• @[email protected]
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    82 months ago

    Finally figured out why I don’t feel like I fit in, in the role.

    I’m the only guy here who does not wear RM Williams boots.

    I swear it’s like a uniform.

    Boots must really help when trying to herd emails or if an errant teams message hopped a fence.

  • @[email protected]
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    Anyone want a gratitude thread? I feel like I’ve been looking at life through a negative lens lately, which doesn’t really help.

    So I’m going to start this thread. I am grateful for the beautiful autumn leaves I saw on my walk today. I will show photos next time, as the ones I took today made my location identifiable to any georainbolts out there.

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      62 months ago

      I am grateful for frozen veggies, letting me get some easy nutrition in when I can’t be bothered.

      I’m also grateful for video calls. I have a meeting tonight for a volunteer gig and once I would’ve had to drive a fair distance and then probably freeze in a cold hall to take part. Instead I can participate at home in my slippers with the heater going.

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      62 months ago

      I am grateful for the some what subsidence of this awful headache. Also that my new door arrives at 7am tomorrow so I don’t waste the whole day playing wait for the Tradie.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      I am grateful for my beautiful friend who I had coffee with today, their continued love and support has been a mainstay in my life.

    • Tofu
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      82 months ago

      I am grateful for Melbourne’s coffee

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      I recently had some surgery (I’m ok, nothing life threatening), and I am very grateful and appreciative of the lovely nurses who looked after me. They were wonderfully kind and skilled, eased my anxieties and made me comfortable. A very big grateful shout out for all the amazing nurses out there, they make such a difference when you’re feeling vulnerable.

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      82 months ago

      I’m grateful that I found a competent therapist this year who could tell me I probably have autism and point in me in the right direction for the first time in my life.

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      82 months ago

      I’ve wanted to mention I’m grateful for the community. Everyone’s so great on here, I’ve been able to ask questions, get insights from people, and just keep up with what others have been getting up to. It’s been nice

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    I had one of those “I need to make a sudden life change” dreams.

    I wonder how things will play out.

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      52 months ago

      I’ve been craving a change for like a month now. New job, new phone, new bed new SOMETHING. Even just rearranging a room might be nice. i haven’t done it yet cause I’m trying to understand the impulse.

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      102 months ago

      I had a dream that I was in a car and we were all randomly stressed and then a little tuxedo kitten literally fell from the sky through the window on my lap. I think someone somewhere was sending me a hug.

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    52 months ago

    Tea really aint cutting it. Do I double down and grab another or do I just jump straight to coffee?

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        32 months ago

        I’m STILL craving a smoke bloody 10 years after my last one and i was only ever a drunk smoker (IE the worst kind, bumming one off mates). Addictive personality says maybe meth aint a good idea lol.

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          52 months ago

          Don’t be a weak cunt and fire up a crystal pistol mate!!

          I was a full on smoker and hardly get cravings thankfully. Even drunk.

          Occasionally I’ll want one when it’s a crisp autumn morning and I’m having a coffee.

          It’s a very specific craving

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                Oh man, are you like my mum? She swears coffee only ever makes her constipated so she only has it when she’s got a case of the loose motions. I envy her, coffee (and even tea to some extent) is basically an automatic gut cleanser for me. Don’t get me wrong, it’s VERY satisfying in the mornings, but sometimes it gets a bit much. I can feel my gut being punched and contorted ahead between 2-20 minutes after imbibing that morning brew.

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                  Nah it doesn’t constipate me. It just doesn’t work on me like some folks claim.

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        blew nearly 60 bucks on food at gold class so decided to cheap out and go the tea. 2nd black tea worked fine.

  • Rusty Raven M
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    52 months ago
    My feeling that fabric bedheads are not a good idea has been confirmed.

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        That was not me, it popped up on my Reddit feed from a cleaning sub. Apparently the guy has been putting some sort of hair wax in his bed every night before bed. The advice was that it can’t be cleaned and to wax the whole headboard so it matches.

