• @[email protected]English
    12•9 days ago

    Jammed/sprained my finger yesterday.

    Iced it for a bit and definitely less pain today but still a bit swollen and lacking full mobility.

    Thankfully it’s the ring finger on my left hand.

  • @[email protected]
    8•8 days ago

    Back home. Sox is being saucy today. She better get over herself or that food will be for naught!

    Speaking of food, I felt briefly tempted to have a pizza per today’s thread emoji but I think I’ll leave that for the end of next week when I really will need a pick-me-up after my presentation for which I have yet to make the requisite graphics let alone slides but I tend to do presentations best at the very last minute anyway.

  • @[email protected]
    8•9 days ago

    4 degrees, rip the bandaid off and just jump out of bed to get me going.

    Oh I hate mornings like these. and heating is busted at work again.

    • @[email protected]
      5•9 days ago

      Tomorrow’s going to be worse. But the upshot is that the sun is out!! It’s worth getting out of bed for. (Not so much when you’re indoors and the heating is busted… yikes)

        • @[email protected]
          3•9 days ago

          Pretty frosty week all up. At least it’s not entirely overcast because that would drive me insane. I might step out for a bit and soak up some rays with my puffer jacket on.

          I will NOT be getting up early on Saturday, that’s for sure.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•9 days ago

        I’m kind of hoping that winter ends sooner. These temps feel more like July than June. Not having a proper autum this year really messed up my sense of reference.

        • @[email protected]
          4•9 days ago

          I do remember some frightfully cold June days before but certainly not a whole week of it and especially after such a warm autumn. I agree, I kind of feel like we’ve fast-forwarded a bit here… I don’t think I could do 3 months of this. Definitely going to try and escape over July/August if I can

          • @[email protected]English
            3•9 days ago

            I do recall some pretty warm June days, high teens low 20s, not that long ago.

            We generally don’t really run the fireplace until mid-late June…been been running it for a few weeks now.

            This year has definitely been bizzare.

            You’re right though. If this keeps on till August, we might be looking at a week or so somewhere warmer

            • @[email protected]
              2•9 days ago

              IIRC we had few mild winters through the covid era so it’s a bit annoying to go back to this. I do remember my first couple winters in Melbourne 10-11 years ago being this cold around mid June though (not in terms of perception but recorded temps) - but then April and May were substantially cooler than this year.

              If money weren’t an option I’d be going off to some nice Pacific island to unwind but I will probably go hang out with my crazy family in Perth for a bit while I figure out what next in life. Not that warm but nowhere near as cold as here… might even do a road trip up to northern WA to see some fam up there.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•9 days ago

      Do you have the option to work from home? Cause if any utilities were broken at work, I’d be raising a stink to high heaven.

  • @[email protected]
    9•9 days ago

    Today I fill all the buckets and fermenters in prep for having no water tomorrow. Done this drill before, it’s fine when you have warning, nasty otherwise

  • @[email protected]English
    16•9 days ago

    Irl cake day today for me. We are insanely busy at work so won’t celebrate much until the weekend. EOFY is weird this year - weirder than normal and people are doing strange things with their money. Profitable for us, but I wonder at the fallout later on.

    EDIT: thank you all so much - it makes a difference. My boys are calling me tonight, and I’ve just run away from work leaving my staff in charge for the rest of the day. If they can’t cope, I didn’t train them right. We’ll be having work cake tomozz. This is a special birthday, as I am now OF PENSION AGE!!! And eligible for ALL the discounts! So I can now threaten to retire if da boss gives me grief.

  • CEOofmyhouse56
    12•9 days ago

    I don’t think Monash IVF should be advertising right now on the telly. PR team working overtime.

  • StudSpud The StarchyEnglish
    9•9 days ago

    I think I’ve done what I can to prep for the presentation tomorrow - gonna do a few more reviews and editing (scientific names for animals should be in italics), and run through it with my partner.

