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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Finally back home now

Well I'm off to sleep for 16 hours, see you all!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Welcome back! Night night, and try to sleep in if you can.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

FINALLY!!!!!

Hello weekend.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Cheers! ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Helloooo ๐Ÿป๐Ÿบ

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Everyone's having a good time ๐ŸŒŸ

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Back in Vic now. Was briefly here for a few hours this morning (driving from Pinnaroo, SA, to Balranald, NSW

Energy and patience levels very very low. Only just left Echuca, so still a few hours from home. Probably gonna get back about 9:30. Sure hope past me tidied up before leaving (genuinely don't remember)

Anywho, I sorted out my shop yesterday. Will be delivered tomorrow evening, so I can have a sleep in. Gonna smash some KFC tonight, and might order some lunch in tomorrow. Who wants to cook

Edit: KFC has been smashes. Also remembered that I ordered an ABBA vinyl from Kmart (which they apparently sell for black Thursday or whatever the stupid sale thing is called). I don't have a vinyl player but oh well, I'm a top 0.05% ABBA fan according to Spotify

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Changing my Facebook profile photo to me playing a gig was a great idea for getting into a new band.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Just saw some lightning. Had a look on windy.com and there's a big storm heading due south. Has nearly reached Whittlesea.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Ooh, looks big. But also looks like it's getting blown Southwest towards Gisborne and might miss most of Melbourne. Whatever, just bring on the cool change please.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I think Iโ€™ll just be on the outer edges of it but Iโ€™m seeing a very cool lightning show.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

First cicadas of the year are shouting in my front yard. They're bloody loud.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

ow, just cut the tip of my finger with the new knife, it has set my teeth on edge, just a tiny scrape but ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did someone say beer? Beer! ๐Ÿป๐Ÿบ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Reporting from a shopping centre as a worker. Sales bring out the fruit loops for sure.

Just in my store: police arrested someone for shoplifting (they should do this more often because there are lots of thieves, especially the teenagers who need to learn a valuable lesson). Someone told me that I should be at the entrance checking people's bags and that it's silly how I'm not stopping everyone. We have a ~3m wide entrance, so I can't possibly stop everyone. Unless we were to do something like the COVID vaccine check. Can't believe that was a thing. Anyway, another customer defends me, bless her. The complaining customer tells the other customer to calm down and that she's a clinical psychologist. I know if I were a clinical psychologist, I wouldn't be telling someone to calm down.

My positive from this shift so far: staff parking was full so I got to park close to the entrance for the same rate as staff woop woop

I am so excited to hopefully get a new job next year and have this on the side!

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Whatever I save on rent and gas connection fees at this place I'll definitely be making up for in air-conditioning - despite having the extractor fan on and blinds and windows firmly closed the place is a furnace. I can feel the fire from behind the blinds in this west facing bedroom. It's hotter than it is outside.

Off to have dinner with a friend shortly but I think I'll need to have the AC on timer while I'm out so that I can sleep in this damn place tonight ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It might be worth having a little air or foam mattress to sleep in a cooler room when itโ€™s bad. I also would put tinfoil on the sunny side windows.

West facing bedrooms are the worst

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Had some beers, had some whiskey, had some weed.

All of you are looking extra good tonight ๐Ÿ˜˜

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Got back late after work to buy some essentials to last the next fortnight.

Bought some honey ham on special and I found one of those massive meat rolls I ate while ago on clearance for 5 bucks as well.

Debating if I should have it tonight or tomorrow.

Exhausted now and hoping to chill for the rest of three night with some gaming and background movies or shows.

Happy Friday everyone.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Home Sweet Home Duenan. ๐Ÿบ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

You definitely deserve one ๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿบ๐Ÿบ

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. ๐Ÿ˜˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is there anything more dramatic than a cat whose food bowl is only 95% full?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

FFS someone backed into my car when doing school pick up. Thankfully not much damage and to their credit they hung around to give me their details, but jesus I do not need the headache.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I can empathise,Iโ€™ve been hit twice in the past year in the school scrum and one of those accidents took my car out for 6 weeks.

Actually I shouldnโ€™t say accident. I should say negligence. People lose their fucking minds during that time.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I'm a bit concerned about following these instructions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

earth and world are the same character/word in Mandarin ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

( in the old mandarin I learnt )

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What have you d- wharblgarbleglub

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Noah, get the boat.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

That's enough work for today. Sign off. Going to have a bit of retail therapy before heading home, but I won't last long if it's super crowded at the shops like I think it'll be.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

TitleMissed today's 2pm class. I hate myself.

Thank you for the support these past few weeks, I can catch up via the recording of the class I missed today.

sorry for posting so much, I'll pull back and let others have space to vent

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

Vitamin and mineral content for cat food doesn't exist, just Crude Ash % (which is the % of vitamins and minerals after incineration). I found a whole metric fuckton of vetmed papers detailing the minimum requirements for cats, but no packaging has a breakdown of what vitamins and minerals they contain.

I don't want to google every bloody ingredient.

Interestingly, Fancy Feast and Purina are much more transparent than Dine or Fussy Cat. Thanks Nestle, I guess lol

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽถ ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Just meet me at the... APT! APT! APT! ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ ๐ŸŽถ ๐ŸŽต

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Oh so nice outside. Nice cool wind.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

while I fully understand and support the "fuck you, pay me" and "act your wage" ethos of millennials and genZ, some of the stuff I've dealt with this week honestly has me questioning which one of us actually grew up inhaling leaded petrol fumes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's the microplastics I suppose, that and hardly any millennial or genz will own their own home or do the great things they dreamed of doing.

It would make anyone resentful enough to just phone it in and not give a flying fuck.

But yeah, prolly the microplastics lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

prolly the microplastics

I had one of those once and don't have a house so theory checks out :)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Didn't take lunch because I was waiting for something to come through then had a meeting. So I took it now for an early trip home. A nice way to end a Friday

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Hey mate you should have a beer about it ๐Ÿป๐Ÿบ

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Lawn has been mowed. Meetings ended. Shower and lunch had. Time to tidy up one more thing workwise and the weekend is here.

Also - new Kendrick album slaps

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hehe on top of bigpond / outlook borked now a 4G outage in kew estimated restoration date 6th Dec.

That's me done for today lol.

Can't win them all.

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