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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Just grated a potato, soaked and rinsed it, stirred in some pakora batter powder then deep fried it till crunchy. Holy shit I need to be careful with this culinary heroin I've discovered.
EDIT: I've also made a mix of 50/50 bbq sauce / siracha which is pretty good too.
Went outside and saw my mum and aunt drinking coffee, whilst other aunt had a beer.
Cheers 🍻
I woke up at like 6:30am today for some reason and got out of bed at 7:45 am. It is now nearly 3:45 pm and only NOW have I finally gotten a tiny bit started on that mindless desktop digitising stuff I was supposed to do for uni. I spent 15 minutes importing my field data and downloading a bunch of raster images and now I'm done. I'll do the next step over the weekend. I could laugh, but I'm just glad I finally broke through the inertia - the first layer is always so hard.
Now that I've done at least THAT much, my reward is a shower, the last of that delicious fish curry with pappadums, and then the finale of The Pitt! 🩺
I had a Betty’s burger for lunch. Shit they are good.
I was just reading about a new law coming in for electric vehicles sold in Aus to have speakers that emit noise so that pedestrians will hear them. Good in theory. The catch is, each car maker can have custom noise, so of course they all want some special unique sound. I am already imagining the cacophony of clashing car noises. Lucky I don’t suffer from sensory issue but this could be a new form of hell for those that do. Oh, and the noise must be between 50-75db.
That sounds like an atrocious solution to put the ownus of safety on the pedestrian to hear the car and not the driver to PAY THE FUCKING ATTENTION TO WHERE THEY'RE GOING!!!! Build better infrastructure not worse cars. I already hate traffic noise, I was looking forward to at least EVs being mostly quieter.
The problem is that pedestrians often don't pay attention to where they are going, and if that involves stepping in front of a car without looking there is often not much the car driver can do. Although given how often people are wandering around oblivious with headphones in I'm not sure how helpful sound will be.
I went to type ‘Nooo’ and accidentally typed ‘Mooo’…
Imagine if you could get custom horns like novelty ringtones🐄 😣
One neighbour doing gardening this morning. Fine it's a nice day.
Lunchtime, council is doing mowing grass maintenance around. Bit loud, but whatever.
As soon as they finished, old mate next door decided it's his turn.
I'm going to mow my lawn after work out of spite (and because it needs it).
So I'm learning guitar from scratch with an app Yousician. It's been really helpful because it listens to what string/fret I'm playing and tells me whether it was right, sort of guitar hero-like. Step by step lessons. My dad bought me a year sub to the app so now I can't flake on practicing 😂
I hope that the walls of my apartment are thick enough and I'm not annoying the neighbours lol, we're all nice so I would hope they tell me knock it off. I think it's fine though: I can never heard my nextdoor neighbours, even when they have a dance party, unless I'm in the building hallway. Should be fine.
I need to take breaks though, I'm not used to holding my wrist in that particular way so I have to be careful not to strain it.
I kind of neglected my garden while feeling so sick for this past week.
They look healthy still but I’m learning a lot for next go round. (With how much I need next time I should choose concentrates and combine the organic pesticide and fungicide into the same solution for efficiency.)
There’s a fruit shriveling because I didn’t pollinate it and a recently closed female flower I could still probably get pollen into, but I’m wondering if I should let the plants concentrate on maturing the fruits that are already set and growing. The weather is still warm but I don’t know what to expect.
Feeling sad af. When starting all this I envisioned a bumper crop of zucchini to share out (as people always complain of them going wild) but it seems my space and energy limitations mean a lower yield. (I think those I did plant at the right time.)
With help I managed to sort out a dental appointment for May but that’s still a month away so I got another week of antibiotics from the gp to try and hold me. Worried about the wait tbh.
So I bought something from an aussie supplier on ebay
I get a notice it's coming from china
so it was just a drop shipper
should I assume the seller has checked the product for safety? No. What would happen is I would be told to get a refund from paypal/ebay
I paid an extra $35 over what I could have paid on aliexpress
I bought a mouthguard a while back from Kogan, thinking I’d support a ‘local’ business. It was more expensive than from Amazon, but you know, local.
