This is why I can't have nice things. Flyscreen-Licker lol
why 🤷♀️
I am having moderate success stopping mine from eating the furniture with this:
Gibson's soul mate lol
🎵 our home is girt by fog 🎶
Looking at the servo across the road last night was like looking at the poster for the exorcist
Then you see some methhead spider walk down the footpath with a ciggie in their mouth, and you realise it's actually The Exorcist 1.5: Bogan Shenanigans
I don't deny all this optimism since Kamala got the nomination and is now leading in the polls feels good. 😊
I wonder if it will hold steady till November. I hope so. I really do.
Ever since 2016 I really don't trust the average "normal" American to go out and actually vote. I could believe Kamala leading all the polls until the election when Trump's goons turn out in greater numbers than ever and enough minorities/women are just somehow disenfranchised enough to not vote. I REALLY hope that doesn't happen though
E: and I also really fear for another Jan 6
Effing terrifying if not. I’d be green in that world because surgery, and fuck that shit eight ways before Tuesday.
We weren't imagining it - plague stalking the streets of melbourne Take care out there folks.
It seems my original logon still works on my work computer - whew! May retire new logon or might keep it for use at home only.
My BIL had legionnaires, it comes from breathing in dirty water mist. People who are immune compromised are especially vulnerable, otherwise healthy people need repeated exposure .
Guaranteed this outbreak is from dirty AC.
Be careful out there.
This must have been the one case of the plague I heard about a week ago.
On another note did you find out what your password is?
My new raincoat arrived today, so it won't rain again for a good six months I reckon.
Taking one for the team I see. We thank you!
I finally found my long-lost 'good' umbrella, so I'm doing my bit too.
I already appreciate you - just went and stood in the sunshine for 10 minutes, sleeves up and warmth on my face. Hope your new raincoat is lovely!
Sleep school is alright. This facility is really nice and the staff are great. The food is a little lousy, which is to be expected. It's pretty much hospital grade microwave meals, but they're provided and you're free to head out and do whatever you want.
I should have taken the week off but with how everyone was feeling last week it was still up in the air.
Back in the land of the frozen toes, but I now have a dwelling with a split air system. I'm actually a little surprised at how well it heats. Even beats the portable fancy schmancy Dysons. And... there will actually be aircon this Summer (or whatever weird semblance of a season we have in lieu of Summer). Strangely, I have survived most of my home life without it. I am looking forward to actually being able to sleep through hot weather (although the weird fan in the face thing I had going was working reasonably well).
On my usual weird side notes because, you know, I'm always late to the party... I did discover Acrobat can search within PDFs in a folder. I lament past me for the amount time I have wasted remembering something and then manually searching through endless individual PDFs to find said something. Such a basic thing. (Also am sadly slugging away at a well overdue assignment. cries)
I hope everyone is warm and well.
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My "didn't think about food early enough and now I can't be arsed" dinner was a mushroom and goat's cheese omelette. And it was delicious.
yum
I had chicken vegie curry with rice and home made naan
Carls Jr going into administration, can't say I'm surprised, nobody needs to feel any FOMO on this one.
I thought it was ok, but it was pricey for "Ok"
What are y'all grateful for today? Sorry it's kinda late.
Randomly bumped into an acquaintance I met through volunteer gardening at uni and we got coffee. Didn't get anyway to contact her, but I told her to come to volunteering next week. She quit last semester and treated it as a therapy session, but I'm sure the gardening leader who loveddddd her chattiness will be happy she's back.
Also grateful for actually going to in-person classes today. Even though we didn't do much and it was all intro shit, I kinda felt like achieved something just by being there and paying attention.
And the subject I failed two years ago because I didn't submit most of the assignments. The one assignment I did submit is exactly the same, just different names and slightly different scenario. There's the whole academic integrity thing that I need to uphold, but I can smash the assignment out in a couple of hours because the main ideas I have from last time.
Found cool citrus trees on campus behind a building with lots of fruit. And turtles. They're hard to get a picture of because of the reflective glass, but I will be sure to take one next time I'm there.
Overall, a good day. It's been a while since I've a day where mentally I felt okay! A stark contrast to the whole being sad over my ex moving on and lying in bed all day. I let it hurt, I caught myself, and am slowly getting out of this funk. I deserve to feel better, and am grateful that I'm finally realising that :)
I'm disappointed lawn bowls is not an Olympic sport.
My second horror movie set at camp was Stage Fright starring Minnie Driver for all of 2 seconds and Meatloaf fresh from his Grand Final performance.
Set at a musical theatre camp, the killer hates musical theatre and wears a Wish version of the ghost face mask and it's pretty obvious who it is under the mask. Motivations are nonsensical as well. But the musical parts were rather catchy.
