• TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    23·
    4 days ago

    F YES!!! Just had a knock on the door and the police handed me back my mower and whipper snipper plus a 6ah and 5ah battery. Thats the bulk of my replacement costs there! all appears to be working as well. Still short a few tools and batteries, but police know who did it they are just trying to find him.

    • Tofu@aussie.zone
      8·
      3 days ago

      i am unmotivated and did only laundry today when i should be doing a LOT more and it’s stuff i gotta do

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        5·
        3 days ago

        I cleaned the kitchen , the small bathroom and cleaned the cat’s room and trays. I did 1 hour cleaning up in the garden. Did a 45 min walk down the beach. Made a kallax cupboard for in the bedroom. Made some space in living room for another bookshelf. This entailed moving 100s of LP records.

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
          4·
          3 days ago

          tomorrow i am sanding and painting my new desk and will finish cleaning the big dresser ready for sanding and painting

          more gardening

          and since the oven was repaired today I might make some pizzas 🙂

  • Pilk@aussie.zone
    8·
    3 days ago

    Just noticed today that La Trobe St outside State Library Station is now clear for eastbound traffic, definitely a sign we’re getting much closer to opening the munnel. They’ve also laid brand new cobblestone in a side street which is pretty cool.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
    6·
    3 days ago

    Not sure if anyone’s interested in looking at this.

    I’ve been playing Expedition 33 and just beat a tough optional boss. It’s a new rpg with an outstanding soundtrack & vision and needs some good reflexes.

    It’s in 2 parts because I had to take a phone call.

    Have fun if you decide to have a look at it.

    Frost Eveque - part 1

    Frost Eveque - Part 2

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      3·
      3 days ago

      it has some really beautiful art and the music is pretty cool

      i have loads of b’day and xmas money still

      and i have a really good gamer laptop

      i’m thinking about it 🤔🙂

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
        2·
        3 days ago

        I don’t know how it’ll handle over on the pc side as I got the ps5 version.

        The music is outstanding and I love it so much, and the setting and so far where I’m at with the story is so great.

        I’m playing on standard difficulty, it needs pretty precise timing to get parries to work but there’s dodging if parries don’t quite work out.

        It can be made easier by lowering the difficulty and some little things can be turned off like the QuickTime button presses.

        My little boss battle almost falls apart at the end of the part 2 video.

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
          2·
          3 days ago

          I haven’t played games like this for a long time, ( tho i was a very early partaker of games and even used to do the pictures and code some )

          i’m careful with money is all

          all i have is a asus gamer pc 🙂

          • Duenan@aussie.zone
            3·
            3 days ago

            Well it’s not going anywhere so you have plenty of time to make sure of things and also could always wait for a decent discount as well.

    • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
      2·
      3 days ago

      This game looks soooo good, think I’m going to have to nab it. Will probably play on the lowest difficulty, but stuff like this is so cool to see. Thanks for sharing!

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
        2·
        3 days ago

        I’m glad you liked it!

        Wasn’t quite sure about sharing but I was recording it for someone else as well.

  • tone212_@aussie.zone
    10·
    4 days ago

    Why is going to Chemist Warehouse such a stressful experience? Narrow isles with too many people, long waits for prescriptions and then waiting in a line to collect them. Then another line to pay. Or maybe my local is just a bad one. This place is a time suck.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      3·
      4 days ago

      Most of the ones I’ve been to are like that. The less terrible ones are the ones with more space like the High St Northcote shop.

    • Eagle@aussie.zone
      2·
      4 days ago

      They stuffed up the OHs scripts yesterday. Same name, very different address. Didn’t notice till we got home, but it does make you query the efficacy and safety of their systems.

      • dumblederp@aussie.zone
        1·
        3 days ago

        It is a stuff up, but same name is pretty uncommon, and there’s some level of due diligence on your part to check the medication at the store.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      2·
      4 days ago

      I’ve got 3 of them near me, 1 of them are really packed, another one did some renos and have a bit more space now and the other one in a warehouse like place has plenty of space, I like to go to that one if I can because it’s less squished.

      I really hate all their fluro tags. Not really special if everything has a tag like that.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    8·
    4 days ago

    Yeah, someone else offered an explanation that made more sense and I think I was definitely wrong on the internet. Which is annoying because normally I’m the one being really picky about sources and reading comprehension.

    All I can say is that I haven’t been sleeping and have been vomiting today. The past few days have been rough so I wasn’t thinking too clearly when trying to get something that seemed important out there.

    Also I’m a bit defensive (when normally more chill) because others (not on Lemmy) have been stirring me up. 😑

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
    7·
    4 days ago

    Dammit dammit dammit.

