How do 2 cats fit in the one colander???? One of the mysteries of the universe. Or possibly cats have a portal to another dimension that they can tuck inconvenient limbs into on a temporary basis. I am also curious about the portholes on the fridge.
Whoohoo! MRI results came back and the neurologist says all clear. Well, his exact words were "there's nothing major" but I'll take that as a good thing. Also my psych appointment for the ADHD assessment has been brought forward from November to next week. I hope they confirm it because it would explain a hell of a lot and I can get finally get treatment.
I cried when I got my ADHD diagnosis. And my psychiatrist was like "don't cry!" And I'm like "happy tears!". It's such a great feeling! Though of course, you have to grapple with the idea that "oh my god this explains everything. I didn't have to struggle through life!" And then you get sad again.
Ted is a very happy cat and when not running around exploring he's chirping saying "Hi everyone, what's up?" or "Is it dinner yet?" or sitting in a sunny spot being chill or sleeping in his little bed.
It sounds like I'm going to have to break lease and move.
Housemate is not dealing well with uni, and keeps ranting about wanting to fight someone. When I told them to turn the tv down from arsehole levels at 6am, he started punching up the clothes horse.
Well my day has started out badly. Was rushing out and turned out of my car port too sharply and fast and ended up damaging my rear car door and scraping it along brick work.
Fml
Dug deep enough to peel off paint and even warp the end of the rear door and the chassis a little.
Car will function still and not sure if the damage will cause any ill effects.
WD40 and a magic eraser block pad can get paint off from other cars and buildings and also marks. Just don't rub too deeply or else you might rub the car paint off.
It matters because Unity is the game engine that is taught to game developers in school, and has been used to make popular games like Rust, Fall Guys, Cuphead, Among Us and Pokémon Go. This affects devs with large projects in development and screws over smaller indie devs. Also *because it counts repeated downloads it’s vulnerable to griefing. If a demographic get pissed off at a game? What was once limited to review bombing could become actual real world debt.
It seems what happened with Reddit’s third party tools isn’t a one off. The world has changed so rapidly and it’s slipping into enshittification.
Unity is thinking about AI games.
AI art is also filling the various art references I look through, I see artists having to put anti-ai filters over their work because it gets stolen.
It’s affecting writers too. Bogus ai-written foraging guides are being sold on Amazon. Do not go mushroom picking with one of these babies OK? I think we all know how that ends up.
Famous authors are suing OpenAI as their work is getting scraped ( this is the second lawsuit apparently) and fake ai books are being sold under the names of established authors.
Last but not least there’s a bill called KOSA that will infringe on privacy (it wants ID) and target trans/queer content under the guise of protecting kids.The idea is platforms are responsible for the content each user posts so to avoid consequences anything adult in nature is at risk of being scrubbed.
I’m still getting my head around all the fine points of both bills but apparently it’s been changed to a different bill called the Online Safety Bill which also wants ID and to scan encrypted messages like WhatsApp. The UK has just passed it.
This stuff matters because Australians use sites or services hosted in America (and any other country that brings in these laws).
Edit: Oh yeah, the Pantone thing happened a year ago. It’s not new. I just found out about it
PSA: Mernda & Hurstbridge lines part suspended due to fatality incident at Jolimont Station. Buses replacing trains to Clifton Hill, then delayed services on both lines. Best find another way to get home tonight. Was on the station at the time and saw the incident. Not nice at all.
Hopefully will be fixed by the end of the football match at MCG, but don't bet on it.
No problem. Not my first rodeo. Will be doing self-care all the same. Thanks anyway, as I have to admit it was a bit of a shock to witness. But the cops were great - and they referred me to a trauma survival service which surprised me more than I thought it would, so to speak.
I am such a nong! Didn't set up a reminder to chuck a cursory amount to grow my savings balance for two whole months and missed out on like $400 of the bonus interest which is why I signed up for this account in the first place 😭 I could've really used that! Talk about stupid tax...
...oh well, can't turn back time, have put in a reminder now; I'll get this month's at least. After that, one time chunk coming out to buffer me for the rest of this year, and every month after I'll be trying to get as much interest as I can out of the remainder.
I don't know why I didn't before, because all my bills etc are automated, but I've put in a reminder atm instead of an auto payment because while bills need to come out on a set day and are stuck in a separate account, I kinda want to make use of the flexibility with the bonus interest transfer since sometimes I've juggled things around a bit and don't want the transfer accidentally coming out of the wrong account... okay it isn't a really good excuse. I'll just chuck in an auto payment but ALSO a reminder a day before so that I don't accidentally go into overdraft
Sent off the email I've been dreading sending all day! Cheers indeed. Time for that nice falafel bake thing I treat myself to sometimes. Bit cold out there.
If you choose to talk about something to someone that they don't necessarily care about, the whole subtext is sharing how you're feeling, right?
Ok I didn't phrase that very well. What I don't like is how I listen to people's shit and am patient with them, even if I'm not necessarily interested in the topic, yet other people wouldn't do the same for me.
