Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 2 July 2025

Party preparations have begun

wtf is that thing in the corner stab it.
- 🤣
- Giant pez dispenser. Young people nowadays.
Looks awesome!
Amazing!!! Have the most fun!
It looks fun 😃
Your outfit better have enough bling to justify those lights
- That’s a great point, however I’m just a set designer and lighting tech for the festivities.
So cool! Can I ask where the lights are from?
- Sure. It’s just two lights. The LED ”neon”sign is off Etsy and there is a white pin spot on the disco ball from DJ City (various locations in Melbourne)
That's quite a room (I have not kept up with what you're doing tonight at all).

Advanced Tribbles?

Perfect little furry buttons! Argh!
For a moment there I was thinking lazy cats.
They are such sweeties 💓

Unfucking things that are now fucked, that you tried to keep unfucked, is fucked.

It's only 8:15am :(

So well put, I am very familiar with this feeling. Good luck.
That's quite a start to the day. I hope things work out
Good luck man ❤️
🤝
Hang in there

A Canadian celebration breakfast put on by young Mr Seagoon , we had pancakes and maples syrup and fresh coffee. Tonight it will ne Canadian mac n cheese. With crumbled crisps baked on top. It's a Canadian thing.

Then a walk n on the dog beach with Miss Seagoon and Bear the Irish terrier. I picked up ten new kinds of shells.

here is Miss Seagoon and Bear

then shopping in the city, a quick bite and we went to Clock museum, which was a weird place.

Now home for a few days while the big storm blows through.😊

I love the young Seagoons so much 🥹

What a wholesome day, I am so happy that you're getting this time with them. What made the clock museum weird?
Enjoy the downtime!
- to be surrounded by so many weird looking clocks , many ticking, chiming was just weird
Naw. They love you too!
Can you please please please try the Bluff oysters and get back to us.
This is great thanks!
Loving that beach view!

At my co-working space they do a free breakfast on Wednesdays - you best believe I loaded up my plate. There was waffles with chocolate sauce, English muffins with ham and cheese, croissants, yoghurt with fruit, donuts, I got it all. Food coma incoming. And I brought my own lunch too.

A little bit in the pockets for ron.
I wish that were me
Line your handbag with tinfoil
That sounds bloody delicious, good for you!! Were the waffles good? Any free breakfast is good though!

Got an invite to weekly catchup with operations manager.

The deal is sealed 🎉🎉🎉

Is that good news?
- Yep. I now report to the douche managers boss.

"I'm walking on Sunshine, wooo ohhh ohh".

Fuck you shitty manager.

There's cracks in the foundations of my mind
\ Now every structure is compromised
\ And I lie and say I'm alright
\ But my can of worms has snakes inside
\ So I keep the lid closed
\ And seal my lips so
\ So my loved ones do not know
\ I'll be the keeper of their happiness
\ And prolong their blissful ignorance
\ Of the cracks in the foundations of my mind

♥️ oof I know this
- It's not rude! It's beautiful! Thank you for sharing, truly and sincerely! Big hugs and good vibes! 💜💜💜
There’s a crack in everything
It’s where the light gets in
- Thank you 💜💜 that's a profound perspective shift 💜💜

I saw a fox just before.

I'm worried that by leaving food for the strays overnight that I've put them in danger....

I've had to accept that I can only really give these guys a helping hand. Still trying to find a rescue to take them, feeding them everyday.

I can't really do much more. I can trap them and get them spayed and vaccinated but they're still pretty much in danger 24/7.

I've gotten way too attached.

Tough pill to swallow.

it's like having kids, you have to trust that they can look after themselves
I have seen one of my cats successfully go on the offensive on a fox. They aren’t as helpless as you might think.

Convinced YL to spend the weekend at Nana's house. How did I do that you ask? Dad wants to day drink in the nude and that's a bit hard with you here 🙂

Now that’s a LifeProTip I can use

I put on a goosebumps 90s episode last night to watch with little one and man the 90s melancholy/nostalgia/wistfulness hit me so hard. Oh to be able to go back to that time.

Oh a side note, I love how Slappy scares my 9 year old. She talks tough about not being scared of anything, but as soon as Slappy moves his head she's clinging to me like she's about to fall off a mountain lol.

Fair call, Slappy is scary as hell!
- They're releasing a new dummy based on the OG book Slappy (I think). Definitely adding it to my collection.

Before the adhd meds, I washed dishes in a Cafe and was bad at it.
Post adhd meds and with the help of a friend to get my foot in the door, I run a team of IT professionals.
That big of a difference.
- Wow. That's a really big difference. Good on you.
  I'll get onto it. Hopefully there's something out there that's not going to kill my heart and worsen my anxiety.

In the city this morning. It's damp.

