How is it that some people can give you a pep talk about looking after yourself and not getting dragged by other people, then text you a rant about their own dramas an hour later? How much time do you think it takes to get my brain de-stressed and back on track, Doris*?
*Apologies to any actual Doris’s out there.
I look at it as the same as a smoker is telling you from experience that you shouldn’t smoke. It’s valid advice.
A lot of advice I’ve received over the years has come from a place of “don’t repeat my fuckups”.
Surprisingly easier to disconnect from work thoughts with this job.
It only matters when I’m sitting in front of the laptop, and then, it’s over.
Kinda nice for a change.
Any of you sewing types successfully Re-elasticated a bottom sheet? I suspect attempting such would be economically inefficient and I should rag bag it.
It depends. Is is elastic in a pocket or sewed directly onto the sheet? I’ve done both, rethreading the first type with a safety pin took a while, but the overlocker does a reasonable job on the second.
It’s direct and I don’t have an over locker.
You could just zig zag over the existing elastic.
using zigzag stitch does the same job . It’s tricky to do tho. You need to stretch the elastic while you sew it to the fabric base
Ever met this beastie?
yes I have , they scare me lol My mum used all these weird feet for things like shirring and ruffling, I just use plain feet and use tailoring methods to do the same thing
I found a manual for it but am still scared. You can’t unpick those results.
He’s an interesting little fella.
I have a gizmo for that but have never tried it. And a super complicated pleater foot that scares me
I used to do it with just a plain foot and stretch the elastic by hand while sewing it on
Elastic is expensive. Unless it is a nearly new sheet that cost hundreds I wouldn’t
Exactly, the sheet isn’t utterly dead but far from new. Better used as draft fabric me thinks.
Is it something some fitted sheet clips can fix?
I find those things a bother.
I definitely now prefer sheets made of spandex, never bunch up under you. So good.
Er, May I send you a rather personal question about these?
Oh another thing! I’d really want to touch those in person first at that price point though.
Wow, they sound amazing. I have many questions… actually just 4: How do they handle romantic interludes and the various resulting bodily outcomes? Are they sweaty in summer? Do they dry easily after you wash them? Do they stain easily?
Well @PeelerSheila@aussie.zone just killed my attempt at polite
Lol I’m as subtle as a train crash when my diplomacy fails, there is no middle.
I don’t fuck under the covers usually, I couldn’t tell you! But I have spilt chocolate and coffee on them. They look and feel brand new still after a year of washing and machine drying. Seems safe with oxygen bleach.
They aren’t sweaty/hot to me. I sleep hot at the best of times, I think I would have noticed if they make it worse.
I’ve not had the need to air dry them, my guess is they’d be similar to cotton.
Somehow, I’m brutal on my sheets. I wear through fitted sheets quickly. I’ve taken to using a heavy linen throw as my base sheet, it seems tough enough to take whatever I’m throwing at it.
Oh! Had not heard of these. Might try them even on newer sheets. Wrinkles near my feet are one of my Things.
Shoot me a message sometime and you can have my sheet clips, they’re not for me. They’re like big suspenders, black ones. They do not spark joy for me.
Only tried once, and it was at best a very qualified success. Removed all the elastic, hemmed the raw edge and sewed on 2 tie tapes per corner. The problem was adjusting the knots on the tapes when putting the sheet back on the bed. Maybe using a strip of elastic instead of tapes would work? Sorta kinda like the elasticated tapes on a mattress protector sheet. On the plus side, the sheet was very easy to wash and fold once the tapes were untied.
This mattress is way too heavy to tie under! Diagonal elastic corners would be an affordable experiment
I have never but I’d still give it a go. All I’d do is reinforce the corners.
Azaleas popping
Always wanted to try mad honey (in low doses) but it’s stupid expensive.
is the net slow as dogshit for anyone else?
150/150 no problems here
yeah speed tests don’t count, that’s prioritised traffic.
Hmm I can show you my UDP info to my Sydney hosted Cloud PC?
