Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
This Conference isn’t a patch on last year’s. Let us see if day 2 improves…
Covid seems to be taking turns around with the staff at work these recent weeks. I wonder how many people it’s going to go through before we knock off from work for Christmas.
I’ve been masking as I don’t want my scant few days off wrecked due to illness. Covid is taking turns hitting people at my workplace.
I’d say a fair few. I think a lot of people will have symptoms that they’ll just write off as being tired/time of year/allergies and there are some people who don’t get symptoms at all. So unless it hits like a ton of bricks and one might be in an industry that needs to be a bit more careful, it’s unlikely people will bother testing.
Trams have also been packed more than a sardine can. Masks and sanitiser. They don’t hurt to have if one is concerned and there are more viruses like RSV that can spread and be an issue to older adults/immunocompromised. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah, I was working offsite from my normal workplace and I overheard a conversation about someone taking a RAT test but she only took it for one day and had a negative result and didn’t do anymore and she came into work with symptoms.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she was positive at that point and was spreading it around like wildfire at that workplace.
Yeah, downside is that it can take a few days to come up after exposure.
Annnd I have the worst buyer’s remorse… The level of it is a surprise. I haven’t not bought wanted not needed items before, but this…
(There is a little bit more to it which I think blew it up. I somehow bought the wrong side (there is L/R and I clearly stated which side when I arrived) and no one picked it up, including myself until I got home.)
I think it’s because I wasn’t 100% and I overrode myself. I’m also usually super fussy as hell and was a blasé.
Lesson learned. I should have stayed with my gut.
Can you exchange it?
Ooo, managed (not me) to get it exchanged! I see some sunshine and am feeling better.
We’ll try today. Downside is that it wasn’t immaculate when I took it and I didn’t think to actually ask, which is not like me. And if I had of, it would have been picked up.
It’s not 100% the end of the world, but it’s definitely a downer.
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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.
Pressure canning? Gun gardening? If the world goes to hell in a haycart I want you on my side!
be there in 5
ooohh that looks so yum!
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.
if you use the really big one we can all come over and help you with the leftovers
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.
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.
I think today is perfect weather to cook the big pot of bolognese sauce I have been planning on. Unfortunately this means I will need to physically go to the shops myself to acquire onions. I guess if I have to go I might get some cheese as well. You can never have too much cheese.
Reading His Dark Materials after watching the series and can’t stop thinking about the sort of daemons* Australian’s would have. Like how many people are wondering around with huge arse kangaroos and koalas or the random arsehole with a full-blown cassowary. Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.
*Daemons are a physical manifestation of the human soul in animal form, they are not pets/animals and can speak and have their own thoughts and feelings, though you feel everything they do and vice versa (to an extent).
and someone would have a white butterfly
Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.
On the other hand, they can shapeshift, and their chosen form is usually one that fits you personally, so I doubt that someone who ends up with a weird bug would mind too much. At least until someone tries to relocate the weird bug outside, or accidentally treads on it.
It’s the clumsier people accidentally slamming their daemons in doors that might have a worse time. Getting your finger or hand caught is bad enough, injuring a physical manifestation of your soul probably hurts a lot more.
I am clumsy people lmao
Very similar to indigenous ‘totems’. Which can be almost anything. Interesting programme on the abc a couple three years back, I think off the top of my head it was Conversations with Richard Fidler. A woman with fertility issues went to stay in NT due to husband’s job. She was bored and started talking to the local people. They took her swimming at a secret women’s business waterhole, and she felt something wriggle inside. Shortly after she discovered she was pregnant, considerably against the odds. The local women assured her that her proto-baby had a totem - which was a striped leech and that the waterhole had given it to her. Never heard about any followup, but I think maybe this sort of thing might resonate with your comment. I have no information about how true this story was, but the abc are usually pretty good at fact checking. So probably not a wish fulfilment thing.
That sounds interesting, might have to go have a look for it.
Might have been Sara rather than Richard. Can’t remember but it was def pre-covid.
Much sauce has been turned into many sauces.
One sauce was also turned in to dinner.
My goodness that’s a lot of sauce.
40.5 serves 😁
I’m pretty chuffed with myself if I manage three serves of something for the freezer!
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 😁
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??
Bolognese, very delish.
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Gosh… changing my sheets makes me realise how disabled I actually am. Jesus Christ.
But hey, the summer sheets are on, though this week it’ll be cold so…
Not disabled, dodgy back. The fancy mattress that is comfy to sleep on weighs a ton, changing sheets isn’t easy and I sure as hell can’t turn it myself.
I mean changing sheets suck no matter what. I just wish I did it earlier. Oh well, that’s my fault.
is the bom radar glitched, it is clearly raining but the radar shows barely anything
I clearly got rained on, on my dog walk this morning with the bom telling me it was clear.
I can give you a local predication… As long as my camper is out in the driveway getting dry from the weekend, it will continue to rain.
ooooh where did you go?
Little school camp type deal around Yarra Junction. Was fun, but a wet weekend.
Maybe I should wash my car to keep it going
i would like to thank hans zimmer for writing music that gets me to CONCENTRATE when i want/need to
I love hans zimmer so much
Do you listen to the individual scores? Or just make a greatest hits playlist? Personally, the Gladiator score is my go-to focus music.
I have multiple lists. Top Gun is currently mine.
Once upon a time in America is my art work music
Well now that FRL is officially cancelled I suppose I should find something to do this weekend…
Oh damn… I just looked into what this is and listened to some of the groups in the lineup and that seems like a good vibe. I might keep a note of this one. Sorry to hear it’s cancelled :(
It’s been running for over 15 years but it seems like Council and this new cop in Wangaratta decided to shut the whole thing down less than a month out. It’s been chaotic with the emails and backchat. The organisers are famously disorganised and prone to magical thinking as well though haha. At least all the money has been refunded
Aww man. We were probably going to head up to that… Council forced organisers to cancel apparently? Any idea why?
I thought it may have been due to crazy weather but besides it probably being muddy from this week it looks fine
https://www.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/News-articles/Folk-Rhythm-Life-Festival-2023-not-going-ahead
City of Wangaratta has not been able to obtain satisfactory event documentation including an emergency management plan to ensure the health and safety of attendees at the planned festival in December.
You can check out the full drama at the public fb group for the festival - https://m.facebook.com/groups/5410092330/
Presumably Lemmy doesn’t block fb links…
I feel like you shouldn’t be allowed to sell tickets to an event until it’s approved to go ahead…
Maybe they were inspired by Fyre festival …
It could be worse. I was reading yesterday about a three year cruise that was cancelled at the last minute because the organisers did not actually have a ship.
You’d think that might be Step 1 of organising a cruise lol
Given how close it is to the creek and how flat the land is, council probably wants a good flood plan in place in case it rains. Wangaratta is a known flood prone area.
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.
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.
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Someone who thought they wouldn’t have to pay it. The 8k price tag per unit magically made a zoho login appear
