Daily Discussion Thread: ♥️💜💙💚💛🩵🩷🩶 Tuesday, 17 December, 2024

Gibson day 2

Got an interview tomorrow lol

Perfect timing.

Ted looking cute again, this time sprawled on the two ikea storage tables 🙂

Oh noes ... Came home a bit early so I could regroup and finish off the years tasks quietly. 20 min nap on couch became 2 hour DEEEP sleep with random nightmares and now my neck is cricked and I am discombobulated.

Yep. That was 2024 in a nutshell

Cheers guys 🍺

I regret getting in contact with my Aunty to settle things.

She tells people that I’m the nice one I’m the family but I just choose not to get into conflicts.

She texts me this.

“I haven’t got any replies to my emails. You better tell your cousins to hurry up to have settlement by blah blah date”

Dunno if I’m reading into too much but it does t sound very nice and feels like she’s pressuring me to rush them.

Dinner out, first time in ages. Little Mexico in Berwick. Nice enough, kinda lacking in spice levels but that's probably more on me.

Ted is so happy sleeping on the terrace among the vegie planters

IT outage at the hospital, waited 2+ hungry and uncaffeinated hours for my scopes to be cancelled. 💀 I'm declaring today Taco Overload Tuesday to celebrate.

Who's an idiot who thought it'd be overcast and left their bedroom blinds partly open and window wide open. No prizes for guessing.

I am being taught over and over again THOU SHALT ALWAYS LEAVE THE BLINDS DOWN AND WINDOWS CLOSED before leaving for work. No exemptions. Boiling.

Met up with some old colleagues which was nice - kind of really tied a neat bow on that chapter, one year on - now to catch up on 2.5 hrs of work and call it a day.

Turns out I took 1 more week of leave than I thought. 3 weeks here we come!

Yeah nah. Still made in Australia. Cheeky buggers.

I'm progressing to the next stage with this job. I don't know if it's what I want to do but if I got an offer I feel like I shouldn't knock it back. I just don't want to end up in a similar situation where I'm out in a year's time because it didn't work out

I’m so tired 😮‍💨

The cat is mad at me because there's cream in the fridge and it's not all in his belly (just some). He's given up yelling at the fridge and is now glaring at me, and occasionally mixing it up with looking very sad and lean.

Flexing hydrangeas.

So today i mostly worked like a dog. My boss admitted to faffing a little too much today and didn’t as much done as she should have.

Hopefully this earns me a couple of early work finishes though tomorrow I have a work function at the end, I really hate that keeping us at work later to do these functions.

What sort of buffoon tries to sell a house with neither stove nor oven? Wonder what other surprises lurk in this one?

So. This morning we find out that the awesome manager will no longer be leading our team.

As I mentioned a bit earlier today, she's the main reason I've stuck it out.

Let's see where the new year will lead. Probably out of this place.

Have you ever seen a more majestic breakfast? 240g steak, 1 avocado, one smallish zucchini, 200g mushroom, two runny yolk eggs. Butter, salt, pepper. And now I won't eat until tomorrow! I also won't get hungry til then either

Staffy got stuck last night. No idea how she managed this one, she’s never put the blanket over her head before.

It appears I have a cold on my last day here. 😔 The good news is my fam will look after me real well. 🙂

This is it. One more day between me and holiday (except for whatever little bits I will inevitably need to finish off in the morning.

Yyyeeeeaaaah...

Fell asleep splayed out on the bed no blankets and in the middle of the night woke up shivering cold. Good times.

Today on our drive to Christchurch we got acquainted with Brian FM. Brian is our soul mate. 💜

https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/13-05-2023/who-is-brian-and-why-is-he-breaking-every-rule-of-fm-radio

I just had to rescue a frog. In my bedroom. 3 very interested cats, and one squeaky little frog who is now outside. Who needs sleep?

Gosh the internal review process for traffic fines is such a crock of shit.

I'm challenging a red light camera fine as I think it was incorrectly issued - my car crossed the stop line when the light was yellow, then it turned red and the cameras went off. You have to cross the stop line after the light has turned red to commit the offence (at least that's my reading of the law). Wrote a detailed review application with reasons, my recollection of the situation, referring to the photo evidence you can access etc, all I got back is "we are satisfied the offence was committed". That's it. Pay up or go to court.

I'm in this crap position of having only my recollection of the situation to rely on. I can't prove my car was in the intersection when the light was still yellow outside of pointing to the police photo which shows exactly this. But that wasn't good enough for the review, so it's probably not good enough for court either. It's a really expensive fine too. Feels like guilty until proven innocent rather than the other way around.

I've been much more careful since this fine, the light goes yellow I'm stopping. I don't trust those fixed cameras one bit.

leaves windows open overnight

wakes up to bright flash of light

loud crackle

rain comes

close windows

time for more sleep 🥱

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Absolute steal on one of the mrs's Christmas presents! She wanted some tea so I went to grab one of the tea2 gift packs. One was like 85 bucks, the assistant stopped me and said "hey just so you know if you buy 2 its like 80 bucks" and was like "so 160 in total?" he goes "no, both for 80" wait so I get a second one, and have to pay 5 bucks less? Heck yes!

Had a garbage sleep with last night's temps. But on the plus side I could have a really long sleep. I only just properly got up. Though I did get up for half an hour for a quick zoom this morning. I needed it though. I feel less emotionally strained and foggy, and like I can properly get into the swing of moving

It is just dawning on me that cause of my screw up with trying to redirect that parcel that's now gone into hibernation in Adelaide, I can't actually have internet at the new place until it arrives. Guess I can't finally put my 1.1TB of banked mobile data to use (full 5g even inside at the new place!) Initially speedtest.net was reporting about 300mbps down, but Amaysim caps their download speeds to 100mbps. It settled out at about 115mbps. That makes it faster than the max NBN speed I can get at the new place, so perhaps 5g home internet is actually a practical option

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Silly question. Is it normal for a hairdryer to overheat and cut out way before you’ve finished? Is this a quality issue or is it faulty/damaged?

I’ve been having this happen with different cheap hairdryers. And while my hair is difficult to get dry/takes ages, it isn’t even going for a long time. I only ever rough dry my roots and am having the dryer cut out before I’ve finished doing that.

Shout out to Australians for making good music (King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Flume, and more).

merge

Okay the new Eurovision theme for Switzerland next year contains techno and yodelling, what more could you want? (Skip to 1:30 for the track.)