Is it Aussie traffic or OS traffic you’re seeing slowness with? Just trying to think of what else I can test
Yes! Its been driving me nuts all morning
All meetings cancelled. Party time 🎉
All meetings finished 💥
I was craving lasagne but don’t have any lasagne sheets, so I’ve made a mock lasagne with layers of fettuccini instead. Now I just have to wait for it to bake.
Bellissimo! 👩🍳😙👌
What was it like? I knew an Italian woman who occasionally used to make lasagna with this flatbread stuff, I think it was that mountain bread or sorj bread? Said it came out perfectly fine.
Tasted great, just doesn’t hold together as well as lasagne sheets would so presentation was a bit of a mess.
I wuz thinking, there are about 60,000 people living my area and there is one little electronic waste disposal service at the library.
Where are people really dumping their unwanted phones and other electronic goods?
There’s one at most tips.
Phones, they usually keep in the junk drawer or a box at home.
Other electronic goods…recycling bin or regular rubbish.
Most people don’t care to be honest.
Most people don’t care to be honest.
It must be this.
Phones, they usually keep in the junk drawer or a box at home
Mobile Muster has drop off points at lots of phone shops, you can also get a free shipping label from AusPost. They take phones, phone accessories, modems, smart watches etc. but do not accept every type of ewaste.
IKEA will take light bulbs and batteries. Officeworks will take ink cartridges and storage media (CDs, hard drives).
Sounds like you’ve already checked out your local council’s service. City of Melbourne will accept larger ewaste at a few locations. If you live in an apartment building you might be able to book an ewaste wheelie bin.
I will accept a good CRT display, or a Commodore 64 (working or non), for free… please? 😆
Hey can’t blame a retro gaming fan for trying 🙄
I’m good for a handful of micro USB cables, that’s about it.
Officeworks accept them too dont they? Maybe other stores too? But I hazard a guess they go into drawers or the bin.
Officeworks have stopped accepting batteries and general ewaste, at least the ones in the city.
Ahh did not know that.
aldi has battery disposal 👍
Supermarkets near me have battery bins. Otherwise the post label ybing already mentioned.
If my electrical goods are genuinely beyond repair they go out to the hard rubbish and strangely disappear before the collection day. Old phones which have a still usable camera get set up with the Alfred app and become a security camera. Any non usable ones go to the box at the front of my local Woolies along with my dead batteries. Some repair places take old laptops etc as part of a trade (like Renewd) and presumably use them for parts.
strangely disappear before the collection day.
That’d be my Opa; he’ll take your broken appliances and electrical goods and repair it in his shed so he can learn how it works. 😂
I use the specific bins at the transfer station (tip).
I looked up the council web site and they include toasters, vacuums, printers, irons, etc etc as ewaste . I don’t see any of that stuff at the ewaste centre.
When I was a teenager I was learning German and saving money to go. Disability put a stop to that, it’s not a realistic option now, but I wonder what life would have been like if I had been able to emigrate.
I’m aware that the living costs are also high in Europe. You don’t necessarily get an aged pension as an expat. Jobs could be competitive and social norms difficult. Nowhere is a utopia and it’s likely that wouldn’t have worked out for me.
But you know. Longer term leases and tenants rights. Building standards. Dental. Less of an overt meth problem. You wonder.
I have thoughts like this sometimes, but from a different angle. I try not to dwell on them, otherwise I’d become wistful for a dream. There’s nothing wrong with that really, but for me, it hurts.
I know a bit of German in the hope that I would one day emigrate. Though my reasons for not doing so are different (stupid fat money-sucking ex lol), I still enjoy reading and writing German, and learning. I feel closer to my ancestry by doing so, and it sparked my obsessive fascination with linguists, etymology, and language in general (my current research is Proto-Finnish and other Uralic languages, specifically it’s a bit more recent in that I am learning why they chose a Latin alphabet despite Finnish being entirely unrelated to any PIE language).
What I’m trying to say, sorry, is that we can still pursue the things we enjoy, even if the method of doing so is a bit different due to L I F E.
But yes, one can dream of long term leases and better renter rights, though I heard the AfD has been elected in some states, so I guess no where is safe from the stupid Far/Alt Right
Love this.
