The knockoff oodie has arrived, and even the S-M is huge on me. I’m skulking around the house like an evil wizard but it is warm.
(Before the oodie was a thing I had been thinking about sewing a monk style house robe out of blanket fabric. I should have done it and run for the patent office, become rich!)
100% humidity outside - that explains why EVERYTHING is currently very wet. And foggy. Might be the same tomorrow, weekend’s looking promising for some sun though. My split system was being weird, blowing hot and cold, but the internal unit air filters were quite clean. Gave them a wash anyway. Maybe I need to create more space in front of the external unit and give it a bit of a vacuum or something
Using a stick on picture hook. Picture is only 2.5 kg. I’m nonetheless saying my prayers and hoping this stays up in the long term 🙏😂.
I have a big wooden framed painting/print handing up on a stick-on picture hook, must be a good 3-5kgs. And it’s been up the whole 4 years I’ve been here, no issues.
That said, at my previous place in the CBD I had it hanging up on the same sort of hook (different brand iirc), and it fell and smashed my partners widescreen monitor. We had only been together for a year and a bit, and we were in lockdown, I thought for sure he was gonna leave me haha.
I use the hooks from woolies, I forget the name. But yeah, 4 years and it’s fine
Honestly feel like it’s Russian roulette for these things. For at least a week I’ve put cushions on the floor under the frame so if it does fall something will soften the impact.
Someone required a bath today due to a pootastrophe. He’s still little under all that floof. Wasn’t a fan of the hair-dryer but happy to have a sit in front of the fire. Thankful he is so placid, he didn’t enjoy the process but it was just some grumbles.
oh poor sweetie
Awww poor fluffy
It’s been a day Gibson. He’s all worn out. A very valuable lesson in being body slammed by your sister while burying your poo…
Oh my gosh. He needs 10cc’s of treats stat!
I would die for those toe fluffs
He’s still a baby, by the time he’s grown up it’ll be like a mop on each foot!
Oh I didn’t realise he was a wee kitten! I thought he was just small. I can’t wait to see him in his full glorious floofiness. So much fur to love.
He’s 9 months, and growing like a weed.
Awwww he looks like he needs a cuddle 😍
Many snugs have been had!
Aww, what a sad little face.
He was a bit baffled by the whole thing. Many hugs and snugs and it’s all better now.
I just legitimately heard a loud bang. One. Quite the boom, bass-y, set a bunch of birds off. I hope it was the local dipshits house.
I have a tip on fire near me.
Oh hey, it’s on vic emergency, in Springvale. I hear multiple sirens. 3 units attending.
Three units attending is just a baby fire, barely worth mentioning. A noteworthy fire would have something like ten times that many.
Behold the puddle of fluff in front the of the heater
The best kind of puddle. Much comfy! 😍
Tonight I am sewing up the patch work for the chair covers 🪑
I spent an hour after work last night completing (my least preferred) job application’s third party test. Apparently I rank significantly higher than others of a relevant testing pool. Lovely. Next they want me to give them a four minute video response to some questions…
Meanwhile. My preferred job is cold-shouldering me after telling me I’d probably hear yesterday if I made it to the in-person interview. They are playing hard to get. I’m their best applicant I bet. But I’m still sad I haven’t heard yet.
You got this! I believe in you! Hopefully your preferred job gets back to you, but either way you’re gonna move up! 💜
In a past role when I was short staffed and hiring people, I was often lumped with interviewing people on top of my regular duties. It is a lot of extra work. It also took longer than I expected. I was often a bit late getting back to people for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes, candidates had to reschedule. Sometimes, more urgent work came up and I had to do things other than processing the applications. Suddenly, your last interview isn’t Tuesday, but Friday instead.
I was never more than a few days late - the best candidates usually had more than one offer to consider and I’d lose them if I didn’t get back to them. If they told you Wednesday, I’d give them until Monday before giving up.
Thank you Nath 🙏
Cold enough that even my colleagues were wearing a puffer jacket indoors. I chickened out and drove in rather than walking because my fingers damn near fell off just in the few minutes between car and office. But my body is definitely feeling the effects of being sedentary :/ I’m going to try and walk in tomorrow for sure.
There’s still a deluge of work coming through, but at least I’m not handling it solo - I can’t wait for my other colleague to be back after the school hols so I can palm off some other stuff, sit down and improve some of these processes before the can gets kicked even further down the road into the next universe.
Thinking of making some pulled pork-style jackfruit now, for lunch tomorrow. Off I go into a rabbit hole of recipes.
home made chicken cottage pie is in the oven
I’m pooped …lol
Seven days until pay day, when i will probably be able to afford a new heater that can actually heat! The old 4 fin radiator struggles.
