Well done Windies 🏏 Well done Sinner 🎾 🇮🇹
I watched the whole of BBC War and Peace. Cried the whole way thru.
It made me feel life was both beautiful and pointless.
4.5 hobbits
I turned down the kitten that was up for adoption through a friend of a friend. As cute as it is, after doing some research, I think I’m better off adopting an adult cat. I was worried about single kitten syndrome and all of the work involved in caring for a high energy kitten. Plus I’m about to make a big career change and want to settle with that before I adopt. UGH responsible decision making.
ugh, cluster knocked me on my arse this morning, I slept all day now I’m wired AF. Just what I need heading back after a week off.
Tell me about it, slept in because I wanted to dodge the worst of the pain, but woke up just feeling irritable and restless. Been trying to do some gentle exercise, the worst of the pain is gone but I’m so lethargic, my limbs feel so heavy, but my mind is racing. I want to go for a jog, but I can’t move my neck without intense pain through my whole skull, and I’ll probably shit myself if I stray too far from a bathroom. Not how I wanted to spend my last day of annual leave.
On the plus side, there’s ice cream in the freezer, I think I will did manage to dodge the attack pain, just dealing with the aftermath now but even if I do get a proper attack - I have one dose of my emergency migraine meds left, and work should be pretty chill this week.
Pump up the jam, pump it up while your feet are stompin’ and the jam is pumpin’, look at here the crowd is jumpin’.
I bought a new keyboard. It’s delightfully clicky and styled after the Famicom.
I should have stayed a night or two in hospital but I didn’t wanna. 😔
Now I swear doc thought I was faking and wouldn’t give me a script for anything stronger than nurofen.
I have terrible pain but limited loss in joint and muscle mobility and strength
this is what happens when you’re a fitter than most people your age ( which is pathetic considering I’m unfit ) and diligently do sciatica exercises all the time
@Seagoon_ @CEOofmyhouse56 I am new to the chronic pain merry-go-round, but it seems doctors who don’t know you well will pretty much assume this by default. It’s exhausting. I even had the rural GP who ordered my MRI which showed clearly there was signal behave like there wasn’t really anything more he could do. I think he was a bit grumpy that his diagnosis of “likely tennis elbow” was incorrect.
thank you so much for the kind words
hugs to you too :)
It is Miss Meow’s third Gotcha Day today! 🎂🥳🎉
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Happy Gotcha to Miss Meow!
These sc(p)am messages are getting real annoying
The worst thing about them is that they use the Commbank contact info. I’ve seen a few mixed in with legit ones on my phone.
Exactly! The first time I got it I was in the city and close to a CommBank store so I went in and asked what’s going on. The lady said yeah we know about it and we’re trying to fix this 🤷♂️
So I’m putting my toys together and the little dog doesn’t like electronics so he jumps on the kid, who of course is on her phone, to get away. Then I hear “oh my god dude. You just wiped your dick across my screen”. 😂 I couldn’t tell her off because I was laughing 😂
lol
Made pizzas yesterday but only had enough toppings the kids like for one pizza for them. Decided on a whim to put some leftover chicken cacciatore on the other one with a sprinkle of cheese. Can 100% recommend!
I just realised that the other day when I cooked party pies and sausage rolls that I’m pretty sure I accidentally used the grill function of instead of the oven function and they actually turned out really great. I’m going to try again now for lunch, for science.
Science results: SUCCESS! The grill officially heats party pies and sausage rolls better than the oven.
Phone holder now set up and Bluetooth dongle now integrated with car stereo.
Yiss.Today’s lunch toastie really hit the spot. Chicken, cheese, onion, sauerkraut and a mix of tomato relish and mayonnaise. On a dark capeseed loaf.
Yeah it’s toastie time here too, I was going to make it with some really nice free-range leg ham we have in the fridge, but we also have heaps of roast chicken leftover from yesterday’s dinner, so better use that up first
Sounds delicious!
a toastie sounds delicious
but I can’t cook at the moment 😔
Dear god that sounds so good and much better then the packet of Burger Rings I am having.
Someone yesterday kindly informed me that the really good daily thread had moved here so here I am! Hi everyone. In other news for the fourth day in a row, I don’t think I will be able to leave my study or house. Way to many PhD things to do right now.
G’day!
Hey, you made it! Welcome to the friendly thread!
I was gonna reply something like this about your blinds based phd but you’re here now so here it is:
Your comment has got me thinking way to much about the history of Venetian blinds and I do feel there is a procrastination research rabbit hole in the near future for me.
It would be a nice up the sleeve bit of knowledge for the next time some nub like me makes another blinds joke about your phd.
So, the rabbit hole was achieved. Turns out Venetian blinds, like so many Venetian ‘inventions’, were invented elsewhere but perfected and mass distributed in Venice. In the case of the blinds, Venetian merchants found them in Persia and took the design back to Venice. Due to its large maritime trade and fabrication capabilities, they were able to ship the design around the world, where it became especially popular in the early USA. It is actually really common for this to happen in Venice because of the maritime trade; they travelled to parts of the world other Europeans hadn’t. In Venetian history, it is really common to find an idea in other parts of the world and then take the idea back to Venice, where it was changed into a more producible item and sold all over the world through their huge trade output. This is actually how many popular European foods entered into general usage throughout Italy and Europe. The Venetians perfected taking small ideas from around the world and perfecting and, more importantly, commercialising them; Venetian blinds are another example of that. Sorry for the rant, I love Venetian history (obviously).
Wow, thanks for that. When I win a trillion dollars in the international lottery I’d like to be your research patron. That might be one of the most amazing replies I’ve had on social media.
Hello!! It’s a bit more of an echo chamber here and there’s not much activity on the sub itself but lots more of the friendly daily rambling vibe on the old DT. Great to see you here. Good luck with getting through the current research hole! I hope you’re all stocked up on food and drinks.
was too many bad snacks stocked up but hey thinking burns calories right?
Absolutely, the noggin needs fuel as well as dopamine!
How are your comedy adventures with alllll of the cats and Pomeranian going?!
It is about as disastrous and hilarious as you would imagine. Four is too many animals for one person, especially when they all want love and attention.
I still remember some of your photos from when you were abroad and envy the view you had while you were there looking out from the windows.
Good to see you here!
Mummy got cleaning toys, kids 😎 a stick vacuum and a spot cleaner. It’s time to play play play.
stick vacuum
What did you get? We went with a Samsung when we moved house last year because we’re now double-story and have to contend with stairs for the first time in decades. Honestly, the stick vac is a game changer, no regrets at all, way better than pushing around the old heavy Dyson.
Just the Aldi version, nothing fancy. It’s just for quick clean ups. I have a proper vacuum for the major clean. That’s a miele and when it dies I’ll replace it with another miele.