    Was so tired the glass lid of my double walled coffee cup slipped out of my hands and shattered.

    So devastated about it and I have no replacement for it.

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      4·
      4 days ago

      Oh no, does that mean you still have the glass but no lid to go with it? I hate it when that happens, you’d almost rather lose the whole thing

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
        1·
        3 days ago

        Yeah, I have the bottom but no lid now. It was really good too because it kept my coffee somewhat hot for awhile but also had safety because of the lid so I wouldn’t spill it on anyone.

        I liked it a lot, I hate silicon tops.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    7·
    4 days ago

    I have now officially spent a small fortune on stuff for the new place. A fair bit of it is stuff that needed to be replaced anyway, and some of it is just because I want the place to look nice. It’s been a bit tricky to work out how to place all the furniture, but I think I’ve got a layout that will work (pending measurement for a couple of things). It’s a fairly square lounge/dining area, with foot traffic that will cross somewhat diagonally from the rest of the house to the door to the back yard. I’m not sure it would be possible to get a decent layout if you had a tv. A big couch or dining table would also be tricky.

    The biggest purchase is a (very small) dining table and a couple of chairs. I spent nearly as much on new furniture for Miss Meow too - I had been planning to recover the tree she currently has as the frame is good, but it’s not really going to fit in the new place. So now instead of one big corner unit she will have two smaller units and a window hammock. I also bought a couple of pink fluffy footstools that look like her cat bed on legs that I expect she will use for snoozing.

    I’ve also bought lots of dull but necessary things - new doormats, drawer and shelf liners, suction cup shelves for the bathroom, felted end caps for all the furniture to stop it scuffing the hard floor. I also upgraded my mop and bucket as the main living area is all hard floor.

    Edit: Miss Meow is going to have a little garden themed corner, including a

    banana tree

    surrounded by fallen leaves

    with a flower themed climbing frame

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      You do realise that Miss Meow will ignore all these facilities, and seek out your best angora sweater to sleep on instead.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        3·
        4 days ago

        Nonsense, she much prefers the sock drawer 🤣

        The tree scratcher is probably more for my entertainment than hers, although she does like the uprights for scratching on. I’m trying to stop her clawing up the new couch, so as many alternatives as possible is a good thing. Her main hobby though is progressive snoozing, with a series of ever changing nap spots being utilised on a daily basis. She likes the fluffy beds on the floor, hanging baskets, inside her little tunnel, and the aforementioned sock drawer. So she will probably use most of those types of spots, and the other climbing stand (which is a much more boring wood) will also double as stairs onto the small kitchen trolley that I will be re-purposing as her dog-safe meals area. The hammock on the window will get morning sun so should also make for a good napping spot.

        I haven’t forgotten Mr Woof either - his needs are a bit simpler and he doesn’t really need anything new, but I got a couple of fluffy rugs to go in front of the bedroom windows, which are the ones that face the street so he’s likely to want to keep an eye on things from there.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        1·
        3 days ago

        They are all Temu stuff. A lot of the bigger cat stuff is shipping from Australia these days, so it should be arriving in a couple of days.

    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
      1·
      3 days ago

      I find it hilarious when companies like Kmart and Temu photoshop animals into the pictures of pet accessories. They probably couldn’t get a real cat rhough

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        2·
        3 days ago

        Some use stuffed animals instead, which also looks pretty silly. They often get the scale wrong too, most often on purpose to make their items look bigger. You always need to buy with a tape measure in hand and not rely on what things look like.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    4·
    3 days ago

    Today in one of the classes I observed, I heard some young people talking about how silly the Clive Palmer ads are. The thing I love about being in schools is that there are brilliant young minds and many of them can think critically and consider multiple perspectives. The other thing is that school can act as a protective measure against being an asshole in some aspects. A kid said something inappropriate to get a kick out of his mates and the teacher chatted to them about why he said it and why it was the wrong thing to say.

    I don’t think the kids are really enjoying my lessons right now, and I guess that’s kind of sad, but okay. I had some teachers in school who made me enjoy some subjects I didn’t love (e.g. had a teacher who taught history through storytelling, English through lots of modelling and active learning, maths through linking it to the universe). Maybe I’m not that right now, but one day I could be.

    Another thing is that with kids who have been through trauma, you can potentially be someone who is a stable and trustworthy adult in their lives and show them what a safe relationship looks like. Again, those are VERY big shoes to fill, but I aspire to be someone who supports and advises young people to reach their potential.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
      3·
      3 days ago

      I taught a liver function class to 12 sleeping students one time. It was dry content, they didn’t need to know it, it was on the syllabus but not the exam.