Daily Discussion Thread: Thu 12 Oct 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Thu 12 Oct 2023
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
One of my friends from work finally gave me some good news.
Her daughter who went holidaying in Israel finally made it back home to Melbourne after being distraught at the situation and having multiple flights canceled trying to get out of the country.
She sent me a photo of them hugging each other at the airport after landing this morning.
So happy for her and relieved.
That's fantastic
Had a visitor (or 2, one not pictured)
I swear they're the same ones that've been going at that lawn for years and years now.
This is a wonderful morning for some buttery French toast.
Made by someone else.
Brought to my bed.
Doing that thing where I have a big life change coming so everything is being clean, rearranged, and then cleaned again. My pc/desk has never looked so good though, the glass panel is bordering on mirror status.
I've just made a pot of tea. I would share, but I do in fact need all of the tea
After last night, in verray truth. Please feel free to have a second pot if this is required. I can vouch for the effectiveness of choc chip cookies if energy levels flag mid-morning.
I'm of a similar mind with the tim tams I just bought. His Lordship shall have to content himself with the high tea assortment
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Oh Melbourne. One day of beautiful weather, next day pissing down. You're a little tease, you are.
I guess my bins will have to stay out in the street today after being picked up.
Can't wait to see what's in store for tomorrow and the weekend.
Thank God I got voting and petrol filling out of the way, but I have to drive to pick up something tomorrow, ugh.
I did 2 workouts today. One yoga and one cardio. Every time I do cardio it gets easier and easier and recovery doesn't take as long. I'm gonna start incorporating strength training a little bit more now. I'm 10 minutes away from earning a garmin challenge badge. I feel good. That's all.
I am seriously considering making some chocolate pudding and custard, but am currently trapped under a cat so cannot move. This is a dilemma.
Edit: apparently Miss Meow thinks I should make the pudding, as soon as I hit send she got up to have another round of dinner.
Edit 2: custard made, pudding in oven. Dessert night is Go
Fucking woo, Boyo is employed again. A few more days of the pacing panther to deal with but hooray!
Fuck.
hello darkness my old friend
I've finally given in and ordered an air fryer. If I do not get crisper potatoes than my small convection oven I shall be most displeased.
We took ours camping recently. Had perfect roast chicken in camping chairs in front of the fire one night - was glorious.
I have visions of little air fryer sitting in a chair by the campfire
Nice. Portability was one factor in my decision. I'm planning on taking this up to my parent's place for Christmas to do the potatoes, as oven space tends to be at a premium.
I have a convection oven and they definitely come out crispier in the airfryer. What did you get?
You shall certainly get them faster
For the heck of it I've started binging ST:DS9
Love me so 90s sci-fi cheese.
Really missing having a warm cuddly cat right about now
Beautiful rainbow out to the east of Thornbury - one end appears to be anchored to the South Preston Woollies. Which seems suspiciously appropriate.
I'm pretty sure I've seen an actual leprechaun there...
Funder and lightning in Fornbury. Big splats of raindrops. But the horizon is clearing so probably won't last long.
Same a few km south. Looks like a small one on the radar. Of course, none of the rain is reaching my balcony...
My goal for today's work day: drink a cup of tea while it's still hot.
And don't stab anyone. I guess that's two goals. I'll see how I go.
Got paid from work (not PAX yet) and I finally bought that planner I've been dreaming and talking about for a few months now. And got some pens I really like, two highlighters and some stickers. I'm keen as for next year, last time I had a proper diary was ten years ago when I was in my last year of high school.
Edit: I think I bought the last one, oh my God.
Which one did you get? I'm going to get a fancy one for next year.
This one! Obviously very expensive, but the paper is tomoe river paper which is really good for fountain ink pens, it's smooth and very thin as well.
Dealing with work and personal stress today. Work is more I'm having to work around someone in my team who is... Shit. Personal is just relationship stuff. We need to sort out our communication style because right now we escalate fights because of miscommunication. We're sorting it out and going to see a relationship counsellor which will be good,
So just stressed as both personal and professional stuff is meh. Also my deep-fryer overflowed tonight and I'm pissed about it since it shouldn't have happened and now cleaning up the mess. :P
hugs
Thank you, appreciate it
More tea. More
More coffee......coffeeeeeee....
