Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 1 February 2025
Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 1 February 2025
Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 1 February 2025
Heading to Flaming Lips tonight, should be fun. I'm guessing they haven't installed aircon at festival hall...?
Edit. Feels like there's fans, but it's still really quite hot.
Edit. There seems to be no fans. I was mistaken.
Edit. My god, I'm drenched already.
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Second set ... I'll ease off now 🙂
I was thinking about going but after being in an un airconned Royal Exhibition Building all day I don't think I can do another unairconned venue.
I didn't even know they were playing 🫥
That looks amazing!
Nice shots 👍
Festering Hall? Sounds like it's worth the sweat though.
My rabbits
Their home is so cool!!
They are so adorable and you are awesome at looking after them, these guys live like rabbit kings. ❤️
Thank you!
Here's them eating right now:
The Queen surveys her kingdom.
I bought a portable air con from Appliances Online. Rare delivery fail - didn't get notified until the guys actually rocked up to deliver. First time this has happened to me.
Mega dramas hooking it up to the outside to vent (we all gotta vent from time to time). At the moment it's held in place by repurposed cardboard and the magic of duct tape, which will do until it rains. If it continues to do well over the next few days, then will invest in a proper window fitment.
Unit works well - has shrunk the temp in my bedroom from 30 plus to 23 over 1 hour. Methinks this was money well spent.
Will be keeping an eye on the power bill, but my last one was $45, so I think I can splurge a bit on personal comfort.
Definitely worth shelling out to not boil in this horrid heat. You'd have spent so many decades the "hard way" with wet towels and ice cubes and what not. I'd only experienced that in my childhood overseas and that was enough for me.
Cooling is worth the cost if possible.
Portable air cons are a god send.
Beach!:
Your photos give me life and make me wish I wasn’t so lazy with my own cameras.
Pretty sure I asked before, but I forgot. What are you shooting with?
looks like heaven
so jelly
Out for a walk and brunch before the weather gets too hot. Now home for washing and relaxing.
Love this space on the internet and glad for all those who are or were part of it.
I know. 🥹 I feel so lucky and grateful to have all these wonderful people share their everyday lives.
Gutters done. Always like doing them down here because:
Worth the risk. Lovely up there. Doesn't look anything like that from ground level.
Rolled outta bed late and dehydrated but still managed to hoist myself out to do the needful:
⛽ Car filled up
🚘 Car given a long overdue clean and vac - tired of Monday's gunk
🌬️ Car tyres pumped although I still get the tyre pressure warning...
🥕 Bought fruit and veg at my old shops on the way back (almost drove back to my old place out of habit 💔)
🍲 That includes a shit tonne of vegan snags and easy cook shit at the Fancy Woollies which I miss DEARLY despite the shitty parking
🍦 Grabbed half price ice cream and cheap chips from the shops across the road
🧹 Vacuumed the joint
🚿 Had a shower with hot water coming out of the cold tap, as usual on hot days, because this place sucks that way
❄️ Aircon on
🍽️ About to have a late lunch
That's it. Staying PUT until Monday. I have plenty of food options. Window shades on my car windscreen because I'm not going anywhere. Need to buy a dash cover.
So many Severence theories to catch up on and then time for this week's The Pitt, then I'll need to tackle the dishes and get round to reading Juice tonight.
I didn’t mean to, but I also bought a copy of War and Peace today.
I guess I know how I’m spending the heat
I'm going to be reading Tim Winton's Juice just to really let it sink in
I read that over Christmas. At the time I had some niggles with it but I keep thinking about it so I'd say it was good
I wish I could do gaming on the PC sometimes but after sitting and staring at a monitor for 40+ hours at work i just can't do it.
#consolepeasent
Boyo finally got to see me have a gaming meltdown tanty after struggling with a POE2 boss just earlier. I'm not proud
I'm a PC and console gamer. Depends on the game. I do agree that sometimes sitting down to my PC to play after being at work all day makes me question life and I play a lot less these days... mostly because it makes my evenings go too quickly!!
I would love to setup a pc in the loungeroom connected to my large 4k TV and just use a controller.
Just being able to have mods is insane!!!
I don't play during the week otherwise I'd play all night lol. I only play on weekends.
I think that’s understandable if you’re feeling that way and able to make that link.
Means you need a break from the computer screen.
Time to chill and do other things if you ask me.
I use a controller with my PC if I'm playing a game like Dark Souls.
I guess the switch is easier for me because I have a couple of hours between work and gaming with the boys' evening routine
That makes sense. For me it's the sitting position. I play guitar sitting on the floor because I can't hack sitting in a chair again lol
It's a different screen, presumably in a different room. I feel totally the same way.
Might watch Se7en now. I've been looking at what Cinema Nova's been doing for their anniversary parties and following that
Edit: was good, but holy shit
I'd love to check out more of their events like that. It would be so good to watch those classics on the big screen properly
Fuck it. I'm gonna get up.
