Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday 20th February 2025

SETTLEMENT COMPLETED

I fucking now own a house

kermit arms

Welcome to the club. Get reading to spend whatever is left of your savings at bunnings Edit: OH! And sorry, just a heads up. At least 2 of the following will fail in the next 12 months. No your house is not cursed. No one can explain WHY it happens: Hotplates, Hot water unit, Oven, Dishwasher, or a shower leak.
- Bunnings is a danger, but I'll be walking distance to Poynton's which could be worse 😝
- in our case it was the goddamn extractor fan for the kitchen and the ducted heating flame sensor.
- Ha! Dishwasher (leaked and went kaput) and shower leaks here
HUZZAHHHHHH!!! Congratulations!!!!
Congrats! All that stress and anxiety over the process has paid off.
Congratulations!!
Congrats 🎉🥂🍾
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
Buy a plunger (if you don't have one).
- We do, but there are better ones
Congrats! When do you move in?
- Next Thurs for the truck
Congrats!!! I'm at the other end of the process and I'm about to have my first meeting with my mortgage broker so I'm terrified.
- So much paperwork! Watch out for car spaces being on a second title.
Congratz!
🥳
Party time and celebrations!
I think it’s time for a big feast!
ALL THE CELEBRATING 🎉🎈🥳
WAHOOO!!!
Congrats!!!!
like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4810hS8weQ
congrats 🙂
Woo! 🏡🎉
Woohoo! 🥂🍾

Hi everyone, long time no see :-)

I've been absent for a bit - I think I crashed a bit after Covid, but I am alive and well and getting back on track.

It's good to hear from you! I was worried you'd joined the many who have departed for one reason or another. I hope you're able to take things easy for a while.
- It was a bit weird - I thought I was better, but I just couldn't be bothered doing anything. Then I actually got better and realised I hadn't actually been completely well after all! A bit like having a dream that you woke up, and then actually waking up.
Welcome back!
Welcome hooome!
Good to see you back again!
- Thank you. It is nice to know I've been missed 🙂
🥰💋
🥂
It's good to hear from you!
Welcome back!
Great to see you back!
yay, happy to see you again 😘 good to hear you are getting better
Yaaaay! ✋🏼

Alright references are about to be completed.

🎶Re-sig-nation time, COME ON!

🎵do do do-do-do

🎶It's time for a resignation!

Are you resigned to your fate?
Yay, you're nearly there!
Come onnnnnnnnnn!!! My fingers, toes and eyes are crossed here!!!
🎶 so shove your bad times and your workload too🖕🎶
Congratulations!! I'm waiting for my offer shortly as well. Referees did their bit yesterday.
Woop woop!!
gonna do it to their face? Or send an email and wait for them to come over?
- To their face. My old manager is still here and I would prefer to speak to her in person.
Good luck. 🤞
That's awesome. It's going to feel so satisfying

Got some crap news last night. ::: spoiler Very Sad don't read if your not up to it The animal rescue reached out to us the other week to ask if we'd noticed anything wrong with Jill (the rescue kitten). Apparently she had some balance issues or trouble using a back leg. We were sort of steeling ourselves that she might come back to us (we told them if she had any trouble finding a home she was always welcome with us.) They were talking her to the vet to get checked over.

We hadn't heard anything so followed up yesterday only to find she didnt make it. She passed shortly after we spoke to them the other week. They dont know exactly what was wrong, but she apparently had some issues. We are shattered. She wasnt even our cat but..... fuck man. just.... fuck. :::

Oh that is so sad. Many many hugs. I've been watching their lists waiting for her to pop up! But she had warmth, comfort, food and peace which she would not have had without you.
- same! I even set up a damn facebook again. I was so excited seeing those guys adopted last week but was starting to get a bit worried. I thought maybe they'd renamed her or something. but yeah. Guess we were her last home.
You gave her the best you could mate. I'm sorry to hear what's happened ❤️
Sorry to hear that 🫂
So sorry. Such a massive hurt when you try to do the right thing and it still goes pear-shaped. Hugs for all concerned.
Oh man. Should not have read. Much sympathy 🖤
That's so sad. I'm so sorry.
I’m sorry. You did the best you could. You took her in and kept her safe, gave her a chance she wouldn’t have otherwise had. She passed warm and safe while being cared for.

I love when the government calls on a private number and asks me to confirm my name, DOB, address, etc. "Absolutely not, I have no way of confirming who you are". They seem shaken by the response. Given their atrocious security protocol there's no way I'm giving a private number any of that info.

We recently had to do this as part of a campaign. First thing I would say to the person on the other side 'If you're not comfortable confirming this, please email the address provided with the correspondence'.
I completed all my calls in about 15 minutes and fobbed the work onto the team that was monitoring the inbox.
Such a stupid way of doing things

::: spoiler kinda sad Geoffrey the dog update but cute pic of dogs enclosed He has more purple lumps. He has also lost quite a bit of weight and isn't eating much. Also also vomiting bile. Lacks energy. His liver function wasn't too good a couple of weeks ago.

