It National Dog Day today
A blanket fort! Very cute!
Inherited doggie from my mum after she was put into a home.
Been awhile now so no longer with us.
This was a few weeks after we adopted her, but here's my old dog Ruby. She loves with my ex now. Happy National Dog Day!
Ruby
Sleepy dogs are so cute!
Doggo in cat hammock being guard. If I can get the photo to load.....
I don't have a dog, and don't have decent photos of the last dog I did have, but I have many photos of Toby. Toby was a dog that one of the workers at my last place used to bring in most weeks. I haven't seen him in over a year though, but he's a good boy.
He always looked angry, but never really acted angry. He barely even barked. Still looked like he was having some violent intrusive thoughts though
Sadly I don't think I have any photos of happy Toby, because as soon as he saw the camera, he'd turn away or put on a frown. He was a tired little guy though, and by the end of the night he'd conk out on the couch and adopt the belly rub position before going back to sleep
I haven6got a dog but there are 3 dogs important to me. One is this guy and the other was this guy. Both dogs helped my son get over his fear of dogs. And then there was Rook, the 2ish year old jet black great Dane, who is a great big baby who lived down the road from me. Unfortunately his owners were evicted so the landlord could do extensive renovations and I don't see him anymore 😢
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Just got Sammi home - it's like she's back to normal. She actually scarfed Zooki's roo mince which she wasn't supposed to have, inhaled the Hills vet food that she was, used the tray and is walking around reacquainting herself with the place.
If you saw her Wednesday and then today, the only difference in her is the shaved spot where they took the bloods. Oh and no purrs - I might be on her shit list for awhile.
Anyway ultrasound Wednesday, they're going to let me know what time.I'm glad to hear she's feeling better ❤️
First day of new job 😬 hoping to not have a napkin-sneeze moment
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Have a great day!
Congrats on the new job forcey!
Good luck!
I’m having an unbelievably hard time of life. I’m just not getting a break.
Melbcat is feeling more comfortable with adequate pain relief though, ate some wet food and is cuddling. I’m waiting for Tuesday and counting down to receiving the antibiotics
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I'm sorry Melb, lots of hugs and fingers crossed for you and melbcat
many hugs and kisses
and if you ever need anything just drop a line
Went to check out a school with/for the eldest minipeeler. It seems like such a great fit for him. So hard to get a school that can help him with his anxiety, school refusal and need for re-engagement. It's a tiny school though and they have such limited places. I'm not the praying kind but I'm praying for him to get accepted. We will formally begin the application process tomorrow for next year 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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So many hugs and kisses for eldest mini and hugs for you too for helping him find a good school.
Any improvement Sammi had was minimal, so I phoned the vet and they've admitted her for observation and further tests (including hopefully an abdominal ultrasound).
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This TAFE course seems pretty fun. The wifi signal down this end of the house is abysmal though, and because the repeater I had laying around needs LoS to the router, it doesn't actually help at all.
I was meant to do a janky under house ethernet setup today but the person I had convinced to crawl into the spiders lair (aka under the house) is sick. As soon as I do I swear I'm setting up a janky mesh network
Anyway the course seems nice. I like the diversity. There's more people around my age than I thought there'd be, as well as a few older people. The trainer gives off nice but stern aunty vibes too, but seems sweet
Also also, every time I have to meet new people, I'm always astounded by how close my mental pictures are. Just through 1-2 emails and their name and role, I can usually figure out what they'll look like before I ever actually meet them. It's like a party trick at this point
LOL that's hilarious. There is actually that stray cat that everyone thinks is a massive chonker, but is actually just really floofy. It seems happy to go wherever if there's a bit of ham involved, maybe that's a solid idea!
I just finished. It was nice. I still don't really know wtaf I'm doing, and feel rather out of place, but there's a bit of an uncontrollable smile on my face at the moment
Edit: they also seem to have some support services available. Obviously I've never studied anywhere else, so have no frame of reference to compare it to, but I booked in a video call with someone to learn how to use the LMS thingy (it is very janky and not at all intuitive)
Yay. Day 1 down with no embarrassing moments to report. New place is nice. They have cold soda water water on tap 😍
Awesome. 🥤
Payday today!! I'm trying to get the enthusiasm levels up like all you Wednesday pay people from last week, but when you have a strict budget it's all divided up and spent before you get it anyway.
It is nice seeing the car money creeping higher though - I've gone from "could buy another car the same as mine if I crash it" level to being able to get something that's a bit nicer. Slowly moving towards the point I can buy a car I would actually choose to buy without being forced by the death of my current one.
