Daily Discussion Thread: 🚫🎁☀️🛍️ Friday, October 11, 2024

They brought the meeting forward to today and I've been terminated. I'm just glad it's over

Sounds like it was for the best to leave anyway, even if it feels crappy now. You'll look back and think this was the best thing that could have happened
- This whole year sucked for me work wise. I had a stressful project at the start of the year. Then I was facing a redundancy, then I've been going through this for the past 9 weeks. It's been so stressful, I'm just glad it's over
performance plan is really just "Paid Job Hunting notice period" anyway. On to bigger and better things. And hey if you value your sanity dont come to my work. Shit is a dumpster fire.
- That was my problem, I didn't get on the job hunt seriously soon enough. I thought I could get through it, started looking at jobs, had some interviews that didn't go anywhere, and didn't pick it up as much until the last meeting. I'm getting the standard 2 weeks pay so if I can pick up an immediate start contract I might be able to coast for a bit
No one is at their best with an axe hanging over them. It's over, look up with freedom and move on. And get really drunk tonight.
- I'm more excited to have my spring back. I started around this time last year and things were so much easier. I picked my kids up early from childcare and took them to a park before home. I'd like to do that again a few times before I start something else
I'm really sorry this has happened mate.
- I'll try make the most of it. I can go on centrelink through my business and I can go into job application overdrive now
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope better things are just around the corner for you.
- A recruiter I've worked with before has a contract role that's the exact thing I'm looking for. These roles are always an immediate start so things may just work out. And to think how grateful I'll be to the first place that takes me after all this
Fuck, it's the day for bad news hey. I'm so sorry to hear about your work situation, it's an awful feeling to be terminated and can set off so many bad thoughts. Vent here as much as you need. I'd like to think it's an opportunity for you to move onto somewhere you'd be better appreciated - my hope for you is in a year's time you'll be able to look back on it all and laugh at how fucked up your workplace was

LL has suddenly requested I remove all my plants from the balcony immediately because of alleged damage and complaints (currently unsubstantiated), and is going to do an inspection in 11 days. This sounds like she's on the warpath now and wants to force me out.

Of course I can't get any advice on what my rights are until Monday, but for now I've sent an email asking for some evidence. I'm not removing my plants just like that.

I don't feel safe or happy at all. I don't really wanna go back to the apartment right now.

Rough.
- Rough is understating it for sure. I'm not in a good headspace
Sounds like some made up BS if you ask me.
Maybe you’re right that she’s trying to force you out.
Think it’s got anything to do with the VCAT application you’ve put inV
- Well I haven't even put in a VCAT application, just a CAV review of the rent increase - and I even told her it could very well end up being in her favour but I just needed to explore my options.
  At this stage it's sounding retaliatory.
Oh no. hugs
This might be relevant to your landlady's situation. I think she may be panicking a bit. Hopefully she'll see reason on Monday. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-12/victoria-sharp-fall-in-rental-stock/104464504?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
- Oh it absolutely is. Land tax has gone up and the market rate has as well... It's just that she suddenly withdrew the offer of negotiation - I would've thought keeping on a good tenant would be worth something. And I have every right to apply for a review. asking me to remove all my plants all of a sudden is rather unreasonable...

Day off

Had a pedi earlier

Stoned off my tits

Hockey is on

It's gonna be a good day

whos playin?
- Leafs vs Devils

My dog living the life of a cat

Finished work. Going for walk. Shout out if you want me to bring you back a stick

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Wish I was as good with hoes as you are
- All about the edger'ing babyyy
That do be some diggin'.
- Then comes the geo and the gravel and the agi and more gravel and one area gets dirt but the others get mansfield pebbles and aluminium edging
that looks so awesome
kudos
- The awesome comes with the backfill...
Nice job there.
What are you going to be planting there?
- Drainage pipe
That looks good. I am green with envy
- Barring the one on the far left, they're roughly the locations of original concrete and brick dividers in a garden bed i've been painstakingly prying out out and cleaning up over the past year (salvagable concrete chunks will become crazy paving, bricks a pathway). His Lordship liked the dividers, but they had to come out, they were falling apart, cracking and subsiding, plus i wanted to put in raised and wicking beds (getting old and i already broke my back).
  It also has a retaining wall around it, but no outlet for water (and at the bottom of a slope), so it bogs a bit...my solution was getting a hole punched in the side, dig agi in along the divider lines and when i backfill i'm gonna echo the original dividers by having channels of river pebbles famed by aluminium edging along the lines.
ooh that looks like it is taking serious shape.

