The weather made for an interesting trip outdoors for errands
and no, I haven't taken my coat to the opshop yet so it's not my fault this time
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And the hail, lawd. That is no joke. One min from home and it was coming down like a mother and just slowly taking off from the lights made the car slide.
Thenβ¦ sun. This day legit takes the cake for the craziest run of weather Iβve seen.
Ooh, glad you're ok. I heard it on the roof at work and went to peek outside the door strips. Boss looked at me quizzically and I said, "you know, I'm 50 years old, and I still have to go have a look at the hail!" He said, "you know, there's nothing wrong with that at all."
Can I just delete this week, it looks like a whole pile of Everything Difficult And Going Wrong On All Fronts. Very aggro customer response that I'm frankly scared to deal with and responded as best I could to the intermediary (cust. wants face to face meeting. I put my foot down). More to come in other job tomorrow. And now it turns out I've been enrolled into the wrong bloody uni subject because nobody was paying attention (including me)... and who the fuck knows what fresh hell that opens up with uni bureaucracy and CSP payments. plus my assignment is now 50% over the word limit. I want to disappear into the ground.
hugs Take a breath. You got this, K.
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Hmmm this isnβt pleasant at all.
And hail! For about 20 seconds
the hail here lasted long enough for it to get big, like 1 cm
Oooo. Ok it's getting dark here now.
Sunshine is back. I thought it had knocked off for the day but it turns out it was just smoko.
sunny and windy after the 3-4 blocks of darkness
Itβs disco inferno over here
dark light dark light
Cherry blossom getting there through the wind:
Next to pop are the echiums. Both flower almost concurrently and creates a sort of bee super highway as they go back and forth that you can hear from 10m+ away.
Now that the sun is out taking advantage of the wind to dry my washed doona.
Today's adventure:
Crawled under the house and ran some Ethernet cables. Super janky hard wiring setup, the profs and assorted nerds that know what they're doing will probably yell at me for how I did it. I just ran 2 Ethernet cables from the router out the wall, under the house, and into a hole in the wall in both my bedrooms. Then joined them into shielded ethernet couplers, and that's my new receptacle. Also did a cable between my two rooms, in case I ever do a NAS (that'll live in my spare room)
This is a crude and simplified doodle of what I did:
Mostly tested, both the router main cables work, the LAN cable between the two rooms won't be tested until tonight or tomorrow.
I am absolutely fucking filthy though, completely head to toe in mud. Literally. There's mud in my hair, and my shoes. I need a good shower
I thought this was going to be one of those Alphastructural Imgur posts!
Who?
Still bummed Imgur embeds don't work here anymore since they put in that stupid image proxy thing
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Huh, I didn't realise that state housing allows that lol the more you know
I don't actually know if the house is owned by the state or not. It's managed by the organisation contracted to try really hard to make sure I don't die, and they have at least partial maintenance abilities, but generally maintenance and works are carried out by specific contractors child protection really like, who I believe also have to hold a WWCC.
I brought it up a few months ago, and offered to run the cabling myself. I got a vague yes. I'm not entirely sure she understood what I meant, and it wasn't a firm yes, but I definitely construed it as being a yes. She's been on "indefinite unplanned leave" and I can't clarify the matter, so I decided to do it. Being a child in their care gives me partial immunity too. Worst case they'll tell me off, tell me never to do it again, and then send a sparky out to undo everything I just did. But it's fairly likely I wouldn't have to pay for any of it.
(Their general stance on things is that as long as it can be removed easily, and any damage repaired by me before I move out, it's all good. I'm going to remove the cables and patch up the holes when I leave so it's probably fine. I most certainly would not just do this on a vague agreement made months ago if I lived pretty much anywhere else)
This part of Mernda is a weird spot. The sun is out here, but it can be raining on the other side of Plenty Road or just down at the next train station. It might be the big hill to the southwest of here
looks westward O lawd he comin'
Bam!
yeah he just passed over here. Was sitting here thinking we were through the worst then POW temp drop and sleety rain....ewww
Gratitude thread. I'm grateful to have a roof over my head, and glad it's still attached.
