is the net slow as dogshit for anyone else?
Yes! Its been driving me nuts all morning
150/150 no problems here
yeah speed tests don’t count, that’s prioritised traffic.
Hmm I can show you my UDP info to my Sydney hosted Cloud PC?
Is it Aussie traffic or OS traffic you’re seeing slowness with? Just trying to think of what else I can test
Forecast changed to sunny today, best time to be wfh. Washing machine running overtime after having taken a break for 10 days. The air is bitingly cold though, not sure how dry my clothes will get
Also on the major washing choo choo. I like the odds.
Yeah it turns out my clothes are getting turbo dried by the wind even though the air is a bit cold and the sun is not constant. Towels never dried this fast outside of summer!
On my fourth load now… two more to go that should dry faster. I believe in you laundry. Let’s do it.
It’s so nice how little my work have for my regard they schedule some randoms to have a meeting in my ‘office’ and not tell me.
So work from home today.
thats pretty poor!
Par for the course for this place.
so how many items did they steal from your office?
They stole my cubicle walls a few weeks back. Which means no one can see my ‘sometimes I feel like a t-wreck’ with a picture of a sad looking T-rex on there picture. And also my garfield ‘I hate mondays’ picture.
Jesus christ Milton
But you still have your stapler?
I would just sit in there and carry on working. Perfect time to slurp coffee or tea as loudly as possible.
Lol. Sadly I do not have your shit-stirring abilities.
They do take a while to develop, for real. All the best in dealing with your situation.
And have loud conversations on speaker phone…
with a recruiter!
So I’ve completed 3/4 knowledge assessments, and submitted 2/4 practical assessments. Tomorrow is prac day, so I can ask the questions I need, finish up the one assessment I still need to do, and then submit those. Then I’ll check the last quiz tomorrow afternoon, and attempt it, note down any questions and save it for Friday. Once that last one is done, I’m finished with my classes for the semester and can enjoy some holidays!
I still can’t believe I’ve changed my trajectory.
Well done. You’ve worked your butt off and now you’re kicking ass!
☺️ thank you! I couldn’t have done it without the support of you and the DT! 💜
I admire your organisational skills and motivation, good on you!
yay, happy dance 🙂
Onto my sixth load of washing today and I might squeeze in a seventh as I think the sheets will dry quickly (been doing clothes, towels, oodie, blanket, doona cover/pillowcases…) What a relief, i havent changed my bedclothes in ages and the whole house feels so much fresher now that all of this is getting washed.
Going in and out has also definitely helped break the monotony of today’s work, which I just have no mood to do at all. People suck!
Surprisingly easier to disconnect from work thoughts with this job.
It only matters when I’m sitting in front of the laptop, and then, it’s over.
Kinda nice for a change.
I’m reading the Alien 3 screenplay by William Gibson after watching Alien: Romulus. It’s great to see Newt and Hicks get proper character moments in a follow up story. And from what I understand, the story does things with the Aliens we haven’t seen on screen yet.
Also, it sucks that they killed off Newt at the start of Alien 3, but something had to be done about her. At the end of Aliens she went into the sleep pod, so she would look a lot like she did once she came out.
The movie languished in development hell for years. As a teenaged girl she’d look very different in Alien 3 to how she did in Aliens. With all the production problems behind Alien 3, it seems like the easiest option than come up with an in universe reason why she’s aged. If they went with Gibson’s script and got Alien 3 out 2 years or so after Aliens they could have covered it up a lot more.
William Gibson of Neuromancer fame? 😲
The very same. There are a few unproduced Alien 3 scripts around but Gibson’s is considered the best we could have got.
Unfortunately I haven’t found a PDF but this is the best web version I’ve found. I saved it to Pocket and I’m reading it on my Kobo
Thank you for this! I saw Romulus on the weekend, and actually re-watched Aliens just last night!
Will definitely be checking this out :)
There’s also an Aliens: Engineers screenplay floating around which eventually became Prometheus. It’s not perfect but I prefer it to Prometheus. The lore is similar and it helps lock in details since things are explained on the page in a way that may not fully translate on screen.
I had no idea this existed. Thank you!
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Blue Heaven spider and coconut macaroons please.
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+1 on the spider!
Lovely.
um, some vegie spring rolls, chilli sauce and a cup of jasmine tea please 🙂
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Thank you chef. 😚
Burger with the lot please!
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Thank you Chef!
