Gratitude thread
I’m grateful for the lollies at work today. Also grateful for the heater and going to see friends later.
I’m grateful for tulip season, and eggs and avo on toast for lunch.
Grateful once again for being able to take today off and having a supportive workplace. Grateful for the stability of my jobs so that even if this study thing doesn’t go the way I’d like it to, I don’t have to worry about my self worth. Grateful for my super comfy and warm alpaca wool jumper - feels like a hug.
Gratitude update: I am now also grateful that my application for critical illness insurance has been accepted with no fuss and I will not be needing to have a blood test.
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I’m grateful for work giving me the day off so I could chill out a bit and take Elder to a dr’s appointment. I’m grateful for the roof over my family’s heads.
I am grateful for my cat who is acting as a purry lap warmer, my dog who acts as personal trainer and motivates me to be active even in cold weather, and for my large supply of eggs as I hear they are currently a bit hard to come by.
Grateful for being able to keep warm in this miserable cold weather.
I’m starting off the new financial year with pay day today. A bit of a tax cut and a sliver more Super. If the new EBA gets through there will be a pay rise in a couple of months. Not enough to keep up with the CPI increases of the last couple of years but it’s nice to be finally closing the gap a bit.
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thats what you get for using TPG, assuming they arnt your only option for some reason.
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How come it’s the only option?
If it’s NBN then you can get pretty much any provider. Unless you have something like Opticomm or 5G?
Opera has a built in VPN.
You could look into the RealDebrid option paired with Kodi.
You can get a torrent search plugin for qbittorrent so you can download straight from the program and skip the need to go to the sites at all
Taking a break from a rewatch of The Strain to watch Abigail was doubly hilarious, it’s like watching Fet get nerfed.
Good Morning everyone
Happy New Year everyone!
White rabbits white rabbits white rabbits
Happy New Year 🎉
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I’m a card-carrying introvert, but prolonged isolation (and lack of purpose) will definitely bring round grey clouds that are hard to shift. Permanent WFH was really shit for me in that regard. I could feel myself sinking a bit before I got my current jobs too, the break was nice at the start but then I started getting a bit loopy…
Really crossing my fingers that something pans out for you very soon mate. It’s been a while 😔
we’re here , hugs
Just can’t shake the blues
Drowning in these melancholic hues
Shades of hope ride the rising tide
Adrift but I know it’s gonna be alrightI really relate to this. While I’m off work I’ve somehow turned into someone who goes to the gym everyday (I am so not a natural exerciser), and part of that is just the benefit of being around people. I’m only doing group classes so there’s a bit of a community feel. And I’m throwing myself into some existing volunteer stuff.
The cold weather is not helping.
The intermittently grey weather doesn’t help. I know what you mean about work. I feel a bit disconnected from society without it. The people in this thread have been an essential part of me feeling more connected to people.
I get it. Vast majority of my social interactions are through work. If it went away, I’d be lost, and I have been in the past. With the tenacity you appear to have, I’m sure it will be over soon and you’ll be looking forward to your solo evenings and weekends with Gibson. Hang in there 💪
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Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel please
Ugh I bought some smoked NZ king salmon yesterday as a treat and now I think I know what I’m having for lunch… scrambled eggs and smoked salmon on toast with garden chives and parsley. And a tiny smidge of homemade hot sauce
That sounds amazing.
Back in the Covid days when my workplace was providing meals (in an attempt to make sure we showed up at work) I had the opportunity a few times to take home uneaten smoked salmon sandwiches from lunch. I made salmon risotto for dinner, then scrambled eggs with salmon for breakfast. It was really, really good.
Yummmm
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Green jasmine tea and toast please. Also a handful of gummy vitamins to replace all the vitamins lost while I have been on pain meds for so long.
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nom nom thank you
Trampoline dude wanted to go on a date. I did not. We are not talking anymore. He only wants to talk to me for romantic purposes it seems.
I’m sad to lose what we had. We had a similar music taste and bounced music off of one another. He also played the game I was obsessed with as a child.
Just going to say that “trampoline dude” is a really cool name. I would not object to being known as trampoline dude.
Well, not now. But a few days ago it would have been a cool thing to be known as.
He took a leap of faith, but you were right not to fall for his attempt to bounce into your bed.
Guess his attempts fell flat.
I was confused at first because I interpreted wrong but I don’t think it’s very romantic for you as all he wanted was a one night stand or you as a f buddy.
Sounds like he’s been… bounced.
I wouldn’t jump on that.
Badum tssssssss
Brilliant stuff! this is what i come here for!
