SETTLEMENT COMPLETED
I fucking now own a house
kermit arms
Welcome to the club. Get reading to spend whatever is left of your savings at bunnings Edit: OH! And sorry, just a heads up. At least 2 of the following will fail in the next 12 months. No your house is not cursed. No one can explain WHY it happens: Hotplates, Hot water unit, Oven, Dishwasher, or a shower leak.
Congrats! All that stress and anxiety over the process has paid off.
Congrats 🎉🥂🍾
Hi everyone, long time no see :-)
I've been absent for a bit - I think I crashed a bit after Covid, but I am alive and well and getting back on track.
Alright references are about to be completed.
🎶Re-sig-nation time, COME ON!
🎵do do do-do-do
🎶It's time for a resignation!
Are you resigned to your fate?
🎶 so shove your bad times and your workload too🖕🎶
Come onnnnnnnnnn!!! My fingers, toes and eyes are crossed here!!!
Yay, you're nearly there!
Woop woop!!
Congratulations!! I'm waiting for my offer shortly as well. Referees did their bit yesterday.
gonna do it to their face? Or send an email and wait for them to come over?
Got some crap news last night.
Very Sad don't read if your not up to it
The animal rescue reached out to us the other week to ask if we'd noticed anything wrong with Jill (the rescue kitten). Apparently she had some balance issues or trouble using a back leg. We were sort of steeling ourselves that she might come back to us (we told them if she had any trouble finding a home she was always welcome with us.) They were talking her to the vet to get checked over.
We hadn't heard anything so followed up yesterday only to find she didnt make it. She passed shortly after we spoke to them the other week. They dont know exactly what was wrong, but she apparently had some issues. We are shattered. She wasnt even our cat but..... fuck man. just.... fuck.
You gave her the best you could mate. I'm sorry to hear what's happened ❤️
Oh that is so sad. Many many hugs. I've been watching their lists waiting for her to pop up! But she had warmth, comfort, food and peace which she would not have had without you.
same! I even set up a damn facebook again. I was so excited seeing those guys adopted last week but was starting to get a bit worried. I thought maybe they'd renamed her or something. but yeah. Guess we were her last home.
Sorry to hear that 🫂
I’m sorry. You did the best you could. You took her in and kept her safe, gave her a chance she wouldn’t have otherwise had. She passed warm and safe while being cared for.
That's so sad. I'm so sorry.
So sorry. Such a massive hurt when you try to do the right thing and it still goes pear-shaped. Hugs for all concerned.
Oh man. Should not have read. Much sympathy 🖤
I love when the government calls on a private number and asks me to confirm my name, DOB, address, etc. "Absolutely not, I have no way of confirming who you are". They seem shaken by the response. Given their atrocious security protocol there's no way I'm giving a private number any of that info.
kinda sad Geoffrey the dog update but cute pic of dogs enclosed
He has more purple lumps. He has also lost quite a bit of weight and isn't eating much. Also also vomiting bile. Lacks energy. His liver function wasn't too good a couple of weeks ago.
The vet were going to do surgery today to remove the lumps, but the last lump was quite expensive to remove. Multiply that amount by eight lumps and my aunt could not afford it.
So they called my aunt and they didn't do the surgery because they think something underlying is going on. He will be getting a blood test today and then an ultrasound when the consultant can come come in.
That's him on the right with my aunt's other dog
I got a bit more news. For the morbidly curious I guess.
More Sad Stuff
turns out she had too many genetic faults, Nothing anyone could have done. She wasnt in pain.
Thank Christ. I was terrified her previous owner had abused her or we'd failed her in some way.
The rescue wont tell us what the vet bill costs so they are just getting a donation in her memory.
I'm glad you know the cause and know that you did your best for the little soul.
yeah I makes it a lot more tolerable that she always had a finite amount of time and all that could be done was done. makes the time we spent all the more precious.
Sounds like you gave a kitty with a pre-set bad life a few moments of kindness.
That’s rough. Poor little girl. At least she was receiving care and indoors. For the short time she had she was fed and loved
Sitting in a new area at work and people are super friendly.
My usual grumpy self is suffering silently but somehow enjoying this.
"Have a nice day"
"Don't tell me what to do!"
Morning y’all
Enjoy your last sub-25C day for a while! 🌞
Tonight's wave with a bonus drop on the lens.
Completely empty beach again.
Sup insomnia gang 🛏️
I'm personally part of the waking up in the middle of the night gang 🤟
Thank you Melb for posting today's thread. 😘
Good night everyone, sweet dreams
cheers
Had a long day so broke my 2025 rule of no grog on a weeknight and shouted myself a little wine and hour looking at the waves. Such a beautiful evening
The toilet paper nest is a platform for attacks lol
Made it down the bellarine today. Had a subsurface leak last Monday (blehg) so all the watering was off. Good thing I did go as the chillies were looking a bit sad. But interestingly the patio flowers didn't flinch.
Was expecting worse than that.
Now that it's after lunch, it would appear everyone had fucked off for the day.
I might join them.
I went to a talk about the food and beverage industry this morning. The topic of these things is always AI, and the people who hype it the most feel like people who understand it the least.
There was one example that was quite useful, but it technically falls under machine learning. However, a lot of machine learning has been rebranded as AI because that's the hot thing at the moment.
I have rediscovered Legend from 1985. Ridley Scott, Tom Cruise, Tim Curry, and an unimaginable quantity of glitter thrown at wind machines. 3/5 unicorn farts
Alrighty. The 2nd referee was just over to catch up and has completed his part of the form.
Let's see what happens. I was worried that letting him use my computer to do the reference check might put up some red flags but we'll see what happens.
I can’t settle to work this morning
Changing guitar strings around Gibson is fraught with danger for everyone involved
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