Do you ever look at an empty box and go "that's a nice looking box. Better not throw that out. That'll come in handy some day". You don't know what you're gonna use it for yet but it's there just in case.
I see you have seen my box collection in the garage
My kids do that with every single box. We have too many boxes.
welcome to adulthood
What I tend to do at work is think to myself "I'll be good and get rid of all these empty boxes and ditch the clutter", and then 48 hours later be turning the place upside down trying to find a box to ship something to one of our other sites in.
Welcome to middle age.
Glad I saved the GPU boxes from 2007. Back when they had the tacky art on the box.
For the empties mate.
They go back into the boxes they came from. 👍
I threw out a really nice hounds tooth paper bag that a DJs gift card came in. Nice thick paper. Gonna sit in a drawer for ever.
I'm like that with cardboard tubes like the ones we get when the giant rolls of baking paper and foil run out at work.
I have been known to keep the really hard ones that come with wrapping paper. If you get a coat hanger and mold it you can can slip a dusting glove onto the wire and bend it, attach it to the tube, you can dust things higher up without getting on a chair.
Just did my first reverse into a car park at Southland in the new car.
breathes into paper bagWell, you can spend the time and attention on entering the parking space, or spend the time and attention on leaving it. My own decision tree includes whether or not I need to open the back hatch door to put stuff in. If yes, then forward park into the space - if no, then reverse in.
Your first sentence is basically my thought process too. If getting out is going to be more of a pain, because of traffic or a tight spot, I'll reverse. But if there's lots of cars waiting or I'm running late when parking I'll always go for a forward park if I can.
I'm usually more tired and anxious at the end of a drive than the start so I prefer to make life easy for myself.
Well done. From now, only reverse park. Once you do it a few times it becomes second nature and you'll scoff at the forward parkers (as you well should) due to your immediate superiority.
Just took this photo. This phone camera is awesome!
What phone
just saw a P-plater in a datsun go past blaring vogue and instantly flashed back 30 years
Haha love a Datto
First bountiful harvest from the chillo patch:
Heaps more coming but an impressive haul nonetheless.
Sometimes the smaller the hotter
Just enough for tonight's borger by the sea.
ooh the beach borger is tm night you read my mind!
Chiltepin?
Enough to burn you for a whole weekend right there?
I call this my Lonely People Email Filter and it is vital to my mental health
I declare 2 pm to be beer o'clock today.
Fuck work and fuck whatever may be bothering you today.
Righto. 👍
I think we've arrived at a consensus.
Oh I wish. I have cried too much today, especially for a work day.
You deserve several drinks then
Back in the day people used to take whole watermelons injected with booze into the cricket. So what you do is bite a little hole in the top and suck the juice from it. Then you start chewing through it. By the end of the day you're wearing the rind as a helmet, giving a little wave 🤘 to the camera and off ya chops.
There's a little culture for ya.
And you wind up smelling like watermelon which is preferable to beer, sweat and sunscreen.
I've seen it done with a bag of oranges still in the netting. Take the stickers off, inject the oranges, put them back on the ones you've injected.
This Terry's shot do you reckon it would work if I chocolated the rim of a shot glass then filled it with Cointreau?.
My sister did a version of this whilst camping in a caravan with friends at Wilson's Prom like 25 years ago. Multiple watermelons, bottles of vodka. She told me they woke up the next morning and the inside of the caravan was covered in watermelon.
Pre used watermelon presumably…
😂
The truck missed picking up my bin today ☹️
Normally it would not be an issue for me as I don't have much rubbish, but I've been doing a big cleanup and this week it is packed to the top and I have a pile of stuff already waiting for next week too. I've reported it to the Council so it should get emptied, but I presume now it won't be until Monday at the earliest.
My doorbell camera AI is very fail - it thinks a magpie is a person at the door. It’s pranking me - I keep getting anxiety omg who is at the door
The meds have settled down now.
At this current moment in time, I'm really isolated. A have a couple of good friends but I've always had different groups of friends that I've flitted between.
Most of my dreams are about hanging out with people.
It's an ache of sorts. One that frustrates you because sometimes no matter what you do, you can't alleviate it.
