Daily Thread : Sunday 25th June 2023
Daily Thread : Sunday 25th June 2023
Happy Sunday everyone! Sending good vibes to each and every one of you.
I've decided, in my 50th year on the planet, to do something about getting fitter. I'm fit enough to do my manual labouring type job but not as fit as I'd like to be. I work in food manufacturing, which has been better for the wallet than the waistline! I'm not really one for going to the gym and I have trouble sticking with things like exercise routines. So this morning I downloaded a coaching app and started with a beginner's workout. It turned out to be a good place to start. I wasn't absolutely stuffed by the end of it but I definitely felt like I'd done some exercise! I'm posting about this to keep myself accountable. Hopefully I'll be less likely to slack off!
To stick with it long term, try and focus on forming a positive habit around exercise. That means you should be enjoying it as much as possible each time. And that means you should take it easy on yourself! Go slow and light to start with, otherwise you'll feel too exhausted/sore and won't want to come back to it. Try listening to some music or a podcast/audiobook while you're exercising. Pick the days ahead of time you're going to exercise, and schedule it in. Reward yourself afterwards with a treat. Try gamifying it with Strava and sharing with friends if that motivates you. Do whatever is necessary to make the exercise an enjoyable part of your routine. The rest will fall into place once the habit is formed. Good luck!
That's pretty sound advice. I asked myself before I started why I never persevere with an exercise regimen in the past, and I think I did what a lot of people do: start out with big goals or wanting to burn fat fast or whatever, and basically overdo it in the beginning and get disgruntled with it. I'm determined to just take baby steps this time to keep it doable.
Good onya!
P.S. What really goes into the pies? 😊
Thanks! I work in a factory that makes pasta and Italian foods though, not pies. If I did I'd be in serious troubles health wise!
Good luck mate. I need to get back into shape as well.
Thankyou, I think I'm going to need it!
Maybe do a weekly dance class - fun and VERY good exercise especially for older people. Could be a nice way to measure progress in the gym too.
That's not a bad idea, thankyou!
This won't work for everyone, but I have 2 tips:
- make sure you do exercise that you enjoy doing. Whether that's in the moment or afterwards. And by enjoy I mean more than a sense of feeling satisfied because you managed to exercise.
- unless you feel injured or sick, on low motivation days the no.1 focus is getting to your place of exercise and starting your warmup. Tell yourself that if you still feel shit after completing your warmup, you'll go home. More often than not you'll be fine after you warm up, or you'll be psyched even if you still feel a bit tired. Using this method I've never gone home but I have definitely cut sessions off early and I always leave that possibility open otherwise the mental hack wouldn't work!
Nice, I always appreciate some tips for this sort of thing!
I'm not going to lie, I have zero regrets whatsoever about being in Sydney this weekend, went down to Corrimal beach with the fam and had a great time basking in the sun with short sleeves and rolled up pants...
...even though I am currently shitting myself, as I have a SMALL amount of extremely urgent work to finish this weekend, but I'd somehow left my laptop on when unplugging so it had barely enough battery left aaaaand I've stuuuuupidly left my charger all the way back in Melbourne...
The Targus proprietary charger from jbhifi isn't working and my cousin's just helped me get the USB-C one - I need just enough juice for it to synchronise the files to SharePoint for another colleague to work on tomorrow 😭 praying it'll work
E: I GOT IT TO WORK. Crisis averted
Short sleeves and rolled up pants? You're winning mate.
Definitely winning. Bit nippy now that the sun's down but I'm still not wearing any thermals and there's no heating...
Feeling super smooth in the Smeg household after we just did clay masks. Bought the Sky & Sand Australian pink clay.
Self-care Sunday success! Would buy again
another one
Super smooth, mask play
Sky & Sand, pink clay.
Rated 10,
Reccomend
For self-care SundayAfter trying a bunch of masks, including a few Lush ones, my favourite is definitely the Sky & Sand Pink Clay one.
Love a self-care Sunday and ooh, thanks for the reminder that I need to snag a new one. I wanted to dislike Sky & Sand, but it's popular for a reason!
