Melbourne

Just finished the last of this calligraphy practice. Only two mistakes!! I'm quite happy with it. I love the red water colour. :) ( oh dear, the closer I look the worse it looks ) 😂

PSA to remind people to not let their mind imagine crazy scenarios.

Friend had been distant all week and not replying to texts so I thought they'd had enough of me or I'd said something wrong.

Sent them a text saying "Hey. If you've got a few free minutes today can you call for a quick chat?" Less than half an hour later they called me and I got to hear about all the crap going on in their life and it cheered both of us up.

Sometimes people just retreat into themselves when life gets hard or hectic and need a friend to draw them out.

Be that friend.

My pasta

A photo of my shell pasta, mushrooms, chorizo, zucchini, onion, garlic, chives and chilli flakes. I forgot the tomatoes. I called it "everything that was in fridge went into my dish". It tasted way better than it looks.

An early dinner because I was hungry.

Including the early thread with 30 comments, we are still at over double the activity compared to the old r/Melbourne subreddit.

I hope those who don't go to the old sub frequently can find there way here.

I've finally succumbed to the reddit API changes.

Lemmy is still a bit strange to me, but I think I'm finally getting it to the point of being similar to what I was seeing on Reddit (albeit with much fewer users and therefore less content).

I'm glad to see the Melbourne daily thread be active here.

Seeing how few users there are on Lemmy also makes me feel like I want to be more active?! I was much more of a lurker on Reddit.

Good luck to anyone flying tonight, or tomorrow. Got home in the end, but shit's fucked.

Doggo went nuts when I walked in the door. Was cool.

This morning I met this friendly handsome guy on my walk. He was very happy to make my acquaintance. I think I’m in love.

Photo description: a chunky and fluffy cat RUNNING up the footpath to headbutt me and get pats.

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Edit: don’t really appreciate that the website rotated the picture, but whatever

Self-care Sunday has kicked in early with a 7am dry sauna session.

Local gym has an 80 degree dry sauna that is absolute magic. Even more so when it's empty this early and I don't have to listen to people talk shit.

What has everyone else got scheduled in for self-care today?

Spending my Sunday morning doing a job application because it won't happen during the working week. It's rare for good roles to come up in my field and this one sounds perfect, so going for it. I HATE writing cover letters, never been good at it. I open with why the role has appealed to me and anything I write sounds hella corny.

Picked up a 7kg ham from cheaper buy miles for $25, will portion and freeze.

Also a ton of non alcoholic "booze" cos I'm doing dry July

Huge turnout for the #Yes23 launch at Trades Hall today, despite the dull weather.

Momentum is gathering and it is wonderful to see!

The only thing better than hearing kookaburras is actually seeing them fly between trees I reckon, they're so cool

hashing out LED diffuse lighting for the house. Trying to convince His Lordship of the merits of an "Intruder Alert" macro that when triggered turns all the lights blood red and starts playing the imperial march.

You broke into the wrooooong house, boyo.

Well Jetstar cancelled my flight for no actual reason they could give me. Also, apparently they sent an SMS and email yesterday informing me...I did not receive either, and only checked my flight on account of a comment by @the_procrastinata earlier. My partner, who could have been an old school travel agent in another life, somehow managed to get me a better flight which the staff said was unavailable. Currently spending my $24 dollars of Jetstar food vouchers...

Looks like everyone's getting their tasty foodz in.

I'll just be in the corner with a bowl of soup and some toast.

I am now officially stuffed full of curry.

In other good news, bot #001 seems to be doing better after training - has been running for a few hours without crashing & successfuly conducted a test posting. I've promised it a new wi-fi dongle tomorrow if it can manage to stay awake all night and post succesfully, hopefully that will help too 🤣

Edit: might have spoken too soon, just after I posted this it crashed again. I think it might be related to the code that is supposed to pin the posts which doesn't work (it needs to be updated for the new server edition) so I have gone through and stripped out all the code relating to that process. Finger's crossed that does it.

curry

Image: Curry. So much curry it's crazy one person ate the whole bowl. Chicken and potato massaman curry, with green beans, capsicum & tomato. Served with rice & cucumber raita.

I want to apologise to everyone here about having to put up and read about my side of things.

I know there are probably many others in tough positions and I’ve probably had too much a winge and complain today.

I should probably just focus on solving the problem and taking it in stride or waiting to solve the problem instead of being so down about all the worst aspects of it all and what it might mean.

Apologies to everyone for the doomposting.

I'm a chunky monkey lady with thunder thighs and am sick of shredding the thighs of my jeans. Does anyone have suggestions for good jeans that don't fall apart too quickly?

sigh

Well washing machine is only half working. Checked again this morning.

I’ll try just doing drip drying but I don’t know how that’s going to go with weather this cold.

Last option would be to use a laundromat. Just another burden I have to shoulder.

Guess I’ll jump on the fooodz posts bandwagon

with some blueberry cheesecake

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Breakfast toastie today was a bit yummy. Egg, mushroom, cheese and onion. Included a mix of cheddar and halloumi. 10/10 would toast again.

Anyone got breadmaker recs? His Lordship hath discovered if one decomissions an old appliance, one should do so after buying a motherfucking replacement honestly dipshit why did you do that???

Ahem.

We do a lot of pizza dough, some of it quite dense, so looking for one with the kind of paddle you uusually only see at Pride. Or with YAOI branded on it.

Looks like this thread might close out the day with 2x the comments of the r/Melbourne one.

Bloody heated throw blanket died after only 6 months :( I made sure I got a "good" one too. Just checked online and luckily it has a 3 year warranty..

I can't believe Twitter is also imploding, now where am I supposed to unapologetically fan girl and talk about reality tv without the prying eyes of people I know IRL???

Lasted one day using the official reddit app. Glad to see Lemmy appears to be legitimately up and coming and an easy format to read posts/comments.

Its either Lemmy or wasting my time with tiktok and instagram reels only now.

The readability of the official reddit app sadly isnt worth putting up with it.

Got some money from babysitting, so I'm gonna treat myself to a manicure and possibly a pedicure.

I finished my Lego lambo yesterday and discovered I put one of the diffs backwards. Now the front and rear wheels spin in different directions when you try to push it. Ah well, it's a display model and no one else will ever know.

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Very cloudy and sleepy from the codeine today.

Maybe Mr Smeg needs to drive me somewhere with tasty food. We had loaded potato gems last Sunday at Hey Sister.

Not sure what I want today. For now just listening to Blue Juice Radio on PBS. Easily one of the best shows of the week after Stardust, Afterglow, and Riddim Yard.

RIPPA HARIAN: SHIFT HARI

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EDISI ROBOT BURUK🤖