Daily discussion thread 🥊☀️🔥Thursday, 26 December, 2024
Daily discussion thread 🥊☀️🔥Thursday, 26 December, 2024
Today's weather forecast (Melbourne CBD 3000): min - 23°C, max - 39°C. 25% chance of at least 1mm rain
Temperature peak expected by 4pm. Cool change expected by 11pm
Gee I hope the fires don't actually reach Ararat and Stawell, that would be awful.
It's supposedly a warm night out here where I am but compared to last night in the hotbox I'm positively loving it. Lovely balmy breeze. Just nothing but the sound of insects chirping and the wind through the trees, no humans anywhere near, no lights, no electricity (though maybe annoyingly for trying to break bad habits, some phone reception...)
I’ve had 3 days of eating very too many desserts. No regrets.
Work is over for the day & I finally have two days to myself, yay! Time to start catching up on all the cleaning and gardening I need to do...
Christmas is nice, but it is a bit hard to fit everything in when you don't have any time off and I have fallen a bit behind on a few of those not completely vital chores.
Here comes the change!
Perfect time to go for a walk. Cool breeze just kicked in.
The Stenchening: part 3
It now seems to be coming out of the manhole in the laundry. Once I finish my washing, I'm gonna evacuate the room and try to tape the door shut or something (it doesn't stay closed and I can't seem to fix it)
I feel like I'm trying to cordon off a bloody disease in Disneyland at this point
🙃
Ended up leaving Melbourne at 10am (after doubling back realising I'd left my wallet and hat at home). Made pretty decent time just pedal to the metal to Albury now another longer break just past Yass. Just 1.5 hrs more after this. Caught up with the fire news and it looks farked. So many people love Halls Gap though I have every confidence it will come back even if it gets hit really hard this time
Made some Pad Thai for dinner....turned out great.... recipe called for garlic chives I used garlic shoots.
OMG they're garlicky as hell. I love garlic but wasn't ready.
RIP anyone that talks to me over the next 24 hours
Last night I had a really nice dream. In it I was in a happy and loving relationship with someone who cared about me. It didn't even last that long, but in the dream I felt like it had been longer.
I've been thinking about it all day. She didn't even have a face, I just remember hugging her and thinking about how comfortable I was.
One of those not-nightmares that feels like one in retrospect
Mmmm more lamb for dinner with coleslaw.
Lamb!
Christmas day report.
Some of you may remember me writing about my BIL who is a hoarder and for whom we spent a lot of energy and time cleaning up his house and yard. Weeks of horrible disgusting dirty work.
He does not have much furniture, nearly all that he has he inherited from his dad, just like he inherited the house. And he does need to replace his kitchen and bathroom .
So I organised a nice big gift card from ikea to him as a present. Just to get him looking at the website or in the actual store as well as getting something that could make his life better.
He opened the present. He was furious.
It seems to me he was counting on cash so that in our usual cash gift exchange he would come out even. Take into account he doesn't make any meaningful contribution to xmas dinners or any fam celebration, he usually comes out ahead.
I had no idea he was that much of an unredeemed Scrooge.
This year I’ve ended up with some chocolates that I really like, some of them a little different from usual like orange slices coated in dark chocolate and peanuts coated in dark chocolate and a lot of Lindor chocolate.
I think I’m almost relieved this year not to get a Cadbury favourites box.
I think it’s the least favourite of any chocolate boxes i like to get because I hate what’s in them.
Oh and also got a box of shortbread biscuits, oohh they’re so good.
Ok now for a positive comment. Visited the grandma's house and she had a guitar amp in her garage that must've belonged to one of my cousins back in the day. It was very dusty! She insisted I take it, so now I have an amp with overdrive yay!
Sometimes good things happen when you're not looking for them :)
Christmas day report 2.
That cousin who totes disrespected me last week. 🙄
Started talking about all of us going on holiday with him to Ireland.
This is after he said the bus tour operator on his last holiday was boring and would point out the most boring things, like ancient ruins of monasteries
and I said I'd be "Stop the bus!" and would be excited to see the ruins of the places where monks worked to save western civilisation after the fall of Rome.
To him the tour would be seeing places where some of his ancestors ( the men ) came from . I truly would not have enough eyes to roll.
Talking with him yesterday was a good exercise on how a very average sexist copes with talking to a woman who is not cowed by him and is way smarter and knows stuff better ( not perfect, just better ) The copium was spread thick.
"That's just your opinion."
changes subject
starts to get passive aggressive
appeals to other people
Given how bad the wind looked on the forecast, I can happily say I’ve ridden in worse.
Down at my mates for Chrissie leftovers and their salads are the bomb. Surprised I was able to have a full late lunch given how my gut felt this morning.
Now time for some online shopping, methinks.
Hope everyone is having a nice Boxing Day!
followup to smell
So I feel pretty sure it's probably something dead in the roof now. I called, but it doesn't qualify as urgent, so I have to call back tomorrow. Fucking lucky I haven't invited anyone over for tomorrow or NY.