Morning cherubs ☕
Morning. Thanks for the coffee. 😘
You're welcome. It's instant and hot.
Morning!
Morning chook
Tinyest is about the only person on the planet who likes my singing. Proof that we’re not born with a sense of taste.
I think we are all born with a sense of song and dance an inherent part of how we communicate with each other, and as a way of expressing ourselves. The idea of judgement and "taste" is something we are taught by society to impose on ourselves and each other, and it is something that stifles and diminishes us.
Enjoy your singing, and do everything you can to ensure Tinyest has a chance to enjoy it too.
Oh man it’s over! Wagner boss is going to live in exile, which just means he’s gonna die of a 9mm hemorrhage or drink some nuclear tea in a few months. And some how, Putin lives on to fight another day. That’s underwhelming AF. Hope Ukraine made some solid gains in all the chaos.
It's distinctly possible that Putin will die of a 9mm haemorrage or similar instead. I don't think Prigozhin is finished yet. He still has 25,000 of Russia's best troops on tap and loyal to him, and I believe only Gazprom has more best quality soldiers. The regular Russian army is apparently underwhelming. I do agree that the winner out of this is Ukraine. I expect to see the other oligarchs getting restive fairly soon too. I would not be Putin for quids at this stage.
Oh 100%. Blood being in the water is never a good thing in Russia. I was saying to Mrs B he should pull out and bring his army home for security, but then maybe the army not being in the capital is the smart move here.
It was a bit of an anticlimax wasn't it!
Mr Procrastinata follows Russian current events and news, and he thinks it might be a distraction to do something else in Ukraine.
I was thinking that, or just give Ukraine a false sense of security.
I initially thought the same too, but then I asked myself do they seem capable of a proper false flag operation? Cause I mean so far it doesn’t look like it.
He'll probably fall out of a window. It shows that he's an unstable leader though and it will affect the morale of their army. Ukraine is the proxy for Europe and Nato unfortunately and they understand this. We can't afford to lose this war for various reasons and Putin needs to be removed from society
Had bros wedding last night. Was wonderful.
Sent the parents off to an art gallery with my aunt and cousin so I get some much needed solo pool time.
It's exhausting trying to make conversation at brekky, lunch, dinner and stuff in between.
Sunday Monday happy days
Tuesday Wednesday happy days
Thursday Friday happy days
Saturday what a day
Rockin all week for you. 🎶I may have plagiarised this but it's ok because the under 35s probably don't know any different.
I used to sing this to my kids to help them learn the days of the week, until they asked when Whataday is.
Hahaha. That's funny. I like that.
An AA mate made me flush my weed down the toilet. Take the hit. I wasn't smoking anyway. Fucking waste of money but it's better than relapsing, that would cost a lot more ultimately.
Brekky at the caff. A few groceries, then i'm gonna get my arse into gear, clean the kitchen, make that fucking stew finally, go for a walk and play guitar. As always I face fucking transphobia from losers on the online meeting just as I do everywhere else pretty much online. Funny how fucking weak people are. I never experience it in person. Interestingly though immediately after I read it someone read the sickness part. This program is working for me anyway and the group are really supportive and accept me for who I am. That person will be banned. It's just fucking frustrating. /ent rant. Today will be good a day
Hey good on you for quitting the weed! I smoked for about 20 years but about 10 years ago I had to face facts that it wasn't doing me any favours. It's great for some people but for me it became a big contributing factor for my anxiety disorder. Now I have no anxiety disorder and no weed and feel a lot better about myself.
Sorry you have to deal with all the transphobia. I see it as a personal decision someone has the right to make for themselves. I guess I just don't see why people have such strong opinions about other people being trans when it doesn't effect them and has nothing to do with them anyway.
Yeah weed hasn't served me for a long time. I was a long time user and yes it gave me anxiety if I didn't have to stuff to. I don't get to laugh at stupid shit I see or think about but I can live with that.
