Dunno about 'human', but this is def how it feels to be the hero. Enjoy it while it lasts, which will not be long. I speak from experience here. Once you start doing things the way they should be done, expect a backlash.
It shouldn't be a super power to feel supported but unfortunately it is....
The great thing is that you now know how it feels, you can be a spreader of it and watch people bloom.💐
G'day mates I'm back and I'm braindead. Happy to say immigration/e-gates were much less of a shit show than late last year even though there were still a couple of kiosks out of action. Seems like all airports are moving primarily towards facial recognition, had so many photos taken
Thank you! And in typical Melbourne welcome someone tries to cut in front of the driver merging onto an onramp almost causing an accident. 😆
I've had no caffeine for quite a while now and slept through the tea service on the plane. Think I'll just coast through the rest of day with a hot chocolate so I catch up on some quality sleep tonight.
I wish to report that I had some super juicy and delectable gyoza for my last meal before heading to the airport.
Now looking forward to see how my extremely hasty literally last minute first ever chilli ferment is going. Those scotch bonnets almost smelled like carrots when I blitzed them, so fresh. I hope nothing bad has grown and that no receptacles have exploded
Always happy to help! Bear in mind I'm moderately fluent in he language and have been a few times so there's stuff that's relevant to others that I may not be aware of, but shoot away when you're ready.
I'd say q solid 7/10. Accom really could've been planned better and felt I didn't always get the right momentum or do what I really wanted to, but also some magical moments throughout. My cup is full
We got a royal welcoming committee in Donald. I think the entire town was here to greet us! All the school kids were lined up waving to us, all the industrial business we passed had nobody working - everybody was at the fence waving to us. Every level crossing there were 5-10 people waving
I've been on many heritage trains, but I've never had a reception quite like that
I'm not sure anyone told them we were running 50 minutes late and our 30-40 min stop was going to turn into a 10 min one though, so I think we disappointed them a little :(
I was offered the role. Then I asked if my expected pay had been considered, that it was more than my current pay. I was told it hadn't been, but that they'd get back to me shortly. Got back to me: "look I spoke to the big boss, and he says now your current role and the one Ur going for are considered equal (my current role used be considered lesser), your pay is appropriate and would remain the same. I told them I would consider that over the long weekend.
Also just learned that ANOTHER person quit in the role I'm going for, bringing the total to four open positions, and as far as I know, I'm the only internal applicant. The fuckers have the gall to not offer me anything.
Unless you want the challenge or you’re going to come out of it with some sort of advantage I don’t see why you would take on a role with more or greater responsibility and challenges with no change in pay.
I will not be partaking in alcoholic beverages tonight due to urgent business early tomorrow morning but will be making up for that tomorrow day/evening/ night.
For those who will be have a great night. Cheers 🍺
10 large cans of chilli tuna
2 each of salada and vita wheats
3 bags pasta
2 cans tomato
2 stir through sauces
1 box gravy powder
1 pack hokkien noodles
Various spices
1 thing of powder pancake mix
2 bags of rolled oats.
2 bags frozen veggies
2 bags frozen chips
Heading back after dinner to grab more stuff. Was honestly shocked at price.
Wow. It seems all the other social sites are in a competition for who can become the worst the fastest. Reddit has jumped on the selling data to AI bandwagon, as has Facebook and Instagram. Tumblr is still banning trans women while leaving up nonconsensual deepfake nudes and is also now crawling with minors. Twitter is uh... Twitter. Sorry, X.
Cursing my shitty body and dodgy area. Never have I wished to touch grass more.
A colleague why had Covid last week is back in the office and visibly not recovered. We Can either take sick day, come into office or wfh AND make up an extra office day. Meanwhile I hope my mask is doing its job.. I did have to remove it briefly to drink water though.
Transiting in HKG with another hour to kill. Just want to sleeeep
E: I watched Fallen Leaves on the way here and am glad I finally gave it a go after finding previous Kaurismäki films too bleak. This one was just right. On the way to HKG I had watched Marcel the Shell with Shoes on which was incredibly cute and heartwarming but man that Dean was a total dick imo
For the first time in over 30 years, a Mildura bound train has left from Maryborough! We're running about 40 minutes late because a freight train was also running 40 minutes late
I think your partner might be able to get the sick pay? Not sure about that. Otherwise, check out Ask Izzy and/or Centrelink for anything that might help you if they cannot work. There are charities that can help with food and bills and whatnot
Indeed - I'm fine in that regard for that reason. My partner on the other hand...alas, I'm not earning enough to cover us both to the extent I may have to
Never realised how bad it is not having my own washing machine until now—testing positive a week later. I ran out of towels near the start as I was due for a wash and I just ran out of clean clothes then.
My only symptom now is reduced smell and I feel fine in every other respect, but I'm not gonna be that person who rocks up to the laundromat covid positive—it can wait (hopefully).
I think we might have been allowed to do it as one of the reasons to go out, but I remember for at least one of them I had to hand wash my clothes like I'm doing now
This not as daft an idea as it might first sound. Does not help which things like sweating all the sheets into gross. Though it might be amusing to see some TikTok idiot try stuff a Queen sheet into a kettle.
Don't forget to roll the clothes up in towels and stand on them to get as much moisture out as possible after. I handwashed my clothes when the machine broke and they didn't dry quickly enough to avoid getting mouldy
Edit: If this might drag on or you might get sick again, consider a portable washing machine. It might let you do a small load more easily
They sure can, and some ought be. Very few people will have a scrub board nowadays, but modern clothes won’t generally be as grotty or sturdy. Don’t know about having the energy to do it while Positive!
