Daily Discussion Thread: ☄️ Monday, 20 January, 2025

I'm back. Spent Friday in hospital with some pretty sketch vitals but they gave me an IV and I appear to be alive again. Viral meningitis is the leading theory, we couldn't actually diagnose it and given I'm no longer looking like the reapers next target no one is all that stressed any more.

Holy shit. Glad to hear you're still with us but that sounds like the shittest weekend possible. May you recover swiftly
That is a shock, Tiny! Speedy recovery!
Meningitis 😮 Glad to hear you're on the mend Tiny!
so many hugs, rest up
Eeep!
Oh wow! So glad to hear you're feeling better though!
God, glad to hear you're feeling better now
Eeek! Glad you're feeling better now. Helluva way to weekend though.
Oh shit. Glad you're feeling better.
Glad to hear you're ok mate! I've had that illness and it fucking sucked!
That’s scary! Hope you’re on the mend soon
Ow. That's bananas and very scary. Glad you are on the mend
Jeez rough. Glad you're feeling better.
Holy shit dude, glad you're better. That's absolutely scary.

My work forecast today:

Pictures not of my actual work, as I'm still on a bus crawling along a busy road!

Ugh, ded.

Big weekend of scooting around. Sabotaged bedtime in typical Llab fashion. Waking up hurts.

One of the boys had a croaky voice and now I'm feeling it too. Time to see how flexible the new job is with being in the office, lest they want everyone else to get sick too

Ugh the bedroom was so hot I didn't fall asleep until 1:30am and now I feel like warmed over crap despite feeling so upbeat last night! I ought to get those car windscreen shades for the windows already...

same, I woke up from the warm, had to put ac on. Even the cats were struggling.
- Poor Bill and Ted. Those coats would've made it stifling (although I know cats have that undercoat of fur or something that helps with temperature regulation). We just need to make it to Wednesday!
Same! We had the AC going till about 2:30 to keep the air moving which was nice. Woke up at 430 and it was too warm...took me too long to fall back asleep (generally do it in seconds).
Today will be a struggle.
- I had the AC on sleep mode but should've had it regular overnight honestly. It was disgusting. I feel like death today and I have to be outside all day, joy. Good luck to us both
It was horrible 😭
- Don't cry, you'll get dehydrated!

Cheers for the these goonsy

It was still quite toasty last night, even with the air con on before bed. But I have a smart plug I run the air con off now, so I put on a timer to turn it off at 2am. Worked quite nicely! Power bill's gonna be fucked again, though. Had to run it most of the time I was home yesterday

Watching Tokyo Vice.

So good!

I’ve been meaning to get back to that.
- I have really enjoyed it so far.

I'm out of NRTs
\ So I'm going cold turkey
\ Pray for me 😭

Edit: thank you all for your advice and support! Truly. But I cannot buy NRTs or anything until Friday, we have less than $100 and I would prefer to keep that for cat food/human food.

Apologies for complaining. I'm always complaining.

nicotell stage 3's. A months worth for the same price as a deck, and they help you maintain. You might still kinda habitually want, but you won't be at the "shank my grandma for a durrie" level.
🙏

Good night everyone. 😘😘😘

Gina Rinehart putting a full page ad praising Trump in the Wall Street Journal is unsettling. And that photo, just weird. I’d like to get off this 2025 timeline and go back to the normal one please.

EW EEEEEEW
- It's the 'and friends' that creeps me out. An entirely new definition of 'friends' is required here.
Does she have any redeeming features whatsoever?
- I thought really hard on this and I don't think she does tbh 😂
- She has a shelf life.
- Hats. If you care for such things. She does hats well.
I feel like that picture should be flagged NSFW. Or home. Or anywhere else 🤢🤮
Its so nice giving up on keeping up to date with this shit. You should give it a go! I miss the daily show, but beyond that there is really no upside in being involved in foreign politics unless your playing the stock market or investing.
- Not checking the news regularly any longer has done wonders to my mental health tbqh

Can’t wake my brain up today. Really wish I was out for a swim instead of at my desk.

I wish I was back in bed.
- Also an excellent option!

Thank you seagoon 💜🙌🏼

Some shitty news at work this morning. A couple of vacated senior positions will not be back filled. That's a few opportunities we won't be getting. Time to start looking elsewhere methinks.

Sounds like the way to go. If there's no way up you'll just have to move sideways
- I've got a contract until end of this year. It being public service, the job is all but guaranteed until then. Looking at other departments now, cause I want to keep my entitlements at least, but could go private if necessary.
  I'm fortunate enough to have a decent amount of time to make that decision, others don't have that luxury.

