So we're all here because of a change in circumstances that none of us expected. I'm in my early 50s and a creature of habit, I don't cope well with change.
I used to enjoy Twitter, but it's gone to shit, every third tweet is an irrelevant ad for something I've never expressed any interest in (crypto etc.). It's pretty much unusable now.
I used to subscribe to The Age, hard copy, home delivered. But then Nine took it over and it started to go down hill, to the point where it's now the Herald Sun but for people who can read big words and long sentences.
Pre-CoVid my favourite local bar was open five days a week, from at 5pm. I was usually the first in the door, and Fridays and Saturdays we'd be a big group handing a fair amount of money over the bar. Post-CoVid restrictions, the owners changed it to Fri/Sat only, late opening, and more of a club vibe to attract the younger crowd, so that killed it for me.
I could go on, but this is turning into a bit of a rant, so I'll just finish by saying that because of the way my brain is wired, I need routine and predictability, and I'm really over shit changing around me in every aspect of my life and having no say in it. How do you guys cope with change?
I don't mind change. It helps me to learn things I wouldn't normally seek. What I don't like is that our community that I learnt so much from was basically deleted forcing people to splinter off. The more people, the wider range of topics, better the conversations. :(
I'm grateful for this space too, really impressed how quickly we've adopted a new home.
I think I just want a stable and predictable (read: boring!) life these days, after decades of upheaval and forced changes that I wasn't ready or prepared for.
i'm a millennial used to social media platforms changing every few years. I guess I've just given up on the concept of anything online being permanent.
A lot of us are feeling this way with the loss of Reddit, I hadn't realised that I used it daily for the last decade.
I think it isn't as bad when you have something new and exciting to look forward to, like maybe you find another bar that ends up being better than the old one.
I was disappointed when Fairfax got bought and was hoping the newspapers wouldn't be part of the deal.
I think humans naturally adapt - and that includes you. What did you do before Twitter, for example? And hell, you're here, instead of the DT on Reddit. It's similar, but there's still change involved.
What I think is important is recognising that maybe the "change" takes a little longer to adopt, or adapt to when you're older (and I say this as a late 30s individual who's starting to notice things like this). But that's okay, as long as we do evolve and change in some capacity. Otherwise we'd still be stuck in caves smashing rocks together to make fire.
I miss the Age in its heyday too. There was proper in depth journalism, especially liked the weekend editions. There’s nothing the same anymore. It’s all easily digestible snippets or click bait. But anyway, reddit DT is back now and I’ll be using it because I like the interface better. I find it clunky and a bit too start-up here.
Oh my gosh yay I found you all. I have been so sad without the DT I missed everyone :-( Where else to post my anecdotes such as the following:
Woolies massively messed up my order today. Received half of some other family’s order. I have all their dairy, including a bunch of kids stuff. They presumably are the ones with my week’s worth of dinner meats, among other things. I am now the owner of 6L of milk, 3 tubs of spreadable butter, a ton of kids yoghurt pouches, and much more. I am going to have to see if any of the mums at play group want any of it.
Woolies had been suspiciously good with my orders there for a while, absolutely zero issues the past several orders. I feel like I’m being punished for finally trusting them lol! Waiting to hear about a refund…
Great that you’ve found your way over here! I was so pleased that the dt had reassembled itself over here - was feeling quite bereft thinking I had lost everyone after the reddit closure thing
Yes I was honestly quite upset! Checking the DT is part of my lil neurodivergent routine so realising it didn’t come back after the few days freaked me out.
Egh... this is the one reason why I don't do home delivery of stuff. I feel like the stuff I actually need will never arrive, and so I'll just be stuck with chocolate (well now... I guess things can't be all that bad).
Also, yay for finding us! It's now quite the same and there's still a handful of regulars still wandering out in the wilderness somewhere, but for what it is, it's still a nice place to come and chill :)
Pretty much what it’s like! I’ve been relying on it since we had baby and only my partner can drive at the moment. But once I get my licence I am hopefully saying FU to the supermarkets altogether and shopping elsewhere as much as possible.
