet hate it equally.
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 months ago
The next half dozen emails condensed:
It;s on top of the rack / what rack / the eight foot black cabinet you keep all the equipment you use EVERY DAY in / we don’t have one of those do you mean the server? / the lights are off / can you check the plug / its unplugged / can you plug it in?/ where? / nvm I’m sending a tech
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 months ago
God I’m still so fuckinf salty over Neil Gaiman being an absolute perverted fuckstick. But damn his short stories really informed my personality.
One of my favourites is called Changes, about a man who develops a pill that can just cure cancer. The side effect is it changes the person sex overnight. The short story explores how people start to use it recreationally, discrimination that arises from its use, and how society evolves over the inventors life to incorporate this new way of existing. It’s so well written, and I think about it often.
There’s so many of his short stories I adore. Why’d he have to go and be such a fucking freak?
I still won’t throw them out though, they informed too much of my childhood and I’m too sentimental.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Right?! Absolutely fuck him. And her, for knowing and still sending girls to him. It absolutely pisses me off. He was so revered and his work is amazing. I’m down with separating the art from the artist for work you grew up and loved, keeping them, but I sure as shit wouldn’t spend any $ on his works now.
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Yep! Amanda Palmer is NOT a girl’s girl. She’s a trafficker like Maxwell, as far as I care. Never liked her music anyway 😂
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
maybe the ability to question our social norms in radical ways comes from the same place where his empathy should be
tho he has a close relationship with his partner and they do evil stuff together, maybe some of the ideas are hers
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I wouldn’t be surprised, I haven’t really ever liked her tbh. She comes across as a little sadist imo
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 months ago
get stuck into Pratchett. His worst sin was taking a bit to realise his position of privilege as a white male.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Burnt out today. Too much stuff happening the last week or so.
Having a chill the fuck out at home day.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I think you deserve a good chill out day. I’m sure Gibson will like having you around to hang out with too.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
🍵🫂
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I’m very glad to have an indoor day planned today. Grocery delivery is being dropped off this morning, so I’ll be doing some packing of things for the freezer and making another batch of breakfast muffins.
The top temp here (Ballarat) is only expected to be 10 degrees. The whole week ahead looks pretty miserable - the highest expected temp is 13 on Friday, and tomorrow is only expected to get to 9. Plus rain and possible hail.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I’ll be in the Rat for a wedding in a couple of weeks, not looking forward to how bloody cold it’ll be.
Enjoy your baking sesh!
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Nice, I wanted to get a larger Airscape cannister for my coffee but forgot to add one when I just got a bunch of filters from Alternative Brewing. This coffee place I like is doing a deal where you can get one shipped with the beans in it. Everything’s coming together
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 months ago
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 months ago
That looks delicious!!
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I was a bit disappointed that the ham I ordered was not available and they refunded me instead of giving me a different type of ham. But then the ham was in the order anyway, so now I’m very happy because I got free ham. It’s a total rollercoaster of emotions this morning!
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Now I’m picturing legs of ham sitting on rollercosters, thank you!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I can has lights in my office, electrician came to change all the fittings ( after months of waiting ) . Yay, no more SAD
TheFailedNinja@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Going in to the city for work today. We go in about once a month
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Lovely weather for it. Try not to get hailed on. 🥶
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
but it’s lovely and sunny out there 🌞
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Goodnight everyone
sweet dreams 😘
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
My mind is all stuck when it comes to the garden.
It needs unKAOSing.
learning to see chaos, to see it’s cause, and learning to wrest order and calm from orchestrated dysfunction has been difficult but worthwhile.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Time for some errands then a little gardening 🙂
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Hopefully your weather is a bit better than mine then, it’s freezing cold and raining this afternoon. I took out the compost bucket earlier and that’s as close to gardening as I’m coming today.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
a cold front just moved thru as I was getting home 15 minutes ago 🥶
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 months ago
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Had a long meeting get pushed back so it felt extra long. Great use of everyone’s time that you talk about what you’re going to do, just for everyone to get up and leave for the day
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Breakfast muffin assembly went well. I bought some ‘muffin top’ tins that are perfect for cooking eggs in the oven, and I can fit a dozen eggs and a tray of bacon in the oven at once. Assembly and wrapping is still a bit tedious, but I’ve now got a dozen breakfast muffins in the freezer with a lot less mess and effort than cooking in the pan took.
Now I just need to clean everything up, then vacuum pack all the meat I bought for the freezer.
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Mad flapping antsy nonsense after Body Corp AGM. Probably no huge weird bills, aside from water but that is another type of carp.
bacon@aussie.zone 2 months ago
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Flights are booked to visit cousin.
Pretty excited. Never been to Sydney before.
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Sydney disagrees with me. Or the other way round. I’m Blue mountains origin if heading that way, but a tourist site would be more recently updated.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Nice one!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
So happy for you. 😊😊😊