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Happy 18th birthday Baku. If ya lurking you should come back. I hope your social work course is going well. With the above average struggles you've faced I'm sure you'll make a great people's advocate.
I remembered because it's the Ides of March, one of those unique dates with a bit of history about it.
@BakuToo@aussie.zone ? Looks like they deleted their follow up account too.
Me too. Happy Birthday Baku! It's a big milestone but you got this.
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Happy birthday to Baku wherever he is. I miss his comments and insights. Truly an outstanding young man. 🛤️
i miss him too. Was just thinking yesterday how he was such a good presence here on the DT.
I hope he is doing well. I want nothing but success and happiness for him.
Cheers dumble, and everyone else who's dropped well wishes in. And low for passing the link along. Truly appreciated
I had my wisdom teeth removed 3 days ago, and as part of the healing process I can't drink, or have a slice of cake. And the pain meds have left me too tired to go anywhere or catch up with anyone
E: I did get a kitten since I was here last, so I'm just spending the day with him
Seconded. Happy birthday buddy
Happy Birthday. 🎂
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Passed this on via the other place so hopefully he sees it!
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Thankyou for remembering dumble, and happy birthday silent one if you are there.
Edit: 🚂🚉
The uber driver asking me where to go when he has 2 maps open doesn't exactly build a sense of trust.
In other news, found a Zoia fairly cheap on marketplace and am picking it up Monday!!!!
Eventide is still on layby and I have 3 months to pay it off, so I'll just throw a few bucks at it every pay and grab it down the track.
ooh nice!
Absolutely glorious morning for it.
Now a glorious afternoon for wine and cheese in the courtyard!
ohh glassy!
Motivation was 0 today but I vacuumed and mopped everywhere, dusted, cleaned surfaces & sofa, cleaned bathroom, changed the sheets and washed the old sheets. My house really needed the reset.
No way I’m cooking after all that so out for a souvo & beer.
All day I’ve been under the blankets shivering.
I threw up so hard before that my thumbs locked up and I couldn’t move my hands for 15 minutes.
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
Sounds like an awful bug you’ve got.
Hope you feel better soon.
Had the funniest interaction before.
Saw someone I thought I knew.
He waved back.
Came to chat and I realised I didn't know him, but he thought he knew me.
Ended up having this sort of funny "how you been bro!" conversation.
Then said our goodbyes and walked off.
I wonder if he realised he didn't know me either hahaha
off to take potplants to new house then off to beach 🙂
In 9 days I have packed 35 boxes. That is not too bad.
With love, I've worked with professionals packers, they'd pack a 3br house in a few hours.
I've had packers and they are def fast and if I recall my super expensive unopened golden tequila disappeared!!
also sore back and skiving
puta's
Here's your Saturday night reminder that music is meant to be listened to LOUD.
Been trying to fix my partner's PC. His motherboard keeps giving a 9C error code or gets stuck on that code - which apparently means a usb issue? It happens even when all USBs have been unplugged.
So I swapped the mobo for another one, took me a bit unscrewing the fan and GPU in the way, and unplugging all the bits from the mobo, rearranging the screws on the case so the new (smaller) one fits, got it all back together and turned it on, but it keeps powering off and on.
I forgot to put the CPU in it... 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ I forgot the bloody brains!
Now I have to remove the mobo fan and put the CPU in. I'm having a coffee before I do that lol
Accidentally took a nap and slept for nearly 4 hours, oops!
At least my headache is mostly gone and I’ll have dinner up and running pretty soon.
Plans for tonight will be to finish watching this last game of footy and then on to Severance and The Rookie.
It’s still disgustingly warm outside, yuck.
Went out last night for a friend's birthday to a nightclub at her request. Got lots of comments on how short I was. I love how people are so quick to make comments about my appearance.
My bed > dancing to music in my room with no one watching > bars with dance floors
Big gap
Clubs
Gotta clean EVERYTHING this weekend for Tuesday rental inspection... I'll potentially procrastinate and end up taking Monday off work to do it. Already started though so that's positive. Benefits of having a small place are that it's relatively quick to clean. I will alternate between a little gaming followed by a little cleaning. Repeat until it's time for beer. Then it will be beer and gaming followed by a little cleaning.
Here's the issue with digital music gear:
Firmware updates!!!
I saw an amp I've been dying to get on marketplace today. It's the same model as my existing (which I absolutely love) just in a head and stack config
Fucked around for ages to get it to work with the helix board and what was the issue in the end? Needed a fucking firmware update.
Updating now and hoping for the best!
Health
I’ve gone back to constantly being in a lot of pain and struggling with intake as a result. Getting really dehydrated again and once more finding it hard to move.
I don’t want to go back to how sick I used to be -_-
Missed out on some DnB / jungle music tix but the place is basically corner of flinders st. / elizabeth st. which I'm happy to avoid no loss there.
INSTEAD!
There's a free techno / breaks day park party (until 10pm) which is tempting. Just near La trobe uni. Looks like there'll be a fair few peeps going. Seems like a more sensible option. Probably a more fun crowd too.
Also just got off the phone to the ol' girl and she is really pushing hard to jump back behind the wheel again. She's been told that it's too risky by every doc she's seen, and her friends have said the same thing to her. She doesn't seem to grasp how much of a risk it is. Breaks my heart to keep telling her no.
Dude I was just thinking about you and your mum recently as my mum's cataract surgery lens thingo is coming loose and she's booked in for a surgery in 2 months time, but we're all pleading with her to go private (she has insurance that us kids pay for), and get it done faster because she lives alone and she's had a couple of small falls... not only would the lens come out and she'd need urgent surgery (assuming she stays conscious) I'm so worried about the risk of more permanent vision impairment.
Would it get through to her if you told her about the risks involved for others? It sounds brutal but what if she killed a child? Or hit a car with a young family inside? You and everyone else involved are absolutely correct in your stances. They say, "oh I'd be really careful." What about reaction time? I'm edging towards having this conversation with my MIL and preparing myself. They fear a loss of their independence, but there are other ways to have independence. Plus the half price taxi is really cool!
Ugh, the downside of nice fresh clean sheets is it's so tempting to spend aaaall day in them. I told myself I was having the day off but I really need someone get me out of bed to cook these eggplants
E: my internal sense of "this is gross and depressing now" kicked in; I have made most of the bottle gourd and half of the eggplants are cooking right now.
Just went outside and it's not as gross as I thought. There's still time for it to heat up though
I have spent way too long comparing the prices and qualities of moving boxes. I think Storage King is winning so far. Now I have to try to figure out how many boxes and what size I need. It would nice to be rich enough to afford a full packing service.
I’m having a lovely time
Was thinking another beach day to round out summer but the current temp in Geelong is 23.9 whereas it’s 34.7 at Essendon Airport. That’s a wild difference.
I suppose I should clean my place today, but I don’t wanna.
back from new house, spent very little time there, no beach or chips, but did meet a nice neighbour
it's a very small suburb
I have gymed. I think now I go to find something nice to eat
