When you haven't handed out treats for the 47th time today:
You monster!
There was someone playing a song from Interstellar on the piano just now in Melbourne Central. It was beautiful! I was totally entranced, stopped my youtube, stopped eating, just sitting there totally caught up in it. I didn't get to see them before they disappeared, wish I could've said thankyou.
Nice change from the guy with the Chinese ‘violin’ who seems to know 2 songs
Blarg. Very little sleep thanks to hole in the gutter making incessant drum noises. Really sick of this house.
Made it just before sunset.
I'm crafting the resume with a "Christian" first name. Let's see how this plays out.
Jesús ?
🤣
Chris?
It's really sad that this has to be done but I totally understand having to do what you gotta do to get back on the ride.
I am extraordinarily lucky that I work in a small industry with skill shortages and am at the point where they'll read my whole resume rather than throw it out at the name. Different story if I decided to go into a different field tho.
I'm about to vacuum. He is not going to like it.
Hello, RSPCA? I’d like to report a vacuuming…
mowing, laughing children, vegetables, cats, flies....
Your image broke my boost
I swear on my mum's life...if my neighbour is out watering today I'm dropping him.
He was out there with the hose yesterday at lunchtime.
I nearly did that with mine yesterday after his dog bit mine again for the second time in 2 years. I mean, it was a jack Russel vs a Kelpie, I like my dogs chances, but told him if it happens again his dog will have the honor of being the second dog in orbit cause I'm punting it at the sun.
First day of work since I got the lurgie. Managed fairly well.
Fortunately it's the quiet week.☕
Thank goodness you're back bacon because we had a weirdo here trying to give away electronics.
Here's a complimentary biscuit 🍪
nom nom
Downpipes cleared!
So some lessons learnt over the years..
- Fuck leaves and debris in gutters and putting it off
- Fuck too much water
- Right angles in downpipes can get fucked
- Use your ears to
seehear if you've unfucked it - Having no plumbing plan is bad and fucked. Write it down, all of it.
:)
Wise words friend, our overflowing gutters kept waking us up during last night. Looks like one of them has rusted through as well.
I hate that so much. If you're unlucky it could flood your ceiling/eaves. In the end those bristle things were installed in the gutter to keep leaves out
Before anyone blames trees for existing I'd like to suggest a gutter guard to help keep leaf debris from clogging up the gutters themselves and any downpipes.
Have a few regrets not cleaning one of the gutters before last night. Not a happy downpipe.
If there's one thing that comes up in convos seemingly every time about problems with a house, it's water.
It giveth life, it taketh time and cash monies.
Watching the guy from Site Inspections it's nearly always water damage. When it's not structurally unsound frames or fake Hebel.
The old homes from the 60s and 70s are looking better and better.
Score! Discounted salad and super discounted hot cross buns.
1.60 for a half dozen at Woolies.
Love it when you score a good deal like that! Treat yourself without breaking the bank.
Yup, ate some and dinner. I’m well fed and they were pretty good too!
Careful saying something is free, the coffee's gonna get OzBargain'd
Hahaha ☕
Spiders
A baby huntsman moved in last night. Nice, I want him to eat the bugs. I also hope this one has the commonsense to stay out of range of Melbcat's punches. (Nothing bad happened to the last one. He was just a dumbarse who had to be evicted for his own safety.)
Thank you for the spoiler warning here 💛
No worries, I generally try to give a warning for anything touchy like that
Up all night playing Surviving Mars. Don't mind me, I'm just colonising mars in the far future 🌌
Fricken love that game. One of the best epic store free games I ever got.
Meteors keep crashing into my pipes at choke-points... Not sure if random or "random"
[Insert suss Fry meme]
I actually bought that a few weeks ago, but I wasn't a fan of it
Walk out the front door to start walking to the train station to see two huge purple flashes of lightning on the horizon. Yeaaaaaahhh might wanna haul ass to the station!
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
CoffeeeeeEEE
☕️
that's some pretty big rain
I woke up to no power and had to get ready for Mr Woof's morning walk by phonelight. It turned out to be just me, something caused the main switch to flick off and I now have power back on.
I just want to give a quick shoutout to the unsung heroes of Easter: Thumbnails. As in the fingernails on your thumbs. Is there any other time of the year when it's more important to have a good thumbnail?
If you're unsure what I'm banging on about.. check out my half-price post-Easter haul for reference:
Historically, my magic price-point has been $1/100g. I had a quick look at the easter stock this morning, nothing is below $2/100g. I guess I'm just not that desperate.
Damn you got some premiums eggs in there. Score
I still haven't had the energy to go looking for the ginger ninja again, and as the weather gets colder and wetter he'll probably be hiding away somewhere. :(
Melbcat's ears are still looking a little sus. Unfortunately I need to clean her ears so antibiotics can work better and she hates having it done. I'm not managing the ear washes twice a day but will aim for at least one, and talk to the vet about restarting the drops.
I am really struggling with mood and energy.
Lie on back. Sit cat on chest (if you have boobs this is a big cat comfort plus). Gently rub ears, paying attention to cat grinding towards where they want rubbings. first two fingers on the back, thumbs at the front of the ear, circular motions, some gentle pulling out towards the sides. Misha gets her ears cleaned then a massage that starts on the ears and goes down the cheeks under the chin until she's drooled a puddle six foot wide and no longer complains about ear cleanings.
Downside: the little shit will expect ear rubs on demand.
Extra long weekend thanks to food poisoning. Work may not like the extra time off but I'm not in the mood to do them any favours right now
oh no, i hope you're feeling better soon
I hope to have a nap when I get home and settle down. I think I only got one hour's sleep last night :(
Is it oodie weather yet? 🤔
I think part-time. Morning and night shifts.
Already Oodie’d this evening. Hehe.
Second night of constant droning noise. No idea what it could be, but it's loud enough to be heard over the rain.
I can hear it too. They're preparing the Sun for daylight savings ending next week - won't be much longer
Package has moved from Sunshine to Westmeadows. I don't think that brings it any closer to me, but at least it is still on the move and not lost or forgotten.
Apparently this morning's power outage was a just preparation for tonight. I think a transformer just blew up - there was a massive bang, a flash of light and the power is out to the whole area. I saw a few neighbours heading up the road to investigate, but as I'm already in my pjs I'm staying put. The emergency app is showing it as a tree down on the corner, and I expect that I will have sleep broken by the sound of workmen and chainsaws tonight. My new little emergency torch/radio is doing a pretty good job at least.
