Inner North Brewery, Wednesday 3pm ish. I will be having my birthday drinks. Whoever can come is invited :)
Working I'm afraid lovely!
Awww another time!
Thereās a guy I see here and there at the gym, he has an intellectual disability and a support worker who helps him load machines etc. Heās spoken to me a few times.
This group of teenage boys were staring at him working out on a machine (the form isnāt great but at least heās doing something while they just laugh at him and sit around on their phones barely doing any working out). And then they mocked the way he walked and all laughing at that. Disgusting behaviour to witness.
I have a soft spot for people who are doing their best despite their circumstances.
You're a better man than me, because I would have lost my cool.
Can you complain to the staff? That kind of thing can ~~border on~~ be harassment and put someone off coming to the gym (as well as being disgusting bully behaviour).
I'm with melba about reporting that stuff to the staff.
I was wrong. I've just tried the Aldi Madagascan vanilla white chocolate. It's legit good to eat. Far superior to anything Cadbury can come up with. Recommend (grrrrrrr).
Iām so mad all of them have milk. I still remember how good that chocolate is
I've decided to just take the bike on the train for April to save my legs. Takes about as long as riding on the bike the whole way, and seems to be about 9kms instead of the usual 15.
So glad I'm not paying for it, to only cover about a third of the trip and not be any faster
I used to ride Springvale to South Melbourne for work. I tried catching the train to Richmond, it was the same time either way.
That's quite the distance. Is there at least decent cycling infrastructure to and from?
I was keen on a Marketplace item. It wasnāt much, $20, despite its value being far more than that. Was scheduled to meet up to collect, but as it got closer to time, the seller took an hour to confirm their address (they kept saying they had bad phone signalā¦but Iām not sure what that has to do with en able to confirm your own address), and then switched it up from them being there, to needing to collect from someone else, whoās number I was given to call when I arrived.
As soon as I expressed concern, they got very defensive and angry. For me, thatās red flags all over so I noped out and blocked em.
Did I overreact? What would you folks do?
Marketplace is sketchy, trust your gut.
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I'm out at the slightest hint of dodgy. I'd rather over react and miss out on a few items that might have been legit than walk into a bad situation.
Sellers being reluctant to hand over an address in advance is one of my major red flags - I want to be able to check where I am going and let someone else know too. I've had sellers do this whole run around where they won't give you the street number until you say you are in the street. I've no idea how they think that's going to protect them from dodgy buyers, but I'm not following breadcrumbs to walk into a stranger's house. If people are not upfront I just don't deal with them.
People who are very pushy about wanting you to move off the sales platform and phone/text are also a red flag for me. Your phone number is important personal data that it's better to avoid giving out unnecesarily. Especially if you have Pay id linked to it, because then you are also giving out your real name.
Thank you. Yeah, I agree and this is really reassuring.
You did the right thing. The MIL was trying to sell something once and someone tried to pull the classic PayID scam saying their husband worked in the area and would be the one to come pick it up, this was on a Sunday in a suburb with nothing nearby.
Then they said they had trouble transferring money online and if the MIL PayID'd them $1000 this person would send back the money plus the difference.
Yeah, as soon as they introduce a third party, I get the wiggins.
Red Flags. Did not over react. If I had already paid I would be trying to get money back.
regarding the shady behaviour, $20 is not much money . š¤
Making chilli powder time.
Just need to remember to not touch eyeballs or no no bits for a few days (which invariably will happen).
I've done that before when working in hospo. Do not recommend lol
Dinner worked well tonight.
Pork casserole with apple and sage. The flavours all melded in together very nicely, and I have lots in the freezer for later too.
Did a local community radio interview late last night. Couldn't sleep after. Feel like trashhh. Rockin up to work an hour late. Gonna be a goood day...
Off to final interview. Of course it's replacement busses lol
Edit: Also have a band audition next weekend. Thank fuck they provided the guitar notation in advance.
Edit 2: interview went well. It's between me and 2 others. Will find out on Friday.
Went to Book of Mormon over the weekend. Itās a great show, so many laughs. The actor that played the sidekick (forgot the character name already) was absolutely brilliant.
Throwback to 5 years ago today
No..that will NOT be a sore throat starting.. noooo
Havenāt seen little man but checked the camera and he was hanging out on the back fence this morning. I wonder why he didnāt come round front.
Anyway itās good to know heās alright. Fingers crossed he can get his ringworm meds tonight as he wasnāt around to get them last night.
š¤ you are a good cat mum š«
Unfortunately not his mum š Just a neighbour who is watching out for his wellbeing.
"We don't deliver to parcel lockers"
Oh yeah? AusPost's in-transit redirection says otherwise.
Last day of my leave. I honestly havenāt got out of bed yet
Finally got Davinci Resolve, my beloved, working on the big Bazzite PC. It's workflow time
the sun was warm and I walked all the way into the next suburb
Oh and I tried out the Anko carpet shampooer. Itās not bad, I will warn you that it drinks up carpet shampoo fast as the small tank of solution doesnāt go very far.
Just to clean a short diagonal path where it was grubbiest and a few small areas next to it took two fills of the clean solution tank and two empties of the dirty tank. I used half the smallest recommended amount of cleaner on the second tank because that stuff is not cheap.
You can definitely get away with a smaller amount of cleaner and you may want to buy a bigger machine (Anko or not) if you want to do a whole area without constantly stopping to change the tank a bunch of times. I got the little one for price and storage considerations but itās probably easier as a spot cleaner for small sections.
Donāt set the clean tank on its side while finding the shampoo bottle as it can leak (soaking your carpet).
Itās also extremely loud. Screamingly loud. My ears were ringing.
But it pulled out a lot of dirt into the water and the spots I did look cleaner. Dried okay as far as I can tell.
It's hard work and LOUD
I have a system so I don't get the carpets too wet
do 3 passes with shampoo then go to another spot and do 3 passes there, then go back to the first as it's had a little time to soak and draw up the shampoo, I do at least 10 passes and very slowly to get as much water and dirt out as I can
I found a tank of water shampoo mix ( about 1.5 litres) will do about 1.5 m sq
sometimes I just do the walk in areas where the carpets are dustiest
awww yisss last of the shitty shitty mortar in the garage currently being ripped out, soon to have lovely new mortar put in and then we have a workshop and I can finally start building cabinets and the massive wrap around bookcase.
š aldi does not deliver to my area
Cat still hasnāt come around for his food and medicine. Not good, he needs to be getting a good amount of quality food in and has already missed one dose. Just did a blockie looking for the little poo
beach
Itās cold
Heater is on. Hoodie deployed. Porridge for breakfast.
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