Beach!:
looks like heaven
so jelly
Heading to Flaming Lips tonight, should be fun. I'm guessing they haven't installed aircon at festival hall...?
Edit. Feels like there's fans, but it's still really quite hot.
Edit. There seems to be no fans. I was mistaken.
Edit. My god, I'm drenched already.
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Second set ... I'll ease off now 🙂
I was thinking about going but after being in an un airconned Royal Exhibition Building all day I don't think I can do another unairconned venue.
I didn't even know they were playing 🫥
That looks amazing!
Nice shots 👍
Festering Hall? Sounds like it's worth the sweat though.
The Queen surveys her kingdom.
I bought a portable air con from Appliances Online. Rare delivery fail - didn't get notified until the guys actually rocked up to deliver. First time this has happened to me.
Mega dramas hooking it up to the outside to vent (we all gotta vent from time to time). At the moment it's held in place by repurposed cardboard and the magic of duct tape, which will do until it rains. If it continues to do well over the next few days, then will invest in a proper window fitment.
Unit works well - has shrunk the temp in my bedroom from 30 plus to 23 over 1 hour. Methinks this was money well spent.
Will be keeping an eye on the power bill, but my last one was $45, so I think I can splurge a bit on personal comfort.
Definitely worth shelling out to not boil in this horrid heat. You'd have spent so many decades the "hard way" with wet towels and ice cubes and what not. I'd only experienced that in my childhood overseas and that was enough for me.
Cooling is worth the cost if possible.
Portable air cons are a god send.
My rabbits
Their home is so cool!!
They are so adorable and you are awesome at looking after them, these guys live like rabbit kings. ❤️
Thank you!
Here's them eating right now:
Out for a walk and brunch before the weather gets too hot. Now home for washing and relaxing.
Love this space on the internet and glad for all those who are or were part of it.
I know. 🥹 I feel so lucky and grateful to have all these wonderful people share their everyday lives.
Rolled outta bed late and dehydrated but still managed to hoist myself out to do the needful:
⛽ Car filled up
🚘 Car given a long overdue clean and vac - tired of Monday's gunk
🌬️ Car tyres pumped although I still get the tyre pressure warning...
🥕 Bought fruit and veg at my old shops on the way back (almost drove back to my old place out of habit 💔)
🍲 That includes a shit tonne of vegan snags and easy cook shit at the Fancy Woollies which I miss DEARLY despite the shitty parking
🍦 Grabbed half price ice cream and cheap chips from the shops across the road
🧹 Vacuumed the joint
🚿 Had a shower with hot water coming out of the cold tap, as usual on hot days, because this place sucks that way
❄️ Aircon on
🍽️ About to have a late lunch
That's it. Staying PUT until Monday. I have plenty of food options. Window shades on my car windscreen because I'm not going anywhere. Need to buy a dash cover.
So many Severence theories to catch up on and then time for this week's The Pitt, then I'll need to tackle the dishes and get round to reading Juice tonight.
It's one of those "brushing Gibson has relaxed me to the point of sleep".
I didn’t mean to, but I also bought a copy of War and Peace today.
I guess I know how I’m spending the heat
I'm going to be reading Tim Winton's Juice just to really let it sink in
I read that over Christmas. At the time I had some niggles with it but I keep thinking about it so I'd say it was good
Gutters done. Always like doing them down here because:
Worth the risk. Lovely up there. Doesn't look anything like that from ground level.
Might watch Se7en now. I've been looking at what Cinema Nova's been doing for their anniversary parties and following that
I wish I could do gaming on the PC sometimes but after sitting and staring at a monitor for 40+ hours at work i just can't do it.
#consolepeasent
Boyo finally got to see me have a gaming meltdown tanty after struggling with a POE2 boss just earlier. I'm not proud
I'm a PC and console gamer. Depends on the game. I do agree that sometimes sitting down to my PC to play after being at work all day makes me question life and I play a lot less these days... mostly because it makes my evenings go too quickly!!
I would love to setup a pc in the loungeroom connected to my large 4k TV and just use a controller.
Just being able to have mods is insane!!!
I don't play during the week otherwise I'd play all night lol. I only play on weekends.
I think that’s understandable if you’re feeling that way and able to make that link.
Means you need a break from the computer screen.
Time to chill and do other things if you ask me.
It's a different screen, presumably in a different room. I feel totally the same way.
