My final assessment has been marked. I have now officially completed my diploma, yay!
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melbaboutown - 4w
Congrats! 🍾
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4w
Congrats 🥂🍾
7
SpinMeRound - 4w
Congrats!!! 🍾
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Bottom_racer - 4w
Congrats!
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Eagle - 4w
Congratulations 🍾
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Seagoon_ - 4w
Congrats 🍾🥂
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SituationCake - 4w
Congratulations!
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LowExperience2368 - 4w
Yay!!! Well done!
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Force_majeure123 - 4w
Congrats 🎉
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TheWitchofThornbury2 - 4w
Yayy!
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anotherspringchicken - 4w
Yay! Congrats 🥳
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imoldgreeeg - 4w
Yay
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 4w
Congrats!!!
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tombruzzo - 4w
I walked into an RSEA and they're selling Helly Hanson work pants 5 for $150. That's a week's worth of pants for $30 each, that's $15 per pant.
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Taleya - 4w
that's $3.75 per work hour on an average 40 day week!
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StudSpud The Starchy - 4w
Having a good mate ghost me means I have to scrounge for references, BUT I got an email from the company asking for them so that's a great sign!
Here's hoping the references I gave glaze me up 😂
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Eagle - 4w
We have a reference source here, don't we?
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SpinMeRound - 4w
Had the kind of dreams that elicited the need to just run away and take care of myself today, but here I am at work 😅
Dear Melbourne, I know we had some sunshine over the weekend, but can I please have some more?
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4w
I hope your day turns around and something really really good happens ❤️
I'd like to add to your plea. More sunshine, less allergies please Melbourne. My solar energy is depleting fast.
Ps. This is shit spring cleaning weather btw.
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Seagoon_ - 4w
Good morning. :)
The young seagoons are here 😊
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SpinMeRound - 4w
I hope they have a lovely stay! Any grand plans for their time or just family time and beach walks?
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Seagoon_ - 4w
36 hrs then on to Belgium and then Vancouver and Toronto
then back to Melbs
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Seagoon_ - 4w
Today at the beach I saw a Fiddle Ray ( shark )
here is a pic, it was about 1 metre total length, it looked awesome
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TheWitchofThornbury2 - 4w
Is that the same as a banjo shark?
1
Seagoon_ - 4w
it is the same
but apparently not a real shark
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Bottom_racer - 4w
Went to SILs citizenship ceremony last night at robert blackwood. First time I've seen one. Have to say the sound in there was pretty good. God it dragged on though. 350 people. Went on for almost 3 hrs. Naturally lotta bored kids w/ low blood sugar getting shitty.
I think the weirdest part was a 5 min video spruiking the city of monash. How many kms of cycle paths, how many parks, hospitals etc. etc. Not sure what that was all about.
No aboriginal flag, just aussie which was odd considering they had a Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung? dude speak for 10 mins and play the didge. They should probably change that.
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4w
My daughter's graduation is coming up. Fuck knows how many hours of sitting and clapping there'll be. The best part will be when I get to block school phone numbers, emails and delete Xuno.
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Bottom_racer - 4w
Never heard of xuno til now.
If that was around when I went through I would've been in a little bit of trouble.
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4w
Xuno is a school portal to have safe conversations between students, parents, teachers and admin. This is how safe it is.
I receive an email to say there's a message in Xuno for me. I open it up and there's a note from a teacher.
Dear parent. Just a quick a note to let you know Polly was a cunt in class today and there was an incident. We have rectified the problem on our end but we would like to handball this on to you now. Feel free to lash the child if need be. Cheers teacher.
Wait a minute. Who the fuck is Polly? I don't own a Polly. Oy kid, do you know Polly? She reads the message and informs me she does not.
2nd email arrives "Please disregard the first email"
This happened more than once.
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Bottom_racer - 4w
lol. Could work in the kids favour though.
"Teacher said you did this".