I know we can't give awards so I'm just going to announce my unrequited love and respect for bacon for giving me a heads up for melbourne coming back online.
Now I can recover my journal into a document and i'll just keep posting on this zone.
Still, I like this DT now. So here I am, declaring my unrequited love and respect for my saviour, Bacon!!!!!
I like it here now that I have learned how things work. I don't think Reddit is a very stable place to be right now, who knows what's going to happen there next?
Edit: and of course whereever breakfast is a good place to be. Before Bacon got here there was nothing much but potatoes availble.
Getting there slowly, but stronger and geez more femme every day. The boost to my oestrgen levels last week and quitting booze have had marked effects on my mood. I'm teary but it's cos I feel so in love with life at the moment. I planned to arrive at this moment and did.
I have so much to look forward to today and I'm grateful for everyone here for being here and sharing mine and your thoughts. So many kind and funny people in one place, this is the Melbourne we all know and love. The bits where we are not being tailgated down punt road or made to feel like pawns in a property investment scheme. People wonder why we love this place so much, it's because of the people not the cool shops and so called liveability.
The drive in to work was pretty miserable, as was the walk to and from the car. I do believe that it is good to have a bit of unpleasantness to help us appreciate when we are warm and dry better. Or maybe that's just my sour-grapes-style envy of people with garages connected to their houses.
I'm working from home as I picked up a cold late last week and don't want to spread it throughout the office (like some people seem intent on doing). But I feel guilty being home in the comfort of my home when some of my coworkers would have had to trudge in through this weather.
I was a longtime DT lurker and I'm stoked to have found this place. I'd barely been on reddit since the blackout began and just randomly checked it tonight to see if anythings going on, and saw the link to here on the reddit DT. I know it's technically back or whatever but I'm pretty sure the app I use is shutting down at the end of the month anyway, and the official one is garbage so here I am. Maybe it's meant to be. Unlikely to change lurker status beyond this though but we'll see🫠
My mums partner is addicted to his PlayStation. He doesn't cook, clean, or help with anything when he's not at work because he just spends all his time smoking, drinking, and playing PlayStation. Over the weekend, it shit itself. It doesn't turn on. So he found an old Xbox 360 that my mum had in storage, and that worked for 24 hours before shitting itself too. Now he's walking around the house, banging cupboards and being a cunt because he can't play his videogames. Any minute now he's gonna spin some story to blame me. Giant man baby
Today has been shit, and likely to get worse this afternoon. BUT, the sparkly shoes I spent an obscene amount of money on have arrived, so there's a silver lining.
Well that was a miserably wet walk this morning. Mr Woof kept mostly dry with his raincoat on, but is still a bit wet around the ears so I'm getting the whole wet dog smell experience.
The good news is that Thursday is the turning point for the days gettting longer again (although I believe getting warmer lags behind that). I am looking forward to seeing a bit more sun. I know a lot of people have strong preferences for summer or winter, but I am definitely in camp autumn & spring, the extremes I could do without.
This whole thing is just… it’s fucked man. And I don’t understand the hate the mods are getting on this one. They are not the bad guys here. And hey if you were getting pushed on bullshit at work and your work were treating you like crap you’d push back too. Especially if you weren’t even getting paid.
I'm going to make this dish tonight. I have some luv a duck Peking duck so I'm going to slice it and fry it. Take it out to rest. Fry some onions and add garlic, ginger, gochujang, kecap manis and the left over sauce from the packet to make a new sauce. Pair it with rice, steamed broccoli and top with an egg. I think it will taste good. Hopefully. Also kimchi on the side.
