Victorian public service executives have now been awarded a pay increase between 3.5% and 4.3%.
Less than inflation.
More than the 3% that government policy caps the offer for all their other workers at. But the politicians themselves and the executives get to have different rules.
You guys said Octonauts was good but they referred to a pufferfish as poisonous instead of venomous
🐡😱
Are they eating it or touching it?
In that episode the pufferfish got eaten, but it was by a whaleshark
As far as kids are concerned, the fish is poisonous. There’s no way I’d want a kid to think they can fry up and eat a pufferfish.
Stage one interview done, I feel like it went well. I’ll know in a day or two if I get to the in person interview which would be next week
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Hot water bottle just woke me up cos sprang a leak. Only by now it’s a slightly warm water bottle which is a relief. And it’s only on its third year of use. Damn. TGF mattress protector. Would not be fun drying a mattress this time of year.
Augh. If you have a microwave, the heat discs they use to warm pet beds are very useful. LMK if you want a link.
Mattress is OK, thank the gods. Just sheets, pjs and me and this is all easy to fix. Time for a new hwb I guess.
I got one of those chargeable hot water bottles. Basically a giant version of those reusable hand pocket warmers. Gamechanger
As with so many things in life, they don’t make em like they used to.
I go for the pre training review thingy today. They sent me the link yesterday and reiterated I had to fill out the LLN assessment prior to the PTR, so i wrote back to ask if they’d received my assessment, and they never replied which is always a good sign.
I feel like this is a bit of a pivotal moment for me, and this is about the point I’d start making saves if this were a game…
In other news, I was finally able to go watch that bad men movie on Sunday (3rd time’s the charm, I guess). I enjoyed it, even though I never saw the other one(s? I think it’s a trilogy). I pieced enough of it together to still enjoy myself.
Who cares about all that training stuff, I think you mean Bad Boys and there are FOUR of them now.
Don’t you know Will Smith got cheated on and it inspired him to become the greatest actor of all time?
No
Good luck! You’ll be great 👍
Thanks dhmo!
Good luck 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Thanks G!
Lodged my tax return this morning. Took like 5 minutes
That’s how you know I’m poor
The last time I did my tax that quickly I realised later I missed something and had to do an amendment. Turns out it meant the tax refund I had already received was higher than it should have been, so I had to repay the ATO 8c.
Modern tax return stuff is so good how it already knows about all of my dividend and interest payments etc. Most things are auto-filled but I just need to crack open my google doc I keep with my expenses I put in and keep track of purchases I can claim, whack that stuff in there, get briefly mad at how much tax I pay every year and then hit submit. Probably takes me about 10 minutes. 15 with a double-check of everything.
Before I came to Australia I had this impression that tax was Awful and Complicated and A Nightmare - primarily from American media - and this was before I was old enough to have needed to file a tax return.
Only to find out it’s a total breeze here.
I think USA has the additional complication of having both State and Federal income taxes. There also seem to be a lot of things that can be deductable there that don’t apply here - like mortgage payments on your own home and the value of donations given to charity (not just money, but stuff like old clothes you drop off at the op shop!). Plus they have the option to file a joint tax return as a couple instead of being treated as two individuals, which is beneficial in some circumstances but not others.
Operative phrase there is ‘american media’.
It’s certainly a massive improvement on the old paper forms. The early electronic lodgements were also basically just the paper form online, all of this automatic stuff makes it so much easier.
When they’re like “you got any investments bro? What about income from dividends? Don’t know what a dividend is? Oh, just put down “no” then, you poor fuck”
On the other hand when you have to answer “yes” it starts opening up a bunch of complicated questions to wade through. I put a small amount of money into some investment funds a couple of years ago and now I get to wade through a whole bunch of extra questions, all over tiny amounts of money. It’s all stuff like $20 of franking credits, $2.31 in foreign investment offsets and $6 of capital gains. I’m looking forward to hitting the age I can access Super and can just shove money in there and take it out tax free without all the hassle.
I’ve always loved the question to the effect of, “have you received any tips?” 🤣
I took an old mattress to the tip; does that count? 😂
I has a quick look and plugged in some travel expenses since I started travelling off site at work and some other deductions.
This year thankfully is looking better than last year’s estimate.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
A meat pie with sauce and a can of coke
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Muesli with yoghurt berries and banana please
🌾🥛🍓🫐🍌
Nice big bowl of porridge with brown sugar and milk and a bit of butter underneath like my Dad used to make it plz chef
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Ta
Retreating to bed cause it’s fucking freezing. Fortunately got the electric blanket on in preparation so beds nice and warm at least. Reckon I’ll leave the electric towel rail on tonight too just so don’t freeze my junk off when I get up at 6am.