I chose a non traditional pathway. I spent a lot of time being a drug addict, which has long term consequences I never considered.
That aside, the dull ache of depression has lifted, which is nice. Now I have the energy to make big changes in my behaviour.
I think that's the point of these meds.
/Rant
My experience of this - Yep that is the point and also the hard bit. It's like it strips away the depression/anxiety/whatever that's actually there because your brain is standing between you and THE STUFF you can't quite look at head on. The drugs replace that maladaptive stuff with...blank....but THE STUFF is still there. It's just now you can see it and work with it. It's still hard. But you've bought yourself some capacity. And the ability to put some distance between yourself and THE STUFF so you can start to see THE STUFF is not actually you.
(The you in that is the general you / how I experienced it for me. I am not trying to tell you what your experience is. Hope that makes sense)
Big hugs and random internet support from someone who also walks a weird path
Makes perfect sense. It feels like I can do what I need to so I can fix things. Without the problem stopping me.
Kind of a vicious cycle in a way.
I understand. I don’t know how to fix it but I can empathise, am sending warm vibes of companionship. It’s not you, it just happens to some people. I’m in a boring traditional pathway - uni, partner, house, job, but am isolated too. For me I think when my contemporaries started having kids and I didn’t, they all just slowly disappeared and never got replaced. Family Is dysfunctional so no luck there either. Well done on getting the meds and looking after yourself. Hopefully Gibson will give you some snuggles! I think accepting the situation can help, at least it relieves the feeling of fomo, and then you can focus on what you want to do next.
Thanks so much for your message. I really appreciate it.
I'm not someone who gives up on what they want but I need to grow some more patience.
I will now be able to go out and meet people and not come across poorly because I'm depressed, or instantly assume they wouldn't want to talk to me because of my feelings about myself.
That's the killer part. You're depressed, so you don't have the energy or motivation to meet people and even if you did, you doubt yourself the entire time. I think people pick up on that.
So many hugs.
'Floating sauna rescues occupants of Tesla that plunged into Oslo fjord' is not a headline you see every day!
....and as the dashboard of your $50,000 MAGA hat slips slowly below the icy waves you wonder how your humiliation could be more complete. And then into view hoves a floating sauna of buff, beautiful blonde men, completely naked shouting HALLOOOOO
I’m not keen on blondes, but SUBSCRIBE
How do I still have 3 and a half hours left my work day, this day is dragging like a limp dick
-high pitched screaming-
💦🌀🐌
Hey champ. How are you feeling now compared to when you were really bad the other day?
Feeling much better since then?
Better definitely, I bought a mouth guard to help with the headaches from grinding my teeth, so I've been able to rest. I was oddly feverish today, but WFH so that's fine haha
Thank you 🙏 you're lovely for asking ☺️
Ok guys. I have a new recipe for youse.
Coat the rim in choc ice magic. Then choc powder (not cocoa) fill with Cointreau.
Application: lick the rim and scull the liquid. Lick the rim again. Thanks @[email protected]
My daughter's doing chemistry this year and loving it so much she decided to tell me about her lesson today. There was talk of electrons and...that's as far as I remember because I tuned out but I nodded at the right times then I made an escape but not before I turned to the dog and said "I live in a house with nerds". He agreed.
get her one of stephen hawking’s books (i forgot which) for the quarks and strings too
Oh no no no dear bacon. One does not purchase books unless requested to. I will ask though. Thanks.
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if you like kingsman go watch argylle
I'm writing a cover letter for the first time in 7 years (got my last job through contacts and personally introducing myself).
This is so tedious and frustrating. I keep writing "I bring..." and it ends up sounding like "I bring tales of adventure, stories of wisdom, and the skillset of a wizard" or something stupid like that.
I'm also trying real hard not to start a paragraph dissing myself with "While I have an unconventional background in..." - like, don't lead with negatives. hard habit to break
'My mettle is unsurpassed and my commitment to making you more money means that you will get more money'.
I used that once. Didn't work though :(
Who doesn't want more money?! Their loss :(
The skill set of a wizard is awesome. Unless of course you are applying to be a murder hobo.