I know you mean well, but I think that kind of thinking is what got me with covid in the first place. I don't want to risk continuing to spread it further to other people, not a chance.
Soooo our train has stopped at woomelang, but it stopped after the crossing signal on a little temporary platform thing. It's been sitting here for 30 minutes triggering the level crossing and we still have another half hour here.... Nobody's moving it, it's just idling on the platform setting off the crossing alarms.
There's no barriers, but people are really confused about what they're meant to do
I moved around a lot growing up, and had some formative years in the UK. I love the winter, I love the cold, I love the early dark - as it reminds me of that time. Having said that, I also love daylight saving...ha
Taco Bills must have heard me talking about them because I've received an email from them saying 1/2 priced main meals this weekend and boy oh boy am I tempted to jump on a tram and go see them.
Growing up, friends of my parents owned and ran a Taco Bill's franchise. I remember going behind the scenes as a kid and being amazed at the biggest microwaves I'd ever seen...
That said, I'd totally jump on that tram in a heartbeat myself, on my way to consume twice my body weight in nachos...
Cafes charging 20 dollars for a bowl of granola is really quite obscene. Obviously I avoid this egregiousness but somebody must be forking out for these businesses to stay open.
I had another good idea. The infection my cat has is from bad gut bacteria and apparently weak to a good bacteria called Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus, so I walked to go get her some plain Greek yogurt specifically containing that. My knees are screaming and I couldn't find a small tub, only a big expensive one, but got hold of a lactose free kind and she's just eaten a spoonful. The antibiotics might nuke everything so I might give her a little yogurt each day of her antibiotics and then hit things with the bought probiotics once she finishes.
Melbcat likes it a lot so if her stomach handles it she might have a snack each day or a dollop with each meal for the long term. It costs and I don't know if I'll be able to eat it as well, but I could freeze it in cubes (if the bacteria will survive well) and it will be cheaper than spending hundreds every time she gets sick. Fingers crossed it helps. I'm really trying to avoid further antibiotic resistance 😬
I really hope it does. I'm not sure if there'd be enough of the good bacteria in there to have much of an effect, but perhaps I can find some affordable probiotic capsules.
The results are back... The good news is we can stop the trimethoprim sulfa Melbcat is allergic to, as the bacteria (enterococcus faecalis) is sensitive to doxycycline. That's an antibiotic she can tolerate.
The bad news is that her kidney values are slightly up which could be kidney disease or just the uti. Also the bacteria is resistant to the trimethoprim she's been taking so I've been torturing her with that for no reason. This poor cat can't catch a break.
q90
I've got the doxy and obtained discounted gravy beef from a shop close by so I can make some plain broth. I have to wait until tomorrow morning to to start the new antibiotic.
Anyone here got both a manual and auto in the house? Does it ever get easier?
We're about 2-3 months in of having both and I gotta be honest, 2 seems to be 1 more than I can count. I'm fine after a day or 2 in 1, but each time I jump in the other after a little while it is ROUGH.
Agreed. Love a manual, but the auto has its uses. Stop start traffic along the monash in a manual isnt a ton of fun. And sadly the wait time on the SUV with a manaul was over 2 years, where as I could get the auto straight away... sadly a no brainer. At least its a REAL auto none of this CVT BS.
My car's a manual. The man's car is auto. I don't drive his but he drives mine all the time. He doesn't have a problem switching between cars but he still changes gears in his out of habit.
lmao! So its not just me? I go for the clutch in the auto, then forget it when starting the manual when its left in gear. You'd think "Brand new modern SUV" and "Dated 2000's Hatch" would be enough for my brain to register, but no.
Rewatching movies. The Razor's Edge, 1946. I watched this first in my 20s, loved this movie and the book. Such grand sweeping ideas, relatable characters, of course I wanted to be larry.
It's been at least 10 years since I've seen it last and I see new things. Mainly the pervasive undercurrent of politics, the upcoming class war, the fascism, antisemitism and decadence of 1920's Europe and the complicity of religion. It's a ticking time bomb.
But what I mainly like now is how human it is. No one seems to do much thinking about life and society, they just accept and drift. All the characters have deep flaws and nearly everyone is so forgiving. Maybe they shouldn't have been so forgiving of the fascism, eh.
I'm so tired, but unfortunately today is another early day. I only had 4 hours the night before last, so I was hoping to go to sleep early and get a solid 10 hours in. But then dinner went for almost 2.5 hours and they told us we have to go to breakfast at 6 with a bus taking us back to Maryborough at 7. I think I managed to get about 5.5 hours last night, but at this rate I'm going to return from the trip more exhausted than when I left
I don’t mind lamb but will go years between buying it. I just doesn’t register as a thing most of the time. Eat loads of piggy though, really annoyed the Colesworth apple sausages seem to have vanished.
celery
spam and tinned meat in general EXCEPT for tinned mutton ham (only from asian grocers) cos I really like this
jar sauces
tinned veg
carob
lolly water
breakfast cereal
tins of soup EXCEPT for Campbells chicken consomme when I can find any (the best!)
Movie Review. Bad Education. Just a normal well made movie. 2.5 hobbits
A bunch of high school students on the school newspaper investigate their school, exposing the biggest school fraud case in history.
The kids did nothing special, they just checked facts.
But doing things the right way seems to be too difficult for most or they are just too uninterested or lazy so maybe they are special. I have found this true in all aspects of life.
The kids should have gotten a Pulitzer.
Wolves of War. If I was a film student making a first real movie I would be very proud of this movie. It's competent . 1.5 hobbits