Daily Discussion Thread: Wed 06 Dec 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Wed 06 Dec 2023
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
It’s my insane little idiot’s Gotcha Day., but he refuses to pose with new toy. So here’s an old one. First day as office cat.
That is a fine feline friend.
You inspired me to look up my own pets Gotcha Days. Mr Woof has his 10th Gotcha Day next year, meaning he will be about 12 years old - nearly a teenager! Miss Meow will have her 3rd in January, meaning she will be older than 3. The rescue I got her from told me was 6 months old, some of the paperwork had her as 4 years, and the vet that did her dental work thought she might be 2. And of course a lady will never divulge.
Dates mean what you wish them to. Many regards to Miss and her ambiguous teeth.
Beautiful little gremlin. What a sharp look!
Catfish Cat has the most excellent pointy cat ears I have ever seen. 💗😸
Can we talk about how bottled soda water is now $1.20 when it used to be 70c? Even at ALDI.
I didn't realise carbon dioxide and water have become so expensive.
If you drink it often you may as well get a cheap soda stream maker at that price. Less plastic wastage too.
Seconded. I drink an obscene quantity of self bubbled water. They do do sneak things like change the bottle shape between charger types and formats to force new buys.
last time I checked Aldi was 99c, has it gone up AGAIN?
Boyo currently crying and hyperventilating after trying to burn out his not-Covid with Buldak noodles and a disgusting concoction called Fire Cider. I call dibs on first use of the bathroom tomorrow morning.
I've got actual Rona for the first time. The rat test was pretty definitive.
May it be mild and swift.
Tomorrow? Thats optimistic.
Well the good news is I thought I was getting closer to 90% of my allocated hours for this project but I'm still at 78% and I smashed out one bit that I thought would take 2 days, in 3.5 hours. Thank fuck!
Not finishing everything before I go on Thursday, but I've decided I'll take my work laptop after all and bash out the rest over the next week and then I have a completely clear mind for the rest of December :D and then maybe I can finally leave my job for real once I'm back...
🤞🏻
tee hee, this is the blouse imma gonna wear for xmas, it has angry skworls and I love it 🤭
spoiler
Skwrl
I stand corrected. 😊
Lamb has catastrophically dropped in price - $10-99 per kilo from the butcher for a whole 12 kg lamb. At this time of year, probably two-tooth or hogget rather than lamb lamb but whooeee! Time to stock the freezer. Six months ago lamb was more like $26-00 per kilo at Colesworth.
Pick up a bunch on the cheap the other day as well.
I think I read somewhere that farmers were culling in prep for the summer heat being insane this year, so the price is predicted to drop right down for a bit.
Looks like homemade lamb shawarma is on the menu for me!
Würzburg Christmas market!(I can’t work out how to crop it, so sorry if it’s still sideways).
Upright and pretty!
I'm getting a Bug-A-Salt for Christmas. It's getting picked up tonight. I'm very excited.
Not a good time to be a fly.
I didn't know I needed one of these - but I do now.
Oh you need one.
I bought one for my dad back in January I think it was. Let me know how you go because I haven't managed to murder any flies with it yet. Blew a nice hole through a tissue when doing a test though.
Will do. I'll test it tonight. If I can't find a fly I'm prepared to sacrifice a small dog for experimental purposes.
Ooh, I think I want one…
Reasons I hate PTV #6487:
Trains are down so I caught a tram. It has now been an hour, and I'm only about two-thirds home.
It would've literally been faster to walk.
Where the fuck is the oversight?
One of my fantasies while living in Melbourne (Through the worst of the Connex and the early Metro years) was to magically teleport Transperth trains and operations onto the Melbourne network for a month. The whole system. I know it can't really be done.
But to somehow show Melbournians how a train network could run in this country would really drive home how bad the trains were in Melbourne.
In related news: The train network in Perth was never privatised.
I think I need to take a break from binge re-watching Buffy. It's giving me stressful dreams. Not about monsters or demons but there's always some crisis going on in that show and it's contagious.
Australia is waking up to the news that we've LOCKED IN our participation in Eurovision 2024!
