• Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    5 months ago

    Another sunny day. 🌞I like the sun but the garden likes some rain. This dry weather is getting worrisome.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    I have to say the electric blanket was a good investment, better than the heated throw. Because you’re able to use an electric blanket under the covers that traps heat and gets much warmer. Very good.

    Hot water bottles are also amazing. (Just be careful to replace them every two/three years or at any sign of the rubber perishing. Or they will split/leak and scald you.)

  • tone212_@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Caught up with an old colleague for drinks tonight. We had a good gossip / bitching session about our previous employer, both of who we had problems with, and talking about how much better we are off now.

    Then I was craving noodles for dins - still thinking about how good this was. Hit the spot.

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Got the nerves a bit today waiting for a call about the job from Tuesday.

    Trying to distract myself pretty much.

    Fingers crossed 🤞🏾

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Still struggling health wise and having to jump through bureaucratic hoops.

    spoiler

    (I went to hospital and was admitted overnight but didn’t get the intervention I was hoping for/need. Just an escalation of an existing referral.) This pattern may continue for some time so I’ll probably not be posting much about it and really downplaying it. Because it’s a bummer and nobody wants to read about all that for months or years.

    I’ve found something easy that speeds combing but might still go for the low maintenance cut when I have the chance. I’ve had the style before, so I know it looks sophisticated and suits me well.

    I haven’t been able to do much cooking or gardening lately but might still go and post to the instances in a bit. Pump up the comment numbers. 🙂

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    5 months ago

    TV Review. Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Series 7 ep.1. Amends. Such a moving performance by Kathryn Erbe as Detective Eames , a woman unwilling to open old wounds regarding the murder of her police officer husband 9 years ago. D’Onofrio is relentless using all his Sherlock Holmes skills to pursue the truth, even when it seems to hurt Eames. A doctor struggles with guilt, trying to atone and bring some kind of karmic justice by helping the poor

    Explores how knowing the answers and justice can lead to healing.

    4 hobbits

    Creature Comforts. Amazon. The Story of making All Creatures Great and Small. I put on this 2 decades old documentary hoping for a feel good doco about the making of a tv series I grew up watching in my early teens and loved.

    It wasn’t. It was more about the real life of the writer of the books, Alf Wight, and how his books revolutionised the treatment of pets.

    I personally think the increase in living standards after WWII , giving people more disposable income to spend on pets, was a bigger factor. Pet owners were asking for treatment for all the TrickyWoos out there…

    Anyway, it was still a good show. Just wish it had Robert Hardy and Peter Davison interviews.

    2.5 hobbits

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Oooh competitive goonsy. You beat me, although you were 5 seconds early and posted this yesterday 😛

    Anyways, today (after 3am) is the steam “summer” sale! Time to buy games I won’t play for 6 months :D

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        • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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          5 months ago

          the clock on my pc was 12.00

          I now have to investigate this

          investigation done, my clock is 8.3 seconds ahead!!

          my clock is now synchronised

          • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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            5 months ago

            As the time of posting was 5 seconds early this seems to indicate that it took about 4 seconds from when you posted it until when it was actually done. So you might need to post at 11:59:56 to get an exact midnight posting. More investigations may be required to confirm.

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      5 months ago

      My sale was not very productive. I only got 3 games because I decided to buy cities skylines 2, which was only 10% off and still going for 62 bucks.

      Also I don’t actually have enough space to install any of them because I left my hard drive at home

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      I’ll just try to finish off my wishlist. I’m terrible at actually buying games.

      I get an email that a game I wishlisted is on sale and I just go, ‘that’s great, good for them’ and never actually buy it

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Anyone know anything amusing going on next Sunday during the day? Scheduled power outage so the house will be utterly miserable. Had been thinking Deadpool but remembered the date wrong. Gah!

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      City or suburbs? Could do something like aquarium, gallery (Pharoh exhibition is on), museum. Or in suburbs cafe lunch, day trip, local shopping center, pub lunch, farmers market.

  • danwritesbooks@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Finished writing a letter to all the submissions for my writing competition. They all did such a magnificent job, and some of the stories were genuinely really good with interesting themes and ideas and twists that I decided to make them all winners. So they all get signed copies of my book.

    I went to one school on Wednesday and announced the winners at assembly. Public speaking is not fun, but I think I did ok. But what really got me was as I was sitting and waiting, one of the kids randomly asks for a high five. Which I obliged. And the girl next to him goes ‘Don’t you know who that is? That’s [my name]. The author.’, which is a all sorts of absurd and crazy and awesome and yeah.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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      5 months ago

      That’s so cool and cool a kid asked for a high five and cool you obliged. 😄 Kids are so awesome like that.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      ‘Don’t you know who that is? That’s [my name]. The author.

      Bro, you made it! thats so fucking cool!

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    5 months ago

    I have been sorting out some end of financial year stuff and am pleased to say I have exceeded my Superannuation balance goal for the year.

    I also received an awesome amount of bank interest, especially compared to previous years where interest rates were so low they were barely worth considering. I do have Coles Mastercard to thank for a lot of it though, as they gave me a 0% for 15 months offer which allowed me to max out my card at no cost and leave nearly $10k in a savings account earning hundreds of dollars in interest payments.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      gotten a bit more on top of mine too. staggered the progress I can make if I’m both organized AND realistic.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Had the windows open a bit to take advantage of the (relatively) balmy weather. Apparently it was All Too Cold for the cats, who are both curled up in the loungeroom and the bedroom respectively with their tails around their noses.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Can I have some karaoke recommendations please? I’ll except cheesy love songs. So far I’ve sung Rosanna by Toto. TIA. 🎤