Another scorcher today Melburnios 🔥
About to get up a ladder and clean some gutters but…
Spoke to the old man last night and was reminding me about the ambulance vic subscription.
Then he decided to tell me about one of his buddies who recently had a fall off a ladder.
Apparently he fell backwards and his leg got caught between 2 steps quite high up, leg snapped in half and he was just dangling there until his wife found him an hour later.
Fucking nightmare fuel really bad timing.
Ouch. People do get very blase about ladders and disregard the risks involved. It’s also something that people insist on doing when they become too old to do so safely (like driving). Stubborn old men who insist on climbing on the roof are a fairly frequent category of rescue the Fire Brigade go to, when said stubborn old main realises they can’t get down again or have a medical episode from the exertion of climbing up.
Apparently the stats for men over 50 falling off ladders are quite startling. If you are under 50, then maybe you’ll be OK …
yeah I wouldn’t get up there in this wind. Fuck that
Mega cudos to the roof plumber who [temp] fixed our shit in the big storm last Hols!
I forgot to water the plants all of yesterday because I was in the shittest mood/energy so when I greeted them this morning I felt a wave of resentment radiating from their wilted leaves. I will promise to give them a supplemental water as needed today.
This motherfucker is just growing like there’s no tomorrow though, ever since I put it in a pot with a water reservoir. Time for a big chop tomorrow, freeze the leaves for use over winter, hopefully the new growth will stabilise over the next couple months.
healthy boi
I really want some rain so I don’t have to water…. Tank is nearly empty too.
ooh lush curry leaf
Just got an email from ex-work asking me to return a whole bunch of equipment: monitors, mouse, keyboard, adapters, USB hub, etc.
I can’t even, they don’t even keep track of what they’ve given out?? I only took the two adapters and the USB hub because I have a dual monitor PC set up at home already. Mentioned this to them a thousand times, and they think I took monitors, a keyboard and mouse home on PT?? As if I would use their crusty keyboards over my mechanical one haha
Good grief, I was slightly regretting leaving (I shouldn’t, I was suicidal) but I’m certainly not now.
I’m not going out today, so they will have to wait till Friday or Monday.
I’m not going out today, so they will have to wait till Friday or Monday.
OR: Counter proposal: How about they go suck a dick?
I dont think legally you can withhold pay over equipment. or so my HR tell me so I just watch laptops basically walk out the door everytime we hire someone and they quit inside a month.
Interesting, they are withholding my pay until I return these three items… But I don’t want to burn bridges with them either…
Hmmmmmmmmmm, I shall ponder this!
They sent out a rote letter, but yeah, they really are fuckin’ bad. I got the same when my old workplace rolled up, could be I heard of possibly a someone else who realised they had no fucking idea of inventory and got themselves a lenovo out of it…
It’s a small business, literally 10 office workers including the cal centre, accounts, boss, and IT. And this email came from my manager. So obvious when I checked the adapters and USB hub I have at home and they don’t even have serial numbers. I can’t believe they have no way of tracking this.
I don’t need the adapters as they’re usb-c/HDMI and I don’t need the hub. Plus, the had us using Chromebooks for work. Everything is based off the Google suite. I fkn hated that shit. I had to relearn all the shortcuts which is such a pain, and Google Sheets fucking sucks ass.
Sorry, just triggered a rant haha
On the flip side, GSuite is great if it’s all you know. Kids doing the Google thing through school come out with that environment being the one they are familiar with. They hit the ground running when they reach the workforce, even if they are put into Microsoft Office. For some reason, it’s loads easier to teach people to go from Google > Microsoft than the other way around.
Your experience matches what I’ve seen with clients who go down the Google path. Lots of people find it painful - usually older employees who have been using Office apps since before the ribbon (Office 2003), when keyboard shortcuts were more heavily used.
I personally love Sheets for most tasks. I hate it as soon as we get to charts and advanced stuff, though. There’s no getting around the fact that Microsoft has the edge (heh) on things like macros and charts.
If they don’t keep track of who has what, just reply that you don’t have anything?
They don’t have anything I value haha, the adapters and USB hub are useless to me, and they issued us all Chromebooks of all things, which I left at the office anyway. Absolutely despise Chromebooks, useless pieces of crap (to me).
My PC can run Spotify, Baldurs Gate 3, Cyberpunk, etc. I don’t need their shitty tech hahahaha
If they had something I value or was useful I’d perhaps consider it, but I’m too much of a goody two shoes and would just return it anyway hahahaha
Ain’t no thang like a chicken wang!
Noice.
Next week I’ll get Tucker Time back up and running.
Yum!
And that will have to be a no today
Good luck tonight everyone. Especially to those of us who can’t open windows because their cat will destroy the flyscreen…
Ah, you’ve been here then
Don’t get me wrong, I love the little gremlin, but fuck me it’d be nice to get a breeze going in the house sometimes.
I did it once when she was at the vet and that was it pretty much.