Grateful for the SES and all of the various emergency workers.
And grateful for fluffy cats.
Grateful to be inside and shielded from the weather, sleep, and feeling kinda hopeful about a Difficult Assignment.
I'm grateful that the doggo who randomly 'attacked' me yesterday on the way back from the shops had no idea what it was doing. Out of no where just launched itself at my bum. Mum and daughter walking it off leash on a main road (big no no) about 30m behind me and it just went for me (poorly). Daughter ran up to 'stop' doggo which was nice of her. Mother was yelling 'thank you, thank you!' but I'm not sure if that was directed at the dog, the daughter or me.
Then neighbours' doggo ran up for a pat as I was just getting home. No issues with that one. Good doggo.
Iβm grateful nothing fell on us or blew away, and hope this continues.
Iβm grateful for the electric blanket and the power staying on.
Iβm grateful for Melbcat herself. Weβre going through a rough patch with her health but sheβs what keeps me going.
grateful for the huge steel window shutters I got
grateful for warm aussie merino jumpers
I'm grateful that my no more late night snacking has resulted in a 500g weight loss. I've done nothing else differently.
Very impressive! And nice work for sticking to it. Iβm doing ok, mainly because I have to take a tablet in the evening on an empty stomach. Otherwise, I donβt know if my willpower would hold out, lol
Thanks. Well done to you too!
I was doing ok until I recently said I was, then I jinxed it π Glad you've got some results though, well done!
Thank you.
I was mindlessly snacking when I wasn't hungry so I decided I wasn't gonna eat after 8pm.
Jump back on the train with me. Eat tea, have dessert if need be and then stop after 8pm. That's all. Baby steps.
Eating when you're not hungry does me in, but the reason is that my biggest problem is also eating to avoid food being wasted. I think, "look that'll get thrown out, can't waste it," and I'll eat it when I'm not hungry, especially things that aren't freezable or good for lunch the next day. I'll have to maybe start making smaller portions.
Oh I see. Yeah I hate waste too.
i too have stuck to my new eating plan. No snacks on errands, no bikkies at all, no desserts or cakes will be made . I have no idea if I have lost weight.
have been on decaf after 3 pm for the past month
I will also forgo store bought roti and parathas and only eat healthy home made fat free ones if i have them at all
Woah. Way to go!
I'm wondering if you sleep better without the caffeine after 3pm? I don't have a problem with sleeping but I know others do and I'm just curious.
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I cannot win. Yesterday I went down to the docs to get my blood tested to see how tasty it is, only to be told that they're at capacity for the day (11am) and come back another day.
Today I go in, take a number and get called in only to be told that I've OVER FASTED by an hour or so. I had no idea you could over fast for a blood test. Apparently the sweet spot is between 8 and 12 hours of fasting and I was on hour 15. The lab generally doesn't do tests over 14 hours.
And today is my last day in Melton so I'm going to have to come back another time, which isn't so bad because I can come visit my family. I wasn't going to see the doc again to get results for a month so I'll just do it on one of the weekends coming up I guess.
Annoying because I psyched myself up for the needle.. twice.. I am historically not great with needles/having blood drawn.
You can get your blood taken anywhere, and telehealth for results?
I did not know that either. And all that effort into psyching yourself up, gone to waste. I hear you on that, itβs hard to get there.
Back from my week off in NZ. Absolutely stunning scenery all around, it was just one incredible vista after another and I wondered how this place was real.
Had a couple days skiing as well, thankfully I remembered how to snowboard even though the last time I was at the snow was something like 8 years ago, much fun had. One aspect I had forgotten is how bloody expensive skiing is. It was more worth it for this trip because I wasn't just going there for skiing, but I can't imagine sinking that kind of money to go to the Victorian ski resorts.
Back at it today and still exhausted even after two recovery sleeps, not even the wind could keep me awake last night. I think I've reached the age where I need my own accom when going away with a group of friends, because I was only getting 5 - 6 hours of sleep in our Airbnb house every night and while I didn't really feel it there, as soon as I got home it all hit me.
Apparently I missed a lot of wind?! My backyard looked like it had been trashed.