Um, bahn mi and a bubble tea plz chef
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Ta muchly
Any of you sewing types successfully Re-elasticated a bottom sheet? I suspect attempting such would be economically inefficient and I should rag bag it.
I have never but I’d still give it a go. All I’d do is reinforce the corners.
Is it something some fitted sheet clips can fix?
Oh! Had not heard of these. Might try them even on newer sheets. Wrinkles near my feet are one of my Things.
Shoot me a message sometime and you can have my sheet clips, they’re not for me. They’re like big suspenders, black ones. They do not spark joy for me.
I find those things a bother.
I definitely now prefer sheets made of spandex, never bunch up under you. So good.
Wow, they sound amazing. I have many questions… actually just 4: How do they handle romantic interludes and the various resulting bodily outcomes? Are they sweaty in summer? Do they dry easily after you wash them? Do they stain easily?
I don’t fuck under the covers usually, I couldn’t tell you! But I have spilt chocolate and coffee on them. They look and feel brand new still after a year of washing and machine drying. Seems safe with oxygen bleach.
They aren’t sweaty/hot to me. I sleep hot at the best of times, I think I would have noticed if they make it worse.
I’ve not had the need to air dry them, my guess is they’d be similar to cotton.
Well @PeelerSheila@aussie.zone just killed my attempt at polite
Lol I’m as subtle as a train crash when my diplomacy fails, there is no middle.
Er, May I send you a rather personal question about these?
Oh another thing! I’d really want to touch those in person first at that price point though.
Somehow, I’m brutal on my sheets. I wear through fitted sheets quickly. I’ve taken to using a heavy linen throw as my base sheet, it seems tough enough to take whatever I’m throwing at it.
It depends. Is is elastic in a pocket or sewed directly onto the sheet? I’ve done both, rethreading the first type with a safety pin took a while, but the overlocker does a reasonable job on the second.
It’s direct and I don’t have an over locker.
using zigzag stitch does the same job . It’s tricky to do tho. You need to stretch the elastic while you sew it to the fabric base
Ever met this beastie?
He’s an interesting little fella.
yes I have , they scare me lol My mum used all these weird feet for things like shirring and ruffling, I just use plain feet and use tailoring methods to do the same thing
I found a manual for it but am still scared. You can’t unpick those results.
I have a gizmo for that but have never tried it. And a super complicated pleater foot that scares me
I used to do it with just a plain foot and stretch the elastic by hand while sewing it on
You could just zig zag over the existing elastic.
Elastic is expensive. Unless it is a nearly new sheet that cost hundreds I wouldn’t
Exactly, the sheet isn’t utterly dead but far from new. Better used as draft fabric me thinks.
Only tried once, and it was at best a very qualified success. Removed all the elastic, hemmed the raw edge and sewed on 2 tie tapes per corner. The problem was adjusting the knots on the tapes when putting the sheet back on the bed. Maybe using a strip of elastic instead of tapes would work? Sorta kinda like the elasticated tapes on a mattress protector sheet. On the plus side, the sheet was very easy to wash and fold once the tapes were untied.
This mattress is way too heavy to tie under! Diagonal elastic corners would be an affordable experiment
Azaleas popping
Always wanted to try mad honey (in low doses) but it’s stupid expensive.
Today’s little “hobby from a distance” is looking at vinyls and high end hi-fi equipment I can’t afford
A Baku can dream
I hear you. Just picked up the Pro-ject Debut Evo and the S2 Tube Pre-amp. Vinyls are also holding their value, so I’m curious how rebuilding a collection will be.
I really want to get into the vinyls, but most of them seem to be between 70-170 bucks a record. And then there’s the whole player + preamp/amp, and speaker situation 😭
I’ll have to stick to being gobsmacked at a distance
For me it’s travel and dining out in various places whilst I’m doing it sighs
When I win the lottery I’m getting these;
https://awave.com.au/shop/uncategorized/barefoot-mm12-active-monitor-each/
Daaaaamn.
sigh
when it comes to sound systems the sky is the limit
I just got a random email from someone saying they love reading my books and I am one of their favourite authors ever.
I figured it was just a spam email since I get them frequently - usually wanting to sell me something - and its too my author outlook email which is advertised in the books and on my twitter profile, etc.
Check the email address and it’s from an education email address - so the ones they give assign to kids at school.
Could still be a bored student taking the piss, but I choose to believe I just got my first ever fan e-mail.
I would have loved to have you in as a book week author but my clientele are just a bit too young I reckon.
That nice fuzzy warm feeling when someone appreciates your work is so heartwarming.
