Two more weeks until I'm free from academic jail for the year, and I'm dying to visit some dive bars. Going to ~~force~~ gently nudge some friends and hopefully they'll be up for it. If not, I shall bring a book so I don't sit there awkwardly and enjoy the ambience.
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Tinyest's language comprehension appears to have exploded. Still limited words back, but answers are starting to form. Last night I asked him if he wanted to get out of the bath. He shakes his head and says something similar to "nuh". I asked if he wants a bottle, he ponders for a second and goes "Yeh" and starts climbing out of the bath. Blew my mind. Didnt realize he was there yet.
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I'm not going to practice tonight. I'm starting to get complacent.
One more practice tomorrow before the gig and that'll do.
Edit: even with a migraine I'm going. Not to tempt fate, but still.
Check the tuning of your guitar?
Edit: spelling mistake.
I bought new strings so I'll have to break them in which I actually enjoy.
Sister had her performance meeting today.
They just said she has a lot to learn because she's only been there for a year and she's the youngest in her team. They gave her no feedback on her actual performance. There are people in the same role who have been there longer and are earning at least 10k more than her. I hope she jumps ship soon and finds something better.
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I had an interview today for the exact sort of time I want at a place I'd be happy to work for. If that works out I'd start at the end of the month, so right when my 2 weeks pay from the old place would go up to.
If this works out I'm pretty much getting a 2 week holiday before starting work I actually enjoy
This could be wild optimism on my part, but I really hope Gen Z can change workplace culture, and the world for the better.
Because I'm sorry to say Boomers really fucked it up. Gen X and Millennials raised by boomers are too damaged and drained to fight the man.
Millennial here and while I'm generalising, I don't think our generation is following in boomer footsteps in setting workplace culture. Although the biggest change to workplace culture in my lifetime has been thanks to a global pandemic, with the boomers now trying to pedal us backwards.
Biggest thing I've noticed with my millennial colleagues is that they see the job as a job and have very little loyalty to a 'company'. If the wages and conditions are right, they'll stay and work. If they're shit, workers will leave and find something better.
The boomer (and GenX to an extent) mentality is still very much 'find a job and stick it out'.
Until I started my current role (almost 7 years) my longest tenure before that was 3 years, over a 15 year career.
I would get asked in interviews about 'job hopping' and would simply say that I can handle a bad situation for so long. Mind you some of those were being made redundant, but older people couldn't believe I would leave a job.
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As a proud Gen Xer (on the cusp, but still counts) I do my best to undo work place fuckery whenever possible.
Also try to call out and push back on entitled behaviour. That one applies to all generations.
Things are getting a bit busy at work, which is perfect timing, as my secondment to a higher position is coming to an end.
Now I can actually focus on what I'm doing and not sort out other people's issues.
Yay me!
Hooray!
I might have an opportunity after Christmas to have the higher duties role permanently, which would be good as I would ditch my current responsibilities.
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Gym complete
Coffee complete.
AFL trading still goingโฆ
Shitty photo sorry. This is corner of Toorak Rd and St Kilda Rd. 9.3m for 4 br apartment on noisy st corner. Hmm
Another building that will have no vacancies and no residents either.
Loads of them in Southbank. Drive around that area around 7-8pm. Prime time of day for people to be home and awake. Entire apartment buildings are 75% dark.
I'm not certain whether this will be the same. I truly can't see how they can be valued at $9.5M. Who the hell is going to buy them? 4 Bedrooms suggests families. But any family with that much to spend isn't going to want their kids on a busy corner and no yard to run around in.
While it's derelict, there's a 4-bedroom house/yard going for $2M a few hundred meters away. You could spend a Million totally renovating that place and really sprucing it up and still move in before this building is finished. And for a third of the price.
Foreign buyers. Simple as that. Buying a property here ensures safety of their money (talking about China specifically). Whether it's buying through a shell corp or a local agent/entity, those places are not there to be lived in. They're just there to safeguard cash.
Not to mention to beef up a property folio for an agency and artificially inflate the value of the building.
From memory, foreign ownership rules have tightened up, but there's plenty of loopholes still.
For sure, that's the target market - but the trick only works if the property holds that value in the first place. I don't see 9.3M value here, no matter how you twist and stretch it.
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I started looking for a tent at first
Hahaha
I'm always banging on about Thank God You're Here. They recently posted the best clip of the last 2 seasons on youtube, well worth a watch. I think the season finale is tonight.
I maintain that they picked the wrong Hoodoo Gurus song - should have been What's My Scene
And another thing I've been wondering lately.....
What a song! Your right, of course.
Got the news this morning but haven't brought myself to tell anybody yet so you'll be the first. I did the glucose resistance test last week and it seems I have type 2 diabetes. I felt fine during and after the tests so I thought maybe I'd be ok but apparently not so much.
It was almost inevitable, I think, considering dad and I are so similar and he has it. I'm still processing it though. I don't think I have any of the symptoms of it but no doubt if I don't start managing it they'll start popping up. This is my first real health issue. Never broken a bone or had to go to hospital besides normal infant stuff. Not as invincible as I suspected.
The good news is that it's manageable and it doesn't have to stop you living your life. You will be ok.
Definitely sucks getting old. My dad had type 2 as well. Diagnosed after multiple heart attacks & strokes. Type 2 can be managed with diet & exercise. It's not the worst.
it's not enough to unsubscribe or block I want to punish cyanenergy for their SMSing. How the fuck did they even get my details.
Get in touch with the ACCC and the ombudsman. I had some fun doing that to Simply Energy a few years ago