"No I didn't they've got it wrong before"
"True, carry on".
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4w
True
I wanna know how flustered the teacher is when they've opened my kid's portal page and her photo, name and year level is there and they're still writing to me about "Polly".
I have sent my kid on missions to find out about the mysterious incidents that I have been notified about then retracted.
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LowExperience2368 - 4w
I've had to help teachers write up chronicles about students misbehaving in class and the platform they use has the student's name in giant letters and a photo of the kid. Kinda hard to stuff that up, so Xuno mustn't be amazing then
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tombruzzo - 4w
Here's something else I don't understand people doing: using the email address provided by their ISP or an Icloud email address.
I see a lot of email addresses through work and it's like, "you're really wedded to bigpond or active8me, huh?" Or it's like, you didn't have an email address before getting your iPhone? Apple created you an email address and you decided to go with that now?
Although realistically these are probably just old people that are getting their emails routed through outlook or the default mail app on their phone and aren't changing internet providers anytime soon.
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 4w
I reckon it's 100% the last one.
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tombruzzo - 4w
Boomers probably signed up with an ISP in the 90's and are like, "this is my email now". I still don't understand using icloud for anything important though. You must be really confident you're only ever going to use iPhones going forward
Imagine getting an email from that address now and just thinking the person is spam
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LowExperience2368 - 4w
@bigpond
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 4w
You're spot on lol
I'd say most that are in the ios ecosystem are going to be long term.
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Rusty Raven - 4w
My Mum's still got a Bigpond address. We've been trying to get her off it, which has hopefully been successful as she's now moved and doesn't have Telstra internet anymore. Not that Telstra want to maintain the Bigpond addresses either - it's a legacy system they are still operating only because of old people who refuse to leave!
The other thing she did was create a joint email for her and my Dad (which I don't think he ever would have looked at himself anyway, but his name was in the address). I guess that's a transfer from how landlines would be for a household and not an individual and the email address was looked at the same way.
Then there's me, with lots of email addresses for different things (especially banking and secure things, they get a unique email that is used nowhere else). Plus most business dealings I create an alias address, so if the business leaks it I can tell exactly where it came from.
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Alamutjones - 4w
Yo
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StudSpud The Starchy - 4w
Wed' was my interview
So am I crazy
You have my number
So call me maybe?
I've had my interview
It's been six days
You have my number
So call me maybe?
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Alamutjones - 4w
I work exactly one day this week. It is a shitshow
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 4w
Get to work from home tomorrow fuck yes!
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Alamutjones - 4w
Soothing existential angst with a Gaytime
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Eagle - 4w
Don't mistakenly buy a packet of gaytime bites from the grocery clearance store. I ate the whole packet on the car ride home.
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StudSpud The Starchy - 4w
Jorts are pretty much done! Just going to do another layer of stitches on the snek, and trim it.
::: spoiler pics
:::
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melbaboutown - 4w
That’s some good sewing there
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Seagoon_ - 4w
Very nice
and very brunnie to wear with tights 👍
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Force_majeure123 - 4w
Once everyone six months or so I get a craving for McDonald's. Today was one of those days. I stopped by on the way home from work and got myself a quarter pounder with bacon, lettuce, tomato and McChicken sauce (just the burger). Not bad at all. Would try again -- in six months or so.
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SaneMartigan - 4w
It's a blessing and a curse that they don't offer any vegetarian options. I'd love a plant-mac.
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Rusty Raven - 4w
Everything is so quiet at my place today. They are doing some sort of drainage works behind me, which means the main road has been blocked off and will be for about a month. All of the normal traffic in and out of the estate is not there, which is more noticeable than I expected.
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melbaboutown - 4w
I wish I was eating lasagne and Gaytimes. This would fix me
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imoldgreeeg - 4w
If it's any consolation I can't have those things either (well O can manage lasagna with GF pasta but it's been a loong time since I had a good ole gaytime....)
