danwritesbooks
@danwritesbooks@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦕 Tuesday 8 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
It’s plaster. And just posters and other paper stuff. Nothing heavy.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦕 Tuesday 8 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
Own
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦕 Tuesday 8 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
Getting my daughters room painted tomorrow. Any advice on what to use to hang pictures, etc on the wall? I want to avoid using blue tack or anything that could pull paint like it has this time around?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Thursday 3 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
Some of you know I write books. And I write spooky stories for kids. These stories are set in Tasmania. I have written 7 books in the series over the past 3 or so years.
Why is it only now I have thought up the story idea titled “How I got my Second Head?”
Staring at me this whole time.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Thursday 3 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
We know all about you, Steve.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Thursday 3 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
backwards? Head in the sleeve? Upside down?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 2 July 2025 4 weeks ago:
They’re releasing a new dummy based on the OG Slappy. Definitely adding it to my collection.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 2 July 2025 4 weeks ago:
It’s actually working out quite well for me. At least so far. I’ll stick with it and see how it goes.
Having it on my phone is also helpful. Especially when I do placements and need to think up quick games or just reminders about techniques and strategies I will no doubt forget in the moment.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 2 July 2025 4 weeks ago:
I put on a goosebumps 90s episode last night to watch with little one and man the 90s melancholy/nostalgia/wistfulness hit me so hard. Oh to be able to go back to that time.
Oh a side note, I love how Slappy scares my 9 year old. She talks tough about not being scared of anything, but as soon as Slappy moves his head she’s clinging to me like she’s about to fall off a mountain lol.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 2 July 2025 4 weeks ago:
Will take a look. Thank you.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Tuesday 1 July 2025 4 weeks ago:
Worth it in the end :)
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 2 July 2025 4 weeks ago:
I’ve created a kind of cheat sheet for uni with references to advice I’ve read, teaching theories etc. I was using a google sheets spreadsheet for it but dot points and images aren’t formatting properly for my liking.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a cloud-based note taking option? I am about to try OneNote but thought Id see if there are other options too.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Tuesday 1 July 2025 4 weeks ago:
Thanks! What are you studying?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Tuesday 1 July 2025 4 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Tuesday 1 July 2025 4 weeks ago:
Thank you! I don’t know how, probably because they give them out like lollypops, but I am on HD streak of 7 so far.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Tuesday 1 July 2025 4 weeks ago:
Uni results day today.
I passed my placement - yay.
HD on my final assignment in one unit - w00t.
Still waiting on the results for the other unit. I dunno why the first 2 released at 9am and this one is taking ages.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏉 Friday 27 June 4 weeks ago:
Totally forgot about static ice.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏉 Friday 27 June 4 weeks ago:
I had carpets removed and floorboards put in and it left a little gap behind the fireplace. A tiny mouse came in while I was watching TV and then went back (so I found the hole). I plugged it up with steel wool and expansion foam. Then I also finally set up my sub woofer. My house shakes anytime something with bass goes on. I’m hoping it scares them off as well.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏉 Friday 27 June 4 weeks ago:
Woohoo!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏉 Friday 27 June 4 weeks ago:
Looking to get another HDD for my NAS. Same as the last one I got (16tb iron wolf). My god, the price jump. It’s almost double in price from when I bought the first one.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪀 Thursday 26th June 4 weeks ago:
For real. I expected him to be ok with it, but the whole dont worry about AL thing was just completely out of left field. Relieves a lot of stress.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪀 Thursday 26th June 4 weeks ago:
I told my boss about my studying (complete career change) and how I would be leaving at some point. Told him about my last lot of annual leave was for my placements and I’d have enough leave for my next placement but after that I’d probably have to leave.
His response was: Don’t worry about taking leave for it. We’ll work something out.
I was umming and uhhing for months on whether I should tell him or not and decided yesterday to do it because it would then force me to decide how to approach studying/working instead of worrying about it. That went a whole lot better than I expected.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧋 Tuesday 17 June 2025 1 month ago:
I know I should get over it, but do you think it’s ‘ok’ to be miffed about donating something to someone and not even getting a thank you in return?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧋 Tuesday 17 June 2025 1 month ago:
The dream somehow turns into action movie about guitarist saving a country from some kind of chemical warfare.
Desperado in Australia. I’m down for this.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍕 Thursday 12 June 2025 1 month ago:
How is it I started work at 9, I’ve been here 18 hours, yet it’s not even 1:30? (Today is going soooo slooooow)
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐢 Wednesday 11 June 2025 1 month ago:
Mainly just work and uni and placement and writing and just trying to have a non-tech life at times. Too many irons in the fire.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐢 Wednesday 11 June 2025 1 month ago:
Howdy all.
I have not been here for a long long time. Life has certainly got in the way of everything.
Hope you are all doing well and life has been good.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐢 Wednesday 11 June 2025 1 month ago:
I got into westerns a few years back as well. I even wrote some western short stories set in Tasmania and have a couple more planned.
The 2010 remake of True Grit is fantastic. Hailey Steinfeld was amazing in it. High Noon is a movie you have to add to your list. It’s my favourite western (and top 3 overall movie for me. Funnily enough, Out of Sight is top 3 for me too and that’s a Elmore Leonard novel - add that to your Leonard novel reading list).
Anything Clint Eastwood western is going to be good. Justified TV show for a neo-western (also based on Elmore Leonard). They adapted Get Shorty into a TV series too which was pretty good.
Jackie Brown is based off Rum Punch.
The Tall T, 3:10 to Yuma are westerns based off a Leonard short stories too.
Honestly, you are spoiled for choice with Elmore Leonard and westerns/adaptions.
- Comment on Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 4 March 2025 4 months ago:
I loathe them. The revving, the constant rumble, it grates on me to the point I might turn into a mindless murderer. We have a guy who uses it almost daily at work, and just lets it idle and…urgh.
- Comment on Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 4 March 2025 4 months ago:
After an almost 2 month wait I got my final 2 assignment results back from last teaching period.
I was pretty certain I nailed one and the other I was iffy about.
The one I nailed, I “only” got an 82. Which is good and I am happy about but I thought I would have done better.
The one I was iffy about, 90. Now that I am chuffed about.