Daily Discussion Thread: Sat 09 Dec 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Sat 09 Dec 2023
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Everyone's asleep, teleporting through time,
Everyone's alive, and that's truly sublime.
We carry our doubts with us through life, But know that I love you, you are destined to thrive.
I know you struggle through fears, and you're teary,
You're stronger than you know, even though you are weary.
Persevere and summon what energy you can,
It'll get better, I'm honestly your biggest fan.
Sending you my love through all time and spaces,
When you find happiness, let it show on your faces.Thanks spud, I really needed it this morning.
Oh no found a dead lorikeet. Probably flew into the window poor thing.
It will get a proper burial.
I will say a few words.
Up close they are very beautiful.
I might have a nap.
I will follow your snoozesteps
Not a good day to be in NSW at the moment. Farken
I heard it’s super hot and they’re on alter for fires at the moment.
Are you ok?
Where I'm staying is a bit cooler than Sydney and will "only" hit 38 today. Strong hot winds not great for the fire situation but we should be fine, cool change hits tonight thank god. Trying to sleep in a non insulated cabin last night with no fan etc was hard. But it'll heat right up again next week.
Spending most of the day in the coolest place I can find...
pushing 40's.. yikes.
✨ el nino coming for us all ✨
I feel like shit and was so tired that I was really late with kitty's breakfast.
Heavy rant
The mentally ill neighbour (one of them, at least) won't stop screaming and slamming doors so hard it sounds like something is being smashed. That's nothing new but now it's escalated and he's been at it day and night for weeks. Probably closer to a month now maybe. It usually starts at midnight and goes for hours then he does it off and on all day but it's changed to 3 and 4 am now. He was screaming this morning from 4 to 5am and probably til like 9 because once I finally dropped off I could hear it in my dreams.
I started calling the cops on him a week or two ago after he sexually harassed me and got bizarrely threatening on sight in the 2 minute window of me taking the bins out but that doesn't seem to be effective. The good news is I managed to get hold of the organization that runs the property and get escalated to a manager who called me back. The bad news is I missed the call and have to phone back Monday.
At least once I can do that I can get her direct work details and do an anonymous letter drop so the other poor souls living with this can complain too and hopefully with numbers we can eventually get him sectioned or moved. (Can you tell this isn't my first rodeo?)
And yes this probably is Karen behaviour but I do not give a shit anymore. I've been tolerating it for months because I didn't want to screw with the life of someone obviously unwell (especially calling police on a black man) or get him kicked out, but he crossed the line when his actions made me feel genuinely threatened and fearful of my safety. (Also the homophobic rants with slurs.) If he's doing that to people then he needs to be in hospital. Also there's the matter of not being allowed to sleep.
The council is another possibility for noise complaints but may not be the right tool for the job. I also need to dig up the number for CATT or the homeless version of CATT. I don't expect any action there though.
And yes, I'm trying to move but that is complicated.
Edit: Apologies for just... dropping that rant. This area was always a bit rough and I've handled it but I feel like things have really deteriorated since covid and it's driving me spare
Quite a few drivers around not using headlights in this weather, and it's really not smart.
My headlights have gotten real dim recently. So much so that I thought they weren't actually on, or the bulbs had gone. I checked them, and no, everything is as it should be.... But put me on a non lit road at night and it seems like I've just got my parkers on....
Sounds like you need to replace the bulbs. Or possibly clean/polish the covers, but most likely the bulbs as they do get dim when they are old.
Even dim lights is better than none.
So are we getting anything other than gale forced winds and pissing down rain this summer?
Perfect day for doing fuck all and eating pancakes. Might read a book later. That's my Saturday night lol
Melbcat has had supper, is all sleepy and having a cuddle. Poor old baby is just so happy to be home.
So much rain today. Have been so lazy. Spent the last 2 hours on the couch listening to a audiobook. Contemplating if I have a very early dinner or just snack.
I'm ready for bed lol. Starting to get excited by the new job Monday. I've spent all this time getting my sleep schedule in order, I haven't actually thought much about the reason why.
So I'm client services manager/project manager.
I'm replacing a guy that's been there 18 years, which is a good sign I guess.
I have low expectations with all corporate work, so I'm always pleased when it's not as bad as I expect.
Money is good, enough to save a fair chunk for a house deposit if I stick it out. Who knows. Could be an absolute shit hole...
I try not to get too carried away spending the money I haven't made yet lol
But first paycheck I'm buying myself a nice birthday/Xmas present. I always look forward to that 🥳
I found ~$870 in my personal account (not the normal joint account). Super confused, I had to Google "quinn emanuel takata" to see why they paid me this money in October. Turns out it's for the Airbag recall debacle 10 years ago or so. I don't even have that car any longer.
Oh well. It's nice to have a secret stash of money this month. It makes it easy to hide Christmas purchases from my wife. 😃
Oh. I didn't know about that. I could have done with $870 ☹️
Booked tickets to an advanced screening of Priscilla. Directed by Sofia Coppola.
So of course this weather inspired me to take on a quick project. Scrunchies are harder than they look even with quick easy instructions.
Methinks not fluffy enough. 😑
Gorgeous material. Maybe make the tube a bit longer? More folds when installed.