And far too many people seem to think that their down puffer jackets are waterproof. Nope, you're going to be cold and wet.

Well, I asked for more field work, and while I was out onto one site I got called up to go to two more, in the rain and cold and everything. But it helped; I feel heaps better today despite some challenging people to deal with (not colleagues). Needed to get oot and aboot!

Gonna go in tomorrow and probably work a full day - heading out midday with the team for an industry meeting/conference thing. Earning that extra money as much as I can. Lord knows I need it. Psych appt got moved to tomorrow so I'll be budgeting carefully until next Friday evening... Need to reschedule dentist again...

Now what to do at home? Maybe some long overdue journalling. Still getting used to not having this big acute deadline hanging over my head ☺️ might also watch an Ang Lee classic, Eat Drink Man Woman.

Any shows to watch?
- I'm halfway through Eat Drunk Man Woman. It's a really wonderful snapshot of Asian family dynamics and life in Taiwan in the 90s, incredibly engaging. Also, the FOOD PORN holy sheeeeeit

It's a crumpet kinda morning

Groceries done. Time to plonk on my couch and not leave home again. Miserable day out here

Left my goddamn blue cheese at aldi 😭
- Time to go back.

Think I'm going to try and cook a one pan dumpling dish that keeps coming up on my Instagram for dins tonight, seems like it'll be a great night to try out a creamy curry dumpling dish!

Picked up a friend from the Austin Repat today. The place is a time warp. So run down, I’m surprised it’s still useable at all. Desperately in need of a major refurbishment.

So windy here.

Furbaby had a cuddle, napped, then has been woken for dinner and meds. I hope she’s feeling a bit better. ::: spoiler spoiler I’m dropping the Osmolax down and starting to give her probiotics in the hope that helps her tummy. Maybe even try a little psyllium husk instead. :::

Also I’m glad you guys are around. You’re good people.

I can see the rain outside and I'm glad I stayed home. The other woman in my team got sick from being in the cold and rain in this place just last week and everyone has gone back in similar conditions.

I'm using today as an open day to work on things I've been meaning to before other demands pulled me in other directions.

Grump my order was for 2 packages each containing 2, not 1 pack of 2. Let us see how this complaint goes...

Well that was quick. now do I reorder to complete the set or not trust the same thing to not happen again?

My lost Bunnings order has finally made it to me 🥳 I can now put my house number on the letterbox, finally.

One of my apps seems to think I’m going to the Cheesecake Shop every time I go to the gym. I wish, app, I wish (okay probably not).

I hear the kids call ass cake these days so if you're doing squats you could be going to the cake shop.

It is so miserable and grey and soggy. Have to have the lights on kinda day, because not enough sun.

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Hmmmm I have a health and well-being day off work today. What would chef recommend? (It doesn't need to be healthy)
- I think you deserve a being (who may or may not be well)
- 🍟🍿🥨🍘🥟🍻🥔
All the junk food in the world, cravings!
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Sky pretty

I've created a kind of cheat sheet for uni with references to advice I've read, teaching theories etc. I was using a google sheets spreadsheet for it but dot points and images aren't formatting properly for my liking.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a cloud-based note taking option? I am about to try OneNote but thought Id see if there are other options too.

Obsidian, notesnook. There a few lemmy groups that are pretty helpful with anti google / Microsoft questions.
- Will take a look. Thank you.
- Second obsidian. I pay for their sync service which is a small price to pay for a great product imho
I've tried Joplin and it has been a pretty good Evernote replacement. You use your own cloud storage, like onedrive, to store your notes, so you don't have to worry about storage restrictions like what happened to Evernote
Definitely check out notion, it should be absolutely perfect for your use case.
But if privacy becomes a key requirement, you can try obsidian.
I did this with OneNote. I have different sections for references, behaviour management, teaching ideas for different subjects, feedback given.
- It's actually working out quite well for me. At least so far. I'll stick with it and see how it goes.
  Having it on my phone is also helpful. Especially when I do placements and need to think up quick games or just reminders about techniques and strategies I will no doubt forget in the moment.

power is browning out from storm

good night, sweet dreams , love you all

I kept hearing this noise at night and I thought it was the sound of some electrical thing outside. I have confirmed it's a possum. Sounds like me screaming with no high pitched noise.

My dad was great for putting up a pergola outside, but the possums love running up it.

windy, very very windy here, but that should be good for shell collecting on Fri/Sat 😊

Okay, HOLY SHIT I was not expecting that crazy development in Eat Drink Man Woman. What the heck! You want to laugh, but you also want to cry... my heart. There's so, so many layers at the end of it all. I'm really glad I watched this film. It was truly masterful. A worthwhile journey. And can I just say again, the food porn...