Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday, 29 January, 2025

FINALLY!
My car is back from the mechanics who was doing the roadworthy check.
It's officially legal to drive lol
- what did it need in the end?
  
  New windscreen and an engine bracket needed to be changed.

The view from client office
- That's a view and a half.
  Weird story. Went to St. patricks cathedral with an ex and her aunt (who was a devout catholic). She was bangin' on about how god was everywhere 'like the internet'. 'In walls, in the air'. A few hours earlier she asked me to set up her wifi / chuck in the router password on her phone to use ex's internet at ex's home.. so I asked her if god forgets his password too.
  Didn't go down too well.
  
  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
  Absolute gold!
- I went to St Patrick's in November, visiting from Adelaide. An amazing building, very beautiful interior
- Are they hiring
  
  If they were id be working here lol

Happy Lunar New Year 🧧
It's the year of the ssssnake 🐍
- ooh that's me! I'm a snek 🐍
  
  Me too! It's gonna be a lucky year for us! 🐍

Good sirs, if you are going to have the balls to charge 25 dollars for a Calabrese salad then, for the love of god, the tomatoes better not be CRUNCHY. And the cheap arse everyday toms from the supermarket. 😡 It's only three ingredients FFS.
This is what I get for thinking I am going to have a little early treat because I have been disciplined this year so far. Back to home cooked.

trying out the new telephoney up close on chillo:
I'm actually impressed.
- That's a nice picture.

Okay I’m going to officeworks. What pens do you want?
Edit: ok I’m back from the shop. I have pastel highlighters, 72 pack of Derwents, erasable ink pens some with double eraser, 4 colour pens enough for everyone, a Windsor and Newton purple, fancy green fountain pen, pack of pilot pens, and an mega multicolour pen. Also box of Bics because they are an icon, and everyone gets a multi pack of coloured post-its because they were near the cashier and who can resist them.
- I always wanted Derwents in a big wooden box!
  
  Faber Castell all the way for me.
- Pastel highlighter and colour pencils please
- Erasable ink pens?
- One of those old pens where you can pick from like a bajillion colours
  Edit: this one will do for now
- Lamy green fountain pen ink?
- That is an excellent haul 👌🏻
- A bottle of purple Windsor & Newton please
- Have recently discovered Pilot Juice pens and I looooove them!
- The erasable pens please. Make sure the eraser is on both ends please.

phone up and running. Oppo A18. Pretty painless. Not bad for $180.
First piccy:
Nothing to write home about but it works.
- The garden looks like it's starting to settle in. 🌞
  
  I think it'll be ok :) a few losses but most seem to be making it out alive.
- I adore that sundial
- do they still have that god awful over the top UI with all the colours? or have they finally toned that down a bit?
  
  It seems pretty toned down. I was expecting far worse heh. Keeps on automatically installing shit though. Deleted candy crush 4 times now lol :(

I made the mistake of looking at the forecast for next week 🥵
- Eeep.
- Well there goes the weekend. Aircon and sleep it is.
- Holy crap, that's awful.
- Oh that is properly ugly. Fingers crossed some of it gets revised down.

I slept like shit
- me too. Second night in a row. Dont know if its cause Im crook or what but my brain is just racing.

New phone probably arriving today. As a kid would've been excited but not these days so got an el' cheapo crappy one (oppo something or rather).
Old iphone refuses to charge I think because of bringing into the ocean so many times and the charging port has corroded lol. Worth it though. Had to be replaced anyway but I'm glad it kicked the bucket doing what it loved.
- I know that you mean. The excitement has pretty much evaporated for me as well.
  
  this is the leading argument in my mind to jump ship every so often. Samsung to iphone? Huge. Samsung to Samsung or iphone to iphone? meh. Running my poor 13 into the ground till theres something worth upgrading, like the 120hz display on the new pros.
- love new phone days! But yeah a cheap oppo is probably a bit hard to get excited about. Wont you not have a backup if your moving to a non-iphone?
  
  Yea the backup is gonna be an issue. Don't mind a clean slate though, sort of liberating.
- 30-60 minutes with a new phone, and it looks identical to my old phone. If I took a screenshot of my phone from 10 years ago, it'd be close enough to my present phone as to be indistinguishable.
  Where they differ is the quality of the photos I take. I still took my DSLR around most of the time 10 years ago. I rarely bother these days. It still takes better photos, but the difference is not worth the effort unless I'm specifically going some place to take photos.

Yay, I have clearance to "piss off" early today. Just have to make a site visit quickly, spend a little time there and go home from there.
Should be home before 2:30 today.
Just in time for the cricket and a late lunch!