Tbh the idea of showering in the dead animal room isn't actually what's getting me, I'm mostly worried about the smell transferring (even a little bit) to me or my clothes. I'm very very self conscious about smells and the idea of having to walk around smelling like the grim reaper honestly makes me wonder if a sponge bath in the kitchen sink would leave me better off
Now that I think about it, I've noticed a lot more flies around the place as well. I was actually gonna complain about that earlier, but I just assumed a few got in when I've had to leave the door open a few times recently to bring stuff in, etc and it was my own fault
One things sure, I don't really feel like making, or eating, dinner anymore. Oh well. At least the smell is contained to the bathroom, at least for now. There's no vents or ducts in any other rooms. Although the laundry has a manhole, and the laundry door doesn't stay closed, so if it starts to seep out of there, I'll have to tape the bloody door shut or something
Ugh. There's been a horrendous stench in the bathroom all day and I can't for the life of me figure out where it's coming from or how to fix it
spoilered cause probably a bit gross
It smells kind of like a combination of mold, rotting meat, and rotten eggs. It's awful. Probably sewer gas I'm guessing. My bathroom and toilet are 2 separate rooms that share a wall, but I don't believe share a wastewater line
I can smell it in both, but it's extremely strong in the bathroom, and only faint in the toilet room if the fan isn't running. Can't smell it while it is. It's almost strong enough to knockout a bloody horse in the bathroom. I was thinking dry P trap, because I haven't used the bathtub while I've been here, and this place I believe was vacant for a little while. I've tried running the taps and tipping a fair bit of water down the drains, enought o hopefully dislodge anything that could be causing the smell if it isn't sewer gas, but no dice
There's no clothes on the floor in the bathroom or anything, and both at least appear visibly clean. I've tried sniffing each drain but they don't really smell bad, they just smell like water with a little bit of "grandma's house"/old people smell
I think I'm gonna have to admit I dunno and call the landlord to get a plumber out. I'm just scared maybe I've unintentionally fucked something up, or it's a dead easy fix and I get stung with the cost
Tech support complete. Basically accessing sensitive docs sent by a law firm.
Without giving too much away ol' boy is giving a medico legal opinion on a poor young lady who has been through the wars. Family suing a doc (not the ol' boy thankfully) completely unrelated to underlying issues.
Anyway this is discovery shit.. defendants' (the doc.) file is a GB or a 1400 pg pdf, extremely detailed entire history (which is a lot, down to everything done intra-daily). Plaintiffs' bringing 240KB lol (shouldn't laugh but the discrepancy is absurd).
When these guys retire or semi-retire, some of them are hit up by either the defendant or plaintiff's lawyers depending on their history of siding with whoever. Some sell themselves to the highest bidder, others do it because it's right, others to protect their colleagues, some pro-bono or a combination.
Sounds awful but it do be that way. And this shit drags on like you wouldn't believe (and naturally it's the lawyers that win).
In any case, moral of the story is record everything.
It's a sleepy day today. Made the trek in the heat to get cat food for the extended cat family and now I'm done.
Western wind change appears to be past the Otways and heading our way. Yayyy!!!!! Some rain too it seems. map
Click on 'weather radar' to see the rain. For graphics I really love this website.
Eugh that was a horrible sleep. Had to sleep with the fan pointed at my face, and now my nose is very blocked and I feel sick. Already 30° inside, 1 degree colder than out
"Happy Spin Goes to the Supermarket Without Supervision and Buys All the Random Leftovers Day to meeeeeee!!!" Sung this to my bf while handing him a coffee. I love having a poke around the supermarket in the days after Christmas. Though it might wait until tomorrow, don't wanna walk there in this weather or tackle the car park.
Driving home yesterday evening the sun was so red. Would be cool if it wasn't because of smoke.
Got my cooking and eating out of the way today .. now just need to stay cool
Yuck. Already so warm, waiting for the sun washing cycle to be done so I can hang it all outside and change of bed sheets happening today too.
Then I can relax!
Noooo…
I should have waited for today to wash my hair
And done the fungicide spray on the tomatoes last night. I might pull the smaller plants and seedlings inside
Sinuses attempting to murder me. The hunt for discounted Turkey can wait.
It's hotter outside than in, but it's so overcast outside that it actually feels reasonably cool out there
E: the pool is unpleasantly chilly without any sun. Should've gone in yesterday when it was sunny!
I’m going to regret just finishing off a coffee.
I plan on watching the test cricket and doing the washing to take advantage of the weather.
Lazy day all round and I hope the cricket is good.
I think today's gonna be a calm day for me. Groceries are due to be delivered between 3-5, and temps are expected to peak by 4 (which is good because I forgot to order ice cream). I can have a sleep in and then I reckon I'll get up and go for a dip in the pool. Oh, and then tomorrow (Friday) is robo vacuum day! Exciting! I must really be getting old if a vacuum cleaner is more exciting than a pool. Or maybe it's all about the anticipation
Today's gonna be a rough one for the firies, though, that's for sure. The Grampians fire is currently at 49k Ha according to VicEmergency. Probably more because there's 2 separate incidents showing and one doesn't have the Ha count. 40s throughout much of Vic today
There's also a damaging winds warning for most of the state. 90+km/h, 110km/h gusts in some areas from after sunrise. That'll fuck everything up if there's a few embers. Wouldn't surprise me if there's a few bushfires around the more grassy parts of melbs today too
