Daily Discussion Thread: Sat 23 Sep 2023

All done!

Didn't end up doing echiums and cherry blossom :(

And many thanks to my very helpful neighbour

They are gorgeous, well done 💐
Amazing result. Your brother owes you big fucking time for this!
- I really hope it goes well. fingers crossed!
Nice work you!
they are so beautiful 💗
Beautiful!
They are beautiful! Well done!
Can you tell us what all the different flowers are? I see a daffodil, cornflower, ageratum, freesia alba ( the perfume must be heavenly 💗) sweet peas?
- We can!
  
  From the garden these are sweet peas, giant ageratum, freesias, azelias, blue bells, rhododendrons and helleborus. Only tested half in the fridge eek. Will find out tomorrow heh.
  
  Store bought stuff it looks like daffodil and 3 others that I can't identify.
  
  It's like 90% from the garden which is great timing.

I am all peopled out methinks.

4 years ago could easily have done it but now no go. 5 days in a row of lengthy small talk with so many people is just too much.

So today is just gonna be laying some dripper hose I'm absolutely happy with that.

Also the azelia made it through the night in the fridge. I was told categorically it wouldn't. They were wrong.

Isn't your bro's wedding... tomorrow? Overseas?! Or have I got it mixed up.
- Yea tomorrow. They had another one in Indo a few months ago. This is the local one. Double wedding! Double stress, double flowers.

Finally got settlement date on the new house. 23rd. And then 2 days later I'm going to Melbourne. I knew it would happen that week, lol.

Two days sounds totally like enough time to completely unpack in your new house and then pack for a Melbourne trip!
- Unfortunately I have to rip up the carpet to put in floorboards

Is it ok to physically assault people who walk in squadron formation of 5 people across through shopping centres? I feel like there should be a legal loophole here.

Imagine yourself as a bowling ball and them as the pins. Aim for the middle and walk with determination. Make no move to move out of the way and you should be able smash through them lol
I believe the appropriate response is to join the group and keep walking, whilst playing "Eye of the Tiger" loudly on your phone.
One free swing of the clothesline is permitted.

Just rolled out of bed to find I have also left my split system on overnight at 18C 😱 RIP my energy bills.

Sore throat came back overnight. Not sure if it was the temperature or maybe the dust that keeps circulating around my apartment. When I get back from my short interstate trip I definitely will need to do a deep clean of the apt. Air purifier will be in by then too so maybe it'll help..

I assume it was set to heating mode and not cooling mode....
- It most certainly was. Oh well, I'll be away for a fair bit over the next few weeks and I'd been away a lot the last two months so hopefully no additional power surprises.

Standing in line at the Chemist, looking at the assorted fragrances for sale. It seems there are a lot more marketed at blokes than there used to be.

Thing is: I don't understand who wants to smell like an NRL/AFL/soccer/cricket player? The first thing I do after sport is shower and get rid of the smell.

My homeburger

Homeburger has smokey bacon, burger patty, smokey cheese, fried egg, pineapple ring, tomato, lettuce, onion, tomato sauce, hot sauce and kewpie mayo on a brioche bun.

It was delicious therefore I give it 5/5 yum yums 😋

That is awesome.

I’d make and eat that everyday of the week and knowing me I’d inhale it and choke on it.
- It was big and messy just the way burgers are ment to be.
Perfect burger chef's kiss
- Thank you. The taller it got the more slippery it was.
Did you wash it down with the Metamucil in the background?
- That is my occasional night drink for when I miss my 9am appointment and I can't reschedule. So no. Not yet.
kewpie mayo

Holy shit. Why didn't I think of that!?
- It's the best to have on burgers and sandwiches. I wait until it's half price then buy 2 bottles.

Having a look at the cooker rally pages and communities to get an idea of how big the "No to the voice" rally today will be. I don't think it'll be big but it will still be very disruptive to trams along Bourke, Swanston, Flinders, Elizabeth. There are speeches planned under the clocks at Flinders St Station.

I wonder if they can stick to the main subject matter instead of pro Trump, anti wind farm, anti vaccine, anti 15 minute cities, anti UN and WEF, and more... They seem to be quite unhappy that there will be politicians that don't want them talking about the conspiracy stuff in the Sydney rally, too.

