Discussion Thread 🪇 Wednesday 25th June

It's warmed up to a barmy 8C here, beating the forecast high of 7C. Luckily I have a roaring fire and I am toasty.

That looks lovely, enjoy!

My manager is giving me the silent treatment.

Jesus christ lol

I've got a meeting with the CEO this afternoon to have a casual chat. A meeting I requested. So let's see how this plays out.

I resigned from a job yonks ago and the whole senior leadership team of the not-particularly-big org gave me the silent treatment for my whole notice period. I was pretty junior and they'd been treating me like shit, it can't have been surprising that I was leaving. Such strange people. It was very primary school.
Good luck with the meeting! And with the job hunting!
omg, how old are these people?
- I'm gonna guess no older than 12
  Actually, my 12 year old cousin has more maturity than that
  So lower it to 7 or 8
  I don't get how adults can be so catty.
I can't understand people like that and how they even end up as managers. Such shitty behaviour. Hope your casual chat goes well!
It's crazy your immediate manager would do that. I hope something comes around for you soon.
How did it go?

I got 2 callbacks from applications I put in yesterday!

Fuck yeah.

yay 😊
Go you!
Oohh that’s good news!
Hell yeah! Simon is a wanted man! How did the CEO chat go?
- It was OK. He's a nice guy but he's too far up to relate to what's happening in middle management.
  We'll see how these interviews pan out.
  I really didn't want to start another goddamn probation but here we are.
Nice!

Fire drill! Yay paid time off work

drill is sad :(

I've achieved my dream finally.

Playing drums to my own guitar tracks.

I can't explain how fucking cool this is, even as a fairly shit drummer lol

My advice is more cowbell. It's not great advice though.
Hey good on you! You don't have to be John Bonham to enjoy making music.

Went into Aldi and forgot to buy apple strudel. The shame! The shame!

Argh, supervisor has already done a very quick review of thesis. I'm way too brain dead to look at it today and take on the emotional damage - I'm going to go to bed early tonight and have another crack tomorrow morning before prepping for the preso in the afternoon. Apparently I still do need to add more references and beef up the discussion but I also kind of don't wannaaaaaa. I'm so done with reading dense academic articles about stuff I don't really care that much about...

But if you turn it over, what is on the other side?
- apple turnover
- More apple
Apple turnovers are my fav apple dessert. Must be made with granny smith apples with a slight crunch. Yum.

I can feel the freezing air coming through the window of my home office. It's very gentle but it's there. I think it's more obvious today because of how cold it is and maybe the direction of the wind is the right angle of south as this is a south-facing room. Must counteract with heating ($$$).

I decided to take a deep breath, steel myself and have a look through my supervisor's revision - half the intro was basically rewritten but it does at least flow better and the points made aren't substantially different. The discussion needs a big boost though. It's doable. But I'm leaving it to tomorrow. For now, I am going to have a nice hot dinner of paratha and some super spicy prawn curry, have a hot shower, and then burrow in bed to do some nyt word puzzles with brown noise until I fall asleep.

Tomorrow's game plan is 1. Finalise my slides with the improved logic flow from thesis; 2. Rehearse slides to make sure I'm not way over time; 3. Do some writing and reading if I have time; 4. Presentation of doom; 5. Continue writing

There's some real gremlins in my brain playing the old classics on repeat from bad academic experiences of the past but I ain't giving them a voice today. There's work to be done once this is all over, for sure.

Deadline is technically Monday but supervisor also thinks I can get this across the line before COB Friday so we're gonna fucking do it and I can truly relax on the weekend

sounds like your supervisor is on your side 😊

Alarm! Alarm! Nothing on Vic Emergency. No fucking clue, upsetting everybody

it was Seagoon burning the onions again

Really odd dreams the last few nights. Only remembering snippets.

The narratives are all over the place. Probably lines up with the resensitisation of my nervous system but still.

Edit: one of them was going to feed the strays but everything was different and it turned out it was 7am but the usual 4pm. Weird.

Ah bugger, forgot my lunch in the hustle of getting the kids ready for school 😕 AND missed the bus 🙄

First time ever YL left the house and then ran back in. Why. Because she forgot her glasses which she wears permanently. Literally can't see without them.

Got my first offering from the local wild magpies today in the form of a finger lime.

Looking for any tips on how to teach them what credit cards look like and why they're a better offering. Should I pretend to eat a credit card next time they're here or something?

They might do better with diamonds. They're meant to like shiny things, it's just convincing them to share nicely.
- Diamonds are worthless though when you try and resell, you only are offered the weight in gold of the ring they're on. First hand experience.
  So I'd need to train them to pull off the worlds greatest diamond heist of all time to steal an actually rare one. Any tips on that?
teach them what $2 coin or bank notes look like 👍
- Even I don't know what those look like anymore
Finger lime😃 I love those things! Maybe I can teach corvids in my area to bring me some 🤔
Eat oyster
- I'd prefer yours to those delivered by magpies, despite the Santa debacle.

My plans of working next to the fireplace got nixed.

Due to unforseen circumstances I'm in a local office (that I can drive to) and two managers owe me huge favours.

At least it's warm here.

Between the weather and not nearly enough sleep I'm completely phoning it in today. Fuck me I don't know why they insist on cracking the window open slightly while having the reverse cycle on in the office, I get that it's stuffy but this is really defeating the purpose

Stops the windows from fogging up.

Pray for me this afternoon when I'm outside.

