Saw little butters today for an mday event. Little man chooses his battles.
How has Butters been?
😍He is beautiful!
Butty booiiii ugh so handsome want to skritch. Wish his humans were nicer
Spent more time in bed than usual this morning and the app says I slept well… Annnnd I still feel like a sack of ripe old. I feel soooo tired.
Dragged myself out of the cave upon realising there was gorgeous sunshine to be had and in 15 mins it was gone! Melbourne weather, aye.
I missed the aurora the first time, going out briefly and too late, then forgot last night. Oh well. It’s not really safe to hang around outside at night and I wouldn’t have been able to see much.
Mimi is such a brave little kitty.
Yesterday, wifey noticed that Mimi seemed to be winking a lot. After some further inspection, she noticed that one of Mimi’s eyelids was swollen.
So today, Mimi went on a big trip to the vets to see Dr Paul.
Dr Paul took a look at her eye, and thankfully there’s no scratches on her eyeball.
Because it’s one eye that was swollen, it’s unlikely to be an allergic reaction, and our babies are all indoor cats.
Most likely, it was that some individual — who may or may not be named Spunky or Snowy — got a little rough while playing with Mimi overnight.
After an anti-inflammatory injection and some eyedrops, Miss Mimi was sent home.
She’s now happily playing in a box.
hugs,
She is a good puss.
@Seagoon_ @ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml Thank you 😊
The good news is that she got home and had dinner and a bit of a play. Hopefully, after a couple of days of eye drops, she makes a full recovery 😸
I told you there would be fisticuffs over that box.
@CEOofmyhouse56 @ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml You were correct.
Poor Mimi 😿
Get well soon Miss Mimi ♥
@CEOofmyhouse56 She was so brave when I took her down to see Dr Paul though.
Sat still while Dr Paul weighed her, did the eye drops, and gave her an injection.
He was very impressed.
No way would I be that brave in the same circumstances 😂
Sweet Mimi, such a good puss. 😍 Wishing her a healthy recovery 💜💜
Listening to Magic Pill and the author describes animal testing of effects of different foods on appetite. I can’t help thinking of Ted Cat.
When Ted Cat came here I noticed he was quite short for a Nieb breed cat and he was ravenous. He would not stop eating. He would attack anyone who came near him. He only wanted packet food with gravy and would leave good food uneaten. He wanted to eat 3 times a day.
Over the months I slowly changed his diet. One packet food and some fresh food. He rejected good food and would get angry. I put out a huge bowl of crunchies to last for days, he ate it all in a day, his poor tummy was distended. He now eats fresh Fussy Cat meat and Fussy Cat kangaroo crunchies only. I now measure it all out carefully, I gave him a slow eating bowl so he wouldn’t wolf it down then start on Bill’s food. I fed him outdoors.
Then I got sick and husband fed the boys, they got unlimited food. Ted just went crazy and ate and ate, he’s now on a diet and it’s working.
The positive thing is that Ted Cat now eats healthier food , not packet food with gravy. I don’t know if he would choose gravy if offered. That’s the thing, Ted Cat doesn’t need will power, he doesn’t have the ability to make choices between foods, for him it’s eat or have nothing
so he wouldn’t wolf it down then start on Bill’s food
I need that and a microchip activated feeder. Our tortoiseshell does just that - inhale the wet food, then barges through the tuxedo’s, before finally stealing the fluffy one’s.
https://www.kmart.com.au/product/pet-slow-eat-mat-42487401/
I got Ted’s from the Op Shop but new is still very cheap
remembering i have a puffer jacket but it is bright blue and that’s not very melbourne
A blue puffer jacket: For when you want to stand out from the crowd SLIGHTLY.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Leftovers with some extra cheese thanks
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I wish to order a cure for Mondays
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I am listening to Magic Pill for the second time ( book about ozempic weight loss drug ) https://magicpillbook.com/
here’s what I think after listening one time, it’s a great drug that actually works and it’s best used short term as an aid to tackling the psychology of eating and resetting eating habits.
I would totes take it if it were available here but it being Australia drug companies can’t be bothered and we have an over cautious government . I would even considering going to Canada to get it if possible.
Why is it good? It actually helps people regain health and reduces risks of age and weight related illnesses. This is proven .
