Melbourne

warming up to listen to the last 5 hours of Rings of the Nibelung

this prelude is so beautiful, it sounds like each instrument is playing their own melody and they slowly come into harmony to play one melody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0l6xfQpgt0

So in general I don't find studying plagues to be too depressing but today I am writing a thesis chapter that deals with some really heavy stuff that's getting to me and I'm finding it hard to write. So if anyone knows any silly jokes please nows the time to post them!

I really wanted sushi earlier, even though they do a 20% holiday surcharge. Whatever, I wanted sushi, I just sucked it up and paid for it. But then when I got home I saw they actually charged me 6 cents more than what they said my total was, and what the receipt says my total was (after surcharge). On the one hand, it's only 6 cents, hardly worth fighting for, but on the other they essentially stole it from me. If you tell me one price, and your screen says that same price, and the receipt says the same price, I'm pretty sure that's illegal

I actually do normally fight these sorts of things, as pathetic as it sounds, on the principal alone. But it takes a lot more motivation to when it involves physically going down there and complaining. A lot easier to do when I can write half an angrily worded email and get ChatGPT to do the rest. I also went to one of those franchise places, and I never have a very high success rate with those. And the ACCCs about as useless as tits on a bull

Sometimes I really just wanna flee to one of those fancy countries where they do weird foreign things like caring about their citizens and not letting shady businesses do dodgy things. The only problem is they are always really really cold

Ted Cat just ran up to me and bit me. Not hard but still. 😡He's angry at me for not giving him unlimited food like my husband did when I was sick with sciatica.

Man, even the BOM getting in on April Fools with the storm forecast. Barely anything >:(

Edit: I retract this comment and politely request my lights stop flickering

We've had our ten drops of rain. Rain now finished.

Ah the joys of languages.

Went for a walk with my wife. Coming in the other direction was a family of mum and kid and a few others.

In Cantonese, "muscle" is pronounced like "gay yok". "Chicken" as in the meat is like "gaiy yok". Very similar pronounciation.

Mum was telling the kid he's out for a walk to build muscle. Kid keeps on telling their mum they wanted chicken meat. Mum keeps on telling them, "muscle, not chicken meat".

Couldn't help but laugh which got my wife's attention, so I translated the conversation.

Now my wife has once again asked me to reinstate support for Cantonese language. I did say no once again though as it's pointless.

the rain gods blessed me with 46 drops of holy water

Marge!

Listening to music and slowly putting away the craft stuff into bags. I figure I'm still pretty burned out on it and I can't wash balls of wool or half made things - so getting them off the floor, out of the way, and sealing them up so any fleas die.

Big sky rumble grumbles down here on the bellarine. Looking at the BoM looks like more grumble rumbles on the way. Hopefully it really gets going tonight so we can get a nice piccy.

Woo hoo. The kid's gone for a few days. Time to partay with a latte. 🎉

I'm so understimulated but too exhausted to actually do anything... and my focus is shot

If there was anybody still trying to be optimistic and hold out hope that any of this paper crap that [major] companies do "for a sustainable future" is anything but a marketing ploy, on the page for the paper food wrapping stuff, you have to enter your age, and if you're under a certain age, you're literally refused access to the website.

Why? Because the entire thing is just a marketing stunt, and there's rules about marketing things to young children.

As much as they make it sound like it's their decision and their marketing code, it is genuinely a thing

I think Melbcat's still having some trouble with her ears. They've got a bit of a smell to them and she's still growing potatoes in there. I didn't do the twice daily follow up ear washes because she was stressed out from so much handling and I was physically wrecked. But I may have to do that now and potentially start the ear drops again.

Also I shrink wrapped my yarn stash in a space saver bag but despite double checking the seal the bag has repeatedly reinflated itself.