Loads I could be doing at work but my brain Just. Doesn’t. Want. To.

Felt so cranky that I even went and sat in my car in my lunchbreak so that no one could talk to me.

Pretty sure it’s the weather’s fault! Might go for a swim tonight and see if that cheers me up at all.

I feel that. Sometimes you feel like there's so much you should be doing that you do nothing. Or you end up working on the least important thing. Or you're getting things done but it doesn't feel like you're getting anything done.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't studying and could go home like the rest of my family and just relax. I just want to get this shit done and relax for two weeks.

The course I'm doing is known for being "easy" academically, but I'm on track to failing a subject unless I get 85% in one of the assessments. I'm submitting everything late, if at all.

I guess there's no point in worrying now, and I just have to power through and cross the failing bridge when I come to it.

You are going to pass because you are intelligent , hard working and you want this.
I remember when I was at uni studying chinese language and art at night , I loved it and was working hard and doing well . Then the fam started booking fam events on the nights when I had school and would tell me to drop classes. I said no and the only one backing me up was miss seagoon who was here on holiday. I went to classes.
Why would they even do that?
- Thanks Seagoon, I hope so.
  That would've been frustrating to deal with. I'm glad you went to those classes :)
Tip: Apply for extensions before the due date.
- I've gotten the maximum extensions already 😬

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Can I please have a filo pastry cheese and spinach pie, artfully folded like the finest fitted double sheet?
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berry pie thank you very much
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Apple Strudel, please!
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Hail! So much excitement today.

I don't want to cook. Venturing into the wet ... in my Purple Wooly Cape!

I’m honestly exhausted. I think it’s bedtime

Started making dinner at 7pm, bad idea. Just sat down after getting through dish mountain and cleaning up around the place. I made chicken katsu curry for the first time, will be adding that to my stale dinner rotation.

Lattouf v ABC judgment this morning at 10:15. Unfortunately while ABC has come out of this looking terrible, I suspect they are probably right to be feeling a little less nervous at the outcome than Antoinette Lattouf.

Wow, almost a clean sweep in her favour.

I’m so tired. Baby is still crying at night. I’ve ordered some more d mannose in the hope it might flush out her little bladder.

Ps. There’s apparently a high tide warning for Melbourne this morning so people in places like Port Phillip or coastal might want to be careful

is it possible it's not physical distress, but Cat Things? Misha went nuts last night, the weather had her all hepped up and then she wandered around the house loudly voicing her dissatisfaction for a couple hours. Unfortunately she uses the same call for genuine distress, tantrums and boredom
- I agree. Windy weather like drives cats crazy. It's all the movement of leaves and all the odd noises.
- My Pepper was especially spicy last night too. Took it out on the other cats.
- No, this is extremely out of character for her, often associated with the litterbox, and has been going for at least a week or two. She’s a very quiet stoic cat who barely ever made a squeak and now she sounds distraught.

It is a porridge morning

off to Bogong to buy some hiking boots.

stay warm guys😊

What did you end up getting?

just a heads up for those into That Sort of Thing: Bunnings are tossing out the TPlink p100 and P150 smart sockets for 16 each, and yes they are fully compatible with home assistant and can run offline once you've set them up.

Just don't try to find them at the moorabbins bunnings, someone already cleared them out.

cough.

I just picked up a couple of these myself. The 4 pack is $60, so a little cheaper again if you know you'll use them.
- 59 to be megaprecise, and I nabbed one of tohse too. They're only the 100s though, so no usage monitoring (I specifically got some 150s for stuff in the server rack)
  gonna tie some 100s into leakage sensor macros on HA and have me some fun :)

No one in my team was in the office today so I had a sneaky extended lunch break to pick up my Rock Pi. I might try Home Assistant on it if there's a working image.

weather took me by surprise, had the wrong coat on, no hat , no gloves, thankfully I had on a big wool scarf

shopping went well, I got some boots that are pretty roomy so should be good for hiking in nz👍

( new make up palette did not work out, the silver eyeshadow looked so shiny and bright and light, put it on and it was a dull grey that really accentuated the dark rings under my eyes 😵‍💫)

and today I saw a gentleman wearing a bowler hat and a bespoke english cut suit

I own a bowler hat. I've never worn it but I have one.
Glad your outing was successful 🙂
- That is cool. 😊

Before Sunset thoughts: ahhhhhhhhhh

That was a nice little distraction.

4/5 Hobbits.

they are nice movies 😊

Taking my books back to the library. I may spend the afternoon reading on the sofa

That sounds like a perfect rainy afternoon!

Goodnight everyone, I'm tired as. Gonna do my usual and fall asleep now and wake up in the early hours..

not too warm here, brr

Had ticket inspectors on the tram do our tickets, get off at Anzac station, then a new crew of em got on at the next stop 🤣 be careful on st Kilda Rd today guys!

I watch and read a lot of essays and pods and stuff about movie and tv and one thing I notice is that writers like to effusively write about all the influences and all the references to other works, books and movies and art, in a movie or show.

I would love to sit and discuss with an average real person who doesn't make tv or movies and we can find all the artistic and literary references they have spoken or written that day in the course of their everyday life.

because art is every where and in everyone's everyday lives, they just forgot

The tissue box next to me has a printed marble pattern on it. Marble has been used to beautify objects and spaces for thousands of years. It’s expensive so it’s used by the wealthy and thus associated with luxury. The echos of that art have traversed thousands of years to be printed on a tissue box.