The time has come to traumatize Mr Woof with a bath. Wish us luck.

Please take photos
- Too late, but I have attached some photos from a previous bath.
Good luck. Hope you come back unscathed.
- We have survived, and dried off with a post-bath Walkies.

I had a little adventure. I had to drive the Kluger home. I've only driven an auto once in 20 years. Anyway I got home and realised I didn't know how to turn it off. A phone call later sorted that out. I then took the little doolackey out of the console and locked it. I checked to make sure it's locked by the door handle and it beeped at me and the mirrors opened up. Did it again. Same. Shamefully I did it again. Same. So I spent 20 minutes outside babysitting an unlocked car. Technology hates me and i hate technology.

Anyway cheers you smarter more competent tech people 🍺

I got a mate who brought a new car recently. It was an auto and his old car was a manual. he had to go back into the showroom and ask them how to take off cause the electric handbreak wouldnt disengage, all he had to do was shift to Drive from park, but they didnt tell him that and he had no idea. So dont feel too bad.
- Thanks. I got in it, adjusted the seat, put my seatbelt on, looked down and said "is there a button I have to press to put it in drive"? Apparently the answer is yes as the man showed me.
look it up on youtube, n/k or write out a question on google
#1, it's a kluger
- I don't need to, it goes back tomorrow and stupid autocorrect.

One prac assessment completed and submitted, all the work done yesterday and checked by teacher.

All is well, I can do this!

I rage-installed Brave browser today. Been a firefox user for a long time but its getting resource hungrier and performance-worser on my laptop (linux). So far so good. Brave is fast but otherwise similar to Chrome.

This has been Friday night geek chat with Oldgreeeeeg.

Omg ~~me too~~ I can't relate.
- Haha
Brave is Chromium based so it might be resource hungry as well. Librewolf is Firefox based with more privacy built in, you might be able to get some mileage out of that
- So far it seems better then chrome but thanks , I'll add librewolf to the trial

I feel like I’ve had a big backslide in terms of physical and mental health. And my sleep patterns.

Fucksticks.

That sucks to hear, and it sucks all three of those are kind of tied together so when one gets worse they all do
- Yeah, it’s a party! Oh well. Onwards.

The culprit was sulphites in the fruit

Ok. I’m in the process of treating myself to this.

One half is the size of my hand closed out flat.

12 bucks!

Omg that looks amazing!!! And great value
- @Catfish@aussie.zone
  It was insane, I haven’t eaten something like that packed in so densely full of meat.
  I could have meat poisoning now. I counted at least 30 layers of various meats and one of them was heavily smoked or salted.
  I felt like I almost couldn’t finish it all but it was certainly great value for money.
  I could have entered a food coma right there and then. I struggled to get home.
Drool!

bloody hell

i've got a yucky intolerance response to some fruit yoghurt, ( yes, I had a lacteeze ) lips on fire, eyes burning. Extra lactose in the recipe perhaps? Not too pleased about it.

That’s concerning and doesn’t seem typical for lactose intolerance. Are you sure you haven’t developed an allergy to the milk protein?
- it's just two products I have trouble with, this fruit yoghurt and bulla choc icecreams

Due to the 2% pay rise fiasco, they've given everyone 3 days wfh instead of 2.

Also I bought new shoes and Gibson gets a new box.

