Melbourne

Inducted a guy at work employed by our labour hire company, who admitted that he has no fixed address and slept in his car out the front of work last night.

He's framing it that he's doing van life but I could see that there's likely more to it.

I've put him on to a community pantry and I'm bringing him some bedding, basic toiletries, and a towel tomorrow. He said no initially but agreed when I told him it was things my husband wanted me to throw out anyway.

Really threw me with how open he was with it all. Left me really checking my privilege too.

Today is a really hard day.

Today we finally had to move my nana into respite care. She’s not taking it well. Neither are we

Today Mr Omoikiri is having his wisdom teeth out. And while it’s completely routine and there no danger in it, I’m sick with worry and waiting around to get the call that he’s fine and I can go and pick him up.

Today I have to review this 80,000 word thesis and get to back to my supervisors.

I am so mentally and emotionally drained and my day isn’t even half done.

Big news!

My boy Rocky has been doing so well at school, we've been promoted from Advanced Beginner to Intermediate! We'll be focusing more intensely on our heel work and extended stays now

So proud of my little munchkin!

Day 9 of 30 day exercise plan. It's working! I looked in the mirror this morning and noticed subtle changes in my body which are really encouraging and positive. I'm so happy! I can't wait to tell my manager at work. She partly prompted me to start thinking about it in the first place. She had to do a test where you run on a treadmill for 10mins while they monitor your heart (pressure test). While I'm physically strong (lifting and carrying 20kg sacks of potatoes will do that to ya) I thought, "Could I run on a treadmill for 10mins? I'm strong but I'm not cardio fit at all." Then I started thinking, "I'll be 50 this year, you gotta do something about it. Do something for yourself. You're overweight, just like your parents were, and they did nothing about it and died!" Sorry for the morning dramatics, but I didn't want to end up like that.

Here's to positive changes! 💪

Damn Bot. It was awake all night. No crashes, no timeouts. It just didn't post anything. I'll have to sit down for a debrief and try to figure out what went wrong. After coffee.

Have absolutely zero motivation today for anything. Didn't go the gym, barely interested in work, don't feel like doing yoga or even going for a walk.

Boo!

just joined today :D

I can't see any reason why the bot did not post last night. There was no error, it just didn't do it. The only thing I can think of is that midnight is causing a problem, I will change the time to a couple of minutes after midnight and see if that works. Every test post I have done has worked as scheduled with no problems. Fingers crossed for third time lucky I guess.

My psych always talks about "what do you need". And I've gotta be honest, today I've got no idea. I feel a bit flat. Might try and do some small jobs around the house and see if that gets me feeling a bit more accomplished.

Thanks @Thornburywitch! The bot was not the only thing malfunctioning, just after setting everything up nicely and getting ready for bed, I nearly bricked my rather expensive work device the night before a field visit.

Thanks to a stray comment on an old post online, I finally managed to revive it over an hour later, even though it honestly felt like some dark magic and only worked after about 9 tries (and some stress relieving cleaning). Certainly some witchy intervention there as well, I suspect.

I spent way too much time today perfecting my pay calculation spreadsheet. But is now a little neater, includes more automation, and calculates the super I should be getting as well as the pay.

We have a ridiculously complicated pay structure, so I have 7 types of leave, 6 types of overtime payment, 6 different penalty levels (there are more, that's just the ones that apply to me) and a few allowances. We also get paid basic wages for the period finishing on Friday, but penalties and overtime are for the period finishing on Wednesday. And our standard work day is broken into normal hours, rostered overtime and leave acruual, so the hours used to calculate each type of pay are different. So it is really hard to figure out whether we are being paid correctly without a computer and complicated maths.

I've managed to get to the point that except for mistakes my calculations only differ due to minor rounding differences, and I can project future income for my budget fairly easily too. NGL pretty pleased with myself.

