Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 22 February 2025

today i can afford subway with extras because i am doing overtime on a saturday

I'm back.

It was a very nice house and the area is quiet and very safe. People have garden decorations in their front yards! That stuff would get stolen in a day here. 5 minute walk to the beach . 🙂

only 3 other people were looking and one of them left very quickly, so 2 other people 🤞

Now I'm off to to typo to get some big diaries and the chem to get lip balm. I have burnt lips 🥺

I haven't been out looking at houses for sale in about 30 years. Back then it was primarily newspaper listings of open house times with minimal details and no pictures. The whole process has changed a lot since then.

Zonk.

That is all.

Edit: I just realised Gibson's "welcome home" day and my 10 year sober anniversary are the same day!!!

That's a great alignment of special occasions

I dug a hole :)

For the rain gauge post.

I'm very proud of myself.

70cm, so was paranoid was gonna hit a pipe as it's close to the tank / pump.

Interesting thing was seeing the soil horizons. They were textbook all there.

And once again the cheapo manual auger is useful.

Nice one Dale :)

Good news: the fly that was buzzing around the room is dead.

Bad news: it drowned in my cup of tea.

extra protein

Okely dokely. I'm off to see houses.

laters dudes .😘😘😘

Beach beach beach (after I get my kitchen cleaned...) you can do this oldgreeeeeeg

it's windy down the beach today but not too hot yet 🙂
- Yep. Had a nice cool swim but then got a bit sandblasted. Still good tho

Saturday. Laundry done and out on line - nearly ready to take in again. Shopping still to do. Will indulge in a banh mi from my local bakery on the way home. On second thoughts, shopping can be tomorrow. Banh mi is a must though. They've recently added a roasted mushroom one to their line up. It's yummmmmm.

On another note, this hot weather has magically removed 5 kilos of weight from my person.

That’d put a horse to shame.
- The ol' pickle tree just won't quit this year
nice 🤤

Spent three and hours on the beach this morning - feeling properly tired now! Love that feeling!

Cool. 🙂 The beach definitely invigorates the soul while tiring the body. It's a good feeling.

I've never played a tomb raider game. I'm playing the playstation one.

It's fucking amazing!!!

Edit: Goodnight all

I’m a fan!
- I can't believe how underrated it is! The first 15 mins are nuts!

hugs, you must have been real tired

Who the fucks hauls ass for 2 hours across town to go to a fuckin' La Porchetta? My bestie's husband, that's who.

Both the bird waters ran dry because I haven’t had the energy to go out there -_- I need to set like a weekly reminder to check it.

hugs, you are a good person
the birds are grateful for what you manage to do, they are not judgmental
I love that you do this ❤️
- I know, melbs is such a good person but she beats herself up that she's not perfect. ( yes, Imma talkin' bout you! )
I've been the same. I want to go fill them up but the boys will be so excited to go outside I have to wait until they're asleep

I seem to have naturally woken up at 7:30 after emerging from some strange dream I don't remember (and it took me a few minutes to work out which day of the week it was. Isn't it amazing how much has to boot up in your brain before anything makes sense?)

My phone was flat, so... I just got out of bed like a normal person and went to the shops across the road for some milk and random things. And now I'm ready for breakfast and the rest of the day. Rather than rolling out at 10am after spending forever on various dopamine hits.

I think I really need to start forcing myself to sleep without my phone. It's insane how much it can consume the start of the day and set the tone. I have a bedside clock and a Kindle, that should be enough...

Our wall of east facing windows gives a lovely view but on days like today it's like having a full wall radiator on full blast. I closed the blinds so I'm no longer being broiled alive, but unfortunately that also means that instead of a nice view over the Dandenongs all I can see outside is passing traffic.

wait wdym there’s no cool change tonight

Nah dawg. Tomorrow evening.
Stay strong until then.
Was out for dinner tonight and was so disappointed when we exited the restaurant at about 10:30pm. It was still so hot outside. 30C at 11pm still!
Shit's crazy out there.

What in the hot windy sunny rain is going on outside.

Making me moist
- steamy

Marketplace sales back on track today - two boxes of tools gone (and I was able to fit them in my garden cart to move them to the front of the house without killing myself). A few legit seeming offers on another item. But no interest on the stupidly heavy hunk of iron drill press so far.

In other good news I have realised I still have two hard rubbish pickups available to me, and get another two next financial year. So stuff I can't sell/give away I can still get rid of fairly easily. Operation clean-up-before-I-move as going very well.

