Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • bull⚡English
    4•2 years ago

    So… I have an espresso machine and I have both brandy and plain eggnog. Science must happen.

  • Catfish
    2•2 years ago

    This Conference isn’t a patch on last year’s. Let us see if day 2 improves…

  • @[email protected]
    7•2 years ago

    me: yoo I need a teamviewer access for about 5 mins to update your firmware. Normally I could do it without you even noticing, but this one actually disables our tunnel software as part of the process, so I need a fallback. Won’t take long, very quick.

    chain A: Bah too much hassle, send me entirely new units for these sites

    chain B: Why? This is metro. Send a tech out

    ASK ME AGAIN WHY TECH STAFF HATE PEOPLE.

  • Rusty Raven M
    5•2 years ago

    Onions have now been aquired. Time to start on the sauce. I will need to decide whether to use the big stock pot or the really big stock pot.

    • Bacon
      2•2 years ago

      if you use the really big one we can all come over and help you with the leftovers

      • Rusty Raven M
        3•2 years ago

        I’m only making 36 servings, nowhere near enough to share 🤣

        I will actually be canning the sauce, so this batch will last me a year or two.

  • Rusty Raven M
    7•2 years ago
    Much sauce has been created. #singlepeoplecooking

    A few taste adjustments to go, dividing up into individual jars and and a stint in the pressure canner to go.

  • @[email protected]
    8•2 years ago

    Back in Melbs from the Bellarine.

    Already miss the ocean :( There’s something calm but also panic inducing about being alone, 50m out, getting dark… the mystery of what’s below. Could be a giant squid, a horny dolphin… If something went wrong no one would know. But that has nothing on the shitshow that is southern x station just after 5pm.

  • @[email protected]
    5•2 years ago

    commented to the wife we were running low on baby Panadol as I was getting a dose ready for an unhappy kid, only to drop the bottle and spill everything everywhere. Turns out the next after hours chemist is like 20km away from my suburb, so that was fun.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•2 years ago

    I was thinking this morning thank God I don’t have to work today, and when I called into the office to check on something they offered me a shift this afternoon.
    Thanks but no thanks, people.

  • Rusty Raven M
    10•2 years ago

    Much sauce has been turned into many sauces.

    One sauce was also turned in to dinner.

          • Rusty Raven M
            2•2 years ago

            The nice thing about really big cookups is that the workload does not increase in line with the servings - and it becomes worthwhile pulling out the food processor to do things like dice the onions so I don’t need to do all that by hand. And I now have lots of nights where future me has a quick and easy meal ready to go 😁

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      Going by the number of bottles, safe to assume this isn’t your first rodeo with too many sauces. Also, what sauce and how delish is it??

  • @[email protected]
    5•2 years ago

    It’s fancy schmancy instant noodles with curry sauce again except this time I added some frozen vegan chicken in and added a bit of garnish.

    appetising

    I’m amazed that I focused on work quite serenely for 8 solid hours today and remembered to take the necessary breaks, etc. Need to see how much time allowance I’ve used up for this project though. Taken way too long on one section so gotta cut back on some others.

  • Bacon
    7•2 years ago

    i would like to thank hans zimmer for writing music that gets me to CONCENTRATE when i want/need to

  • @[email protected]
    5•2 years ago

    So our super food spread yesterday definitely broke the diet. I normally only weigh myself on Sunday, but I had to know: I’m 2.3 kg heavier this morning than I was 24 hours ago. 🙄

    Here’s hoping it mostly comes off again. I swam 1.5km and ran 9km afterwards, so I hope it mostly gets burned and not stored.

    Still, special occasion was special. No real regrets.

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 years ago

    Got my socks wet on my way to work this morning and they’ve still not dried even though I’ve stuck of to the loo to try dry them under the hand dryer a million times.