Yes, that’s what I was thinking. I used the extra large measurements from this pattern, but it might also depend on the material. The second one here I used 75cm to start instead of 49cm.
In retrospect I should have done my laundry yesterday while it was silly warm.
Dinner is done, time for some R&R.
was pretty sick just before so made some tomato soup and toast and am feeling a little better
Poh tay toe
Toe may toe
gasp
boil em mash em
Today is SASSPANTS sataurday..
Me besstee a magpie walked inside today and caught it staring at its refection in front of the TV.. I was walking it outide and It stopped at the door and warbled. It's happened a few times before. Pure sass.
Amazing how it doesn't freak out though. They're evolving.
I for one welcome our avian overlords
Introduced my wife to the Aldi potato gratin.
She loves it.
one of us, one of us
Made a bolognaise sauce and a savoury mince and veggie dish, plus home made chicken nuggets for the kids. Have had a splitting headache ever since Miniest broke her laptop last night. I couldn't get my old laptop to work, none of my chargers fit it. My Turkish friend down the road gave me Turkish delight, which cheered me up a little.
Thought about scootering to the South Melbourne market for a poke around. Looked outside. Maybe I'll drive.
Hey the Renegades didn't win but at least I get a hot drink in the morning.
Brought up the idea of adopting a cat and my housemate seemed up for it. Before adopting, is there anyway to foster cats to see how we're going?
PSA
good day
to clean the crumb tray.
Update: still fucking roasting in NSW but I hear the cool change is hitting the southern coasts so hopefully it will reach the southern highlands in an hour. I am so overheated. Drank 500 L of water... So glad it's a cool night
Hawt. Very hawt.
Even after a good breakfast I've not managed to expuge some last night's awful sleep. Feel ridiculously groggy and lethargic, ughhh!
Might have some toast to go with my Biscoff spread 🤔
My colleague makes rocky road with Bischoff and its ths best rocky road I've ever had
Well that sounds amazing
I have completely wasted today
Me too. It was that kind of day.
me three
Attempts to go for a walk between showers did not work out at all. Mr Woof and I are now quite damp. Anyone got a towel?
🧣
Perfectly timed run for me and the doggo. Slight rain which keeps us both a bit cooler.
Good Bot. 😊
Homemade Stroganoff tonight. Starting to smell real nice.
I should look into that.
It was real nice.
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One of those construct a meal from stuff in the pantry & fridge evenings and shove it all in the air fryer. I’ve got panko crumbed chicken breasts, hand cut chips, roasted zucchini and green beans. This will do.
I'm just watching chunks of American Dad on Youtube, chilling and damping the brain cells down. There should be a way to draw lying on your back.
Oh wow.
TMI cat urine cleaning adventures
On getting kitty home I had zipped apart the pet pram carrier's cloth parts and soaked them in a big plastic tub along with the cloth nappies and blankets that had lined it. I used four lidfuls of generic Napisan and a full dose of enzyme detergent in lukewarm water and soaked for 3 days thinking that would do something to clean and deodorize.
Well... the dark concentrated urine staining has come out but the entire soak water turned into a yellow ammoniac pee solution of its own. An entire washtub of warm soapy water and enzymes intended for nappies turned into pee.
I've drained it, rinsed and wrung out each piece of cloth, and put them back into the rinsed tub to soak again with half a bottle of a biological cleaner concentrate bought for urine. Which I should have used first for it to work properly, but we live and learn. The sponge padding layer may need to be thrown out and replaced with a piece of thick soft foam rubber that won't absorb fluid. The wooden base has been sprayed with the cleaner and left to sit but still may need to be thrown out.
I would bet money that at the cattery she was left sitting in that reeking mess and breathing it in for days. And yes, I did line the carrier with cloth and disposable puppy pads just in case but she dug them up into a pile trying to bury her accidents so it all completely soaked through the cloth carrier on the next one.
I did send her with a bottle of unscented urine cleaner and a bottle of unscented laundry detergent in case of accident, which I mentioned the possibility of, and left my contact details. But here we are.
I may have to buy washable puppy pads and sew them into a rectangular liner that goes all the way up the sides for a waterproof barrier that can't be pulled aside by digging. And if I can't clean this well enough I may be looking at buying a new pram.
Edit: On heading to buy the washable puppy pads I now see I didn't actually pull the pin on buying the planner and stuff /headslap I'll just chuck a few more items in and do that
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Something is stealing my strawberries
And
Whatever it is I Hope
I
Don't break your knees
which brings us to today's rave choon:
😰
I'd rather go and pick some of those...
wild strawberries
Heh CHOON!
Myrkur released a new album and I listened to Mothlike.
The piano and her vocals are still beautiful but it's not really the sort of stuff I like from her. It's sounding more like poppy/symphonic/power metal (idk the names) with a passage of out of context screaming and while pleasant (and I can dig that sometimes) I feel like the weird mishmash of black metal inspired/folk metal or just straight up folk is just more my jam? Maybe with more listens it will grow on me.
But Måneblôt, Ulvinde or I riden så are still probably more my thing.
I watch The Old Ways on netflix. It was a fun horror movie set in the Mexican jungles. 3.5 hobbits.