Hooray we got it. Actually had no idea I did until this morn. lol. Turns out it was a bit more south than i thought. Couldn't see it with the naked eye.

10" exposure 800iso f/1.8 so pretty faint really. I thought it was supposed to be brighter. but now we know where to look (thanks to tha little rock in the foreground thanks buddy) so will have another go tonight.

Gorgeous photo!
Such a lovely shot!
Omg that's an amazing photo! I actually like the asymmetry of the photo, with the comet to the left like that.

if this f'ing laptop goes to sleep on more time I'm installing Mint and you can hold me to that. Only thing I can see in is maybe a "hibernate after 180 minutes" cause its sure as shit not set to sleep otherwise.

Hell, 11 has been installing an update for the past 20 minutes and its only at 4%. I may just install linux anyway.

Do it....come to the dark side...we have penguins 🐧
- last distro I deployed was Mint and I was super impressed till I did an update that stuffed the distro. Panicked each time it tried to boot. Windows may shit me, but I know how to fix it.
Man the IT course i did had install mint lol

Washing machine sorted. A leaky hose. Now I have 4 weeks worth of washing to do. Me happy.

you had 4 weeks of undies? I couldnt go 2 weeks, and even then wouldnt make it that far in socks.
- Well. Undies were the last things that I washed and sometimes I didn't even bother to put some on after showering. It's good to let bits breathe occasionally.
- Ditto
  I can last 5 days without washing, but I wash everything after each use, regardless of dirt levels (I'm a very sweaty person). I could make it 7 comfortably reusing things as necessary. Although opposite to you, I've actually got about 3 weeks worth of socks, and would be okay reusing them once most of the time
- I would just start hand washing necessary clothes.
Hooray! Good weather for a wash-a-thon.
- Sure is.

One of the larger companies account managers needs to be away for 2 weeks.

So guess what's happening? Either me or my feckless co worker will have to do his job while he's away.

If I get given this, and no pay raise, then I'm bailing asap.

Penske file that shit.
It'd be a shame if you got sick.
"Thanks boss! which of these responsibilities should I delegate to make room? And to whom?"
Love when someone else's leave becomes your problem. A couple years back my old boss went galivanting around Europe for 2 months and most of her work fell onto me, it was hell.
- When i went on leave for a week for my birthday last year nobody was asked to take over.
  I'm still catching up and that was in November.
- I love the word gallivanting. It's a nicer word than whoring or trollopsing.

Pet Peeve - someone messages you on teams with a question, you go to reply and their status is set to Busy or DND.

Check later and they're offline and out of office until next week.

Are some people really that scatterbrained?

hahahah yes. It's urgent until you try and get more info to work on the issue....then suddenly it's nbd.

Christ it was hot and muggy out there. Disgusting!! Felt so gross by noon. Burnt, dehydrated, fly- irritated ... The one plus point is I managed to leave early enough after hitting my quota and have embarked on dinner as I promised myself.

It's turning out a bit ambitious: teriyaki salmon, blanched amaranth with sesame and miso, quick pickled carrot and daikon (my life for a julienne-r - atrocious knife skills). Now for a quick run to the shops for short grain rice to round it out, even though the Coles ones taste like cardboard.

Cut too much daikon so that's gone into a spicy stir fry with more carrot...

Update: today has kinda been a write off, but not as much as I was anticipating, which means I've ended the day a bit happier than I started it

I did however forget that I have school work due tonight, that I haven't even started yet 😬 but in my defence, it's been the holidays, and the unit we did before isn't due for a couple of months, while this one we started in late Dec and only got 1 class on (I think) is due now. Breaks the brain a little. Legal and ethical, too, but of a bleh module

Done. Got up. Reset kitchen, got some yoghurt doing its thing in the instant pot, even managed to wipe down the bathroom surfaces while it boiled. Now bed for reals. Night all

Hard to choose the sunset swim pic but we're going with this:

Also met the most ridiculously tiny toy doggo who just ran up to say hello. Would've been no taller than my ankle. Fearless.

Alright. The meeting for a pay rise is tomorrow.

Thankfully, I've got 2 more interviews. One from Australia and one from a very large multinational electronics firm.

Let's see what happens.

Goodnight all ❤️

Just beautiful on the beach tonight.. Water is the perfect temperature.

