Melbourne

I'll be offline this week, on a cruise to Tasmania.

Sky pretty

Not my f’ing day.

Just spilt my entire dinner on the god damn carpet and had to do a massive cleanup and remaking dinner again as all of it had to be tossed out.

It’s the last thing I need right now!

Stand-up meetings, where everyone is in fact sitting down and it goes for almost an hour, a very crappy way to start the week.

Also this annoying brown-noser type person at my work took it upon themselves to run the meeting and they called me out on screen and asked me how my weekend was. I said it was fine and asked how theirs was, their response to my lack of information was "wow it's like talking to a teenager". Fuck off. If I don't want to regail all of the staff about what I did on the weekend like you do, then that's my decision to make.

I am eating chicken nuggets!!!! I can not taste them and they are probably a terrible choice for my first solid food, but chicken nuggets!!!

It's been a long-ass day, so many calls,
So many people staring at their walls,
Calling us to do some dirty, hard work.

I'm trying so hard to talk to them all,
Tell them we'll pick them up when they fall,
I start at 10am, it's the only real perk.

I tell myself I'm not burning out,
It's just a busy period,
It's what this job is all about,
I tell myself I'm not burning out,
It's just a busy period,
I'm just a bit worn out.

The press fawning over "our" Queen Mary is really cringe and gross. She got married so what. She didn't invent the cure for cancer. Australia isn't special, deal with it.

I made a post on Facebook mentioning I had some time off and now Facebook is suggesting I start a chat group to plan a meetup. All of these "smart" AI/algorithms are really starting to be annoying - it's like having an idiot friend around who constantly misses the point of things. Instead of adding value like it's supposed to, most of the time it just takes up time and distracts you pointlessly.

I've made a new post named Tucker Time on [email protected] replacing What's for dinner? That way you can post about your breakfast, lunch, dinner etc.

It would be great if you could contribute unless of course if you live on air. Thank you.

There's a whole lot of earth moving going on out the back of mine and the reverse noise on one of the bits of equipment sounds like a huge wattle bird and the resident magpies are freaking the fuck out. Just standing there on the lawn staring at this excavator probably regretting the little feud they have going on (with the real wattle birds).

PSA: I've lost some photos. Partly my fault, partly computers dying. Anyway right now I had 3 or 4 repositories or backups, most duplicated, but I only discovered recently that at some point something corrupted and I lost some priceless photos. Spent 3 weeks digging through old storage to find a backup and luckily, I found a VERY old SD card that contains them. Its a miracle that it survived this long. I nearly cried tears of joy. Anyway, if you don't have a good backup solution? Go make one. Right bloody now!

I'm also open to suggestions for management/organization of photos. Right now im across iCloud for recent stuff, Dropbox for last gen stuff, and then google drive for older than that stuff. And its just chaos!

I found a really good minimalist keyboard https://github.com/dkter/aaaaa

i got stuck into some sorting and decluttering today, and decided to pull out a bunch of stuff for hard rubbish. I went to book it in and apparently the collection people are taking a Christmas break and there are no collections until February. Oops.

it's a toss-up in my household as to who sucks more: Colesworth or Australia Post.

At least colesworth deliver, I guess...

So sore and tired , no cooking, I'm having gyoza for dinner 🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🌶️

My friend and I were chatting outside a cafe when a Bogan looking human riding on a scooter passed us saying "🙄fucking Asians". 😂

I don't think I belong in that category but I'll take it. She was def looking for a reaction and I gave her none and she just left. This was my first openly racist comment in 4 years, not bad!

Cats are weird and full of surprises. I got a pot plant off the footpath, a bromeliad in flower, it has nice pink and purple spikes. Ted Cat loves it!! He's playing with leaves, hiding under and behind it, sniffing it all over. He's very cute. 😺 He is now half asleep on the sofa pooped out.

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Been applying for a few jobs recently and actually getting calls (interviews lined up for next week). One in particular is fairly senior and not related to what I've done (can argue that my experience is transferable) and the manager I spoke to is very keen to interview me.

Might have to do some sleuthing to find out more about the team and culture in the place.

Work goes so much faster when you have something genuinely interesting to investigate. Accidentally stayed late, I never do that!

Rental car (from my insurance) sorted.
I asked for a small car and got a Mitsubishi SUV (not sure what model, no badges on the outside).
Annoyingly, I can't get it to sync with my phone via bluetooth so I'll have to use Android Auto and plug it in via USB, which means no Deezer. Sigh.
Driving it has been... a learning curve, especially when I hit three red lights in two minutes. Ah well.

Just watched my elderly neighbour reverse into his mailbox. Barely any damage, but I just know he'll spend the next 3 days 'fixing' it loudly with every power tool he owns.

I bought a watering can from coles. I don't have anything to water but when I do I will be prepared.

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I have encountered the most saddest Apple strudel.

The pastry was so thick and claggy… I could only eat the filling.

I am caretaker free today, so I am donning a mask and gloves and taking care of myself. I am very curious to see how I go considering I'm going to attempt quite a few chores today.

My mouth and throat feel good today so I might have a go at some scrambled egg or something as well, exciting times!

Someone on reddit Melbourne dt can't log in to aussie.zone using Firefox. I don't know what this means. Maybe someone here can help.

Why can't I login to this using Firefox anymore? very annoying

I just put my shower curtain liner in the washing machine, and it made me wonder how many people actually have shower curtains and not glass panels these days. I suspect it is an ever-dwindling number.