Edit: other item also sold - my first postal sale over Marketplace. Probably because I usually sell big things And because I am not willing to cut the items to postable size with a hacksaw.

I had someone come by this morning. Large sale item + small car = no sale. :(
I'm glad the postal sale worked out. That's one of the typical ways scammers try get people, so it's good they were genuine
- There is always still a risk they will try to claim a package didn't arrive and get PayPal to refund, but with postage tracking it would be unlikely to be successful. The scammers generally try to push you into some dodgy or new payment system and then bamboozle you with fake emails, refunds and paying money to "release funds". They generally sound so ridiculous I am amazed people fall for them, but obviously lots of people do.
  Overall I think the majority of people are pretty honest, but unfortunately the dodgy people have a disproportionate impact because they are playing a "numbers game" and contact a lot of people. The majority of the poor experiences when buying and selling are more the result of poor communication and mismatched expectations. I think that's one of the things that was good when eBay was the main selling system - they managed the whole process and made sure everything ran in a consistent and orderly way. Dispirate individuals trying to work everything out is like herding cats and ends up with a lot of chaos and some people getting scratched even if no one actually starts out intending to do harm.
  Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk, I think I spend far too much time thinking about such things!

New big journal has been attained and a note book too. 🙂 This will be an art diary where i write all my ideas, write what I do, and what I need to do. Practice, learning, everything. Just everything to do with art. 🙂

🙌🏻 yay for new notebook day!!

Had to sit in the shower for a while and let the hot water run over. Pain and nausea suck. I have free time but can’t really do anything.

I’m watching paint mixing videos to rest but having seen comments on different ones saying they were fake or edited I found myself watching critically. But it seems to be legit. The colours add up. Could be helpful even though it seems asmr geared

Stupid internet making me suspicious of everything I see

Mark Carder is legit and awesome https://www.youtube.com/@DrawMixPaint
I picked up lots of good tips from his YTs
- Thanks, he looks good

Indeed.

Went for a great drive today. Tonight I'm going to go for a nostalgia vibe and watch some 80's anime.

Grass fire in Viewbank, which is getting a bit too close to home rn.

I’m not sure if it’s just me but I think Cole’s hasn’t been as generous with their fillings in their hot cross buns based on buying them last time.

I usually get the apple and cinnamon and you usually get your hands sticky from just taking out of the bag and a nice punch of sweetness with how much apple sauce they used.

Didn’t get that last time. :/

I'm going on a picnic night- going to Macbeth in the Botanic Gardens with a friend. I haven't picnicked in yonks.

So I went to fish out my picnic basket this morning, and discovered that my favourite lifter/spatula thing, that's been missing for YEARS, and which I'd given up on (assumed I must've left it somewhere) was in fact hiding in the picnic basket the whole time. This has absolutely made my day.

I've also made a Blackberry & Bay Leaf cake that smells delish, and I get to see a lovely friend, so the play could be rubbish at this point but I'm giving the experience five stars.

MrsGod: hey I will make dinner tonight if you like.

Me: awesome ! what do you feel like?

MrsGod: BBQ

Me:

Met one of the new neighbours. Evicted him from our garage 😾

a human neighbour?
- Haha! Yes

Goddamn it not even one week and the dishwasher has a problem, tripped the circuit breaker early on in a cycle and now the control board thing is stuck, no matter how long I let it sit with no power to let it rest (30 minutes no dice). It turns on but won't run. Submitted ticket but they won't do shit on the weekend. Meanwhile I don't have hot water because of the shower leak. ARGH!

Stick a bukket outside, it'll warm up. Leave plates for ants to clean.

Someone has perked up a lot and ate almost all of her supper!

Edit: She looked at and followed my finger with a movement of her head!

When melbcat is happy, the world is happy.
Just how it be.
- Bro, she is my world!

I haven’t had to use my asthma puffer in a while but something about going from hot to cold for a week, now back to hot is setting it off. Same with my hayfever.

Nostalgia film night was a bust. Been sitting in the studio all night.

Goodnight all ❤️

I moved a basket Miss Meow likes to nap in, so now she is curled up on the floor having a nap where it used to be.

My life for Aiur

a new Taitset has dropped!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uN36H35isw

Off to the market. I will be taking requests

A house for Seagoon.
- 🏡
- thank you 😭 I really need this. As much as i love Carlton it's worn me down.
Watermelon!!
- 🍉 🍉🍉🍉
Could you take my drill press down to sell for the best price you can get? Happy to exchange for magic beans.
- 🍺 sold it for beer
Lots of cleaning vinegar and a ham and cheese bun please
- 🍷 pre vinegar is the best I can do 🥐
A jam donut please
- 🧇
Dried meats please. It's always dried meats. Can I order for the next few trips in advance?
- 🐖 one pig worth of salami

Great start to the day, spiderweb right in the face. Mr Woof of course trotts happily underneath all such problems and had no idea what my problem was.

