RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☂️ Tuesday 2 June 2026 15 minutes ago:
I just noticed a meal in the work fridge that had inflated rather alarmingly. I checked the use by date and it was 11 May. I have moved it to the bin and may therefore have prevented a major biohazard disaster.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☂️ Tuesday 2 June 2026 3 hours ago:
I sneeze in bulk lots with no regard for where or when. Most people who know me have figured out it’s a bad idea to do the whole ‘bless you’ thing because it turns into a major long term commitment.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☂️ Tuesday 2 June 2026 5 hours ago:
Most of what I’ve seen of people in that age group are using it as an early retirement scheme. I saw a lot of discussion in one of the groups I was in with that cohort actively choosing to leave jobs so they could retire with a combination of welfare payments and using a portion of their Super.
Age/gender discrimination is definitely a problem, but allowing a couple of days of volunteer work instead of having to look for work (and a payment that is higher than younger unemployed people receive) seems a reasonable compromise to bridge the gap until aged pension age.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☂️ Tuesday 2 June 2026 7 hours ago:
Why?
- Submitted 19 hours ago to melbourne@aussie.zone | 49 comments
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦤 Monday 1st June 2026 19 hours ago:
Driving home from Melbourne was not fun. Lots of surface area for the wind to blow against with a van, it’s a nasty feeling when you are getting pushed side to side. I don’t know how the road trains go, they have lots more surface area but also a lot more weight to them.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦤 Monday 1st June 2026 1 day ago:
I picked a good day to be in Melbourne.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦤 Monday 1st June 2026 1 day ago:
That’s probably for the best. The Services Vic website is constantly crashing from the load, so it’s probably better to be blissfully ignorant for at least a few more days.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦤 Monday 1st June 2026 1 day ago:
It did seem to sneak in very quietly.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦤 Monday 1st June 2026 1 day ago:
Sleep eludes me tonight
- Submitted 1 day ago to melbourne@aussie.zone | 58 comments
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐏 Sunday 31 May 2026 1 day ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐏 Sunday 31 May 2026 1 day ago:
It’s a good day for fishes. I had whiting for my dinner.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐏 Sunday 31 May 2026 2 days ago:
It’s mostly just annoying me because I keep thinking there is a smear on the screen. I looked it up and this model is 10 years old, so I think I’ll be looking to replace soon anyway. I’m tossing up getting a 2 in 1 laptop instead of a tablet, but I’m really not sure if they are a good option or not. It would be nice to have the full programs available and I mostly use it at work & home, so don’t need it to be super portable.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐏 Sunday 31 May 2026 2 days ago:
Hmm, I think I have a hairline crack in my tablet’s screen . There is a very faint discolouration in a line and I can just barely feel it. It is getting on in years, maybe it is time to start planning a replacement.
- Comment on Saturday 🦙 30 May Discussion Thread 3 days ago:
That is a very impressive effort. You’d pay a personal trainer lots of money to make you work that hard, so you’ve saved money on two things.
- Comment on Saturday 🦙 30 May Discussion Thread 3 days ago:
The Goddess of Quanitity is smiling upon me today. The soup I made filled exactly the right number of jars to completely fill my canner (17 jars) with just enough left for a small bowl for entree.
It is a chicken & tomato soup, with lots of vegies, like zucchini and capsicum. A lot of the vegies are from my garden, including a few kilos of cooking tomatoes.
- Comment on Saturday 🦙 30 May Discussion Thread 3 days ago:
After many days of slothfulness after feeling a bit unwell I am back onto Doing Things.
A new veg box arrived yesterday, so I’m doing a final clearout of some of the older stuff. Primarily finishing off some soup and doing a tray bake of vegies for meals over the next few days at work. Plus I’ll do a few salads, for lunches and/or side dishes for dinners, depending on how much stuff I end up having.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Friday 29 May 2026 4 days ago:
I dreamed I was looking after a puppy. It must have been the night for good dreams.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Friday 29 May 2026 4 days ago:
You gotta watch out for those street gangs. You don’t want to get behind on your protection money or there’ll be trouble.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪀 Tuesday 26 May 2026 6 days ago:
You don’t do that sort of notice until after someone did something dumb, and you have to make sure the notice you put up is slightly obscure and not really helpful. Something like “microwaves are provided for heating up food items only. Thanks!!!”
Then people can get upset about how the sign is really obvious so it’s treating them like they’re stupid, then someone else can get upset because it says they can’t microwave their wheat bag and that’s discrimination because they use it for period cramps. After lots of outrage someone will decide you can eat wheat so technically it’s food so heating it is ok. Eventually after everyone is ignoring it anyway the sign will fall off and no one will notice.
At some point after that someone will try to dry their umbrella in the microwave and it will catch on fire, and when they get told off they will claim they had no way of knowing they shouldn’t because there was no sign saying not to.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪀 Tuesday 26 May 2026 1 week ago:
It would be a very strange time to be in any sort of finance/investment related role. Alternating between madness and veging out sounds like my normal work day, emergencies are always erratic.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏉 Monday 25 May 2026 1 week ago:
Feeling a bit bleh today. Generally flat, headache, upset stomach etc. Right at that ‘do I call in sick for work or not?’ line, which is really annoying because I tend to get really indecisive when I’m not feeling well. I’ve ended up erring on the side of caution and not going in. I think I’m right on the line where I’d go in for a day shift, but I’m not up for a night shift.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐧 Sunday 24 May 2026 1 week ago:
An optimised tool might do it better, but that would require taking the time to learn how to use a new tool. A spreadsheet lets you do things quickly with minimal learning curve, and the fact that you end up having to hold everything together with the digital equivalent of string and sticky tape just adds to the charm.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐧 Sunday 24 May 2026 1 week ago:
I worked at the council depot in Bellfield at the time they renamed that section. I’m quite sure the people who live there are going to be very insistent that it is definietly not Heidelberg West. Sort of like a teenager trying to pretend they aren’t related to their parents because they’re embarrassing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐧 Sunday 24 May 2026 1 week ago:
Nonsense. Spreadsheets are for everything.
Except maybe writing essays. But nearly everything.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥪 Saturday 23 May 2026 1 week ago:
That would be a good option. Especially as it probably dates back to the days before everyone was issued a wheelie bin.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥪 Saturday 23 May 2026 1 week ago:
I’ve had a look at a few other courts in the area - all of them have a pole in the same spot. It appears to be a deliberate design choice.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥪 Saturday 23 May 2026 1 week ago:
I was looking at some random streetview addresses today and have a serious question.
Who put a power pole **there?**
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Friday 22 May 2026 1 week ago:
Something sticky, please.
