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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
2nd harvest is in:
Those little ones take faar too long to pick. Dense little shrubs and trying to navigate to the middle with scissors is a PITA. Still don't really know what they are. Probably birdseye but they taste different to the shop ones.
And finally full sized habs (and hot af) unlike last year.
Edit.. ooh looks like they've changed the forecast... ouch.
Hope the organisers of moomba have thought about cooling stations / misting spots.
will go to asian supermarket this evening for something high sodium and quick to cook in anticipation of the hot weekend
planning skills
risk mitigation
Can work with others. Great at problem solving
research skills
delegation (most of the cooking to the factory) skills
Nutrition expert, trained in cultural diversity best- practice
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Managed to get a bronze with one of my entries in my first ever mead competition, pretty stoked!!
I just read that it has been ten years since that MH370 plane went missing. Honestly, the older I get, the more time blurs.
Just saw the forecast. Talk about last gasp of summer!!!!
I had plans on Saturday but now it's gonna be 3 days of air conditioning instead.
Just looked too. Eeek. Good weekend to wash blankets, pillows and cushions too if you are so minded. Definitely an early shop on Saturday tho, then some heavy duty hibernation.
Just saw it myself too, holy hell they bumped up the temps on Sun and Mon. I'm meant to be going out to Ballarat on Sunday on the v/line, hope the tracks don't melt or whatever bs often happens on a string of hot days.
I wonder if this is the hottest streak we've had since 2019/2020
A 22 year old man has been arrested in connection to the disappearance of Samantha Murphy. No charges have been laid as yet.
Oh shit!
He was just charged with her murder. Deliberate attack. No further details.
What a scumbag. It may not be the only time heโs done this.
Morning all. One of my favourite people resigned at work and today is her last day ๐ข Elder minipeeler has started therapy but is still not going to school ๐ Miniest has decided today she is joining him, and I didn't have the time or energy to argue about it ๐คฌ๐ Old friend is in Australia for a week and is coming over for dinner tomorrow night ๐ Managed to get a load of washing done because I wasn't trying to get kids ready for school ๐
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Just finished the psychometric test for that possible job. Gotta say, not a fan of that kind of stuff.
How can you possibly judge a person based on a ridiculous "test"?
The companies have been sold these tests by the companies that designed them. It's all pseudoscience shite.
I hate them so much, they utterly useless and a complete waste of time for everyone involved.
Nellieโs first newsletter has arrived. There is a quiz.
7/10 too - we need to up our numbat game to support Nellie. I admit that I had to guess the scientific name (but got it right for all the wrong reasons).
Help I'm addicted to NYT puzzles. I'm in bed for hours doing crosswords
I'm addicted to SCP stories. I could sit in bed all day and read them. Send help!
Hungry hungry Montague. Nom nom nom.
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Slight headache and drowsiness. But got a few loads of washing done, as well as the dishes. Overall a relatively productive day.
Pasta bake for dinner, which is just leftover pasta in a dish with cheese on top... Which was made from the roast pork and veggies mein liebe made. Not a single scrap wasted in this house.
So how did I end my mundane work day?
By catching a trapped bird in the building and letting it fly out the window.
I think Iโve had enough excitement for one day.
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Also bring on the Footy!
A kind act for that bird, you should feel very happy about that! Kindness towards animals is what makes you a good human ๐
๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ ffs I was meant to call and cancel that dodgy newspaper thing, but I forgot to and they charged me 18 dollars for it. That's not that much, but I literally just signed up to read a single article, which wasn't even a free trial they still charged me like 2 dollars for it. :/
They don't even give you a heads up, hell, not even a courtesy "wait until days end", they take their fee at exactly midnight, and that's the end of it. Absolute scumbags.
On the plus side, if anybody has any articles you want from the Wimmera mail times, hmu and I'll send you the content. Unfortunately there's not even that much content in most of them, it's usually just a couple of sentences about something mundane.
18 dollars Jesus Christ I'm an idiot
You're not an idiot, you just forgot. Free trials plan on doing that to people.
Ps. Not really relevant but be careful of renting to own appliances or phones too, you end up paying much higher than the actual cost of the item
Booked a last minute trip to Hobart as it didnโt feel like I was making the most of my leave unless I got away for a bit of it. Got here today and went to the summit of Mt Wellington. So so beautiful. The city is great too from what Iโve seen, feels like a country town in Victoria. MONA planned for tomorrow.
I didn't have any long weekend plans and now it looks like I'll have even less with the forecast
Today for lunch is sandwich: Gypsy Ham, rare roast beef, jalapeรฑo Monterey jack, hot English mustard, brioche bun.
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I think I might go for a short walk. Getting so stir crazy in here.
I keep having nightmares ๐ฅฑ Must be overtired or getting too hot during the night. Definitely been letting myself get too dry
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Melbcat is going so much better today.
Cat rambles
She was already improving last night and the crying had stopped. But a day after stopping the antibiotic and starting stronger pain relief + ear drops there's no crying, she's calm, and her appetite is coming back.
She doesn't like the ear drops and generously tries to share them with me by shaking her head. But it's much less traumatic than force feeding her the antibiotics and I know I'm giving her the right care.
The sample the bacteria was identified from was taken right before she got a shot of powerful long acting antibiotics two weeks ago so I'm hoping the uti might have been gone before starting and having to stop the allergenic ones... I'll still be watching carefully because resistance is no joke.
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My house is an absolute tip because I decluttered some areas but ran out of energy to keep tidying. I did collect a bunch of stuff that can go though. Might sort it into leftover Coles bags so I can just ask someone to drop them off at the op shop/food pantry
chatgpt what are skills what do i put on my cv i didnt know problem solving is a skill that is so abstract
making good scrambled eggs is a skill
getting a cat to purr is a skill
Knowing the difference between a pretty sky and an ugly sky translates to an eye for detail.
and to post it here while the sky is still pretty is communication and time management
Yes while using excellent computer skills
I recently updated my resume and I took the bullet points from my position description and put them in.
Just do the same thing if there's a role you really want to apply for and when they read your resume they'll think you were made for the position
I'm copying a fine art youtuber and it's working. Bright primary colours are turning into muted subtle ones. I don't have a colour wheel and am not swatching but they look close. Mixing little dabs of paint with a toothpick in a paper bowl works too but is pretty awkward. (No palette knife.)
Ps. Melbcat got very excited when I opened the paint tubes. Sounds of plastic? A bowl. Something being opened. 'What are we eating?' To be fair to her I am drinking something from a cup that looks the same as the paint water cup so may actually commit the classic blunder