It arrived in a box with an Amazon docket showing the lower price kogan got it for, prior to the markup I paid. Bloody Kogan, never shopping from them again (and don’t get me started on the resulting spam)
it also bothers me on an ethical level, there are people who don't want to trade with certain companies and yet we get shenanigans like that
You'll still get a refund via paypal/ebay.
Leave a review saying they're a drop shipper and not an aussie based supplier.
Predatory tactics, so fuck'em and report.
too late now
i only found out when it was pretty much on my door step
but I'm going to be more careful now
They just won't stop growing. This is my fourth harvest and I'm barely half way through and the harvested ones are still fruiting.
I think I may have went a tad too far this season. My tummy hurts.
I'm gonna ferment mine then blend them with roast capsicum (and a little chickpea, garlic, salt and vinegar).
frends and fam
@Bottom_racer will gladly provide advice on what to do with a bountiful chilli harvest no doubt.
Haha, yeah Bottom_racer does sauces and that's far beyond my skill level so I'm just dehydrating them and giving excess bags away to friends :)
I am generally too scared to do sauces, but I made myself do a fermented one last year using exquisite yellow scotch bonnets, and it was SO totally worth it (then I had to move and it got contaminated).
I definitely recommend having a go at it some time, even just a tiny batch for yourself. It was actually not as hard as I thought - despite the many gurus out there who overcomplicate things
why is south melbourne market so hot
Glasses. Glasses everywhere
OK so if work is making me give up my lunch break to go to someone's going away lunch, I think it's fair that I not have to pay.
Thoughts?
As dumble said, tell them that out of pocket lunch expenses are not in your budget at the time and you prefer to eat what you brought from home.
I've never actually attended a farewell lunch, especially for someone whom I barely know.
Hopefully this won't affect your standing with your colleagues, but they should be accepting of your situation.
EDIT: 0. Go and just HIT the booze, have like four beers and a dozen tequila shots. If they sack you for getting drunk at a work function sue their asses into your retirement.
I reckon I've listed them in order of acceptability and reverse order of what I'd want to do.
2 is a really good option, probably what I'd do as well. The other time we had a work lunch at a nearby pub that was eye wateringly expensive, I didn't eat and later when the idea of going there was floated again I just straight up said it was nice but out of my budget. Only then did some colleagues chime in to agree. Just gotta be brave sometimes
Very well put.
I'll need to crack open a can of Citray when I get home today. I received an email from La Sirene they've stocked up on the Praline as well. We'll probably be in Reservoir for a car show so I might get some
Gah. Forgot about a bill that needed to be paid until I saw the email receipt of payment 😢
I forgot to mention that you now can’t even read only let alone print a document without a Microsoft Word subscription. I switched to Libre Office
Introducing copilot into 365 and upping the price by $100 was one of the best things to ever happen to Libreoffice. I've been meaning to do a presentation on Libreoffice for the old people I help so they can save money
How did you get involved with helping the old people use technology? I help them at work all the time so they can print stuff but it would be cool to do so in a volunteer capacity.
Cheers for what you do, the digital divide is real
Petrol looks like it's going up around the place today. My two local Ampols were 2.04 and 1.66.
Yep, I heard your warning a couple days ago and filled up yesterday at 1.69 (1.65 was too far away). Passed by plenty of places over 2.00. Thanks for the reminder, I was down to 20% and have a couple more longer than usual drives to do and suspect prices will not go down much till after Anzac Day.
It was going up yesterday too, I reckon they'll all have shot up by the holidays and stay up for them. The price shoots up and trickles down.
I'm getting 164.9 on my 7/11 app as best local price, so good idea to lock in a price.
Just be mindful that the max discount you can get is 25c a litre.
Stopped using 7/11 even since they made that change.
holy shit! better go fill up, cheers!
Yeah. I’m hoping that the stations near me hold steady until Tuesday or Wednesday so I can fill up.
I feel like they might not hold out that long. The weekend of good weather is nigh! Maybe if you're lucky they'll only go up to 1.80
I’m feeling like that too, the stations near me are usually the last to change so there’s hope yet but do still have 2/3rds of a tank so I might be able to hold out till after Easter
Oh good, especially as iirc you have some time off from work and won't need to drive as much hopefully. I rarely fill up as I don't use my car that much but at $70+ a tank it does make me gulp when I do. Miss the precovid prices when I just got my first car.