Fuck it I'm getting a new jacket as well

Yeah I can kind of imagine. thats the problem with a collective rise like that. Everyone knows your all getting screwed together so you can effectively unionize. How'd they not expect the reaction they got though?!
- Our leadership team (C suite) didn't have control. It was the boards decision.
Is that good or bad?
- I'm happy. The pay rise wasn't applicable to me because I'm on probation.
  According to a manager I'm close with, this is damage control. A lot of really important people are looking at other jobs.
  One department may completely collapse.

There will be no miniature ghost train cake. Too crumbly and disintegrated when I tried to ice it 😿

:(
Did you get to eat any of it?
- Some of the mix is in cupcake cases. Not a total loss.

I ordered some regular baby items from Chemist Warehouse online. I'm hoping they track the transaction on my account and send me emails when they stuff goes on sale again. You've got to use surveillance capitalism to your benefit sometimes.

But.... I just want milk that tastes like real milk
I hate that to survive I must trawl through specials and deals, that are still more costly than the specials and deals a few years ago.
I almost wish I didn't move into an apartment that gets so little sun; could have had a garden and grown some food to offset some costs.
- I understand that. Things would be so much better if housing also included things like chicken coops and greenhouses. There's a chapter about it in The Conquest of Bread and it makes me sad thinking about what we could have had
- Low fat, not fat, Full Creme, High Calcium, High Protein, Soy, Light, Skim Omega 3 or... (something) with extra Dollop?
  Just off the top of my head I think I did ok there.

Flatpacked raised veggie patch arrived today. SO MANY FUCKING BOLTS that took me 3hrs and of course a few were missing. Happy to at least visualise it now though.

Ok. Who have you buried?
- just kitten's landlord/lady?
- whoever they were the tomatoes should be kicking it this year. :)
  (in case I'm now on a list I swear it was a veggie patch).

Went looking for more horror movies only to see the Internet Archives has been hacked.

I wasn’t a member but if you were make sure all your passwords are unique

What ingrate would do that?
- From what I know it’s allegedly some pro-Palestine hacker group that’s trying to punish the American government for supporting Israel?
  Dumbfucks don’t seem to know that the two aren’t related

So, BIG project due end of year (wasn't enough time in the first place) has had a sudden and abrupt change of course. Because of course it has. All our comms and training material need to be completely redone. And I'm finding the phrase "Do it yourselves motherfuckers" is rolling around in my head, but not yet my lips. edit: gonna delete the teams here, but rest assured they are all idiots.

And the only thing we all have in common is we think the project is unrealistic, deliverable and the head of IT is an idiot.

What is it?

I'm excited I'm getting new glasses next week!!!! A friend came to help pick them out and they're a totally different style than normal.

Admittedly a bit sad, but damn it I'm excited lol

A bit sad why?
- I feel like getting glasses shouldn't be this exciting, but heck... It really is lol

Cheers for real and proper 🍻

Fire alarm. Again, for the second time in a week. Yaaaaaay.

Booooo. What triggered it?

Off to start my workday. Meeting in a cafe, which is nice

What's the etiquette around calling about a job after it closes? I put in for a job I really want and it closed today.

I'll bedamned if I leave it in god's hands from here. Do I call on Monday mentioning I have some ideas I'd like to put in a presentation if I get an interview? Something to tease their curiosity a bit?

I have no idea. Monday does seem a bit early to call, they might not have even processed all the applications yet.
I would wait a few days. You don't want to seem desperate. I know it's stupid, but that's the way it is.
When you speak to HR, just ask if they have narrowed down the applicants.
- I was thinking I'd call the contact person that would be the manager of the role. I'll wait until the middle of the week and I can use that time to draft what I'd present to them

For the metal heads in here, a new Blood Incantation album just dropped. It incorporates their prog elements with their metal side of things really well. First impressions are I really like it and it just might be my album of the year.

A blackbird flew in the other week. I caught it before it hurt itself or my stuff and tossed it back outside. Now I swear I keep catching it inside the doorway a little. It sounds kinda bird racist but I can't tell it apart from other blackbirds, aside from it's female/brown. I read that patting a birds head is a bit sexy for them, maybe I've got a blackbird admirer, she probably only wants me for me bread/cheese crumbs.