It is an amazing feeling. Really motivates me to keep going when that motivation can be lacking.
Oh wow! Straight to the pool room.
Right!
I’d love to say thank you but the way the world is, it probably isn’t a good idea.
Thank the kid via a return compliment to the schools contact email address?
It didn’t say the school - email address was like a state wide one - but worked out a solution that will hopefully work.
I’m normally happy being frugal, it’s been a way of life for so long. But I have to say I’m getting really sick of it being so severely enforced. Especially as disability = hard mode.
I’m not happy with the direction Australia is going for any of us. As much as people tighten their belts it’s pointless. Corporations and banks just take more, the government just cuts more. The severity of this could have been avoided.
It’s great to be frugal, but shitty to have absolutely no other choice but to have it so ruthlessly rammed down your throat. The farmer struggles for a minimal return, consumers pay a premium for bare essentials and the fat cats and shareholders in the middle get all the cream. Grocery shopping is essential and should be treated as such, with essential items price protected, but time and time again governments are gutless wonders.
This is exactly how I feel and about housing too
Yes, I totally agree. When I was young I used to think, if you’ve worked hard and bought yourself a little weekender or property to one day retire to, like some of my friends did, then good on you. But with negative gearing, stagnant wage reform, stagnant social security payments, the air bnb situation, and people owning not “a little weekender” but 10, 20, 100 properties, it’s beyond a joke. Housing is a right and should never be treated like it isn’t.
so many hugs
in times like these our friends and family is our greatest asset
I’d say better policies :(
Policy is written for those with the funds to lobby for it. The concept of policy is great. The reality of policy is that it seems written for corporations these days.
On being frugal, I like that frugality almost directly links to anticonsumption. But there’s being frugal and becoming poor because everything is costing more. I used to spend slightly less than I brought in, now I’m spending slightly more.
of course, but we should also take measures on a personal level to make our lives safer, more stable and more resilient against the knockbacks of life
It’s all I’ve ever done. I scrimped and saved for a long time to get an emergency fund for myself and Melbcat, and our money is getting eaten into so already rich people can get obscenely rich.
When I was a teenager I was learning German and saving money to go. Disability put a stop to that, it’s not a realistic option now, but I wonder what life would have been like if I had been able to emigrate.
I’m aware that the living costs are also high in Europe. You don’t necessarily get an aged pension as an expat. Jobs could be competitive and social norms difficult. Nowhere is a utopia and it’s likely that wouldn’t have worked out for me.
But you know. Longer term leases and tenants rights. Building standards. Dental. Less of an overt meth problem. You wonder.
I know a bit of German in the hope that I would one day emigrate. Though my reasons for not doing so are different (stupid fat money-sucking ex lol), I still enjoy reading and writing German, and learning. I feel closer to my ancestry by doing so, and it sparked my obsessive fascination with linguists, etymology, and language in general (my current research is Proto-Finnish and other Uralic languages, specifically it’s a bit more recent in that I am learning why they chose a Latin alphabet despite Finnish being entirely unrelated to any PIE language).
What I’m trying to say, sorry, is that we can still pursue the things we enjoy, even if the method of doing so is a bit different due to L I F E.
But yes, one can dream of long term leases and better renter rights, though I heard the AfD has been elected in some states, so I guess no where is safe from the stupid Far/Alt Right
Finland isn’t doing too badly either. Their energy costs went below zero due to so much renewable.
…Damn it. I missed the opportunity to apply for the $250 energy rebate. I set a reminder but put it for August not June. /facepalm
Edit: or did I? It said 2023-2024 so was there another one or did it just close this late? I’m going to set a reminder for May or June next year to remind myself to check
I don’t think there is another State Govt. rebate like the last ones, but there should be a Federal rebate issued through your power bills - $300, split into four $75 dollar rebates applied quarterly to your power bill.
https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/households/help-paying-your-energy-bills/energy-bill-relief-fund
Oh good, that looks like it should be automatic. Thanks. I’ve been having trouble staying on top of stuff like this but it adds up
Love this.
Funny, Finnish came up in dinner convo this evening because someone didn’t care for the sound, but I dig it. And the fact I survived a month on Hei and Kiitos is like a highlight. Hehe.
I have thoughts like this sometimes, but from a different angle. I try not to dwell on them, otherwise I’d become wistful for a dream. There’s nothing wrong with that really, but for me, it hurts.
All meetings cancelled. Party time 🎉
All meetings finished 💥
