Hang in there. It’s nearly over.
I have decided to donate my bike if I can find someone who wants it. It is currently mostly a collection of parts that need to be put together, as I intended to do some repairs and got as far as buying parts and tools and pulling it apart before losing enthusiasm. I have made enquiries with the local communiy centre that does regular bike repair and demonstration workshops, I’m hoping they will be interested in taking it to use as a demonstration project that can then be donated as a working bike to someone who needs it.
CERES or Bicycle Recycle might be interested. If you near Springvale I can give you a hand assembling it. I like working on bikes.
Ah you’re right, closed is my pharmacy,
So today I’ll take it easy.Just put out a second load of washing. It should dry quickly in this heat.
I’m home from my cheap motel split system utopia. Apartment is gross but I’ve gotten here early enough in the day to hopefully cool it before the sun really starts hitting the windows.
Seriously considering tinfoiling my bedroom wall of windows.
A cardboard box seems to help heaps. I put that on my west facing windows between the glass and curtain and it’s no longer radiating tons of heat back into the house. I reckon a couple of those windscreen sun-visor things would work a treat too, if they had suction cups on them.
The wildlife water dried up and blew down while I was asleep. It’s the lightweight material, flat wide aerodynamic shape and the placement. I put it there for a reason, and chose a shallow dish so animals/insects don’t drown, but inconvenient. I put it back, peeled the huge block of ice out of the silicone bowl/jelly mould to weigh it down and filled it the rest of the way with water from the tap.
The ice should keep the platter held down for a while, keep everything cool, and slowly refill the water as it melts.
Did my third water walk in a row this morning. Definitely feeling it - using muscles I haven’t used or used as much. I hope the weather allows a few more - just not this hot, thanks.
In other news, the heat seems to have fried drivers’ brains - someone nearly turned into me and I did have my lights on so it wasn’t a matter of the silver car being harder to see. And I nearly got clipped by a Pajero.
Boy am I looking forward to when I can just walk to the beach.Today feels better. Dunno if it’s just me but it’s way less oppressive.
I think it’s because the air is moving. Yesterday was not much wind so to me it felt hotter. Going to be a nasty night once the wind drops though.
I think it’s nicer today as long as you aren’t in the sun. In the shade it almost feels cool.
Beach doggo flies!
Just started watching Yellowstone. Not usually into this genre but it’s intriguing so far.
I had to go back to a previous mass effect save game. Didn’t gather enough resources. Bugger.
Subnautica complete in 34 hours 🙌
🐙🦈🦠🚀
If that’s your first playthrough, that’s incredible!
Thanks, yes first play through. It’s an average time tho. Incredible game.
I think I might move on to Pacific Drive. Just came out last month. Looks like a similar concept, but land based.
Pacific drive looks incredible!
I’m sure I took several days. I must have spent two days pottering around the shallows/kelp/red grass areas getting a seamoth.
My best is 14 hours on Hardcore. I was disappointed that there was no achievement for finishing in hardcore.
That’s impressive.!
Took like 6 attempts. If you live long enough in Hardcore to get to a seamoth, you’ll probably make it to the end.
You always die from oxygen diving below 100-200m.
I would not normally have any reason to say this, but tonight I wanna be in Warrnambool. It’s 22 deg there.
I started up my PC to play BG3 again, and have just been distracted by everything else instead.
Finally sitting down now. In the time it has taken me to traverse Act 2, my partner has completed 3 playthrough 😭 sometimes I hate that I cannot concentrate on games or hobbies for as long as I used to. Ugh
You and me both. It’s like… why is this so hard to stick at? It’s a leisure activity!
I have suspicions and theories as to why I’m like this, but I certainly require a therapist to help with unravelling it all.
We can only be kind to ourselves 💜
Oh I’ve done the same things many times. Get distracted by tv or suddenly looking up something and forget to get back to the game
Being distracted is too easy, I do it pokemon when I look up shiny stats or info, and then I just end up reading Bulbapedia for 3 hours -_-
I suspect it is my cptsd, depression, or undiagnosed ADHD. I have no idea. My brain seems to sort ‘hobby’ into ‘chore’ and puts up a wall. Annoying as shit when I have half finished projects and games everywhere. My half-painted necrons judge me from their shelf 😳
It’s possible. It’s hard for women to get a diagnosis.
I’ve dropped so many hobbies because my brain sorted it into ‘chore’ (plus money). My half painted Cold One Knights have been hidden in a box and the paints have dried up
I can’t play anything that warms up my GPU. My cooling is simply too good and actively heats my room by dissipating that heat.
So I’ve been playing lots of Halo The Master Chief Collection. Starting up my legendary Halo CE playthrough again!
Quick edit: Also BG3 is very good! I haven’t played since finishing 8 runs in the first two weeks of release. I should do another.
Still waiting on my new rig To arrive so I can play it. Super excited!
I need to sand the nib of my charcoal pencil to get the angle more gradual, because as it is the tip narrows to a point a bit steeply and creates a slight curve. That’s why marks were ending up lower than I wanted, because when I tried to hold the pencil vertically the curved side was easier to brush on the paper than the flatter side of the tip.
This happened because I didn’t have a sandpaper block and used an emery board. The smaller size encourages me to use smaller movements and just quickly get the tip sharp rather than sweep it in larger arcs at a flatter angle for a gradual sharpening to a point. I can possibly fix it with the emery board but will have to be conscious of what I’m doing
No air-con + sleeping in the lounge gang here.
Really felt my holiday was just starting the other day and now I’m back and have sads. Well at least I can tick off some major sightseeing off my list. Was surprised, but the Vatican City for art was definitely one of my favourites. Paid an obnoxious amount for a tour, but it was worth it just by to get in a little bit earlier. Tourists are rabid, even in Winter.