Funny, Finnish came up in dinner convo this evening because someone didn’t care for the sound, but I dig it. And the fact I survived a month on Hei and Kiitos is like a highlight. Hehe.
Finland isn’t doing too badly either. Their energy costs went below zero due to so much renewable.
…Damn it. I missed the opportunity to apply for the $250 energy rebate. I set a reminder but put it for August not June. /facepalm
Edit: or did I? It said 2023-2024 so was there another one or did it just close this late? I’m going to set a reminder for May or June next year to remind myself to check
I don’t think there is another State Govt. rebate like the last ones, but there should be a Federal rebate issued through your power bills - $300, split into four $75 dollar rebates applied quarterly to your power bill.
https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/households/help-paying-your-energy-bills/energy-bill-relief-fund
Oh good, that looks like it should be automatic. Thanks. I’ve been having trouble staying on top of stuff like this but it adds up
wtf, it’s going to be 15 next thursday
Beep Beep 🚚
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um, some vegie spring rolls, chilli sauce and a cup of jasmine tea please 🙂
🥬🫔🫔🌶️🍯🍵
Thank you chef. 😚
Um, bahn mi and a bubble tea plz chef
🥩🥬🥕🥖🧋
Ta muchly
Burger with the lot please!
🍅🧅🍳🥩🥒🔴🧀🍔🍟🥤
Thank you Chef!
Blue Heaven spider and coconut macaroons please.
🌊🕷️🥥🔵
+1 on the spider!
Pan fried flathead pls with chips with garlic aioli and tartare.
🛢️🪛🍟🧄🥚🍯
So I’ve completed 3/4 knowledge assessments, and submitted 2/4 practical assessments. Tomorrow is prac day, so I can ask the questions I need, finish up the one assessment I still need to do, and then submit those. Then I’ll check the last quiz tomorrow afternoon, and attempt it, note down any questions and save it for Friday. Once that last one is done, I’m finished with my classes for the semester and can enjoy some holidays!
I still can’t believe I’ve changed my trajectory.
Well done. You’ve worked your butt off and now you’re kicking ass!
☺️ thank you! I couldn’t have done it without the support of you and the DT! 💜
I admire your organisational skills and motivation, good on you!
yay, happy dance 🙂
I’m reading the Alien 3 screenplay by William Gibson after watching Alien: Romulus. It’s great to see Newt and Hicks get proper character moments in a follow up story. And from what I understand, the story does things with the Aliens we haven’t seen on screen yet.
Also, it sucks that they killed off Newt at the start of Alien 3, but something had to be done about her. At the end of Aliens she went into the sleep pod, so she would look a lot like she did once she came out.
The movie languished in development hell for years. As a teenaged girl she’d look very different in Alien 3 to how she did in Aliens. With all the production problems behind Alien 3, it seems like the easiest option than come up with an in universe reason why she’s aged. If they went with Gibson’s script and got Alien 3 out 2 years or so after Aliens they could have covered it up a lot more.
William Gibson of Neuromancer fame? 😲
The very same. There are a few unproduced Alien 3 scripts around but Gibson’s is considered the best we could have got.
Unfortunately I haven’t found a PDF but this is the best web version I’ve found. I saved it to Pocket and I’m reading it on my Kobo
Thank you for this! I saw Romulus on the weekend, and actually re-watched Aliens just last night!
Will definitely be checking this out :)
There’s also an Aliens: Engineers screenplay floating around which eventually became Prometheus. It’s not perfect but I prefer it to Prometheus. The lore is similar and it helps lock in details since things are explained on the page in a way that may not fully translate on screen.
I had no idea this existed. Thank you!
ta da, I finished the little cabinet and have loaded up some of my shell collection. I think it looks pretty cool and I’m well pleased with how it turned out. 🙂
spoiler
Looks great. Do you polish the shells yourself?
No, except for a few cameo and scrimshaw cowries they are all natural.
Nice!
Beautiful!
I have been well fed.
Nothing beats a simple beef sausage and bread with tomato sauce with some coleslaw.
I’m now kicking back on the coach trying not to fall into a coma now.