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Rusty Raven - 4w
I decided to make some little lasagnes for the freezer. I ended up with three single and two double serves of lasagne, 3 serves of bolognese, a half serve of mostly-tomato bolognese for a future parmiagiana, and two serves of cheese sauce. Plus lots of mess.
The freezer is getting very full. I need to focus less on stocking up and more on eating.
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LowExperience2368 - 4w
I've been asked to co-host a Meetup event, which will just involve meeting and greeting new people and making them all sit at the same table. How to talk to people?
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 4w
Good evening. I'm Low. Would you like to take a seat. Anywhere here is fine wave your hand in the location. I love your earrings. So cute. Enjoy your night.
Do you mean like that?
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LowExperience2368 - 4w
Yes!
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Bottom_racer - 4w
'Oi now listem up I'm Low and if you don't sit down I'll make you stand in the corner and face the wall'.
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LowExperience2368 - 4w
Stealing this
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Taleya - 4w
oh pet circle about to go on the shitlist.
They have a delivery guy who decides he's not gonna deliver to an address that's been delivered to for three years because he does not like stairs. They decide the problem must be the address, and offer increasingly milquetoast mewls of "we're sorrryyyy" and "I'll make a note" as the order goes around and around in circles with no depo pickup like they're somehow helpless victims of a courier service they've explicitly chosen to utilise.
hitches old fart belt back in my day we'd tell the courier to get their shit together or lose our fucking contract.
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Seagoon_ - 4w
rarely occurs to some of the guys that the reason for home delivery might be because the person can't actually get the item from a store because disabled 😒
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melbaboutown - 4w
Walk. I love how it leaves me sweaty and nauseous
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Seagoon_ - 4w
beach
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 4w
Please let 5pm come soon I'm fucking wrecked and yawning at my desk.
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LowExperience2368 - 4w
Manager threatened to remove me from the roster for the entire Xmas period because of a mistake I made that I wouldn't really ever make. I had stuffed up an order without knowing. We print things out and make them into other things. It says on the label what we are supposed to make. I apparently printed the things out but didn't make them into other things. I remember seeing the order but my memory is hazy on what actually happened but according to camera footage, it was me who stuffed it up. I'm just really annoyed at myself, because even when I was sleep deprived starting work at 6:30, I always knew not to make mistakes like that. I really want to see the camera footage.
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tone212_ - 4w
Are you not allowed to make any mistakes ever? Sounds like a toxic manager making a threat like that.
Brings me back to my casual working days where if you were on the manager’s wrong side on any given week, you’d get no shifts or the worst timed shifts.
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LowExperience2368 - 4w
Yep. This manager had a secondment for a few months and I was getting more shifts than I do now, even though the company was making less money.
I've noticed that the manager's friend who works with us often gets her shifts extended and is pretty much always there. She is 19 though not doing anything else with her life and is cheaper than us adults.
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SpinMeRound - 4w
That's just shitty management to jump straight to a threat like that if you don't make mistakes like that on the regular. A bit of humility goes a long way.
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Simon - 4w
At the local library apparently
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 4w
It's Jeff Buckley's birthday today.
Time for another spin of Grace
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Rusty Raven - 4w
The groceries have arrived. The cold stuff is away and I will deal with the rest after coffee.
Sadly a few things were not available, but nothing too major. I did at least get the potatoes this time, although sadly there were no parsnips.
My Brother Laser is printing tired prints, sorta faded down the middle. I've never done it but I think it might be time to replace the drum and not just the ink, does that sound about right?
4
TheWitchofThornbury2 - 4w
Yes. Also clean the setting wire - cotton bud in alcohol does the trick. Might give a tired drum a few more weeks of life.
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Seagoon_ - 4w
so very tired, must sleep
love you all, good night, sweet dreams 😘
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melbaboutown - 4w
The magpies have been making this sound that could be coughing?