One of the scary things I learnt in the book is how fake nearly all manufactured food is.
eg, bought cheese cake is just emulsified milk products, added oils, sugars and thickeners and flavour. Home made I used ricotta and eggs and real lemons or cherries. Real pastry base too.
One is fake food with practically no positive nutritional value, the other is real food that has some nutrition but should still be eaten sparingly as it’s high in calories.
The other sad thing is that the author’s parents worked so hard they were too tired to cook healthy meals. They ate premade meals zapped in the microwave. I will not fault the parents, that fault is in the work that tired them out and the food they bought being misrepresented as being healthy .
I thought about ozempic. I decided to do it the hard way, but those extra benefits for heart health etc are really interesting.
I’d be keen just for those secondary effects.
Most people use it for ever because they also don’t change their diet , they still eat the same crap just less of it, and don’t exercise. Once they stop using ozempic they go back to eating more bad food.
I think using it as an aid to help develope new good habits or reset your body signals is the way.
80% of my diet calories are very good, home cooked food using real basic ingredients, I eat fresh fruit and vegetables everyday. It’s that 20% of junk that’s bad, bikkies, lollies, occasional desserts, fried food.
And the side effects, absolutely minimal and unproven . The side effects of obesity are guaranteed, debilitating and often fatal .
That makes sense. About 5 years ago I did the whole body transformation thing and it was great. But! It was too extreme and I ended up (also due to lockdown) putting back about 40% of what I lost. It can be really easy to get carried away with the whole gym/eating/aesthetics thing, almost to the point of giving oneself an eating disroder. This time I’m trying to be smart by offsetting the junk I eat with healthy main meals and not religeously counting calories.
Be careful with the food chain details, they vary wildly from country to countey.
US food manufacturing is insane at the best of times.
Crud has spiralled into feeling Actually Awful.
I’ve held it together for long enough to go to the supermarket and call in sick for work tomorrow, but now I’m going to bed
Load up on demazin, codral and icypoles.
Have awoken to a kitchen covered in stir fry. Unwisely thought the lid would be enough to stop FishyCat getting into it. Hopefully he doesn’t end up peeing rocks from that snack.
A true hunter in your midst
He was a street cat before we got him, so fuck knows what he was hunting up to eat. Needs to stick to his prescription biscuits now! Wish you could explain to them.
Mine “accidentally” stole a small of piece of chicken off my plate that was seasoned with garlic and now she’s nuts for it.
No Gibson, garlic will kill you. Doesn’t seem to sink in
I recommend getting 1/4 chicken and chips. Skin and chips for thee, rest tithed to the lord
Er, in my experience the Vet saying buy the cat a rotisserie chicken translates to ‘it’s terminal’.
I’ve woken up and come to work and forgot my ID pass, hopefully I don’t get locked out of the building today.
Also my body is broken from the weekend furniture moving.
5 mins to have coffee and enjoy it before I have to be outside, argh!
MADE IT TO ROUND 2!!!
Now I have a week to brush up on some tech stuff (active directory mainly), and we should be good!
I’ve found a good 6 hour tutorial on YouTube that’ll do the trick.
Yay! Yeah you’ll get the hang of active directory.
I did it ages ago at uni but haven’t really had to use it much. Got my VM setup and a few 6 hour videos ready to go lol
@Gibsonisafluffybutt @imoldgreeeg Yay! Congratulations Simon 👏
That is so cool.
Yaaaaassssss!!! You got this! Fuck yeah!
Go go Simon!
Ad? Or AAD? Remember for bonus points call it “extra id” these days. Throw in a reference to conditional access policies. If that don’t give the security guys a semi nothing will.
That’s fucking hilarious 🤣 but you’re absolutely spot on. They want basic AD knowledge which is pretty straightforward. Just brushing up.
I actually did work on IAM and conditional access at my last job, but only as a project manager.
Absolutely bring that up. Fair to assume they are directory synced to the cloud. honestly conditional access is one of the coolest things Microsoft have done in the last 10 years!!
For inside knowledge: Microsoft apparently working on enabling more complex passwords in entra id. I’m very excited about this because it’s stupid that you have to have an on premises active directory to be able to set minimum complexity requirements.
