Flat didn’t drop in temperature overnight. Pray for me.
I prayed, but nobody seems to be answering.
Damnit Satan, you had one job!
The rain has not yet arrived. Can it hurry up I want the hot day rain smell.
Great. That’s all I need.
I think the split system using AC is leaking into the roof and wet spots and stuff have appeared.
Only noticed it today.
No proof that it the AC but I can’t think of any recent rain that could have caused it.
Dammit :(
From experience get on top of that asap. trust me.
Just trying not to stress about it but I guess I am and it’s coming out in really bad ways right now
I’ll have to.
It’s appeared in strange spots but I’m not sure how the piping was down and is actually causing the wet spots
I knew cardboard would be a terrible canvas (hence attempts at sealing) and only for early practice but wow. Even with the layer of medium underneath it basically drank the paint. Which I knew it would but not to this degree.
Paint rambles
Despite trying to coat thinly and smoothly it was impossible to avoid streaking and brush marks because the acrylic Anko paint actually started drying while I was still working and I had to use much more of it at once to spread it.
What I should have done was mix in some of the clear medium so it wouldn’t dry so fast. It would have been less pigmented which is bad because it took thick layers to even show up, but it wouldn’t have looked so rough. Upside is I won’t mind that this is disposable. But it took most of both my tubes of yellow. I should have just ordered poster paint.
I’ve been trying not to feed them as much but one of the magpies approached me when I went out to rinse my brush under an outside tap. Flew right up close and looked at me. It looked like a female maybe. Broken top beak. I nipped inside to grab some of Melbcat’s pet jerky and threw the magpie some crumbled pieces.
I’m wondering if I’ve done a bad and made the magpies too dependent and trusting of humans. Also worried about whether this bird can eat properly. But I’m not going to be able to catch it for treatment.
Nah, a one off won’t do damage. But it does mean you’re unlikely to get swooped
fast drying happens on these too hot days
for spreading maybe use a piece of plastic or card , not a brush which is too slow ( I have been reading many books on painting lately , I painted the furniture and am doing watercolours too )
Today is an inside day. Going out for some drinks when it cools down, but otherwise, just going to chill/zonk out 😎
Paws out means “I’m not moving” lol
dinner has been cooked and eat. I had a shake and one thai small chicken skewer with onion and capsicum, no sauce on it.
There is also pineapple fried rice.
num, skewers
spoiler
I rilly want to eat some more
I’m incredibly impressed with your mental fortitude if you resisted. But if you didn’t, I completely understand. Especially with the pineapple. Oh boy.
I finished The House on the Borderlands yesterday. It was ok. Not as engrossing as The Night Lands but still very imaginative and having all the elements of a gothic novel.
I’ve read the Poe short stories just a few years back in a lovely edition called Steampunk Poe, so I might skip them for now.
Gormenghast? It’s been quite a while since I’ve read the trilogy, I find the characters and the world engrossing. 🙂 Greatly recommend. I think I’ll do this, then Poe novels and some HP Lovecraft. These are all rereads of course, oh god I did so much reading in my 20s and 30s,
various renditions of Titus Groan have been sampled, the audible version is best and has been bought 👍
also, art books 🥶
That cool change is 💯
I wish! Here in Thornbury the temperature has dropped, the wind has dropped, but not the rain. Yet. Sticky and not pleasant rn.
SRL would be done in 2084. I will probably be dead by then.
Honestly me too. But, don’t forget the saying “Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in”
(And being old isn’t a prerequisite)
Have made a gingerbread dough and it’s chilling in the fridge. Miniest made me do it 🫡 I’m sure she likes to eat the dough as much as the finished gingerbread, it smells like Christmas. I just realised I don’t have a gingerbread emoji, so 🫚🍞
First batch is out!
Home made gingerbread is the best!
It really is, and the smell of it cooking is unlike anything else!
To make up for not feeling hungry this morning I now have a horrific craving for greasy sausages. I wonder if the Coles nearby has the brand of vegan snags I like. But after this morning’s jaunt and then the boiling hot laundromat journey I’m not going out again. Ikea and the lot can be left to tomorrow.
…although, despite my recent extravagance^, I think I’ll go for that pizza dinner. They do a mock beef Mexican, i have to try it.
Gonna have to work extra hard over the next few weeks to make up for some of this.
^ (and also eyeing off a $750 phone to buy on sale to replace my device bricked by the 3g shut down)
I used to love these but my local stupormarkets don’t stock them anymore 🙁 They had a black bean and beetroot flavour I liked too.
I loved those, and the Eaty brand - both disappeared :( then vEEF brought in some nice ones but they then proceeded to be constantly sold out at the Woolies near my old place
Why do they do this‽ They stock a ridiculous amount of veggie burger patty type of things, the kind of things that are crazy easy to make yourself, but not sausagey things which are not easy to make at home 🤷🏼♀️
Ugh, i know right? I basically never use the patties but the snags really hit the spot especially for breaking. I shall go suss it out tomorrow
Old man changed the aircon remote language to polish somehow. So, had a crash 2min course in polish and now I’m fluent and can fix all your accidental language changes from polish to english. But seriously, that is a severely difficult language.
And then have German with their super long words.
lol, sorry but lol
Sounds like when I bought a phone from overseas and it was set with Chinese as the default. That was a fun experience.
I’ve had a few Polish friends over time and when I have a go at saying things, they all say I speak Polish like a Russian. They’ve not said it unkindly, but…
Wow, I didn’t know aircon remotes have different languages!
But I do have an early 2000s aircon.
It’s an insane language! I just cannot get any pronunciation right at all with Polish 😭
Walking in the drizzle listening to music is one of my favourite activities. Fuck yeah.
Edit: Tonight was a good night. Have been feeling extra isolated lately. Saw some friends and just had dinner and chatted. Grateful they came to hang out.
Can’t wait to move closer to civilisation.
Out and about. Took some serious self-convincing. Overcast, but still feels like burning face off weather.
So many of my favourite chicken sandwiches available I have no appetite for it. Also, weirdo I am I still have hot coffee in this weather… Somehow I have received an iced one. I must look like I need it.
I feel kind of dumb for staying up until 3 to finish a negroni I made where I overestimated the quantities. At least it has been a good day to stay home and do nothing
