The writing competition blew up over the weekend. Ended up with 83 entries with maybe some more coming in today. I am super proud of the effort.
Tinyest has started repeating words back to you. Shit is ADORABLE. Bathtime, GO!, Buh Bye and Ball are all big ones.
Title
I pick and pull red threads apart,
And sew myself a scarlet heart.
Powered by my woven mind,
Perceive the schemes across time.
Within chaos we perform the innate,
That-which-makes-us-human trait:
Assign some reason for the random,
Find some meaningful religious fandom,
Add a cause for the effect of common sense,
Draw in the pattern to flatten the tense,
Allocate the words to describe the past,
Rhymed with the concepts so my art may last.8.00 am and I'm already in trouble. Ted bit my bum because he hadn't gotten his kangaroo for breakfast yet.
Saturday is going to be a high of 27 and low of 21. Friday high of 17, low of 7. What a juxtaposition.
Replaced the headlight globe and managed to order my one of my favourite café lunches yesterday over the phone before I got there (the kitchen would have closed before I arrived).
I’ve been intermittent with my hayfever defence and I have been attacked. Ugh.
But… as for today, I have done a load of laundry, started the trickle-charge on one bike, washed and put the side mirror back on the scooter, finished a lengthy phone call and am now at the hairdressers.
Of course, I always accomplish things other than what I should be. 😂
Thanks guys for your answers about NZ. I'm looking at Christchurch, Lake Tekepo, Arrow Town, Queenstown or Dunedin.
So Elder refused to go to school this morning. Yes we are back to this again. Mondayitis. But Miniest refused to go because her brother isn't. I ended up having to leave or I'd be late for work.😥😬😫And now I'm I T C H Y. The rash (or whatever the hell it is) had actually gone down a bit overnight and didn't look so livid this morning. Off to work so I can stress less🫤
It’s cold. I am desperate for some warmer weather. I know global warming is bad but if a tiny bit of it happened to Melbourne so we could have some glorious Spring weather I would not be mad.
Just one day of using the Samsung UI for more than just work and I'm reminded how much I hate it. And the fucking bloat. Can't delete the Facebook app off the phone, only disable it, what a joke. Can't be stuffed dicking around with custom ROMs for this one, I think I'll be using this phone for work only as much as possible rather than making it my primary.
Gonna be hopefully clocking some overtime this pay cycle, maybe I'll get a Nothing Phone 2a or something else with stock Android. Although once again, hisssss at modern smartphones not having headphone jacks
ordered a "new" PC to take over plex responsibilities. The old XPS is starting to show its age. Heres my question, do I go Linux? Or stick to win 11? I've heard Linux performance is a lot better, but my experince is pretty limited to a few Ubuntu Distros. The other challenege is my library sits on a 12tb internal drive on the XPS. Is Ubuntu going to be ok reading off what I assume is NTFS?
I love when you have a dream that connects to a dream you had years and years ago. I mean, as in the fictitious area where the dreams happened.
TV and Movie Chat.
Woman of the Hour with and by Anna Kendrick.
I think this movie could have benefited from another 20 minutes. The problem is that suspense over the whole movie was not built up tho individual scenes were good.
There are two ways to show a bad guy. One is to show him doing his evil acts. The other is to show how seriously the good people are chasing him.
There has to be much more screen time of the chasing by good guys than of the bad guy doing evil stuff otherwise we just don't take in the story of the good guys adequately.
So I came away from watching that movie not as affected by the stories of the victims and the victim's families struggle for answers and justice as I should have been.
A good example of the right balance is the movie Zodiac. A few scenes of evil, 90% is the chase.
3 hobbits.
I rewatched the pilot of MAS*H. It cannot be over stated how popular and influential this series was . I have watched the whole 220 episodes , some more than others. It was show I would watch after high school.
And I couldn't watch it this time. Maybe I'm tired of war and sarcasm.
But I did think of the show and pondered how American sitcoms are different to Brit culture sitcoms.
I think Americans like to have many episodes a year in their shows because they like to get to know the characters really well. Brit sitcom is 6 episodes a year and more about a situation and challenge.
I think it can all be explained by The Office and how the show differs in UK and US versions.
I have now come to realise that it takes about 4 years of early mornings to ruin my usual sleep schedule. No matter how late I sleep, how tired/exhausted I am or whether it’s a day off, unless I’m unusually unwell, I cannot sleep in the same way I used to.
This is an annoying revelation. Even napping, which I do very poorly, is worse now.
I need to find a way around this. I need more hours.
Oh damn… turns out while I knew I was near one bad spot, I’m actually right between two. On a busy highway per se. No wonder I’ve been getting a lot of grief.
Even with how much I keep to myself and mind my own it was unavoidable.
....I literally just got "ok boomer" 'd for correcting a CDS employee who said bojack was an import company and not part of the CDS scheme. dafuq
^mister boomer is my father^
Cat health
Melbcat has been vomming again so is once more being force fed elixir of narnies, and I’m doing a lot of washing/carpet cleaning.
Also cleaning in chunks for an inspection. I’m so exhausted and keep crashing. I will probably end up just shoving a lot of things in cupboards if they fit.
There is good news though. I asked the vet about D-Mannose (which is used for utis in humans). I’d bought a bottle since Melbcat is constantly getting them due to kidney disease and developing resistances but haven’t been game to try it yet because I don’t know the dose for cats.
He said he’d have to research but I did see what he pulled up on the screen and google it later… he’d found a relatively new article I may or may not have seen saying it had been found helpful as a preventative measure in cats and dogs.
But what I really need to know is the dose. Too much can cause problems. I need to email and see if he’s found anything else.
Had to do a "Criteria" assessment for one of the jobs I'm interviewing for - interesting insights! I don't agree to what it's said on some things, but I did answer trying to be in a strictly current role mindset, but also remembering what my current workplace has some... quirks.