The vet were going to do surgery today to remove the lumps, but the last lump was quite expensive to remove. Multiply that amount by eight lumps and my aunt could not afford it.

So they called my aunt and they didn't do the surgery because they think something underlying is going on. He will be getting a blood test today and then an ultrasound when the consultant can come come in.

That's him on the right with my aunt's other dog

:::

He looks like a right sweetheart, hopefully the tests give some answers!
Oh Geoffrey ❤️

I got a bit more news. For the morbidly curious I guess. ::: spoiler More Sad Stuff turns out she had too many genetic faults, Nothing anyone could have done. She wasnt in pain. Thank Christ. I was terrified her previous owner had abused her or we'd failed her in some way. The rescue wont tell us what the vet bill costs so they are just getting a donation in her memory. :::

I'm glad you know the cause and know that you did your best for the little soul.
- yeah I makes it a lot more tolerable that she always had a finite amount of time and all that could be done was done. makes the time we spent all the more precious.
Sounds like you gave a kitty with a pre-set bad life a few moments of kindness.
- Mmmm. Wish we coulda done more. Guess it just proves how short life can be.
That’s rough. Poor little girl. At least she was receiving care and indoors. For the short time she had she was fed and loved
- Oh yeah in her final days she was surrounded by love and fellow kittens. Lets be real we'd all be so lucky to leave this earth in the same fashion
<3
You absolutely did the best you could for that poor soul. Bless you and MrsBreak and the rescue place for giving these suffering little beings some joy and love in their short lives. It's a true mark of human decency

Sitting in a new area at work and people are super friendly.

My usual grumpy self is suffering silently but somehow enjoying this.

"Have a nice day"
"Don't tell me what to do!"
- Hahaha.
- Trying very hard to keep my inner Larry David in check
Haha it can be so jarring sitting among friendly happy people when internally i'm all 'old man yells at cloud' :D
- Seriously.
  Not everything is 'amazing', 'wonderful' or 'fantastic'.

Had a long day so broke my 2025 rule of no grog on a weeknight and shouted myself a little wine and hour looking at the waves. Such a beautiful evening

ooh can you get a piccy of the snake? Sounds exotic.

Morning y’all

Enjoy your last sub-25C day for a while! 🌞

I like the heat but this summer's been a bit much. It's been nice to have a short reprieve.
- Yet another weekend sat cocooned at home. I ain't going to the farmers market even. Sat night looks gross....
  Next wed and Thurs looking warm too. Ah well, have loved this weather while I could enjoy it. Not too much longer til it gets to the best time of the year aka my Autumn
I wish I rode to work more this week but I just felt a but uuugh. I'll need to make sure I'm ready on Monday

Thank you Melb for posting today's thread. 😘

Good night everyone, sweet dreams

Sup insomnia gang 🛏️

I'm personally part of the waking up in the middle of the night gang 🤟
Sup

Tonight's wave with a bonus drop on the lens.

Completely empty beach again.

that's really awesome 🙂

Now that it's after lunch, it would appear everyone had fucked off for the day.

I might join them.

as in there is currently a fuck off in your office? How would one win that?
- Ironically by finishing last would be my guess.
- You win by not participating. That way you're never done.
  In reality just seems that my team left and are nowhere to be found.

The toilet paper nest is a platform for attacks lol

- Thankfully they were trimmed very recently. But the teef do much more damage lol

Made it down the bellarine today. Had a subsurface leak last Monday (blehg) so all the watering was off. Good thing I did go as the chillies were looking a bit sad. But interestingly the patio flowers didn't flinch.

Was expecting worse than that.

I have rediscovered Legend from 1985. Ridley Scott, Tom Cruise, Tim Curry, and an unimaginable quantity of glitter thrown at wind machines. 3/5 unicorn farts

Alrighty. The 2nd referee was just over to catch up and has completed his part of the form.

Let's see what happens. I was worried that letting him use my computer to do the reference check might put up some red flags but we'll see what happens.

Unless there's more on the backend, these forms seem pretty simple. There seems to be little checking them from an end user standpoint.
- That's what I thought. But apparently referoo tracks IP's?!?!
  We'll see what happens.

I went to a talk about the food and beverage industry this morning. The topic of these things is always AI, and the people who hype it the most feel like people who understand it the least.

There was one example that was quite useful, but it technically falls under machine learning. However, a lot of machine learning has been rebranded as AI because that's the hot thing at the moment.

I heard someone describing a cars parallel park assist as ‘AI parking’. Er no. It’s just the sensors and regular software. As per Arthur c Clark, ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’. Calling anything with software in it AI is the current magic trend.
- 2 + 2 is 4
  Minus 1, that's 3 quick ~~mafs~~ AI
- I think it's mostly people who don't know what they're talking about and a few people working in the industry using the current trendy language so they can get funding
Sometimes it is just good old software programming. Nothing that learns anything, but still they call it AI.
- If something works it must be AI, not a developer making something well and accounting for every use case

I can’t settle to work this morning

I'm feeling HYPER so just wanna run laps around the warehouse... except I'm sitting at my desk, trying to keep my inbox under control.