The best and most effective cover letter I ever wrote went like this : "This job sounds interesting. I think I can do it well." That was all I wrote. Got a call back within 15 minutes.
My first ‘real’ job letter took 24hr and a bottle of vodka. Worked though 😺
If someone said something original and genuinely entertaining like "I bring tales of adventure, stories of wisdom, and the skillset of a wizard" I'd give them a job!
😭 I wish I had a radar for detecting which people reviewing job apps would have enough of a sense of humour because I'd have os much more fun writing that.
i’m getting started on that in a few weeks for the first time in over ten years. will enlist chatGPT for help.
Yeah idk why I didn't just do that from the start. So much of it is guff anyway
Picked up a bit of Macca's for lunch because I hadn't had it forever and just wanted something quick, and jesus fuck do I feel sick this arvo. I'm supposed to be doing dinner but I loathe to move because my stomach's so gurgly and upset.
I have a Macca's very close to me. I ate there 3 times when I moved here then never went back.
I swear it used to taste better when I was a kid...
Had the sudden urge to strip my bed. It was a lot of effort for a Friday night. Worked up a sweat getting that doona in the cover perfectly. My technique for this is a workout, there’s probably an easier way. But it’s done and now I have fresh sheets sleep to look forward to.
It's crazy how tiring it can be to change bedlinen. I know this and still curse at having to do it every time. I splurge on nice sheets so the fresh sheet feeling is elevated even further. (and I change the doona cover less regularly).
Sunday's going to be linen day for me. Brand new (but washed) sheets after 2 years.
My ex actually taught me the method I use for getting a doona in a cover. You start with the cover inside out.. reach inside it to the far corners and use the corners like mittens to grab the corners of the doona where they should go. Then you just kinda pull the doona through/inside out in one big flamboyant motion like a magicians trick. Then tuck the other 2 corners in but they'll be easy, the ones near the opening. It works really well.
Before that I used to get inside the doona cover, briefly be a ghost and ghost tackle her, then awkwardly try to stuff the doona inside the cover and it'd be a whole thing.
Aaaaahhh. I finally finished the entire application. My butt hurts from sitting too long and I haven't eaten since 11am and I still fluffed up a passage about time management, lol.
Once upon a time I would've felt profoundly sick at having to talk myself up so much and "sell" myself to an employer. I guess now I'm just jaded enough to recognise it's a game I have to play to keep a roof over my head. Just gotta give it a go. I'm not super invested in this job anyway tbh but figure it's the best option going atm and worth a try.
Still waiting for that 3-day a week/short term contract job that would work so much better for me.
Anyway time to go shower and eat and unwind.
godamn suspended on reddit again. imma fix this later
Watching The Wire for the first time ever. Why they have to do him like that (end of season 3). Best part of the show.
Ah, to relive that first time feeling. Yeah, that scene broke my heart. But I enjoyed seeing how things change after that character's absence and on rewatches was really left wondering whether his way of doing things would've survived the changing reality on the street. It isn't a cheap act, there are good narrative outcomes...
I love the show so much because even though that character's departure left a hole, there are so many other well-written, compelling characters that I never felt like it impacted the enjoyability of the show.
Imperfect, train wreck characters who are so damn compelling.
If you love Taylor Swift or know somebody that does there is Taylor Swift Girlfriend Magazine out now with posters and stuff in it. Gee I loved Girlfriend back in day.
Also don’t forget to purchase your very own Saint Taylor - Patron Saint of Swizzle prayer candle !
Omg. That would be an easy halloween costume to copy.
I loved Dolly magazine but bought Girlfriend and Smash Hits for the posters!
I bought Girlfriend and Hot Metal. Dolly was obtained from the school library for giggling at the dumb letters column.
I think I ate too much chocolate crossiants things and strawberries at work today.
Feeling tired all of a sudden, can't wait till I can get home from today and watch the ODI today.
Also I made the decision last night to buy the ice cream and boy was it soooo good!
