Daily Discussion Thread: 🧦 Mon 22 Jan 2024

Proud of myself! I've been craving fish & chips, but it's getting to the stage where it's costing over $100 for the five of us! And sometimes it's not that great. So after work I bought some fish from the local market. I bought school shark because it seemed like a good price and gave me sufficient quantity to have a couple of attempts if I messed up, but everyone loved it! It was a huge success! I've always been a bit scared to do it because I'm not 100% on what to do and was afraid I'd screw it up. So I looked up wikiHow, lol. My chips were tasty, the fish was delish and it cost me $20, which is a massive saving. This is a big thing for me!

A candy/fry thermometer can be used to keep frying oil at heart friendly temperatures. Burned oil isn't the best choice for health.
- I'm pretty careful with my oil (I do homemade chicken nugs quite regularly) but a thermometer might be a good idea, take out the guesswork. Actually while browsing Bunnings I came across this and I quite like it
awesome 😊

Started a new antidepressant today. Haven't been on one before so I'm curious to see what happens.

I do hope it does something. I'd hate to go on the medication merry go round to find something effective.

Good luck. It can take a while to adjust. I found the serotonin based ones work fast for me (lucky I guess) but I always feel wonky and a bit sedated for a while, while I get used to having a quiet brain. If they work they are a game changer. Fingers crossed you are in that bucket
many hugs,
Fingers crossed for you. Been there, had awful side effects and none worked. SNRI landed me in emergency ☹️
The one that works for me is desvenlafaxine/Pristiq - it'll take a bit of time to work, but be patient and if you feel really off or even a bit suicidal, please talk to your doc asap.

Good luck, friend!
- I disliked Pristiq, some of the side effects never went away for me.
  
  I'd still strongly encourage people try it though as it got me through a really rough time and I'm truly grateful for that.
  
  If I needed something again it would be my first choice.
Good luck, and do reach out if you need any interwebs support ❤️

As you can see a few of us have been in your shoes from a medication perspective before.

Just got hacked at work. Can't do emails, ordinary work or access the accounts program. Up to date on everything else. They were pretending to be Windows Defender.
Twiddle thumbs afternoon coming up. Ho hum.

Uh oh. They get even the most vigilant. And that’s only the stuff we hear about.

Anyhoo, how have you been?
- Hanging on in there. How you?
They were pretending to be Windows Defender.

I've recently has someone pretend to be Norton

Update on the new meds: I actually feel great. It's called Wellbutrin and apparently is used to quit smoking (bonus!) and for weight loss also (2nd bonus). I just feel kind of motivated? And have a lot more energy.

Early days yet, so we'll see.

Am bored at work, so here is dad joke for Monday - A Grandfather tells his Grandson, “When I was a boy, you could go into a store with coins in your pocket and come out with a loaf of bread, lunch and a bottle of milk.” The Grandson replies, “You can’t do that anymore Grandpa, there’s too many cameras now“.

dad joke

that’s a dad’s dad joke

I don't normally post things like this. To the old lady in that big mf ute thing, who took 7 goes and 2 different parking spots to reverse park and could barely see over the steering wheel jfc. Go park down the back.

or get a Barina.
- I'd joke and say she's probably got a Barina in the back, but the trays on those things are shorter than a bloody Falcon ute, so they're useless even in that regard.
  
  (Let the hate commence)
- Bip-bip bip-bip yeah!

Coffee was so good I'm pretty sure I made my O face. I definitely moaned. 10/10 has saved my day.

Erp. Woke up at 11am. Gonna carpe whatever is left of the diem

today can carpe deez nuts.
Exactly how my day's gone as well.
- I'm just grateful as fuck for my meds helping to keep my mood and energy buoyant, and able to get on with cranking out difficult emails/doing some research rather than dwelling on how I've started the day off "wrong"...

Gah. Was meant to catch up with a friend for coffee and lo and behold my car wouldn’t start :(

Have called out roadside assistance to have a look, I suspect it’s the battery.

I hope it’s only flat and doesn’t need replacing.

Pray for me.

Good luck. I hope you got your car running and managed to get out for your coffee.

My #Jimny is getting its 2-year service and I am hoping I don’t have any nasty surprises.

Spent the day in the local town, visiting cafés and parks, waiting for the Phonecall with quiet optimism.
- Thanks it’ll be ok. I have nothing urgent that needs going for so I can wait it out the next day or so.
  
  Fingers crossed for you too and your 2 year service. If there’s anything you’d think warranty would cover you.
🙏
- Roadside came and gone.
  