Had no idea what 15-minute cities are, and like I know why they're against it now, but like my GOD that's stupid. I just want to be able to get to places without having to uber (my docs are close-ish to work but not close to home).
- Don’t even have Uber 45/50km from the cbd. Auspost doesn’t deliver parcels at all. Post office is closed Saturday’s. Local Doctors aren’t taking new patients so it’s a 40min drive to the one I was seeing. Train is 20 min drive away. Bus stop is a 4km walk. Dirt road. No sewerage service.
  
  Local things would be a luxury.
- I am always amazed at how people can think something that would benefit them is a conspiracy.
They make it so obvious they are part of the Kremlin conspiracy movement. They just keep repeating the same talking points that you hear from the Russian trolls. Not sure what the aim is, maybe to drive a wedge between our long alliance and friendship with America and NATO.
I think that many people voting no are doing so because they are indifferent, disinterested, don’t care about politics. So the rally won’t be a good indicator of the size of the no vote. The ‘if you don’t know vote no’ was such an easy win for the no campaign. Everybody is entitled to their vote but I feel people living in democracies shouldnt waste their votes because ‘meh’. I think there a moral obligation to participate, whatever your decision is it should be an informed one with real reasons.
- Oh for sure, the size of the No vote in Victoria and especially inner Melbourne will be quite small just based on demographics, voting patterns and reports from pollsters.

I just walked out to the garage and the man's got a sensor light set up and I nearly fucking shit me self when it turned on.

So it works then?! :) We've just had one replaced that's now brighter and more sensitive than the old one, gets me every time, usually greeted with "fuck!" as it blinds me
- That's exactly what happened. It was on the opposite wall from the door. When opened the door it shone right into my eyes and I was like a rabbit who dropped its guts. It has been moved now.
  
  The conversation went "you know that light you've got in the garage it needs to leave because that wasn't fun" he said "I'll move it".

I need to do better with groceries. I get lazy and forget to cook and sometimes need to throw some away cuz moldy 😒

The bag of two-year old Woolies seedlings that I found in my house have started to sprout! Soon will be time for potting

Sky pretty

Air cold.

How do people cope with getting over things?

I did something yesterday which was my fault and may have future repercussions if I can’t sort it out in a timely manner but I keep replaying the incident in my head and of course there’s going to be seeing the damage I caused too.

I don’t want it to haunt me constantly but this time the repercussions could come back to bite me as well and impact me though know how long that will take.

I hate that I can’t I don’t know, forgive my mistakes and move on with these things.

Mate shit happens. Nobody's perfect. I once backed into a bollard and I've even parked so close to my garage door that it was concave until someone pointed it out to me then I moved the car back. We have all done dumb things. All of us.
For me, it helps to pretend that the "me" that made the mistake is my friend. Would I say the things I say to myself, to my friend? No.

I wouldn't say to my friend "you're the worst", "I hate you", "why are you so bad at everything", etc, if they made a mistake or felt bad about something. So why would I treat myself like that?

It takes practice, patience, and self-love and self-kindness. Self-reflection and introspection are difficult, but constant reaffirming is needed to rewire the neuron paths that make us sad. Our brains enjoy a well-used path, and the more it uses those paths the harder it is to break. But you can rewire it, by recognising those thoughts and paths, and consciously saying "i am not bad, I am human and that is okay!"

I'm not always kind to myself, but I'm getting better. Try to learn from what happened, and always try to be kind to yourself. It is okay, it will get better, I am here supporting and rooting for you. 💜💜💜
Hardly anything matters 🤷‍♂️
- The climate will collapse in our lifetime so yolo amirite.
think about worst case scenario and plan B based on that
Aaarrggghhh, one of the big issues. And there ain't no easy answer. And sooner or later we all end up in this situation.
Step 1 - be aware of what you've done. Tick.

