Daily Discussion Thread: Mon 27 Nov 2023

I got the job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh thank fuck. Thank absolute fuck!!!!!

Uber eats for me, and the super fancy cat treats for Gibson!

I know perfectly well that I shouldn't eat all the cherries on the first day of cherry season (well, the first day I have cherries, same thing). They're soooo good. But my gut might not thank me later.

Yasss love me some cherries!

Much sauce has been turned into many sauces.

One sauce was also turned in to dinner.

My goodness that's a lot of sauce.
- 40.5 serves 😁
Going by the number of bottles, safe to assume this isn't your first rodeo with too many sauces. Also, what sauce and how delish is it??
- Bolognese, very delish.

Had a fam dinner last night and my daughter's granma was there .

I didn't let gran eat off my plate 🙄🙄🙄 and the evening went down hill from there. Again.

Wait. An adult person wanted to get something off your plate (also an adult person), you rightfully refused, and this caused problems?

Gran needs a lesson on entitlement and table etiquette.
- She calls it sharing. She also wants to choose what I order and says it to share , and gets miffed if I order something for myself she doesn't want. 😂
Did you fork her?
- No. She expected me to put my plate in the middle of the table, so she could have access, I had it front of me.

Christmas shopping is awful. Everyone is getting book vouchers or chocolate.

Your buying folks presents?! everyones getting a firm handshake this year.

Back in Melbs from the Bellarine.

Already miss the ocean :( There's something calm but also panic inducing about being alone, 50m out, getting dark.. the mystery of what's below. Could be a giant squid, a horny dolphin... If something went wrong no one would know. But that has nothing on the shitshow that is southern x station just after 5pm.

It's another world, or should I say a part of the world that isn't ours.

I think today is perfect weather to cook the big pot of bolognese sauce I have been planning on. Unfortunately this means I will need to physically go to the shops myself to acquire onions. I guess if I have to go I might get some cheese as well. You can never have too much cheese.

Gosh... changing my sheets makes me realise how disabled I actually am. Jesus Christ.

But hey, the summer sheets are on, though this week it'll be cold so...

Not disabled, dodgy back. The fancy mattress that is comfy to sleep on weighs a ton, changing sheets isn’t easy and I sure as hell can’t turn it myself.
- I mean changing sheets suck no matter what. I just wish I did it earlier. Oh well, that's my fault.

i would like to thank hans zimmer for writing music that gets me to CONCENTRATE when i want/need to

I love hans zimmer so much
Do you listen to the individual scores? Or just make a greatest hits playlist? Personally, the Gladiator score is my go-to focus music.
- Once upon a time in America is my art work music
- I have multiple lists. Top Gun is currently mine.

I didn't get to buy myself a present for my birthday this year, but now I have this new role, I'm dreamily browsing for a new piece of music equipment lol and fancy cat trees of course.

Do it.

Much sauce has been created. #singlepeoplecooking

A few taste adjustments to go, dividing up into individual jars and and a stint in the pressure canner to go.

Pressure canning? Gun gardening? If the world goes to hell in a haycart I want you on my side!
ooohh that looks so yum!
be there in 5

me: yoo I need a teamviewer access for about 5 mins to update your firmware. Normally I could do it without you even noticing, but this one actually disables our tunnel software as part of the process, so I need a fallback. Won't take long, very quick.

chain A: Bah too much hassle, send me entirely new units for these sites

chain B: Why? This is metro. Send a tech out

ASK ME AGAIN WHY TECH STAFF HATE PEOPLE.

Jesus tap dancing Christ. Who the fuck wants whole new unit costs just so they don't have to hand over TeamViewer deets?!?!
- Someone who thought they wouldn't have to pay it. The 8k price tag per unit magically made a zoho login appear

So our super food spread yesterday definitely broke the diet. I normally only weigh myself on Sunday, but I had to know: I'm 2.3 kg heavier this morning than I was 24 hours ago. 🙄

Here's hoping it mostly comes off again. I swam 1.5km and ran 9km afterwards, so I hope it mostly gets burned and not stored.

Still, special occasion was special. No real regrets.

I saw your spread and I was pretty impressed.
- And that wasn't even all of it. The "main" meat dishes were sticky Pork Ribs & Fried Calamari. Those were mostly eaten by the time the tasting board turned up.
  
