Fancy going into labour in the mosh pit of a Pink concert.
She’ll have a good story to tell the kid!
Well that's annoying. I woke up super early (for me anyways) to go to Echuca on the train for the day and 10 mins before we got to Bendigo they told us the Echuca has been cancelled and the train will terminate at Bendigo with a coach to Echuca
I don't really want to do the coach but they said it's at least 20 minutes away anyway
I ended up coming back to Melbourne and just station hopping until 5ish. I'm about ready to pass out (yay 3 hours of sleep), but 15 individual train trips, 407 new photos/video and at least 400km traversed!
Six places on the list viewed (plus two not, but they're out of my price range so they don't count), four boxes and two pictures dropped off at the op shop and a quick Aldi run done.
I think I've earned a prosecco.Anyone here old enough to remember when Rage would debut a new "unplugged" show?... I used to tape them, both on the VCR and cassette for my Walkman. Currently listening to STP Unplugged - I remember thinking Scott Weiland was so classy sipping that huge glass of red through the set, in hindsight it was probably like 3/4 of a bottle in that glass.
Edit - thinking about it, I had a DiscMan at that point but no way to burn cds. Hence the Walkman - with the auto reverse magic.
Resting with the cat. She loves being in bed all day. She's the little spoon, being cuddled like a teddy bear. And when I rustle for a peppermint she's instantly alert to get her own treat from a packet.
We're a pair of tired oldies who sometimes share a hot water bottle
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Happy Lunar New Year!
Moon cheese please 🧧
Thank you!! 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀
For you bacon 🧧 bring many good fortune.
Thank youuuu! Good fortune to you too!
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It has been enlightening listening to a spine specialist , McGill. Really changed how I think about my back, the pain and what happened. There is no such thing as an achy back, there are injuries and aggravating weakness.
seems I have stress fractures of one or two L vertebrates and a touch of a disc hernia on my left side. Ten hours a week of walking on hard footpaths, walking thru pain, with hard shoes will aggravate a weakness from prior injury or re-injure.
They seem to have been learning a lot about both the spine and pain management in recent years and a lot of the more recent information is quite different to the traditional advice. A lot of the pain seems to be caused by things like bracing in anticipation of pain, which means that learning to react differently can have major benefits. So it is not "all in your head" as it is real, physically based pain, but learning to think about the pain differently can change your physical responses and reduce the pain.
don't worry, I've had a medical diagnosis on which vertebrae
I'm playing Mass Effect 2 and being evil. My god some of the lines are hilarious!!!
I forced a shop assistant to give me a discount by standing outside the store and yelling about how they were discriminating against me because I was poor 🤣
I was born in the year of the snake so yeah that's about right. 🐍
Sssssame. My mother used it to say nasty things about me when she was mad.
🐍me too
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I am a horse. Apparently I will remain single but there will be many avocados in my future
Green. Very lucky colour.
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It was time to upgrade the Xbox One, so I took the Nintendo switches (which haven't been used as much as we all thought they would be) plus games and traded them in for a new series X. Ended up costing me $126 with the traded stuff, so I'm pretty chuffed about that. Not as chuffed as the Elder will be on his birthday when he gets it! The switches were just not as enjoyable to use as the 3DS was.
I have a ps4. I would love to upgrade.....perhaps this is the year.
I'm the opposite. I gave the kids a switch for Christmas, and ended up buying a second hand switch lite for myself. I am loving it.
I have a Skyrim campaign in my pocket. Have to sit around for an hour while the kid has Tae Kwon Do? No biggie. It's a wonder I don't see lots of these things on the train. I would use it if I had a longer commute.
The kids use theirs on the TV 90% of the time, but they have upgraded from an Xbox (original one) with wired controllers.
This just gave me the mini butt kick to get rid of my Switch! Also, was definitely not into it as much as I thought I would be considering I've owned a fair few Nintendo handhelds, I kinda blame game prices.
Er, I need a new dock if you’re getting rid of it.
The Fire Pig 🔥 🐽 has chosen to go into the city so I the Fire Snake 🔥🐍 and the Wood Rabbit 🌳🐰 will go and deposit some bottles 🍾 and do something with the rest of the sunny☀ day while the Water Snake 💦 🐍 runs around outside barking.
I'm having so much fun with this. 🌳🐰 isn't. He assures me he is indeed a 🦁 and he's sticking to it.
According to the Vietnamese the year of the rabbit is actually the year of the cat. And a lion is really just a big cat, so I think the claim is justified.
Watching some telly before I get a little rowdy tonight, and one of my favourite costuming tropes is when a character out of their depth goes to the tropics/a hot place (it doesnt matter what they're there for) they must have a huge hiking pack paired with some sort of plaid shirt and singlet, for men you can throw in a henley, for women it must be a skin tight spaghetti strap singlet.
Bonus points for inappropriate footwear, khaki cargo shorts (cargo booty shorts of the ladies), some sort of head wrap, they gain a collection of "handcrafted" bracelets during their tropical/hot place adventure.
and they sit on logs, drink from streams and touch everything 😲
My fave movie about this Arachnophobia.
Good example from the 80s - https://youtu.be/_rKHc5rCno8?si=XdfKBFPwCGD008rv
Edit - found a better link
I've been avoiding the news but saw something awful just now. What's going on in Gaza is sickening. This shit has to be war crimes.
It’s awful. Netanyahu is 74. My feeling is that he isn’t bothered by the concept of war crimes. He wants to wipe hamas and as many Palestinians as he can off the face of the earth, and be seen as a hero and martyr. He’s not doing this alone either. The current politics make it seem unlikely that war crimes will ever be perused though. The world is a depressing place sometimes. I don’t know what to say except avoid the news, or if you do look, then know it’s gonna be shitty. I’m enormously grateful I live in a country like Australia.