Morning! Babysitting a friend's 1yo for the next few hours. She is such a ray of sunshine in this gloom! Always makes me so happy 😊

Miss Meow just walked over the laptop and tried to update the bot. Apparently she wants everyone to see the number 87.

I have set the bot up to run at 5 minutes past midnight, fingers crossed this one actually works, I'm running out of options to try if it fails again. I've turned off all power management options in the wifi adaptors, and it now has the new adaptor so can connect directly to the router instead of via the phone as a hotspot. This whole thing is like launching a rocket, all the tests can go well and the main launch can still fail! Come on @[email protected] we believe in you!

Still having sporadic internet problems, and went to look in comms box to see what I could find. Comms box is in laundry next to fridge. I opened freezer door and looked in there. This sums up my day so far, and is probably the reason I won't be getting a job in IT anytime soon.

I have noticed as my depression lifts more and more I stand straighter. Just little things like that are making me feel good about myself. 😊 Good feedback loop.

A++ thread name, Thornbury Witch! Morning all. Conference starts today so I have to put on work clothes and interact with people. I really hope they’re alright at asking questions to keep a conversation going!

Just did the remainder of the washing / drying from indo trip and $50AUD flew out of the dryer.

Only brought $200 in AUD, exchanged $100 of it to IDR and now I've ended up with $150 AUD.

Lucy the dog’s stitches are out and she was very brave,no signs of apprehension, just excitement to meet the other dogs in the waiting room even the ones bigger than her. If anyone has got tips on how to keep a Jack Russell calm and stop trying to run everywhere, let me know:)

First day back at work after a holiday. Planning next holiday in another tab.

I took Mr Woof out for a nice walk at sky pretty. It was very cold, but the orange glow behind the silhouette of leafless tree branches was rather nice.

I went via the post box to "return to sender" some random letters from Commonwealth Bank for people who do not live here. Mr Woof was very concerned that the greyhound we saw out walking too was up to no good. He is very suspicious about the motives of other dogs.

I hope this grows to as bigger community as reddit had. I miss a couple of groups like Carsaustralia and Daddit.

I pastuerized some mead last night for the first time to kill off the yeast so that i could add things for secondary flavour/aging without trigging further fermentation. The base mead is strawberry/raspberry and it is split into two 5L vessels. In one i have added some wine tannin and 0.5L of strawberry juice from berries we picked recently and in the other i have added 0.5kg of dried sour cherries. They both look amazing colour wise now and they smelt great. Will give them a taste later today before they go away for storage. The cherry one is so dark at the moment you cant even see a torch light through the liquid

Good morning Australia. Yesterday's sourdough turned into a rock on the outside but at least it's still soft on the inside. Spent half an hour painstakingly sawing off the crust. At least I have a cake for backup breakfast.

if anyone is looking for a social event/ board games, I run a blood on the clocktower games night every fortnight on a Wednesday at Melb central lion hotel from 6pm. Next is on 5th of July.

ASHES UPDATE: Australia have won the second test. 🎉 2 - 0 lead. I'm going to bed.

aspirin has been attained , headache soon to disappear 😖 then a walk maybe

I watched the mouse last night as it inspected my trap, it knows.

Edit: I just checked the trap again since last night, either a different mouse came back or the same one couldn't help itself..

Visiting family in the states, can wait to be back home in Melbourne. I’m dying for a decent coffee, only a few days to go!

Today is going to be a slow rough day, I can feel it. 😩

It is hard to find the motivation to do anything when it is so cold.

Teapot hunting time. I'm leaning towards the retro branded enamels atm, can put them on my little heater dish for hot tea on demand. (we don't need fancies, pretty much exclusively black tea drinkers)

Just went past the Melbourne Recital Centre on the tram and saw that there was a huge amount of prams parked outside, and immediately I knew, the wiggles are performing there.

Argh! Boyo has locked himself out again. Keys, phone, wallet, lunch, it’s always something. Absolutely certain it’s diagnosable!

I feel like I’ve been running around like a headless chook today! 😥

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