Happy international Hot Chocolate Day 🔥🍫
Looks like Sunday forecast has already been adjusted downwards to 35 degrees. By Saturday wouldn’t be surprised if it went down to 30.
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Finished watching Station Eleven.
no spoilers but chunky text anyway
It was patchy at times - The Prophet was a very unconvincing character for the most part. And it felt like they handwaved too many contrived situations just to make us feel something. Makes sense that the show runner did The Leftovers, I don’t remember most of it now except that I felt it also veered on sentimental. But those odd-numbered episodes, particularly 5, 7 and 9, were really quite something… and even if the show ending was a little too neat/pat, by that point it was emotionally well earned and I kinda didn’t care about some of the character issues as much. I think I would’ve been a total blubbering mess if I really did watch this in 2021.
7/10 on average, 9/10 for the odd numbered episodes.
I’m currently watching The Magicians (2015).
How is it? The premise sounds interesting
not OP but it’s spectacular. Finished its run a year or two ago
Looks like I’ll have something queued up for these interminably long evenings while I’m footloose and fancy free
I liked it. It was an interesting take . No dystopia.
It was refreshingly hopeful and I definitely would like to see more fiction about the positive aspects of real human relationships post-apocalypse. Finding art, love, trust and community (while the nutsos kill each other off or learn to leave peaceful people alone for their own survival).
Though i think both the book and the TV show do make a point that the first period of adjustment is going to be unsafe and violent for most.
Yes. All those positive aspects of humanity are a drive just as much as the negative. :)
Ted Cat woke me up. I must have been making ouch noises in my sleep.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Pasta salad with sundried tomato, olive and avocado please
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Ooh and feta
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Still awake and it’s starting to get light outside. Already told work that today isn’t going to work out. It’s not them, it’s me.
Just woke up to the excellent news that my downstairs plumbing issue is actually a street wide issue. Looks like Great Western will be sending people out today to clear the streets sewage pipes.
First day back at school for mine today… Already a kerfuffle. Good luck y’all.
First day at new schools for my kids. One starting high school the other has changed to a new school (something that I wanted to avoid if possible).
Both were very nervous this morning.
Second day for mine. I think day 2 is worse for my lot, judging by my drill sergeant performance this morning! First day they’re keen to know who’s in their classes etc. Second day is all, "but muuuum! I’m tiiiiired!"
Second day is all, “but muuuum! I’m tiiiiired!”
Me too kiddo, me too!
It’s the last year for my youngest, I hope she got to school, eldest was supposed to drive her to the bus. If there was a kerfuffle it wasn’t my problem I was at work already.
I’ve started making my coffee at home and bringing it to work in a (not Stanley) thermos flask. I worked out it saves me $67 per month. If it was a streaming service I’d have already cut it by now, but I still feel like some kind of traitorous unmelbournely bastard. Still, $ is tight and I’ve got to make cuts 😭
Coffee is so worth making at home these days, we’re spoilt for choice with good coffee beans + great tap water and there’s a million billion methods readily available with guides. If you buy a coffee every work day, a mid range espresso machine pays for itself within a year, if not a grinder + aeropress + metal filter pays for itself in like less than a month. Pretty decent & reliable cuppa at a fraction of the cost. Highly recommend. It won’t feel like you’re cutting back on nice things!
Unpopular but I like the coffee machine at work. Put in a nespresso pod, gives me coffee. I add some chocolate powder to make it a mocha. Surely saves atlwast $5 every time! 🤷♂️
Same here. Free coffee on work from office days!
Great idea! Guarantees a certain level of coffee as well, sick of paying 6 bucks for a bullshit one.
You ask for a large but they’re so fkn small. There’s only a few places that do a proper large coffee that I know of: Macca’s, the cafe near my work in Port Melbourne (literally a proper 500ml cup with 3 shots), and maybe somewhere I’ve forgotten lol
I have a stash of ground coffee in my desk drawer and a small plunger. I buy the first coffee, and make my own second around 11am. Which is now. 😁
A thermos would probably produce better coffee, but they’re heavy. I ride a bike to work. I also probably couldn’t fit it in my small commuting backpack.
