Happy Hump Day, Team!

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    29 days ago

    That’s a wrap on a really intense work week. Who thought taking 4 hours off last week would be so hard to make up over 3 days. Some weeks are cruisey but it feels like I’ve done a week’s worth in 3 days. And then I’ve got to get cracking on uni tomoz. Have dinner at a friend’s and no time or energy to make anything. Then dinner out with another friend Friday. I hope to be able to get everything unpacked over the weekend and just blob out a bit. I sure will tonight after seeing the psych.

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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    29 days ago

    Apart from my own personal struggles, I look at what the government is doing (or not doing) and think take me to Jesus now. I’m ready and I think I’ve lived enough.

    • chingatello@aussie.zone
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      29 days ago

      It is easy for us to get distracted by the big picture, and it can feel overwhelming when everything is is much bigger than us.

      Remember that it is in the nature of our governments to disappoint us - this is because we live in a democracy centered on compromise. This is a good thing! This is another reason for us to have our representatives deal with that process - it allows us to keep moral clarity while they try to get the work done. We can sit in judgement of them while they make the Faustian bargains which keep the peace between those of us who would slay each other in the name of what we think is right. Sometimes, however, we need to look away from the sausage making. Give yourself a break, and come back to the body politic refreshed and refocused.

      Would I change the system? Absolutely! Would most people agree with my changes… well… I’m not so sure… hence a system of disappointing compromises.

      We can also get distracted by our personal struggles, stuck in the small frame of our own lives.

      I am currently stuck in my small frame too, my personal struggles have overwhelmed me and I have found my self seized, stuck, immobile, useless, rotting, failing… well, you get the picture I hope.

      I am trying. Slowly, the gears will be oiled, and the machine will move, and I am going to build capacity and become part of a community.

      That is the middle ground - the place humans used to live. The way humans evolved to live. Act local, build community, and simultaneously the big picture and the small frame both start improving.

      This is easier said than done!

      To be honest though, you are already doing it here! This is a community. These people would not see you return to your creator, and I am absolutely certain the creator will be willing to wait many years for you to come back. They will call you when you are both ready.

      I am not trying to offer advice, as I do not know your struggles.

      I hope that you can continue through them, and I hope that your growth and success inspires others to continue their struggles.

      I hope that your success can inspire your community to more success, more unity, and a better life for everyone.

      (This post turned out much longer than I had initially intended - tldr: “Keep at it, we’re with you”)

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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      29 days ago

      I’m struggling with getting sucked into doomscrolling. All I can do is try and take a break and think about something else.

      Useful hobbies. Practice gardening for if it ever comes down to subsistence farming, and art skills to trade for rations in gulag /j

      But no. I’m grateful to be housed and be able to have my pet, that’s what I’m holding on to

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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        29 days ago

        my uncle found playing the violin a useful skill in the concentration camp as musicians would play for their captors and the red cross

        i’m not joking

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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      29 days ago

      Sometimes you have to not think about external things too much. Live your life as well and comfortably as you can, be a good person, be kind to others and be kind to yourself. That’s it. There are bad days and good days, sometimes bad months and bad years. Do what you can to live a good life, and let the world turn.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    29 days ago

    hehe I walked to the shops and survived.

    I won that war.

    But the neurologist long term neighbour rocked around to say g’day to mum and dad. Wasn’t a check up just hello. Fark me get two docs like that in the same room you are gonna get a lotta latin.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    29 days ago

    Urrrrrgh, on top of a task I really really really don’t want to do now my laptop is doing its go-to-sleep-every-few-minutes nonsense. Something about a wifi virtual adapter in the logs. I’ve spent about an hour troubleshooting (while it keeps going to sleep on me randomly). Hopefully I’ve fixed it. What an esoteric thing. I just want to lie down in the sun and sleep for a bit

    • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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      29 days ago

      Last time I saw a laptop-randomly-sleeping-every-few-minutes issue, it was the magnetic wrist band of a schmancy new smartwatch triggering the magnetic lid-closed sensor in the palmrest.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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        29 days ago

        If only I had such a glamorous reason! But no, the laptop lid is closed and it’s hooked up to a dock. Event logs showed it had something to do with a virtual wifi adapter apparently. Dug around and found it hidden in device manager, with some power management option that I turned off and I think that fixed it…

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Told the GM that’s leaving that I can’t keep up anymore. He said I should make a task list and present it to my manager.

    Let’s see if they’ll be reasonable or not.

      • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Do you mean the 2% company wide raise?

        Yeah I think that hurt some people really badly. Everything was fine for me until:

        1. I was approved for leave
        2. people started leaving

        If I hadn’t taken leave, I wouldn’t be so far behind, but it was approved. That’s the bit that’s annoying me. Why wasn’t someone keeping track of my clients while I was away?

        I’ll probably end up staying until I get probation in January as it’s proving difficult to get a role right now.

        At least then I’ve got security while I look elsewhere.

    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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      29 days ago

      Document! clockify is a good app with a free level that lets you break up and track work. Even a week or two of that broken into projecta/projectb/ admin/staff management/adhoc queries etc is enough to give you something to point to and ask how to change things. Or if you are asked to do something you can point to it and ask which thing should slide.

      (I mean this is totally a do as I say not as I do situation!!)

      • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Thanks for the heads up!

        I’ve got an excel sheet going, and so far I’ve got about 50% of things I need to complete asap.

        It’s sitting at 30 hours not including my day to day work.

        And that’s only half so far lol

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    29 days ago

    Bleh, even after the roofer turned up today the rain that swept through has caused another leak from the skylight and an area close to it.

    Turns out from what I was told that there was a broken tile up there and something related to the skylight had to be patched up, guess that didn’t work though or wasn’t fully fixed.

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      29 days ago

      It’s possible that if caulk was used, it didn’t have time to dry and immediately carked it. Sticking a plastic sheet over it may have helped but then they would’ve had to come back to remove it. May have just risked it to save you the money of them returning. It was either a definite return to remove whatever was covering it, or a potential return if the fix carked it.

      That’s just my two cents anyway, I’m just spitballing.

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
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        29 days ago

        I’ve got no idea since I didn’t deal with the roofer.

        It’s a new leak sure. No idea if the repairs today have caused this or not.

        Now that it’s at least confirmed I’d like it to stop raining now

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      29 days ago

      We sometimes make the thread earlier so people don’t actually have to stay up till midnight or after to make a thread.

      It can be up to an hour earlier sometimes depending if people need an early night and we’ve accepted that we don’t move on to the thread till midnight or after.