Another beuuuutiful day in Melbourne folks 🌞
Fell off the wagon today and have made myself a cup of coffee. Maybe I need to try tapering off a bit more slowly, a second day of headache and fatigue was just too much.
I’m on my 2nd week off cutting down to one a day. Still do the morning one, but skipping my post-lunch brew. Been sleeping better, but do feel a significant dip at around 2 pm.
@MeanElevator @RustyRaven cutting down slowly is very wise
Not sure if that’s just the coffee. I’ve had to up mine on the days in the city to 2 cause 2pm hits like a 747 coming in to land.
What sort of coffee are you making? Maybe you ca taper off by going to instant or going decaf?
Last time I cut caffeine out I did it by mixing in increasing amounts of decaf to my coffee, I probably should have done that again this time. I was down to a single cup of coffee (plunger coffee) but it seems the last step was a bit too big. Not sure if I want to get some decaf or just cut down to a half cup for a bit - drinking half a cup of coffee seems a bit lame, so I probably should just get the decaf. It’s really easy to minimise the effect caffeine actually has on you until you try to cut it out and the withdrawal symptoms hit.
How many coffees do you normally drink in a day?
@CEOofmyhouse56 @RustyRaven
one a week because I hate fun and life😂
Normally three mugs, which according to the cup sizes on the grinder is actually 5 “official” cups.
Well there you go. Just make it two cups a day but I think you already know that. You need to find the happy medium.
by going to instant
There is never a time nor place, to recommend instant coffee for anyone.
I disagree while sipping on my Moccona
Moccona is awesome, Nescafe is crap :/
You’re allowed to be wrong.
Hey instant coffee puts hairs on your chest. It takes a brave person to drink it so go back to your soy latte in glass with a little napkin.
If instant puts hair on your chest, I should look like a bear. I like my 6 shot moca pot for breakfast, black with no sugar.
How much coffee grind do you use in your moka? i generally use the same amount that I use in a plunger.
About 1 and a half scoops unless it’s really fine.
Jfc. No wonder you’re angry at your neighbours.
one reason I find instant good is it’s low caffeine
For low caffeine options I’ll do a weak long black. Personally cannot stomach instant in any form. Get indigestion almost instantly.
instant WRECKS my stomach. No idea why. Glad its not just me.
So apparently, instant is made by freeze drying the beans/grinds. When you’re drinking it, you’re ingesting the grinds which can be quite acidic. I get a similar reaction when I ingest some of the grinds from a turkish coffee.
Right, that makes a bit of sense I guess
TIL
@Duenan @RustyRaven I went thru a “half a shot of decent espresso plus a bit of decaf instant powder so it doesn’t taste too weak” phase when tapering
I am being very clever and leaving the midnight party pie for a few minutes to cool down.
I’m tempted to leave it for a few more minutes after that because I know how this ends.
My old trick was to remove the top before cooking, add cheese and a piece of salami.
Great teenage stoner food lol
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Tuna onigiri please
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Arigato gozaimasu 🙇♂️
Ham and cheese toastie with chutney and a very large flat white plz chef
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Ta muchly 😊
Morning chef! May I have something colourful for breakfast to celebrate this bright sunny day?
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Ooh yum. Thanks
Coffee and a croissant, thanks bacon.
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Wingding soufflé please.
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Delicious. Thank you chef. Did you study in France?
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You give me pain.
Oiche mhaith
Many loud sky explosions, and everything has suddenly become very wet. I think the predicted storm might be here.
Edit: And now ther are chunks of ice falling everywhere.
Looks like Melton will get hammered, again too. Might rain here in Thornbury - I did water the garden but refrained from washing the windows just in case.
Nothing here yet. I think Gisborne and Sunbury might cop it.
I had a dream that I was dreaming. Woke up in the dream to sleep paralysis.
Then woke up properly.
Fuck that was weird.
You wrote this while awake.
I hope.
How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
If it is, then the person dreaming must be a masochist lol
I have something similar when I sleep in. I have a super realistic dream where I can’t tell I’m dreaming, realise something’s off, and wake up. Then I decide to sleep again to calm myself down and it starts again.
I swear it can get a couple of layers deep in a dream sometimes as well.
It’s ten hours late, but you deserve one of these anyway:
Released from hospital, referrals to specialists, on and on it goes. Back to hanging in there and trying to cope with pain while I wait. I’m feeling like hell and very wobbly.
Still trying to get a quick stick vacuum in while Moobeans isn’t here to get stressed or breathe floating dust. I also broke out the scented carpet stain remover to clean away the last of the stubborn vom spots so hopefully the smell is gone by the time she’s back.
rest now, take care, lots of hugs for you both
Thanks. I’ve done a couple of things and should have help tomorrow
8th night without power, in the Yarra Ranges. Really not good. The Outage Tracker seems to say that maybe tomorrow night late the power will be restored. Not holding my breath.
Well, I didn’t need to hold my breath. The power is back on! Thanks everyone for your kind words over the past few days, really helped.
Of course, now I can hear approaching thunder crackling in the distance. Another storm… 😳
Got my power back today too. Thursday is looking bad weather wise. I’ve just come inside due to thunder now too.
Was it down long enough for you to get the $1920?
Yes it was.
Booked another camping trip. These things are shaping up to the be highlight of my year so far. Man middle age hits hard haha
What’s your setup looking like? Tent, camper, van?
For just me? 23Zero swag and Oztrail Gazebo with a couple of removable walls. Been pretty good so far, but I just added a swag stretcher to a cart for next time. Tidal river ground is hard as a rock.
