Melbourne

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I did not expect my lovely little trip to feature a visit to urgent care, but here we are. After vomiting all day they've given me anti-nausea stuff. Hopefully I can actually enjoy the rest of the trip!

Mr Woof working on his turndown service

Omfg the amount of bloatware on this laptop is insane! Windows really is just bloat at this point. It reminds me of when I was younger and used to have a cheap shitty Optus/Telstra phone they probably sold as a loss leader. They used to come with sooo much bloatware. Even the cheap Samsung's used to.

But seriously. No I don't fucking want Norton, LinkedIn, candy crush, Microsoft maps, or Facebook. God. And everything is so pushy, why can't it be quiet bloatware.

Open edge

Search for chrome

"There's no need to switch to another browser! Edge performs better."

Close popup

Go to the download chrome page

"Microsoft edge performs up to 3x faster than >google chrome!"

Close popup

Download chrome

Open chrome

"Installer error! Failed with error code 57"

Norton popup: "we found a threat on your device! But don't worry. We blocked it."

I NEVER WANTED NORTON OR EDGE I JUST WANT CHROOOOOOOMEEEEEEEEEEEE. FUCK. OFF

this was also after about 15 minutes of trying to figure out how to fuck all the Microsoft garbage off and just use a local account.

And now:

MSI Centre popup: "Have you backed up your system?"

NO I HAVEN'T BACKED UP MY FUCKING SYSTEM THERE'S NOTHING TO BACKUP YET YOU DONKEY! I HAVENT EVEN INSTALLED CHROME YET!!!

On the way home from tennis. I gave myself two options: 1. Take PT home and order delivery or 2. Take a cab home and make food instead. I did neither, took PT home and will make food instead of ordering in. Go me!

Update: it just arrived. I checked the tracking at 7:18 and it was still saying ready for processing so I went to the kitchen to grab some cheeky ice cream, and then there was a surprise knock on my door! Delivered at 7:21, and after double checking the tracking they've retroactively marked it as on board for delivery in Tullamarine at 7:12 (definitely wasn't there before). I'm a lot more than 8 minutes from tullamarine. I'll be honest - I jumped when I heard the knock. And yes, it came through startrack not auspost (although in my mind they're still the same thing)

Not complaining though, that was bloody efficient. I mean look at this!

New laptop day though!

Made it down the Bellarine on PT. Bus dude was throwing down some Bowie - Let's dance.. which brings us to a Rave choon

So I guess we're all good now. Recruiter messaged back saying it was a great reference.

HR rang to let me know my start date and time, and what to expect on my first day.

It's done.

Thank you everyone for all your help and support ❤️❤️❤️

Now I'm going to give the cat a shit load of treats, and enjoy some video games without feeling guilty because I should be applying for jobs.

It's been a huge learning experience the last 6 months. I won't be forgetting the lessons any time soon.

Honestly this weather is so fucking shit. Literally have not left the house today and frankly it's probably going to stay that way.

Scary movie review part II

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

I forgotted the most important part of my review.

This movie tells teens they have the ability and innate psychological strength to face adversity and that they don't need protecting from stories about tragedy and trauma and that facing trauma is a part of healing.

So my replacement laptop is coming today (possibly). They had an option I've never seen before - "Australia Post next day evening (6-9pm)". I decided to go with this one instead of express post, because surprisingly it was actually a dollar cheaper. Apparently this is part of some service called Australia Post metro express, or possibly startrack courier (both things I never knew existed). The shipping info said they did the pre lodgement at 1pm, and apparently it WILL arrive within the next 4 hours.

I'm really sceptical, because since when do Australia Post do after hours delivery, and half the time their next day shipping doesn't even happen. But I will update you all later. If it actually does arrive, then I'm going to think I'm in a dream

Rang Tenants Vic for last night's issue.

Amongst many things, these two stood out:

• Under RTA S72 Was told that rental provider must repair within 48 hours
• Under RTA S67 quiet enjoyment of premises, and that I should be able to use all facilities and rooms to full extent.

But I couldn't find anything written to support the "48 hours" figure and the "full extent" statement that I could refer to in the next email, any idea?

Agent pushed back saying it's normal for the switch to trip if we overload the circuit lol. No shit. But if the apartment's power is cut off from an outside switchboard that only owners corp can access... gotta wait 3 days for someone to come and fix it.

And for clarity:

• Switchboard inside apartment: Oven, hot water, and I think the stove are on their own circuits. No idea where the bathroom heater is wired up to.
• From outside of the apartment: aircon on one "line", oven/hot water/stove/bathroom heater on another, other outlets on another.
• Using oven/hot water/stove/heater together apparently cuts the power to the whole apartment from outside, but from what I can gather, we would be fine using a smaller combination of the above, our own portable heaters and aircon together lol.

Have come home hungry so I made peanut butter toast.

Came back annoyed from work because I think someone went through my drawers for a stapler which I’ll double check tomorrow morning when I get in.

I will be confronting this person and telling them that going through my office drawers was inappropriate and violated my personal space.

I don’t understand why people don’t know boundaries.