That’s the way I went.
I decided to go the plunger route, first one of those bodum glass ones at home and for work I bought one of those stainless steel ones for the durability.
I have a stupid amount of ground coffee at work and at home.
Only catch would be the amount of time it takes to make and then clean up when I’m at work.
The other thing that I invested in are long arm coffee spoons for scooping out the coffee out of the bag.
It’s a great way to save money as I made the transition some years ago.
Also helped me teach myself how to make coffee via various methods as well and introduced me to different coffee blends.
Yum!
Yeah, at the rate I’m buying coffees lately 1k+ for the year wouldn’t be a surprise.
Pup dog decided we needed some drama in our lives and had a fit/collapsed last night :/ ran him to the vet (quite literally, they’re just down the street) and he seems a bit better this morning. Back to the vet today for blood test results, but he’s lost weight despite a big appetite. He’s getting old and I’m trying not to think the worst.
As a result, I’m working from home while he snoozes on the bed near me and it’s peaceful and nice and I’m still looking for the positives!
aw, lots of gentle hugs for you and pups
WFH is fantastic when the furry ones pull this kind of stunt. May all be ok.
Been copping a bit of flack from upper management lately. My boss and the boss’s boss are calling BS, but the old boss and the “head off” are fucking idiots. Anyway, there was an issue this morning, guess who solved it? Yeeaaaah, the bloke who supposedly “doesn’t do anything around here”. Fuck I’m good.
Bit of the old “why do we have IT, everything’s working fine” / “why do we have IT, nothing is working” situation?
Pulled a muscle in my back (the doc suspects) and it’s giving me trouble breathing. I want to cry 😭
I have fortunately never woken up at night because of pain so far and I had to last night cuz it got so bad. Off to scans. Also took a sickie cuz it’s so uncomfortable 😪
Just out of curiosity, which side? Only because my pulled myscle turned out be a gallbladder erupting…
Left side. Doc suggested I get a chest x-ray and a d-dimer test done.
A chest x ray for a pulled muscle? Seems excessive …
Ahh, mine was right sided. Felt like I was dying, wasn’t far off!
take care
jfc there is not a single fucking braincell left at M$.
Fire up laptop for work, start of the work day IMMEDIATELY greeted with an UPGRADE TO WIN 11!! screen.
Can’t alt tab out of it, can’t even bring up goddamn taskmgr to kill it, the only way to get rid of it so I can start my fucking work day is either “UPGRADE NOW!” or “DECLINE UPGRADE”
shit like this is why I’m cutting the workplace over to mint.
So now that Costco is moving can they also take down that fucking wheel? It was a stupid place to put it and it should never have been built in the first place.
Welp I just finished the end of the Dark Tower series (on audiobook). The final book kinda felt like a rushed mess to tidy up all of the stories and characters. It even managed to shove some new characters into the story out of nowhere really late in the piece. I also felt like the “big bad” was a big letdown.
Stephen King remains a pervy weirdo too… never missing a chance to talk about his female character’s breasts throughout the entire series. I’m not sure there was a single female character of whom he didn’t describe or refer to their breasts at least once. It was pretty jarring and me feel odd whenever he’d do it for seemingly no reason.
Anywho, now I need to figure out if I want to jump off the King train and discover something new, or check out another level of the tower in another King book. Before I read the Dark Tower I read The Shining which I enjoyed so I could check out Doctor Sleep except I stupidly read the plot for that back before I started to get into the books. I attempted The Stand but I lost interest as I already knew the story pretty well from the TV show and my reading of wiki pages when the TV show came out. Was considering It… I’ve never seen any of the It movies but I do know a little bit about the story there. Maybe I should skip to something without a TV/movie adaption so I can be more surprised. There’s a whole world of books to discover, I just need to find what gets me hooked.
If you’re still in the thriller/mystery/sci-fi train, try Annihilation.