Step 2 - apologise to all that have been impacted by your actions. Identify the harms done and who to. This bit can be brutal to one's self-esteem. Step 3 - rectify the problem where possible. Fix what's broken.
Step 4 - atone - this can get problematical. As atonement may mean a permanent change in behaviour/attitude etc.
Step 5 - forgiveness. This is the really hard one. But if Steps 2, 3 and 4 above have been done in full, on time and within budget, then possible. Particularly of self. Forgiveness from other people is usually easier to obtain. Step 6 - Ongoing awareness of triggers that may lead to a relapse. Also, you only get a limited number of Steps 1-6 before you get written off as incurable and/or irredeemable, so it's worth plugging the triggers into your ongoing awareness.
Optional Step 7 - was it your problem or were you lured into it by another for their own personal reasons? Only ask this after you've run out of repeat scripts.
All the above is provided on a 'for what it's worth" basis.

I think it might be a spring clean and day drink to some tunes afternoon. This depression den needs some attention if I want to even entertain trying to get my social shit together and meet someone.

10pm is a terrible time to drunkenly decide to have Thai for dinner, FYI

There is no bad time to have Thai,. especially when drunk.

Enjoy and Maazel tov
- L'chaim!

I just got home from dancing to fantastic power ballads.

A glass of prosecco and Janelle Monae tunes at home to kick on

I went past, it's a nice venue. Was that pretty blonde getting chatted up you?
- Haha in the red dress and hat? Nah I wish that was me hehe. I was in my black 'inner north brewery' hoodie and jeans haha
Im glad you had a great night. Two great power ballads we had tonight

St Elmo's fire

Glory of love
- St elmo's fire..
  
  Those hair dooos are pure fiyah

Thank you everyone for your support today.

I’m sorry I didn’t respond to each one of you as I fell asleep listening to the radio and podcasts this afternoon.

They are all valid points and I’ll make an effort to take it all onboard.

I’m not great at reflecting on things as I’m so harsh on myself for mistakes made.

I guess the biggest thing on my mind is that I can’t rectify the problem. I’ll try in the coming months if I can.

Anyway I have to forgive myself first and that will be hard to come to terms with in the current situation as it may make my life harder in the future.

Life is like a cricket match. Sometimes you take the catches. Sometimes you get stung with the ball and it hurts but you shake yourself off and you keep playing.
- Speaking of which I heard we lost by 5 wickets. Hope you didn’t watch it till the end.
could you please be more vague
- It was about messing up my car yesterday.
  
  Dented significantly on my back rear door and caused enough damage to open it up to rust issues after I scraped it on the corner of some brickwork.
  
  Don’t want to lose my car anytime soon.
- Jesus 🤦‍♀️
It'll be okay, friend. Things will get better; you are strong and amazing! 💜
- My financial position is what worries me the most as well being too harsh on myself.
  
  sigh

didn’t know how much I rely on the little stick-on round mirrors for parking until one of them fell off.

Aircon install was finished today. I've now got 5 kw of RAW cooling power!

Ooo who'd you go with?
- Fujitsu all the way!

I have walked 1010 steps today. AMA. (I was planning on breaking my last weeks step count of 86k today, currently at 76k but I got lazy today 😔)

Rest days are important
Were some of those steps to the fridge, to the couch, to the loo and repeat.
- Right on! Did fuck all today

All these other biscuits are full of pea protein, lentils or beans, all of which give my cat stomach pain. Chickpeas are about tolerable but I can’t find that without the others.

It’s giving me the shits. I have a just opened bag and a full unopened bag of expensive food but because the factory made the pieces too hard it’s inedible.

Would it work to put them in a ziplock bag and give them a bash with rolling pin to crush into smaller pieces? Not as much chewing needed?
- There’s a bowl of biscuit powder from using a mortar and pestle but she isn’t eating it.
  
  Good suggestion though, she ate a bit of biscuit dust the last time they messed her dry food up
would you be able to make some yourself?
- I’m considering it. Physical energy is a factor unfortunately (the reason for having dry food out as insurance)

The earwigs have already gotten to the mint :/

Mint is resilient. It will be fine.
You better save them, the mint will strangle them with overgrowing vines

Saganaki with lemon juice and jam.