I use a controller with my PC if I'm playing a game like Dark Souls.
I guess the switch is easier for me because I have a couple of hours between work and gaming with the boys' evening routine
That makes sense. For me it's the sitting position. I play guitar sitting on the floor because I can't hack sitting in a chair again lol
Yesterday's episode of Severence was so good I watched it again which is super rare.
thoughts
There is no way that could be Helly R down there. It has to be Helena, I'd be so annoyed if it wasn't. Irving knows and Dylan is twigging onto it too.
Dylan and Gretchen are going to be the actual throuple.
The actress playing Felicia had the best facial acting when she gave Irving a hug. I felt like I was being hugged myself.
Devon's strained "yis..." when Natalie asks her a question as she's about to leave the horrific Ricken ego-fest was one of the best lines from an already amazing actress who sounds so uncannily real in every line read.
The goat people are almost all homeless or drug addicts hence the awful skin and hair.
Cobel hurriedly left because she recognised the bodyguard from something and realised she wasn't going to leave that building alive - or at least not without her memories.
and now to wait for next Friday, sigh.
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___The goat people! Plausible that they may severed homeless. If they were more normal outies they might be suspicious about why they leave work looking dishevelled everyday. Or maybe they are true believers, so they blindly accept what they do during the day is good for Lumon? WHAT ARE THE GOATS FOR?? As for the facial acting, the smiles from Milchick and Natalie. So disturbing, fake, evil and condescending all at the same time. They deserve an acting award just for the smiles. This show is a total mastery of the uncanny and unnerving. It’s gonna be a slow week waiting for the next episode.
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It's so crazy right?! I can't imagine that they'd be able to cover up smelling of goats every day. And they do look seriously deranged.
I read somewhere that the goats in S1 were included as more of a non-sequitor but because they were so popular with the audience they have an expanded role in S2 lol. I wouldn't be surprised (and would actually kind of prefer) if they didn't explain what the goats were for in the end, it's just one of the unfathomable mysteries of a big corporate office...
Oh man, the hidden conversation between Milchick and Natalie was a masterclass in facial acting. I rewatched it several times just to see the point at which Natalie was silently begging with her eyes for Milchick to just go along with it despite how stupid and insulting the gift was lol.
It sure is going to be a slow wait, but I do also love that we have time to digest and analyse been episodes, the online communities are absolutely buzzing right now and it wouldn't have been the same if all the episodes dropped at once. Though I almost wish they did the first two together.
We're gonna need a concise theory from you because I can't pick it.
Tap for spoiler
Absolutely is helena, they broadcast the fuck outta that when she lied about what happened during overtime
I thought so too, plus mounting evidence over the past couple episodes, but it's nuts how many people on Reddit thought it wasn't. You don't subdue a determined motherfucker like that so easily!
I'm going to rewatch the whole series 1 and 2 episodes again.
I saw it too and that cliffhanger. Argh!
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Regarding Ms. Cobel, I reckon that might be her dead husband, especially with the way she had her shrine and the ventilator mask in her front seat.
The mystery behind Gemma really has me curious now about what had happened, at first I thought Miss Wong had something related to her but now I’m not so sure.
There's a brief moment in S1
that shows...
... The ventilator mask is actually for a Charlotte Cobel, date of birth March 17, 1944. It's in one of the episodes when they show a close-up of the shrine in Ms Cobel's house.
Lots of theories since then about how Cobel's motivation to prove reintegration might be tied to bringing Charlotte (mother?) back, tied into the broader assumption that the ultimate goal of the Severence chip and whatever MDR is doing relates to recreating a personality and bringing back a dead person a la Gemma. It's all very unclear ATM!
I feel like I'm missing something fundamental in my life and I don't know what. Perhaps it's boredom and sense of fulfilment, because there is so much I can do with ice on my face for most of the day. I'm trying not to see the future as scary, but as something with hopefully some sort of excitement.
I think it's normal to see the future as a bit scary. It's the unknown.
Edit: Maybe that's one of the most exciting things about being alive. You don't know what's around the corner.
Haha I really hope so
Are you really living if there's no uncertainty in life?
I'm really not far north of the city, closest to the Viewbank weather station. It's usually a couple of degrees warmer here but right now it's 11 degrees hotter than the CBD. It's 37C.