Oh man, I don't know what to say except 🫂💙
Thanks
so many hugs
and get a kitten. Melbcat will have someone to teach cat things to and to care for, it will be her cat legacy ❤️
I think she’d be really stressed with a new cat, and she has chronic cat flu that she could transmit.
It’s a shame. I did think about fostering kittens for her to play with but it’s a gamble and I’m actually not sure about my capabilities anymore or about bringing them into my situation.
Had a whole wedge of cheese bang on it's best before date last night and no cheesemares so that's nice.
I'm thinking we go to a shopping centre this afternoon to escape the heat, and I've also been trying to pick up some of the cheap nick-nack shit Kmart has on clearance, but balancing where everything is in stock has been a headache
This weather is a blessing. 🌞
I'm going to be hating it tomorrow 😓
I feel like I'm missing something fundamental in my life and I don't know what. Perhaps it's boredom and sense of fulfilment, because there is so much I can do with ice on my face for most of the day. I'm trying not to see the future as scary, but as something with hopefully some sort of excitement.
I think it's normal to see the future as a bit scary. It's the unknown.
Edit: Maybe that's one of the most exciting things about being alive. You don't know what's around the corner.
Haha I really hope so
Are you really living if there's no uncertainty in life?
I've been to body pump, had a walk, done two loads of washing, and made a frittata. I will be on the couch until further notice.
I wanna go back to body pump, but have gotten so unfit that it scares me. But I also know how good it feels when it hits right!
Enjoy your couch time!
Lunch done. Coffee made. Washing done and drying now.
Time to relax!
I'm really not far north of the city, closest to the Viewbank weather station. It's usually a couple of degrees warmer here but right now it's 11 degrees hotter than the CBD. It's 37C.
How??
it's 30 here in Carlton
Another year, another 'Rod run' car show down here where people show off they're stupidly exxy hot rods. Some of them are absolutely bonkers. Sounds like they're hooning at the start of the bellarine highway but in reality they're probably the most careful drivers on the road heh. Definitely worth a look if you're into that sort of thing. I'm not but it's impressive how much coin and time they put in. I wonder how many of them have aircon cause tm will be brutal if they don't.
What sort of leg gnawing rat have I trapped myself with?
Context?
It never ceases to amaze me how good a game Ghost of Tsushima is.
The landscaping and details of flowers and leaves is quite amazing at times.
I heard it's amazingly detailed. Impressive considering it's from an American studio. I think about that difference with Sekiro, they're probably only a few hours train ride from an authentic castle like the one in the game. Sucker Punch are on a whole other continent
It’s got some lovely shrines and locations, my most recent little memory involved having a duel as part of a quest and it took place in a water filled cave and had lighted paper lanterns floating in the water around you as you have your duel.
Sekiro did have some nice pieces in it though it is much different in game design. It’s closer to a soulsbourne game with its systems and it’s sort of more level based on terms of structure if I remember correctly.
I’m excited for the 2nd game coming out later in the year Ghost of Yotei and looking forward what Sucker Punch can do with it.
Righto. I’m headed to the market before it gets too hot.
Please place requests below
Yeah can I get aaaaaaaaaah, some fruit?
🍇 🍈🍏🍎🍌🫐🍍🍐🍓🍑🍒🥭🍌
Avocados if they are decent please
Watermelon and grapes please.
A cherimoya and half a watermelon please.
Strawberries and jazz apples?
🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍎🍎🍎
I miss the jam donuts from Preston Markets. Actually, I miss fresh donuts in general, they don't seem to be a thing in Perth.
It's doona washing weather
2nd season pokemon intro song sucks compared to season 1.
It's one of those "brushing Gibson has relaxed me to the point of sleep".
Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Salt and pepper calamari salad pls chef with a side of a half filled frozen goon bag.
An apple pie for Miniest please. She is pestering me to make apple pie and I just don't feel like it!
Oohh a beef burger today with pineapple and of course a coffee please Chef
peanut butter toast and cold coffee please
🥜🔨🍞🧊☕️
Something you don't need to cook please, enough for the whole weekend
We chose handbag chicken
Yesterday's episode of Severence was so good I watched it again which is super rare.
and now to wait for next Friday, sigh.
We're gonna need a concise theory from you because I can't pick it.
I thought so too, plus mounting evidence over the past couple episodes, but it's nuts how many people on Reddit thought it wasn't. You don't subdue a determined motherfucker like that so easily!
I'm going to rewatch the whole series 1 and 2 episodes again.
I saw it too and that cliffhanger. Argh!
There's a brief moment in S1
Shopping is done. Now the veg out begins. 🍠
Played the Cure on Spotify and the autoplay has just been fantastic: Radiohead, Portishead, Mazzy Star, the Smiths and whole bunch others and now Billy Idol is singing me off to sleep.
Sweet Dreams, fam…
Absolutely love mazzy star. Been ages since I listened to them.
I was a metal head in high school until my high school girlfriend got me into Jeff Buckley and mazzy star.