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scurries over wtih freshly boiled kettle
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I love storms so god damned much but they're even better when I'm watching them happen comfortably from my balcony in Docklands and laughing maniacally at the cars stuck in the in inevitable traffic because people lose the ability to drive when it rains.
Petition for a balcony time-lapse - pleaseposttolemmy.co.uk
I could do time lapses.. I have a wee tripod for my phone somewhere around
Rain eased up with a bight of bright sky.
Neighbour is out watering his trees and hedges. Clearly the downpour wasn't enough.
It's just been a sprinkle here and yeah, I would water any plant that are under eaves or have high requirements
It was pissing down here for a good 2 hours. The trees are native and fairly drought resistant.
It's just how he is.
Maybe the plants were extra hongry
Mini rant: Went for a drive last night down to St Kilda to claim a free small sundae as I had a monopoly ticket thingo, figured it's a nice night out so why not? Got to the drive-thru and the lady asks what I want "Just a small chocolate sundae please, I have a monopoly ticket for it", "Ok check your order on the screen and drive to the window". I note the $3 next to the item but continue to the window thinking it'll get wiped when I hand over the ticket. I pull up and she passes the eftpos-on-a-stick out and I offer her the monopoly ticket. She takes a moment to buffer then says "you didn't give me the code at the speaker" (not a requirement) and I says "I told you I had a monopoly ticket" and she says "you didn't give me the code, can you just use it next time?" and I says "I was really hoping to use it now.. it's why I came here" and then she took another moment to buffer, said something into her headset (I only caught the word monopoly) and then cancelled the transaction and did it properly, which literally took about 5 seconds maybe, then took my monopoly ticket in a huff. I said "thaaaanks" and drove forward.
Sundae was really nice too. Nicer than usual. Drove down the esplanade and ate it by the waterfront. Had my emergency ice cream spoon with me so I didn't have to use their awful wooden one.
Nicer than usual
What should be going through your mind right now after all of that is why did it taste nicer.
But seriously as a kid maccas monopoly was great. Just rock up, no code app shit, get your small chips and off you go. Miss those days :(
That's what these instant win ones are too. You don't need to scan them in to claim them you just hand them over. You can also win food prizes in the app from Chance games etc but you don't need to scan the instant win peely tickets into the app unless you want to go into the second chance draw.
But I do agree that I miss the sticker ones where you would stick them onto the monopoly placemat sheet thing to track what you have. I suspect you can't actually get the rare properties via stickers so they can control the distribution of them digitally rather than have some unused coffee cup sitting with a major prize ticket in a cupboard somewhere.
As for why it tasted nicer, I understand the whole because it was free thing but it wasn't that. The ice cream was just extra cold last night, the machine was dialled in just how I like my soft serve. The soft of cold where it has a bit of resistance to it rather than being soft creamy and melty.
You just reminded me to do a free chest thing and I got a freebie of small fries or apple slices.
She sounds like a real fucking bitch. Just sayin.
Gaza is now under complete siege… journalists are no longer reporting because of the danger, 7 of them were killed. This is fucked.
Ted Cat has been sleeping a lot and is very grouchy. I am a little worried so I put him where he can sleep in peace and eat and drink without Bill harassing him.
Morning guys. Fire shenanigans last night mean I slept like shit. Ugh
I saw a community notification about a structure fire on Vic Emergency from last night but it had expired by this morning and I'm wondering if that's the one you're talking about...
Don't know. All I can tell you is that there were a lot of sirens
i am very hot
so hot right now.
I've always assumed so. I was just too polite to bring it up, because we love you for more than just your hotness.
