Bugger the ABS. 8 months of compulsory survey. Yet another bloody task and password to keep track of 💩
Oh. I’ve done that before when my daughter was just born. Back then it was over the phone. The lady was very understanding when she could hear my baby crying.
Late night movie review.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
A movie on the power of narratives.
I love this movie so much. It shows teens in truly terrifying situations, supernatural situations. The teens are smart, brave, determined, co-operative and caring, and resourceful in facing danger and solving their problems.
4 hobbits.
@Seagoon_
Must try it. Really enjoyed watching ‘ZONE OF INTEREST’ on Stan
A chilling holocaust film.
I have the vision of how I’m going to design the covers of the antique chairs. After getting all the different vintage fabrics, which all have a baroque theme, I can see there is a blue green palette and red beige palette, so those will be the designs. With black stained wood finish it will look cool.
Coffee blend ordered today while on special from a cafe in Hurstbridge.
Heard due to their special there might be delays but I hope my order is ready for pickup before Sunday so my friend can pick it up for me.
What did I order? A coffee blend of Guava, apricot, pineapple and mango.
I can’t wait to try it but nervous it won’t be ready for me in time.
Would that be Black Vice perchance? I saw the place come up on Google Maps and it does look nice
Yup that is indeed the place.
It’s too far for me to go so I’ve never been there but their coffee blends are really nice.
They’re doing buy 1 get 1 free at the moment.
I might check it out soon. I’m not locked in on a blend yet and my grinder makes it easy to switch so I can give them a go
I don’t wanna 😪😴🥱
I didn’t want to either as I was sitting in front of my heater.
I’ve forced myself to go to work.
Me neither ☹️
Same and I’m already in the office -curls up in the corner and cries-
That’s so early 😭
7am start and a 1-hour drive to get there… yay me! At least it only takes me 1.5-2 hours to get home when I finish at 4pm so that’s good i guess… :\ FML
That’s disgusting
Putrid, even
It’s stable work, pays very well, and my wife works VERY close to home so it’s tolerable… for now.
Would be nice if PT didn’t add an hour to my morning commute though (and still involve a decent amount of driving!)
back from out and sitting down with a decaf
Bill Cat is telling me he nearly starved when I was out and he needs his dinner right now.
You need to feed bill cat 😡
Comply now, or bill cat will send some “associates” around to size your personal property
Think I’ll go out for a walk and do some errands while it isn’t raining, 😘
I’m buying some new slippers and have to make the difficult decision between pink or purple.
Edit: I’ve gone with purple, which looks to be a popular choice!
pimple
Purple
pink shows the dirt way worse than a dark purple. moccasins are where its at.
Feeling seen…
Now I want your slippers! They look so comfy and beautiful to boot
UGG Australian Sheppard have a bunch of colours. Seem to last 12 months of HEAVY wear. Any more is pushing it though.
Mine are from the Dandenong market. I get around 12 months of reasonably heavy wear. Then they become my ‘run outside and grab wood/mail/nothing too strenuous pair’.
Thanks for the rec! I an actually looking for a new pair of slippers so I might check these out
They’re well worn! Nearly due for a new pair.
I can definitley attest to that - my current slippers were originally pink but are now more of a pinkish brown colour.
I had one of those big fluffy tv dressing gown jumper things which was pink. I loved it! Eventually it got a bit brown though, and never recovered even with a few cycles through the washing machine and some stain remover
mine were navy, now also brown haha
Voting for purple as well.
Purple
still feeling a bit weird, went to sleep with a headache and had a nightmare I was being hunted by a crime gang, I ran like hell and threw off my unicorn oodie and anything else that could identify me in a crowd
🤔
Moved to new apartment. Landlord proactively warned us that the oven, stove, the bathroom heater and hot water are on one circuit and to avoid using them all together.
Breaker for this outside of our internal switchboard and is only accessible by OC (not the landlord nor agent). From the message, feels like the landlord might have copped 3 days without power.
Friend just told it’s unacceptable/below standard. Going to email agent to get this fixed, any good references I can use during this argument?
(on another note, we wouldn’t have rented this place if we knew the parking space is going to be dark, dusty, musty, and hard to drive in/out. Am lucky we are driving a small car, because I’m fairly certain anything a Corolla Cross or larger won’t fit at all)
How come you moved out of your old joint if I might ask? Rent went up too high?
The place I’ve been in the past 3 years is annoying to park into and very barely fits a small SUV. Parking spots are generally gonna be pretty ordinary with apartments…
Yep, it’s 2k/mo for a 1bed. Now we’re 2k/mo in a 2bed plus a living room itself that’s bigger than the old place whole. And also so my wife’s parents can visit.
Yeah, that would definitely be worth moving for, although the switchboard situation doesnt sound great. For 2k/month I’d definitely be expecting a 2 bed. Same location?
Unfortunately not, but it’s not too far from the old place.
Fair enough, these days you do need to move a bit further out to get a decent deal. I know someone who bought a rather shabby 2br w/ parking in Carlton and rents it out for 550/week. Prices are nuts…
And then there’s that balcony in Sydney for 300/week lol.
God I’m glad I don’t need to deal with that. As nice as the weather is…
Managed through a property manager and a formal rental agreement? Hmm. I’d play this a bit clever. Intentionally trip it on days when you know the OC can get you back up and running. Over a week or 2 build up a report, when it tripped and how long it took to get resolved, then report to the property manager that it isnt safe/feasible to wait X ammount of time to get your power back.