Not to be rude, being transgender is not something people should have an opinion about or see it one way or another. Some people are born with a gender incongruence which leads to childhood and adult trauma if untreated. You wouldn't have an opinion on something like autism of deafness and gender icongruence is the same. I didn't make a decision other than get the treatment and live in my true gender which has been life saving. My brain doesn't have the right organs connected to it to deliver the right hormones but luckily medical science has finally caught up with how to treat it.
So i have a weird fun thing w woolies where i always get as close to the delivery min $50 as possible, and every 2 to 3 days, to keep my wastage down. Theyre now increasing it to $75 (i did look at coles but their subscription is twice as much) so now ill be strategically adding and removing stuff from my cart to reach 75 instead 😅 its an odd diversion but i enjoy it lol
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So I brought back just over a kg of Kava from Fiji. Damn, after a few wines it's a great thing to have so you don't get too drunk instead. Just makes you chilled out but not paranoid like weed does to me.
Yeah it's pretty nice stuff.
We got into it a bit last year until it started making Mr Smeg break out in hives.
I tried some of those Kava strips that dissolve on your tongue. Definitely felt the effects but tasted like arse. Fucked up my beer drinking experience.
I'm staying with rellos from Fiji and seriously considering asking them for some Australian kava contacts....
My Steam Deck arrived today, time to tinker! And thanks @[email protected] for fronting the hosting costs of this instance.
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Jealous on the steam deck front. What are you going to play on it?For now I need to work through my backlog. It's not huge because I don't watch steam sales unless a mate tells me about a particular game, but it's still sizeable. Need to get through the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro trilogy remasters. Hoping to mess around with Untitled Goose Game with the missus too if it tickles her fancy. God I can't get used to the console controls for Terraria though.
These look so cool!
Let us know how it goes. I’m super keen but probably gonna wait till gen 2.
I bought Hades since it's on sale right now and it runs really well. I'm even getting 60 FPS at 4k (external monitor) unless the screen gets super busy, but personally I don't notice the frames drop down to 45 or whatever except for the number itself changing. What a fantastic game on a fantastic device.
Nice! I have a windows based handheld Ayaneo 2 but I ended up installing Chimera OS which is basically a linux clone of SteamOS and it's way better without worrying about windows breaking things etc... So far the game compatibility is great as it uses Proton like the steam deck. Handheld gaming is fantastic as you can sit on the couch like using a switch but then dock it to your tv etc... and it's like a console.
Have just marinated and batch cooked a whole bunch of chicken breast with my new girlfriend (the air fryer) for meals throughout the week. So easy, so delicious, and so tempted to just eat a mountain of chicken right now.
we need recipes 😊
i made it up! I love south-east asian flavours, so just a bit of the usual ginger, garlic, soy, chilli and lime to marinate.
Then, I shred up the chicken and use it in different meals: a not-at-all traditional bibimbap type dish, a salad with wombok, shredded carrot, bean sprouts, whatever I have that suits (and a lime sriracha dressing), another with quinoa, roasted asparagus, cornichon, fresh herbs (and again, lime - what can I say, I really like it).
Stuff that I can eat for dinner at home or for lunch in the office, basically.
Remember you two, use protection! Things can be very hot when to take them out of the basket.
I really don't want to go to work tomorrow. Or ever, really. If I do a Go Fund Me for 2.5 million so I can retire you guys would all chip in, right?
I like how you've chosen 2.5 mil. A lot of people would pick a much larger number, like 25 mil or 100 mil. 2.5 is very modest of you!
I'm a very modest person. ☺️ I did consider 2 million, but with the uncertainty in the economy I feel the extra half is safer. And if I raised more I could just blow it all on pets.
Wow, the wind is really picking up out there. Definitely an indoors day.
Yep, Mount Washmore is going to be chipped away at gradually today as I think I'll be hanging my washing inside!
Mainlined s1 westworld again yesterday since i had the ceebs. Shoulda stopped at one and done, utter perfection.
Agree. I didn't ever get past about s02e03. Couldn't hang out for the bull thing in the title sequence any longer.
