Melbourne

Big ups to @YarraByte and @Brionglorid for the bot's two week anniversary.

Had a pretty good day. Nice end to the week. Had some time to chat with the CEO which was good. He's really chill.

Guitar and rest tonight I think. I haven't been able to play most of the last 2 weeks because of my shoulder which has been pretty rough tbh.

Have rehearsal tomorrow so will do the best I can tonight.

Here is one of the newest additions to the stray family:

I AM ON HOLIDAY UNTIL THE 28th

When you're running late so you walk quickly to your seat on the bus, like that'll make it go faster lol

free noodles, free stew, free soup, free ice cream

i am beginning to think i am a cat

They just won't stop growing. This is my fourth harvest and I'm barely half way through and the harvested ones are still fruiting.

I think I may have went a tad too far this season. My tummy hurts.

This week can fuck right off. Work was super stressful. Time for icecream and beers

pfizer makes me feel like i am under the influence

tips for velveting meat for tonights stirfry?

Just grated a potato, soaked and rinsed it, stirred in some pakora batter powder then deep fried it till crunchy. Holy shit I need to be careful with this culinary heroin I've discovered.

EDIT: I've also made a mix of 50/50 bbq sauce / siracha which is pretty good too.

some pelicans fishing from some tin cans moored off the pier

One of my fave producers is comin' to town later in the month but they're hitting $115 per ticket.

Back in the day (2000's) it was $30/40 for a line up like that. in the EU something similar would be 20 euros.

Can't justify that coin when you're spending 1/2 the time in the smoking area talking rubbish with randos holding an $18 pint.

Australia is not a cheap place and I understand the cost pressures. Promoters won't be making bank (truly doing it for the love of it) but it's hard to see the scene thrive for internationals at that pricing.

Edit: OK I'm a lot more chill now. Yeah she threw away their food, because of her "spiritual beliefs". Where I feed them is not on her property.

I just think it's a vile thing to do.

I'm not stopping, and I'm not doing anything illegal. I'm ready for a confrontation.

The idea that someone's beliefs are more important than innocent creatures lives is repugnant to me.

I am home, and contemplating a visit to the pub

Billion dollar idea: Computer software that adjusts monitor output to people's glasses prescription - so they don't need to wear glasses while they're working/gaming etc. 🤔

OK so if work is making me give up my lunch break to go to someone's going away lunch, I think it's fair that I not have to pay.

Thoughts?

I had a Betty’s burger for lunch. Shit they are good.

The way our program is structured, in my new gig, Fridays tend to be quite busy. I've got like 4 meetings today and some serious work after lunch. Very unusual for me.

One neighbour doing gardening this morning. Fine it's a nice day.

Lunchtime, council is doing mowing grass maintenance around. Bit loud, but whatever.

As soon as they finished, old mate next door decided it's his turn.

I'm going to mow my lawn after work out of spite (and because it needs it).

Had two beers, and then two tequila mixes, fell asleep at like 9pm.

I'm impressed I woke up at 8am today 😂

So I bought something from an aussie supplier on ebay

I get a notice it's coming from china

so it was just a drop shipper

should I assume the seller has checked the product for safety? No. What would happen is I would be told to get a refund from paypal/ebay

I paid an extra $35 over what I could have paid on aliexpress

Melbcat is sleeping warm under the doona. I hope she lets me in!

I’ve seen electric blankets that are washable and am wondering if it’s worth buying one of those.

I woke up at like 6:30am today for some reason and got out of bed at 7:45 am. It is now nearly 3:45 pm and only NOW have I finally gotten a tiny bit started on that mindless desktop digitising stuff I was supposed to do for uni. I spent 15 minutes importing my field data and downloading a bunch of raster images and now I'm done. I'll do the next step over the weekend. I could laugh, but I'm just glad I finally broke through the inertia - the first layer is always so hard.

Now that I've done at least THAT much, my reward is a shower, the last of that delicious fish curry with pappadums, and then the finale of The Pitt! 🩺

is getting my flu shout and bringing the kid to get his a bad idea? I remember my parents trying something when I was a kid and it did NOT go well. But I was older and they didnt really talk to me about it.

I was just reading about a new law coming in for electric vehicles sold in Aus to have speakers that emit noise so that pedestrians will hear them. Good in theory. The catch is, each car maker can have custom noise, so of course they all want some special unique sound. I am already imagining the cacophony of clashing car noises. Lucky I don’t suffer from sensory issue but this could be a new form of hell for those that do. Oh, and the noise must be between 50-75db.

So I'm learning guitar from scratch with an app Yousician. It's been really helpful because it listens to what string/fret I'm playing and tells me whether it was right, sort of guitar hero-like. Step by step lessons. My dad bought me a year sub to the app so now I can't flake on practicing 😂

I hope that the walls of my apartment are thick enough and I'm not annoying the neighbours lol, we're all nice so I would hope they tell me knock it off. I think it's fine though: I can never heard my nextdoor neighbours, even when they have a dance party, unless I'm in the building hallway. Should be fine.

I need to take breaks though, I'm not used to holding my wrist in that particular way so I have to be careful not to strain it.

Flights back to the Oppressive Soup are booked. 9 nights. Would've preferred not to stay as long but due to multiple things that's the best option. Since my aunt was paying I got the max Jetstar bundle. So luxurious being able to pick any seat, including the special ones, without paying extra!

The other option was Scoot, which a friend (who does that route often) says is much more reliable. But the fact that you can't even get free water without paying the max amount (and only 1 cup at that!) and use of charging ports is also blocked except for that top tier (but use of power banks is banned in-flight) really rubs me the wrong way. Singapore may be efficient, but that penny-pinching mentality really shits me (the charging port is ALREADY THERE and electricity costs basically nothing! Wtf!)

I already am only doing this trip because I have to... I'd rather deal with Jetstar's inefficiency for now. Hopefully I don't regret it.

Most of the people I know there (and still have any interest in meeting up with) are away because of their PH, so it'll be mostly just me and my mum stuck in a dusty, noisy, humid and dark apartment 🫠 I'm going to be bothering colleagues on Teams and/or hanging out here to stay sane