I'll answer because I think I'm the only one awake. If you listen to their drivel and they don't listen to your drivel then they are narcissistic cunts. Full stop.
So a bit of philosophy is that when helping someone it's meant to be done without debt, other wise you're not really helping you're just doing business. - A few stoics have this view.
However if your friends are simply taking when they need and never giving when you need, that is probably something worth addressing as it'll eat at the friendship. It's certainly eaten away at a bunch of my relationships over the years. I feel I spent my 20/30s trying to be a helpful compassionate person, but if I try to put that on a balance, people helped themselves to my helpfulness and compassion. When I had problems - depression, car accident, back injury, eviction, medical complications - I didn't hear from anybody. After all that I stopped trying to help people, I stopped working as a therapist, I gave up on people. After A FEW YEARS I started to get the occasional low-effort text message about missing me. It didn't make me feel like resuming my efforts as a useful person. It felt like they missed my efforts and not my person hood.
And on talking drivel: “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human” - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Cracker of a day weather wise. Tour guide told tales of various people buried on the island. The whole area was a fascinating place in general. My first time there.
We have a limited time in Hobart so booked various dinners, Salamanca tomorrow, MONA Sunday, taking care of personal business in the area. Just a long weekend really and been really great so far.😊
On hold to Cennalink. Get your bets down as to how long I'll be on hold this time around.
Edit: 40 mins plus the five minutes on hold while they entered my deets.
Scheduled rest day in the exercise program today. It goes 3 days of exercise and 1 day off in a repeating cycle. However, and I'm not sure how long ago I started doing this, maybe a couple of weeks, but I started doing standing bicycle crunches whenever I'm waiting for the Minipeelers to answer a question I've asked. It goes something like, "What do you guys want for breakfast?" commence crunches while waiting for answer Child answers eventually and I cease crunches. I sometimes get quite a few in before they answer! They found it funny at first but now it's normalised. Also, I didn't realise how many questions I ask my kids!
You stand with your feet shoulder width apart and your hands clasped behind your head (or resting on your shoulders, with your left hand on your left shoulder and right hand in the right shoulder). You bring your left knee up as you bring your right elbow down to meet it, then straighten up again. Then you bring your right knee up as you bring your left elbow down to meet it, and straighten up again. You don't have to actually touch knee to elbow if it's too hard (but it will get easier), the focus is mostly on bringing the knees up as high as is comfortable and creating the stomach crunch with your elbow and upper body movement. If you're doing it with your hands clasped behind your head, remember to not actually pull on your neck during the exercise. I find them to be easy and effective.
Oh that's such a good idea. I try and do things like squats while I'm brushing my teeth, but I like the idea of standing crunches while waiting for stuff.
I wish I could do more squats, but half a lifetime of lifting in the workplace with my knees means squats kinda hurt after a while so I do minimal amounts of wimpy not very low squats.
It does seem morning runs are better. Who would've thought eh?... definitely not me. Just a shorter 3.8km this morning on account of having a meeting soon and needing quite a bit of time to stop sweating. Doggo back asleep.
SPUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDD. I went past the bar a coupla hours back and saw a beautiful woman with longish blonde hair getting chatted up by a few guys. Was considering calling out Spud but didn't want to embarrass you. 🤭 True story.
After the series of big days this week I really just don't want to... do... anything today. But I know that could be the beginning of a spiral that I'll feel shitty about later. Alright. I'll finish unpacking my bags (done), and start clearing out my work devices. I REALLY need to flash a new ROM on my personal phone, I've been procrastinating on that for years. Might not get all the way but if I can download the ROM and find the instructions on backing everything up, that's a start. And finally, I gotta set up a withdrawal from my savings to cover my rent and bills till the end of the year.
E: between last week and this, air purifiers have already crept up in price (or rather, old deals are ending). Gonna grab one asap.
eyeing off a mesh system....jfc is there any of them out there that don't require you tying your internal goddamn network to an outside third party just to configure the goddamn things? At this rate I'll stick to my WAPs and individual SSIDs
I've been looking at them too despite the fact I don't even have any control over our network and already have a whole drawer full of networking bots and pieces
Sorry, got distracted by Futurama. Korok seed collection is a non-essential side quest in Legend of Zelda: breath of the wild and it's sequel Tears of the Kingdom. Former has six hundred hidden in weird and wonderful places all about the map. Latter has a full thousand.
So I live in a brick building which on the inside has an extremely thick render of some kind. And can I just say it makes drilling any kind of hole very messy and precarious.
Here's a little tip for you gravy fiends like myself. When you make packet instant gravy because you can't be bothered making the real thing add your drippings to the mix. If you don't have any drippings add a bit of milk, just a dash. You'll look at packet gravy differently I promise. (I use Green's gravy granules).
Not excited for my doc appointment because I have a feeling I have tendonopathy in my wrist. Hopefully because I've gone to the doctor earlier than I did with my leg that it'll be fine, because yeah I can't remember if I said it but I am probably going to have to do surgery on my leg it's just not getting any better.