• MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
    16·
    5 months ago

    First week in a higher role nearly over and I must say I’m enjoy it.

    Slightly more busy and dealing with new people (who are all super patient).

    Best part of it, is I actually have some influence over large decisions. So far my input has been welcomed and respected.

    Fingers crossed my old boss stays in his role and I can keep this one 😁

  • Aradina [She/They]English
    14·
    5 months ago

    I know I’m going to get called preachy and whiny or whatever but here goes:

    Please wear a mask. I get that the anti-maskers won and social pressures make you feel self conscious, and people absolutely do give weird looks when they see people wearing masks, but the current sickness going around is totally preventable.

    I have a chronic condition and even a mild illness can massively reduce my quality of life. I’m required to frequently go out and be in close proximity with people, and it’s at the point where most people I see have a cough. I just want to not be at risk.

    KN95 masks are a good balance between efficacy and price. Those blue surgical masks are easiest to find, but aren’t great. N95s can be too expensive.

    Please please please just consider wearing them when out.

    Besides all that it’ll make for an easier adjustment when Pandemic 2: Electric Birdflugaloo comes around.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
      10·
      5 months ago

      …you removed about my mask, I’m a gonna show up with my fucking 3m 100PM respirator on. Bright pink and hardcore vader noises.

      Actually I’ma gonna get another one and art it up. We’re living in a cyberpunk dystopia anyway, may as well dress for the occasion.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      5·
      5 months ago

      I find it easier to mask up when I leave the house and just keep it on, taking them on and on is also unhygienic

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      4·
      5 months ago

      I never stopped wearing a mask. I’m very possibly immunocompromised and don’t want long covid. During lockdowns I’d always get dickhead men trying to intimidate me for wearing a mask and pick a fight about it. 🙄

      But I really wish it would become just normal and accepted to mask up like in Asia. It’s polite, it’s hygienic, doesn’t really cost much and you could be saving yourself or someone else a nasty flu. And frankly anyone who doesn’t do it in a pandemic is not being logical.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
      3·
      5 months ago

      Happy to oblige, you won’t get any arguments from me. I don’t give a damn about antimaskers or weird looks, but being a large solidly built middle-aged woman in steel caps can tend to put people off talking to me on public transport about their antimask bullshit. I’m the only one in my house with a job, and as a casual employee I can’t afford time off due to totally preventable illness. The colds/flus/whatever they are going around at the moment are dynamite. My MIL is 90 and frail, my partner has many health issues, and I don’t have time for people who think they’re clever passing their ignorant bigotry towards the immunocompromised. I’m sorry you and Melba have had to deal with mean spirited inconsiderate twits. It’s actually easier to be considerate anyway.

  • dumblederp@aussie.zone
    14·
    5 months ago

    Concrete pump in the fog this morning. I got a war of the worlds vibe. Like a giant leg in suburbia.

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
    13·
    5 months ago

    I gotta say… as someone who often feels like an outsider it’s kind of nice that everyone else is sick when I am too. I feel like I’m a part of something.

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    12·
    5 months ago

    2 more hours before these guys go and I can leave the house. They’re just pouring concrete now.

    Hard to relax when people are all over the house. Been here since 9am.

    Sorry, just whinging. I like my place to myself and fluffy butt. It feels intrusive.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    11·
    5 months ago

    jesus christ, neighbours are smoking shit so fuckign dank I can smell it in my house.

    Both properties were built in the fucking 60’s so we’re not up each other’s arses, and this place actually has insulation and draught exclusion

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      I’d forgotten just how much I hate the smell of weed. There was a kid at the last place that would smoke inside and blow it into the heating ducts and then I’d end up reeking of it. The new kid here only smokes outside, but he stands just outside the door so it still makes its way in

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    11·
    5 months ago

    Sometimes when I pick up the guitar, something really personal comes out. It’s rarely recorded, it’s never on purpose.

    And no one hears it but me. And that makes it special.

    I know how wanky that sounds, but it’s true. I’m probably not explaining myself properly

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Art is art, public or private. It is a reflection of us as humans, to put something so personal out into the universe. So uniquely you.

      It isn’t wanky, not to me at least, for whatever that’s worth ha! It’s human. No one will ever read everything I write, all the words left private, unread, unseen. But I do it for me. You do it for you. We just gotta be humans about it all, I think.

      Idk maybe I’m just a dumb dumb lol

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    11·
    5 months ago

    Sad news is my microphone ran out of charge 😔 Good news is the man has so many cords, power banks and nerdy shit that it’ll be up and running in no time 😀

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    11·
    5 months ago

    Short-staffed at work because people sick. People also sick at home. People sick everywhere 🤧 Holding sickness at bay with Bioceuticals Armaforce, Tolak Angin Flu sachets, and maybe my A– blood type. A special shout out to all of you who are under the weather. May you be back to your usual sunny selves soon!

    Edit: also still wearing a mask on buses. They are really stinky sometimes and people coughing all over the place! Between people who smell like they’ve been cooking in their bedrooms and people who’ve been sleeping in their clothes for a month I am over it!

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    5 months ago

    I have reconsidered and decided it wouldn’t be the best decision to go out this weekend. I can’t imagine being well enough by tomorrow. At least the new season of The Boys dropped today and there is plenty of NRL to watch over the weekend.

    I guess for now there’s only 1 thing to do… 420 blaze it.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    10·
    5 months ago

    Fuck I think I’m gonna have to go back to bed. I doubt I’ll sleep cause I hardly did last night, but like… it’s better to laying in bed in the dark feeling like shit than sitting on a couch, right? Thank god the Mrs is well enough to look after kiddo.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    5 months ago

    One of the really frustrating things about getting the 'rona is I’ve been itching to settle down into sorting and organising the spare room, which is going to be the study/library space.
    However I had a burst of energy and inspiration tonight and did a little rearranging and moving around - I want to put a cat tower where one of the smaller bookcases was and that meant moving the others one up, which meant emptying one, and…
    Anyway there’s roughly a cat tower sized space next to the window. Next step is sorting what’s in the bookshelves and cleaning them… even if I do one shelf at a time, it’s something.

      • Eagle@aussie.zone
        4·
        5 months ago

        Thankyou. It’s a massive cheat. Two woolies mud cakes underneath but I ain’t hot time for baking and decorating.

      • Eagle@aussie.zone
        2·
        5 months ago

        It’s lollies and fondant and bought icing roses. I just put them I’m their spots. But it does look good.

        • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
          3·
          5 months ago

          Still the fondant went on smooth and stayed in place without bubbling, thin spots or tearing. And the decorations are on firmly with no leaking of royal icing or sliding down. Technique and stuff

          • Eagle@aussie.zone
            2·
            5 months ago

            It slid backwards a bit on the car ride. So much for the back seat passengers keeping an eye on it! But it was unscathed just a bit further back on the board. She loved it too.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      1·
      5 months ago

      Oh wow. I’m also making a cake tonight for a birthday tomorrow. I doubt it will be this pretty.