Feels like a bit of an Everything's coming up Millhouse Baku moment. I had my first drive today. Only 20 minutes, but I didn't crash. I've also come to the conclusion that I should temper my expectations a bit, because I was way overconfident 😂😂
That’s great that you feel confident! You’re right to be wary of being overconfident because you don’t want to start taking risks and have it backfire badly. My biggest piece of advice is to drive like everyone else on the road hasn’t slept for two days and is really distracted. Use your indicators early, drive predictably, leave a good braking distance between you and cars in front, watch out for panic-merging at the last minute, and stick to a safe speed (that might not necessarily be the speed limit if it is, say, raining/foggy/roadworks etc).
Thanks for the advice! It was just around a fairly quiet car park today, and I'm still trying to get the hang of the controls. Though, I will bear your advice in mind for when I do hop out on to the roads!
Gah, I feel this. I mean, there's only so much one person can do in any given workday, but yeah, the mental toll it can take on top of the actual job itself isn't ideal. Not by a longshot.
Nup. They hired for role x. I applied, they said you might not be ready for x, how’s x-1 sound? I said sure. They proceed to not hire an x and all of x’s responsibilities fall to me with none of the pay. Fuckers.
Ugh, feeling pretty bleh this morning. Hope it's just waking up early in the morning and not... you know, sickness. Because I don't want to be sick for my birthday.
Decided I'd attend the hour long technology information session (Teams meeting) from my bed. I have a tablet mount on it so I can watch ma' stories. "Oh it can handle scanning straight to OneDrive that's pretty cool", I thought as the sales rep was describing some of the features of the platform. Next thing I knew it was 40 minutes later, 3:05pm and the Teams meeting was silent with only me in there.
I didn't have my camera or mic on, thankfully. Oops.
So, continuing on from my good updates on Saturday, my absolute favourite worker I've ever met left a few months ago. He took a job as a counsellor at a different org. There's been a few months of clearing it with various people and making sure there'd be no potential conflicts, and nobody could invent a way to twist a good thing into something terrible, but last week it was all approved and given the tick. I'm allowed to go counsel with him, and we have our first session tomorrow!
Oh, it's so dangerous, huh? Wifey and I normally go for a walk before our work day starts but didn't want to get washed away. I fed the cats then found myself back in bed in the warmth... didn't fall asleep again but holy hell that was like playing with fire.
Yeh I havent seen SASN in ages. I know they were taking a break and recall them saying that they noticed an inverse correlation between time spent on Reddit and happiness in life. Hoping it means they are doing well
That's a nicer search than the one linked on the aussie.zone main page. Although I find myself looking at most of the sites and thinking I really don't want a bunch of communities trying to be just like Reddit. I want something better!
I want to actually be able to have some ongoing conversations, to learn new things and not just repeat the same superficial things that tend to float to the top in the Reddit subs. I think there is a tendency for everyone to want to join in the biggest groups because that seems to be where more things happen, but smaller groups with people that are actually active and involved are much more rewarding.
Phew. Finally finished and sent off a job application….first one in a while that I’ve put a decent effort into. Would love to move on before I’m told to cover my old colleagues vacant role for no extra pay🤞🏻
Picked up the game Dorfromantik - it's kind of like tetris, if tetris was hexagonal blocks of varying types of terrain that could be linked for a higher score. You have a limit number of blocks in your stack that you take one off the top each turn, seeing what's next and what's coming up in the stack. Some blocks have "missions" like "connect x amount of houses" or "make a forest of 88 or more trees". By completing these missions you gain more on your stack.
The brilliant thing in my 1 hour of play last night was that I started unlocking some cool things - some blocks have rivers or trainlines, but I then unlocked a little boat and a little train, and surely enough if you connect a one of those with a line/river then the vehicle will trundle along its path while you play.
Super chill game - it's not like tetris in that way. I finished one game without even knowing my stack was empty, score flashing up on the screen with a "play again" button present. Yes, I thick I will play again :)
Took advantage of the break in the weather to dash out and get my antihistamines.
In other news, the cats have now decided they want cat food, of which I had plenty since I stocked up just before they went off it. At least I can eat the chicken.
