Hold on now. We’re nearly there.
I’m so tired and I still have two days of work 😭😱😵💀
aww
Damn I just finished the last of all 1800 mahjong games in my mahjong games app. Now I have no more mahjong games to play.
I should not be trusted to train anyone on anything
Definitely feeling the mileage today. And that’s without taking one of the clients to Oakleigh for escorted shopping. 😂.
In other news, the cops asked me yesterday if I had a spare key so they didn’t have to call in a locksmith, so I took it down to where the car’s being held and had a chance to look at it - it looks fine from the outside aside from missing number plates. They’ve taken a few things that were inside the car including the bluetooth thingy, but I couldn’t tell if the radio was still there.
Just gotta wait for forensics to go over it, and then the insurance company will get it and go over it, and then all being well I get it back!Consider getting it detailed if insurance doesn’t cover that.
I have successfully completed two tasks today that required phone calls. I am really terrible at those - I’m not sure if it’s because I will take any excuse to delay a phone call or because the times I like to sit down and do organisation type stuff generally fall outside of business hours.
According to auspost there is no driveway and even if we had one it would not be safe to use at any time of the day.
well 1) I’m standing in it right now and 2) I got six pages (now) of logs from aramex, fastway pet circle, tnt, temu, couriers please, budget direct, amazon, soilworx, civic, eco247, DHL and indeed, Auspost yourselves that says you are fulla sheeeeeet
Lovely sunrise, hot air ballons over Carlton, biridies are up and cheeping, Bill and Ted are patiently waiting for breakfast.
I miss the Young Seagoons already. They fill the house with so much love and joy 😭
Marketplace win: this item is not available!!
Miss Meow’s unused climbing poles should also be heading off soon to be destroyed by another cat that really enjoys scratching them to pieces.
Edit: cat poles now also gone, yay!
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Kuay chap and fish balls please
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Omurice!
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Tea and leftover pizza please.
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Doing my best to stay out of this “doctor killed in home invasion” and “Old man pushed into water” stories. Not doing a good job, I admit… but man what is going on here lately?! Be interesting to see how this plays out politically. Andrews would’ve already called a presser, announced another well-meaning-but-ultimately-useless-taskforce. If Libs had half a brain cell to share between them they’d be attacking the Allan government on being soft, and I hate to say it but that’d be a pretty easy picture to paint at the moment.
crime ain’t upticking. Reporting of crime in sensationalised ways is. The fact you went straight to the politics of it is your answer as to why.
It’s also a classic example of the availability heuristic.
Two notable youth crime events happened recently; therefore, youth crime must be increasing. It’s a non sequitur. But it does unfortunately work on the populace – and has since time immemorial.
I’m not saying crime is up. I’m saying high profile things are up. yes it sells news, but then again, a doctor being killed in a home invasion probably should be news.
Why? I don’t want to come across as cold but a doctor is a person. They’re the same as the rest of us.
Also i hate the term ‘home invasion’ it’s designed to incite panic. It was a robbery that turned violent when he caught the little cunts at it and went after them.
I find it depressing. Yeah I know they are young, but there are zero real consequences for their actions, the kids are probably laughing and boasting of their horrific acts thinking they are top shit. It’ll be a slap on the wrist, released on bail and free to go do some more pushing off piers, bashing, robbing, murdering. Our government has decided this is acceptable because it’s not happening in their own back yards, so there’s no plans for rehab programs, penalties, interventions etc. It’s awful.
It’s not the government though? It’s a judicial issue.
Correct. But government write the laws. They invest or ignore public housing or rehabilitation programs, drug policies. edit: Also need to point out that facts have not baring on a channel 7 “special “investigation””
Do you think the Government should make it illegal to invade people’s homes and kill people? I thought that was already against the law.
I’ll be honest, I don’t know what the solution is. I’ll be the first to say that. I think its a balance of having serious consequences (a dude bashed a woman but was back out on bail!?) and proper rehabilitation and support services. Mental health is a joke in this country. Addiction is worse. It used to take a village to raise kids, now we have a lot of people on their own in tight economic times and we wonder why kids are falling through the cracks.
But I think we elect people to figure out solutions to problems, and instead they’ve declared this one too hard and stuck their head in the sand. I’m not worried about today. I’m worried about where this all goes in 20 years time.
The acts of the judiciary are by design entirely independent of the government. We can’t blame the government for that.
Rehab and support, as well as mental health does come under the government’s remit, however. That said, the support and recognition in these areas has improved immensely since the introduction of the NDIS. IT still isn’t perfect, but it’s the best it has ever been and is still improving.
The cost of living stuff, I’m right ther with you. It’s costing me a fortune just to live in a 3-bedroom townhouse in a reasonable area. I’m paying more to rent here than some jobs on seek are even offering. And I’m hoping to save for a deposit on a mortgage somehow. Which is going to be extra tricky, since I don’t plan to still be in the workforce in 30 years.
But, the truth is: The ludicrous cost of housing benefits far too many Australians for the government to want to tweak that knob too much. If it were suddenly possible to buy a 4 bedroom house in the suburbs for $400k again, the net-worth of a massive chunk of Australians would halve overnight.
Melbourne/Australia just seems to be getting more feral.
Edit: Cripes, now I’ve seen about the tent cities and shipping containers being rented out with single beds inside. It’s fucked
Watching the tennis and seeing the ads for the pixel 8pro, and being satisfied with the refurb’d 6pro I just got.
Also… Got new runners this afternoon. ASICS nimbus. Looking forward to running with comfort/support tomorrow.
Why cold when summer
Melbourne
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Ugh, I’m just wiped. I haven’t been consuming the best food for a few weeks and it’s starting to rear its ugly head. Gyah. Sads.
I just want the microwave from 5th Element. I feel this would partially solve my problems. Hehe.
chicken. Good.
Cat pee talk
Melbcat hates the special beads so I got the urine sample by sprinkling a handful of the usual litter pellets into all the freshly washed trays - just enough for her to feel it under her feet, but so little that the pee pooled on the plastic.
I hope they accept it in a small new plastic container and gathered with an old but washed and boiled syringe. Kind of got caught short on supplies here. I’ll ring and ask, see if I can drop it off tomorrow morning.
It’s annoying that it happened after closing time because being refrigerated might create crystals and maybe make it less good for analysis
Melbcat is lucky to have someone who attends to the details like you 🫂
She’s a very special girl and deserves good care 😻
Just put down a deposit for a wood heater for the living room.
I cannot wait for winter with a roaring fire and scary movies.
Coffee in front of a fireplace is one of lifes simple treasures. even just sitting and watching a roaring fire on a cold night.
Reading too. Less screen time is one of my goals for 2024.
