Honestly considering carrying a brick around with me to see if people still want to cut me off at zebra crossings. Had a dude turn his head to stare at me while he nearly ran me over at a crossing and then he had the audacity to give me the 'thanks' hand wave...
Every single day I go outside I nearly get ran over, but it's always at crossings and not when I'm jaywalking. Pisses me off so much.
A brick or a stick honestly isn't a bad idea. The cops would probably get arcy if they saw you carrying a real brick, but I was reading a thread where someone else was saying the same thing in a different community the other day and apparently there's like collapsible type bricks that you can fold out to full size. If you were to keep that in your backpack and pull it out around the corner from the crossings that always give you trouble, it'd probably still achieve the same thing, with the added affect nobody's going to start accusing you of breaking into people's houses
Had my once-every-many-weeks check of LinkedIn on the desktop to see connection requests and the like. Found myself hit with that pang of realising how stagnant I was for years at my past role - can't blame the workplace entirely, but I feel like I lost so much of my more passionate years while hamstrung by visa conditions. I have the freedom now but not as much excitement any more...
Something definitely needs to change. I don't have huge ambitions but I also want to aim a little higher (in a sustainable way).... think with whatever experience I get in the next year and a half or so, I might be able to shift my career into something more interesting or substantial. Maybe do a formal qualification in spatial tech and get a gig in some cool environmental fieldwork company.
I probably might be still at my old job but further advanced and happier (everyone might've been happier) if it weren't for the impact of the lockdowns. The one upshot was that at the time, it paved the way for me to stay in this country permanently. I can't keep blaming the lockdowns now though, I do need to move on. Next week might bring some resolution about some options in that regard
I think there could've been scope to aim higher (expand my experience) at my last place, but not with the way management turned out in the last year.
My current gig is PT government, very low-level in the scheme of things (because at this exact moment I don't want a super challenging job), but an useful foot in the door after being denied opportunities all these years. I could easily do more complex roles with a bit of training but those positions are currently filled by fairly capable and willing people, so unless they leave, I think opportunities are limited (which is ok for now). I'll definitely stay for a year at least and see what else opens up.
Seeing how much further people who started around the time I did in this industry have gone, it's easy to feel a little bitter. But I can catch up and develop my own niche, I think...
I got an ad for one of those shitty story apps where you pay like 6 bucks a month to read stories that Chatpgp thing wrote, and their ad is kinda hilarious
City outing with the fam today. Dinner on Lygon street. Ordered a beer and the waiter put it in front of my son. We had a chuckle and asked the waiter how old did he think my son was. The dude said 18+20 for sure.
I think it made my son's, who is actually 14, year.
While II agree cane toads and mozzies are nasty, the magpie was rather nice 😝 There was a pretty good circus mob and many children who needed their pitch adjusted dramatically downward
I'm going to Daiso to buy some shit I don't need. It's my first time there although I vaguely remember there being one in Airport West many many moons ago or something similar. Anyway I'm off to buy some cute shit.
The clock in my car sets the time automatically. From the radio stations. Which really sucks, as half of them are broadcasting with the wrong time. It isn't usually an issue, as when the phone is docked it shows the phone time. But if the phone isn't docked and I want to know the time, I need to tune to a station I know is broadcasting it correctly.
If your car is the same as mine, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that the station you listen to hasn't updated their broadcast time for Daylight savings.
Hating the darkness - struggle to see properly driving in the dark with the oncoming bright car headlights. I bought some yellow glasses to try. Can’t avoid it due to work.
I have a theory that cats are actually talking to us but we can't understand because they actually speak with a very heavy Glaswegian accent. Like Rab Nesbitt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7VoFiagfs
My breakfast/lunch: Coles roast chook sandwich featuring: Coleslaw, buttered Wonderwhite White bread, hot sauce, cheese, salt and pepper. Holy smokes it was incredible
I've done very little today except prepare meals for family and watch short films (thankyou to those who mentioned it in yesterday's thread, it's an addictive habit lol). I bought Miniest an ocarina as part of her birthday present and they had one with a cracked glaze for cheap, so I got it as well. We've been attempting to play them and the eldest said it's like being in a room full of apprentice snake charmers. I can sort of play "The Rose" but it'll take a fair bit more practise before I can play well. Drew us a D major finger position chart thingy, which really helps.