I’m in need of a good winter jacket puffer thing for office. Is it worth dropping ~450 on standard Melbourne uniform i.e. North Face Nuptse? 💀
I’ve seen a few of these things around, they’re a bit overkill for our mild winter in Perth. I had no idea they were so expensive, though! My youngest wants one - because fashion. I was looking at the Anaconda range, They were in the $60-$100 ballpark (for kids jackets - not sure if adults are the same).
With that kind of money I’d look at Patagonia as well. There’s a cheap Aldi and Macpac ones listed on ozbargain right now. My complaint about mine (macpac) is that it’s kind of short, I’d prefer a warm jacket that at least covers my bum / overlaps with my pants.
Would a 1000A jump starter be enough to start most cars?
The question is less about jumping my own car (it’s a 2L ICE), but more about, if a friend comes up to me or I see a random struggling with a dead battery, what are the chances 1000A is enough?
(don’t want to spend too much money lol)
I don’t own a jump starter, how often are you jumping your car?
Diesel needs more jump than petrol.
Gooloo brand was recommended by Project Farm on youtube.
The car manual should indicate power required to start the batter, possibly listed as battery size or cold cranking amps (CCA).
Long time no see Dumblederp.
how often are you jumping your car?
Never had to, thankfully.
But have jumped my wife’s friend once, and came across two scenarios requiring a jump this past month. I just helplessly watched a guy wait an hour for RACV to turn up lol.
Gooloo brand was recommended by Project Farm on youtube.
Will go check it out, thanks:)
Hey dude, I’ve long given up on Overwatch.
If you do get a jump pack, some have usb ports and will work as a big usb battery which is a nice extra feature.
Hey dude, I’ve long given up on Overwatch.
I haven’t played any games at all in the past few months lol.
If you do get a jump pack, some have usb ports and will work as a big usb battery which is a nice extra feature.
Sounds great… I’ll look for that too, thanks
Back into making a Surviving Mars colony. Saw on Reddit that someone found coordinates for an absolutely massive crater map, so I’m building my colony in there. No colonists yet, just my drones setting everything up first, but damn have I found a great place to build a habitation dome; right next to rare metals, a vista, and two water deposits. Got some sick breakthough tech as well.
freaking LOVE surviving mars. My comfort food.
It’s so dang good! I keep coming back to it because I keep having ideas for colonies haha! Gotta set my domes up the right way, make sure the silly earthlings don’t get sad lol
I tryin wean myself off the stupid moany earthlings ASAP. My first batch of settlers all have the sexy perk so we can get going with the matrianborn as soon as possible.
Aw yeah, love making the first batch of settlers sexy AF to get out of the founder stage. I like to get as many resources I can, set up water, oxygen, and elec. I keep the domes turned off until people arrive. All the specialists, who then get pissed because there’s no non-specialists to work at the grocery shop hahahah
Pretty sure there are washing machines and other abandoned tech on Mars, maybe you can just collect them and reuse the parts.
👍🏻
After about two months of holding out for op-shops to have a muffin tray, bowls and large jars at a reasonable price, I’ve bought them all at bigW for about half of what the salvos were asking. One place wanted $10 ea for large used Moccona jars, ffs. Used jars should be 50c imo.
got a win outta salvos the other weekend, glass keepcup for 2 bucks.
the brotherhood have lost it, they are charging $30 for old jumpers with any label except kmart
and they have some weird idea that old means vintage and collectable ( it doesn’t )
savers might not be a huge charity but at least they are reasonable
I give away my moccona jars to neighbours in my courtyard, I just put them out in the common area, they are always gone in 10 minutes
Burwood East RSPCA Op Shop is still priced like most places used to be! Got my trench coat for $7. Basically everything ends up on the clearance rack eventually too.
Op Shops seem to have stupid pricing these days. They have so much stuff being donated that they dont always even accept donations, and then instead of putting reasonable prices on things to sell quickly they mark it up so much it’s often not worth buying.
I feel like they’re pretty much just cash converters except they don’t pay anything for the stuff they sell
it got popular, cant blame 'em for trying to make a buck. Can blame 'em for trying to make a buck on Kmart donations though. The anko shit was rough when it was brand new, certainly no better now.
I’ve been going to op shops all my life and I think they’ve finally lost my business. The clothes and kitchen ware cost more than new. Interesting items seem to be marked at their maximum ebay value, eg, the donkey kong hand held for $250!