Is. A. Vibe. 🤤

Ugh. The sunscreen that didn’t burn my skin is back on shelves again but they’ve randomly changed it - they included niacinimide in a “sensitive” product and I didn’t see before I bought it. $17 for something that’s very possibly going to hurt and fuck my face skin up if I use it. I have the receipt and could return it but need to wait for a lift from a friend to do that.

Exercises completed. Took Miniest to the farmers market and soaked in the sunny vibe. Got a bit of laundry done and then we lit the brazier, threw the rack over it and BBQd some sausages. Watched the Elder play RDR2, a game I enjoy watching him play because the landscape is beautiful and it's like watching a movie (I really get into it, much to my sons amusement).

I’m re-playing RDR2 here and there myself. Always a classic.
- Hey there mister!

I think I feel as if I should eat something but I don’t know what.

I don’t even feel hungry despite eating only once today.

When in doubt, vegemite toast is always the answer.
- Doesn’t sound like a bad idea though I was thinking of making another Devon sandwich.
  
  I guess I was trying to ration out my bread to make it last hence not making more.

Anyone got a good camping equipment/supplies list...? Taking our camper out on its maiden trip tomorrow

Edit - we're going to powered sites. Is there any reason I can't take the air fryer.....?

chairs are vital as are matches , if it's a sandy area bring talc for your feet and a brush and pan to sweep out your car and tents
A heavy duty torch, toilet paper and a shovel. The airfryer is a very good idea.

Binged my way through s1 of Good Omens. That was delightful! I sadly can't see Jon Hamm as anyone other than Don Draper though...

Chilly start to the day. 3.3 out there, feels like 1.7. Mr Woof doesn't care, he has a thick fur coat and nothing seems to phase him, but I needed to add multiple layers this morning. 🥶

To prevent nippocalype, I have replenished the cow milk stock which I depleted last night.

Moochas gracias
- 🐄🥛🍫☕️

What a boodyful day. It never gets old the way Ms GPS pronounces Geelong Road as G-long road.

Fitness achieved. Now I market

I’m still floating about the footy.

Saturday next week is now SORTED 😁

Oops. No wonder the cats didn't join me last night - I could have sworn I turned the (oil column) heater off last night but evidently not.
Mind you, if there was ever a night to leave it on... 🥶.
Anyway fire is roaring courtesy of those wax firestarters, Zooks is clamped to the heater while it retains heat, Sammi is in my lap and the birdies are on the screen. Not bad all things considered.

I was very surprised Miss Meow didn't join me last night, despite the chill. I think she had a nice warm curl going on in the unfinished chair recovering project she's rather fond of for a bed.
- When I turned in, miy two were curled very firmly in their floofy beds that I got them on gotcha day and they barely lifted their heads when I said goodnight.

I finally (though could be because mum was cleaning too) am cleaning up my room. Desk is a little clean (though it's like ADHD clean, so clean for me but messy for my mum), put clothes away, made my bed after it not being made in a few weeks, and after dinner I'm going to vacuum the floor. I'm pretty happy with that. I wanted to play Starfield all day today but I'm happy that I got the review finished and my room cleaned tbh.

Found a YT of Ted Cat. Looks just like him too. 😬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DkN6JhyOMU

I have learnt I should never get between him and food. He has issues.

Well, I picked one. Eyewateringly expensive but most of the filler seemed to be potatoes which hopefully reduce the amount of peas. Still expecting a sore tummy and a whiffy little booty.

I’m going to try and chase a refund for at least one of the bags of the usual stuff (first one was bought in store, emptied into sealed container and bag + receipt thrown out - second is unopened, from Petcircle and has a digital trail).

I’m not happy though. This is a repeated quality issue with allergy friendly dry food and I keep being unable to feed my cat the stuff I’m stretching to afford. They send replacement bags when I complain but those have the same damn issue.

I don’t even have the batch number of the last known good batch like with the last brand 😢

Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper

Murderer

Puttered to local farmers market, his lordship went ham on pickles and whisky. Then disappeared into his brewery while i took on the task of digging a hole, then refilling it with a different media woooo.

Then burgers. Massive, massive burgers

🎼🎶 I just woke up, should I drink water and stretch?
No no
Gonna drink three cups of coffee and smoke a cigarette instead
And then I'll go on social media until it's dinner time
Yeah!
Smoke some weed, and then I'll binge eat
Then I got a little time to complain online!🎶🎶

brisbane sky pretty

Just saw that! So beautiful!