S1 left a lot on the table, but s2 just totally failed to take the flag and run with it.
S2 felt made up of stuff cut from s1 - and s1 was the better for it being cut.
the show looked beautiful, it had a great opening title and music, characters seemed to be ok, good actors, great ideas
the story sucked, I gave up half way thru S2 .
Westworld and American Gods both had beautifully crafted credits you could write goddamn dissertations on on their own and a perfect or near-as first season.
Then they both spectacularly shat the bed.
Thanks I never even started s2. Glad I didn't waste my time
That was truly one of the best seasons of TV ever. S2 was patchy but mostly OK, s3 was horrific, and I don't even care about s4
Agreed. Imagine if it had ended with that revolt. Such a perfect build up and ending. S2 was a careless dog's breakfast, s3 was a different show entirely
Taekwondo grading went amazingly!
Now onto the next thing: finding LARP-ish gear for a fey outfit soon. I really need to figure out where the charity shops are in the CBD, I just need to get like five leather belts.There’s one downstairs in Royal Arcade, near the hippie woo-woo shop, and there’s one down near Southern Cross near the DFO.
Ooh, didn't know about the one near SC!
There's some storm coming if you've got a dog to walk.
Picking up my Intel NUC from Centrecom Maribyrnong today.
Stopping at Le Bajo Milkbar in North Melbourne first.
Then probably wash the car in Alphington on the way home at this place Mr Smeg's work uses that's touch free but does a super deep clean.
Playing some PBS in the car on our journeys. Not a bad day all up
Usually I like to spend my Sunday nights brooding, but it was nice to have dinner with some friends I hadn't seen for a while.
Love this! Where did you go, what did you have? Glad you had a lovely evening!
sky pretty
I was out on a walk and got the chance to appreciate it this morning. Very nice cloud patterns. I tried to get Mr Woof interested, but dogs just aren't wired to look at the sky, so I'm glad there are people here to share it with. 🙂
Bit the bullet and cancelled my Netflix subscription, as I'm just not using it enough to justify it.
In other news, the cats suddenly like Whiskas again. headdeskYeah I offed mine and signed up for a 12 month vpn subscription instead. They just don’t have shows I wanna watch.
You should look into realdebrid and Kodi. It's the jam.
I woke up early enough, decided I’d rest my eyes. Several hours later…
It really is one of those mornings where your toes burn when you get in the shower.
My Jerboa app finally updated! It seemed to take a while for the update to show in the store for some reason, but I am now in the "sort thread by new" club on my tablet. Happy days. Hopefully the phone app will sort itself out and stop crashing every time I try to open it as well.
Edit: it works! I am on my phone, app is open and it is no longer telling me that every instance does not actually exist.
Incidentally, is scrolling smooth on the app for you guys? For me it 'sticks' when scrolling. Like, jittery? I want to get away from the web interface to see if the app is less cluttered but that issue is a little rough for me. But I've only been here two days soo...
Mine doesn't stick as such, but it's definitely not smooth.
Hey me too! Reading your comment made me go check!
Hey this is working great! Even on my oldish potato phone it's super fast loading things and really responsive.
eyyyy thanks for the heads up. much better after the update.
My JavaScript project is off to a slow start. I wanted to download the appropriate programs onto my old laptop, and as there is not much space on it I wanted to remove the local copies of my OneDrive files. Apparently this was too much for the poor thing which had a complete breakdown. So now I have just finished a full reset and am finally ready to start again with a clean slate. Why does creating a bot army have to be so hard? The amount of effort required to make things easier is absurd.
Your efforts are appreciated
Even if I never make it, it has already been a good learning experience. Just figuring out what I need to learn to do anything like that is tricky - and a lot of the "beginner" level information starts way above my level. I'm glad I have access to LinkedIn Learning, it's the first place I have found a course that instead of starting at "try typing these lines of code" acctually starts with telling you where to type the code.
So cold. Huddled under blankets and reheating little wheat packs to keep myself warm and I can hear the wind picking up outside.
