My neighbour has some sort of car alarm thing that goes off genuinely dozens of times a day. Day or night, it doesn’t matter. I don’t understand what the appeal is or what’s causing it. Is the actual car alarm, complete with flashing lights, etc. it’s been going on since before I moved in (so easily a year), mostly happens between 7-9pm, but less frequently at various times overnight
Just why
@briongloid Here’s a question for everyone: What’s your favourite colour(s)?
I’ll start: Mine are teal and purple.
Red and Purple
My favourite used to be a deep royal purple, but I’m all in on red these days.
@RustyRaven @StudChud Purple is probably my second favourite colour
Red.
Whatever weird names you want to give a bright gem blue that’s neither teal nor cerulean, and acid apple green
sapphire ?
Bit paler. Swiss topaz is about right if I can trust my phone.
purest blue aquamarine ( no green )
pale rose pink ( with no yellow )
I don’t have a favourite. I like them all except for mustard/baby poo brown.
That part of an eggplant where it’s turning from the ‘aubergine’ skin to the eggshell interior colour, especially if it’s moist
No work for me today - colon went boom about an hour before I was due to start and my clients were a 97 yo and another household where both the client and the carer have autoimmune issues, so I phoned in and said ‘it could be moving stress or it could be something, what do?’ I was told very firmly regardless to Stay Home.
Back to the packing!omg, the jalapenos i chopped for chilli bread are spicy 😵
Chili bread is now rising.
chili bread out of oven. Not risen very high but should yummy anyway
Miss Meow is snoring away loudly in her tunnel tonight, so Mr Woof has taken over her bed in the corner. I think he’s decided it’s a good spot to look through the window and keep an eye out for marauding possums in the backyard.
Thank you Brion.
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Energy! Energy! E N E R G Y !
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Thank you
Something depressing that will make me feel sluggish and unmotivated please
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Whatever’s on that’s energising and motivating, plz chef
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I’ve been getting to sleep super early (around 8/9pm) for over a week, and it’s been going well, it’s nice to be awake for sunrise. But tonight it just wasn’t working. Tossed and turned from 8 until 10, finally got to sleep sometime around 10:30 or maybe 11, then had a bad dream and scared myself awake by 4. Can’t get back to sleep, so I guess my day starts now
I had a haunted dream, dreamt of a big building with haunted medieval face carvings that moved, then a big relief carving of an elf came to life and tried to kill us.
I don’t even remember what was in my dreams last night, but I do remember it wasn’t fun
Up early after Zooks woke me up by sitting on my shoulder, so I decided I’d tackle some more clearing and sorting.
Last day of work before the move. Kinda wish I’d taken this week off as well, but I suspect I would have faffed around more if I had. Plus I wouldn’t have scored free cat food from one of my clients after her cat sadly died.Was awake at 4am and grabbed to cat for a cuddle in bed. Cat fell asleep cuddled up. Cat suddenly wakes up some time later, and leaps into the air off the bed. Lucky I only got a small scratch.
My spicy cat came in for snuggles at 4am too. Very unusual behaviour from her. She ended up with her front paw on my mouth, but I couldn’t move because snuggles!
Miss Meow has been coming in for cuddles a lot more now that the weather is cooling down. I sleep on my side so she usually curls up on top of me. She’s pretty good at moving off if I roll over and then climbing back on again, but if I move too much she either curls up at the end of the bed or leaves the room entirely. If she is still there in the morning she is generally displaced by Mr Woof’s enthusiastic jumping when he decides it is time to get up.
I wish I was a crow. I’m only 2km away from somewhere I need to go via crow, but 4km by car or 6km by PT
It took 38 minutes there, and 46 back, getting there involved 3 connections across 2 modes of public transport (excluding walking). Returning was just 1 mode, but did involve ~25ish minutes of walking because the schedules didn’t line up
would have it been faster to walk?
I did not have brain worms on my politics bingo card. 🧠🪱🪱🪱
I’m out of the loop on this, huh?
A worm ate a bit of RFK Jr.'s brain. Not all of it though.
Wtf is it with kennnedys and headshots
Oh my god I almost pissed myself laughing. Well done.
you’re kidding, right?
Apparently true… Just googled “brain worm politics” and yeah… RFK Jr had a brainworm
Wtf
The story is being peddled. I actually don’t believe it.
It was diagnosed from looking at mri brain scans years after the purported event. It’s a lie that covers a worse truth. The truth that over 20 years of heroin addiction totally irreparably fucked his brain.