3 weeks of bed rest so far , argh, I have stuff to do but am stuck 😭
Today has crawled by very slowly. Still over an hour to home time. ☹️
I am looking forward to my weekend though - I have three days off and will be doing all the fun things. Hard rubbish. Assembling flat pack furniture. Maybe some mowing and weeding if I can fit it in. How did I get to have such an exciting life? 🤣
Sun is great and all but with such pale skin it's very hard to enjoy it until after 6 pm.
I just get darker. Though I've always wondered how white supremacism ignores the fact that they're basically allergic to the life giving sun lol
Bill Cat 😂 So I fell asleep watching telly and Bill decided to tickle my toes to wake me up. I jumped about a mile, little brat. I'd yell at him but he's too cute.
Finally done with work, having a coffee.
Have Parlez Vous Francais by Art vs Science stuck in my head
Gosh I love the music video
it's pretty cool
Midsummer toes 😺
hobbit feetses
I say Goblin toes, but yes.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Bacon and avo toastie with chutney and a very large latte, plz chef
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A gingerbread-house rendition of the Sistine Chapel please
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Called up Cennalink because the situation with the car and the payout is enough of a grey area that I need to talk to an actual person.
45 minutes and counting. 😖Recent Wikipedia rabbit holes have taken me to some interesting places. Did you know you can cook watermelon rinds?!? Apparently it tastes like a cross between squash/zucchini, carrot and cucumber. I don't normally even buy watermelon but I have to try this out...
I just eat them cut supper thin with x smidge of salt. Cucumber is a reasonable comparison.
Also mad shout for watermelon, feta, mint As a summer salad.
Melon & Lemon jam was a staple of my childhood. That is, jam made from melon rind cooked translucent with lemon juice for the pectin. Very beautiful on the plate or as a topping on pies - 1 cm cubed pale yellowgreen jewels in a sweet/tart matrix. Gorgeous on crumpets. Not made anymore as farmers aren't growing the right kind of melon for jam, which was too bitter and stringy to eat raw but the rind cooked up beautiful. Let us know if watermelon rind cooks up translucent - if so I want to try making jam with it.
I imagine the melons were more along the lines of the below. You don’t need to go full GMO salmon gene splicing to massively change a plant.
Part of my wiki travels suggest that the suspected ancestor of sweet watermelons was indeed bitter and stringy as well. A close relative continued to be grown for jams (due to its high pectin content) as citron melon. I imagine it's quite a niche product.
This recipe for watermelon rind jam - no watermelon flesh - sounds very similar to what you were describing. Looks translucent!
e: it appears there are in fact many receipes for watermelon rind preserves (cubed) - most stating they are old recipes, some from the Depression era, or traditional recipes hailing from Iran, Armenia, Greece... I reckon if you get a cheaper watermelon that's got more rind than usual it would be great for making these preserves.
No. Just no. Same as those who use banana peel in food. No.
Banana peels gross me out, the texture is yuck. But watermelon rinds sound intriguing - so much firm edible matter that gets wasted, it's clean and fresh and blemish free (it's generally recommended to peel the tough green skin off). I'd give it a go
Go away helicopter, you are very loud. 🚁
(Spent most of my time in Melbourne in areas that rarely get night copters, so now I know what people go on about... I'd close the window but it'll get stuffy. Wonder what/who they're looking for.)
Car theft is apparently the usual.
I went and bought a new downlight globe to replace a dead one in my kitchen and it's flickering :( Urgh why couldn't it just work perfectly?
I think you might need this
Or this
Or an electrician. Two of those are cheap options.
You just introduced a new AI virus to the house. Pack as much water as you can and get out now.
Sorting the craft stuff into tubs and deciding what to get rid of. I really should be decluttering my wardrobe but turns out it's the newer 'replacement' clothes I want to ditch (plus the still new looking things that don't get worn) and the tatty frequently used clothes I want to keep.
