Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Just quietly… I think I want to be out of Victoria by next winter. I need a break. Either a permanent move interstate, or move all my stuff into storage and go travel for 3 months. I could go to the US and travel with/stay with my brother on the cheap. Finally go on a road trip now that I’ve got my licence and enough driving experience/confidence.
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Maybe do some state hopping, you might find somewhere you really enjoy.
I’ve lived in Perth and Brisbane before and wouldn’t mind going back for a stint depending on work and cost of living. Helps that I have closer family in both places but not in melbs
I’m from Brisbane, and I’d maybe go back if I could get something on the far north coast, something between Yeppoon and Mackay. I’d honestly go way further, but then you run into crocs and the beach becomes a bit pointless, and you start having to actually deal with wet/dry seasons.
Oof yeah having grown up in the proper tropics overseas, as much as Melbourne winters can be a bit depresso I also don’t ever want to go back to proper tropical humidity. Plus as a brown chick I have accepted that my chances of having a good social life and feeling safe are lower outside of major metropolitan areas or hippy towns. I think the Sunny Coast is as far north as I’d like to go.
Yeah, fair call! As someone who’s spent a lot of time in rural FNQ (Grandparents own a very large cattle farm, and many other members own farms as well), I hate to admit it, but a lot of folks (young and old) still have some very old world views and values. I’ll never forget my Grandparent’s reaction to my sister dating and eventually bringing home a lovely Filipino lad, they did all but clutch their pearls and hide the silverware.
Well the sleep-in gods denied me the zzzs this morning, so finished some laundry and drank all the required Hydralite. I’m washed and dressed and awaiting company to revel in this sunshine.
Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing (haha, no Marx for you) I hope you’re having a good day. Be in the moment and if you’re having a bit of one, remember this too shall pass.
Another beautiful sunny day. :) I’ll just water a few of the plants then go out to buy some materials to make masks.
Oh Gawd Cennalink strikes again. Just got a text to day that I have an appointment with a DES agency tomorrow for an interview re: getting work.
Fortunately I’m able to go and quite willing to discuss strategies so I can hit the ground running when I am fit to start working, but isn’t it fucking typical?Geez they don’t give you much time!
Plus I’ve got a medical certificate until the 21st. facepalm. From experience I suspect wires have been crossed somewhere.
They keep delaying the processing of my application but I was still supposed to earn 100 points for no health care card and no money. I didn’t do it. It’s almost a month late now.
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💚 right here with you. I’m glad that over the years, the very unreasonable pestering from other people to try and reconnect to my father (who still pretends that he did nothing wrong), as some kind of show of womanly magnanimity and spiritual development to prove myself worthy, has faded away.
Uggh, I hate those ‘but faaaamily’ types.
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Folks it’s my last Sunday night for a long time before I have to work on Monday. Wish me luck in clearing out the remaining tasks over the last 3 days. Starting a bit early tonight to get ahead of one task (need to concentrate and get the code right), before I focus on the next big thing tomorrow that will require much more strategic thinking
E: good old brain. Flails around subconsciously for days and then when I finally sit down in the right frame of mind, the solution comes to me in a brilliant stroke and a relatively simple SQL query pulls everything together. Fuck yeah SQL saving me from doing this shit the hard way, or god forbid, having to learn an actual programming language
E2: glory hallelujah what I thought would take 4 hours took 40 minutes and nothing complicated at all.
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Your good luck seems to have worked at least for tonight 🙏
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A couple days out, but imbibing this evening.
It has been far more fun than expected.
Edit: I haz made it home safely. Hello to my early morning peeps, but I shall be asleep.
My body has decided I am awake now ugh. Turned heater on to dry the clothes (warm me up), and made myself a coffee.
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O Gracious Bacon, thank you for bestowing upon me the sweet ambrosia of a hot, caffeine-laden beverage. I will sing your praises all across the Inner-North, O Wise and Generous Bacon.
Just up in my hotel room getting stuck into some mounds. Any day which doesn’t start or end with a face full of mounds is a day wasted.
Could not agree more.
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You’re nice
I’m starting to distrust my ability to detect AI-generated imagery
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖 🍗🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮 🍗 🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Morning Bacon! And it is indeed a lovely morning and will be a lovely day. All the coffee please and some hot toast spread with gravy.
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Thank you very much. I hope you have a truly awesome day too.
I’ll have a slice of pavlova with a side of fruit salad, and a honeycomb milkshake (made with A2 milk) please.
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Can I have a big ol’ cuppa Joe, and somebody else’s leftovers?
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Beautiful chef, thank you
Why yes thank you for the compliment!
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I’ll have some birthday cake, llama pinata lollies and maybe some avacado on a muffin plus a large cup of peppermint tea with honey, if that’s all ok?
Happy Birthday! 🎂🦙🍬🍬
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It was someone else’s actually but thanks all the same. We celebrated in minecraft as we don’t live close and anyway - your cake was delicious.
Lunch has been eaten, and the children have commenced the “can we go to the park” campaign. I have commenced the “let me finish a cup of tea after cooking a roast for lunch” campaign.