Monday pay people represent! The boss does our payslip in the morning but our pays sometime during the afternoon, so it's a small "yay" when I get the email and a bigger more relieved "YAY" when the bread is in the bag.
We used to get the pay slip available on the pay system some random time during the day, but there is no email or any notification so you just have to keep checking if it is there. Recently they started doing it earlier so it is there over the weekend which is much better. We have a stupidly complicated pay structure with varying penalty rates so we always have to go through and double check everything for errors (although not everyone's math skills are up to the task, so they probably get away with a lot of mistakes).
My bank now notifies me when the actual money goes into the bank, so that is always nice to see.
my pay doesn't land until Thursday night, dammit. I much preferred a previous job where it would arrive on a Tuesday afternoon. somehow that feels much more civilised.
This week’s shit weather is brought to you by my annual leave. Not. Happy. Jan.
I want to see a mashup of not happy Jan and Marge the rains are 'ere
Vet just called - as before, nothing detected in the external examination and nothing in the blood tests. They're going to x-ray her and if nothing shows up on that, organise an ultrasound. Also they'll give her fluids and an anti nausea injection since she has been vomiting on and off since Thursday.
You wish they could just tell you what's going on.
You do 😕
so many gentle hugs and good wishes
Thank you 😊
8.5 hours straight with no lunch break (by my own choice because I didn't want to spend even longer outside). Ugh, I had hoped it would be a short day today - it was easy at least, mostly support for someone else and driving - but just a lot of time standing around not working on my assignment, while my brain and guts are in stress overdrive again. I'm glad that my work now ends when I leave, but whose bright idea was it to reintroduce ongoing stress with uni!!!
I'm going to just eat and lie down for a bit before I attempt to do any uni stuff. I'm 70% of the way there. Just need to skim through enough articles to cite them appropriately...
I just saw this. I haven't used Zotero but the Lemmy nerds recommend it https://mander.xyz/post/17175983
as an academic, zotero is absolutely the way to go.
Endnote does a job, but is comparatively slow, clunky and huge as a program - not to mention expensive, if you don't have institutional access.
Even WITH institutional access to endnote, I use zotero and pay for syncing myself.
works gone to complete and utter shit. We're being forced into this project that we all know is gonna end in a complete dumpster fire, but we (as in everyone in my department, managers included) cant do anything to stop it. Gonna chat to my boss and just say "look I cant reconcile this shit, you want it done? Fine, but I dont want to talk about it for a second more than we have to". The greater department has this habit of turning their meetings into therapy/bitching sessions and I'm just not here for it.
Till this Project Doom is completed we're sticking to facts any talking about it as little as possible.
thats fair enough isnt it? Honestly sat in the meeting where it was announced on seek, and I dont reckon I was alone in that.
I'm wary of places where meetings become therapy/bitch sessions. I never know how much that stuff is gonna get twisted, taken out of context, used against you etc. Risky overflow into unprofessional behaviour.
What's the project? I'm incredibly curious. Is it a migration of some sort?
You guessed it. I cant say too much publicly, but imagine a migration you wouldn't wanna touch with a 10 foot pole and your probably thinking of it.
This whole CFMEU saga is equally entertaining and concerning.
When unlawful power is called out and given a good smacking? Always entertaining to watch from a safe distance. Unions are not per se bad, but when the power inherent in them is abused it's good to know that there are some ways to rein them in. You may be too young to remember the whole Painters & Dockers Union stuff, but they did things like murder people. As well as run-of-the-mill corruption and stuff. No-one was surprised when that union was forcibly de-registered - except maybe the members of the union. Seems like the CFMEU have forgotten that lesson.
My biggest concern about this whole saga is how long it's taken to get to this point. I worked on CFMEU sites for a decade or so (non union role) and thought it was bad then. Like absolutely transparent corruption and no one seemed to care.
Also disappointing that unions are meant to protect workers against shit conditions and bad management. Now they're becoming the monster they were suppose to slay.
The cultist mentality is pretty messed up too. Glad it's being taken care of, but I don't trust either gov party to act as administrators.
100% agree. Love watching people get their just deserts.
It's the last week of the month. If you want to change jobs now is a great time to apply for roles coming up to 14 days old
Why is that the case?
Recruiters' commission is monthly and job ads are usually up for 2 weeks. Applying for something that's going to close soon now means they'll try extra hard to place you before the month ends.