Oh heck yes! I got super into it this year, woulda been devo if I only got into it at the end.
Was at Bunnings and noticed they have expanded their cleaning products aisle. Way cheaper than supermarket, especially the dishwasher tablets. Purchased some basil seedlings. Haven’t had great success in the past, because they burn if too sunny, get leggy if too shady. I’ve selected a spot that gets morning sun and afternoon dappled shade, hopefully that will keep them happy.
The cleaning aisle is my favourite there.
Bunnings are discontinuing the Gearwrench brand of sockets, spanners, etc. They're really good quality tools and about 30%-40% of the usual cost.
Melbcat is home! I'm concerned though.
Cat TMI, Poo and wee talk
On pickup her the bottom of her carrier was saturated with urine that didn't smell fresh and there was some fresh poo in there too. The poo could likely have happened on the way home but I could smell the strong ammonia of ripe wee the moment she was carried out.
Wondering if she was waiting zipped into the carrier since the morning and then there was a delay because of a flat tire, but since it smelled a few days old at least, perhaps she was so stressed out during her stay that she repeatedly urinated in there because it smelled familiar. (Possible because there was a cat with dementia there repeatedly meowing.)
I commented on it but was in a rush to get her home. On getting home and actually checking there was so much in there, enough for it to be from repeated urinations as multiple layers of blankets and cloth nappies on top of the puppy pads were soaked through, and she'd dug everything up to pee through to the bottom of the carrier.
I was also really clear about avoiding fragrance and gave them unscented detergent to use if she soiled her things, but she's come home with spots on her fur smelling like perfume (which often rubs off the wrists of female vet staff while handling them).
She was also pretty hungry when she came home, going straight to the fresh biscuits put out and then demolishing a can and half of the 85g tins. Was she not getting frequent wet food and having to rely on dry, and was she struggling with that?
The owner talked about her staying in her carrier and only popping her head out to say hi, and mentioned the vet students were the one doing all her care. It's possible she was stressed out and hiding in her carrier for that time and because she's shut down and 'good' they didn't really check in on her? The place was extremely busy.
This cattery had really good reviews and I had got a good feeling when I talked to the owner in detail before sending her there...
Am I being unreasonable if I ask what's up? Ugh. I don't want to torpedo good relations as this place came recommended by her normal vet and the owner seemed really knowledgable about cats needs... It just feels like seeing your kid come home from childcare in a soaked nappy that they've sat in all day.
It worries me that Melbcat could have been in distress for that week but tends to be very quiet and 'good' when scared and maybe they were so busy they didn't notice what was going on. I need a place that's sensitive to her needs when I'm sick and can't be there.
Maybe I shouldn't have left her there for the entire time. Maybe I should have got her after a day or two instead of allowing her to stay to let her get used to it 😔
Edit: She just had an asthma attack. I gave her puffers, tied a replacement carrier to the pram frame and walked to emergency. The nurse took a quick look. Her breathing has settled but now it’s me stressing out and trying not to puke
She's home now and will be fine soon. Hugs for you and puss.
Edit: She just had an asthma attack. I gave her puffers, tied a replacement carrier to the pram frame and walked to emergency. The nurse took a quick look. Her breathing has settled but now it’s me stressing out and trying not to puke
Hope she recovers quickly.
Thanks, she’s ok! She had a bronchodilator injection on top of the puffers and will have the puffer again for a week.
I haven't shot any flies yet even after I opened the garage door and waited.
At first the roomies laughed at me. Now who's asking "can I'va go"?
I had two packages today, both books from different branches of the same library. One package was left at the door, the other I have to pick up from the post office. 😡
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At a set of traffic lights this morning, glanced in my rear view and noticed the lass driving the car behind me was curling her eyelashes. Didn’t think much of it, until we’re then doing 80km/hr and I checked my rear views and saw that she was doing her mascara. I’m down for a bit of multitasking, but that just seems dangerous.
Yep, quite a few people do their make up while driving to work.
