34 outside, 23 inside, zero grid usage. 'twas priciest part of the reno but zerooooo regrets.
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I got given some used items from work, some cushions and a seemingly very big expensive bean bag that I'll need to wash before using.
I barely managed to fit the bean bag into my back boot of the car, I have feeling that it's going to be way too big for my place but it might be nice to be able to lean back into a bean bag.
I love my beanbags and will often nap in them (mostly accidentally, the cat will come up and then we're both napping lol). But as an over-30 it does a number to my back haha.
Good for gaming in if you have a console too, or reading, chilling. Our beanbags were our couch for over a year before we could buy an actual couch haha
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Mosquitos are out with a vengeance.
Dearest Vietnamese Ice Coffee,
My love for you is unbridled and everlasting.
Forever yours,
UMG
Happy Margarita Day!
About to get up a ladder and clean some gutters but....
Spoke to the old man last night and was reminding me about the ambulance vic subscription.
Then he decided to tell me about one of his buddies who recently had a fall off a ladder.
Apparently he fell backwards and his leg got caught between 2 steps quite high up, leg snapped in half and he was just dangling there until his wife found him an hour later.
Fucking nightmare fuel really bad timing.
Ouch. People do get very blase about ladders and disregard the risks involved. It's also something that people insist on doing when they become too old to do so safely (like driving). Stubborn old men who insist on climbing on the roof are a fairly frequent category of rescue the Fire Brigade go to, when said stubborn old main realises they can't get down again or have a medical episode from the exertion of climbing up.
Apparently the stats for men over 50 falling off ladders are quite startling. If you are under 50, then maybe you'll be OK ...
Just got an email from ex-work asking me to return a whole bunch of equipment: monitors, mouse, keyboard, adapters, USB hub, etc.
I can't even, they don't even keep track of what they've given out?? I only took the two adapters and the USB hub because I have a dual monitor PC set up at home already. Mentioned this to them a thousand times, and they think I took monitors, a keyboard and mouse home on PT?? As if I would use their crusty keyboards over my mechanical one haha
Good grief, I was slightly regretting leaving (I shouldn't, I was suicidal) but I'm certainly not now.
I'm not going out today, so they will have to wait till Friday or Monday.
They sent out a rote letter, but yeah, they really are fuckin' bad. I got the same when my old workplace rolled up, could be I heard of possibly a someone else who realised they had no fucking idea of inventory and got themselves a lenovo out of it...
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Hmmm yes, that electrical safety issue our company identified 2 years ago will be fixed this time. Want to buy a pretty tower in Paris?
I forgot to water the plants all of yesterday because I was in the shittest mood/energy so when I greeted them this morning I felt a wave of resentment radiating from their wilted leaves. I will promise to give them a supplemental water as needed today.
This motherfucker is just growing like there's no tomorrow though, ever since I put it in a pot with a water reservoir. Time for a big chop tomorrow, freeze the leaves for use over winter, hopefully the new growth will stabilise over the next couple months.
healthy boi
ooh lush curry leaf
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Cat has gone back to sleepβ¦ meanwhile Iβm struggling to stay awake and work.
Fingers crossed the weather isnβt too nasty today, worried about fire more than power outages
Kind of happy to be spending the day in hospital just for the air-conditioning! Poor housemate was cranking the evaporative cooling as I was walking out the door.
New computer parts arrive today and it'll be too hot to do computer work.
I got this massive tempered glass computer case as a gift and let me tell you it isn't worth it.
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Just a quick reminder that Saturday (and every February 24) is International Coriander Hatred Day for those of us who celebrate it.
Fuck coriander π
Can you be indifferent to coriander? I neither like it or hate it.
How do I know if I have the gene? Coriander tastes slightly bitter to me.
I shall have a giant bowl of something Thai to memorialise you.
I feel sorry for the soap people.
Losing the genetic lottery is just unfair.
I do and I don't. I do because there's a chance they could've liked it but I don't because it's terrible anyway.
Tastes like soap to me, but I still eat it idc haha
That's the spirit!
Embrace nature's imperial leather :)
I prefer to put it on my food.
I'm convinced that all CEOs and those in equivalent leadership positions are psychopaths and it's only a matter of degree as to how strongly they show those traits.
Welcome to the wonderful world of cutthroat corporate competition. Capitalism encourages this sort of thing.
I think there's a study that shows a greater concentration of sociopaths in executive level positions.
Statistics would say you are almost correct, a pretty large number of CEOs exhibit psychopathic tendencies.
Yes