God I'm annoyed.
Old man is 80 attempting to clean gutters (that I've already cleaned). Ladder would be 2.8m high. When I wasn't looking he moved the ladder which I had anchored and tethered at the correct angle on flat gravel. At 80, doing it in inappropriate footwear, moved it to undulating wet grass with a running hose (going all over the ladder).
So I gave him a lecture on how fucking stupid that was. He didn't take that well.
Just last month putting blinds up inside, he was scaling a step ladder in socks.
Fucken death wish.
Yay: brain fog seemed to be clearing
Nay: got short sharp shock diarrhoea immediately after eating out today
Yay: recovered quickly and took my young relative on her first ever drive and it went well
Nay: brain fog returning and can't have tasty dinner :(
Yay: I have no commitments for the rest of the weekend and a light week next week, and can just sleep, and sleep, and sleep.
Went shopping for a birthday gift for 10yo, who apparently is into Rainbow Friends. Ugh, I hate buying Roblox game merch, like they need my money. Minipeelers started to get shitty at each other, so I bought them each a $5 pool noodle and had them fight it out in the park next to the train station. They had fun with it, and it made a few people smile as they went past.
Attempting this for dinner - Air fryer nachos
Edit - goddamn! That was really f-ing good and the kids loved it. Win
Fell asleep on couch for hours. Would've stayed there if I hadn't turned off the heater at some point. Moved to bedroom which should've been pre heated between 8-11pm but the heat had all dissipated by the time I ambled in at 2:50am. I'm under so many layers but now I can't go back to sleep, grrr...
On the upside, first night without any coughing at all, probably from sleeping on the couch with my head raised much higher.
Shrinkflation/enshittification
Tried to stretch out the overly tight undies elastic that was cutting into me and the fabric straight up ripped.
Then I was using the hairdryer to dry some slightly damp sponged spots on the electric blanket and the motor burned out. It literally died and produced smoke.
Big W and Kmart used to be good for basics but are now just cheap and nasty. Barely usable. I’m in a Sam Vimes situation constantly spending to replace things that are unwearable or break extremely fast.
Unfortunately the more expensive brands seem to be similarly bad so that’s not a reliable solution. Even the material I could buy to make my own clothes would be more expensive and worse.
Also I bought a soap I used many years ago. The reformulation stinks, burned my skin, and the bar is now tiny. Not only shorter more narrow and thinner but the arch on the back has become so pronounced that half the bar is gone.
Just slept 13 hours. Hopefully I have paid off some of my sleep debt.
I don't know what to do with my life. The only thing that remotely appeals to me is secondary teaching. I gain satisfaction from seeing lightbulb moments after teaching someone how to do something, I think of myself as a relatively patient person, I care about student welfare and am passionate about the subject areas I want to teach.
I've always struggled with school (partly due to undiagnosed ADHD that I'm still not medicated for) and also I know I'd be perceived as a pushover and not know what to do when a kid is behaving poorly. I was perceived that way when tutoring.
My parents say they don't see me in the classroom. They say to do something in the medical field that's not medicine or nursing.
I'm in my last semester of my degree majoring in psychology. I've been merit listed for HR jobs which probably means I won't get something. I will probably end up going into further study, but even teaching is starting to not appeal to me anymore. I don't know what to do and the pressure is mounting to decide.
Part of me just wants to run away to the other side of the world and work as a bartender, because it would work with my sleep schedule and making drinks seems fun.
@Seagoon_ Let's get the ball rolling...
Much on over the weekend for everyone?
At my end, some of it will be spent planning last minute anniversary surprises for wifey. It's on the 12th of August, so I've really left it to the last minute 😔
Suggestions welcome...
Went to watch Deadpool & wolverine with the fam tonight.
What a culmination of the last 30 years of Super hero movies.
Hit the right feels, whilst being stupidly violent and funny as shit.
This weekend is going to be so chill, it’s great
Holy crap.
My 🐱 giving me anxiety with such a close win tonight.
Wish they’d stop doing that to me!
