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[–] oztrin@aussie.zone 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just got Sammi home - it's like she's back to normal. She actually scarfed Zooki's roo mince which she wasn't supposed to have, inhaled the Hills vet food that she was, used the tray and is walking around reacquainting herself with the place.
If you saw her Wednesday and then today, the only difference in her is the shaved spot where they took the bloods. Oh and no purrs - I might be on her shit list for awhile.
Anyway ultrasound Wednesday, they're going to let me know what time.

I'm glad to hear she's feeling better ❀️

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 17 points 2 months ago (14 children)
[–] Duenan@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Inherited doggie from my mum after she was put into a home.

Been awhile now so no longer with us.

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This was a few weeks after we adopted her, but here's my old dog Ruby. She loves with my ex now. Happy National Dog Day!

Ruby

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[–] Eagle@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Doggo in cat hammock being guard. If I can get the photo to load.....

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[–] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

First day of new job 😬 hoping to not have a napkin-sneeze moment

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[–] PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Went to check out a school with/for the eldest minipeeler. It seems like such a great fit for him. So hard to get a school that can help him with his anxiety, school refusal and need for re-engagement. It's a tiny school though and they have such limited places. I'm not the praying kind but I'm praying for him to get accepted. We will formally begin the application process tomorrow for next year πŸ€žπŸΌπŸ€žπŸΌπŸ€žπŸΌπŸ™πŸΌπŸ™πŸΌπŸ™πŸΌ

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[–] oztrin@aussie.zone 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Any improvement Sammi had was minimal, so I phoned the vet and they've admitted her for observation and further tests (including hopefully an abdominal ultrasound).
Cross fingers for us.

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[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I’m having an unbelievably hard time of life. I’m just not getting a break.

Melbcat is feeling more comfortable with adequate pain relief though, ate some wet food and is cuddling. I’m waiting for Tuesday and counting down to receiving the antibiotics

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[–] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yay. Day 1 down with no embarrassing moments to report. New place is nice. They have cold soda water water on tap 😍

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[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

8.5 hours straight with no lunch break (by my own choice because I didn't want to spend even longer outside). Ugh, I had hoped it would be a short day today - it was easy at least, mostly support for someone else and driving - but just a lot of time standing around not working on my assignment, while my brain and guts are in stress overdrive again. I'm glad that my work now ends when I leave, but whose bright idea was it to reintroduce ongoing stress with uni!!!

I'm going to just eat and lie down for a bit before I attempt to do any uni stuff. I'm 70% of the way there. Just need to skim through enough articles to cite them appropriately...

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[–] Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This week’s shit weather is brought to you by my annual leave. Not. Happy. Jan.

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[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

works gone to complete and utter shit. We're being forced into this project that we all know is gonna end in a complete dumpster fire, but we (as in everyone in my department, managers included) cant do anything to stop it. Gonna chat to my boss and just say "look I cant reconcile this shit, you want it done? Fine, but I dont want to talk about it for a second more than we have to". The greater department has this habit of turning their meetings into therapy/bitching sessions and I'm just not here for it.

Till this Project Doom is completed we're sticking to facts any talking about it as little as possible.

thats fair enough isnt it? Honestly sat in the meeting where it was announced on seek, and I dont reckon I was alone in that.

[–] PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago

I'm wary of places where meetings become therapy/bitch sessions. I never know how much that stuff is gonna get twisted, taken out of context, used against you etc. Risky overflow into unprofessional behaviour.

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[–] oztrin@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Vet just called - as before, nothing detected in the external examination and nothing in the blood tests. They're going to x-ray her and if nothing shows up on that, organise an ultrasound. Also they'll give her fluids and an anti nausea injection since she has been vomiting on and off since Thursday.

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[–] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

First cherry blossom out! which means shorts starting from tomorrow.

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[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Payday today!! I'm trying to get the enthusiasm levels up like all you Wednesday pay people from last week, but when you have a strict budget it's all divided up and spent before you get it anyway.