Todays weather will be a 100% chance of rain, with temps between 7c and 11c ~BOM
Cloudy. Very high chance of showers, most likely in the morning and afternoon. Possible small hail from the late morning. Winds northwesterly 25 to 40 km/h turning westerly 20 to 30 km/h during the morning.
Have called in sick, now I'm going to take a bath and then eat chips on the couch for breakfast while I watch something bad. Today is a self care day because I sent a big bad email last night at work and it's eating my nerves.
Just heard from my son, who is currently living in Florida and working at NASA. Apparently the r/melboune posts are causing some cultural confusion over there. Particularly the myki one, and the ones about helicopters overhead. There is no Carrot Man in Melbourne FLA, so that had to be explained. The sunset pix though are appreciated. NASA is watching r/melbourne with bated breath - something to do with dangerous aliens interfering with the American Way of Life apparently.
If you wear make-up or work outside or work where there's a lot of dust and dirt or have oily skin then it's a good idea to use toner but if none of this apply to you then you really don't need to.
I'm getting a spa with my tax return lol. I was about to say why haven't they invented heated baths that keep the water warm then realised I was just describing a spa pool..
I'm delighted to find a caff open at this hour. Coffee and a toasted ham cheese and avocado sandwich please. And somewhere to put my wet umbrella would be useful too.
Camomile tea and honey. Cat food and a rainy day. Wholemeal english muffin with butter and avo thanks chef. I'll pay current market prices too, cos you're worth it!
Turns out that mashed potato with brown sugar basically just tastes like brown sugar. It's actually pretty good, which makes sense as it's a neutral flavoured carbohydrate with a sweetener.
I tried it last night with a little bit of the mash I was making for dinner - took a small bit out and added caster sugar & molasses (because I don't actually have brown sugar, but that's functionally the same thing). It was a bit over sweet, but I think a better ratio of potato to sugar would improve it.
Mr Woof was causing a ruckus in the kitchen, so I went to investigate. He was trying to get at my sweet potato! I've had to move it to a higher shelf for safety.
have to tell my favourite stakeholders that i'm bailing on them (finish contract at end of next week). i've been procrastinating it all morning, not sure why i'm sure they will be good about it. email currently in draft with 'here's all this work for you oh btw seeya'
Just a quiet day here, a little tidying, one load of washing, I don't have to do cooking because I made pies last night. Will continue to watch telly and do calligraphy.
Watching a "What Happened?" video before work, it's about like what happened for x thing to stuff up royally. It's mostly about video games or consoles (I think he's done like video game movies and such?).
This one is about the GameCube, with a quote from the former Vice President of Marketing at Nintendo who says that the GameCube's colour "didn't feel masculine, I think. I remember us being very nervous at E3 that we were going to get bad press purely based on the color." Like Nintendo Japan liked the purple/indigo colour scheme but Nintendo of America hated it. With the former VP saying that they should do silvers and blacks, but "it wasn't that you couldn't bring out hardware that was a different color. It was just a very... 'female' looking color."
And man... I'm so glad that we as a society are straying from colours being feminine/masculine. I mean it still happens of course, but slowly, the younger generation is weeding that out. Thank goodness. Because purple is my favourite colour.
As a fellow purple lover, I'm sad that car manufacturers have stopped making purple cars. My purple car gets compliments frequently. When I eventually buy a new car, I'll likely get it wrapped in the same purple even though it'll cost a few grand. I also rock purple caps, shirts and my supermarket nanna bag is purple.
Yep I'm very much a purple person. Anything and everything I'll get in purple (with pink coming in second). It's weird that they don't colour cars anymore, it's hard trying to find like my parents car because they're black and look the same. When my mum had a red pt cruiser it was easy to spot it.
I tend to like a nice deep red myself, but a rich dark purple is probably second favourite. Really it is less about the colour and more the same tone that I like. The idea that any colours should be reserved for specific genders is absurd. Society really needs to get over this bizarre gender tribalism we have, if society needs to dictate what you can do/be/like those differences obviously are not "natural".