Feeling supremely unmotivated after this morning's early activities, not helped by both Zooki and Sammi pinning me to the couch. Did manage to get a load of washing on though.
everything I put out for people to take for free has gone, all the dvds, the knickknacks and the jigsaw puzzles
I also took two big bags of miss seagoon's clothes and some blankets to the opshop
tomorrow I put more stuff out
I came home with some LPs and a small 1960s maple glass cabinet to put my shell collection in. I'm trying to get things kind of tidy.
I do most of my shopping in Brunny and I just want to shout out and say everyone there dresses so stylishly. They might not have designer clothes but what they wear they wear so well and confidently.
Doctor ordered the routine blood tests and the closest place was still the Highett place, so drove up and am sitting in a cafe in Cheltenham waiting on my breakfast. Charman Rd carpark is already filling. (Locals will understand.)
vocal fry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDfJn1kcQuU
fuck i hate it
My Lemmy crashed when I was halfway through writing a long comment :( and I can't be bothered retyping everything
Spotify crashed too, which was odd
Apparently Officeworks will sell you a pack of iced vovos for $3.54 at any time. Coles or woolies are $4. You can get them on special for 2 bucks every couple of months, but if anyone wants them noooow, Officeworks have your back
love ya, offeys. Plus, free delivery if you have onepass 🤷♂️
Apparently nine life (like the tv channel?) will sell you a pack for $78.00. But don't worry - they're on sale. Previously $130.00.
(I genuinely can't tell if I'm missing something. it seems like they're actually selling a single 210g pack for $78, not even one of those boxes they come in they put onto the shelves)
Restaurant reservation made for next Sunday, flowers sorted.
I mentioned to wifey not to make plans for next Sunday.
"What's happening next Sunday?" she asked, then looked it up.
I think she'd forgotten, and took it as a less at hand subtle hint 😂
I had a couple of replacements arrive this week, but I haven't had much of a chance to play around with them. One of them was an old Oppo AX7 that I had laying around. It was actually just about completely dead. I got it in 2019, and it was the first sort of decent phone I had. It was 300 bucks, and I paid for half of it, with the last place I was at paying for the other half. I used it for a couple of years, before eventually dropping it so many times that the LCD broke and a black blotch started spreading along my screen. Still worked. Until in the middle of the night it stopped working. I purchased a new screen for it in 2023 planning to fix it up and use it as a wardriving device, but I couldn't get the fucking screws out. I tried everything, and even asked 4 different people to give it a crack. Damn Oppo really don't want you fixing their phones. I did some googling, and found that someone suggested using a tiny bit of super glue to bind it to a screwdriver and get it out. That didn't work. I gave up with half (4) of the screws left. Gave it to one of the techy workers, and he managed to get 3 out using a bit of solder, but that one was forever stuck. That's actually why I bought the S8. Had it and the screen replacement in a little bag I was planning on taking to ewaste, but then old mate snapped it in half. So I got a working phone out of a broken one lmao
The other notable thing was the MacBook that was stolen. I got it back in 2018 and was the first laptop I had. In 2020 my charger broke, and I asked my last place to get me a new one. That got me some dodgy knockoff from eBay, and after a few weeks, it sparked when I plugged it into the port and charred one of the ports, burning out one of the pins on the charger. I cleaned it up a bit and borrowed a genuine one from my school which charred and burnt out too (no sparking though). I deemed it mostly a write off and put it in its box and kept it in some drawers, intending to replace the I/O board when I had $150 to spare. When I moved in here, I decided to order the cheapest eBay charger I could find, just to see if it would happen again and determine if it was worth replacing the I/O board. It worked, and never had another issue. Funnily enough though, in 2018 a kid at a previous placement got shitty with me and scratched the back up quite a bit, so I also basically got an upgrade out of this one too.
Although oddly, both of these arrived completely filthy. The phone was bought from CeX and the MacBook from some refurbishment shop. I can understand why the person Hocking them wouldn't clean them, but why wouldn't the shop? I'm not a huge fan of fingerprints all of my screens. Takes 2 seconds, and a 3 cent alcohol wipe (or free with a zinger meal) to take the condition up a few notches
I just had the fun of watching lot of cars figure out what to do with a Fire Truck behind them. Lots of attempting to move out of the way by changing lanes at the lights, which all turned out to be not helpful at all because it went around the corner.
