Pretty sure I’ve had my last friend step down to acquaintance.
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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Hugs. I prefer animals to people, no bullshit games.
oh no , so many hugs
ooh that one will hurt.
We are here for you.
Thank you, collectively
Stopping by after a very long absence to introduce you all to Mabel:
spoiler
and here’s a video of her being adorable
I am OBSESSED with her and I am just showing her off to every single person I’ve ever met.
Bird cage cleaned and renovated to Sir’s liking. He appears to approve of pea sprouts.
Sun is streaming in my window onto the couch so I have given up any thought of moving, have made a G&T, pulled out the diary and sitting here planning holidays and just chilling.
I imagine this is how normies (ie people whose brains are not filled with depression etc) get to live all the time. It's nice. I approve.
I bemoan chicken and vegetables, but holy fuck do I feel good today.
Like a different person.
Energetic, focused, motivated.
Crazy shit.
Edit: Noticeable performance increase at the gym as well.
It's so dark 😓
I almost want to turn the heater on for emotional support. But it's 19 degrees inside so I will refrain. But it looks cold.
It really doesn't help that I've just returned from 10 days in a tropical island resort. It's like being plunged into winter all at once.
Have made a report about last night’s yard screamer. The more I think about it the more it seems like a SA situation.
I feel like life is slowly grinding me down.
I think a lot of us experience something similar every now and then. A feeling of hopelessness and heaviness and inertia. Hopefully you can walk through it and out the other side. Hugs.
Thanks
The alarm to get ready for work went off and I woke to a text asking if I would like AL today. Hell yeah I do! Back to sleep for me.
I was thinking: maybe I could be one of those people who goes around to schools and talks to the students about the realities of drug addiction.
Maybe.
I’ve just had the most luxuriant breakfast
TIL that little flappy bird thing that seems to be everywhere is called Pam
I'm not clicking because like, it's the Harold scum, I'm not a boomer. But I've been wondering what the go is behind it
I love playing network engineer. Really all I did was unplug some cables then plug some different cables in, but it was still so much fun. I also made our internet not be as shit as I thought it was. Went from 200-500ms latency at 20mbps to 50-150 latency at 50-60mbps
I'm not sure how well the new router will handle multiple devices and concurrent transfers though. It's pretty much just a test and a way to make the internet usable for now. The old router sucked, but it could handle 20 devices just fine. The new ones for all these features but it's on the cheaper side, so I have my doubts
Edit: and changing the DNS server to 1.1.1.1 has removed the last bit of slowdown I was noticing. Telstra's DNS is kinda shit ngl. For the last 6 months I've had to use CloudFlare warp or my mobile data to access aussie.zone because it never worked otherwise. I ended up narrowing it down to Telstra's DNS acting like it's never heard of an Aussie zone in its entire life, which is how I learnt what DNS even is and how it works
The dog is harassing me for food. He doesn't understand daylight savings.
Woke up at 6 today because my body still thinks it's 7 am. Laid about for two hours hoping I'll fall back to sleep. Not happening.
Meanwhile I see the weather is the usual Melbourne perma-grey. Thank God I'm going to Vietnam for a couple of weeks soon to somewhat extend my summer.
Chook is awake. Time to get up.
I didn't think DST was that big of a difference from real time
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Walk walked. Groceries shopped. New pair of fingerless gloves bought (merino+possum for extra coziness). Bluey watched. I think it's time for a cuppa and to dig out the oodie
I'm sure it makes me Officially Old but Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig is one of my favourite tv shows. I would love to go on a gentle and beautiful holiday with Sandi.
I love that show and reckon Sandi would be excellent company. I also like having a stickybeak into all the houses
It's still not quite pumpkin soup season yet but the pumpkin can't wait so I'm gonna have to make it today. Maybe. No promises.
Scones!
Nah cos I've got some onions and potato I wanna chuck in there too. You have got me thinking about making some cheese and chive scones though.
Mmm vanilla latte packet coffee
Oh force would you mind editing the date into the title please? Makes it easier to follow and keep track of
tonight for dinner I am making tex chili
Awake at 6am on a Sunday. Why can’t I sleep in any more? The curse of getting older
Eye mask and headphones can help you get back to sleep with some practice
Just had my first porrdige of the season. yummy
I can't remember so many crickets so late in the season . It's good, it's a natural thing in the city. 😊
Looking forward to the reunion for mafs, last few episodes have been a snore fest. Don't think I'll be watching future seasons though, been getting more and more obvious with the forced storylines by the producers and clear terrible matches.
Well I have a problem.
Had a new pump in the sump installed recently to feed the tanks and it is not turning off when emptied. I believe the float valve is giving incorrect instruction!
I am not a plumber so I will shake the things and give it a kick and with any luck...
last time my toilet was acting up i removed its helmet, gave it an angry stare, starved it of water and made it work an extra order. It said sorry won’t do that again
hrmm I will stare at this thing this is a good strategy :)