  Confirmed to be a dead battery. :(
  
  I’ll need to sort that out tomorrow or the day after.

After a great deal of measuring and deliberation I have put through an order to Ikea. There will be many flat things arriving that I will have to turn into not flat things.

It should be a good improvement for my sewing storage area, which has had a mix of random cheap storage solutions including wire cubes that don't really work that well. It's an awkard spot to get things to fit - I think it was originally a wardrobe, which the previous owner tried to turn into a bar, by putting a bench across the middle and putting an arch in the wall at the front to match an arched doorway in the room. Which means there is a really deep cupboard at the bottom which is hard to reach anything in, and the archway on top partially blocks access to shelves. I have bought the deepest drawers I can find to fit in the bottom, plus a couple of narrow trolleys on wheels that can be pulled out to get access. And some wire shelves to go on the top section that are about half the width of the bench.

Start of a new week, let's hope I can get off my arse and go job hunting instead of enjoying my break from working.

Annual performance bullshit completed. They still have no idea

that all the work was done by cat, paid with 🥖
- He’s certainly attended enough meetings to deserve payment

Unfortunately Melbcat does have a bacterial UTI. She's been prescribed banana scented antibiotics. Some cats like the taste but I had to chase her through the house to dose her when we got home. She's had her Solensia too which should help slow the arthritis as well as manage pain. The monthly vet bills are gonna be steep...

And just now I found out that this new antibiotic is amoxicillin which she's allergic to. I wish I'd noticed sooner 😬 Sorting it.

gentle hugs for you both

It's so hard looking after pets because they don't speak. If only they could tell us what is happening with them we could help them so much more and they wouldn't get stressed either
- I do wish she could talk. I'm usually very good at picking up issues almost immediately (called the cystitis before seeing the blood) but the non-bacterial inflammation ones are kind of the norm so I tried that approach first.
  
  I got onto the vet in time and managed to emergency uber there to get a different medication before close. Somebaby just got fed a crushed up tablet in water and is not happy... 💊

Had fairly small habs last year but this year we're already seeing 'normal' sized ones which is a relief:

spoiler

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Looks like a few hundred are on the way.

One of the best times of growing them. the more you look to find them, the more sneaky chillos there are hidden in plain sight.

What a lovely start to the week. One of my bosses messages on Teams group chat wishing me a happy birthday for yesterday. 20 minutes later, she sends me an email saying I won't be eligible for the bonus that all other staff will be getting for the team exceeding Q2 performance for the most bullshit reasons (the real reason being, they asked me to leave and don't care to pay me anything extra, even though I contributed like everyone else). Together with some wank about how she wanted to tell me in person but the time of year makes that difficult. Spineless individual.

Planning to resign within the next month and it cannot come quick enough. Thinking another sickie between now and then too.

That sounds like workplace bullying and depending on the size of the bonus might be worth a call to fairwork.
Happy birthday and fuck these people.
Planning to resign within the next month and it cannot come quick enough. Thinking another sickie between now and then too.

then call this crap out. You got nothing to lose.
Happy belated birthday and may you get to yeet these ungrateful fucks out of your life asap.
Wow. That’s horrendous.
Happy Birthday for yesterday.

January (and late December, early February) birthdays are unrewarding. “Sorry we didn’t get you a present, we re still broke from Christmas”.

Good luck with getting a redundancy and payout, as long as it doesn’t come at the cost of any mental health.

I am frying onions and my apartment smells so gooooooood. It is making my air purifier very excited though.

I'll never forget the time I batch cooked about 30 huge onions down into a spicy caramelised onion dish in my little dorm room in Japan (for a food festival) and probably fucked up the stove hood as a result. It was so good but the smell wasn't so great the day after and it took about 3 full days to air the tiny place out completely.
- Yikes that sounds like weapons grade onion warfare.
  
  My most intense onion story was the time in my first apartment when I bought 3 onions and left them (forgot about them) in the back of the pantry for.. who knows how long.. and then one day suddenly the apartment STANK and I was hunting for the source of the smell. Turns out the onions sort of melted into a dark sludge which dripped down multiple shelves. I can't remember how long that smell stuck around but it was a while. When I think about it I can still kind of smell it.

Crying on the way to work because I'm tired. Ughhh UGH!

Mood. 4 day week for you?
- The problem with short work weeks is that you have to squeeze in 6 days of work into 4 days.
  
