I had mentally allowed myself two days for looking at cars. As it only took a couple of hours I now have a lot of unexpectedly open time to fill. I might do an op shop run and try to finish off my couch.
Does anyone else write off stupidly large amounts of time to do things that are not actually that time consuming? I seem to do it all the time, which often means I put off things because I “don’t have enough time” and then when I do get them done end up with lots of extra free time.
I’m the opposite. I put things off, especially unpleasant tasks, but severely overestimate what I can get done in a timeframe. (I don’t really believe it, I just like to convince myself I will do it later to feel less guilty about procrastinating). Then mad panic ensues. I need to find a way of doing unpleasant tasks.
But more importantly, congratulations on the car! And yay for having spare time to do other fun stuff!
I only tend to do that for uni assignments - sure I can write up 5000 words after work on the day it’s due!!
I pick up the car on Thursday. I’m going to add clearing out the small shed I have at the end of the carport and putting it onto Marketplace, I’ll have an extra 13cm of car to fit in and need that space back so the new vehicle doesn’t have her butt hanging out 🤣
Drive to the op shop to familliarise yourself with the car some more? Do you have it have it already?
It’s coming on Thursday. It will actually make it a lot easier to do op shop drop offs now, tons of room and much easier access! But I’ve got a few boxes of things I’m tripping over that I’d just like out of the way so I’ll do it today anyway.
First visit with the new car is going to be the auto electrician to organise a reversing camera - it has sensors, but the visibility at the back is not great and I’d much prefer to add a camera in. Fingers crossed they can install without replacing the head unit, but it depends on which specific unit was installed in the car and they won’t know until they can look at it. I am a bit nervous about manouvering in it, after 19 years in the one car the change is going to be hard.
I love my reversing camera and Fresnel lens in my van. Visibility max. The rear windows look nice and tinted already which is nice.
Edit: Consider a front/rear dash cam while you’ve got the auto-elec opening things up. Viofo A129 duo pro is nice and cheap.
I’ve never thought about it.
Day 4 of new gig.
Figuring shit out and taking some initiatives.
Sounds wanky, but trying to make a good impression.
Meeting more people and everyone still seems cool.
nah not wanky just common sense, good work!
I haven’t done this in a long time, so kind of intimidated but trying to make a positive mark too.
Better than looking to make a bad impression. “G’day team working hard or hardly working?”
Week two I’ll start referring to all the women at work, collectively, as Shielas
Morning! Does the new bot pick the emoji in any meaningful way?
Broinglorid made it, probably so their lemmy feed wasn’t filled with constant notifications of
“Right sock, left sock, left shoe, right shoe.”
Which is the highfalutin content we’re here for.
Saw a massive black rat climb in under the dishwasher last night. Have to head down the bellarine today and turn the alarm on here. Bugger. Thing would surely set it off.
Never seen a rat in the house before, just a few mice back in the day.
Hrmm
Massive Dislike! Pet rats nice, dishwasher rats bad.
rats seem to be a coastal thing 😬
Trust me, rats are everywhere 😂 we just don’t see them too much in built up/inner city areas because there tends to be lots of food sources around so they don’t often encroach into homes. Alleyways where dumpsters are stored, close to restaurants, etc.
Rural and coastal areas appear to have more rats, purely because it’s less built up, so rats are attracted to homes for shelter and food. You’ll see them more, but they are very much everywhere.
I love rats, and mice, but best not to touch wild ones. Most are introduced pests, though there are a couple of native species, like the Bush Rat and Swamp Rat.
Time for a cat. Is Butters available for a ratting consultation?
Can you get a picture of it at all? There are a few types of rats near the coast, some are native but most are introduced pests
They’re so fast couldn’t get one :( This one is actually at the place here in Melbs (which I have to leave and head down the coast, but alarm is the problem). I’m really not a fan of poison so plan of a attack is to stop it from getting into the house with a bit of wood under the dishwasher and deal with it on sunday somehow lol.
Stainless steel wool balls, the thicker coil type, is excellent for stuffing gaps around pipework to keep rodents out. They don’t like to chew on it. The trickery part is to make sure the rat is trapped out of the house, and not in, when steel wool is applied!
ooh that’s a very good idea thank you for that I’ll go that method.
And yea, I don’t know whether it’s inside or still under the dishwasher / wherever so that’s a problem heh.
Good idea! If you’re not interested in poison, I think Bunnings has humane traps that don’t kill the rat. But I’m not sure.
I made one with a bucket, tp roll on a stick and Pb on the roll. Rodent climbs up tries to get to Pb and falls in the bucket.
I think the interview went well! It was my first ever “dual” interview, so there was another applicant there. But it was a very casual interview with the owner of the cattery. Her dog was also there and just was all over me wanting pats 😂
I should know by tomorrow!
I ended up walking and chatting with the other applicant, and she was so freaking cool! She’s doing a PhD in archaeology, which I asked lots of questions about haha, and she was so down to earth - I walked her to her bus stop because she doesn’t know the area well, and we added each other on insta 😂😂😂
yay , 🤞🤞🤞
A dual interview sounds so weird. A group interview makes sense, but when it’s you and one other person it feels like you’re meant to compete with each other directly.
That’s what I was worried about tbh, but it ended up being quite nice! It was more conversational and relaxed than I expected.
I imagine it’s because we had the interview with the owner, who throws herself into her work and just wanted to make it a bit easier for herself - but yeah it was chiller than I expected.