Thankfully just ate dinner or what passes for it so hoping to warm myself up again.
Settled in for the night playing movies. Maybe might make a late night hot tea.
Hope everyone else is able to stay warm tonight and have a relaxing time.
Have you got one of those heated throws? They are amazing!
I think this is on my Christmas wish list for this year. They are amazing.
Happy sunday dt friends :)
Sunday Funday.
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Scrambled eggs on hash browns, with smoked salmon and chives. And bottomless hot coffee please.
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You ever consider taking your breakfast on an Aussie tour? For funsies..
With the current petrol cost that would bankrupt the after eight business.
What is it when you have lemon iced tea but like... Hot? Can I try that please
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Had a weird dream that I was best friends with Tom Cruise. There was no Scientology stuff though just regular hanging out. I think he liked me because I didn't care about the fame or money and just spoke to him like a regular dude but then at the end of the dream he randomly decided I'm "out" and he'd called me a taxi to leave.
I'm 100% sure this is all because I saw a poster for the new Mission Impossible movie at a tram stop last night. Fuck you, dream Tom Cruise. I'll still go see your movie though. Prick.
Ugh, housemate is upset I don't want to go sit in a packed cinema on the first weekend of school holidays.
What sane person would?!
11 feels like 4, get fucked.
Does anyone else's dog get really anxious/restless when it's windy? My dog came out of surgery on Tuesday so she's already a bit out of it but I feel like the wind is making her even more on edge! I've given her some calming cookies so hopefully they kick in soon.
Cats lose their shit a bit, as do some humans. It's all the moving parts
Time for a study break. I'm going to risk going out for a walk with Mr Woof, hopefully we don't get blown away. He has quite long hair, so he always gets a dramatic windswept look in this sort of weather.
I don't know if I'm completely missing something, but both on Mlem and the browser, I'm not getting reply notifications. (Scratch the browser, I had them automatically blocked. Have just unblocked, so we'll see.)
Second run with the slow cooker today. Was going to have steak tonight, but am opting for the slow cooked meal instead since a super late Yum Cha lunch was had. Finally got a proper desk chair and it feels so nice on my lumbar! Really not ready for work tomorrow, but gotta pay for my coffee and other habits somehow. On a side note, ate at Lillian last night. The food was nice, but boy, for a lot of staff... Not quite up to the level I was expecting.
Really don't want to face it as well, but Uni take 2... Here we go again.
Pretty sure mlem and memmy don't support notifications yet (In saying that, the speed of app development is insane and nearly there! Within a few weeks they have gone from basic scrolling apps to loads of new features). I get them using a browser and they popup while scrolling.
I read that between 10-20 developers are working on it. Also they will submit the current version to Apple for approval process by the first of July.
I don’t think Mlem has notifications for anything in it, at the very least there’s no settings in the app itself for them.
Notifications are intermittent on safari too.
Getting a bit late for anyone to see this before the new day's DT but still.. I did some booking of US hotels in USD today with my Latitude 28° travel credit card and I'd almost forgotten how good it was. I was checking the current exchange rate via google and my card was being charged within $1 of the exchange shown, meaning no fees on top and no dodgy high exchange rate being used. **HIGHLY **recommend that card for your spending needs, if you can be responsible with a credit limit.
Here to complain about dating apps or rather what people do on dating apps, most recently the "I don't chat on here, so add me on Instagram" and so I did and then I did all the heavy lifting with the chat and as soon as I left it alone, they didn't message. I've worked really hard to no longer expect instantaneous responses and I've accepted that people don't owe me their time, however, if you suggest we add each other on a social media app, a little bit of chat not started by me would be much appreciated.
Happy Sunday Fronds
Currently wide awake hyper fixating on drawing Lizzo so I can print something to wear to her concert. My hand is so sore right now, but I can't stop!!
Ooh she's touring? It's about damn time!
Sorry I couldn't resist.