Ah yeah… I hate to say it but often no matter how clearly you communicate, hanging out with guys one on one (or in general) usually still gets taken as more and then you get blamed for ‘leading them on’ 🙄
Makes it difficult to have cross gender friendships
double jump that guy to the curb.
Finished the dual screen and dock setup. One work laptop is STILL a bit dicey with the dual screens and I can 100% confirm it’s a shitty usb-c port.
My original Metabox laptop though… it’s getting onto 6 years old, the dock connects to one screen only but not two. Realised the internal AND external graphics drivers basically haven’t been updated since the laptop was bought, yikes), so I’ve updated those but no dice.
I can sense myself using this to procrastinate on all sorts of other things so… one monitor is better than none. Onwards…
Is it a DisplayLink-based dock, does it need the DisplayLink driver installed (and the utility running) to drive both screens over USB?
Common issue with docks at our hotdesks here at work.
Hmmm, doesn’t look like it is. I installed the DisplayLink driver and have the utility running anyway, but it doesn’t seem to be making much of a difference. I think it might be the USB-C port for this laptop, it might be an older one that can’t support the thoroughput of 2x 1080p monitors at 60Hz for some reason?
E: The dock (Belkin INC014) does support Display Port Alt Mode, and obviously it worked on other laptops, so I’m thinking it’s really this older laptop that’s got an issue.
Damn!
Ah well, like you say, at least one monitor is better than none.
Yeah. I’m spending too much time going down rabbit holes about what the cause is (maybe it’s because the processor doesn’t support DP 1.4? Is it the port? I don’t know!)
Worst case if I need two screens, the laptop itself has a 17" screen so that’s not so bad. Just takes up a heap of space and isn’t at the right height. I don’t do that much work on this laptop atm so I’ll survive. At least the dock generally works, last time I tried using a USB-C dock with this a few years ago nothing worked.
This sounds stupid but do you have to toggle it to dual display on the laptop itself or go through the display settings?
Just display settings. The keyboard button for toggling multiple displays does basically the same thing (choice of extending, duplicating, etc)
I can technically run two external screens by plugging one monitor into the laptop’s HDMI port, but that kind of defeats the point of a port :( don’t think I’ll do it unless I really need to.
Hmm I’m not sure how it really works through the dock to be honest.
What happens when you put it into extending the screen option?
I thought I’d check out the tax return forms just got fun but the ATO website is being smashed at the moment.
Anyway I can’t lodge it till I get the pre fill information uploaded by various places.
Don’t imagine I’m going to get much back this year if last year was anything to go by.
I don’t bother until the very last moment, as I normally have a tax debt.
Getting a lot back means you have overpaid during the year for some reason, if you only get a small return it means that you have had the use of that money earlier instead of giving the govt. an interest free loan.
I should be getting a decent return this year because I paid a fair bit extra into Super, plus a bit for the rebate on health insurance premiums. Unfortunately I have some money invested in EFTs and it always takes a few months for them to put together the final statements so I can’t put in my return and get the money back until that is done. I’m looking forward to the time after I retire and I can have all my investments in a nice simple tax free super fund and not have to worry about all this tax return nonsense.
Used to get a decent chunk back when they had the LMITO… last year’s tax return had me deadset depressed :(
This year I am claiming about 2k off my taxable income, that alongside not earning for about 3 months means hopefully I will get a reasonable amount of tax back.
slipped on a wet floor and fell face first towards the hardwood dining table. my hand managed to catch the side of the table with about 10cm to spare before I smashed my forehead. Suspect with the speed it woulda at least knocked me out. Sad to report I neither saw the light nor had my life flash before my eyes.
Oh no! Good save.
I also stepped on a wet patch. It was cat vomit. I didn’t slip, so I guess that’s a win.
I’ll be honest I THINK I’d prefer the cat puke, but its a very small margin.
hugs , that’s quite a scare
You’re not wrong! heart was pounding for a while. And the adrenaline was nuts.
The Remuneration Tribunal that determines the wages of Victorian politicians has just released it’s determination. The government which has a policy that govt. sector employees should have wage rises capped at 3% has just been awarded 3.5% raises for themselves.
With all the other benefits they get as well? What a joke.
Of course they have.
Morning cuddles
Today’s dream involved looking at planning applications… but every time I did, they fell apart. Like the drawings of the buildings collapsed on paper or on an aerial image. Or I’d head on site and watch them blow up in front of me. Meanwhile Sufjan Steven’s Eugene has been playing in my head in the dream and while awake. …and he called me Subaru… And now I wanna be near you 🎶
Today’s dream was the big house where I grew up my first six years. It was a big beautiful house divided into large apartments with stained glass and staircases and carved stone. My first memories are from there and they were happy memories of music and the young musicians who lived there
