I've mentioned a couple of times recently having some "real life" problems, but I haven't really wanted to talk about it much here while I was still processing everything.

My Dad has been diagnosed with lung cancer and does not have much longer to live. My Mum also has a fair few health problems and our current plan is for her to move back to Melbourne and share a house with me so I can provide more assistance. I feel a bit like I'm in the eye of a hurricane at the moment, everything seems perfectly normal right now but I'm constantly on edge waiting for that to change.

It feels like I should be doing something but there's not really anything to do at the moment, so I'm researching and making plans for every likely future possibility I can think of. Which probably means something completely unexpected will happen instead.

Well that's finally one saga over. I have wheels again! I think I've grown grey in my eyebrows from the stress.

Tomorrow I shall start organising insurance, put in a dashcam, look up places to get quotes for a new head unit, set up direct debits for rego, shop for seat covers and all the rest. And tidy my godawfully messy carport with months of dead leaves and crap accumulated. My neighbours will probably be rolling their eyes and sighing, "at last"...

So market research this morning:

Go to an office setup like a faux supermarket. You put on these eye tracking glasses and walk down the aisle.

All so they can figure out where to best place chocolates on a shelf.

Good times lol

Miss Meow is back in her tunnel. It's definitely a hit, she's been hanging out in there every evening.

I'm up early after another night of bad sleep with too many thoughts in my head. But I think I have made a decision that will make things less stressful for me - I'm going to withdraw from my climate change course. It's interesting material and I would like to be able to do it, but I just don't have the focus right now. I'm still doing the Sustainable Living Diploma, but I don't need to finish that until next year so I might move another subject to next year so it is not such a time commitment.

This is nonsense word salad, a stream of consciousness. And I apologise to this community for venting so vehemently.

Peace.

It's the eve of a 4 day weekend. Sadly I have a day filled with BS meetings that actually require my mental presence.

Think I've broken my boyfriend slightly... now that the nights are cooler, I haven't been turning the fan on to sleep with and suddenly he's having awful sleep. Last night it was a bit warmer, so I turned it back on and he slept so well. White noise ftw!

I am never up this late, but I took Mr 10 to Hamer Hall to see the MSO play Return of the Jedi. Fantastic performance, and a good excuse for a day off school tomorrow/today. And I am that tired I cannot think.... goodnight peeps. Sweet dreams.

Holidays....start.. ..NOW

(Narrator: actually holidays start in about an hour after greeegy has done the last few jobs unfinished yesterday...)

That’s all that needs to be said.

Just heard that it took 5 months for bands to be paid following gigs at the Bendigo Hotel.

No wonder why bands were refusing to play there.

I learned my lesson after the last time I went away and I've done aaaaaaall of my laundry over the last 2 days. Ready to rock and roll.

Gah. I spent all day and night troubleshooting tech and why things weren’t charging.

Go out and buy a replacement part and I think everything is suddenly working and connecting together.

Felt like I just wasted money today figuring that out or just having it fixed magically.

Well at least I went and stocked up on spices which was the original aim of today.

Coffee time!

Just double checking that I did right.

Without too many details, I was on social media and saw that an underage user (like 12 years old) had publicly posted a school picture of themselves and their friend - including their faces, the first name of one kid, and the logo of their school. They had also been engaging with content that had an age rating and wasn’t for kids, making that self doxxing even worse.

The report system refused to give me an appropriate option so I eventually just reported it as suspected child abuse material, explaining in the notes that I thought them posting their faces and school publicly could risk real life harm.

This was the right way to go about things, yes? My report options were extremely limited.

I’m hoping that photo gets pulled down before it makes these kids a target

And the parents catch on to what their kid is doing

Did nobody teach these little goblins internet safety??

Half way home on the train last night the mrs texts me and goes "oh and I've gotta show you a scratch I found on the car" get home and yep, someone's opened a car door on it. Checked over the dashcam footage but cant see shit. She is sure it wasn't there yesterday morning and I believe her cause she woulda seen it during the daycare drop off.

This one probably aint her fault, but maaaan I'm frustrated. It was fixed for all of 24 hours! The fuck is going on with my luck with cars.

Your assessment begins now…

lips burning

I just chopped up some chilies for chili bread

I washed my hands

then ate a bikkie dipped in coffee

must have put chili on the bikkie 😟

People, people! Please do not attempt to use a portable fire pit indoors! A very smart otherwise friend just made a very bad mistake.

Temperature dipped below 12° briefly yesterday before maxing out at 24 or so. Similar temperatures forecast for the next week. It's been shorts and tshirts weather all year to this point.

Brace yourself. Winter is coming.

This bogan piece of shit in cobram that's been arrested makes my blood boil. And while he was found not guilty for the murder of that toddler innocent people don't hide dead babies in their roof. That toddlers last moments alive were being brutally assaulted and I just find it so upsetting . At worst he did it and they couldn't prove it. At best he was an accessory to the crime.

Really makes me want to bring back the death penalty. Some people just need to be gone for the sake of society and no amount of meddling is going to fix their fucked brain.

https://archive.is/2024.04.24-043213/https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/a-beautiful-soul-another-woman-killed-man-arrested-in-regional-victoria-20240412-p5fjbt.html

Just bought an Android Auto Wireless adaptor off Ali Express for $25. 😳... Will report back

Cooked chicken carcass in a plastic bag. Sure.

Dear boss:

If you try and do something and it doesn't work so you throw it up to me that's ok, just fucking tell me. Don't go 'oh I was gonna do it but was too busy you do it'

Signed: the woman who prepped and went to build a server only to find the PERC is fucked.

Hi kids.

Flat clean, life admin complete. Going out for breakfast

Ha. Client #3 as well as client #2 cancelled. Which meant I only did one job today.
Already did a bit of Operation Sort Shit, now having a breather before I dive in again.

Hello possums.

Just remembered supermarkets closed tomorrow morning, so got to get a few things today.