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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Hey guys
I just wanted to let you know I will no longer be making the new thread at midnight. If I'm awake at that time I'll do it otherwise I'll be asleep like a normal person.
I have enjoyed steering this ship the last few months and I hope you laughed at least once at my stupidity. I guess this is my resignation letter. I look forward to going back to my regular bedtime.
Many thanks @[email protected] โฅ
I wondered when you would.
The rest was very welcome, thank you.
I did it because I'm a team player and I honestly got a kick out of sharing what popped into my head at midnight.
I was starting to get unexplained headaches and I've put it down to staying up way past my bedtime. I appreciate your thank you. โฅ
I was just too sick with sciatica for the last few months. I'm only just now nearly better. I can do it most evenings now.
Sciatica's a bitch.
If you can do the thread then do it but if you can't don't stress. The people here are very forgiving.
Thanks mate ๐ค maybe the bot can be resurrected one day.
You're welcome ๐ค
I miss him/her/them ๐ค
Depression is driving me crazy ๐ญ
I think being bed bound for 2 months did not help.
Rainy grey days too. Hugs. We are here.
I've figured out my next audiobook now that I've finished World War Z.
I'm going to try and work my way through Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. There's like 41 of them though and figuring out a reading order is pretty complicated. Peoples "guides" online are more suggestions than guides. One thing everyone agrees on though, even apparently Mr. Pratchett himself, is not to start at the beginning.
I've started with book #4, Mort. Which is the first in the "Death" sub-series. Like I said, it's complicated.
Also I found a site with a torrent of aaaaaall of the audiobooks which makes me very happy.
I hope you love them all. The Witches series was my favourite, my toddler is starting small, with "Where's my Cow?", but it's just as good as the rest of them.
Shout out to the homeless bloke screaming at me on my way to the station this morning. Just a great way to start the morning. Also love that after having a go at me for what ever imagined sin he calls out "help me" after I've walked off and ignored him. Yeaaaaah, not gonna do that dude. My empathy extends as far as not taking your crutch off you and belting you over the head with it.
This is so sad. It's like he had a moment of clarity .
He's angry at society ( and he has cause to be )
but he can only take it out on individuals, but then realises individuals are the only people who can help him .
Doesn't mean you should put up with it tho, he needs professional help.
I reckon more likely trying to manipulate me cause I'm pretty sure he insulted me for not helping him.
Bit chilly this morning. I had to put pants on. They have sloths on them. โบ
First morning in UGGs and trackies for me, this year.
Not gonna lie, I dig it.
I put the heater on because Bill had cold paws. ๐โโฌ๐พโ๏ธ
Thank you rubbish truck driver for knocking over my recycling bin. Always a pleasure being hunched over and gathering pieces of cardboard at 730 am.
Good think the recycle truck hasn't been around yet.
I'm 100% sure I'll regret this in a few months but right now the cold is really so welcome. I love not sweating!!
This sewing thing would go considerably faster if I could do any while the cats are awake. Pin thieving varmints!
Myki inspectors on 64 heading out of city along St Kilda Rd, now at commercial rd
I made a chocolate cherry cake this morning and have already eaten far too much of it.
I just ate an avocado that wasnโt unripe or overripe. That never happens !!! I should buy a lottery ticket right ?
my wife's super power is the ability always to pick perfectly ripe avocados
Haas? Then yes! For Shepard, I feel those are good for longer but I don't like them as much.
Another work person wanting something early this morning disturbing my personal time.
I'm a little irritated by it today and eating into my coffee time early in the moment.
I need to learn to deflect and defer them for later and to be able to tell them that in person.
Just remove the option of contacting you before hours. I have to take teams off my phone every couple of weeks for the same reason.
I went to this party the other day. There was this lady there that kept staring at me whenever she was near by and I was chatting to someone. I introduced myself but didn't get a chance to talk to her again that night.
I'm going to be in a group of people and she'll be there as well on the weekend.
Do you think it's worth trying to ask her out?
I know how this sounds but I missed a lot of this stuff growing up due to bad decisions.
I feel like a teenager with this stuff.
Yeh this weekend sounds like a good chance to actually get to chat to her a bit and get a bit of a feel of things. Then if it feels good absolutely ask her out :)
This week has been a lot more cruisey at work after getting through the backlog. Thank heavens for the school holidays. Go away everyone!
I was digging through my photos from Adelaide and found more angry warning signs. So continuing on from my Adelaide complaint thread a few weeks ago:
Being at a train station without intending to board a train is a $1,250 expiration notice, just like not buying your bike a ticket (their version of Myki is on the train, so the station isn't a ticketed area)
Standing too close to the driver door is a $750 expiration notice
Walking through carriages while the train is moving isn't just politely discouraged, it's also a $750 expiration notice
Notably though, they seem to have replaced all the cops with ambulance drivers and Wilton security lol. Only saw 1 cop car there, but about 100 Wilson security and about 1000 ambulances (that must be where all ours vanished to)
Don't forget about the mandatory $99 Victims of Crime surcharge on all penalties they have over there. So it's $1349.
The penalty for failing to vote in SA is $10, but with $99 in victim surcharge fees.
I have started watching suits. Only about 10 years too late. Itโs hard to find interesting shows that I donโt need to supplement with phone browsing.
My partner is watching the 3 Body Problem at the moment, truly some hard sci-fi. I want to but my attention span is dismally tiny. I'd be better off reading the books I reckon.
The bits I've seen indicate it is really good! Rare for me to stand there and read the subtitles for as long as I did haha!
I also like finding smaller YT channels (100k subs rather than 2mil subs) in niches that are interesting. There's a channel called Ants Canada thats made like a weekly serial about his HUGE terrarium ecosystem: he has a few different species of ants, mantis', lizards, spiders, crickets, etc and does introductions or culls (culls as in he accidently put in some vegetation that had fire ants and had to figure out how to get them out before they fucked the other animals). Anyway! It's good!
IDK what my point was... I just also have issues keeping my attention on a movie or show ugh
The 3 Body Problem trilogy books are far superior to the show. Recommended reading for any sci-fi enjoyer.
That does tend to be the case with books adapted to TV/film. Looking at you, Eragon and ATLA.
Tangent: LOTR is the exception imo, Peter Jackson and crew did a great job in adapting a fictional history tome into a movie. Getting rid of Tom Bombadil was a good move, despite him being so cool in the book.
I'll have to pick the books up and give them a read, I liked what little I saw in Wikipedia. Thank you!!