    I have a suspicion I may have put more info then they need, but I’ve adhered to the marking rubric so 🤷🏼‍♀️

    Anyone want to know some cool facts about Tachyglossus aculeatus (The Short-Beaked Echidna)? 😂

      • StudSpud The StarchyEnglish
        6•9 days ago

        The maxilla and mandible of T. aculeatus is fused into a beak-like mouth. It isn’t actually a beak, however, as it is made of specialised jaw bones and muscle, rather keratin coated bone (like a bird beak). They use their long tongue and long mouth to snuffle in soil for ants and termites (they are insectivores), and then use their tongue to grind up their food against a bony hard plate on the maxilla, along with a slight back and forth motion of their jaws, as opposed to the up and down motion humans do when we chew.

          • StudSpud The StarchyEnglish
            6•9 days ago

            Their backwards facing hind feet (pointed towards the posterior of the animal/ pointed caudally) means that when they dig out their food or dig out burrows, the dirt is kicked back and away. Combined with the females backward- opening pouches (the opening of the pouch is also pointed towards the posterior) this means that dirt and soil and bugs won’t be kicked into their pouch and onto their puggle.

            They also produce milk (one of the reasons they are in the Mammalia Class) via mammary glands, but they don’t have nipples in their pouches; the milk seeps through the skin a bit akin to sweat

    • @[email protected]English
      6•9 days ago

      Is that the Niu Gini one that’s recently been re-discovered? I know they’ve got long beaked echidnas, but I think there’s been some developments on the short-beaked side quite recently.

      He he, the actual word echidna is NOT an indigenous word - it comes from greek mythology and is the name of a goddess of chaos. quote below from theoi.com

      "EKHIDNA (Echidna) was a monstrous she-dragon (drakaina) with the head and breast of a woman and the tail of a coiling serpent. She probably represented the corruptions of the earth–rot, slime, fetid waters, illness and disease.

      Ekhidna was sometimes equated with Python “the Rotting One”, a dragon born of the fetid slime left behind by the great Deluge. Others name her the Tartarean lamprey, and place in her to the dark, swampy pit of Tartaros beneath the earth. Hesiod, makes her a daughter of monstrous sea-gods, and presumably associates her with rotting sea-scum and fetid salt-marshes.

      Ekhidna was the consort of Typhoeus–a monstrous, multi-headed storm-giant who challenged Zeus to the throne of heaven. Together they spawned a host of terrible monsters to plague the earth including the Khimaira (Chimera), Kerberos (Cerberus), the Hydra, Sphinx and the Drakon Hesperios (Hesperian Dragon).

      Four other closely related she-dragons were the Argive Ekhidna and Poine (Poena), the Tartarean Kampe (Campe), and the Phokian Sybaris."

      • StudSpud The StarchyEnglish
        4•9 days ago

        The Short-Beaked Echidna is the only native Echidna to Australia - the other 3 extant echidnas are native to Niu Gini! Thank you for the etymology! I had no idea they painted Ekhidna as such a gross sea-beast 😂

        I studied the skeletal structure of T. aculeatus! They have a pectoral girdle that is really similar to the therapsids (mammal-like reptiles from the Permian/Triassic)! Shows how old of a species monotremes are! Their humerus is lateral to the body, giving them that waddle, and their tibia and fibula are “backwards” compared to mammals causing their hind feet to point caudally!

  • Rusty Raven M
    12•9 days ago

    Having security cameras is kinda fun - I’ve just looked at last night and discovered Miss Meow has also worked out the dog door. It appears she just stayed under cover and looked out for a bit before teleporting back inside, but that last bit could just be continuity gap from the motion sensors not picking up when she went inside.

    🎂

  • @[email protected]
    11•9 days ago

    Beeeeach . Lovely and sunny and no cold breezes.

    I found a pair of swimming goggles and a nice piece of coral.

    The colours of the beach are so beautiful.

    the white is shells growing on the rocks