Geez this stranded astronaut thing is a schmozzle. They are doing a lot of ‘everything is fine’ PR, but it must be stressful to be stuck up there, and I’m sure there are some very tense discussions being had.
I feel really sorry for them, they certainly didn't sign up for this. It reminds me of Sergei Krikalev, the guy who was stuck in space while the Soviet union collapsed and the country that sent him into space no longer existed.
Despite being directly the in projected storm path, we were spared the brunt of it.
Wind and rain for about 15 minutes and then some small hail.
Overall, not the worst we've had.
Apart from the power going off for maybe half an hour, which was kinda fun tbh, it wasn't as bad as we were expecting.
I was living in Horsham when the power station blew up on a hot day in November. I was watching one of those mid Arvo money programs on tv (the millionaires chaser or whatever), then the power went out. Then there was a bang. Then there were sirens. Went outside, and there was a gigantic black plume directly in front of us (we were on the other side of town, but a small town and the lack of high-rises makes it easy to see such things). Then like 2 hours later we got a text message from powercor, saying the power is out. Was a bit of a "ya think????" Situation, but from memory they fixed it the next morning
My gutter struggled inner east :( I am sick of ladders. At least the roof didn't leak for once.
I was gonna say, not that bad out here either. Fair bit of lightning and thunder but no hail or anything. Apparently emerald copped it though.
Cousins in Sunbury had it bad like 20 minutes before it hit us. I think we were on the edge of the clouds and they got the centre.
I copped it hard here. The hail was thinking against one of the very thin windows in the lounge room so hard I was genuinely worried the window might shatter. It was cool to watch the lighting though, and listen to the rain on the tin roof.
That was, until the tin roof started leaking. That wasn't fun while I was cooking dinner and getting rained on inside. Only a minor leak thankfully, but I did call after hours. They basically said that if it becomes a critical leak, I can call a different number and they'll send someone out. Otherwise, it'll be followed up today
train went pass south yarra
spotify ad 2000s Dad Rock Mixexcuse me what
-find the playlist- WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS AND GOING UNDER ARE MUSIC FOR OLD PEOPLE NOW?okay
the joke "Someone remembered to wake Billie Joe, yeah?" on the 1/10th will never not be funny, so I guess in a sense it always has been dad rock?
Instructions unclear (or I couldn't read them without my glasses), now Billy Joel is mad at me and demanding I get out of his house for some reason.
Yep. We're old.
I don't know what either of those are, so maybe?
I hate when my fears come true like this.
F today right up the B
Bunghole?
That's still A to B
Sideways.
I was surprised by the Wattle Festival and just the sheer size of it yesterday. We only did part of the main street of Hurstbridge and we hardly got to the whole thing.
I was going to go last year - they were running steam train specials out to Hurstbridge. Don't know if they did that this year. Unfortunately we missed our train which made us miss the other trains and it wasn't possible to recover from, even though it was a shuttle train
Yes, they had the steam train out again. I might try to get the kids on there next year because they were getting tired around 11 and we had afternoon plans. We got to see it leave before we headed off at least
One thing I'm really quite good at is packing to go on a trip really quickly. I've got like 3 laptops, an ipad, a 27" monitor, a media streamer, PS5 controller and all manner of cables, my clothes and my CPAP machine all fitting snuggly into my trusty suitcase. Then I have my backpack of stuff and a tote with foodstuffs and my blender. All took maybe 30-40 minutes and there was a shower in there too.
There's a shower... in your luggage? 🤔
That's a lot of electronics. I take my phone and a cable. That's it.
Yeah, impressive you can pack so much so quickly. Maybe it's time to get a Steam Deck and cut down on some of the hardware
Okay there's a lot to unpack here...
D-do you need 3 laptops and a monitor? Why do you need 3 laptops and a monitor? How long are these trips? Drug dealers only have 2 phones, what purpose do 3 laptops serve? By media streamer do you mean like a Chromecast/whatever that Amazon knockoff is?
And why do you need to bring a shower in your bag?
