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Totally forgot I have those wifi multicoloured light globes.
Soft orange light is perfect to make music to.
I like going to musicals but haven’t been for some time because the current offerings are so boring. It’s just the same shows being recycled. I feel like theatre has followed the same trend as pop movies, just reboots and reruns because they are safe. Original creativity is seen as too high risk. It’s a bit sad when the art has left the arts.
@SituationCake @Thornburywitch There's occasional pieces of new brilliance (Aussie musical Fangirls is phenomenal) but yeah, so many repeat runs of the same things at high ticket prices no less
I agree and observe that it's been like that too for orchestral performances , ballet and opera for decades now. There aren't even new recordings anymore, just re-releases decade after decade.
I suppose that's one reason why I listen to so many movie soundtracks, it's new music.
I sort of agree, but at the same time my first experience of theatre was Cats and that is crazy.
Looks like it's going to feel relatively warm tonight so I suggest changing to a lighter doona.
I love walking in the rain!
try walking on it too
Went to Aldi and saw some of those extreme thermo boots.
I almost bit the bullet but I wasn’t quite sure if those boots were going to be comfy enough or too warm for me to wear as I normally wear work boots to work and they’re starting to go.
Still thinking if I should have gotten them or not.
I bought some and can confirm they are super warm and with a good sturdy grip. Will use them for outdoor winter stuff. And at $35 I don’t care if they get muddy and trashed. I reckon they would be too warm and chunky for an office.
Oh bugger. I work both indoors and outdoors by the majority of the time I’m indoors in an office.
At the moment I use tradies steel capped boots so im not sure if that’s any good of a comparison.
35 for a pair of boots that would last quite awhile looked quite attractive to me but not sure how long they would last either.
I guess it depends how cold your feet get. They aren’t steel caps so if you need to meet safety requirements they wouldn’t pass. Open a box in store and try them on in the shop, heaps of people were doing it.
Nah. Not a safety requirement. I just appreciated just sturdy they were and eventually got used to the added weight.
I’m not sure, I’ve been wearing those sorts of boots for quite awhile now and I don’t feel cold in them.
I did try one on quickly and it was ok but it was o my for a quick moment and the front of the boot sort of curls up a little I noticed.
Not sure how warm they would get after awhile of wearing them though.
i started to clean but i cannot locate the fucks so i'll just game or whatever
🍍🍞 for u chef
oh delicious thank you
Oh thank God. I thought it was just me.
If you do find them, pass some along please.
sleeping pill tonight might help me locate them in the morning
It is indeed a day of minimal fuckage
I still have my jammies on.
Same lol. I'll just change into different jammies for bed 🙌
So have my internal job interview next week. I've put my expected salary as 10% greater than I currently have, but about 9 months ago they made the role that I'm going for no longer an automatic pay jump. I know they will say my pay will remain the same and I don't know how to respond to that. They are desperate for people right now, but so is the team id be leaving. I am definitely worth a raise but my company is cheap. The company also loves to bluff - like you ask for a raise, they will tell you no chance UNTIL you have another job offer and say you're leaving. It's a tricky one. Any thoughts?
The company also loves to bluff - like you ask for a raise, they will tell you no chance UNTIL you have another job offer and say you’re leaving. It’s a tricky one. Any thoughts?
You get to set the conditions and timetable of your personal career goals, not them.
Advice I've seen on lemmee.World is if they offer you a promotion without a payrise you put that on your resume and immediately look for another job elsewhere paying the money you were looking for
I think if you get another offer for more money, I wouldn't stay at the same company because they view you as a flight risk.
Movies are being watched. First up, rewatching Judgement at Nuremberg for the 10th time.
It's just as powerful as the first time I watched it.
Every argument and defence that evil uses to justify their actions you can still hear today.
The best way to counter evil is to use your conscience in every aspect of your own life.
5 hobbits.
My kid: I think I'm gonna wear green to the sports carnival tomorrow.
Me: But that's not your house colour.
Her: I don't care. I look good in green.
Me: True.
I made a dentist appointment.
Now run in circles and flibbertygibbert to un panic.
I couldn't sleep last night, so instead of sleeping, I decided to register a domain name. Any guesses what I fucked up while doing so? 🫠
Lesson learnt: don't do fucking anything that costs money when tired. Ever.
But on the plus side, I mean hey now you own buka.com.au!
Or did he register baka.xyz?
Haha bingo! Although this is less cool - stick became sick
I found the corkscrew! I cunningly placed it on top of my box of wine. Where I had already looked, but obviously not very well as it was just pushed to the back a bit (under a shelf, so not very visible).
Having used the first bottle of wine in the beef stew I have opened another bottle to drink, and have been able to use the un-screwed cork that I had to push into the bottle as a seal for the newly opened one, which means I have been able to use the wine stopper in the bottle of soy sauce that for some reason had a non re-sealable bottle top and has been sitting with a bit of foil squished onto it as its lid.
I’m impressed you found affordable wine with actual cork.
I made it myself 😁
I did a package at Shiraz Republic in Heathcote and made a few boxes of Shiraz.
Ooh! I did try making wine but it was beyond ordinary. I’ll stick to my super lemon & gingers 😺
Beef stew (with lots of wine) has been cooked and is currently in jars in the pressure canner. Seven serves, so one tonight and six for later.