The obvious answer is to get rid of both worn out and unworn items then buy more clothes I will actually wear, but the options in my price range are not looking good. It really seems the quality of clothing has gone down steeply
Maybe some home tailoring to make your new clothes fit better can rejuvenate your wardrobe
It's more that they're scratchy, thin, not breathable, uncomfortable seams and stuff like that. Or they have a skimpier cut which makes them sit weird. Though I have noticed the size/fit on things can be all over the place too
Have today off work. Went in to city to get a haircut that was long overdue, had Crossways for lunch, and the weather is perfect. Feeling good 😊
Crossways! I used to go there, many years ago.. trails off awkwardly after calculating just how many years ago
I'm a little late for beer o'clock but I've got pants on now. Cheers 🍺
Cheers
Cheers Deborah Harry 🍺
Cheers! I found a new thing. It will either be delicious or much too sweet
Doesn't matter what you do to Stone's GG wine - instant hangover for anyone over 18. Doesn't matter what you mix it with either. Have written myself off far too many times in my yoof on that shit. Made from hospital grade brandy and offcuts from the glace ginger industry. And hospital grade brandy is distilled grape stalks and seeds and only good for disinfectant. Granted it's quite good disinfectant.
EDIT for l'esprit d'escalier - think of the above as chocolate/orange flavored Handy Andy.Ooo. Green ginger wine. The ultimate cold curing elixir or you're too pissed to remember that you have a cold. Cheers 🍺
Cheers mate 🍻
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Anyone awake enough to play brains trust? I want a female singer from approx 1989. Rich voice like Tracy Chapman, pretty sure Caucasian but had long dreads. Album cover Kaleidoscopeic? Something about a broken heart or tea cups?
Not 4 non blondes? Bit later then 1989 but voice + dreads
No, but I do like that one.
I've checked all the AIs. They have no idea.
Lauren Hill? Disregard that answer. The man is drunk.
Ani Defranco? - https://images.app.goo.gl/kdv4Jfeh5Lubz86b8
No. I’ve a feeling this was a one hit wonder sort of thing. But am probably wrong about everything.
I'll play but give me a minute. I'm thinking.
Hm.. all I can think of is Linda Perry but perhaps that was the 90s?
That's the only one I can think of.
Jonette napolitano? Has the voice but not the dreads though 🤔
Absolutely the sort of voice. Maybe it doesn’t really exist.
Suddenly wimdy…..
DT brain trust, I'm wanting to replace the radio in my car and was wondering how anyone in here has gone about it? Usually I would do something like this myself, but new car has lots of scary buttons and I'm feeling lazy about it.
Do I buy the parts and drop it at the mechanic, do I go to a special place, do I just say I want a new radio and they collect all the bits and do it?
Edit - I'm in the outer west if anyone has any recommendations.
Done a few, realllllyyy depends on the car.
If it's got a standard DIN/double-DIN head unit then it's usually fairly straightforward, but these are becoming more rare.
If it's fully integrated with the car and not a 'standalone-style' unit stuck in there, then it gets more complex. There are sometimes third party units that get buried in the dash or replace part of the dash (I know this is an option for Falcon/Territory) that also take over the HVAC and other controls, but your mileage may vary and install can get pretty tricky.
Mines got an info system in the dash above the radio which is why I loathe to touch it. Such a pain cause as I said I'd just do it myself, but I'd rather not end up costing myself more money by accidentally crossing my wires.
In your position (I was in similar with Felicia) I'd check with the mechanic first and they'll tell you whether to get the parts and bring it in or go to either a car place that sells radios or somewhere like JB HIFI and have them do it.
I'm in the south east so can't help you with recs, alas.I just saw the Autobahn near me does it, and they have some good reviews. Might give them a ring and see how that goes, fingers crossed, I'm very very over the radio.
Depends on the model, but you might be able to find a Joying (Android) unit that fits your car - Website. I replaced the stock radio on a 2010 Honda CRV with one. It came with the correct wiring harness, was shaped to fit in the same space etc. Installed myself following a YouTube tutorial, took about an hour or so. Hardest bit was finding and then not breaking the little clips on the dash as I took it off.
This week has absolutely blazed by. I feel like I just got back from my border trip last weekend. Now I gotta think of what to do THIS weekend! I have absolutely no idea what I want to do but I won't sit in my apartment for it, that's for sure.
I haz had a rye cookie from Baker D’Chirico.
Remind me of those Ovaltine lollies? That is all.
Kidcalhoon2 is playing Sonic Team Racing on the ps4. The theme song slaps!
