Weather forecast today (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 14°C, max - 31°C. 100% chance of no rain

Time to start closing the windows, freezing the ice blocks, and preparing the fans (or wallet if you’ve got proper air conditioning)!

  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
    13·
    1 month ago

    Permission from Birthday Child to stay home because “you’re hurting”.

    I love you, Birthday Child. I will donate to your Lego Fund generously and spoil you rotten at Christmas

  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
    11·
    1 month ago

    I’m supposed to attend a child’s birthday party today, but I’ve massively overdone it and can barely move.

    What do

    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
      9·
      1 month ago

      Sleep. Apologise. Catch up with them separately and give said kid a nice pressie. If you need, tell them you are aiming down with somethibg and don’t want to spread it.

      Unless you are someone actually helping with the party etc it’s all good.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    11·
    1 month ago

    ✅ dishes washed

    ✅ clothes washed

    ✅ clothes dried at laundromat

    ✅ clothes put away

    ✅ soaked beans cooked

    ✅ breakfast and coffee had

    Time to hit ze shops for some milk and OJ. Maybe a small box of ice lollies.

    E: is my local Coles just shit or has Proud & Punch stopped making pure icy poles without “cream”. I am disgruntled. Considered all other ice cream options and then decided fuck it, I don’t need that in my life, OR OJ, got my favourite coconut water on half price instead.

    Driving back the sun was already stinging like a MF, so make sure to get that sun protection on today!

    Then chop and cook up the veg and tvp for hoppin john, wash up all of that, switch on the AC and do a few hours of work (to make up for short days next week) until my friend turns up.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        4·
        1 month ago

        Because I haven’t had only 3 hours of sleep! I did spend half of yesterday in a fog with a bad headache…

        • dumblederp@aussie.zone
          6·
          1 month ago

          Ayy 3hr sleep club. I’ve lost my caffeine tolerance and had an iced coffee with 160mg, it kinda fucked me up. Helped a friend move house a little this morning and now back home to follow Dr William Nelsons Jamacian arthritis protocol.

        • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          I actually think 3 was the “perfect” number. It’s weird how sleep works like that (for me). If I got another hour or an hour less, they’d be equally bad, whereas 3 hours left me as energetic as 8 or 9 hours, just for not as long

            • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
              3·
              1 month ago

              Oldy, I’ve done it all before, I know the timeline 😆

              Seriously as long as I keep on moving, keep on talking, keep on doing, I’ll be fine. It’s when I slow down or sit for too long I’ll conk out

              • just_kitten@aussie.zone
                5·
                1 month ago

                I suspect our wise feline-pescine comrade is insinuating there will come a time when 3 hours simply won’t even be an option (bar the copious use of pharmaceuticals). I tend to agree.

                Enjoy being able to function at all on such little sleep while you can!

                • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
                  3·
                  1 month ago

                  Old people I know seem to always fall into one of 2 categories. The first are people that do like 2 hours of sleep a night and act all “she’ll be right” about it. The second go to sleep at 7pm, and “sleep” for about 10 hours, but actually wake up every every hour or two and basically actually sleep for 2 hours anyway

                  Ah well, just one of those things that happens once you turn 30 I guess, like making noises Everytime you stand up 😂

          • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
            4·
            1 month ago

            I think it comes down to sleep cycles. We go in and out of deeper levels of sleep, and if you wake up at the right time you feel more refreshed than if you are woken up from a deep sleep. The cycles are a few hours long, so a three hour sleep can mean you wake naturally at a good time, but an extra hour might mean you wake up half way through one.

  • Aradina [They/Them]English
    11·
    1 month ago

    Update to my broken window opener and closer dealy:

    I generously applied WD-40 and managed to get it to close \o/

    Opening it will be tough though I imagine. Alas.

    • No1@aussie.zone
      5·
      1 month ago

      Wd-40 is not really a lubricant.

      If you have some light oil, eg sewing machine oil, or silicone spray, that might be better. Work it back and forward a few times to distribute it evenly.

      But be careful applying those. They can be messy. Less is more 😉

    • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Ooft I feel you. Some bright spark painted most of our windows shut…

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      4·
      1 month ago

      Oh, I hadn’t read this before I replied to your other comment - thank fuck you got it to close! Better closed than open for now. Can you get your landlord to replace the winder soon? From what i hear it’s not a difficult fix

      • Aradina [They/Them]English
        5·
        1 month ago

        I’ve passed it on to the landlord via the lead housemate, but we’re currently waiting on her to fix the back fence and that’ll be pretty expensive.

        He(the lead housemate) has a thing about trying to keep rent down by not bothering the owners, basically. Our rent went up anyway, but not by much so he is sorta on to something considering how bad the market has been.

        • just_kitten@aussie.zone
          4·
          1 month ago

          Argh. Yeah look tbh I did the same at my old place - when I got the blinds replaced as the old one literally was going to fall off, bam, rent increase (even though it’s improving the sale price of the house and tax deductible! Fuckers)

          I did have to give in and ask them to do my old stuck winder though as it was letting in a lot of cold air heading into winter and that sucked big time. I think the LL’s partner just did it himself.

          Your situation sounds serious enough to be worth getting fixed…

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    10·
    1 month ago

    omg omg omg, I found an original book from 1912 by Professor Flinders Petrie, he’s like the guy who invented modern archaeology. It’s typical of much archaeology of the time, called Biblical Archeology, it’s interesting nonetheless.

    I’ve read some of his essays in compendiums but not his books before. He’s quite scientific about it all, unlike Carter, who I’ve also read, but who was an adventurer and treasure hunter , not a scientist. Carter’s book was about the discovery and the objects he found.

