Alamutjones
@Alamutjones@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🚜 Friday 2 October 2026 3 hours ago:
Some unfortunate personal news just now. Shit
- Comment on Discussion Thread ⛵ Wednesday 30 September 2026 2 days ago:
Last day of leave.
I have some appointments today and a few apartments to see
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☎️ Sunday 27 September 2026 4 days ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☎️ Sunday 27 September 2026 5 days ago:
Out and about in the sun today
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 21 September 2026 1 week ago:
The discourse around the Israel-Palestine thing has reached a very specific nadir.
I got harangued by strangers while I was out because my mobility scooter is an Israeli brand.
I get it. I do. But there aren’t that many alternatives for mobility aids that actually do what I need them to do. Please do not shout at me for using the scooter I’ve owned for ten years.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 21 September 2026 1 week ago:
This is a super intriguing series. There’s also a TV adaptation with a banging soundtrack
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍎 Sunday 20 September 2026 1 week ago:
I just had my veg guy step in to pull me out of the fridge. Apparently the extent of my blergh is visible from the other side of the shop
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Saturday 19 September 2026 1 week ago:
The sun is shining, flowers are coming and I’ve just had a very productive conversation with my folks about the house hunt, their expectations, my expectations and so on.
The hunt is back on. We can coexist. There’s some context I didn’t have before which I now do, and things make a lot more sense.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎒 Friday 18 September 2026 1 week ago:
No, but the floodgates in my sinuses opened. Just what I wanted
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎒 Friday 18 September 2026 1 week ago:
That was bracing 🌶️🔥
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎒 Friday 18 September 2026 1 week ago:
I have very high tolerance for spice, so I often request properly spicy. Right now it’s medicine
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎒 Friday 18 September 2026 1 week ago:
I’m about to head out for some Thai food, in the vague hope that I can nuke my sinuses with chilli and holy basil
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎒 Friday 18 September 2026 1 week ago:
I lived. Ten days of time off begins…now
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎒 Friday 18 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
All I have to do is get through today
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧀 Thursday 17 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
I survived work.
I’m going to do my Duolingo and have some soup, and then I’m going to bed
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧀 Thursday 17 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
I would very much like a nap
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧀 Thursday 17 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
Oh shit. I’m so sorry
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧀 Thursday 17 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
The snottening continues. Ugh
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 16 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, I’ve got cotton buds. I’ll get some cotton pads
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 16 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
I have, in a burst of productivity, redone my first aid kit.
Thrown out the old/borderline expired stuff, added some items for the kind of incidents I know I have and so on. I have
- 1x pair nitrile gloves, for dealing with anyone else’s mess if need be
- 2x alcohol disinfectant wipes
- 1x roll strapping tape
- 1x gauze dressing pad
- 1x small bottle of Betadine
- 1x box GOOD bandaids
- 1x small roll Hydralyte tabs (5 doses) for the “I’ve been pukey, now dehydrated AF” experience
- 1x box Panadol
- 1x tube aloe vera gel for burns
- 1x pack throat lozenges, my preferred
- 1x pair tweezers
- 1x pair scissors
- 1x eye drop guide thingy. I hate putting drops in, I flinch away if anything gets too near my eyes, but if I put this over the neck of an eye-drop bottle it’s less of an issue. I’ve had it for years, but now it’s in a known spot
- 1x thermometer
Please weigh in, DT? Have I forgotten anything, or put something redundant in?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 16 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
Fortunately I booked leave for next week BEFORE I got sick, so if I can get through Friday I have ten days to put myself right
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 16 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
Between Monday and today I have slid VERY quickly into the snot apocalypse. I feel sick 😫
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 16 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
Chef,can I have some honey and lemon?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🔮 Tuesday 15 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
I have rewarded myself for a challenging day with iced-vovo gelato.
I’m going to turn my brain off
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🔮 Tuesday 15 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
You’ve done everything you can to keep her safe, but if you have to withdraw for your own sake then you’re right to do so
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🔮 Tuesday 15 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had some acknowledgement they got overexcited. We MAY be able to discuss the issue
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Monday 14 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
West Melbourne and North Melbourne are areas I was already looking under the original plan - rhe most recent frontrunner for me when I thought I was doing a guest room was a two bedroom we’d viewed in West Melbourne. I’d be willing to live there. Happily so
I’d consider Docklands, but hadn’t previously been looking there. The idea got nixed under the original plan because Docklands apartments tend to have quite small bedrooms (which didn’t suit my parents). If it’s just me, I may look again.
I work in the CBD (Spring St area) as well as currently living here, so I WOULD like to stay within the “can get into the centre quickly” kind of range. Being in the middle opens up a LOT of autonomy and independence for me. I like the area very much, I just don’t like my current neighbours!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Monday 14 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
I will never be able to afford the kind of home I want.
That was the appeal of it for me. The extra money meant I could stretch to “a comfortable apartment” rather than “a student shitbox with no kitchen or natural light”
I thought provision and use of a guest room was a fair exchange for being able to buy and live in something nicer. So I agreed…
…but it’s not a guest room.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Monday 14 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
They have a guest room which I use.
My understanding of what I was providing them came largely from what they provide me - the guest room they set up has their art on the walls and a few useful items (a small ladder etc) in the wardrobe, which is about the level of use I imagined.
I imagined some bookshelves and a chair in one corner so I could sit in there and read. That’s all.
I didn’t want to LIVE in it. I’d have a perfectly good bedroom and bathroom of my own. I just want to be able to put some of my more neutral belongings in it, so the space isn’t completely useless to me when they’re not present to use it.
Apparently that was not the agreement. I was explicitly told “it’s not a guest room. We don’t want your art or your books in our space”
…which is quite different to what I understood the situation to be.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Monday 14 September 2026 2 weeks ago:
It’s my fault. I didn’t understand the offer, but assumed I knew.
That’s on me