Was it an orb weaver? We had a very stubborn one that kept building webs across the front path
- It was too dark to see, but probably. Orb weavers regularly take down and rebuild their webs just to be extra tricky - I almost never run into them when I do a 4am walk, but a few hours later there seems to be more risk. With the notable exception of the time one built a web fully blocking the path which is the only exit from my property.

Dinner at Bibi Ji on Lygon tonight

Can't move, full if indian food goodness

- Everything is such a flavour explosion.
  Cannot rate it highly enough.

Does anyone here listen to The Drums? I put on 'Let's Go Surfing' before swimming lessons in the morning.

I remember hearing around the time their first album came out they learnt how to play guitar because their music just wasn't working with synths. Did they continue down the guitar path or did they go back to synths?

no idea but the surfing song is fun 🙂
Yes I was a fan of this band. Check out their second album which I really like and is perfect for summer days (Portamento). Still very guitar based.
- I'll give it a listen. I've started getting other Drums songs recommended and I've been like, 'nope, I'm sticking to the one sing I know.' But I'll branch out more

NATIONAL MARGARITA DAY 🍹

Shit. I had margaritas on Thursday
- That was just practice, obviously.
- You were an early adopter, ahead of the pack

Back from Canberra. Very interesting place to visit. Not a lot of traffic.

Just got back from shopping. Minipeelers were not happy about being rushed through the process to get home before it gets too hot. Had to be done because Miniest's shoe broke at school yesterday, Elder's shoes are getting too tight and my work boots have been falling apart on the insides for ages and I've been putting up with it because 🫰🏼💲💸Now to do laundry and flake for a bit and pretend to ignore the rest of the house work.

I want to share some channels I found with full movies but does that raise the chance that they will be noticed and taken down?

That's always a chance. Torrents or streamio has everything anyway.
Maybe just channel names and no links. Sometimes YouTube lets it happen as there's free versions of things with millions of views just sitting there
- Fair enough, the channels do seem to have been up for years.
  I’ve been going through TheArchiveMovies and another one called ThrillGore

Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

A selection of chilled fruits in season please chef. And could you please magically stock my freezer with ice cream?
- 🧊🍓🍇🍒🍉🥭🧊🍧🍨🍧🍨🍧🍨🍧🍨
Ginger ale please
- 🫚🥤
Blonde ale for me thx
- 👱🏻‍♂️🥤

I left the house to go out at 10pm for late drinks with some friends, this timing for leaving the house is unheard of these days. The non-inviters I posted about a few months back have invited me out after seeing them at a birthday today, thought I better take up the offer. I got no clues about why I was being excluded, it felt like nothing had happened today and it just picked up from where we left off the last time we all hung out. So weird.

Back from shopping and settling down. It was a lot hotter inside than I thought.

Why does Coles have to be on the other side of the shopping centre. Had to go back and forth because of cheaper beef mince that will be turned into burgers tonight pending my motivation.

Aldi didn’t seem to have dim sims anymore so I went without and got some battered fish instead.

Also picked up the Aldi snacks priced at 1.69 a box.

Tried some, seasoning and flavour is a little subtle but very crunchy though.

I know the regular shapes have been going down in quality with their seasoning too but I haven’t had those in ages.

I think for the price point at Aldi it’s ok for what it is.

Bloody Aunty again telling me to get the others to sort move things along ASAP.

Bloody hag. It’s not my responsibility, I’m not the executor of the will, you are!

Seems that YouTube has removed the mute button on mobile? I thought it was just the app but two browsers show the same.

It’s not a great pairing with their obnoxious stock music on instructional videos.

Jerks.

If you're on Android, I highly recommend patching the stock app with revanced.app
- Ah unforch I don’t have an android anymore
I think it’s been like that for awhile now.
I remember playing a YouTube video by accident and the sound went off super loud even though my phone was switched to silent, apparently it overrides it.
I could only stop or turn the volume on my phone down manually.
- They seem to want to make their service so bad it’s unusable. I don’t know why because it’s not like it’s a paid feature?
  (It better not be because that’s ridiculous.)

SHE'S ALIVE!!

I'm watching Bride of Frankenstein again.

The black and white composition and all the gothic sets are just beautiful.

4 Hobbits