  Usually you only have to squeeze 6 days of work into 5…

Twice I've bought those glow in the dark stars and twice they never work. I've never felt so dumb. It surely shouldn't be that hard?

I think it's because we expect them to work as well as the ones we had plastered all over our bedroom ceilings back in the 80's... which of course were likely full of chemicals that would have a snowflake's chance in hell of meeting any modern safety standards!

I mean hey, they looked great when I was 9, and the fact that I now glow in the dark all by myself is just a cool side-effect =)
I want to get one of those star projector things, Seems like it'd be a lot easier.
- Housemate bought one and it is so cool, my own glow in the dark stars can't even compete.
- Ooh me too!
They need a ridiculous amount of exposure to direct light in order to even vaguely work. Does it glow momentarily when you shine a bright torch light at it for a few seconds?

Swapped my pillows out for new ones and now my bed feels all wrong. Usually I'm a two stacker but the new ones are far to fluffy to stack but also not fluffy enough on their own. I fear a night of tossing and turning is afoot.

I love sort fluffy pillows except they’re not good for me since they don’t support my neck properly. :(

Will you go back to the old way you used to have pillow?
Turn 'em 90 degrees

Risky wrap beach dins..

spoiler

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Had one doggo come up with a bit of interest but soon left because that was a hawt one.

This is not my circus, not my monkeys,
But there I stand with a red nose,
Coloured hair and wacky clothes,
Juggling emails, calls, managers and techies,

Being a phone monkey is taxing,
No reception, the clients are pissed,
So listen and do my best to assist,
But I'm left wanting, waning and waxing.

I'm humming that to a Talking Heads tune

I bought a couple of individually wrapped meat patties from a butcher yesterday early afternoon and then left them in my handbag until this morning, should I just turf em?

Leave them in your handbag
- For science.
Yes
- Thank youuuu. Silly mistake! Was more excited by the filet mignons I'd also purchased (and rightly so, they were delicious!!)

How do I deal with a colleague that I can’t understand? He asked me something, I didn’t understand so asked again . Still didn’t understand. Didn’t know how to approach it -without coming across as insulting or looking stupid. yes he has an accent that makes it hard for me, especially over teams…. Usually not an issue for me but this one is a bit different than the usual

"Sorry mate, can you phrase it a different way? My brains a bit slow today" make it out as if its your fault.
After the second time you say "I'm sorry I'm still not understanding". If it's important enough they will make you understand by slowing down and articulating their words better or say "doesn't matter".
Maybe ask for an email or similar? The person MUST be aware that their accent is causing problems with communication - if they are adult and intelligent enough to be holding down a job.
- think you might be underestimating how oblivious some folks can be though.

30 tomorrow? Ugh. I just want some stable weather... Dumb request, right?

Melbourne weather told me to tell you "request denied: get fucked".
- 😂 Sounds about right.
I put the heater on.

hey

How are you doing there?
- hanging in ( and thanks for staying up and doing the DT 🤗 )
  
  and how are you?

It must be nice to have a jawline.

I have one about 4 days post shave.
- Same. ( not really )

that first coffee is gonna hit like... I need coffee to think of an accurate simile edit: awwww yess and my 9am just got pushed back, coffee time!!!

Like a Glenn Maxwell sixer. 🏏

Off for a little ride to the beach and a sunset chicken wrap.

Something about dins on the beach brings about infinite freedom

Which brings us to today's rave choon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwixRGG4jJA

🎶Do you really wanna ride? Sit back

Release your mind, relax

Do you wanna feel the walls collapse?

Focus on feeling

And you'll find the freedom🎶

That is totally inspired by Fischer Spooner.

This panadiene med stuff is crap. Barely touches the pain, lasts only an hour or so and gives me a headache. There is also habituation, which is always a worry.

in the bin it goes and I'm back on aspirin and aggressive exercises

Diclofenac!
- Gesundheit
- Diclofenac
  
  Thanks, I'll talk to a doctor about it

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Cheesy scrambled eggs served with avocado and kimchi please
- 🧀🥚🥚🥑🌶️🥬

Oo-oh @[email protected] you should have stuck with the Heat.

CEO - 16 Duenan - 13

Since its the final I think this is were the comp between you and I end (because I think we both want the the Heat to win). It has been an absolute pleasure playing my friend and there's always next year. ☺

Haha I seem to have some bad luck picking of the last few games.

Been a good run the last month playing with you and been a good comp. Well done!

I’d say I’m slightly better at AFL tipping so there’s always that but that might be too complicated.

Anyway just for fun if day the Sixers will win the finals.

Haha