A child sitting on your lap insisting they watch train videos on your phone means no ride in today. Since yesterday wasn’t so bad, I wonder if all that rain planned for next week will pan out?
I used FB for my buildings FB group, and insta for memes, but it gives me the heebies when it recommends “friends” from highschool. Like, no thank you, they were all bullies. It gives me schadenfreude though when I check their profiles and the girl bullies are all stuck in a pyramid scheme though 😂
Metallica - St.Anger is a fucking banger song and I won’t hear otherwise
I read an opinion piece that St Anger is an alright album if you treat it like a punk album and skip the songs before they go on too long. I can see the appeal, but you’re also saying ‘This album is great if you skip half of it.’
There’s probably a severely edited down version that goes alright. Like if they played a St Anger medley live like they’d do for Justice sometimes.
I’ve never understood the hate that album got.
It was album that came out following the doco Some Kind of Monster. Which I’ll admit didn’t paint them in a great light.
The metal community can be high grade cock waffles sometimes though and the Metallica hate was in vogue.
@PeelerSheila@aussie.zone when is your birthday because I’d like to wish you a very happy birthday and hope all your wishes come true. You are an inspiration 🎂 ❤️
We ❤️ you, Peeler!
Happy birthday Peeler! 🎂
It’s the 16th 🙂 And thankyou for your kind words
Happy birthday from me, too! 🎂🥳
Friend who is a big procrastinator and only started her assignment today keeps messaging me to tell me how frustrated she is because her code didn’t work or something and she wants to kill herself. Fucking yikes.
I procrastinate like that too but I keep those thoughts as inside ones.
FWIW, they really sound like a programmer.
🤠
Yikes. Sounds like girl needs to join a coding forum or something for the technical help, address her pacing struggles with the teacher, and not say such things to you even as a joke.
Edit: She needs proper supports if she’s actually serious and it’s not hyperbole or even if she’s genuinely just overwhelmed. Friends can support of course and I’m sympathetic but I feel like without boundaries this lady could bring you down with her
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This sounds callous but I had friends who were frequently making poor decisions and coming to me with the aftermath.
They kept refusing to let me link them in with more appropriate supports or let me help them take practical action on a problem, instead insisting on me as the go to despite me barely being able to keep myself together.
This continued until my own strength gave out and I had to drop them.
Yep. She said she doesn’t have time to see a psych, even though her uni offers them for free and it only takes an hour. She’s used AI to code most things these days, saying that it’s the processes that she needs to know, not the actual code itself…
She said she doesn’t have time to see a psych,
she’s a drama queen
If you don’t have a lot of choices due to the service being subsidised some providers can be terrible. There’s also a shortage plus high demand.
But a lot of them do Zoom now. I think she just doesn’t want to. It’s easier to demand informal supports from a friend to just vent
Edit: Obligatory warning against using Better Help though
She is a student and has access to counselling and psychology through her uni. I sent her all the links. I think it’s all a mental thing for her, like it is for me.
Yeah, I completely understand the mental barrier thing. But it is something she has to do herself. You’re doing what you can
Absolutely
Yeah… You seem like a good friend but please take care of yourself here and watch out. Don’t be the only friend she goes to and maybe distance yourself a bit.
Sorry if this is unwanted advice. It’s just in my twenties I had friends who were chaotic and insisted on using me as the go to while refusing to let me link them with more appropriate supports, and I burned out so hard I had to drop them. Then I was the one not coping.
Assuming she’s able bodied and not incapacitated by her mental health your friend has choices here.
Even if they’re not something she wants to do, such as deferring for a while, withdrawing/failing and retaking the course, changing courses, or withdrawing/failing and going into work instead. I’m not sure how everything works now but she has options.
If she’s both physically disabled and her mental health is unmanaged/unmanageable she might actually be fucked but also you have the right to maintain boundaries and your own wellbeing.
Thanks Melba. I have linked her to appropriate supports and been encouraging. A voice of reason and self-compassion if you will. Now I will be disengaging to work on my own assignment due soon.
Talk like that concerns me. I don’t find it funny, tell her to not ever say anything like that in jest
and if she is being manipulative I would cut her as a friend.
What does she want from you?
If she doesn’t overtly ask for something what do you think she trying to manipulate you into doing?
She wants someone to comfort her in her distress. I told her that a psych appointment takes five minutes to book, she can see one through Zoom, it’s FREE through her uni, and she won’t get one straight away, so the don’t have time is an excuse.
encouragement is what she needs, not comfort
“You can do it!”