Mostly passively cooled house 24.7 degrees, outside 31.6, still bearable inside. We have no A/C, only cooling is ceiling fans and curtains on only 6 out of our 30 windows. I’m glad we aren’t having too many hot days in a row this summer.
Are everyone’s pets basically puddles of fur from all this heat?
Nah because the air con is on but when it’s not, my dog will dramatically flop down on the carpet like those fainting goats. We call this “dead dog”.
Did you guys see about the scientists who had managed to actually weigh a rainbow? It was pretty light
This is excellent. I was just thinking the other day that I was sad because I hadn’t heard a good new joke in a long time but this has brightened my day, thank you
Yessss, thank you!! I just got my boss real good with this one!
We’ve been invited to a wedding but the reception joint was set on fire last night. Interesting. More to come…
well this is a letter I have never read on Miss Manners
😂 I’m interested to see what happens next.
Dear Miss Manners, Our reception joint caught on fire. Is it alright to convene at the local pub?
I shoulda known better than to hire a place named “The Sopranos”.
Themed fancy dress in the car park? Play is that s as fireperson or a stripper?
I suppose it’d be too much to assume it was an act of god or a natural disaster?
Which God and was the disaster prevented?
The answer to both are Take your Pick.
I doubt it
I wonder what illegal shit they were selling. Or do you think it was a dissatisfied customer?
Well apparently both the Thomastown and Thornbury fires are linked and have something to do with a boxing match that was to be held.
Age article Hope this works - have had little luck posting links recently. Lemme know if it doesn’t work.
Yes it did work. Thank you very much.
Fuck! Shattered tooth. All the bad dreams are true
Oh no! :(
First am appointment Obtained. Will still have to deal with looking like a cartoon until then.
At long last after weeks of procrastination I took my haul of manzano chillos from the fridge (and washed off some fuzzy growth…) and a head of good garlic and made this forbidden smoothie
Chucked it into an ice cube tray to make little cubes for wintertime pasta/stir fry.
Also took the uselessly spicy Thai chillis and blitzed it with ginga, garleck and little red shallots plus some lime joos, and dried shrimp, fried it all in oil. THIS thing is almost unusably spicy. I hope it mellows out over the next few weeks. attention @Bottom_racer
hawt hawt hawt
RIP my fingers though, I was doing well until I got some spicy oil on one hand.
Ooh that looks angry.
Prime minister on the radio basically admitting he would never force Coles or Woolworths to divest, but said oh we’ve got an inquiry, oh we are looking at mandatory code of conduct with penalties.
Cut the shit that is fiddling around the edges. And breaking up large companies is not a Soviet policy. If anything it’s a pro capitalist policy by returning to a more balanced market with greater competition.
I don’t see what an inquiry is going to accomplish, just confirm what we all knew all along and make them do nothing to help?
It’s to make it look like they are doing something without doing anything.
Unlikely the inquiry will change much. Best thing to do is vote with your wallet if you can. (I know not everyone has access depending on where you live). Shop at Aldi, green grocer, butcher, markets, Costco.
That’s basically what I do. I have a Coles, aldi, a butcher and saccas in close proximity.
I wish I could. If physical inability to shop (and particular needs around kitty’s litter/wet food) weren’t a factor I’d possibly be happy buying exclusively at Aldi
I am so utterly disappointed with Anthony Albanese
Not me wondering why aircons aren’t minimum standards for all rentals. Cat threw up four times last night because she just can’t cope.
When the cat can’t cope, there’s a big fucking problem - they’re desert animals!
Are they? Surprises me since they have a that fur. But I guess the desert can very cold at night.
Indeed! I was shocked too when I found out - turns out their fur is light enough that it acts as insulation against both heat and cold, which is impressive. That’s why they don’t drink much water straight up - they evolved to pull moisture from their food instead
Summer is only 3 months of the year. Having said that, my investment property has an aircon and ducted heating.
Alas mate, that three months is dangerous for both people and animals. When it comes down to it, having one quarter of the year being unlivable is not remotely reasonable.
Glad though you have your investment property properly set up for all seasons, imo that should be the standard across Australia, not the exception.
Summer is defined as three months of the year.
March and april get into the 30’s easily
New computer parts arrive today and it’ll be too hot to do computer work.
I got this massive tempered glass computer case as a gift and let me tell you it isn’t worth it.
Tempered glass computer case?
That sounds really fragile?
I forgot to reply to this, but it’s a Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL case a friend gave me a few years ago. The front and side panels are glass, and it’s about twice the width of a regular case to fit the power supply and drive bays in their own special areas.
I’m convinced that all CEOs and those in equivalent leadership positions are psychopaths and it’s only a matter of degree as to how strongly they show those traits.
I think there’s a study that shows a greater concentration of sociopaths in executive level positions.
Welcome to the wonderful world of cutthroat corporate competition. Capitalism encourages this sort of thing.
Statistics would say you are almost correct, a pretty large number of CEOs exhibit psychopathic tendencies.
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