It is nice seeing the car money creeping higher though - I've gone from "could buy another car the same as mine if I crash it" level to being able to get something that's a bit nicer. Slowly moving towards the point I can buy a car I would actually choose to buy without being forced by the death of my current one.

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[–] SituationCake@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Geez this stranded astronaut thing is a schmozzle. They are doing a lot of β€˜everything is fine’ PR, but it must be stressful to be stuck up there, and I’m sure there are some very tense discussions being had.

[–] PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago

I feel really sorry for them, they certainly didn't sign up for this. It reminds me of Sergei Krikalev, the guy who was stuck in space while the Soviet union collapsed and the country that sent him into space no longer existed.

[–] MeanElevator@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

This whole CFMEU saga is equally entertaining and concerning.

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When unlawful power is called out and given a good smacking? Always entertaining to watch from a safe distance. Unions are not per se bad, but when the power inherent in them is abused it's good to know that there are some ways to rein them in. You may be too young to remember the whole Painters & Dockers Union stuff, but they did things like murder people. As well as run-of-the-mill corruption and stuff. No-one was surprised when that union was forcibly de-registered - except maybe the members of the union. Seems like the CFMEU have forgotten that lesson.

[–] MeanElevator@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

My biggest concern about this whole saga is how long it's taken to get to this point. I worked on CFMEU sites for a decade or so (non union role) and thought it was bad then. Like absolutely transparent corruption and no one seemed to care.

Also disappointing that unions are meant to protect workers against shit conditions and bad management. Now they're becoming the monster they were suppose to slay.

The cultist mentality is pretty messed up too. Glad it's being taken care of, but I don't trust either gov party to act as administrators.

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[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's the last week of the month. If you want to change jobs now is a great time to apply for roles coming up to 14 days old

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[–] bacon@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

train went pass south yarra
spotify ad 2000s Dad Rock Mix

excuse me what
-find the playlist- WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS AND GOING UNDER ARE MUSIC FOR OLD PEOPLE NOW?

okay

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

the joke "Someone remembered to wake Billie Joe, yeah?" on the 1/10th will never not be funny, so I guess in a sense it always has been dad rock?

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[–] Eagle@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Yep. We're old.

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[–] MeanElevator@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Despite being directly the in projected storm path, we were spared the brunt of it.

Wind and rain for about 15 minutes and then some small hail.

Overall, not the worst we've had.

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[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

looks like a nice day to go out for a bit

luv youse all 😘 have a nice arvo

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

You too mate πŸ‘

[–] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Good lord. Spotify free version doesn't even let me play a single song I want to hear, just a playlist that includes it. What a disaster

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[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

NASA has decided to get the astronauts who went up on a crippled Boeing star liner to return on a space X next year. in short: they dont trust the spacecraft for human flight. You cant write fiction funnier than this.

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[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was surprised by the Wattle Festival and just the sheer size of it yesterday. We only did part of the main street of Hurstbridge and we hardly got to the whole thing.

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[–] bull@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

One thing I'm really quite good at is packing to go on a trip really quickly. I've got like 3 laptops, an ipad, a 27" monitor, a media streamer, PS5 controller and all manner of cables, my clothes and my CPAP machine all fitting snuggly into my trusty suitcase. Then I have my backpack of stuff and a tote with foodstuffs and my blender. All took maybe 30-40 minutes and there was a shower in there too.

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[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Funny bones ain't that funny when you scrape one across a door frame. I was carrying my recycle box back inside and I'm like "DON'T THROW IT. DON'T THROW IT".

[–] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want to know why my very top lemon, at least 2.something metres up was eaten by something (guessing a rat) and they ignored the many lower ones. Is it sport? showing off? Big respect but that would not have been easy.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I've been reading stuff on the internets.

Wikipedia is wrong!!

The Edit Wars are getting worse.

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[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

this week my old printer is going to the electronic rubbish bin πŸ‘‹

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