Interesting! I’ve been hearing that two factor isn’t enough anymore is that true?
This job, it’s linked to the courts, so everything is still on prem. Although, maybe if I get this job I can start an initiative to move to the cloud.
Correct, mfa ain’t enough. Especially in sensitive settings like the courts. Government gets twitchy about data going out of the country. You might even find dealing with the courts the mandate IS on prem.
But I’ve had clients/customers/whatever click on links and have their auth token stolen from the browser, allowed an attacker to come in totally bypassing mfa. I’ve also had customers have their phone number ported away to steal the sms auth. Shit is scary.
Pretty sure the court is mandated to be on prem if I recall from the interview. Browser stuff can be mitigated to a degree, but how the fuck do you stop number porting and Sim cloning?
So MS are dropping SMS auth totally. MFA requires an app, or it will. Its a VERY slow rollout.
Woohoo! Good stuff!
TinyCat is off to the vet. He chucked again this morning, that makes it 4 times in a week. He’s also alternates between velcro-kitty and antagonist way more than usual. Suspect something is going on with him.
Still feeling wrecked. Am kind of wondering whether it’s related to (an unpleasant road related incident)
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an accident yesterday. I was riding home and had to u-turn as there had been accident involving a motorcyclist just several minutes before. I didn’t see anything, but I saw the bobbing of a head and I knew they were desperately doing CPR. A witness said they’d been trying for 5 mins and didn’t know when the ambulance would arrive. They were on the way when I was riding back in the opposite direction. The news reported that he died at the scene. I’m trying not to think about it, but it’s hard since I ride there almost weekly. I mean, I know that it can happen anywhere, but most people on the weekends are sort of chill. It is a winding 60km that increases to 80km, but most people on the weekends take it pretty easy. Hell, I rode Black Spur yesterday and one of the drivers was literally driving half the speed limit. sigh Just that constant reminder of life.
Sorry, just needed to offload it.
Edit: Oh no. The spoiler isn’t working on mobile? I’m so sorry. 😔
It’s hard to witness, your feelings are valid. Make sure you take care of yourself, self-care. Sending you good vibes
Thanks, StudSpud. I guess I didn’t really realise how it might have affected me. I had a pretty bad sleep last night and didn’t put two and two together.
Mate, being so close to the scene like that would absolutely have residual effects on your nervous system. Definitely take it easy, it can be a lot to process
e: btw your original spoiler worked, but I think you edited it wrong. You need to write it like this:
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Thanks, JK. It looks like that in formatting and works on desktop, but I only noticed it wasn’t working on Memmy. I tried to fix it, but to no avail.
Appreciate your words, thanks.
Odd, it looked fine to me on mobile browser but not on desktop. Ah well. I think everyone here empathises with your situation. Hope your sleep improves over the week.
For fucks sake. Our fire alarms randomly went off. I was on the dunny half asleep. Nothing’s on fire. There are cobewebs around the fire alarm that’s going off, so my guess is that something’s moved in to it and is triggering the sensor. This actually happened at my last place, although at a much more reasonable hour.
Our alarms are a lot worse than regular alarms in regular houses. They’re all wired in series, so once one goes off, they all go off. It is controlled by a commercial style Pannell, but the best that can do for us is making it shut up for 8 minutes. After that it can be retriggered. We can’t just take it off the roof, A because we’d be in a fair bit of shit, but B because it’s bolted onto the roof and has several wires feeding into it anyways.
We can call the fire alarm company to replace it, but they won’t get here for several hours. Several hours while we’re meant to be asleep…
E: We tried vacuuming out any dust, in case that’s what was causing it but no dice. Fire panel people have been called. No clue how long they’ll be
E2: fire people reckon they’ll be here within an hour
E3: they came out quite quickly to fix it, which honestly wasn’t my experience in the past. Apparently nothing moved in, it just happened to go faulty. I blame the sun farts. In any case he took it off the roof and somebody will come tomorrow to replace it. A bit under 2 hours from it going off til it was fixed, which was honestly a good response time. Lovely bloke they sent too. He’s on call so we pulled him out of his slumber, so at least we aren’t alone in our suffering 😂
E4: also he called me back at 12:59, so he was here in under an hour