Bird racist! Bird racist!
I reckon I'm doing well if I can identify the breed, let alone individual bird friends.
The head is the safe pat zone. Stay away from the back and wings or the tail lest you end up with a possessive hormonal bird
It was probably a raven.

The zucchini seeds are already sprouting… that was fast. Not all have started but a fair few have - one is even way ahead of the others and has its first set of leaves

Time to find out if my work allows volunteers to finish early without pay if availability allows. Cannot wait to potat
Edit: they don't 😔

This was on the front page of wikipedia just now.
- Oh shit you found me out
Start farting. You got a bit of gastro.
nom nom 🥔

Animal Biology fuck yeahhhh!!

I read that as Anal Biology and had many, many...many questions.
- that is indeed part of animal biology
- We did learn A LOT about faeces tbh.
  Did you know in the UK there is a place called The National Poo Museum?
  I didn't, what a wild thing to put on a resume 😂

Had a convo with a couple of colleagues the other day about dark mode. They dont understand how I can work with it. I dont understand how you can use all white in office or outlook and that NOT hurt your eyes? so DT, what do you use? I'm dark mode all the way. Windows, Office apps, even my phone.

Dark mode all the way. Your colleagues are weird.
Dark mode, no argument. The only correct answer is dark mode. It's easier to see, write, and read, and doesn't give me a headache.
Normal/light mode, I can literally feel my eyes strain and ache, my retina blasted away by the searing white light.
\ Edit: just realised light mode is the same feeling I get when I'm reading a book, and the sunlight hits the page just right so it glows, but you're too comfy to move and try to read through it... And go blind
Yep, dark mode whenever possible. I've got some beefy 4k monitors so they put out some light when the screen is all white
- Oh that could be it! I've got a 32" curved monitor thats probably why it hurts hey.
Light mode just because it's the default and I've always been lazy to bother changing and adjusting to new things
- you can guarantee your phone is safe no one’s gonna even look at it
I’m a full dark mode person.
I hate white lighting but looking at screens with so much white hurts and makes my eyes tired.
Even my watches are all dark or with negative lighting.
https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/17lk6yu/dark_mode_book/
I'm the freak that uses light mode. But after all these comments, I'm going to give dark mode another go. I've never had it on for more than 5 minutes once to decide I didn't like it.
Dark mode and night mode. So much better for my eyes.
I'm logging into and out of too many systems/servers etc in a day to tweak everything everywhere to Dark Mode. Ask me if I prefer it, then yes. Am I going to modify this remote server's settings to Dark Mode (assuming the OS even supports it)? meh.
I am comfortable either way. I will say that my personal computer is configured for Dark Mode, if that somehow answers the question. Oh, my Kindle app on phone/tablet is absolutely set to Dark Mode. That's probably the one case where I would mind. I wouldn't want to read a book for several hours without dark mode.

Bought a lil indie game called Tiny Glade. Super fucking chill, no management, no quests, no objectives. Just some basic tools, cute, tilt-shifted graphics, and you build a tiny lil town. It's adorable and so so relaxing. I was worried for a moment about it being perhaps too barebones, but I've built a main street, a lil castle, raised some land and made a flower hill with a lake, and made a silo. There's a lot they could add, but it's a bit procedural in a way (increasing/decreasing the size and shape of a building causes it to generate to make sense). Coloured everything I could colour. I have so much more to build for my little hamlet

That’s so nice to be able to chill with something like that.
How much time have you lost to it already?
- An hour or so, I'm tired but now all I can think about is making more things haha
like the original Populous game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEJPlseI57o
- That one brings back memories.
- Why is the music so creepy wtf
Also have a look at Townscaper. That might be too basic maybe.
I have islanders but that’s got a little bit of a twist with laying out stuff and makes you think.
- I'll check those out, I really enjoy city Sims, just the building aspect really. I like the creation.