  We probably went a bit overboard.
- 🤨

It's fancy schmancy instant noodles with curry sauce again except this time I added some frozen vegan chicken in and added a bit of garnish.

appetising

I'm amazed that I focused on work quite serenely for 8 solid hours today and remembered to take the necessary breaks, etc. Need to see how much time allowance I've used up for this project though. Taken way too long on one section so gotta cut back on some others.

Nursing my jammed finger. That means no tennis for a bit 😩. But I guess that's also good because it gives my other injuries time to catch up because I play way too much anyway.

commented to the wife we were running low on baby Panadol as I was getting a dose ready for an unhappy kid, only to drop the bottle and spill everything everywhere. Turns out the next after hours chemist is like 20km away from my suburb, so that was fun.

Bit of dirt from the floor won't kill the baby. Three second rule and all.
- We work on a 7 second rule
- slurp really hard and feed panadol to baby like a bird

Onions have now been aquired. Time to start on the sauce. I will need to decide whether to use the big stock pot or the really big stock pot.

if you use the really big one we can all come over and help you with the leftovers
- I'm only making 36 servings, nowhere near enough to share 🤣
  
  I will actually be canning the sauce, so this batch will last me a year or two.

Reading His Dark Materials after watching the series and can't stop thinking about the sort of daemons* Australian's would have. Like how many people are wondering around with huge arse kangaroos and koalas or the random arsehole with a full-blown cassowary. Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.

*Daemons are a physical manifestation of the human soul in animal form, they are not pets/animals and can speak and have their own thoughts and feelings, though you feel everything they do and vice versa (to an extent).

Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.

On the other hand, they can shapeshift, and their chosen form is usually one that fits you personally, so I doubt that someone who ends up with a weird bug would mind too much. At least until someone tries to relocate the weird bug outside, or accidentally treads on it.

It's the clumsier people accidentally slamming their daemons in doors that might have a worse time. Getting your finger or hand caught is bad enough, injuring a physical manifestation of your soul probably hurts a lot more.
- I am clumsy people lmao
Very similar to indigenous 'totems'. Which can be almost anything. Interesting programme on the abc a couple three years back, I think off the top of my head it was Conversations with Richard Fidler. A woman with fertility issues went to stay in NT due to husband's job. She was bored and started talking to the local people. They took her swimming at a secret women's business waterhole, and she felt something wriggle inside. Shortly after she discovered she was pregnant, considerably against the odds. The local women assured her that her proto-baby had a totem - which was a striped leech and that the waterhole had given it to her. Never heard about any followup, but I think maybe this sort of thing might resonate with your comment. I have no information about how true this story was, but the abc are usually pretty good at fact checking. So probably not a wish fulfilment thing.
- That sounds interesting, might have to go have a look for it.
and someone would have a white butterfly

Covid seems to be taking turns around with the staff at work these recent weeks. I wonder how many people it's going to go through before we knock off from work for Christmas.

I’d say a fair few. I think a lot of people will have symptoms that they’ll just write off as being tired/time of year/allergies and there are some people who don’t get symptoms at all. So unless it hits like a ton of bricks and one might be in an industry that needs to be a bit more careful, it’s unlikely people will bother testing.

Trams have also been packed more than a sardine can. Masks and sanitiser. They don’t hurt to have if one is concerned and there are more viruses like RSV that can spread and be an issue to older adults/immunocompromised. 🤷🏻‍♀️
- Yeah, I was working offsite from my normal workplace and I overheard a conversation about someone taking a RAT test but she only took it for one day and had a negative result and didn't do anymore and she came into work with symptoms.
  
  I wouldn't be surprised if she was positive at that point and was spreading it around like wildfire at that workplace.
I’ve been masking as I don’t want my scant few days off wrecked due to illness. Covid is taking turns hitting people at my workplace.

Does anyone have any proven methods for stopping mosquito bites from itching? A few of them are now massive and I scratched two of them so hard that I bruised the skin beside them.

All this because I put insect repellent on my arms and neck for my zoo based Christmas party but didn't think about the exposed skin from my ripped jeans and they had a FEAST.

