• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        Dude that’s a damn good point!!! Hahaha

        While I’m here: the H90 continues to impress. It’s an endless box of inspiration man. Im going through each algo, one by one. And each algo has say, 10 presets and there’s 60+ algos.

        That’s not taking into account mixing 2 together. Only shame is that I would have loved a 3rd effect slot. But it has fairly quick program change so that helps.

        Hours and hours of playing!

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    9·
    3 days ago

    Was tired but had meal with a friend who invited another person because she figured we would get on. We did. New friend? It’s nice. I am not good with understanding that people might like me. Even when we have demonstrably been mates for decades. But I try. It’s nice to be rewarded with a good night out and no anxiety.

      • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
        7·
        3 days ago

        Thank you. It’s a thing that is a bit broken in my mind. I know objectively that I am loved but I just have to physically remind myself. Like ‘why does this person sound excited to catch up?’… Oh yeah because they are my friend. I have no trouble feeling friendship towards others…? Just a broken connection somewhere.

        I really appreciate that I can share this stuff here. It helps. A lot

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    10·
    3 days ago

    My kid is going for her driver"s licence on her birthday on Thursday. It’s gonna be a good day or an even better day. 🙂

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    17·
    3 days ago

    I have house! 🏠

    Still no power, but that should be connected some time today. I’ll need to figure out how to light the pilot light on the water heater at some point, but’s not urgent. I won’t be actually moving in for a few weeks.

    It is as expected a bit on the dirty side - just the expected layer of dust etc. that accumulates in an empty house. It does mean I won’t have to do a perfect clean when I leave at least - but I definitely need to add window cleaning to my to do list sooner rather than later!

    For afternoon fun I shall measure all the things, then assemble a bed and side tables and a couple of cat trees.

    In other good news for the day, the accidental foam couch makes a quite comfortable temporary seat, so I have something to sit on before the furniture is delivered.

    • tone212_@aussie.zone
      5·
      3 days ago

      Yay! Pilot light - if it’s like my old gas water heater, there’s a ignition button you push a few times and hold once you hear gas, then watch for the flame to appear underneath and continue to hold the button for a bit, then release.

      Also account for the time for the water to heat up, so maybe do this 24 hours before you need hot water.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        6·
        3 days ago

        My old water heater used about 16 matches and a complicated pattern of pressing and releasing the gas button. It never occured to me new ones would self light.

        It is an instantaneous heater, so no waiting required.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    11·
    3 days ago

    Hard rubbish down here tomorrow. Guy next door has a kiddy slide and I’m really tempted to take it.

    Youth is wasted on the young as they say.

    But honestly the amount of perfectly good stuff people chuck is wild.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      6·
      3 days ago

      Boyo once did a demo job where they had seemingly left everything, clothes, crockery the lot. Too rich to give a shit apparently.

      • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
        6·
        3 days ago

        One of my fav YTers is doing a house reno in Japan and it’s amazing to see the state of a house in Tokyo that’s been abandoned for 10 years. So many unopened, unused things, it’s totally bizarre.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        6·
        3 days ago

        I used to see that attitude when I was living in Carlton. Rich students would just leave an apartment full of furniture and even their car when they finished uni and went back home to China. Their stuff would end up on the footpath.

        • Catfish@aussie.zone
          5·
          3 days ago

          Yes, the student dump is quite a thing. Some places you can get astonishing stuff in Hard Rubbish. Miss it, this area does individual booked pickups.

      • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
        1·
        3 days ago

        Mr P did demolition for a while. We didn’t pay for cleaning sprays for ages. One time they found a whole lot of stuff for making fake IDs. Boss had dibs on the jewellery.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
      5·
      3 days ago

      I did a bunch of removals jobs loading a house into the truck and straight to the tip. Threw out a bunch of good stuff. Sad really.

      • Catfish@aussie.zone
        3·
        3 days ago

        Absolutely disgusting. Convention bump outs are the same. So much perfectly good stuff in the skip when a few phone calls could rehome it all.

    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone
      3·
      3 days ago

      I used to live in hawthorn and the stuff put out in hard rubbish around there was incredible. Would have scored a lot of nice furniture except I couldn’t carry it by myself

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    10·
    3 days ago
    I have bed!

    That took a lot more work putting together than anticipated, and I still have to screw down the slats. I’m happy with how it looks though. I don’t think I’ve got enough enthusiasm left to start on the side tables today, I might have a start on the dining table and cat trees instead.

    I still don’t have any power. Hopefully it will be done soon, I’d like to have it on before I leave.

    Edit: I also have dining chairs and a hanging light to go over the table. I don't have the table yet, so I made the footstool fill in 🤣

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    Left the house at 5pm to organise a medical thing. Will not be home till 9pm.

    I just want to zonk out with cheesecake and cat.

    Very soon.

      • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Thankfully I got home at 9.

        Im cheap so I bought the marble cheesecake squares from Coles.

        Next week I’m grabbing a cake from cheesecake factory or whatever it’s called here.

        Mmmmm cheesecake!