I wonder what the reaction would have been had the purple been more on the vibrant/stronger side rather than the kind of matte/lilac colour. I'm thinking like Shinji's Eva01 in Evangelion (although even that could still be argued as being a bit on the feminine side). In the same vein, I wonder why purple and not red - the same red as their own logo.
But yeah, I'm with you - we still have a ways to go, but it's nice to see and hear things because called out, even for something that was only what, 15 years ago?
It kind of fell into that poor slot that seems to happen with Nintendo consoles whereby every second one kind of fails, for no real reason. The Wii U was a great idea (and hell, you could argue Sony's recent move to have a portable PS5 device for home use is the same concept), as was the Gamecube, yet their predecessors overshadow them in so many ways.
So r/Melbourne is back but the mods are having a temper tantrum so they've made it so you can only talk about Melbourne, Florida, USA? Those mods are fucking stupid
So for some reason the main person at my job agency said that the period I did the trial run for would be unpaid, and it seems like the ombudsman says unpaid Labor is fine within certain areas. But when I asked my job provider if I was getting paid, for the trial run that I would be and that it's illegal for him not to.
I'm a bit confused, and annoyed that it might be unpaid.
Edit: so okay it looks like I will be paid. It's just up to the boss man and I. Iunno, it's very confusing. Because I'm his first like in-house non contract/freelance person. It's a little different.
it seems like the ombudsman says unpaid Labor is fine within certain areas
not that i know of! unless it's volunteer work or a very clearly set out demonstration of skills (ie.. make 5 coffees to show us how you do it not do a 3 hour service shift to show us how you do it). weird for a job agency to say that
Yeah like I was tasked to do things but I was learning over the course of a week or so. I might talk to the job provider person about tomorrow because I have an appointment with her.
I’m really confused. Is that post by the mods saying the Melb subreddit can only be used for things regarding Melbourne, Florida (USA) intended to be sarcastic?
Yeah I'm hoping folks stick around here with the DT. I know it's back on r/melbourne, but I like you folks, I don't want to deal with Reddits bullshit atm.
Yeah a lot of subs are going contrarian to continue the protest. Only fans became no fans (pc heating solutions with no fans) and some big porn sub became a Christian Minecraft server. reddit seem to want to double down so I’ve no issue with them sticking it to the man!
oh wow, they have voted to only have posts about Melbourne (Florida)! They were ordered by Reddit to reopen or be replaced, looks like the r/pic example is being followed.
My evening walk was eventful this evening. Mr Woof and I got to play Good Samaritan! A woman cleaning a house down the road was having trouble getting the owners key locked back in the key safe. Happily I have a very similar one so knew how it worked and was able to help, although their safe was a bit beaten up and it took quite a few attempts (and a broken nail) to get it closed. Then Mr Woof got scared when she picked up her broom and barked at her, but he was a very polite gentleman otherwise.
The universe did reward us - the delay meant I was walking back past the food cupbard just after it had been stocked so could stop instead of making a cold dark trip back later. I got a sweet potato (which I haven't had for a while), a few salad ingredients and some grapes.
Good luck. I gave up on Uber Eats about 18 months ago after way too many bad experiences. Hopefully you have one of the stress-free experiences with the yummy food you wish for.
It's a bit strange that is is not at all filtered by community or instance, it's just a mess of everywhere. Probably best not to look too often, with all the toxic comments. I do find the bizarre rants people come out with fascinating, but also disturbing.
Does anyone know where I can get a car key replacement and reprogram? I have a Honda and they quoted me $550, and it wouldn't have even been a key it was just gonna be a fob. But like I need a new key and have it programmed for preferably less than that
My new movie for today was The Pale Blue Eye. It would have been a better than good telemovie if it weren't for Gillian Anderson trying to be a character actor, she sucked so bad and it tainted everything. But everyone else, real good. Story was good too. Out of a possible 5 hobbits it gets 3