RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👨💻 Sunday, 19 January, 2025 1 day ago:
40/50
There was a lot more guesswork than knowledge involved
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👨💻 Sunday, 19 January, 2025 2 days ago:
I survived day 1 back at work and am back for another day today. It is nice just being off the couch. The next challenge will be getting back on top of the housework and things that I’ve been letting slide for the last couple of weeks. I was a bit displeased with past me who decided to put off filling the car with petrol which meant I had to do that yesterday.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍝🍟🌭 Friday, 17 January, 2025 4 days ago:
It’s been nearly two weeks since covid and I’m back to work tomorrow. I don’t feel too bad until I try to do anything, then I get tired out really quickly. At this stage I’m not sure if it’s because I am still unwell or just the result of having not done anything for ages. I also have a lingering cough, hopefully having to talk lots at work won’t trigger that. My job is about 50% talking, so if I can’t do that without coughing it will be an issue.
I also have lots of life admin slowly piling up, and have had to reschedule a few appointments. I did just finish a week with an activity tracker for the study I am taking part in - they will log a distinct lack of activity for me this week.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐬🦭🦈 Friday, 10 January, 2025 1 week ago:
The other forks are the unclean pet food forks. They do not mix.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐬🦭🦈 Friday, 10 January, 2025 1 week ago:
I see all your kitchen drawers and I’ll raise you a cutlery shelf
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐬🦭🦈 Friday, 10 January, 2025 1 week ago:
If my signature is written correctly it’s a sure sign of a forgery.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐬🦭🦈 Friday, 10 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Quitting is hard. Every attempt teaches us something we can use for the next attempt, eventually you hit on the right thing that works for you.
Just don’t use my Dad’s method. He tried to quit once. It didn’t work, so instead of trying again he just pretended he didn’t smoke and spent years furtively sneaking off to smoke and buy cigarettes like a teenager. He somehow seemed to fool himself into thinking no one knew, even though it was incredibly obvious. It was bizarre, and meant that when he was finally forced to quit (when he was physically incapable of accessing cigarettes on his own) he had to go through the withdrawal alone and unsupported because he still couldn’t admit he had been smoking the whole time.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐬🦭🦈 Friday, 10 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Welcome to the DT sick club. I hope you will be a member for as short a time as possible.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐬🦭🦈 Friday, 10 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Midnight house alarm activated over the road. Just what I need.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚏 Thursday, 9 January, 2025 1 week ago:
I’ve always behind on trends.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚏 Thursday, 9 January, 2025 1 week ago:
It’s been a bit surprising, especially as I have worked the whole way through in an office with many people. I don’t know if this is work’s fault or my brother in law though - he was sick with covid at Christmas, ,which puts it right at the extreme long end of the possible incubation timeframes.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚏 Thursday, 9 January, 2025 1 week ago:
The RAT finally arrived, and the results are in. I am officially out of the never-had-covid club.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚏 Thursday, 9 January, 2025 1 week ago:
I could send a dozen of mine. May come with a side order of Plague.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚏 Thursday, 9 January, 2025 1 week ago:
There has been a lot of stuff going around at work, so it could be anything. If I get another covid negative I can at least absolve my brother in law from blame (he had covid at christmas, right at the very edge of transmission timeframe but still possible). It would also mean I could stay in the never-had-covid club.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚏 Thursday, 9 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Dr Google told me as I was no longer feverish light exercise should be ok and may even help improve breathing. So I took Mr Woof to the end of the block and back. That was not a great idea, I’m now exhausted.
I have ordered some RATs that cover covid and flu that should arrive today. Hopefully I will then have something to officially blame. Unspecified plague is just unsatisfying. I did do a covid RAT on Sunday which was negative, but I think it is time for a second opinion.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚏 Thursday, 9 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Put a handfull of raw rice inside and a little bit of vinegar, then shake the bottle. The rice works to scrub the bottle clean. You sometimes have to rinse out a few times to get all the rice grains back out, but it works really well.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
I thought the night flu tabs would help me sleep, but they didn’t. I’d really like to sleep but can’t get comfortable ☹️
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
I have made good progress today. I acquired good drugs, managed to spend all day sitting up and even managed a proper breakfast and lunch. Dinner was an iced bun from the freezer, but two outa three ain’t bad. I even managed a shower and brushing my teeth. Tomorrow I might even feel well enough to floss!
Mr Woof is definitely hoping the progress continues, he has a physical therapy program worked out involving many walkies that he wants me starting ASAP
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Something with lots of car crashes to make you appreciate the value of your insurance more?
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Yep. The other one I always loved was being expected to get a medical certificate for sick leave. When you are actually sick that can be extremely difficult and often counterproductive. Fortunately I only need a stat dec these days, but I do have a written warning on file for taking sick leave without a certificate before. Because obviously if I’m too sick to work I’m perfectly capable of getting myself to the doctor’s to the doctors to fill out some paperwork.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
I thought that was the case too, but there must be some sort of loophole because I have pseudoephedrine.
I was surprised to be able to get it, and also relieved because going to the chemist in person is both beyond my current capabilities and also not great for the community given I probably have Flu and it would be better not to spread it around.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Most go into breakfasts, unless I go on a custard binge. They are very fresh and last for a long time.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
eggs or drugs?
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Gippsland Eggs, buy 2 trays of 30 and you can get free delivery!
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
I received an order of 5 dozen on Friday. I had no idea there was a shortage until I saw it here.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Using the mighty power of drugs I have arisen from the couch and successfully made breakfast. It was on easy mode as I meal prepped most of it in anticipation of work Mon & Tues, but it still involved cooking eggs so I count it as an achievement.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
I’ve just made my first UberEats order in years: Cold and flu tablets should be here shortly. Expensive, but the chances of me getting myself to the chemist are pretty much nil at this point.
It is frustrating trying to wade through all of the different products and figure out what anything is, you have to look at the ingredients for everything. It would be nice if that information was at least more prominent, instead of an afterthought behind branding. At the very least real drugs and herbal remadies should be easy to pick apart.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 Tuesday, 7 January, 2025 1 week ago:
I don’t understand this chips in fridge thing. You open chips, eat all the chips, throw away bag. What is there to put a clip on and refrigerate?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 Tuesday, 7 January, 2025 1 week ago:
In a vast improvement on yesterday I have managed the whole day out of bed. It’s mostly been lying on the couch, but still an improvement. Dr Meow applied a purr poltice and I’m thinking I might even have enough energy to make some dinner.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 Tuesday, 7 January, 2025 1 week ago:
All the toxic chemicals they are exposed to, turns them into plastic.