Amputation
- This is the only solution I think. Amputation of both legs above the knee. Solves the problem of my sore feet too.
https://www.amazon.com.au/MUHI-IKEDAMOHANDO-Mopidick-s-Lotion-50ml/dp/B07BYR9LDB this changed my life
There's a piezo electric mozzie zapper device which is the same thing as the click-starter on a bbq or gas hot water system. Gas stove's have them too but they're often mains powered. If you see an old gas hot water system on the nature strip you can extract the clicker/zapper without tools. Then you zap the mozzie bite to help with the itch. Or, and maybe TMI, zap your partners bits while blindfolded but consenting. It's a pretty mild zap, as young teens we'd collect them to torment each other.

e: first I found without much searching: https://www.amazon.com.au/ZAP-Mosquito-Bite-Relief-Scratching/dp/B00CG3CM6Y?th=1

e2: This is what I pull out of hot water systems - https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/203034603706
I DO.

But it doesn't make much sense.

Dig your fingernail into the bite location pretty hard, rotate finger 90 degrees and push in hard again so you're basically making a little cross right in the middle of the bite.

(clean hands beforehand obviously and chuck a bit of antiseptic on bite after).

*This is not medical advice
- I'll give it a good go.
Calamine lotion or an antihistamine
- I did the antihistamine and unfortunately didn't work. So I'll have to obtain some calamine lotion instead.

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

Cup of tea and some peace and quiet please
- ☕️🛏️
Frogs on logs please
- 🐸🐸
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I was thinking this morning thank God I don't have to work today, and when I called into the office to check on something they offered me a shift this afternoon.
Thanks but no thanks, people.

is the bom radar glitched, it is clearly raining but the radar shows barely anything

I clearly got rained on, on my dog walk this morning with the bom telling me it was clear.
I can give you a local predication... As long as my camper is out in the driveway getting dry from the weekend, it will continue to rain.
- ooooh where did you go?
- Maybe I should wash my car to keep it going

So.. I have an espresso machine and I have both brandy and plain eggnog. Science must happen.

Bandy Eggnogaccino: not great lol

Annnd I have the worst buyer’s remorse… The level of it is a surprise. I haven’t not bought wanted not needed items before, but this…

(There is a little bit more to it which I think blew it up. I somehow bought the wrong side (there is L/R and I clearly stated which side when I arrived) and no one picked it up, including myself until I got home.)

I think it’s because I wasn’t 100% and I overrode myself. I’m also usually super fussy as hell and was a blasé.

Lesson learned. I should have stayed with my gut.

Can you exchange it?
- We’ll try today. Downside is that it wasn’t immaculate when I took it and I didn’t think to actually ask, which is not like me. And if I had of, it would have been picked up.
  
  It’s not 100% the end of the world, but it’s definitely a downer.
- Ooo, managed (not me) to get it exchanged! I see some sunshine and am feeling better.

So I've been looking for a low (er) sugar teriyaki sauce for ages and found this. Taste isn't too bad. Definitely not the cheapest though. Yes I know I could make my own sauce but I'm too lazy.

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/219559/fodmapped-for-you-teriyaki-stir-fry-simmer-sauce

Well now that FRL is officially cancelled I suppose I should find something to do this weekend...

Oh damn.. I just looked into what this is and listened to some of the groups in the lineup and that seems like a good vibe. I might keep a note of this one. Sorry to hear it's cancelled :(
- It's been running for over 15 years but it seems like Council and this new cop in Wangaratta decided to shut the whole thing down less than a month out. It's been chaotic with the emails and backchat. The organisers are famously disorganised and prone to magical thinking as well though haha. At least all the money has been refunded
Aww man. We were probably going to head up to that... Council forced organisers to cancel apparently? Any idea why?
- Given how close it is to the creek and how flat the land is, council probably wants a good flood plan in place in case it rains. Wangaratta is a known flood prone area.
- I thought it may have been due to crazy weather but besides it probably being muddy from this week it looks fine
- https://www.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/News-articles/Folk-Rhythm-Life-Festival-2023-not-going-ahead
  
  City of Wangaratta has not been able to obtain satisfactory event documentation including an emergency management plan to ensure the health and safety of attendees at the planned festival in December.

Got my socks wet on my way to work this morning and they've still not dried even though I've stuck of to the loo to try dry them under the hand dryer a million times.

This Conference isn’t a patch on last year’s. Let us see if day 2 improves…

#Worldle #675 5/6 (100%) 🎉 🪙 📷 #WhereTaken🌎 #274 3/6🎉 ⭐⭐

how good was it to see Donna back on your tv?!

Oh, is Doctor Who back on? I thought they were holding off until next year or thereabouts.
- The first special aired a couple of days ago. It's on Disney+ or the high seas.
  
  Here are the air dates for upcoming specials this year.