It had to be done hahaha
Barely slept a wink last night. Going to be in bed by 7 tonight I reckon 😴
It's been one of those weekends where I realise I need a weekend and a half to get all my shit done. Hope y'all had a relaxing one.
The annual Qld holiday is going well so far. No arguments, no massive sudden mood swings from pre-teen-kidcalhoon. And the MIL's new place is pretty sweet
very nice 😊
Whyyyyy did I agree to go out for dinner tonight??
Yeah not a great night for it! But I’m still it’ll be nice.
I think I want to stay nice and toasty in bed today
I think you should. It looks evil out there.
Watching Mrs play ff16. God this game is pretty. Possibly the prettiest PS5 game yet.
So I said today would be a good day. I didn't make the stew again, because there were some great reduced food stuffs at the shop. The caff warmed my body heart and mind. Nothing like walking into a place where the staff know your name, show you love and then make a guilt free bacon and egg toastie. I went in my oodie cos it was cold. I'm really starting to enjoy the simple pleasure of playing with the cats. Friends are popping in a bit later on and I'm finally putting the last of my artwork up on the walls.
Hooooooome. flops
Only 5 days left of this month! Yippee! Only 2 more months left to go after that 🥳
That sounds ominous...
Lol it’ll be Spring and we can look forward to warmer weather. I know the cold will linger for awhile but having the weather warm up more will be a plus
Any desky owners in the DT?
I've been umming on this one for a while as a suitable option for a desk on wheels for my studying.
Currently I use a hospital table and it works but it's kinda shit - https://imgur.com/a/O2ShW5V
The Desky dual mini on castor wheels would really do the trick. I can afford it but hate spending that much money.
Can you replace the desk surface of that hospital table with something a bit bigger? It just looks a bit cramped to me but generally fine. Possibly some locking wheels too?
It's horrendously unstable and I can't raise/lower it. It can only stay on the lowest level.
Cannot emphasise enough how absolutely shit and cheap this hunk of junk is.
#Worldle #520 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 ⭐⭐⭐🏙️🪙 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
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You can suspend…time?!
Driving home from work last week, spacing out on some lower case drone techno, I look over and see a Dan Murphy.
Wow that’s great! I thought. Never noticed that. So convenient!
I look out the other window and realise I have no fucking clue where I am and have no further dealings with certainty.
So yeah, I can suspend time. The aftermath can be disconcerting though.
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Aay good morning.
The house series for the past few months has been Game of Thrones, and I can't figure out if it's because I know the ends bad or the series really does just die in the arse for those last few seasons.
It just was so unsatisfying, and so low effort in the last season. I invested a lot into that show and it just sort of sadly and pathetically fizzled out. It could have been so so epic ... daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah still pisses me off
Monday's thread is up :) https://aussie.zone/post/160083
I'm still reading Sunday's, got a a lot of catching up to do!
Anyone know the best place to sell a brand new laptop?
Backstory is, my mum bought an HP Chromebook for work, not realising that she can't get windows/Microsoft suite on it which she needs for work but she can't get a refund from JB Hi-Fi as she threw away the box. I listed it on Facebook marketplace but it's had next to no interest.
She could probably still get office 365 though right? The web apps do most everything these days.
Edit - also, pretty sure your could install the Android apps of word, excel etc...
Unfortunately she needs a particular system that is installed onto the computer, that can be used on computers using windows or Mac systems but not the chrome system. The web based won't do what she needs.
Edit: it's some form of work from home system and has access to share drives etc
Yep. Portal.office.com and use the web apps.
@MisssDarylC @Thornburywitch just eBay it.
Had a very "bite of this, bite of that" kind of dinner. That with a couple of glasses of wine and now I feel ready for a 4 course meal, but will tuck myself into shortly instead.
Anyone here playing D4? I've been enjoying it sooo much, but made the mistake of trying to follow a specific build and am now dying because I haven't picked my talents for the fun and it really does take something away from it.
The work calendar gods have aligned and I have a whole week ahead of working from home, rather than the usual three days of having to commute 70km each way.
Now if only the kids weren't also on school holidays... 😬