4/10 for mine.
New avatar attached. I love it! EDIT: oops still have to actually attach ... 2nd edit : attached now.
Barely made it on time to work today, though the traffic was awful this morning with the fog.
I think I've also got the case of the minor sniffles now :(
I had the minor sniffles yesterday.
It's been promoted to Major Sniffles now :(
Thankfully(?) due to our wonderfully cromulent staffing, I'm still the only one in the office at least.
Late anti-gratitude sentiment.
My mum bought a "urine detector" torch from Temu (it's pretty much just a low quality UV light) and our carpet is full of piss. My dog has marked pretty much everywhere and it's gone into the carpet.
Also 'missed' the 8am class because I couldn't sleep and it wasn't a good idea to drive. Fun fact: being awake for I think 16 hours is like having your BAC at .05. Or maybe it's 17, don't remember.
Another reason to hate carpet.
TW: medical things.
I've been helping the old man with building a medical registry for the last decade. It ended up being a really interesting project with a lot of stats (and a great bonding thing). Anyway he's giving a talk soon so helping him out with the powerpoint stuff scanning things etc.
Last night he showed me:
spoiler
One of the first survival graphs (it was the original document) for the precursor to that sub-specialty. My jaw dropped. What it shows is how quickly things were moving at the beginning and how they were all over it in the early 50's. No software, just a pen and typewriter.
It's pretty cool. I've come across papers on JSTOR and other research that always makes me think: a) they already knew all this?! b) our whole health literacy is not great. (Like being sedentary is not good for you? Yeah, they were already writing about that in the 50s.)
Just used UpDoc for the first time, pretty sweet. Got a med cert in about an hour for $20, didn't have to speak to anyone or go anywhere.
Ooooooo that fog be foggy
Mwave finally got my GPU in and sent it out. I sent a follow up email last week seeing what was happening, and they got back to me yesterday to say they're going to refund my shipping costs (18 bucks or something like that) and they'd contact the warehouse people to ask them to send it out as a matter of priority, which they did around 1pm.
I'm still a bit disappointed that they didn't tell me it was out of stock until after I gave them money, but shit happens, I suppose. I probably won't order from them again if there's an alternative, or it's something I want quickly, but they seem genuinely apologetic and djd refund the shipping costs, so they seem alright.
They kept the service as express though, so it's probably on a plane coming down from Sydney now, and will most likely arrive by 2pm. Hopefully anyways, because I think my current GPU is actually on its last legs, even though the only thing obviously wrong with it is the fan
After watching Twisters last week (actually really enjoyed it!), I had a dream last night in which a team created a giant shipping box that they managed to “tornado proof”. A huge tornado was coming, so we were pulling people into the box and bought in a little ship with these 5 alien creatures who we thought we were cool with. It then got... a little gory.
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Then someone insulted them and one of the aliens just took a bite out of his shoulder, then all 5 just set to devouring everyone. And when they ate them, they managed to like, take on part of their personalities, but then make mockeries of them. Like one person enjoyed watching Tom Cruise movies, so they made Tom Cruise jokes while wiping the blood off their faces.
Earlier in the night I dreamed that there were 2 islands just north of Auckland that claimed to make the best chocolate chip biscuits and they were in a bit of a war about it and I was trying to choose which one to go do a tour of and it was getting real nasty between them.
Movie review. The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain. I decided to watch even tho it had hugh grant
I grew up watching all those 40s and 50s brit B &W movies, the Powell stuff, all the war stuff, the david lean, the lavendar hill mob/ealing stuff, anything and everything from rank and elstree studios. I watched The Corn is Green and that movie based on The Citadel ( about coal miners )
And none of them were as fucking twee as this.
a town full of genuinely nasty people and they made it cute
and yet there is some real pathos here, these towns really were hit hard by the tragedy of lives lost in wwi
This movie was filmed with a grant from the EU. The town where this was filmed voted leave in Brexit. Now there is no more EU money to help support backward towns in rural Britain. .
100 hobbits indeed
PS, some lovely cinematography , also big music for a little story
Sleepy. Laying on my bed is making me sleepy.
Must get up and resist napping
Watching the olympics and I joked with the Mrs “how funny would it be if this block island was just down at like, Cowes or something”
She goes “yeah philip island was a strange choice”
I go “what?! They are actually doing it on Philip island?! You’re shitting me!”
“Nah, they announced it ages ago I’m pretty sure!”
“But they are sprooking it as some fancy tropical thing! And they’re just doing it down the island? You’ve gotta be kidding me! You can fucking drive there!”
That is just the funniest thing to me.
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