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Daily Discussion Thread: Mon 08 Jan 2024

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Interview is tomorrow!!! Wish me luck. It's between me and one other person
Edit: You guys are the best! Managing director and finance director who will be my direct report. Previous interview was with finance director so should be all good.
- Good luck! Hoping this is just the break you've been looking for.
- Luck!!!!
- Sending aaaaaallllll the luck your way. I reckon you'll smash it!
- Hope you smash it tomorrow.
  Good luck!
- Good luck 🤞
- Best of luck! You'll smash this I'm sure.
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- Good luck, father of fluffy butt 🍀
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- Good luck!
- Good luck! You got this.
- Good Luck! ✨

My parents get a guide dog puppy to foster today. I am resigned to the fact I will no longer be the favourite child
- be glad this is not a case where failed foster is allowed
  they will remember you when puppy gets a job
  
  We DID actually have a failed guide dog as a pet when I was growing up. Wonderful dog, just didn’t like goats

I gotta new swimming pool in my yard just in time for summer. 😎

Went to get a coffee only wearing slippers because drive through. Step on the wet smooth concrete of the carport and slide a metre launching my phone out of my hands in the process. Both myself and the phone are physically fine, just a bruised ego.
- Oh that moment of slide when you know what's happening but can't stop it. Hate that!
- Happy you are fine, those slides can be quite dangerous

The most frustrating thing about working in this small call centre is when people don't take their breaks on time.
I am on the late shift (10am - 6pm) and when they don't take their breaks/lunch on time, it ends up pushing my breaks/lunch out later and later. And I can't go first because "eVeRyOnE sHoUlD gO iN oRdEr"
Fucksticks

This covid shit is no fkn joke, it's absolutely gutted me, its kind of scary. The fatigue is also something I've never felt before, I'm awake for 30mins tops, and then I'm out again until I wake myself from sweating through everything.
- Keep smashing the waters! Dont wanna get dehydrated cause that takes it from a bad time to a worse time.
- Have you got plenty of paracetamol for the fever? Do you have anyone to help you if things get dire? Even just a slab of Aldi gatorade kind of help?
  
  Yeah, by some crazy turn of events the housemate has not caught it, so they are playing nurse maid. We are also super lucky our house is designed in a way that allows us to completely quarantine from one another, including only them being able to access the kitchen.
- Yeah, I feel ya. That virus knocked me about for six days. I rarely get sick, so it was a true eye-opener!
- I think this latest strain is hitting people harder than anticipated.
  Hope you get plenty of rest and feel better soon.
  Hang in there.
- Yeah that fever is a bastard. I hope it passes soon for you. I was taking pseudoephedrine and mersynofen every 4 hours (which I've sadly run out of, I might head to the medical centre for more now) and I've been sleeping as much as I can.
- hugs, rest, drink a lot and take care. 🤗

200~ emails. Half a dozen teams messages. Could have been a lot worse!

Boss called me in to start work a couple of days earlier than I expected, and I'm destitute enough to be pretty glad of it. Turns out he's got an injury so he needed me to do all of the hard yakka that he usually does 💪 It was good to do a bit of lifting and carting things around. I was born in the year of the ox, and it seems to influence my life in odd ways!
- Twins. I'm an Ox too.
  
  Cool! Here's to you, fellow extremely hardworking dependable and reliable person 🥂

Back to work. It's been a nice break.

I want to grow some herbs. Obviously not to today. Chives, basil you know the easy shit but I'm worried about animals urinating on things I'm gonna eat. So here's my idea. I have a portacot, if I put herbs in there and put a shade cloth of the top, it should work right? I can even put wheels on it. Where would the best place to put it? Shade or full sun?
- Yeh just wash everything you eat and it really shouldnt be an issue. We do a bit of foraging locally and just make sure everything gets a good wash
  
  That seems like a good idea. Thank you.
- I would grow them indoors on a window sill. Truly the thought of animal pee has never occurred to me, I wash all food I grow anyway, including fruit from the trees.
  
  My window sills get the afternoon sun. Would that be a problem for chives?

I was just on the road for a bit.
Bit of flooding on the roads so becareful out there and I happened to park my car in a small patch of a lake that expanded under a significant area of the car park.
Lucky I wear boots.

I had left over béchamel sauce from making lasagne. I’ve found out that I should have put it on the lasagne, I didn’t put enough on. Mistakes made, lessons learned.

