Moomba Festival (7 Mar - 11 Mar 2024)
This is not a great game of footy
Just put an order in for some CBD-A oil. Gonna see what it does to ma’ braaaaain.
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Let’s all just take a moment to imagine the world if that smart bloke never invented the blue LED. Imagine a world where you don’t need to put duct tape over your fucking power board because the led is bright enough to light up your entire bedroom at night
I freaking love the story behind blue LEDs. That was a really good video breaking down some seriously difficult explanations of why it was so hard
I’m copying a fine art youtuber and it’s working. Bright primary colours are turning into muted subtle ones. I don’t have a colour wheel and am not swatching but they look close. Mixing little dabs of paint with a toothpick in a paper bowl works too but is pretty awkward. (No palette knife.)
Ps. Melbcat got very excited when I opened the paint tubes. Sounds of plastic? A bowl. Something being opened. ‘What are we eating?’ To be fair to her I am drinking something from a cup that looks the same as the paint water cup so may actually commit the classic blunder
I go to cheap op shops for art materials and tools, cheap cutlery and dishes work great
Just finished the psychometric test for that possible job. Gotta say, not a fan of that kind of stuff.
How can you possibly judge a person based on a ridiculous “test”?
The companies have been sold these tests by the companies that designed them. It’s all pseudoscience shite.
I hate them so much, they utterly useless and a complete waste of time for everyone involved.
Nellie’s first newsletter has arrived. There is a quiz.
7/10 too - we need to up our numbat game to support Nellie. I admit that I had to guess the scientific name (but got it right for all the wrong reasons).
Oh my goodness, the picture of the baby. I got 7/10 and am officially a Numbat Maestro.
soo cute 🥰
8/10 not too bad
8/10. Lucky guesses!
You got 7/10 correct answers Congratulations, Numbat Maestro! You’ve proven yourself as the ultimate champion of Numbat knowledge. Your expertise is truly impressive, and it’s clear that you’ve delved deep into the wonders of the numbat kingdom. You’re not just a quiz-taker; you’re a Numbat virtuoso! Keep spreading the love for these remarkable marsupials!
I am not a Numbat ball aficionado, just sayin’
Slight headache and drowsiness. But got a few loads of washing done, as well as the dishes. Overall a relatively productive day.
Pasta bake for dinner, which is just leftover pasta in a dish with cheese on top… Which was made from the roast pork and veggies mein liebe made. Not a single scrap wasted in this house.
I made banana bread today because I didn’t want to throw out the dead bananas so the man bought more 😡
freezer
Yeah I normally do that.
A 22 year old man has been arrested in connection to the disappearance of Samantha Murphy. No charges have been laid as yet.
Oh shit!
He was just charged with her murder. Deliberate attack. No further details.
What a scumbag. It may not be the only time he’s done this.
What’s worse is that he’s not cooperating either, for the moment the family won’t have proper closure.
😢
Disgusting behaviour. A previous woman was attacked on that trail a year ago too so if that was him as well I hope he gets multiple sentences.
I always have hope until bad news is confirmed 😔
Today is le hard, and I am le tired
Ze missiles are waiting
I thought today was Wednesday. 😩
Just saw the forecast. Talk about last gasp of summer!!!
Just looked too. Eeek. Good weekend to wash blankets, pillows and cushions too if you are so minded. Definitely an early shop on Saturday tho, then some heavy duty hibernation.
Just saw it myself too, holy hell they bumped up the temps on Sun and Mon. I’m meant to be going out to Ballarat on Sunday on the v/line, hope the tracks don’t melt or whatever bs often happens on a string of hot days.
I wonder if this is the hottest streak we’ve had since 2019/2020
Expect cancellations and a very slow trip.
I had plans on Saturday but now it’s gonna be 3 days of air conditioning instead.
Melbcat is going so much better today.
Cat rambles
She was already improving last night and the crying had stopped. But a day after stopping the antibiotic and starting stronger pain relief + ear drops there’s no crying, she’s calm, and her appetite is coming back.
She doesn’t like the ear drops and generously tries to share them with me by shaking her head. But it’s much less traumatic than force feeding her the antibiotics and I know I’m giving her the right care.
The sample the bacteria was identified from was taken right before she got a shot of powerful long acting antibiotics two weeks ago so I’m hoping the uti might have been gone before starting and having to stop the allergenic ones… I’ll still be watching carefully because resistance is no joke.
hugs for you and melbcat
Managed to get a bronze with one of my entries in my first ever mead competition, pretty stoked!!
YAY! Are you doing taste testing for us all?
Haha ive only got 4 bottles of the bronze award one left :( Got lots of other good stuff in the works though :)
🤦🏼♂️ ffs I was meant to call and cancel that dodgy newspaper thing, but I forgot to and they charged me 18 dollars for it. That’s not that much, but I literally just signed up to read a single article, which wasn’t even a free trial they still charged me like 2 dollars for it. :/
They don’t even give you a heads up, hell, not even a courtesy “wait until days end”, they take their fee at exactly midnight, and that’s the end of it. Absolute scumbags.
On the plus side, if anybody has any articles you want from the Wimmera mail times, hmu and I’ll send you the content. Unfortunately there’s not even that much content in most of them, it’s usually just a couple of sentences about something mundane.
18 dollars Jesus Christ I’m an idiot
Nah you’re not an idiot. I kept forgetting to cancel my Xbox game pass sub for months 😅
Idk if it will help, but if you want to read an article that’s paywalled, I use the website 12ft ladder (just Google it). You can paste the article URL into this site and it will remove paywalls and the like. It isn’t 100%, but it works often enough :)
I did try to get the article open with 12ft but it didn’t work. And unfortunately the WMT was the only one with an article on what I was looking for :/
But thank you, I appreciate the rec. 12ft is ♥️
You’re not an idiot, you just forgot. Free trials plan on doing that to people.
Ps. Not really relevant but be careful of renting to own appliances or phones too, you end up paying much higher than the actual cost of the item