When I bring the family? Oztrail Fastframe lumos 6p. I love it, but it really isn’t good in strong wind. When the family is old enough I’ll either step up to a Campervan, or a proper canvas tent.
How about you? Half the reason I go camping is to check out other peoples setups.
We bought a second hand cub trailer last year, fold out with the hard floor. Taken it a few times now, and still working out some kinks. Having a power option is brilliant, we took a small toaster and air fryer with us when we camped in the Otways. Having roast chicken for dinner whilst camping was amazing. Going this weekend or to Yarra Junction for a couple of nights. Weather is looking pretty good.
Oh nice! Is that the Doon Reserve place? I’ve had that on my list for a while to check out. What did one of those Cubs set you back if you don’t mind me asking? They all seemed pretty expensive last time I looked for anything even slightly modern. My Kia can tow up to 1.9k kg, but only tolerates 100kg on the towball so my options are a bit limited.
Little community camp place, camp Eureka. Our cub is a 2014. We paid $10k for it after some bargaining. It’s in perfect nick. 90kg ball weight. Still working it out, but it’s great.
Oh wow, havnt even heard of this one. Its not on Wikicamps so that might explain why. Nice, what model is it? Guessing someone has modified it to have power right? Cant have been standard on a 2014.
Supramatic. Like this one, but no fridge (yet). https://www.facebook.com/share/p/HWk1vDQ23PY1BrT2/?mibextid=oFDknk
All the ones we looked at had power, so I think it was either a very common mod or it was standard.
Anyone here done speed dating? The thought of it is terrifying but I don’t now how else to meet singles. Apps fucking suck.
I think I’ve come up with a food idea, unusual as it may be.
I think later on in the week I’m going to make a fish burger with cheese and tartar sauce and also add bacon to it.
It was originally going to be beef burgers but I don’t think I can be bothered cooking burger patties on the pan and cleaning it up afterwards.
When you say fish burger what do you mean? You could just use a frozen fish filet and then you’d have a filet-o-fish minus the bacon. I do this all the time. A fish burger patty would work too but I still wouldn’t add the bacon only because it will take away the delicate fish taste.
I was going to cook some crumbed fish fillets in the oven, normally I’d add the smokey cheese , some lettuce or greens and lots of tartare sauce in a bun or bread.
But I’m also craving bacon this time which brought me to this idea.
Edit: Also maybe a fried egg too!
Go for it!
Will do, after I get paid this week I’ll be all over it!
The battery life on this ThinkPhone is spectacular. Also, I’ve been using gesture navigation instead of the 3 buttons for the first time and it’s kinda awesome. Took a little bit to get used to but now I can’t see me going back.
You get used to gesture navigation surprisingly fast. I had to turn it on my old phone I use for emulators as well because I got so used to it.
I’m going to keep an eye on these ThinkPhones, they’re an interesting concept
For someone out of the loop, what’s the difference between these and your regular phone?
They’re just mid-spec Android phones, but Lenovo owns Motorola so they may have some of the durability of the Thinkpad laptops from which they get their name
w00t, I just cleared level 49 of Bubble Town classic
level 50 crashes the system but we’ll see if I can do it this time
I went and had a go at it when I saw this comment. I got to level 6 and it crashed!
just another brainless time wasting match three game
but it’s free :)
Try Family Island. It’s free, the graphics are good and it is not a match 3.
once I do level 50 I’ll try it :)
Just had a ridiculously loud Harley zoom past. I thought there were noise limits on cars and bikes, but I suspect they are never really enforced. This thing was louder than truck air brakes, was verging on painful as it went by. The riders of these bikes must surely be deaf after regular exposures.
@SituationCake @CEOofmyhouse56 They are enforced. Just not frequently enough and they aren’t harsh enough that everyone thinks it is worth avoiding them.
They’re in front of the pipes and have helmets covering their ears. It’s not as loud for them.
Source: have ridden fairly loud bikes
One neighbour with the mower.
Another with the pressure washer.
A third one with the whipper snipper.
Fourth one is eyeing them, and about to join in.
Sometimes I wish we had looser gun laws.
Wouldn’t the gun be just as noisy?
For a few seconds, sure. Then peace and quiet, until the sirens I suppose.
My go-to mantra is “it’s not worth the jail time.”.
Do you like vintage jazz? I can recommend Sing Sing Sing for out-noising noisy neighbours.
I’ve got ear buds in and got some chill house music going. I was only musing on the violence. They’ll be quiet in an hour.
Huh… I’ve done all three of those today.
I’ll be doing two of these three on Saturday, maybe I should consider body armour?
Weekends are fine and kind of expected. I guess it’s my own fault for working from home today. Oh well.
I sometimes have to do this stuff during the week if I’m working on a weekend. I guess there’s no one time that suits everyone! Always make sure I don’t start until 10am at the earliest.
We have much yard and being on a corner, two frontages, but I still just try and get it all done as quickly as I can because A) consideration for my neighbours and 2) I just hate doing it!
Hey I get it. All neighbours in question are retired and have plenty of time. I guess when every day is a weekend, time goes out the window.
OHH see now THAT’S DIFFERENT!
It’s like when you’re at the post office on a saturday and it’s totally packed with retirees lined up out the door to pay their bills and I’m internally screaming COULDN’T YOU HAVE DONE THIS DURING THE WEEK?!?! 🫠
Want a hand with the gun shopping? 😁
I’m sure we can get a good deal if we’re buying bulk.
Stay strapped or get clapped👏🔫
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