Changing guitar strings around Gibson is fraught with danger for everyone involved

Ha! Try lacing a corset.
- that's what hooks and eyes are for

I have been touched by the sun, also, it's generally not a good idea to bring crabs home.

day out looking at houses and walking on the beach has been attained

😺
- I took photos
  there was a Great Egret near the yacht club,
  
  and some burrows on the beach where crabs live
  and a boring pic of stripes

Damn, I thought I had less work to do today but found a box of stuff I need to get through, maybe that's a tomorrow job.

Hide it in the compactus and hope the Grue is hungry
- I hid it in my car to take to my 2nd worksite so no one will be any wiser!

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Servo wing ding, please.
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Put a bottle of bubbles on to chill please
- 🛁
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Sauteed snek
- Chef Snek learned to sauteed potato 🥔

Oh I moved all my meetings into a block from 11am to 2pm so I can sleep in and finish early?

Well, well, well lol

- Fuuuuuuck thaaaaaaaat lol

If my dog saw me get something from the fridge he likes, he'd do a little Irish jig but now he sits nicely like a drug detection dog.

I swear my dog knows the sound of cheese being grated. Mind you for tax time, I can make it rain (cheese) for him.
- Oh yeah. Radar ears. Drop a vegetable and it's like I'm poisoning him. Drop cheese or meat and he doesn't leave my side.

Okay so I've always had this problem with the hot water tap in the shower where if you turn it far right enough it turns on again and goes to full blast (not an analogy for conspiracy theorists, I promise). I have usually been able to turn it to just the right point to get it to stop running without starting again.

However as of the last 3 days or so the showerhead has been dripping incessantly and getting worse and worse. Right now it's a constant trickle. Even if I turn off the tap as much as possible and turn the shower head upside down. ~~I tried to turn it off completely at the mains and IT STILL WONT TURN OFF (and I can see it's my meter for sure as when I have the tap running I can see the mini meter spinning).~~ update: I was an idiot and turned the mains tap the wrong way, it took a lot of turning to go completely off but I managed to shut it down thankfully.

This is beyond an attempt to DIY fix the shower tap, right? Contact the REA asap instead? The main bother is the dripping at night as I can't sleep (E: not without turning off hot water at the mains each time). Nobody's charged me for hot water so far so that's not the issue ... It would be costing the owner a lot though I imagine

E: email sent. Making it sound as dire as possible. Basically either I have increasing dripping or no hot water. I hope they get someone in asap, but it's the same REA who didn't even respect the law and tried to arrange an inspection 2 months into a 6 month lease, so...

Definitely contact someone and don’t try to tackle it yourself (just in case). I’m no expert but there could be something wrong that could go sideways and result in difficulty turning off a strong flow
A tap shouldn't full circle like that in the first place. It's a safety hazard. You could probably DIY it, but what are you paying the bastards for?
- If it was minor it would be the kind of thing I figured would keep me on their good enough side if I fixed it myself (lease ends in mid May with potential for extension and I really do need it for just 1-2 extra months).
  But the fact that even turning off the hot water at the mains did nothing has me worried
- This is great to know. I wasn't sure it counted as urgent repair but I will definitely be making that clear to them now. The leaking is pretty bad now, I think all my tap turning has made it worse. I may have to put a towel in the bathtub to soak up the water so I can sleep at night.
  Shit timing though, idk how long to wait before getting my own plumber and trying to get LL to reimburse

Hit me with your favourite summer songs so I can make a playlist for tomorrow's ultimate Friday + beer + heat day.

Here's what I've got so far

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21nf3RzWZ3DvVqNOEEHEZj?pi=Y4OVhygtR2OZd

I found a playlist on Spotify called VB is the best beer. It's 7 hours long 😂

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5iUezri0GsosxfLKR2YiNx?pi=uYL57c0yTNqO8

You can get it listnin'
- 😂
  It's hard work hauling that slab from the car to the fridge.

Shouting “atsb report!” At the cat as he jumps over the toddler who’s decided to crawl for some reason.

Melbcat hid from me when I came back in the room after giving her meds :( She got over it quickly and is cuddling again but that’s the first time she’s ever acted scared of me. (I’ve never hurt her.)

She’s perked up a lot and seems to be feeling better on everything so I think it’s all working. It just sucks that the routine she’s currently on is full on and stressful (not helped by her refusing to eat medicated food like before).

I hope that when the antibiotics are done she starts eating her usuals in wet food again so she only has to drink one med once a day.

- Thanks. She’s definitely feeling better. She’s walking around, washing herself, curious about things and hungry for treats. Her fur looks good and her eyes more normal.
  I think she knows I would never hurt her. She’s just overwhelmed by the current hardcore meds regime. Still sucks to see her anxious.

Christ Apple got stingy with the 16e. 999, no colours no MagSafe no thanks.