Our city is beautiful. I remember seeing Tokyo from their metro government building and thinking about how small Melbourne is in comparison.
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It's big enough.
Touché
I have finally been able to harvest my first ripe tomato of the season
teaspoon for scale
That is a comically large spoon
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Alrighty.
1 in person 3rd stage interview
2 first stage phone interviews.
Let's see what happens.
Edit:
My right ear has been blocked for a week and a half and I just got it cleaned.
It is fucking GLORIOUS to not constantly hear myself breathing.
What an awesome feeling that is!! I need to get mine done, they're so close to blocking up. Good luck with the interviews!
Highly recommend doing it. It's awesome!
And thanks! I've had one already which was OK. The in person is at 1pm then another call at 3pm.
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Looks like my work laptop has won the Windows 11 brick lottery
Yep, so now it's home time and late start tomorrow
Brother, your church bells are a minute early.
I have gymed. Great success.
New trainer is lovely. I like her
Yeah so unintended side effect of quitting vaping is I need to learn to control my singing voice again.
Frustrating.
This is good tho , isnt it?
Long term absolutely.
But I have re adjust how I form notes in my throat. That's the frustrating part.
Doing what I normally do is off pitch.
There's this American guy (or maybe Canadian, I'm no good at telling the accents apart) sitting in the co-working open plan area today (in a group of 4) and he is literally SHOUTING his conversation. Non-stop talking since I arrived. I will be getting no work done today. I think I'm going to move for the day instead of asking them to STFU, I don't feel like a confrontation.
In happier news, one of my neighbours has an assistance dog in training, and I've just witnessed him doing something very impressive.
Abraham (and the L-Plates On His Harness) is figuring out lift buttons. He can call the elevator
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In person went OK. We'll see what happens.
I like my new car. It’s fun to drive, looks cute, sounds great.
STOP BEEPING AT ME.
I just wish that it would shut the fuck up. I don’t need to be told every time there’s a speed change. I don’t need to be beeped at every time I go 1km over the limit. Stop telling me there’s a line near me. Why do I care if my door is open for a moment while I check something and the engine is off.
Thankfully most of it can be switched off pretty easily, but oh my god it’s so fucking annoying and has to be done every time I start the car. I want to drive a car, not have a car telling me how to drive.
I really don't like all of those automatic things. I like simple controls that I am in control of. It was one reason I resisted updating my car for so long, and only did when I realised I could get a van that didn't have all those extras as standard. It's not just the beeps and stuff either, too much in the way of sensors in everything make repairs a lot more expensive.
I too like simple and elegant
When IT are the ID10T...
Hey now. We are also highly inefficient.
Someone has stolen my doormat.
…I have questions
Some people will steal anything that's not bolted down (and sometimes they'll steal that too, along with the bolts).
I find it easier to deal with such despicable acts if I anthropomiphise to a ridiculous degree - your doormat has just reached an age where it wants more independence and has set off to travel the world. It's out there somewhere living it's best life, getting to experience other doorsteps and being stepped on by a wide array of interesting people.
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The glass plate I made has just turned 7 (according to Facebook)
That was a very enjoyable afternoon class, and the plate is now my fruit bowl in the kitchen. It doesn't feel like seven years ago. I spent a couple of months long service leave staying at home and doing lots of classes and activities locally, it was a lot of fun.
That's so pretty!! That sounds like a great way to use lsl. I want to try one of those painting or pour sessions.
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Well. That was humbling lol
Teacher is cool but yeah, lot of work to do.
Singing lesson?
Yup.
When you're self taught it's easy to forget there are better ways of doing things.
Sometimes being self taught is worse up front because there are so many bad habits to break
That's what the teacher said lol
Cool. I did a few singing lessons back in the day but I really want to learn how to project my voice. Am considering doing a couple.
I'll keep posting about my progress to see if this guy is any good. I've gone there for technique and to learn vocal fry
Coming at you from the new vacuum cleaner phone
I heard that phone really sucks.
đź‘Ź :)
The accessories you can get for it certainly do
think I'll go into the city and get some walking exercise and do a few errands
I don't deny the news lately, life lately, has been tough, and it's hard to get motivated
Incidental exercise is great, walking around the shops all adds up! But I hear you on the motivation. It’s an ongoing struggle for me, and external events don’t help. I’m envious of people who are always full of drive and energy. For me it’s having to push myself through the day, every day. I don’t have any solutions.
It wasn’t a good one yesterday.
Cat rescue
I reached out to the rescue contact and explained the trapping difficulties, said I could try and detain the cat in the house for a chip scan and maybe foster.
But the pressure to keep him was intense and she even straight up said he would help me get over Melbcat. I was halfway through setting up a quarantine area with an enclosure but got overwhelmed and had a bit of a breakdown.
Going mental
I was dreaming of paying for more operations for a still living Melbcat, taking shady abusive jobs and pretending she was another cat for discounts to afford them. Yeah I’m really not mentally okay.
Then just now I wanted to do the neglected dishes with the mini dishwasher I never got around to selling. Who cares if they’re covered in soap after, I’m not very hungry. I just want them cleaned and put away. …It broke.
Edit: Black cat came by again
spoiler
so I was able to give food and apply this month’s spot on. But he hissed when I gently picked him up a few inches off the ground. He was also most distressed by the paper collar, dodging and more hissing while I tried to put it on him. It’s on, without even restraining him because I’m just that deft.
But yes, he sat around being angry about the collar for a minute and he’s now run off quite pissed with me. There’s been a rupture of trust.
I’m now less confident about quarantine or fostering, and if he went into the system the hissing risks him being put down. Edit: He pulled the paper collar off.
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Didn't see the moon last night. I think Gru and the minions stole it
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