It is Wednesday my dudes
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- Extra long noodles, for new year snake. 🧧
  
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- Shé gēng ploise chef.
  
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- some fish and chips please chef
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- Prawn crackers please and crispy pork to go with it.
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- A crispy pork banh mi. Extra chilli, please, for Tet
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- For you chef 🧧thanks for everything.
  
  Thank you. Much appreciated.
- Late to this party. Can I have one of the reserve bento boxes please? No, not those ones. The real ones.
  Almost forgot 🧧🐍🧧 Happy New Year!
  
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- May I please have a dumpling noodle soup? 🧧🧧
  
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- A properly sized killer Python please 🧧🧧
  
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- 🧧 Thanks chef
  
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Everyday, I wake up and I feel like I haven't really woken up until night time. So I go the whole day metaphorically staring into space.
Maybe I need to start taking iron tablets again.
- You can get the 100 pack of Maltofer for ≈$53.90 by price matching at Chemist Warehouse at the moment. There's also a new catalogue starting tomorrow and it might be on special, usually they take it down to $55.
  
  Thank you!! Chemist Warehouse currently says $66 and I can only see an online store that's got it for 55. I shall look out for a special.

Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
At least I'm up early, and hopefully I'll sleep tonight.
- yesterday I cheesemared about assassins in dark robes ( mr seagoon got them tho ) , today it was war/bombing/soldiers coming to my neighbourhood
  i should probably not have cheesebread in the evening and should stop watching news for a bit
  
  While I'm sorry you had a cheesemare (go Mr Seagoon though!), I am so pleased to see the word cheesemare, haha!
  
  🧀 🐴🐴 hehehehe.
  
  A break from the news - I think I need that too!

Rode into work today for the first time and it's a pleasant ride. This is also comparing a 15km ride to a 33km ride into the city. I also don't have to cart a laptop to work, and I'm not towing a trailer full of kids which I usually do on the bike

Might try and plan a last minute long weekend in Antarctica.
- 4 days straight of air-conditioning 💸
- I tried to get a gig there. Alas, they did not need my skills.😕
- I'm suddenly working from home Monday and Tuesday.
- Don’t forget your permit.

I'm running a local version of the new Deepseek "Ai" and I'm really fucking impressed.
This is a bigger deal than I thought.
- What makes it good?
  
  It's free and open source mainly.
- Is it actually deepseek or something else?
  
  It's actual deepseek. Well, a part of it anyway.
- That's cool! The fact they've released it open source, you can run it locally, and see what/how it's thinking has made it much more interesting I think than any of the other models. I've avoided using any generative AI for a lot of different reasons, but this one I might play with...
  
  I love that it shows you how it thinks. It's so fascinating.
  And I'm the same about generative ai. Have used it for work stuff but just text.

I'm growing some orchids from cuttings and some mushies grew from the orchid mix , cute
- Eat em and see what happens 👀
  
  You first…
  
  uuum, no

I get the whole pokemon thing now.
I've watched a handful of episodes. Can definitely see how it became so popular.
Season 1 episode 17: The Pokemon are stranded on an island and they all talk to each other lol

finally got to a ripe strawberry before whatever is eating them (despite being net'ed I might ad). God it was good! Only 1, and not massive but it was so sweet and flavorful how do you ever go back to store brought ones after that?!
- You don't. Homegrown strawbs have spoiled me for life. As has homegrown asparagus, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers and green beans. And quite a lot of other veg that I haven't grown for a while now. But home strawbs a pretty damn special.
  
  man dont talk to me about tomatoes at the moment. tomatoes are probably the biggest stress point in my life right now. Got a decent amount but still very very green and the plants are clearly in distress.
  
  Omg! Just realised I will be able to put asparagus in the new garden. 💚

Friend: You should get married someday. You seem like the type.
Me: Why?
Friend: So you can give us red pockets. 🧧Married people are supposed to give them out.
Just now:
💀
- hmm hopefully your friend was only joking.
  
  She was hehehe
- Can confirm, have received these at Chinese(ish) weddings.
  The time I was Best Man at such a wedding, I probably broke even - which is saying something as I spent a fair bit on that wedding (good friends).
  [Chinese(ish) because not all the couples were actually Chinese. The Best Man one was Malaysian; another wedding was Singaporean]

lost my favorite pair of glasses. no worries go to order a replacement, except they don't do them any more. god damn it now I gotta go start the process all over again!

What shall it be for breakfast in the city today... I'm think phó at the minute
Edit: phó it is
- Fish.....
  