The other lie is mercury poisoning from eating fish.
Might be a lie in this case but it is totally possible. Sometimes I click on internet links best left untouched. That was one of them!
So I found an iCloud account I setup half a decade ago with a phone number I no longer have. But I had SMS 2FA setup 😬
I still have access to the email bound to it, and know the password, and through old emails I was able to figure out which phone number was associated with it. I also still have the MacBook I registered the account with, although I think I just setup a new account rather than going through all the motions, and it has been reset a few times, so it’s not recorded as a trusted device anymore.
Bet time: what do we reckon the likelihood of apple removing the 2FA is? My guess is probably a 35% chance they do, assuming nobody has my old number yet (if they do and they called apple and were like “yo what do? I didn’t make no iCloud request dawg” then that probably goes down to like a 15% chance, unless the apple people asked for more info and confirmed that at the very least they aren’t me, and can use that in their investigations, in which case it probably goes up to 75%)
spoiler
Tbh I don’t really care that much, I only used it so that they’d stop hassling me about linking an iCloud account, so there’s nothing on there I care about. But it is registered with my main email address, and I’d rather use that than trying to remember what other email I used for the new one
If someone claiming to be Apple called me and started asking me to confirm any of my personal details, I’d tell them politely to go away.
Presumably it’d be more of a “if you didn’t request this, contact apple at apple.com/contact” or something like that, but yeah.
If someone new has the phone number now and they have registered an iCloud to that number, Apple should be able to see there are two accounts on the number.
If you are able to tell them that one of them is no longer you, that helps them know who they need to call.
If someone from Apple called me up and said “Hi, it’s Apple here, are you Nath from somestreet in Perth?” I’d be a lot more cooperative. I wouldn’t volunteer anything, but if they knew that I was the account holder and knew I registered it after you no longer used it, and then asked me whether I had another iCloud account, I’d freely volunteer that I did not.
decent if you can prove ownership over devices that have been associated with it.
I initiated the request from my MacBook so hopefully. But if they ask for actual proof of ownership I’d be screwed. I don’t generally keep receipts for 6 years, but I wasn’t the one who bought it anyways
Strange question: How do you ask for a nice big warm hug from your partner without ASKING. I feel like a need some spontaneous affection, like I come home and just get a bear hug or something. But asking totally ruins the feeling of the surprise. Coffee is like a lukewarm limp handshake for the soul, but I will take it!
Is this a thing specifically about what happens when you come home? If so you might want to think about role shifting and how that is working for both of you - you have had time on the trip home from work to mentally make the shift from your working role to your home role, but she is going instantly from her role of mother to partner and might need more time to mentally make that shift. Talk to her about what she thinks about it, but it might work better for you both if you start a routine along the lines of you taking tiniest for a while to give her some time alone to just regather her thoughts and prepare to be “partner” and not just “mother” - maybe take a shower, go for a walk, whatever works for her.
Good point, but this predates the kid. I think its just a fundamental difference in love languages I guess.
Maybe say to her “sometimes I really want a hug without asking so when I put my arms out would you be ok with that”. If you do that often enough it becomes habit.
I feel sad you have to ask for a hug but if you don’t communicate with your partner then they don’t know what you want.
Yeah its deffo come up before, gets addressed for a few weeks then sort of falls apart, which is fine cause the need is addressed but in a few months I’ll need it again and we just kind of spiral.
Also important to recognise you might have different “love languages”… Yours might be physical touch and theirs might be words of affirmation for example… Which is the case for us. I actually need to remind myself that my partner needs me to hug her…
oh its totally this. I think maybe I just need to take the lead on some of this stuff to reminder her in a non verbal way.
Yeah that is so true. Also don’t forget to make each other laugh.
Never stopped trying
hugs
I suggest when you get home you give the hugs. Do it all the time. Hopefully hugs will become more of a thing and you receive hugs too.
thank you! Yeah, be the change you want to see hey.
RAAAR bear noises, approach with arms outstretched
casual touching is something you foster, but if they ain’t picking up the messages a spoken reminder of your needs is a must.
haha thank you!
wooooo. Today we had
- plumber to put in pressure reducer and new lever ceramic swishy tapware
- Cerycat to vet for checkup
- shitload of servers to complete and ship to nz
last now done, hubs at vet with cat, tapware completed, I’m having a bloody cuppa