Bleugh. I napped today too, and didn’t get everything done due to anxiety paralysis. Why is being alive so hard

Hugs.

Well, after a DISGUSTINGLY sweaty and horrid day out (bonus fly that kept trying to kiss my lips or eyeballs), at least I got home in time to make the dinner I promised myself.

However, I got a bit ambitious... Keep forgetting how very, very little kitchen space there is and I can't make several things at once. I ended up doing teriyaki salmon (delicious but way too fussy needing the flouring first), blanched amaranth with Japanese sesame sauce (goma-ae), and a quick pickle of shittily julienned carrot and daikon radish. With gluggy rice because I stupidly followed the packet instructions instead of my own experience that jasmine rice needs 1:1 in this rice cooker 🙄

Took like 3 hours in the end... Not exactly worth it but well at least I tried. Rest of this week is gonna be far simpler! Fuck I hate this kitchen.

Now for all the washing up 😮‍💨

That looks amazing!

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I'll take the leftovers please chef
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Got an early start tomorrow, we're gonna beat the heat (hopefully) and get the pizza bases finished early. Now I've got to try and get some sleep in a house where everyone is still up and about 🙉Goodnight everyone! 💤

Apparently my phone came off the charger again last night :/

I think I'm moving it in my sleep

E: 1 minute after I hopped in the shower, I had a delivery which needed a signature. I didn't even hear them knock (but they did according to my camera). And the drawstring on my shorts got tangled in the washing machine, so one of them is now stuck inside while the other one has knotted itself

I reckon today's a write off, and would love to just get back into bed and try again tomorrow. But unfortunately commitments demand that I do not do such things. Gonna have a tough time trying to muster up the will to go about life today though

been too hot to work on the terrace garden for long, 10 minutes an hour is better than nothing

Watched Wicked last night and it was every bit as pretty as I knew it would be. The music made me grin so much.

I did say to my boyfriend that just once in my life I want to be part of a choreographed troupe, dancing around a burning effigy.

Id love to see it tbh, but Ariana creeps me out 😂 and so does SpongeBoq.
Maybe I'll watch it once part 2 comes out lol - I think in too invested in the arianagrandessnark subreddit presently 😂
- I did wonder if I was going to struggle to watch it when her in it, but she did really well in the role. It suits her - someone who thinks they're so great, but really kinda isn't. I find both her and Cynthia insufferable.

I have just ordered 2 boxes of frosty fruits. 🧊🍊

The frosty fruits ad has lived in my head rent free for ... what...40 years now? https://youtu.be/C6CncXJe27E
- Oh my god!!! Nostalgia!
I just had myself frosty fruits fruit stack, pretty yum.

Paperwork, paperwork, lawyer meeting, paperwork. Head explosion!

Double update: I got distracted from my schoolwork to admire how good the Bitter Sweet Symphony is. Everytime it pops up in my shuffle, I feel compelled to stop and actively listen to it

There's plenty of songs I like more, but I honestly think I would rank The Bitter Sweet Symphony as the best song of all time

(I had a chat with my teacher, she's not fussed if I'm a day late with my work, so I'm damn well going to silently sing the song damn it!)

Okay, it's almost been a month of owning Jason (the robot vacuum), here's my review:

TL;DR: Fantastic for me, maybe not the best for you because of certain limitations and difficulties. Worthwhile purchase

I'd love a robot vacuum but the house has too many different floor levels due to random renovations 🤦🏼‍♀️
- Yeah that's a good point. My house is all a single level so a non issue for me. For two or maybe 3 levels you can get away with carrying it up (it allows you to have multiple different maps and switch between them). Still a manual process though. The Richies solve that by buying multiple, but obviously impractical with multiple different uneven levels
we dealt with the cable issue by blocking the roomba from our home offices and bedroom. Ok, the last was so the cats had at least one refuge.
we use a lighthouse to stop it raping the cat bowls and the bath mat.
- Honestly I just deal with it. I need an extension cord to get to my desk cause they only put power points on one side of the room, but I hate shit on the floor so I ran them on command hook things across the window and then down to a power board on my desk. Ethernet will do the same, though has to come under the door
  The cat bowls are a good thought, and something I hadn't thought of! I'm thinking I might make a little cubby for them to make banishing Jason a bit easier

Got up from my desk to stack the dishwasher and clean up and somehow ended up in bed with the covers over me....no.....I have been exhausted all day. No idea why

Sky pretty

In relation to Gina’s page.

Here my contribution

I love it!