Checking in from Quy Nhón

Its dreadful hehe

One of the most important members of the technical team rang me on my mobile (im on sick leave) and told me she's quitting.

She is one of the most amazing and intelligent people i have ever met. She is the companies knowledge base, and they are doing to her what they're doing to me. The work overload.

They pay her poorly. Very poorly. And knocked back raises in the past.

I told her what I did, and she's going to give it a last shot.

Rome is burning.

You ever have a day where you have action paralysis, struggle against the brick wall of zero motivation, waste time on rubbish, and then think fck it, I’ve wasted so much of the day anyway I don’t want to even try for the remainder of the day. It’s one of those.

5 year old would not sleep at all last night.

Exhausted.

Work is utter hell, I want to go home already.

World is going to shit.

The light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

-screaming intensifies-

Look what I found. My sister knitted them for my daughter years ago. I'm not throwing them out. They're heirlooms now.

It's escaped my attention until now, but next Monday is a public holiday. We have a long weekend coming up!!! Yippee!

I've been reeking of garlic (and, embarrassingly, sweat) all morning and lolling around in bed shamelessly avoiding uni obligations. House is a dumpster. Well, I'm done with being gross now... time to start with the mountain of chores to bring this place back to sanity.

I do not know what I want for dinner. Sorely tempted to load a baked potato up to fuck and just eat that

Yet another wave.

Also got into a barking contest apparently with an elderly St. Bernard doggo. This thing was huuge. They're gentle giants but I lost that one had to yield.

Once a little sugar ant made up his mind to roam -

To fare away far away, far away from home.

He had eaten all his breakfast, and he had his Ma's consent

To see what he should chance to see; and here's the way he went -

Up and down a fern frond, round and round a stone,

Down a gloomy gully where he loathed to be alone,

Up a mighty mountain range, seven inches high,

Through the fearful forest grass that nearly hid the sky,

Out along a bracken bridge, bending in the moss,

Till he reached a dreadful desert that was feet and feet across.

'Twas a dry, deserted desert, and a trackless land to tread,

He wished that he was home again and tucked-up tight in bed.

His little legs were wobbly, his strength was nearly spent,

And so he turned around again and here's the way he went -

Back away from desert lands, feet and feet across,

Back along the bracken bridge bending in the moss,

Through the fearful forest grass, shutting out the sky,

Up a mighty mountain range seven inches high,

Down a gloomy gully, where he loathed to be alone,

Up and down a fern frond and round and round a stone.

A dreary ant, a weary ant, resolved no more to roam,

He staggered up the garden path and popped back home.

First! Bite me.

I sat through two hour long meetings today so I think I can take 6 hours sick leave instead of 8

Jesus christ, giveacrap just keep digging that hole.

• failed delivery due to shitty delivery company - i bring it to their attention - they resend with same company and driver. Rinse and repeat six friggin' times
• I look up our order history and realise this shit has been going on with every single order for the past year. F this. I cancel everything. Ain't got time for that shit. Especially since the guys who deliver my cat litter do tp now.
• Leave a review on productreview under the usual nick telling them they used to be great, but now they're not and they need to stop using the cheapest, shittiest couriers and callcentres they can get their hands on, and they've lost a loyal customer.
• This

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  from their staff doesn't pm me on productreview, but instead runs my nick through their database, matches my email and emails me directly asking 'did you leave this review?' Not looking to resolve the issues or regain a customer, nope, just wants the bad pr to go away.

He's about to become extremely fucking acquainted with the word 'inappropriate'

The sun rose today.

I've completed day three of three after-work outtings in a row. Tonight was Thai boat noodles and an old colleague I hadn't seen in six months.

Do these work?

Oh fuck me.

I tried to book some leave for after the moratorium - we’ve got a brief hold on leave requests for everyone because new stuff coming through the pipeline etc - and the new system to book it is a fucking nightmare.

I need a break and I can’t even organise one

Testing video

Can you let me know if this works?

Edit: looks like I can’t find a way to load it up on my iPhone in any browser or my wefwef voyager app.

Works on desktop though.

Today’s shit

The sun set.

I need an update of why the undies were in the blender please @Catfish@aussie.zone.

Fucking youtube, I click on one or two wrong videos and suddenly its hater content again. "Why women ruined women by women" narrated by AI.

Questions: If I wanted to post a video I've made but it won't upload because it says "image too large" What does that mean? Is it my phone or lemmy? Is it too high resolution? How do I fix it. It's 24 seconds long. I have a Samsung A21s. So many questions. Not important. Just adding to my list of tech achievements.

Oh crap.

They’re closing down Rivers in April.

Just heard on the radio.

:(

2 months after creating a kids account so my daughter can listen to Taylor Swift non-stop. My YouTube music algorithm is finally producing songs that I like, not neverending Taylor Swift.

Today was a gloriously gross indulgent write-off (terrible for me eyes and body), but at least I did manage to make dinner and deal with the Doom Pile of Dishes. I tried eating rice with a fork to be silly and still found it incomprehensible so I googled "why do white people eat rice with a fork". Apparently because it is just a starch to eat with other dry things you need a fork for: it is like a crumbly potato. Cool. Well, I'm still going to stick with a spoon anyway...