::: spoiler spoiler
But I can’t find a real video of what coughing sounds like in sick birds. Had to dig through layers of content farms and botshit by specifying veterinary and still there isn’t any succinct clip like ‘this sound is/isn’t cause for concern’.
I’m really hoping bird flu hasn’t come back around because that water dispenser is shared by a number of birds and at least one cat.
I shouldn’t have put it out in the first place but caved and began providing water in the very hot days of summer.
Sounds a bit like my bestie (who is a bit bigger) down the beach the other week. I thought it was weird barking but maybe just coughing up a beetle / worm lol.
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melbaboutown - 4w
This magpie is a big friendly female as well. Hopefully she’s all good and was just chatting to the half grown baby with her
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imoldgreeeg - 4w
Not an expert but have talked to many Maggie's and sounds like chattering to me
YarraByte in melbourne
Discussion Thread 🐞 Tuesday 18 November 2025
My final assessment has been marked. I have now officially completed my diploma, yay!
Congrats! 🍾
Congrats 🥂🍾
Congrats!!! 🍾
Congrats!
Congratulations 🍾
Congrats 🍾🥂
Congratulations!
Yay!!! Well done!
Congrats 🎉
Yayy!
Yay! Congrats 🥳
Yay
Congrats!!!
I walked into an RSEA and they're selling Helly Hanson work pants 5 for $150. That's a week's worth of pants for $30 each, that's $15 per pant.
that's $3.75 per work hour on an average 40 day week!
Having a good mate ghost me means I have to scrounge for references, BUT I got an email from the company asking for them so that's a great sign!
Here's hoping the references I gave glaze me up 😂
We have a reference source here, don't we?
Had the kind of dreams that elicited the need to just run away and take care of myself today, but here I am at work 😅
Dear Melbourne, I know we had some sunshine over the weekend, but can I please have some more?
I hope your day turns around and something really really good happens ❤️
I'd like to add to your plea. More sunshine, less allergies please Melbourne. My solar energy is depleting fast.
Ps. This is shit spring cleaning weather btw.
Good morning. :)
The young seagoons are here 😊
I hope they have a lovely stay! Any grand plans for their time or just family time and beach walks?
36 hrs then on to Belgium and then Vancouver and Toronto
then back to Melbs
Today at the beach I saw a Fiddle Ray ( shark )
here is a pic, it was about 1 metre total length, it looked awesome
Is that the same as a banjo shark?
it is the same
but apparently not a real shark
Went to SILs citizenship ceremony last night at robert blackwood. First time I've seen one. Have to say the sound in there was pretty good. God it dragged on though. 350 people. Went on for almost 3 hrs. Naturally lotta bored kids w/ low blood sugar getting shitty.
I think the weirdest part was a 5 min video spruiking the city of monash. How many kms of cycle paths, how many parks, hospitals etc. etc. Not sure what that was all about.
No aboriginal flag, just aussie which was odd considering they had a Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung? dude speak for 10 mins and play the didge. They should probably change that.
My daughter's graduation is coming up. Fuck knows how many hours of sitting and clapping there'll be. The best part will be when I get to block school phone numbers, emails and delete Xuno.
Never heard of xuno til now.
If that was around when I went through I would've been in a little bit of trouble.
Xuno is a school portal to have safe conversations between students, parents, teachers and admin. This is how safe it is.
I receive an email to say there's a message in Xuno for me. I open it up and there's a note from a teacher.
Dear parent. Just a quick a note to let you know Polly was a cunt in class today and there was an incident. We have rectified the problem on our end but we would like to handball this on to you now. Feel free to lash the child if need be. Cheers teacher.
Wait a minute. Who the fuck is Polly? I don't own a Polly. Oy kid, do you know Polly? She reads the message and informs me she does not.
2nd email arrives "Please disregard the first email"
This happened more than once.
lol. Could work in the kids favour though.
"Teacher said you did this".