That way if you gotta breach 'em and go before VCAT it helps you already have logs and experience with the issue.
Keep in mind, this is gonna sour the relationship with the landlord though. Be prepared to move in 12 months, but it doesnt sound like that’d be a huge loss anyway.
oven’s supposed to be hardwired OR have its own circuit so they’ve actually failed Australian electrical safety standards. Meaning that house fails minimum standards AND there’s no way that a sparky would have signed off on that, so it hasn’t had the mandated electrical safety checks done either.
EDIT: I think some hot water has to have its own circuit as well but I’m fuzzier on that deet. Oven wiring has been a thing for decades though so they have no fucking hope there.
Yeah… inside the apartment (after the internal switchboard) they are on their own separate circuits.
But apparently before the internal switchboard, there’s the external switchboard controlled by owners corp.
The split system’s on its own (“line”? the landlord used the term “line”), the oven/stove/heater/hot water is on another, and all the other outlets are on their own as well. We have been told there’s no problem running the split system and loading up the other line, but run the oven/stove/heater/hot water together and the whole apartment will get cut off from the OC board and requires OC to come out and flip it back on.
Sounds like it’s not compliant and as a landlord, I have to get electrical inspections done and issues fixed as a requirement. Just re-did the switchboard on my investment property recently and it cost $2k. You can ask the agent for compliance/reporting info on electrical and switchboard.
Landlord proactively warned us that the oven, stove, the bathroom heater and hot water are on one circuit and to avoid using them all together.
Seems that the circuit breaker is too small for the load, which I believe is against regs. I would check with an electrician that might point you to the right standards.
It does not seem right at all!
Yeah :( and the kicker here is, using those four things together would cause breaker for the whole apartment itself to trip lol.
It doesn’t make much sense to me.
Husband gave me pissface last night, but this one had overtones of contempt I’m still mad scuntch about
-hugs- everything will be alright.
so many hugs
and sort it out, don’t be combative, just ask if there is anything up
Pissface?
a face that is mean and pissy
Oohhh, damn CEO, misled me!
Had me so confused trying to piece it altogether.
Golden shower. Do not look it up.
Oh that’s what it means, no way I’m looking it up while I’m at work.
incorrect and facetious in a way that’s actually making me quite angry to be honest.
I apologise. I had no idea you were being serious.
thank you for apologising.
Why speak in riddles for if you don’t want people to make jokes.
Maybe leave comedy to the professionals.
Fair enough
I’m not here to make enemies
Too late. Oh look, HR are calling me… :|
Ummm maaah.
scuntch
Had to google that one, love it, will use it. Hope you and husband are okay!
he’s got a classic epic resting bitch face but damn, last night just hit different
I don’t know if this is good or bad
I dont get it at all. Not kink shaming, but the act of pissing on someone is just so far outside the realms of what I’d consider to be a turn on it just breaks my mind.
Same, but also this thread is a bit of a mess now lol 😬
he gave me a pissy look that held overtones of contempt I cannot shake. I am consequently an angry ball like a cat that is displeased
Thanks for clearing that up! Hope your day gets better :)
thanks. I’m taking rage out on washing. Rugs are gonna get beaten within an inch of their lives.
Jealous of your purple potato mash?
haven’t started it yet. Gonna place an order with ibrew 'cos they have bucketbuddy 30l heated fermenter for $175. Gonna make that the bitch bucket for molasses runs. I shall call it Bungus
(My other two are Squirrely Pete and Mumbly Joe)
I prefer my pissface with undertones of love and caring; overtones of sexual desire
in brighter news, Iv’e fallen down the rabbit hole of recipes and now I got the fever
Hot Cinnamon Schnapps please!
thai terror has me scareroused
Gratitude thread!
I’m grateful for the good cardio session I had last night. Wasn’t super exhausted after and was kind of buzzing, but still helped the anxiety die down.
Grateful I got my tax return today, I can put some into savings and the rest for some necessities I’ve neglected.
I’m grateful we don’t use stupid postcodes here. I got a letter from Canada, and the postcode is like 8 digits long and non pronounceable, something like “J6B23AJZE” Whyyyyy do you want that? Especially the UK. It’s like brother, you’re the fucking size of the ACT, you don’t need 8 character post codes!
Off on a small holiday with a friend today :) So glad to be able to get away for a little bit.
Anti-gratitude thread.
Ruined my sleep before midnight streak because I was finding it hard to sleep.
Bills. Bills can go fuck themselves lol
Bills fornicate. Bills procreate.
Currently reading The Expanse. And not getting enough sleep as a result… First book(s) in ages that gets me saying just one more chapter at 2:30am…
I’ve read them twice. It’s probably better the second time. I picked up several small details that I missed the significance of the first time.
Do we do teams? I’m team Bobby!
One of my favourite book series ever. Enjoy!!!
Don’t skip the side novels.
Comics are good too
TV series is… actually, all things considered, better than expected.
Better than expected?! I… I’m sorry. you said better than expected!!! inyalowda!
Being it’s a sci-fi TV show that got cancelled/resurrected part way through my expectations going in were quite low, we’re starting from a low base here, but it definitely wasn’t bad.
TV show that got cancelled/resurrected
it just met some strange dogs. not a big deal.
and THAT gang will be my finest reference for the year!
Duuuuude that book DEFINES “One More Chapter” at 3am. DO NOT start the last book late at night, you’ll be up till 10am the next morning finishing it.
Noted. And also, sweet