Help! Party tomorrow and he has the vapours or might caught have something! NO NO nO!

Quarantine immediately!

Nigh nighs

PAX for me! Anyone going, too?

I wish! Been every other year, but couldn't afford it this time :(
Are you more interested in the video games? Or the board games? Dice?
I always loved the miniature painting and the team games with the motion controllers they do. And trying out all the board games and card games they have. I also like going to the talks they do, some are so so interesting. And then all the cosplay, people put so much effort, time and love into making amazing displays, and I am just in awe everytime I see them.
Not this year.
I went once in the ages ago and had a good time, went to a few talks like for The Witcher 3, struggling to remember what else since it was from awhile ago.

Beep Beep 🚚
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Something to balance out the meat injection I had earlier please.
Potat and beer please.
- 🥔🍺
- You and me would be great friends
A 25% pay rise?
- for the Board of Directors? Yes of course! And 50% pay rise for the CEO.
I too, would like the clown face special with a side of chuckle-fuck
- 🤡🤭🍆
Please provide it
- 🤡

we might have some beautiful aurorae tonight if we are lucky 🙂

https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Aurora

The correct term is aururuses
- Auroranus
- Thank you. 🙂🌈🌈
both last time and this time i’ve been having a day long mild headache is that causation or correlation

No presents, sunshine or shopping today?

Or nothing but presents, sunshine and shopping today? I choose that option.
- Maybe the stars aren't aligned to do those things so it's a warning. I will stay inside.

I can't believe people are still bothered by daylight savings. I get it if you have kids. That's a different kettle of fish but gee if you're a grown arse adult I can think of a million and one other things to be shitty about.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/s/wB8zDDdR9b

But the curtains! Won't somebody think of the curtains!? /s
- Fuck the curtains. We need as much sunlight as possible while awake.
WA had a three year trial from 2007-2009. It was fine, but they had a referendum and voted against adopting it. But everyone spent three years talking about it.
I moved to Melbourne in 2008. Melbourne didn't talk about Daylight Savings by comparison, nobody seemed to mention it at all. You just adjusted your clocks and went about your day. It was refreshing. By about 2012, most of the clocks would adjust themselves.
- Most Melburnians just get on with it but there were a few complaints on the lesser dt a few days ago. I hate wowsers.

TGIF. Not much to do today except make some tutorials out of some meetings I had last week.

Then dinner with a friend, getting some new glasses (finally) and maybe an amp to make my current setup stereo instead of just mono.

Enjoy your day everyone ❤️

How is it ONLY friday? my brain is convinced it should be Saturday.

Have made a Dr appointment for tomorrow. I've got these weird things which came up on my arms in a few spots in the past couple of weeks. Thought they were ringworm or similar fungal thing, was treating them with OTC topical cream. Was wondering how TF I got it. But the cream didn't work and they've flared up hugely as a result of my treatment 😳☹️ The same thing happened with my feet a couple of years ago; I thought it was tinea, treated it accordingly and the whole situation got instantly massively worse and it turned out to be eczema.

Might be stress-related psoriasis. I have that in my hairline and the outside of my elbows, and its a pain to deal with. Cortisone cream works quite well. If the things are scaly patches that flake off leaving a red sore mark. Might be worth raising this with the dr.
- I have psoriasis, behind my ears. It rarely comes up on my face but doesn't stick around. I've tried so much to treat it, and I really think it's stress/mental health. So annoying. Been there since I was a kid, but usually migrates every few years slightly.
  I have a new cream to try though, so we'll see how that plays out.
- Thankyou I will.
His lordship's had a massive eczema flare as well and he's usually not prone. Must be something in the air
- Ikr I've never had eczema until the foot thing, and then not at all since.
got my first round of eczema earlier this year (which i ignored and used the wrong stuff on until i finally saw a GP a few months later for something else), a ridiculous amount of moisturiser every few hours and a little cortisone did the trick
Tinea cream can make eczema worse and vice versa, and the skin breakdown from eczema can mean fungal infections take hold more easily, too. My dr suggested mixing a little of both treatment creams together, if either single treatment wasn’t working.
It might be contact dermatitis or something like that - have you been using any new products lately?
I get a similar thing from Allergies. And its been NUTS the last couple of weeks.
I come out in hives that could be anything from stress to chemical sensitivity to a virus or mast cells.
Be careful if you try cortisone cream - maybe patch test it first before slathering it all over. As I find it just causes redness and stinging for me
Over the last 2 or 3 days I've ended up with I think hives or something?
I thought it was something I ate or something to myself but maybe it's a statewide thing going on at the moment?