"No I didn't they've got it wrong before"
"True, carry on".
True
I wanna know how flustered the teacher is when they've opened my kid's portal page and her photo, name and year level is there and they're still writing to me about "Polly".
I have sent my kid on missions to find out about the mysterious incidents that I have been notified about then retracted.
I've had to help teachers write up chronicles about students misbehaving in class and the platform they use has the student's name in giant letters and a photo of the kid. Kinda hard to stuff that up, so Xuno mustn't be amazing then
Here's something else I don't understand people doing: using the email address provided by their ISP or an Icloud email address.
I see a lot of email addresses through work and it's like, "you're really wedded to bigpond or active8me, huh?" Or it's like, you didn't have an email address before getting your iPhone? Apple created you an email address and you decided to go with that now?
Although realistically these are probably just old people that are getting their emails routed through outlook or the default mail app on their phone and aren't changing internet providers anytime soon.
I reckon it's 100% the last one.
Boomers probably signed up with an ISP in the 90's and are like, "this is my email now". I still don't understand using icloud for anything important though. You must be really confident you're only ever going to use iPhones going forward
My mum's email was something like 10001442.34632@compuserve.com.au for fucking years.
Imagine getting an email from that address now and just thinking the person is spam
@bigpond
You're spot on lol
I'd say most that are in the ios ecosystem are going to be long term.
My Mum's still got a Bigpond address. We've been trying to get her off it, which has hopefully been successful as she's now moved and doesn't have Telstra internet anymore. Not that Telstra want to maintain the Bigpond addresses either - it's a legacy system they are still operating only because of old people who refuse to leave!
The other thing she did was create a joint email for her and my Dad (which I don't think he ever would have looked at himself anyway, but his name was in the address). I guess that's a transfer from how landlines would be for a household and not an individual and the email address was looked at the same way.
Then there's me, with lots of email addresses for different things (especially banking and secure things, they get a unique email that is used nowhere else). Plus most business dealings I create an alias address, so if the business leaks it I can tell exactly where it came from.
Yo
Wed' was my interview
So am I crazy
You have my number
So call me maybe?
I've had my interview
It's been six days
You have my number
So call me maybe?
I work exactly one day this week. It is a shitshow
Get to work from home tomorrow fuck yes!
Soothing existential angst with a Gaytime
Don't mistakenly buy a packet of gaytime bites from the grocery clearance store. I ate the whole packet on the car ride home.
Jorts are pretty much done! Just going to do another layer of stitches on the snek, and trim it.
::: spoiler pics
That’s some good sewing there
Very nice
and very brunnie to wear with tights 👍
Once everyone six months or so I get a craving for McDonald's. Today was one of those days. I stopped by on the way home from work and got myself a quarter pounder with bacon, lettuce, tomato and McChicken sauce (just the burger). Not bad at all. Would try again -- in six months or so.
It's a blessing and a curse that they don't offer any vegetarian options. I'd love a plant-mac.
Everything is so quiet at my place today. They are doing some sort of drainage works behind me, which means the main road has been blocked off and will be for about a month. All of the normal traffic in and out of the estate is not there, which is more noticeable than I expected.
I wish I was eating lasagne and Gaytimes. This would fix me
If it's any consolation I can't have those things either (well O can manage lasagna with GF pasta but it's been a loong time since I had a good ole gaytime....)
I decided to make some little lasagnes for the freezer. I ended up with three single and two double serves of lasagne, 3 serves of bolognese, a half serve of mostly-tomato bolognese for a future parmiagiana, and two serves of cheese sauce. Plus lots of mess.
The freezer is getting very full. I need to focus less on stocking up and more on eating.
I've been asked to co-host a Meetup event, which will just involve meeting and greeting new people and making them all sit at the same table. How to talk to people?
Good evening. I'm Low. Would you like to take a seat. Anywhere here is fine wave your hand in the location. I love your earrings. So cute. Enjoy your night.
