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
good night, I’m beat too
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 ❤️
Goodluck!
Goodnight and goodluck 😘
In relation to Gina’s page.
Here’s my contribution.
click for funnies.
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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.
🙏
If you want my 2c?
Cheap reusable vape kit + nicotine prescription + premade 0% juice to slowly water it down over time.
It’s a bit fussy and looks douchey short term plus the long term health risks haven’t been researched. But tapering down slowly and then off will help you with a really tough quit. Hopefully you won’t need it for too long.
A decent strength initially helps break the habit of the cigs and then you can work with it from there.
Pick a MTL (mouth to lung) option as it’s more similar to smoking and doesn’t produce huge obnoxious clouds. I bought an Aspire Pockex kit which at the time was around $30 on eBay for vape + charger + a coil. It was about the size of a ‘lipstick’ style power bank. It’s not fashionable but was a very good tool to quit.
Very good advice
Avoid any butter flavours. Choose fruit or go unflavoured (diacetyl = popcorn lung). Avoid sugar in liquid as it can burn coils faster.
Avoid disposable black market vapes (unpredictable strength, heavy metals and lipid pneumonia). These are what led to the acute short term health problems in the news.
Use an online calculator and either a jewellery scale or syringe to dilute as accurately as possible.
Don’t start/use the device when the tank is empty or the liquid is getting low. Also get enough spare coils to change them frequently - when using for the first time or changing the coil either let it sit for for a while or slowly drip liquid inside the coil to completely wet the cotton before firing the device. (Burned coils taste terrible and emit seriously bad chemicals. Dirty ones also aren’t good.)
I don’t know what strength you get prescribed (I quit before the ban) but treat the nicotine liquid with caution. Clean up any spills or wash it off your skin immediately. Don’t let Mickey near it and try to avoid vaping near him.
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.
🙏🏼
Ah who gives a shit. Complain away, my friend
to clarify
Sorry, I know this is probably a stupid clarification, but somebody else argued with me over poor phrasing the other night so I feel the need to clarify: I’m not saying “who gives a shit” about your problems, I’m saying “who gives a shit if you complain? Complain as much as you like and don’t feel guilty about it! It’s half the reason the DT exists haha”
It’s just a craving. And it will come and go.
You’ve dealt with tougher shit than that.
Thank you seagoon 💜🙌🏼
Watched Wicked last night and it was every bit as pretty as I knew it would be. The music made me grin so much.
spoilery thoughts about the movie
Boq’s line of “I’ll do anything for you” to Galinda made me laugh out loud and snap “including leave your wife and kid!” But I actually liked both Ethan Slater and I may not be an Ariana Grande fan, but she was really good in the role – her voice was great!
The cameo in the Emerald City had me shouting in delight – I had no idea it was coming and just adored it.
I felt like something was missing or just not quite right with the flow, but I can’t put my finger on it. Like the flow from “we’re friends!” to “the Wizard wants to see you!” felt a bit funny, but maybe it’s cause I was drinking wine. Also some of the music felt kind of disjointed, I can’t remember if I thought that when I saw the stage show or not.
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.
been too hot to work on the terrace garden for long, 10 minutes an hour is better than nothing
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!
Good night everyone. 😘😘😘
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.
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
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.
I would just start hand washing necessary clothes.
Hooray! Good weather for a wash-a-thon.
Sure is.
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.
too lazy to plate dinner properly
Now for all the washing up 😮💨 edit because I forgot I’d already posted before. I oughta sleep early tonight
That looks amazing!
Thanks! Aside from the rice it mostly worked pretty well as a combo. The upshot is I have heaps of pickled carrot and radish for the next few weeks…
That’s a pretty good plate!
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.
spoiler
spoiler
Does she have any redeeming features whatsoever?
She has a shelf life.
I thought really hard on this and I don’t think she does tbh 😂
You know she doesn’t replace the toilet roll.
Such a lazy bitch, she leaves that up to her maids ofc
Hats. If you care for such things. She does hats well.
All credit to the milliners.
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
Same here.
EW EEEEEEW
It’s the ‘and friends’ that creeps me out. An entirely new definition of ‘friends’ is required here.
Ugh, ded.
Big weekend of scooting around. Sabotaged bedtime in typical Llab fashion. Waking up hurts.
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…
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.
Every single time I’ve tried to use Ubuntu, I manage to break apt/snapd store in a way apparently nobody else on the entire internet ever has
Genuinely don’t know what I’ve done wrong. I install things until a couple weeks in, nothing with install. Either through the GUI store thing or through sudo apt install
yeah, snapstore is a blight upon the earth. But I’ve been building linux for so many years I am confident of my ability to get out of some unholy messes (of my own making)…
Haven’t used mint for ages but it was really nice last time.
Man the IT course i did had install mint lol Also I’m using a tiny version of 11 ironically.
