Another scorcher today Melburnios 🔥
Ain’t no thang like a chicken wang!
Noice.
Next week I’ll get Tucker Time back up and running.
Yum!
And that will have to be a no today
Godspeed to those of us with warmer than expected rooms
At long last after weeks of procrastination I took my haul of manzano chillos from the fridge (and washed off some fuzzy growth…) and a head of good garlic and made this forbidden smoothie
Chucked it into an ice cube tray to make little cubes for wintertime pasta/stir fry.
Also took the uselessly spicy Thai chillis and blitzed it with ginga, garleck and little red shallots plus some lime joos, and dried shrimp, fried it all in oil. THIS thing is almost unusably spicy. I hope it mellows out over the next few weeks. attention @Bottom_racer
hawt hawt hawt
RIP my fingers though, I was doing well until I got some spicy oil on one hand.
Ooh that looks angry.
Buona notte
Sweet dreams all 😘
Fakken ants are doing my head in. Anyone got recs for pest control companies?
Avoid the pros and just mist up a shit ton of pennyroyal?
Bit beyond that. Building some ant bait traps as we speak. The fuckers are getting into the litter box now
If only they’d clean it for you
Are everyone’s pets basically puddles of fur from all this heat?
Nah because the air con is on but when it’s not, my dog will dramatically flop down on the carpet like those fainting goats. We call this “dead dog”.
I have secured a date with the God Emperor in March.
Bless the maker and his water.🪱
I got given some used items from work, some cushions and a seemingly very big expensive bean bag that I’ll need to wash before using.
I barely managed to fit the bean bag into my back boot of the car, I have feeling that it’s going to be way too big for my place but it might be nice to be able to lean back into a bean bag.
I love my beanbags and will often nap in them (mostly accidentally, the cat will come up and then we’re both napping lol). But as an over-30 it does a number to my back haha.
Good for gaming in if you have a console too, or reading, chilling. Our beanbags were our couch for over a year before we could buy an actual couch haha
if it wanks your back, check your bean level. I’m still happily sassing in ours at 45
Oh I definitely need to restock the beans, some have been lost into the far reaches of the corners of the rooms, or within the wardrobe, across 2 apartments. I reckon they’re still finding beans at the 1bed I had in the city hahahah
My setup at home is a little be awkward when it comes to laying down a beanbag in front of the telly. I might have to move it off to the size.
The biggest problem is that it’s massive.
If it’s this one it’s at least 160cm long!
https://noomi.com.au/collections/bean-bags/products/outdoor-xl-giant-bean-bag?variant=5030007177250
Dearest Vietnamese Ice Coffee,
My love for you is unbridled and everlasting.
Forever yours,
UMG
Fuck! Shattered tooth. All the bad dreams are true
Oh no! :(
First am appointment Obtained. Will still have to deal with looking like a cartoon until then.
Just got an email from ex-work asking me to return a whole bunch of equipment: monitors, mouse, keyboard, adapters, USB hub, etc.
I can’t even, they don’t even keep track of what they’ve given out?? I only took the two adapters and the USB hub because I have a dual monitor PC set up at home already. Mentioned this to them a thousand times, and they think I took monitors, a keyboard and mouse home on PT?? As if I would use their crusty keyboards over my mechanical one haha
Good grief, I was slightly regretting leaving (I shouldn’t, I was suicidal) but I’m certainly not now.
I’m not going out today, so they will have to wait till Friday or Monday.
I’m not going out today, so they will have to wait till Friday or Monday.
OR: Counter proposal: How about they go suck a dick?
I dont think legally you can withhold pay over equipment. or so my HR tell me so I just watch laptops basically walk out the door everytime we hire someone and they quit inside a month.
Interesting, they are withholding my pay until I return these three items… But I don’t want to burn bridges with them either…
Hmmmmmmmmmm, I shall ponder this!
They sent out a rote letter, but yeah, they really are fuckin’ bad. I got the same when my old workplace rolled up, could be I heard of possibly a someone else who realised they had no fucking idea of inventory and got themselves a lenovo out of it…
It’s a small business, literally 10 office workers including the cal centre, accounts, boss, and IT. And this email came from my manager. So obvious when I checked the adapters and USB hub I have at home and they don’t even have serial numbers. I can’t believe they have no way of tracking this.
I don’t need the adapters as they’re usb-c/HDMI and I don’t need the hub. Plus, the had us using Chromebooks for work. Everything is based off the Google suite. I fkn hated that shit. I had to relearn all the shortcuts which is such a pain, and Google Sheets fucking sucks ass.
Sorry, just triggered a rant haha
On the flip side, GSuite is great if it’s all you know. Kids doing the Google thing through school come out with that environment being the one they are familiar with. They hit the ground running when they reach the workforce, even if they are put into Microsoft Office. For some reason, it’s loads easier to teach people to go from Google > Microsoft than the other way around.
Your experience matches what I’ve seen with clients who go down the Google path. Lots of people find it painful - usually older employees who have been using Office apps since before the ribbon (Office 2003), when keyboard shortcuts were more heavily used.
I personally love Sheets for most tasks. I hate it as soon as we get to charts and advanced stuff, though. There’s no getting around the fact that Microsoft has the edge (heh) on things like macros and charts.
Ah that makes sense! Personally been using PC since I was a kid in the late 90s, and Dad hated anything Apple so we never had a Mac or anything, just Microsoft. When I hit the workforce in 2011 I was miles ahead of my peers with using shortcuts.
Going MS to GS is very painful. Had to print out a little sheet with the common shortcuts. And lookup the formulas for Sheets. I did some reporting and never had the time to learn how to automate it (had to generate report between calls). Whereas if I was using MS, they would have had their reports waaaayyyyy quicker.
Ah well, water under the bridge. I do enjoy that fact that kids learning on GS are finding MS easier to grasp. But I definitely do not recommend going the other way haha
If they don’t keep track of who has what, just reply that you don’t have anything?
They don’t have anything I value haha, the adapters and USB hub are useless to me, and they issued us all Chromebooks of all things, which I left at the office anyway. Absolutely despise Chromebooks, useless pieces of crap (to me).
My PC can run Spotify, Baldurs Gate 3, Cyberpunk, etc. I don’t need their shitty tech hahahaha
If they had something I value or was useful I’d perhaps consider it, but I’m too much of a goody two shoes and would just return it anyway hahahaha
Kind of happy to be spending the day in hospital just for the air-conditioning! Poor housemate was cranking the evaporative cooling as I was walking out the door.
Just came from the beach and the cool change hit. 60km SSW of melbs… you guyzz just have to… rave choon it
Hold on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXwcewJwLb8&list=RDDzrnVun6GwY&index=7
Oh bad fire up around Beaufort :-(
EDIT: Western highway closed and VLine suspended both ways from Ballarat <-> Ararat. Vic emergency link if anyone needs it https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/
Yeah just saw this image from my relatives all the way in Delacombe. Looks worse than last week’s fire around Burrumbeet or wherever it was.
Really glad we’ve had no bushfire smoke in Melbourne so far, although my air purifier is sitting pretty
I forgot to water the plants all of yesterday because I was in the shittest mood/energy so when I greeted them this morning I felt a wave of resentment radiating from their wilted leaves. I will promise to give them a supplemental water as needed today.
This motherfucker is just growing like there’s no tomorrow though, ever since I put it in a pot with a water reservoir. Time for a big chop tomorrow, freeze the leaves for use over winter, hopefully the new growth will stabilise over the next couple months.
healthy boi
I really want some rain so I don’t have to water…. Tank is nearly empty too.
ooh lush curry leaf
