Discussion Thread 🧶 Thursday 3 July 2025

This is how close I can get atm.

That tabby likes you! They're marking you!
- yup, that's a cat tail cuddle
Ooohh progress!
Omg. It looks like you’re getting a tail hug. (Cats wrapping their tail around someone is a sign of affection)

The old manager tried to take a swipe at me again today.

Mate, just fuck off lol

wow
Can't let it go can he?
Man that sucks.
- I fucked him right back and it was glorious hahaha

Some of you know I write books. And I write spooky stories for kids. These stories are set in Tasmania. I have written 7 books in the series over the past 3 or so years.

Why is it only now I have thought up the story idea titled "How I got my Second Head?"

Staring at me this whole time.

Your protagonist should have a parent from Dapto
Then The Strange Eyes of Queenstown next.
- The Dead Eyes of Queenstown.
Stanley's Nut

I was part of the Medibank, Optus and Latitude cyber hacks, and just received a notification from Qantas that I'm involved in theirs. Protection of my personal information is just meaningless at this point.

Yeah, same for me with Qantas and Optus. Optus breach made me leave them and not pay my last bill because fuck them. Debt has since been sold to a collection agency and I just ignore their calls 😂 my debt is under $170 so they'll write it off eventually, it's been a few years now haha
But yeah, personal data not being personal anymore? I'm really fucking sick of it. Qantas can suck my metaphorical dick.
We know all about you, Steve.
Yet voting in elections online is too risky. 🤔
You've really had a did run at the opsec lottery. If anything I'm just as lucky to have been on the other side of some of these

This week can kick rocks

I concur
- It's been a series of bullshit and strange attitudes.
  Full moon or EOFY?

shells i got yesterday

these are Pacific Ocean shells, they are big, but then the bigger ones are more likely to survive the rocky shore and waves intact

one of them is just a piece of a tun shell ( these are usually very big ) but I often pick up pieces just to know what kind of shells are around

They're so pretty! What lovely souvenirs of your time with the Young Seagoons.
- We are going on a big trip to the main shell beach 40 minutes away tomorrow, it's post storm, collecting should be awesome
  I am hoping to get some really big and fresh specimens 😃
Shells pretty
- Aren't they. 😊 And often the animal is just as beautiful ,

Today was AWESOME, met so many familiar and wonderful faces at this event and really recharged, invigorated by the presentations and this glorious sun has really perked me up as well. Wrapped up early and probably not working tomorrow, but I'll have at least earned some extra dough this week and have a bit more breathing space to catch up on life stuff. I might even look up what's on this weekend. But for the next couple of hours, it's journalling time before the psych

So glad you had a good day o day and you got paid for it too!
- For sure! Although I would've liked to work a bit tomorrow and pile up the cash, I'm also grateful to have an actual weekday breather - last week I worked a full day on the day I submitted my assignment, and it's been full days this week too. Tomorrow I can take my time to chill out at a park or head out somewhere nice without too many crowds. Start reconnecting to who the hell I am outside of work and study

Early night tonight. Goodnight all ❤️

Night night!

I opened the ceiling hatch! There are neither dead bodies nor an 80s porn stash.

- You have about half a meter cubic. Bets on.
These are affectionately known as demon doors in my household
- There is a mysterious wooden box, it might hold a demon

They may win the award for worst designed flat pack I've ever experienced. Multiple screws with a hex fitting recessed into the wood so you can't get tools into them and can only turn a hex key less than a quarter turn before having to reposition. Plus a couple of instructions that were physically impossible. I had to make a few alterations to make it possible to get them together, but I think they are done solidly enough. The quality of the actual components is good and I like the overall design, but actually putting them together was definitely not something I'd want to repeat.

I don’t mind those. Do they come in black? where might I find them?
- It's the Rome bedside table from B2C Furniture. It does not come in black, but the Paris bedside table does.

I've just put together the small bookshelf I bought for the lounge room, now I just need to summon the energy to do the bedside tables and I'll be done with flatpacks. Tomorrow I'll be taking the polystyrene to the recycling centre and finalising the stuff at my old house. Then I'll be able to fully focus on the unpacking and sorting here.

Is there much more left to do?
- Still far too many boxes to unpack, unfortunately. I'm hoping I have enough of the funiture assembled and positioned now that I can focus on the actual unpacking and sorting.

That was actually a really uplifting and lovely psych session?! Yay! ☺️ I might not even need to see her for a while even though I'm still undecided as to whether I should terminate my lease and dump all my stuff in storage, or just pay rent until I get back. Leaving my stuff here is much, much easier, but I don't want to be in the same rut. A lot hinges on whether I can trust myself to courageously move towards change if I come back to the same place.

I can feel a decision bubbling up though. And other ways in which to address that yearning for a powerful driver of change

That's a good thing. 😊

It's official!

I haven't slept more than 3 hours in a row for a year.

🎉 :(

Damn that's rough 😕 What have you done to try and fix it?
- Everything except valium which I refuse to touch.
That can't be good for your health.
- That's treatment resistant insomnia.
Do you get enough hours in total?
- I get around 7. But I'm in bed for 10 which really sucks.