Done :))
I have been mildly stoned daily this week and have been very productive (home related things). Still managing to chill and nap regularly.
Great week off.
Actually living the dream.
If this is what retirement is, I’m ready.
This glasses thing is really doing my head in. One pair has weird distortions, and both make me ‘seasick’ if I change focus. Understood they are for Reading but I don’t want to puke if the cat meows for attention
Are they multifocals? They can take a couple of weeks to get used to
No, singles. What I don’t get most is the supposedly identical scripts being so different
Are they multi-focals? I believe they can sometimes take a bit of getting used to. But my first pair distorted things badly because they had done something wrong with the script and everything was bent out of shape, I had to get that pair replaced.
No, singles but mod strong? I can’t move around in them at all, faceplant a wall bad
That sounds like there could be something wrong with them. I’d go back to the shop and have them checked out. The ones I had that were dodgy made everything at the top look bigger than the bottom and made me feel seasick if I walked around in them. Everything was in focus so it took a while to realise there was a serious problem with them and not just needing to get used to multifocals, but the distortion meant all the distances felt wrong, a bit like when you look through water and things are not quite where you expect them to be when you reach out to grab them. I think it was something to do with the measurement they do of where your pupils are that had been transcribed wrong.
Pretty much exactly that. My phone looks bent inwards and keystone effect on monitors. Totally taking them back.
the irises have started blooming, the colour is intense
What a gorgeous colour! 💜
ooh they’re out!
Beautiful. I was just wondering yesterday if they were blooming yet!
:) not frilly but the colour is so deep
I was reading they are one of the few flowers that come in all three colours, reds, yellows and blue/purple
Oh dear… special earphones for phone seem to be broken and the standard pin style doesn’t fit, so I thought to go back to the trusty old iPod shuffle.
Redownloading music to freshen the selection, oops computer entirely full? I better move important but less frequently accessed stuff like pictures over to the storage drive to make some room.
Dig through to find those drives and… it’s not there. There is no second drive for storage. When I’m pretty sure there was before, and there usually is. Is my own computer gaslighting me? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Go karting was funnn. We had enough for two groups, after the first set of races we got split into the fast group and the slow group. I was the slowest qualifier for the fast group 😎 and then I came sixth of eight in the finals which was the fasties
My elbows hurt for a week afterwards. I have shitty elbows though.
Lots of complaints about sore wrists but I was okay, let’s see how I pull up tomorrow
Did they breath test you before hand?
I came last in the race we did, my friend said “thank you for sticking to the left. It made going around you easy”.
Yes they did breath test us! These karts were no joke. 55kmh 🫣.
Now I can beer though. Cheers 🍺🍻🍺Le Mans by any chance?
They were absolutely no joke either haha way too fast for my liking.
No idea. Not a car guy at all
Didn’t really feel like a swim after work but dragged my ass there and of course felt 1000x better after some laps. Being in water is healing, even when it’s chemicaled up the wazoo.
I will definitely be going to the beach tomorrow
maybe one of these I will even go in the water
Train!
At Newport railyards I saw a goods train go by that had 60 cars ( I counted ) , heavy cars that had long bogies with big suspension, each car with bogie must have been 15 metres. Including the 3 engines the train would have been a kilometre long. All types of cars too, refrigerated, containers, chemical. All going to rural Victoria. :)
Cool.
Newest historical series: newest whing about no underwear! King& you are found lacking
I spent an hour fighting with youtube revanced only to install new pipe via f-droid without issue and immediately start watching YT on mobile without ads.
I still haven’t got around the pin of this unused spare android to do that. I have an idea how but unsure if it’ll work and kinda gave up in the middle
What are we doing today Skip?
Taking over the world! Oh wait…
Lego & vacuuming
Practising for open mic night soon.
Sleeping because the roadworks etc
Maybe some video games but probs just more music stuff.
Maybe a night out if bad rehearsal isn’t tonight.
I’m going to karting after work with work social club
I love how your work has a social club
It’s pretty cool, so far I’ve gone to a wine tasting, comedy festival night, ummm some other things. Have missed a fair few things. I pay $5 per fortnight and every activity is heavily subsidised
That’s so good! Every company should have something like it.
Spending the day on the couch with a wheat bag and chocolate.
I’ve got my wheatbag in the microwave as well speak.
We have a wedding to attend 😃
Work
Finishing an assignment hopefully on time
Maybe watching an episode of something if I finish the assignment before the deadline.