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

May I please have a sustainably designed gingerbread house and a soothing cup of hot chocolate.
- 🛰️
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  ||🪟🫚🍞🪟||
  
  🥛☕️
Bathtub of hot coffee with milk and some waffles with bacon and maple syrup, please chef
- 🛁☕️🥛🥓🧇🍯
I would like my worm please and a large take away cappuccino, full fat milk no sugar. Thanks
- 🐛 Bacon only does food. I do livestock
- I see you already have the worm
  
  🥛☕️
Beans on toast and a cuppa, please
- 🫘
  🍞☕️
Head-cheese of horse, and a double espresso
- 🐴🧀☕️☕️
Some extra energy, hot tea and crumpets with honey please Bacon.
- 🔋🔋☕️🥯🍯

Carn the Blue baggers.

Look at them go!

Wrapped up in blankets made of thorns
Placations to fend off scathing scorn.
Worry not, my friend, about connections;
We're still here despite your deflections.
You can hide in the desert of your isolation,
Meanding through ruins and desolation.
A consolation of a kind, a reminder in the night,
Flee into your mind, but find a way back to the light,
Back to me.

Hey Bot good to see ya. We're going shit it the ODI against India. It's a little embarrassing actually but our very own Adam Zampa got the first wicket. I'll keep you updated 👍

That can’t be good. We lost the last series just recently didn’t we?
- Yes. India's target is 277 and already they are 166/3

Just drank a lovely large bottle of La Chouffe. Strong Belgian beer. It's like 5 standard drinks in the bottle and I'm feeling giddy.

- Hello headache, my old friend,
  I drank too much last night again.
  Drank tonic mixed with gin
  Drank wine and danced with sin
  Now, a hangover is in my brain,
  I'm in pain,
  Hashtag "worth it."
- That's for tomorrow..right now me happy

Brunnie footy is in the Washington Post!! https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/09/23/australian-punters-prokick-academy/

Thai food in Australia is so often incredibly watered down and bland.

And in Thailand it's just called 'food'
- Thai food in Thailand is miles apart in terms of flavor. And that's true of all types of food, not just Thai.
You need to find the right places, most of it is the homogeneous bland variety of takeaway that non migrant middle class Australia gets when they cheerfully say "ooh we're having Thai tonight". Just like sushi, 90% of the time it's nothing like the real thing. Or Indian food being the same northern Indian curries recycled, and always with the butter chicken.
I reckon there's some great places in the city in Melbourne. Also Sydney had 6 she amazing Thai food.

I did not know “popcorn fairy bread lamingtons” existed until I ate one

🤯

Dear god you'd need a jet powered water pik for that

#Worldle #610 X/6 (88%) ⭐⭐🪙 📷 #WhereTaken🇺🇸 #193, X/6 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ wheretakenusa.teuteuf.fr

In today's city I could see my old apartment in the photo 😂

You lived on the states?
- yes, I used to live in downtown Detroit and in Manhattan financial district .

Work backups and data cleaning all done. Currently facing the (personally) mammoth task of backing up all the data and apps on my personal phone, and following the damn instructions to flash the latest twrp, do a factory reset and flash a recent ROM. Just like it's 2014! I've done this enough times albeit years ago - I have an older version of TWRP, I still have Titanium Backup running daily, I have adb and fastboot and all that... WHY is the inertia so strong. Come on I can do this. I don't even need half these apps any more.

I wanna reach out and touch the sky

Apparently the suitable place for Zooks to eat her cat fud was the step leading to the back room.
Cats...

Finally, that review for Party Animals is done. Now to wait for feedback or it's posted. I hate that I've done it so late, but it's kind of funny that I was given this game about playing as animals (yes dogs are included) as you fight your friends to the death to review literally the day before we had to say goodbye to my dog.

My boss/editor was very chill though, he didn't rush me in getting it done just fyi. But I also didn't want to leave it at the last minute. But man... if there is a higher being out there, they sure do love a bit a laugh don't they?