Someone in the street has a very noisy car exhaust. He revs it. He idles it. Turns it off. Starts it again. Revs it, idles it, turns it off. Repeat throughout the day. When he does take off it backfires repeatedly down the street. I hope it blows up.
Jam a potato onto the exhaust pipe. He won't be able to start the engine. It may take him some time to think of checking the exhaust as its a long way from the engine. Does no damage and gets the point across.
Instant Pot Bol sauce on so I have something easy to reheat and put with salad for next few days. Plus I have chopped back the monstera and am now feeling very guilty. She was magnificent but was sprawling everywhere. Now I can get her growing upwards with a moss pole and can get back use of that part of the balcony.
So, with instant pot recipes for pressure cooking, what do you do with the cooking time if you want to say, double the recipe?
I am still learning but basically it depends more on the density. I have a small 3L one and I cook mince sauces for the same amount of time as in the 6L. or say one chicken breast is the same time as two. But a chopped up chicken breast is less time then a whole one
Legs at the gym and 1.5 hrs tennis after. Send thots and prayers pls everyone 🙏
@fullkitwanker @CEOofmyhouse56 Not ideal, running prolonged time might negatively effect your gym gains
I seem to have misplaced my debit card. Searched high and low and can't find it at the place I'm housesitting, my own place, or the route I walked to the shops earlier today (the endpoint at which I realised I was sans card). Nobody's used it in the past 6 hours either.
Found out I could put a temporary lock on the card and I'll try looking again tomorrow. I really don't want to get a card replacement, so many things I'll need to change 🫤
Normally I would feel panicked or frustrated but I still feel numb (not necessarily comfortably).
I do have a mysterious craving for salmon and pizza that's come out of nowhere though. None of the pizza places here in Preston seem to do in house delivery :( not having a car sucks like that. Old Kodak it is. And just a marinara pizza with garlic bread.
Check your wallet - it might have been put into a slot that's already occupied by another card, only behind it not in front. I've done this more times than I can count.
It's definitely not in my wallet because the last place it was at was in a slot on my phone's flip cover. Stupid, stupid place to put it because it has fallen out from there before...
Further edit - try Plain Jane's Pizza in Miller St Preston - they will deliver.
Are you near High st? Takeaway Pizza is excellent (not sure if they deliver though)
I loooove their pizzas and would've gone for that but no delivery sadly. Not that I could see on their website. True to their name
Just drove back into the city and there are some absolute tossbags out on the road tonight. Also, why do so many dickholes drive Audis?
Had some dicksmack nearly hit me on the ring road today...they were driving an Audi hatchback. Zoomed past me and 5 minutes later were behind me again somehow
I maintained my speed and didn't change lanes
Child riding around at night in dark clothes with no lights on the wrong side of the road. I ask myself, where are the parents?
High, drunk or both is my guess
At the risk of being considered a spammer...
Now listening to this - DMB - Tiny Desk Concert
As a (very) amateur guitarist, Dave Matthews blows my mind with his hand positions.
And to further the Tiny Desk plug.... There's a fantastic one from the Cranberries too.
Anytime I need the train on the weekend, it’s bus replacements. Had to drive to the next closest train line then missed the train by 1 minute. On the bright side, the weather is lovely for a 20 minute platform wait.
It took me a while with feeling crook but I finished rereading Shades of Grey and now Red Side Story. Tbh... it was a bit of a let down and I don't think it's just from the heightened expectations after 14 years' wait...
no spoilers, not even descriptions of the plot or characters, just long rambling thoughts
IMO it wasnowhere near as good as the first book - felt like the author phoned it in to get the book out of the way already. Of course the second one was never gonna have the same effect as the first with its inimitably creative and detailed world building, but where the first book was so tightly plotted and revealed tantalising hints so masterfully and with great wit, the second felt distinctly more clunky and expository with its info dumps and reveals, like it was going through the motions.
It also felt repetitive at times in beating readers over the head about character motivations and old plot points - like we needed reminding because of the huge gap of time between releases? Or maybe the author needed reminding? He couldn't keep his own continuity right (he had someone specifically helping him with this but a minor character's plot-relevant age in book 1 is mysteriously dropped by 3 years in book 2 where they are more prominent, so were even they confused?). I blame the book having two editors...
One more whinge, and maybe this last one is just because fans have had 14 years to theorise, but nearly all the major worldbuilding reveals/explanations in the second book could be correctly guessed in the first, and the second book didn't go much deeper beyond those revelations. I know they have to go through it from the characters' point of view within the world but it felt a bit "meh, we need more". But this complaint is perhaps taking the books more seriously than they're meant to be taken.
That aside it was a long awaited gift to be officially reunited with these characters and their world, and there were still some good nail biting sequences and whimsical turns to be enjoyable enough, plus enough plot threads to write a third book (if the author doesn't die first).
As a fan of GRRM, I feel this pain and am apprehensive about the future. Bring on TWOW. The sooner the better.
That worst fear came true with one of my favourite manga called Berserk. It's serialised so the gaps wasn't as big but we all joked about the author dying before we got to the resolution of the central conflict. Then it happened...
Will GRRM ever get to TWOW? It almost feels like abandonware especially after the tv series lost the plot and things went all quiet.
Got a letter in the mail from RACV saying welcome back and has a membership card in there. Turns out I got free RACV roadside assistance when I bought my car but they didn't say anything (unless I forgot).
Weird it took months for them to send me the card but hey, RACV has some cool discounts on fuel and movie tickets!