My Woolies order arrived three hours late and turned out not to be mine at all. So I still don't have any useful groceries and I need to find somewhere to donate a big box of nappies.
It looks like The Nappy Collective have a few collection points right near me so I'll run with that. Hopefully somebody didn't need them too desperately tonight!
Goddamn Minh Phat. so easy to spend so much on delicious condiments and dried and frozen goods and everything. Most of what I've bought should last me for half a year at least though. The $30 worth of dried mushrooms in particular. 500g goes a long way and these small mushrooms are great as they rehydrate a lot faster, no need to prep so far in advance.
It's a real one-stop shop for all east/southeast Asian essentials, and a great range of vegan products too. They also had those little red shallots that are hard to find fresh, will definitely be heading back for those to make my mum's famous chilli sambol. Our new year is coming up and I'll be glad to take this over to my relatives, didn't think I could recreate it here.
I know daylight savings cops a lot of flack, but the nights it ends are awesome. Extra late omega ultimate deluxe party night! Or if you're of the get off my lawn!/yelling at clouds age, it's a free sleep in! Unless you have kids, then you don't get either. Unless you ditch the kids, then you get both!
Pour one out for the staff at the Arts Centre where the website (the one people need to download their tickets) is down on a Saturday night during comedy festival 🥃
Before I learnt of Spotify I used to organise my music into "songs I like [year] edition" playlists. It worked well at first, especially with adblock, except since I had them in there to listen not watch I usually went for unofficial lyric videos just to avoid all the silence and noisy bits that come with music videos. That started going downhill when everybody started getting nuked by copyright claims. About half of them are either deleted or private now
I'm trying to take the Rage approach where I get the full video as unaltered as possible. That means generally getting the videos from the official channels so there should be no surprise privatisations
So Aldi has branded clothing (as in "Aldi" brand) limited edition coming next week. I assume there must be a market for it, since they wouldn't sell it if they didn't think people would buy it. But I'm left wondering whether there are going to be people lining up at opening for their chance to own an Aldi hoodie or T-shirt.
Is this going to be Aldi brand like anko brand T-shirts, where you wouldn't know unless you saw the tag, or is this Aldi brand like a Nike or Supreme shirt?
I'd consider buying them if they're plain and cheap, but I do not wear anything with visible branding, except shoes since there's not much choice there. But everything else must not have it's brand visible or I just don't wear it
A beautiful day launching the new kids club at our neighbourhood house. We had almost 40 families join us and all the snags got eaten.
This was the first event I took a back seat on and I initially felt really guilty "leaving everyone else to do all the work" (even though my stepping back was planned and carefully negotiated, as I'm still dealing with mystery health issues) but the entire team remarked that it all came together easily as "many hands make light work" and for once we had enough funding to bring on the appropriate number of staff for the project!
The weather held out and I met so many amazing locals, I couldn't have asked for a better day.
And the timing worked out perfectly with the MRI I'd been scheduled for. Packed up after the event jumped on the bus, and got there at the exact right time.
Am I the only one who finds getting an MRI relaxing? It's an excuse to lie down and be still while zoning out and pretending I'm being faxed somewhere. The technician tried playing me some Muzak over the headphones and laughed when I asked her to stop because it was messing with my ability to enjoy the magnetic dubstep.
Had an appointment for an NBN tech visit yesterday morning, cause the internet in the place we moved into was shot. Mate came in at 830 in the morning.
He quickly determined it wasn't our box that's the problem, but a faulty thingamajig on the street post, but he didn't have the right parts on him. He had to leave, but he promised he'd get it sorted within the day. We were prepared to wait it out until the Monday, but mate came back on at almost 7pm on a Friday, just to get it sorted like he said, and sorted it he did.
Just thought that was so nice of him, and I really appreciate it. Gave him a drink early on, but wish I gave him more of it, and hopefully he doesn't mind all his work went into a night's worth of very bad Dota.