    This book is full of plates and rice paper covers, hand drawn maps and has an awesome embossed cover with hieroglyphics. The hieroglyphs look like they would have originally been in gold leaf, they are all black now.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    9·
    1 month ago

    One last trip to the doggo park with hams soon.

    Truly is hopeless off lead. Marginally better on lead.

    But I do feel for him. At the park, a lot of people don’t understand that breeds’ behaviour… going prone, ears all over the place, aloof. Doesn’t really ‘play’ with the other doggos but still wants to be part of it (don’t think other doggos understand that breed either). Unlike most other dogs he won’t go up to people for pats. Completely disinterested.

    Doing a bit of reading and apparently collies annoy the shit out puppy most trainers and make owners feel bad for not getting doggo to do what they’re told. Once you throw in a distraction and they become fixated, they’re truly in their own world. Can’t do much about that (not now at least).

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
      3·
      1 month ago

      Mr Woof is not a collie, but he does have that fixation thing - so much training advice centres around using treats or “high value objects” which don’t have any impact because once he is fixated there is absolutely nothing else of interest to him. If he eats a treat in that state it is only because it is the most expedient way of getting it out of the way! All the advice I have received about how to deal with that is to start further away from whatever he is focussing on when he is still distractable so that you can work on it gradually, but he is like an on/off switch, there is no in between to work with.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    Happy to report back lunch was good. He ended up not bringing momos and we ended up not going and getting coffees because of the temperature. We substituted for bahn mi and Bundaberg ginger beer (though I had a coconut one instead)

    Good chats were had. I’ll admit I was feeling a little bit put out cause I had a plan and misinterpreted the message of momo cancelation as a general cancellation like half an hour before we were scheduled to do the do, and I’d set everything up for momo. But it was fine. He stopped at that Luke’s bahn mi place, so I can now say I’ve tried it. Definitely don’t think it’s worth the hype fwiw. Better places with cheaper prices and no or short lines in either sunshine or footscray. But it is like the only bahn mi place here so I can see why people go to it (it’s cromulent just pricey and I don’t believe in waiting half an hour just to order food)

    There was an ulterior motive though. When he moved out, he left a lot of plants and pots and gardening stuff to me. He’d bought it all when he moved in to liven the patio up a bit, but I realized I can’t care for it all once I move and it’ll all die if left here so I have a considerable amount back to him. I’ve got a more manageable amount of plants now, and the plants have a better chance of survival

    In more disheartening news: a rant about systemic problems

    In more disheartening news though, both of us suspect they may be closing this lead tenant house down. They’ve completely stopped all non essential maintenance, and they seem to have stopped looking for either another lead tenant to replace the one that moved out Oct 2023, let’s lone him. Or another kid to replace me or the other nutcase that was here. Honestly the house is a dump. It’s got good bones, and is in a very posh area, but they never bothered to maintain it, so over the 30 or so years they’ve owned it it has pretty much disintegrated. They bought the house in the 90s for 300 grand, and current estimates place it at about 1.4-19mil if they were to sell it. They could easily turn it into a block of flats and sell each for probably not much less if they wanted to manage that and could definitely make a pretty penny

    It’s kinda sad. They’ve taken a regressionist viewpoint recently. When I moved in there was a program that existed for people transitioning into LT from resi that was for building life skills, things like learning to cook, clean, do basic maintenance, etc. Through shitty management and a lack of direction and communication, the programs focussed kind of got lost and they ended up going over budget and never really got the results they anticipated. Rather than reforming it, they decided to cut the program pretty much entirely. It now exists only for people who are at immediate risk of being kicked out and sent back to resi. That more or less means that there’s nothing now for people moving in, and no way to build new skills and figure out how to live by ones ownsome. And that’s quite representative of how the entire system is currently going at the moment. They came up with fantastic (genuinely, not sarcastic) programs and things that filled a real need, but failed to implement them all properly then got antsy about spending, so now they’re axing all of them which’ll just create worse outcomes for the next people that move in.

    • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      I was trying to go through my photos to find photos of the garden and plants I inherited for you all, but I got really caught up on the photos from when I first moved in

      Things have really changed. And at that, changed for the negative. I typed out a really really long kinda rant about it all. I realised pretty quick I wasn’t gonna post it (too personal, too long, irrelevant), but it was useful to type out my feelings. There’s a lot of bottling up happening there

      Things were so good when I first moved in though. Helplessly watching it gradually turn to shit was difficult and is even harder to look back on

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    8·
    1 month ago

    Warm day, I shall do all the wet chores so they dry quickly. Elderly mop: you should consider revising this plan.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

    Gas man arrived! He did the soapy water test (I forgot to last night before falling asleep lol), and apparently the seal on one side and the regulator on the other were both leaking. Lovely bloke though, he even relit the hot water system for me (I didn’t even have to ask)

    Easy replacement, and apparently it’s quite common. Glad I didn’t ignore it and did trust my instincts, but I’ll be honest, I did do laps of it sniffing it up close a bunch last night. In hindsight, probably a bad idea, but it also wasn’t a particularly strong smell. I only got a quick whiff off it walking down the stairs and I wasn’t sure where it was even coming from

    Also, TIL downer really have their fingers in all the pies. They run yarra trams, the entire Adelaide metro system, the trams on the gold coast, a bunch of buses and other PT, and I learnt today that they also maintain the gas network, at least AusNet’s. Apparently they also run parts of the NBN, those gigantic metal power lines with like 100 cables, spotless (street sweepers), the list goes on. Between them, Jim’s group, and Arnotts, we really seem to like these ‘everything’ companies!

    I was a little surprised to see someone from Downer rock up to fix it though. When we had electrical problems, I called Jemena and somebody from Jemena came out. I just sort of assumed this was the same do