Took today off, just needed it. Did a little bit of shopping (looking for new gym shoes if anyone has any recs), had a yum lunch and a long swim. Twas lovely.

Marge ...

and dog tales

I sit having my lunch of coffee and peanut butter toast

out of the corner of my eye I see the dog sit next to me I ignore her dog puts her paws on my thighs I ignore dog moves to other side dog moves to chair next to me dog moves to chair on opposite side of table and looks at me eating , licking her lips and chewing air every time I take a bite

this dog is quite entertaining

Melbcat seems okay. I’m waiting to see if the latest issue resolves but she’s got a good appetite, is washing herself, and got up to curiously follow a visitor around. She doesn’t seem to be uncomfortable or have pain.

She keeps giving me the biggest fright 😅

porridge eaten, dog walked, two loads of washing on the line drying, cat cuddles underway. Today is going fairly well. Except for my grinder dying (with a minor smell of electrical burning just to be dramatic). I shall have to order a new one.

Edit: I have now ordered a new one.

Dinosaur, as requested by kidcalhoon2....

I would not want to cross paths with that giraffe! It looks like it's seen some shit and done some shit 👀
That's a great drawing!! I love it's expression and the volcano!!!

why is my jumper so uncomfortable

looks in mirror

oh

backwards? Head in the sleeve? Upside down?
- backwards

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✅️✅️

Slices of pork belly in the air fryer - suitably marinated. Have worked out how to cook them and get the skin crispy. Tinfoil you are my friend in this endeavour.

We are at your door
- Wafting the perfume of crisp crackled pork belly skin over the aether to you.
🤤

Cheesy garlic bread. You will be mine.

I was tempted at the shops just now but I already had an early dinner of stodgy soup. Instead I will finish up this jar of salsa with a new bag of corn chips yeehaw
I read that in Wayne Campbell's voice.

Income statement says tax ready but when I got and try to do my tax return it says the pre-filled information from my income statement is not tax ready.

I guess I have to wait another day and hope it updates tomorrow. :(

it's a bit windy , storm blew out my power board

fixed now, jut had to reset

Whenever I go to the deli I always ask for a big handful of ham. Well the other day the young lass grabs the most pitiful handful so I encouraged her to grab more by saying "bigger" but because it was shredded it all clumped together. I left with 450g of ham off the bone.

I think I'm gonna make ham and cheese muffins today.

Honey or smoked ham is awesome
- True but I try to go for Aussie ham first.
Quiche Lorraine is good for this. You can make an easy one with premade pastry and skip the blind baking (I also used to just use dried chives)
- Good thinking because I just popped in 12 mini crustless quiches/frittatas in the oven. Ready in 20 minutes.

Slept at 5am. Yikes.

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Some mental fortitude for a difficult psych session coming up today pls
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Coffee icecream and pain pills please.
- ☕️🍦💊💊 Not sure if you want pills that give you pain or remove it. Gave you both.
Can I please get a box of Labrador puppies and a jar of peanut butter.
A cup of tea and some toast and marmalade please. With a side order of a nice dry raincoat and a new umbrella.
- ☕️🫖🍞🍊🍯🧥🌂
Woof.
- 🦮
Can you please give me witchies umbrella instead, if shes already getting a raincoat that's only fair to share...
Also some onion-jam and cheese tarts, aaaand... A pint of Guinness!
- Umbrellas are first come first served. You can have the beach one. ⛱️
  🧅🍯🧀🥧🍺

Anyone get any cunning ideas for bandit proofing an auto cat feeder? I'm thinking plate steel and welding sort of level 😾

Eating it yourself can solve the problem......
- Unfortunately Covid did not murder my tastebuds, so this is deemed unacceptable

Damn, was going to unwind with an episode of Murderbot but it is released Fridays, not Thursdays. But then I remembered all of The Bear s4 is available! I did need to read a recap of S3 because some of it was so slow but I also somehow forgot the amazing Napkins was in it too. I'm actually kind of happy that s4 is not returning to the insane intensity of S1 and S2 but let's see where these characters go. The development of folks like Ritchie and Tina is what really makes the show.

I found a 32gb SD card in a draw. I put it in my computer and it only reads 30mb of storage capacity and it needs to be formatted.

But it can't be formatted because it's write protected.

I plug it into some computers I have and it doesn't get read at all. What's on this SD card and why doesn't it want me to know? What did I use this SD card for before?

I could probably write a haunted media story about it for reddit for 30 updoots

Have you looked at it on a linux machine?
- I have, both through the file explorer and terminal. They're the two computers that can't detect it at all. One with an adapter and the other with a direct micro SD card slot

Top 10 Anime Betrayals: There are no biscuits I can eat at Aldi and the Woolies brand gingersnaps are actually good.

It just hit me. Melbcat has IBD. So maybe she’s having a flare.

This could explain the increased appetite, being sick, the accidents, the crying… She seems a lot better now but I’m going to get right back on the vets in the morning and ask. There is something that can be done about that.

@CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone Watching tonight?

Game so far has been much better than I thought.

Yes. Who'd ya pick?
- Doggies, was expecting a one sided match but looks like Pagan really fired them up.

good night everyone 😘 sweet dreams