When I took my 5 day or whatever it was trip to Mildura, I took my phone, my tablet, 2 cables, 3 power banks, and a pair of headphones. Similar story with Sydney and Adelaide
When I was away for 3 weeks at the various hotels/AirBnBs, I took my phone, laptop, tablet, headphones, a power bank, chargers and while I was at the BnB, I brought my PC and 1 monitor (I didn't bring it with me to either of the 2 hotels), I also brought a raspberry pi planning on tinkering around with it to kill some time, but I unfortunately forgot the little mini micro nano HDMI thingy, so couldn't actually do much with it (could've done some config and set up SSH without first setting up the pi but eh). And I thought that was a lot
I hadn't been back to see the replies until now but this trip is a week at my parents housesitting so most of the electronics are for work. I have my personal laptop for personal stuff/gaming, work MacBook pro which I'm using now, work iPad, work windows laptop which I'm configuring as a Cloud PC kiosk device. Each of these serve different functions I'm testing. I probably could have left the iPad at home to be honest but it doesn't take up much room so I threw it in in case someone needed me to test something.
The shower was something I had in those 30-40 minutes not something I packed in my bag lol
My media streamer is an NVIDIA Shield Pro. I only brought it because my parents TV is too old for most streaming apps to work properly and now that I'm using the iPhone I can't stream to the Chromecast I gave them years ago.
If I'm going proper traveling none of the work stuff comes with me, or the monitor.
That's plenty lol.
For me, 1 laptop (hopefully can replace with a Windows tablet), an iPhone and a Samsung phone, few chargers. Plus clothes and toiletries.
An extra router if it's an international trip.
I want to know why my very top lemon, at least 2.something metres up was eaten by something (guessing a rat) and they ignored the many lower ones. Is it sport? showing off? Big respect but that would not have been easy.
NASA has decided to get the astronauts who went up on a crippled Boeing star liner to return on a space X next year. in short: they dont trust the spacecraft for human flight. You cant write fiction funnier than this.
Sounds more like a horror.
Russia have an emergency escape ship docked at all times. They arnt screwed. just more efficient to wait for the next American ship.
looks like a nice day to go out for a bit
luv youse all 😘 have a nice arvo
You too mate 👍
this week my old printer is going to the electronic rubbish bin 👋
Funny bones ain't that funny when you scrape one across a door frame. I was carrying my recycle box back inside and I'm like "DON'T THROW IT. DON'T THROW IT".
Good lord. Spotify free version doesn't even let me play a single song I want to hear, just a playlist that includes it. What a disaster
Android? There's a few modded Spotify clients floating around. I used to use one back before I had pocket money.
I've actually been considering going back to one in priest, cause they don't consider high school students to be friends. I was annoyed but not downright pissed about that. But I checked if my new course would land me the student pricing, but nah, they either don't consider TAFE students to be students, or don't consider my school to be a TAFE
I can afford normal Spotify, so perhaps I'm not in the target demographic, but it just annoyed me that they keep pushing their discounts in my face and then at the last minute being like "jokes! You don't count."
I never joined and don't listen . Once last.fm died as a music player I gave up enrolling and getting subs and apps
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I think it would be more politically astute to accept the charges
and protest outside of federal liberal party headquarters demanding equal action on political corruption
That would miss the point of the protest. It was a mass action from the community, where a broad range of unions and non-union organisations participated, to rally together and voice our response to the extreme administration bills. I've gone into a little detail on my perspective here. Overall, we must recognise the way this bill was handled as a knowingly-inappropriate response to the situation and a threat to the whole labour movement.
In case I need to state it, I'm not defending corruption, I'm not saying that there aren't people who should be charged and removed. There are real problems with the CFMEU and the members should be empowered to root it out of their union. Putting in a dictator with huge conflicts of interest with the workers is not how to do that. That's how to union-bust.
and protest outside of federal liberal party headquarters demanding equal action on political corruption
The Liberal party didn't do this. The protest is critiquing the Labor party and their attack on the labour movement.
The Liberal party also probably couldn't care less about the protesters, might as well be vegans threatening to boycott a butcher. Union reps are a major component of the Labor party, and union rank-and-file are a large part of their voter support base.
What's being protested
Here's a quote from the ETU:
We've had Royal commissions into the severe misconduct of the banking and finance sector, the Robodebt scandal, and the aged care sector. Each of these Royal commissions had DAMMING FINDINGS, yet NOT ONE person lost their job, NOT ONE company was put into administration, and NOBODY went to JAIL!
The CFMEU on the other hand - one of Australia's strongest unions, is now FORCED straight into administration on the back of a handful of rumours and allegations.
The HYPOCRISY is staggering!!
We call on all jobs to stop at 10am this Tuesday to support the CFMEU and attend a Rally at the State Library[*] 11am sharp!
Let's fight for our wages and conditions!
Let's fight for the future!
Let's all stand together!
SEE YOU ALL THERE!!!!* Note the venue has genuinely changed to Trades Hall as of about 11 AM today.