  I haven't got food at home I need to eat out. What fish can I get in the CBD at 1030?
- Where did you procure this pho? Looks the business
  
  Pho thin, corner of hardware lane. It's definitely the business!

Good night everyone, love you all, sweet dreams 😘

Visiting a client today. Always a good time with these guys!
Hopefully a nice easy day. Hopefully..

I made a bowl of jelly again.
Wonder if I should save it for the warmer weekend coming up.
Also got no idea how to start and finish this penatonne I was given a few weeks ago.
- have the panetone for breakfast
  
  🤔
- Panettone is a sweetened bread - very like brioche, but it takes much much longer to go stale. Soak a 3 cm thick slice of panettone in milk, or a mix of 1 beaten egg and milk, let it sit for half an hour to absorb the liquid. Then fry in butter until golden brown. Enjoy with jam and icecream on top or even bacon & egg. Or cut a 2 cm thick slice and just have it plain with coffee. Maybe a bit of butter on top if you are feeling fancy. Or just toast slices for breakfast. All this applies to the 'normal' panettone with fruit in it. If you've been given the chocolate sauced sort or the lemon sauced sort - then just cut slices and eat with coffee or a glass of something. I prefer the ordinary sort as more flexible. Intended (and ideal) for providing a quick snackette when unexpected guests come over - just cut up and put on a plate.
  
  The one I have is chocolate chip.
  Lemon sauce or something like that sounds fantastic and might go well to offset the sweetness.
- You need to douse the panetone in custard so it's unrecognisable then it's edible.
- Make a tiramisu of it. One of my bosses makes tiramisu out of panettone and it's delectable.
- Sprinkle it with a liqueur and add jelly and custard for a trifle?

Maybe eating discount 7/11 sandwiches two days in a row wasn't the best idea. Either that or something else is definitely setting off the fart machine big time today

Bit of an itch to scratch with medical dramas so I tried watching Brilliant Minds. Dear lord this is absolute schlock compared to The Pitt. The direction is cliche, the dialogue is revoltingly bad and Zachary Quinto absolutely can't act. Terminated
Maybe I should try watching Scrubs some day... maybe that could be my treat when I finish uni.
- ER is on iView and it is pretty brilliant tv, especially the first few seasons.
  
  I've been thinking about watching it after reading all about how The Pitt is basically the spiritual successor of ER and how that show was the OG premium medical drama...
  I absolutely can't get into a long show until I finish uni though because I can totally see myself avoiding my commitments by binge watching for weeks 🥲
- How is The Pitt?
  Someone was trying to recommend me to me yesterday at work and told me a little bit about it.
  
  Late reply, it might be a bit triggering if you have had any traumatic experiences in medical settings including the care of others (this is why I haven't recommended it to my brother). Or cathartic, depending on which phase you're in...
  Lots of high praise from drs about the accuracy of most medical details but also the dynamics and characters, environment etc. To the point that it's a bit too real and too similar to work so not enjoyable for some haha.

I didn’t know that Baci chocolates come with a quote inside. This one I had was this: “Love life more than its logic, for only then will you grasp its meaning”

Already been too and from work.
Still feel like I’m asleep.
Also for the first time in ages, my alarm woke me in the middle of my dream, which from what I can gather was distressing.
Crap way to start the day.

Arrrgh, adaway via VPN is not blocking in-app ads and I am SEETHING - it's like getting STDs on your phone, these disgusting full screen sound on ads are absolute cancer after decades of blocking ads successfully.
Will need to hope and pray the DNS blocklist method works again later this week

You might have heard about Catch and Rivers, but Millers Fashion Club looks to be closing.

Loooong day. Just got home & showered. I drove home and don’t feel like I was concentrating at all. You know when you drive on familiar roads and wonder how on earth you got home? I’m that level of exhausted.
I’m having a sleep in tomorrow.

Not liking the heat wave that’s coming. I think I planted all my stuff way too late
- I'm worried so many plants are going to get burnt leaves
  maybe I can cover them with an old sheet when the sun is directly on them
  
  Yeah, or maybe some shade cloth?
  There are shade cloth triangles you can stretch over an area tying at the corners but you need something to tie it to like a fence. If you don’t you can make a temporary box frame of pipes and drape a sheet over.
  I have a cat enclosure I could use for the purpose but it’s too small to use with how I spaced the pumpkins out in the ground. And the tomatoes with their stakes are too tall.
  If I could have prepared better and had more money I would have had some kind of plan. I don’t really have the time or energy to sort it out beyond pulling the smaller pots in and giving the bigger/in ground plants water -_-

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