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Ok I think I'm done hearing about the Voice and the Israeli-Palestine conflict and I'm tuning out. Both lead to extremely toxic debates on both sides of both issues.
agree, there's too much talking, not enough listening in discussions
I'm watching this true crime story and it's a bit political, a bit boring. I was contemplating whether to continue with it. Then at the end of episode 2 a character whose had a rough day was standing in the kitchen with his new daughter in law. She gave him a bit of lip because she's an arsehole and he then whacked her with the brand new shovel. Here's me going "Oop. Shit just got interesting. I shall continue to watch".
and the show is...
Sherwood
What channel/stream are you watching it on?
I am very familiar with the area, having lived around there for a couple of decades. I had a school holiday job at at the Sherwood Forest visitors centre. I am now living in Melbourne as a direct result of a chain of events that started during the miners' strike in 84/85. AMA!
Foxtel. It's probably on binge too. It does indeed involve the miners strike. I don't have any questions right now but thanks.
I think it might be safe to brave an afternoon walk. If I'm wrong Mr Woof and I will get soggy, which I guess is not the worst thing that could happen.
Wet doggo on the run this morning. Feeling better all the time... My knees have stopped hurting.
Pasta is boiling. Dinner is nigh.
Pasta is now made, served, photographed and posted on https://aussie.zone/comment/3474221
Onions chopped, will fry them up and cook sausages and bacon.
Then combine all with bread and make a sandwich out of it.
Yum yum
Slow cooked lamb shanks are ready, sweet potato mash just had the butter added, and broccoli just being steamed... Almost done.
Edit - and pho ready for kidcalhoon1 with the frenectomy
Think I’m gonna chuck some fertiliser over the garden so the rain can water it all in over the next few days.
I gave the garden a decent watering yesterday evening, so now I'm hoping it doesn't drown!
Always good to utilise the rainfall where possible. I will be planting some seedlings tomorrow morning so they can enjoy some damp weather to settle in before the sun comes on too strong again. I also did some cardboard and mulch on the front garden so it can soak in as much moisture as possible.
Papers finally submitted to the conveyancer yesterday afternoon to get things moving.
I swear I never saw them in my inbox before they arrived, but date stamps showed them arriving earlier this week: mind you, I've had that happen with the legal firm that handled Mum's estate, when a resend of an email showed a date when I know I'd been checking the inbox every hour on the hour, but... nada.
Anyway, hoping the weather holds off long enough for me to do a quick Aldi run - I got soaked just opening the gates and bringing the bins in.so...if you had a tenage nephew who wanted to learn about the stock market, where would you direct them?
like the true son of a hippy, my nephew has a job and wants to buy shares, but for himself, not through a broker. I'm talking small amounts, to kinda practice/learn, I guess.
I used this site to learn the basics and help me to make an informed decision: Motley Fool Australia
I can't give you any info about which apps/sites are best but I know there are practice investing sites out there where you invest in the real market with fake money to see how you go. This was many years back when I last looked at it but it was free to give it a go. Then you'd want a site/app where you can invest small amounts with low brokerage fees, which I don't know if you can get around paying. They might actually have articles on that stuff on Motley Fool, not sure.
will check it out/pass it on, cheers. Appreciate it.
Barefoot Investor
I remember this from high school.
I didn't read too closely, registrations might've closed already but might be worth sending to his school for next year.
thank you!
Make a virtual account on selfwealth. Load it up with $50k of play money and see how it goes after a year. My high school had a thing called sharemarket game which was along these lines. With a virtual/pretend account they can try their hand at it for a while and see how they do.
this sounds fun....
cheers
Check out ‘The Ulysses Contract’ by Michael Kemp - has info on share investing. There are platforms he can use to diy trades without a broker (e.g. cmc markets). I also love the idea of virtual investing as a trial run, as others have suggested - that would be a great way to learn without losing $.
Gogogo mifo bridge! What wanker car shall you drown today?
Monty bridge’s little cousin in perfect position….
Oof I don't feel so good. Bit of a runny nose and occasionally feel like I might throw up. I'm about 70% sure I won't throw up but that's not 100%.
Crikey. That thunder was so loud it shook my bed. What an awful day :/
I used my 'focus time' this morning to catch up on a little more sleep and it was an excellent decision. I was NOT cooked yet when my normal alarm went off and I almost thought I'd have to take the day off with how rough I felt.