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            42 months ago

            Waxing the leather will preserve it for practically forever. So waxing to match will mean that he NEVER has to buy another one. Could be a smart move.

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        It does look pretty awful. It’s apparently real leather and very expensive too. I’m glad I stuck with wood.

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    62 months ago

    It appears it’s been long enough since I used a meal delivery service that I’m eligible for the free boxes again. I’ve ordered a few to make it a bit easier to juggle packing etc. over the next few weeks. Then when I’ve moved I’ll have a shiny new address and should be eligible for more free boxes there. This will soothe the aggravation I felt after paying for a box and then receiving coupons for free boxes to give to everyone else.

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    Beep Beep and a round of applause for Chef StudSpud The Starchy who performed most excellently during our absence 🚚👏👏👏👏👏
    🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

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    There’s a couple of projects happening near my train station so the carparks are filled with trades. Had to park a bit further than usual and missed my regular train by like a minute.

    I don’t know these new train people. They’re not my regulars!!!

    Spent the entire ride judging them so hard.

    6:30 Train people for ever!!!

    6:37 Train people might as well be sewer mutants!

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    One of the boys had a fever and had to be picked up from childcare early on Monday. This resulted in the week up until now just being a fog of Trying To Get Things Done. Things are somewhat back to normal so we’ll see how things play out.

    I got Bazzite working on the old work laptop. Silly me didn’t disable Secure Boot. It loads straight into Steam Big Picture on startup, so I wouldn’t use this version as my daily driver, but it would be great for handhelds and loungeroom PCs.

    Also, Sleep Token have dropped a new album. I know some people on here dig them. I’m listening to it now.

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    62 months ago

    got nearly a full packet of those tiny aldi chocolate chips that are stale and soggy. Surely I can do something to turn them into some muffins or a cake or something?

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    I was at a PD presentation today and then later on had a look at the Other Place (using my phone), and up popped an ad for the very specific thing the PD was about.

    I didn’t google anything related to the topic, and only used my phone to check messages a couple of times.

    That was a little too much of a coincidence. Bloody technology, snooping on me. Very creepy indeed.

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      They say the apps don’t need to use your microphone to listen in and present you ads but this sort of thing happens far too often.

      One time my girlfriend showed me something on her phone and I started getting ads on mine. Either they’re listening or they’re scanning faces and delivering ads to known friends

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    52 months ago

    Exhausted today. Woke up around 11 times in 8 hours.

    I’m getting close to the edge of how much I can take.

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        12 months ago

        When I was unemployed I didn’t have enough to eat so I was waking up hungry.

        This is why. Except now I’m not hungry but my body thinks it needs to wake up.

        Crazy that I had people in my life I considered family at the time.

        Life is wild.

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      32 months ago

      so many hugs

      may I suggest a diary so you can see any patterns during the day that might be contributing to such bad sleep

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        22 months ago

        I might give that a go.

        I have one last possibility I can’t test until the weekend. If it’s not that then I’m at a loss.

        I can’t believe I’ve been functioning for almost a year without a full night’s sleep the entire time.

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    Melbcat came over to a visitor for pats and reached up trying to get in their lap! She needed to be lifted for a cuddle but after they got up she jumped into the empty chair independently.

    I didn’t think she was interested in getting up there anymore or had the mobility but maybe now I need to get a pet ramp and even buy a comfier (and destroyable) chair for her.

    I wish she’d take her 4cyte. That on top of the solensia and she’d be able to climb the walls!

    Edit: She’s still relaxing in her chair

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      My old maine coone boy would only take his 4cyte if I put it in a little bit of food he had to eat before getting a full dinner. Every house he lived at had ramps everywhere because he loved to climb but couldn’t get back down due to having only 3 legs. He would yell at me to carry him from room to room to save him the effort.

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    Swam for the first time in a long tome monday. Can I go again today or should I give it another rest day?