Ugh. Work. Spreadsheets can eat a dick.
- pplookup

My in ground pool is about to overflow…..
And the lawns are all going to need mowing again
Seems like it’s a once a week job this spring and summer (takes hours, lots of lawn)
- Always is, then by mid jan it's all dead
  
  My lawns haven’t died off in the last 2 years…..
- My grass is so lush out there.
- A roomba mower would be great.
  https://au.pcmag.com/robot-lawn-mowers/57263/the-best-robot-lawn-mowers
  
  I've always wanted to tie the mower to a clothesline and set it off in ever smaller circles. Suspect it doesn't work and I don't have that type of clothesline :(

I don't really like bananas but gee I get excited over banana cake.
- with walnuts?
  
  Hell no.

First formal team meeting of the year: my internet dropped. One other person had a power failure. Off to a great start
- My Internet's been down a good chunk of today after a fair few outages over the last week or two. NBN quality...
  Edit: it's now been over 3 hours. Bit over it

This is tea weather ☕️🫖🫖🫖🫖🫖
- Cheers bacon ☕
  I'm drinking morning tea. What are you drinking?
  
  Yorkshire black tea with a dash of milk
- Thanks mum. Have a small scone to go with your tea
  
  oh thank you darling that's so sweet of you
- Bit late but I’ll join you with a coffee.
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Cats are bored so I brought out all the cat toys.

Finished the rest of Wool as an audiobook to give my eyes a break. That final twist!! I can't wait to read the rest next two books.

Space fans: the new Vulcan rocket launches at 6:18pm https://www.youtube.com/live/wZ6KTFMHenA?feature=shared
- Well it made it! (so far heh).
  First launch and it lived which is a good sign.
  
  I'm so happy!

now i want to paint but i have work to do
what am i turning into

Hmm I found a bag of chocolate I forgot about.
Best by dates from 2012. Afraid to open then.
Toss?
- It has fats that oxidise/go rancid. I personally wouldn't go there.
  
  Rightio into the bin they go.

Really getting into Dennis Lehane this year (ha), read Shutter Island and midway through Mystic River. I knew the Shutter Island ending, but still a great read and Mystic River has me firmly engrossed so far.
- Never read the book, but I thought the film was great, both in fact.
  Smashed through Chris Hammer’s Tilt last night and was impressed.
- As much as I liked those two, the Kenzie-Gennaro books were my favourite of his. Kind of pulpy but written well enough to keep me interested.

Who's tried the Apple/Cinnamon Hot Cross Buns.
- Not this year yet but previous years yes.
- Used to buy the Coles apple and cinnamon buns.
  Haven’t tried this year though.

I'm sitting in on some last night of the cruise karaoke and some kid who is maybe 8 is attempting Usher - Yeah. This feels.. inappropriate.
- You're next. Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf....do it, report back.
  
  Stairway To Heaven to prolong the agony for everyone.
  
  Definitely not coughing COVID into a karaoke mic even if I did have all of my voice!
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida!
  Wouldn't be right if I didn't link this

Is wet. So of course today comes my book and my bum towels

the amount of flood alerts in the vic emergency app for my suburb is nuts. Wondering how wet the AC condenser unit can get before it becomes a problem.

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- o/ good bot!
  (I really should take a look at the latest Lemmy API)

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- A big serving of gado-gado please
  
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On to audio book 2. This time Manhunters. 20 minutes in and I'm hooked and humming this tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtJ6yAGjsIs

Scorchers win by 7 wickets @[email protected] good pick.
CEO - 8 Duenan - 9
Strikers vs Hurricanes. My pick is the Strikers. Good luck!
- Good luck to you too!
  Hope the Hurricanes don’t make the same mistake as the other night.
  All they needed was 1 or two extra runs.
  
  Yeah it was a major stuff up.

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Does anyone have suggestions for good catteries in Melbourne? I'm still having health issues and wasn't happy with the one Melbcat recently went to.
Bonus points for fear free techniques, experience with older cats who have medical issues, cats who are stressed by other cats and especially ones that withdraw or soil in fear.
- Would a pet sitting service be more appropriate or less stressful for Melbcat? By pet sitting, I mean coming to Melbcat's home to feed her and give pills etc.
  
  I hate removing her from her familiar environment but am not really on board with someone I don't know entering my house, and don't want her left alone a lot. Also her pills are every day at 6am and 6pm so not exactly convenient hours
- Cat shack in narre Warren. Used them a few times for my cats, including one timid kitty.
  
  How did your timid kitty go? Was she well cared for or kind of just ignored and left to hide?

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