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

    That was a loooooong drive home.

    The GPS told me traffic was really bad on my route, but assured me if I followed the new route it had calculated I would be home before 7. I decided to trust it, and ended up going through a bunch of places I did not recognise (Ascot Vale and Travencore included). Once I was on that route the GPS informed me that traffic was actually bad that way too and there was no way I was getting home before 7.

    When I did finally get home there were packages waiting though - Miss Meow’s tree cat scratcher and the leaf shaped mats for the garden themed corner, Mr Woof’s new fluffy grey rugs for the front bedroom, and the big rug for the lounge. The big rug looks nicer than I was expecting and is very soft.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    9·
    3 days ago

    I am missing three out of four lip balms. I have accumulated that many because I bought one, then my mum bought a pack of three and gave me two, then the other one was because the first one was running out. I hope they’re in a pocket somewhere, because it’s driving me a bit insane.

    Anyway, happy Friday! Cheers 🍻

  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
    10·
    3 days ago

    So does anyone else think that the leftovers that the kids ate was actually the leftover beef, not the beef wellingtons. They talk about meat, potato and beans, nothing about pastry. I know the mushrooms were “scrapped off”, but I reckon they just ate beef, not beef prepared as wellingtons.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      6·
      3 days ago

      I’m trying to work out what the motive was. Assuming it wasn’t accidental which it possibly wasn’t. What did she think she was going to achieve?

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        7·
        3 days ago

        the local rumour is that the inlaws were nasty religious extremists

        so maybe get them out of her life or stop their influence

        still not the answer, she could have just taken her kids and left

        • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
          6·
          3 days ago

          Oh damn, that changes things. I did wonder why she kept in such close touch with her ex (?) husband and in-laws if they were separated but maybe there was an element of control that I didn’t know about. Perhaps they threatened to go to court pursuing grandparents rights if she left and she tried to take out as many family members as possible to avoid them acting as flying monkeys.

          I’ve now seen there was tension and ‘dad doing things to hurt mum’ but the article is paywalled.

          • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
            7·
            3 days ago

            To me that was language of a kid repeating what his mum had said, especially when it involved school (bills and reports). Though it’s also interesting that the “day of the lunch”, the dad dropped the son home but the daughter stuck with him until the evening. Though Erin did say that she felt the father favoured the daughter.

        • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
          3·
          3 days ago

          That’s so interesting!! It sounds like all her connections with the family had taken a nosedive in the year or so leading up, but it could have been her pulling away.

      • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
        4·
        3 days ago

        Yeah, but it was phrased as the kids ate “the leftovers, but she’d scraped the mushrooms off”, so it sounded like the leftover wellingtons, hence why the medical staff were scared for the kids. But what the kids are saying sounds like it was just beef.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      3·
      3 days ago

      Not sure, haven’t seen the details of their meals but what was just on the news sounded really suss

        • Duenan@aussie.zone
          2·
          3 days ago

          At some point in the past the mother went on a trip to the botanical gardens or something like that and took photos of mushrooms because she liked them.

          She also drove one her kids an hour somewhere the day after despite saying she was feeling unwell to an instrumental lesson I think.

  • dumblederp@aussie.zone
    12·
    3 days ago

    I’ve mentioned it before, but my new gp is fantastic. She listens to everything I say, she hasn’t tried to bullshit me on anything. I stuck with my old shit gp for far too long. Literally wasting my life. If you’ve got a shit gp, at least roll the dice and try a new clinic if you’re able. Pay the transfer fee and forget the headache. They’re not all grumpy arrogant wankers.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’m having this dilemma too, current GP clinic has had some changes and the doctors I liked best have gone or have reduced hours so hard to see. Been going there over 10 years. Can I be bothered to look for somewhere new and start all over again, and maybe would land on another mediocre clinic anyway. Your positive experience makes me want to have a look around.

      • dumblederp@aussie.zone
        2·
        3 days ago

        It’s not starting over. You get your records transferred. Think of it more like changing school between yr8 and yr9, it’s a bit different but it’s the same thing still. Better than keeping on with the bad service, hoping the abusive relationship gets better. No one else can advocate for you in this situation.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    6·
    3 days ago
    wanker customer

    Customer: I was going camping and we found the security tags on these clothes, but we lost the receipt.

    Me: sorry, I can’t take it off without a proof of purchase. I know it’s frustrating.

    Customer gets aggro

    Customer: you don’t sound very sympathetic, I can tell from your voice

    Me: sorry if it came across that way, it wasn’t my intention to come across like that

    Customer: says nothing your team should be doing a better job and looking out for the tags

    Me: I’m sorry about that. it’s not even my fault Everyone who gets the security tags taken off needs a proof of purchase.

    Her: what, you think I’m stealing?

    Customer eventually shows a couple of bank transaction and I just take them off.

    I’m just questioning if my tone of voice is shitty and not sympathetic enough. I asked a colleague, and she said I’m impossible to get mad at. So maybe the customer took it the wrong way.

    Now I brush it off and serve more customers. Yay.