Meanwhile, my first wax melt order arrived yesterday and the nose flavour is divine. They're Sandalwood Vanilla ones from a Sydney company I've actually bought from before called Sherwood Garden, but I bought through Amazon this time as I'm a Prime member and Prime shipping is rad. Can recommend.
Time to make today's coffee.. I'm making an iced coffee today!
Edit: also, my phone is being slammed with fake calls from various places around the country today. If you don't say anything for 3 seconds after answering the auto-caller thing just hangs up. Making me want to buy a Pixel because I think they have software to block these.
It appears I slept through this mornings wild weather, I was rather looking forward to a bit of a storm! Although to be fair my suburb never gets so much as a trickle, stupid meteorological blackhole.
Are you hiding behind a hill perhaps? Hills are good at stealing all the rain.
Not really, I think its just the area, it's very flat and dry.
Anyone ever watched their 10 year old have a frenectomy (tongue tie op)?...blood, a lot of blood.
Can't say I have but the word sounds like it means cutting your friends off after an argument ...
So sorry, somehow Mlem just deleted my message regarding what you would buy if you had $50 to get as much as you could food-wise (thought of it because I just spent $50 at Woolies shopping).
Assume you have a fridge, place to cook etc. Also, you can go to any supermarket etc. or multiple.
Edit: So… I hadn’t really planned for a longer period, but $50 got me:
Light burger buns, 4 burger patties, small tinned beetroot and pineapple. 2 small different types of mustards, another garlic sauce thingy, 2 mangoes, small handful of spinach, breakfast cereal, a small punnet of sliced mushrooms, 2 bottles of tonic (Fever Tree), a small bunch of broccolini and asparagus. (I think that was it?)
OK, this is quite a severe exercise in budgeting. $50 doesn't go far. I think I'd do something like :
- Ten bux for pantry items - oil, sauces, spices to refill stocks on hand - assuming rolled oats for breakfast cereal - sugar and chocolate goes in this category as does pasta and rice. Aldi as they are cheapest at the moment for pantry staples.
- Ten bux for veg from market - should be able to get spuds, a couple of onions, pumpkin & leafy greens & maybe 1-2 capsicums.
- Ten bux for fruit - apples etc from the cheaper end of the range. Bananas too as lots of nutrition for the price - also market - any money not spent in this category goes on 4) below.
- Ten bux for non-meat protein like beans, cheese, mushrooms etc. Market or Aldi
- Ten bux for meat - probably chicken and/or sausages plus eggs - Market or Aldi
This is a very rough estimate, and assumes that you'll be choosing from the cheaper end of supply - like home brand or on special or bagged veg for quick sale/use. I have omitted milk deliberately, as I don't know if you are a cow juice or nut/bean juice person or even a coffee/tea person. Add $10 for longlife bricks if you want to include milk of whatever sort, plus tea/coffee to make yourself, plus bread. Fair spread of nutrition over 5-7 days for one person. Not ideal but survivable for a while.
That’s really interesting. Thanks TW.
Personally, I don’t need to budget so tightly, but I do find it a good exercise to see how far my dollar can go. It could probably go further if I did market runs. I actually keep frozen green beans, spinach and brussel sprouts in the fridge which I find super helpful.
SPC baked beans are currently $1.10 on special
So 45 cans of SPC baked beans I guess
Guess it would last awhile. RIP guts. Hehe.
I forgot to buy some of the SPC tomato and cheese Dino pasta cans today.
I think I’m going to go tomorrow as I want to make a big breakfast using them instead of baked beans.
I know, it sounds wrong.
Ted Cat is sad. I'm not sure why but I think Bill beat him up when I went out yesterday, now Ted doesn't want to go up the stairs anymore and he lost his happy chirp. 😿
If bill is still hissing and swatting you might have rushed the cohabitation a bit.
I think so, they are apart again now. 😿
Poor baby. Could Feliway help them get along? Maybe some Zylkene chill pills?