it's a radiohead kinda day karma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWYWPc9HU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf01riuiJWA

I learned "motion picture soundtrack" for my show.

Forced downtime so trying to take advantage and somewhat death clean myself.

Stuff = 1, Moi = 0

Why are there just some things that are inconvenient to store nicely. Yes, I have a gazillion ring-bound manuals. No, I haven’t opened them in forever. Yes, I need them.

Ugh. Cupboards are both the best and worst.

I have this same problem, but with cables. I'm talking, boxes and boxes full.
I know if i throw any away I'll need them in the future.
- Haha, I hear you. That’s what I recently mentioned as my two week rule. I finally part with something and two weeks later… Yep, found a use for it, but don’t have it anymore.

Dinner tonight is burgers flavoured with 7 spice mix, this time I'm doubling the quantity of spice to 2 giant spoons

rice with almonds and lemon juice

and some salad

Was super close to pulling the trigger on taking a sickie today. Didn't do it, and I'm going to be regretting it allll day now

Think of all the potat waiting for you when you get home.
- 😮 how did you know that it's only the thought of potat that that keeps me going?

Well plans changed with my having to help family with their stuff and also with me making a stuff up so I ended up not having much to spend on myself in the end.

I've limited myself to a coffee so far.

The cafe I'm sitting at wanted 15 dollars for a chicken schnitzel roll with a layer of lettuce, 3 slices of tomato and it didn't look too big.

Maybe I'm just being too critical.

Absolute Cunt Of a Day

was kinda invited ( a plus 1 ) to fam b'day party

but near everyone there hates me, even had people shun me or call me names. mil constantly disses and baits me with hate , and many are raging bigots/haters

but I kinda understand and like the b'day girl, she tries hard to be a good person ( tho she never contacts me , i never contact her )

don't want to go, won't go, but will send gifts because maybe one day they will learn to look at how people behave and learn to not listen to gossip

I would listen to your gut and protect your mental health if you need to. You deserve respect and not to be treated like that.
If the birthday girl is close to you then perhaps you and she could arrange a coffee? If not sending best wishes and a gift is fine in my book
Edit: But that’s just me. I’ve been worn down to a really low tolerance for toxic situations and would genuinely prefer to isolate than put myself through them
- I think I'll listen to my gut
  And we aren't close.
Go. For the birthday girl. Take yourself and a niceish gift and leave when you're done.

I felt the need for a pasty

👀
📎

Aussie women’s T20 on tonight at 1am against Pakistan.

I’m going to try and stay up for it again.

I think it’s available on Amazon Prime if you have a sub with them.

I really struggled with the playlist today so I've started with an hour of oldies then we'll play the rest on the fly. It always starts nice and demure with something like Dion and ends in something like Disturbed with flashing lights, more shots and heavy bass.

Opening night of Come From Away by CLOC was so fun. Love the show and they did an excellent job. I may have cried a few times.

grrr why does some dick have to use their phone watching videos without having headphones or something and sit next to me.

Ended up watching Zack and Miri tonight....such a sweet movie

What sort of a movie was it?
- Cute flick about best friends making a porno

The guy delivering eggs this morning snuck in quietly, neither I nor Mr Woof heard a thing.

Easter Bunny in October? The world's gone mad.

No Boxing Day Sales.

Really?