How??
it's 30 here in Carlton
2nd season pokemon intro song sucks compared to season 1.
I've been to body pump, had a walk, done two loads of washing, and made a frittata. I will be on the couch until further notice.
I wanna go back to body pump, but have gotten so unfit that it scares me. But I also know how good it feels when it hits right!
Enjoy your couch time!
Lunch done. Coffee made. Washing done and drying now.
Time to relax!
Fuck it. I'm gonna get up.
Had a whole wedge of cheese bang on it's best before date last night and no cheesemares so that's nice.
I'm thinking we go to a shopping centre this afternoon to escape the heat, and I've also been trying to pick up some of the cheap nick-nack shit Kmart has on clearance, but balancing where everything is in stock has been a headache
Cat medical
The Melbaby got a day to decompress and then we went to the usual vet yesterday… her blood pressure kept climbing from stress so the next thing is a home visit. Hopefully that’s easier on her so we can get an accurate read and do something.
I’m told that her eyes seemed ok or at least the things told to me seem better than the emergency doctor presented them. And she’s eating. Avoiding obstacles. But I’m still noticing some vision problems. I had to move a shifted water bowl back into position in front of her and audibly tap the edge. I’m not seeing her usual quick curious glance.
Housing
I’ve been told of another housing option but the organisation has a bad reputation. From my observations of the local place “run” by them it’s well deserved. And reviews mention them not addressing prolonged violent antisocial behaviour against other tenants - which is what I’m trying to avoid.
I don’t know that I trust them. I’m not trying to uproot my whole life only to end up in the same situation or worse.
TW suicide
I’m struggling with how hard and unforgiving and never ending life feels and really struggling to function in a basic capacity. Wishing I had the guts to end it. Been feeling that way for a long time.
Melbcat is my rock and my anchor. I’m not going to be able to handle it when she passes especially having to make that decision. So I think that is going to be a really high risk time for me.
Oh man, I don't know what to say except 🫂💙
Thanks
so many hugs
and get a kitten. Melbcat will have someone to teach cat things to and to care for, it will be her cat legacy ❤️
I think she’d be really stressed with a new cat, and she has chronic cat flu that she could transmit.
It’s a shame. I did think about fostering kittens for her to play with but it’s a gamble and I’m actually not sure about my capabilities anymore or about bringing them into my situation.
This weather is a blessing. 🌞
I'm going to be hating it tomorrow 😓
Another year, another 'Rod run' car show down here where people show off they're stupidly exxy hot rods. Some of them are absolutely bonkers. Sounds like they're hooning at the start of the bellarine highway but in reality they're probably the most careful drivers on the road heh. Definitely worth a look if you're into that sort of thing. I'm not but it's impressive how much coin and time they put in. I wonder how many of them have aircon cause tm will be brutal if they don't.
It's doona washing weather
Beep Beep 🚚
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Righto. I’m headed to the market before it gets too hot.
Please place requests below
Yeah can I get aaaaaaaaaah, some fruit?
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I miss the jam donuts from Preston Markets. Actually, I miss fresh donuts in general, they don't seem to be a thing in Perth.
Strawberries and jazz apples?
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Played the Cure on Spotify and the autoplay has just been fantastic: Radiohead, Portishead, Mazzy Star, the Smiths and whole bunch others and now Billy Idol is singing me off to sleep.
Sweet Dreams, fam…
Absolutely love mazzy star. Been ages since I listened to them.
I was a metal head in high school until my high school girlfriend got me into Jeff Buckley and mazzy star.
It never ceases to amaze me how good a game Ghost of Tsushima is.
The landscaping and details of flowers and leaves is quite amazing at times.
I heard it's amazingly detailed. Impressive considering it's from an American studio. I think about that difference with Sekiro, they're probably only a few hours train ride from an authentic castle like the one in the game. Sucker Punch are on a whole other continent
It’s got some lovely shrines and locations, my most recent little memory involved having a duel as part of a quest and it took place in a water filled cave and had lighted paper lanterns floating in the water around you as you have your duel.
Sekiro did have some nice pieces in it though it is much different in game design. It’s closer to a soulsbourne game with its systems and it’s sort of more level based on terms of structure if I remember correctly.
I’m excited for the 2nd game coming out later in the year Ghost of Yotei and looking forward what Sucker Punch can do with it.
Shopping is done. Now the veg out begins. 🍠