Or maybe they just need their own territories to stay out of each other’s hair. High places or low hiding spots depending on preference. I don’t have experience introducing cats so wish there was something magic I could suggest
Poor Ted :(
He and Bill will get there! :)
Damn.. if I bought a Pixel 8 Pro before midnight last night from JB HiFi they would've given me a $350 voucher. The only deal I can see now is from Google themselves who would give me a $400 of Google Store credit if I buy one before midnight tonight, but that's only valid for 1 year and obviously you have to buy Google Store stuff and.. eh. Cool if I wanted to buy a Pixel Watch 2 but I don't really wanna.
The other issue is that my current phone (OnePlus 8 Pro) is too well-specced to really justify upgrading. The hardware is still incredible. It's only running 1 version behind of Android OS (13) and I really have no complaints with it. The specs besides the aging Bluetooth version actually hold up compared to these new flagship phones and it's 3 years old. The issue is that in 6 months or so it'll stop getting security updates, which isn't the end of the world.
Maybe I'll fight my impulse purchasing nature and just keep using this thing. I'm also starting to think about whether I want to buy a PS5 when all I really want to play is Spider-Man 2 when it comes out. I don't think there are any other games I want for it that I can't play on my PS4 Pro or PC. Maybe I should just build a new PC and wait for Spider-Man 2 to come out for that. Life is difficult.
Android 13 is only a version behind as of a few days ago. That's basically current.
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Cupcakes please.
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Frog legs & duck please
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$290 for lease transfer???? go fuck yourself <-Real estate agent->
So I watch The Shape of Water, it's about Poseidon coming to the mortal world an being loved and loving for who they are, tho I think Eliza might once have been a water being.
it's a beautiful love story
Serious answers only..
Rented a different car today to get to another appointment and a few more errands. It was fully electric with one of those weird knob dials instead of a gear stick, and had that whole e pedal thing as well. Very interesting. I had a few minutes to spare and decided to bulk buy some bonsoy and just so happens it was 20% off (about as good as you can get I think). Win!
But that's it, no more renting cars/carshare for a while... So bloody expensive...
Aus Post carded me yesterday even though I gave permission to leave parcel at door via their online service and told the delivery driver via my doorbell camera to leave the parcel. What the hell? Mad I have to spend my lunch break going to the post office.
StarTrack is even better at my place - I don’t get a card and they just text and says a card was left with pickup instructions
I quite like the parcel lockers. You still need to go to the post office to get your delivery, but you don't need to get there during office hours.
ooooh is wet
....but a good day to noodle with the genealogy. Ooo baby pics of the husbands grandma!
I just gout out of the shower, just in time for the rain to go whoosh.
Sky, you read my mind
Q for the collective: You have $50 and need to make it go as far as possible food-wise. No restrictions on supermarket or visits to multiple. What do you buy?
(Just thought about this as I spent around $50 at Woolies.)
A bit depends on whether you have cooking facilities and a fridge. And time to cook. Can we make those assumptions????
Yes. You have a place to cook and have a fridge/pantry etc.
walk to closest fresh market for fruit and veg, eggs, rice, instant porridge, bread, butter, onions, carrots, capsicums, oranges, end of day roast chicken from supermarket
NHL season is starting for me today. It's drizzly and cool as shit. Got a cup of Earl Grey, hot on my desk.
Gonna be a good day.
How do you watch? With a VPN, and then a streamed broadcast, or is it on a paid service?
There are streaming websites (free ones) that work with VPN and there's sites that don't require one I'll PM you :)
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I don’t see the Aussies winning tonight’s cricket match against South Africa.
They’re already at 222-3 at 38.4 overs. Our batting has been atrocious lately.
Nope. They are too good for us.
Onto the second season of Rake and it just somehow gets better, Cleave's rant about right wing vs left wing women and sex was a classic. I'll be sad when it goes a bit silly as I've heard it does. Somehow Harry-Sorry-David looks like an adolescent, incompetent version of Dan Andrews
E: and Cal McGregor is like premium (not discount) Barnaby Joyce (who is already discounted)
E2: also Barney and Cleave are absolutely my OTP