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Hi Peeps. Just about to get on a plane back to Melbs. Have missed you all.
Update
DIL has pupped out 2ndkid, and had surgery immediately after for other issues. Both doing fine. DIL's mum is present and will be doing the 1stkid wrangling from now on for a bit. So I'm not needed. Thank gods for the German health care system - it's been a joy to navigate compared to here.
I was thinking of you earlier today, hoping that things were settling down. Glad to hear they are.
Good to hear, hopefully everything will be okay
So happy it all went well :)
so many hugs
you are awesome to be there for your family ๐๐๐ so awesome
and so happy everyone is well ๐
Great news! Weather is turning here too, have been some lovely days recently.
So glad to hear it went well and they're both safe and sound!! You're an amazing person for heading over there to be there for them!
Iโm so pleased to hear things are going ok there. Have a safe trip back
Blood test results came back after a fair few years since my last one - no deficiencies, no other issues at all. Clean bill of health! So I will be cheersโing to that tonight.
Dear cat
Kindly refrain from napping all day because I am weak and would also like to nap all day.
Taking the Minipeelers and MrExPeeler to the Aquarium tomorrow. Never been before so it should be fun! Still exercising daily and managing a minimum 6,000 steps per day. No doubt will do more than that tomorrow!
Interview in 5. Letโs see how this goes! (He says enthusiastically lol).
Edit: not bad. Letโs see how this plays out.
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It's weekend eve everyone. Congrats on making it this far. You got this shit!!
Party on dude ๐
I can't. Daughter going to a b-day party and it's my turn to pick her up.
Gotta keep it sensible.
I just want this wind to go awayyyy. Trying to count in the warehouse and it's putting me so on edge.
I got a great pic of a sea anemone ๐
it was sunny and still water at half tide
Hardly any updates because SILs home is in a 5g deadspot, and their Optus WiFi isn't routing properly and won't let me access Lemmy ๐ I have to go for a walk a few streets away to see your beautiful posts lol
Having a great time though! I've seen so many insects and birds.
I think this is a Giant Grasshopper
I haven't been able to ID this one
Partner says it's a Spitfire but spitfires don't look like that, and Google lens says it's a US moth except they're not in Aus
Ah drums. Youโre the fucking best on a Friday night!
Also Gibson is my number one fan lol
Edit: goodnight all โค๏ธ
The pots keep drying outโฆ I hope the seeds will sprout rather than having germinated and then died
Went to Sweet By Nature in Heidelberg and picked up some bulk brownie offcuts and some mini new York cheesecakes. Unfortunately two very tired boys banged their heads on the same table and would not calm down so we had to leave early
Wind on rubbish collection day is always fun. I picked up a bunch of wrappers blown into the corner of the yard, but Mr Woof made off with an empty chocolate wrapper before I could stop him. It was a catch and release, I can now see it blowing around the back yard. I also picked up the instructions for how to install hybrid floor boards that have presumably escaped from a nearby building site.
I have finished work!
To El Jannah, and thence to blissful not-doing-stuff!
Cheers everyone ๐บ
Cheers! Departing from beer to give some aldi red another go tonight. ๐ท
Redevelopment must be costing too much.....insurance?
Boyo: I had a late lunch, I don't think I'll want dinner tonight, so you have whatever you want.
Brain: Cheese!!
Me: No, you're organising the cheese plate for tomorrow night's party.
Brain: Eat cheese!!
So I'm cooking cheesy pasta as a compromise with myself. Annoying I've been craving salmon all week (which boyo won't eat) and my brain went nah, I don't want that anymore.
I didnโt like Windows 10 and I am absolutely hating Windows 11. The only reason I keep a Windows laptop is because my favourite game is Windows only.
But I am cursing the Microsoft monopoly.
Long sweary rant
Trying to do something simple is a massive fuck around, accidentally ghosting near some dumb shit button brings up a news popup that covers most of your screen and you have to fumble around to dismiss, it kidnaps your files into the cloud to extort payment for more storage and makes it hard to reclaim them (if you donโt do things right they can get put back into cloud when you sever the OneDrive connection to your computer to disable that), obscures the settings to back up to drive instead of cloud, and trying to search your computer for something takes you to fucking Bing.
Forget about simple games like Solitaire, even as of Windows 7 theyโre gamified and enshittified out the arse with sounds you cannot disable even through the system, and constantly pushing to upgrade to premium to stop the ads.
Thereโs also AI and the increased amount of corporate spyware including screenshotting all your stuff (including potentially sensitive information).
And the fact that (the latest?) Windows 11 can possibly wipe your SSD once it reaches 60% full. (Which is why Iโm hurriedly backing up now, especially as the computer contains stuff Iโve been desperately pulling off cloud before I potentially lose access due to age verification bullshit.)
I really hope something happens and the monopoly collapses. Fuck them for all the shady shit they pulled for so long to make this the normal state of affairs.
And yes, I am objecting way too late. I knew it was a good idea to not use Windows and not rely on cloud. I just literally havenโt had a chance to prioritise sorting it out. Iโm still not really getting to focus on it right now and tech cunts continue messing up yet more shit to add to the pile of things to address. Move fast and break shitโฆ Iโma move fast and break your shit.
If I knew everything I needed would work without prolonged wrestling and troubleshooting that would probably never get finished (and that others would be able to open the documents I send) Iโd be maining Linux or some other alternative already and have completely open source software.
Beep Beep ๐
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Someone tell me why they plant the jizz trees in schools. Were the people in charge of procurement wanting people to be reminded of that smell?
My place came with 8 jizz trees in the garden - four in backyard, four in front yard. Someone was obsessed. The front one's are starting to jizz up now and they're extra smelly.
My condolences.
just taking an easy day here
no heavy lifting, no gardening
happy talk like pirate dino day . argh rawr ๐๐ฆ
Shiver me timbers! They be showin' del Toro's Frankenstein at IMAX, aye? Hope it's at the Melbourne one, savvy? IMAX be a fine sight, it be.
beach ๐
hope there are no dead bodies today ๐