Do you mean like that?
Yes!
'Oi now listem up I'm Low and if you don't sit down I'll make you stand in the corner and face the wall'.
Stealing this
oh pet circle about to go on the shitlist.
They have a delivery guy who decides he's not gonna deliver to an address that's been delivered to for three years because he does not like stairs. They decide the problem must be the address, and offer increasingly milquetoast mewls of "we're sorrryyyy" and "I'll make a note" as the order goes around and around in circles with no depo pickup like they're somehow helpless victims of a courier service they've explicitly chosen to utilise.
hitches old fart belt back in my day we'd tell the courier to get their shit together or lose our fucking contract.
rarely occurs to some of the guys that the reason for home delivery might be because the person can't actually get the item from a store because disabled 😒
Walk. I love how it leaves me sweaty and nauseous
beach
Please let 5pm come soon I'm fucking wrecked and yawning at my desk.
Manager threatened to remove me from the roster for the entire Xmas period because of a mistake I made that I wouldn't really ever make. I had stuffed up an order without knowing. We print things out and make them into other things. It says on the label what we are supposed to make. I apparently printed the things out but didn't make them into other things. I remember seeing the order but my memory is hazy on what actually happened but according to camera footage, it was me who stuffed it up. I'm just really annoyed at myself, because even when I was sleep deprived starting work at 6:30, I always knew not to make mistakes like that. I really want to see the camera footage.
Are you not allowed to make any mistakes ever? Sounds like a toxic manager making a threat like that.
Brings me back to my casual working days where if you were on the manager’s wrong side on any given week, you’d get no shifts or the worst timed shifts.
Yep. This manager had a secondment for a few months and I was getting more shifts than I do now, even though the company was making less money.
I've noticed that the manager's friend who works with us often gets her shifts extended and is pretty much always there. She is 19 though not doing anything else with her life and is cheaper than us adults.
That's just shitty management to jump straight to a threat like that if you don't make mistakes like that on the regular. A bit of humility goes a long way.
At the local library apparently
It's Jeff Buckley's birthday today.
Time for another spin of Grace
The groceries have arrived. The cold stuff is away and I will deal with the rest after coffee.
Sadly a few things were not available, but nothing too major. I did at least get the potatoes this time, although sadly there were no parsnips.
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Danke
Hello chef! Could I have whatever Force is having please.
📦
a giant 🍁🐌🍪please
🍁🐌🍪
Could I please open the box and consume the contents?
👍
This was an interesting experiment. Yes it's USA based but given the temperatures involved I think it's valuable here in Melb.
mulch comparison
F yeh, f plastic mulch.
My Brother Laser is printing tired prints, sorta faded down the middle. I've never done it but I think it might be time to replace the drum and not just the ink, does that sound about right?
Yes. Also clean the setting wire - cotton bud in alcohol does the trick. Might give a tired drum a few more weeks of life.
so very tired, must sleep
love you all, good night, sweet dreams 😘
The magpies have been making this sound that could be coughing?
::: spoiler spoiler But I can’t find a real video of what coughing sounds like in sick birds. Had to dig through layers of content farms and botshit by specifying veterinary and still there isn’t any succinct clip like ‘this sound is/isn’t cause for concern’.
I’m really hoping bird flu hasn’t come back around because that water dispenser is shared by a number of birds and at least one cat.
I shouldn’t have put it out in the first place but caved and began providing water in the very hot days of summer.
Guess I keep trying to figure it out.
:::
Edit: Saved by the other place https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdHealth/comments/z8ni64/baby_magpie_coughing/
Sounds a bit like my bestie (who is a bit bigger) down the beach the other week. I thought it was weird barking but maybe just coughing up a beetle / worm lol.
This magpie is a big friendly female as well. Hopefully she’s all good and was just chatting to the half grown baby with her
Not an expert but have talked to many Maggie's and sounds like chattering to me
That’s really good to hear