Is it time? Is it time I decolour my hair and let it grow out white? It's long and wavy and healthy and not too thin. Young Miss Seagoon says yes. I will ask Mr Seagoon.
bloody germans got me working late. But my boss knows not to bite the hand that tends his servers so it means I can start whenever the fuck I feel (or indeed not at all) tomorry. Unless a fire starts.
Got woken early by one of those spam texts that bypass the DND setting and didn't manage to get back to sleep. Two clients today, first one who was That Client last week. I'll see how it is this time but I may be requesting a reassignment.
I got a couple of those this morning but Google Messages grabbed them like a champ.
It was blocked but it still buzzed my smart watch 😕
When dogs sleep and their feet twitch, I want to know what they are dreaming about. Chasing a ball? Going for a walk? Running from the scary vacuum cleaner monster?
what are the six geese laying?
Each other. Hopefully alive.
Hang on, that’s ducks. Ignore me.
Mariah Carey Hath Descended. It Is Time.
You need the other 2 now. Buble and Bing. The holy trinity.
Far out I read that wrong. I need more sleep.
You're not alone! I'm thinking bubbles and bingo?
Has anyone moved from Telstra Mobile to Aldi? Aldi uses the Telstra network, but I've read it's only their old equipment. Is the service acceptable?
I'm about to get the kid a phone for Christmas, and look like finally merging our phone service onto a family plan. The Aldi family plan with four sims is actually cheaper than what my wife and I are presently paying for Telstra/Optus. We've never merged our phone plans.
I'm tempted to get him the most basic Aldi plan. Hoping to teach him the importance of budgetting data - but even their $19 plan comes with 10 GB. I was getting by with 2 GB less than a decade ago.
Before I do anything drastic, will I regret this move?
Here's everything you'd ever need to know about Telstra's MVNOs.
If you want to go hard-mode on budgeting data lessons, Boost's 12 month $230 plan gives the equivalent of 14GB for $20 per month - aka 170GB but gives you all of it up front, and it uses Telstra's full network rather than their wholesale network which Aldi, etc use.
I haven't used Telstra's wholesale network but if you're not going anywhere very remote I suspect it'll do just fine. You can see the coverage map and differences on the first link. I moved from Telstra to Boost and it's literally the same service, just cheaper.
One thing it doesn't mention is 5G which just looking at Aldi's website,
requires a special expensive plan to accessscratch that, but it still requires a higher plan than their 2 cheapest ones. Boost gives 5G no problemo.
Boost's 12 month $230 plan gives the equivalent of 14GB for $20 per month - aka 170GB
Ha! This would be enough for me! And I am not careful any longer with data usage. I might go over 14GB some months, but I'd be under 10GB others.
It's also a third of what I'm presently paying Telstra. I really should have looked at this stuff at some earlier point.
Monitoring and managing a monthly data allowance might let the kid develop responsibility in their life. If they manage it well, maybe they can be trusted with more things? I gave my dad a 40gb sim and he watched youtube for two days on high rez then complained that the internet had stopped.
We are on the family plan, coverage is good, never had any issues that I needed to contact them for. We have a LOT of rollover data now but I did have the kids restricted to a certain amount of data at the start.
Went to bunnings early this morning because one of my powerboards decided to die last night.
Did everything faster than ex[ected and now I'm at work early.
Party time?
Roll'd on Southern Cross Lane near my work is on FIYAHH
so THATS how they get the crispy pork belly!
Just a bit of burnt toast, she'll be right.
I've got the opening notes to Gina G's Ooh Aah stuck in my head. send help.
I don't even know what that is 😃
Google it, its one of those "You know if but you don't remember it" songs.
Oh no. Thanks. 😂
Car has been dropped at the mechanic, now to chill (aka freak out because what IF something is magically wrong with it) for a few hours since old mate reckons it'll be done by 12pm.
what car have you got?
Mitsubishi Pajero NT 09 (diesel). She's as clean as a whistle (apart from needing a suspension upgrade), just put her in for a once-over before the big holiday driving starts. Usually, I do something like this myself, but my calendar is a little full at the moment, and to be honest, I felt like being lazy.
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the ear worm I woke up with today 😀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKZC0Yl7y40
