Alright chillos are coming inside.
My scotch bonnet is probably regretting having put out its baby new growth.
Manzano got pruned a bit earlier and has much larger leaves so I think it’ll survive. Everything is parched though, dat vapour pressure gradient is sucking water out like no tomorrow
baby new growth
! This sparks joy.
yes! the garden is surprisingly dry
This weather, it’s no longer so cold I have to wear a thick coat. Yay, I can throw out my stupid duffel coat which looks warmer than it actually is. I’ll buy a new coat next winter.
Yay! But also we’ll blame you when it drops to 2 degrees and sleet in a week or two.
but then you can wear some nice warm jumpers under your raincoat.
Haha, true.
I’ve had the heater on today and been under a light blanket on the couch all day.
Oh fun, we’re escalating to cyclone conditions in the wee hours. Charge your power banks. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-01/victoria-severe-weather-warning-winds/104296628?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
eee silly abc picture of point lonsdale not port lonsdale… amateurs *puts nose up.
This is what I wanted the solar battery for but never finished fixing it :(
Awesome. Even though it’s been hard to sleep, I’m thankful I’m in an inner city apartment and unlikely to have a tree fall on me. Perhaps I’ll have a power outage, though. I hope those who are in the outer suburbs stay safe through the night. 💜
thanks for the warning, I’ve now put everything outside into safer places
I did not, in fact, get out of bed and kept going back to sleep. I am pretty sure I’ve had plenty of sleep by now and this is just me heading towards a spiral of inactivity/depression. Somehow triggered by feelings of inadequacy/realising my mediocrity/decline in abilities from lack of engagement. Then deciding to get stuck in it because who am I doing any of this for? Ugh, I’ve been here enough times.
Anyway… tomorrow’s a new day.
Same. I only got up to give the floof her medication
Listen. It’s been shit weather and it’s gonna be shit weather for a little bit longer. Hang in there. Wait for a bit of sunshine and see how you feel.
So much this. This unending wind is fraying all of our nerves. It looks like we’ll get a short reprieve on Tuesday.
I like a gentle breeze whilst taking the air. I do not like to be ravished.
Blustery weather hasn’t made been such a trigger in past years, I feel like this is a bit more than that. But let’s see when the sun turns up next reliably 🫠 the forecast looks dire!
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I’m glad this little piggy’s house is made of bricks.
It’s gonna get wild and woolly in the wee small hours kids.
Just for something different.
Yes. I was planning an office day tomorrow (I like Mondays - it’s quiet and I can do little hardware chores) but the thought of fighting that wind in the morning does not appeal
Sally made it look fun
Oh wow I’d forgotten about this! I loved this show when I was really little, I don’t remember why.
Me too. 😂
It’s definitely not hat weather.
Hoodie to keep the hat on.
a giant hat harnessed to your whole body
If you make a hat big enough it effectively becomes a burka. Which if it is waterproof seems like a very practical option in bad weather. Plus it means you can go out in your pyjamas without anyone knowing. I think it just needs an oodie-style marketing campaign with a catchy name.
And the Darwin Award goes to…
I survived. Love my Dad, it was good seeing him. He’s lost weight which is good, eating healthy and going for walks around the Dandenongs.
Opa gave me some 20yo rum. Never bought the bottle out, but did say his sister gave it to him the last time she was here, which was about 2000.
It smelt delicious, evaporated on my lips. It tasted sweet, painful, and smokey in that order on the way down my throat. It burnt my ears and activated my reflux. It was 80%. 10/10 reccomend my Opa’s Sisters 20+yo rum.
it is once again that point of time when i have had enough sleep and i am hungry and i really should get up because i am about to enter a hungry-tired vicious cycle
mother i am not entertained
Good night everyone 😽 may you have sweet dreams
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Taboo musing: it’s easier to win an Olympic medal in paralympics. Ok hear me out, in regular olympics, there are billions of able bodied people and only 1 set of medals per event. But for paralympics, the pool of potential competitors is less and there are many medals per event due to categories. So para athletes have a statistically better chance at being selected and wining a medal.
Truth shouldn’t be taboo
The level above “average” of the community that you need to be to get a medal might be lower, but the base level of difficulty they have to start at is much higher. Just navigating day to day life with a disability is a challenge, and the process of travelling overseas to compete would for many be a huge undertaking.
In a lot of ways the method of separating out a lot of categories is fairer at rewarding effort over genetic endowment. We do this somewhat in other sports, like weightlifting or boxing where we have different weight categories. But you can have the most amazing basketball skills in the world, but if you are 5 ft tall you won’t be competitive. In reality the pool of potential competitors is restricted to the much smaller group who are really tall. So whilst you can say that the pool of “potential competitors” is every able bodied person, the reality is that the pool is only a small number of people who have the approproate genetic endowment to be in the top group. The narrowing of the selection pool is not as visible as in the paralympics and might be seen as “natural selection” rather than externally imposed, but it is still there.
I think you may have a point. I wonder what the funding breakdown is for athletes at the Paralympics vs the regular Olympics.
Maybe you get more funding as well so it’s easier to stay focused on your training in the 4 years between
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Why am I wide awake at 5am on Sunday.
I can hear the maggies carolling