Got a survey call today. It’s the first in a long time becausebmy phone usually filters them for me.
I’ve received some weird emails recently too. I bet it was that damn property expo I registered for
Done the last of the repotting and prepared 3 big pots for jalapeno seedlings. Sewed up the outdoor toy penguin and put it out. Done daiso shopping, bought gloves, no one had fingerless gloves so imma just cut the fingers off myself. Got all the sewing haberdashery I need to do some french embroidery on my jumper. All the tapestry fabric for recovering the chairs is cut out and ready. Pizza is being done. Cats are brushed and fed.
I refuse to listen to the news, the whining from the dems is driving me crazy. Just fricking use power and do something.
If you change your password, but your password manager fails to capture it did you really even change your password? According to the system? Yes, you very much did.
A password manager that doesn’t capture a password is about as useful as an indicator on a BMW.
Last pass?
yep! Rubbish until the end hey.
Didn’t they have a massive data breach 2 years ago? I swear it was them.
Yes, I believe so. I CERTAINLY wouldnt use it personally. But its more a point to my security team: Either block it, or endorse a corporate solution. Till then im not *technically * doing anything wrong.
At least LastPass asks you if you want to update your password after you’ve changed it.
I’m using 1password and much prefer it. But it asks when the password is generated. What if the password field has a bunch of rules I need to follow and have to make edits after?
Check out Bitwarden. Free and pretty decent.
I washed the woolen underlay I use as a dog blanket a couple of weeks ago and hung it outside to dry. I missed taking it in before rain hit so it had to stay out longer. Now I have a magpie coming in regularly to collect nesting material from it, so I guess it has to stay there now.
Blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah BLAH. blah…
Excuse me, but I think you meant blah blahblahblah blah blah.
Thank you for agreeing to our terms. The deal is sealed.
Blah?!
Yes. You have chanted the Oath. Welcome Brother.
Blah 👍
I’ve been listening to Chappell Roans album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess and I’m in love.
lovey mushy goo goo shite
My partner came home from work last night and started playing Stellaris while listening to the album as well. He said we should go see her if she comes to Aus. He says one of the reasons he loves me is that I never judge him for liking Pop music, and I sing along with him to Call Me Maybe lol. He knows the lyrics better than I do.
I love my Pop Boi.
Casual lives rent free in my head running endless loops around pink pony and i love it
Knee deep in the passenger seat, and you’re eating me out
Is it casual now?Those lines are virulent, so damn catchy. Naked in Manhattan and My Kink is my Karma are my favs so far I think, but it’s hard because every song is great!
3 degrees here. Cold air was very sharp taking the rubbish out. I think it’s gonna get colder than the predicted low overnight. Be prepared for a very frost morning.
temp predictions have been revised down ☃️
I don’t like having the heater on at night as it’s a bit noisy but I think I might have to.
Oh I’m definitely keeping the heater on tonight.
I’ve accepted that my curry leaf plants and chillies are gonna look pretty shit tomorrow and not get any better until late September at least. I’m just thoroughly enjoying my warm living room, but better roll out of it and into bed soon before the bedroom oil heater goes off its timer.
To protect from frost, if they are in the ground you can cover with something like tarp or sheet, if in pots bring inside or a sheltered location like garage. Good luck little plants! It’s gonna be a tough week for the frost sensitive ones.
They’re in pots, but trapped in an inconvenient part of my narrow balcony where bringing them in would mean moving half my plants around (and tbh the curry leaf plants are big fellas that I don’t really have space for indoors any more, I used to bring them in in past years).
If I was organised enough I’d have acquired a bit of geotextile or something to drape over the plants but I’m just going to hope they’re protected enough in their awkward corner with the brick wall and partial shelter. 🤞 I doubt anything will die, except maybe this chilli plant that’s been hanging in there for over 3 years.
Doesn’t have to be geotextile - an old towel or a sheet folded double will do perfectly well to protect them. Sheets are lighter and don’t squash the plants as much as towels.
Hope all your plants will be ok.
I’m the furthest thing away from being a green thumb so I have no idea what’ll happen to your plants if they’re outside and it gets that cold.
The predicted low is -2 here, it’ll be interesting if it’s much colder than that!
It’s a bedsocks kind of night.