Plus I made a new friend so nothing lost haha
Maybe planning on hiring both of you …
God I wanted to go back to sleep this morning.
Those 9am wake ups during handover are killing me now lol
whats everyone running around with for a backpack? I’ve got a cheapy dell from ozbargain which isnt bad, but its pretty big and heavy for not great storage options and its a bit ostentatious. Eyeing off a Status Anxiety “Good Kid” and a Bellroy Classic.
I have this one from Aussie disposals. I love it. So many pockets.
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I have two old crumplers. The bees knees messenger and the ultimate wine bar backpack. While nor perfect, they’ll last forever so I’m unlikely to replace them.
Dont mind one of the new crumplers but 280 is taking the piss when there are options at half the price.
There’s probably a second hand market for them, and probably whatever else you’re considering, if you’re looking at quality. I wouldn’t pay 280 for either of the bags I’ve got.
I’m in the market for an upgrade too. Need something to carry laptop, lunch and train ride reading material
Looking at a Bellroy or maybe Status Anxiety at the moment.Man they dont give them away.
I’ll take a look, cheers
I bought one from Vic market for my daughter but she isn’t using it so I am lol. First time I’ve had a pink girls bag in my life. It has a matching coin purse 🙌🏼🤣
Do yourself a favor - go the the nearest op shop/Vinnies/Sacred Heart. They ALWAYS have a shittone of backpacks for purchase at very reasonable prices. Quite high end ones too. Just check any purchase for freeloaders before taking home. Or vacuum and freeze to kill any such freeloaders.
Bellroy transit workpack. Good pockets. Keeps laptop separate from lunch… nice shape too. I like a squarer shape. Currently a big in love with the look of the Fjallraven Kanken stuff but can’t justify a new one.
initially really interested in the transit but I thought it might be a bit too big?
Nah I have the workpack which is the smallest of the transit line. 20L IIRC. Perfect for laptop+cable stuff, notebook pens, lunch, phone etc. and space if I need to chuck in a jumper or a raincoat or something. And I am a shortarse - I don’t find it big. I used to have an even smaller one but was commuting and just needed a bit more space.
I invested in a good one as I take my backpack everywhere. Don’t have it right now but it was $160 from JB Hifi
Black Wolf
My girlfriend was saying she needs a way to track things at work better because she’s supposed to be leading the baby room.
I told her what she needs is a G-Shock or something similar. It has alarms, timers, can beep on the hour and some models have a button that can start the countdown timer without diving into menus.
And it does it all in a simple and privacy respecting way that’s sufficient for a childcare worker.
I bought a cheap Casio watch one time she’s using to try it out, and if it’s working we can get her an upgrade
Stopped in at NQR while I was out. I am about to find out whether cheese and bacon filled potato cakes are a good idea of a travesty that should never have been allowed to exist.
I already vote good idea!
I’ve only ever had them from the f & c shop and they do work well together.
Ah autumn. Flanno - too cold. Oodie - too hot. Now snuggled into old fav hoodie. Just right. Plus fingerless gloves (years driving a keyboard == sore joints on a cold morning)
jumper weather
Fingerless compression gloves are my saviour in the cold months
It’s definitely proper hoodie weather now (at least mornings)
so many hugs
Thank you. No arthritis yet, but the joints are extra stiff these mornings
Good morning!
Good morning :)
Morning all to another day filled with confusion 🙂
Holiday time 😺 Have acquired paint sample pot. Have also been told I look like Madam Mim. Some may be offended at being called a fat, purple, witch. Not me.
Or me. I might object to the purple bit though - more of a scarlet girl here.
Well yes, my actual colour is more Beetroot pink. But such off track compliments are still nice 😺
I fully agree!
Stock market looking not good with Trump’s overnight tariff plan reveal. Going to be a busy day at work 😞
Well, the bonds I was a bit ambivalent about buying are looking good.
I do find it bizarre how panicky the stock market is. It’s not like the tariff anouncements are either a surprise or that it’s actually certain he won’t change his mind again.
Agree, but I think the extent of his proposal is a bit of a shock. Also agree that it seems pretty likely he will roll majority of them back significantly as he’s done before. Seems to me like he’s literally just manipulating the stock market for personal gain/gain of friends
Wouldn’t be the first time.
bonds
Did a bit of bond theory stuff back in uni and have to say it was one of the more interesting bits of the course. The stock market theory stuff was completely full of shit.
Currently I’m looking at gold. Not as investment but I have a very pretty gold 24k sovereign coin that I randomly won in a coca cola thing back in 1997 heh. I’m tempted to sell it (only 7 grams lol) as the price is wild thanks to the orange man but it’s so shiny and the design is excellent I’m conflicted.
*not investment advice, past returns are not indicative of future returns.
Blaaaaaaaah. Bolted awake at 4:30am for no reason, cursed the universe, eventually went back to sleep but had a conga line of very vivid and humiliating work-related dreams. Then bolted awake again at 7:20am in the middle of a particularly anxiety-inducing sequence. Ugh. I’ve folded my anxiety around uni into work and it’s pretty shitty but w/e. Have accepted there will be lots of Yucky Feelings over the next two months but i just need to try and do my best with it and shit out something at the end, accept the criticism and move on.
Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of a anxiety dream I grab a soft blanket and wrap it around me and lie on the floor with my legs up on the bed. And I lie there and breathe. It lets your back really flatten out and stretch and helps me feel attached to the ground. Sometimes I literally also touch the bark of one of the gum trees on the way to the train station after a particularly bad night. YMMV so just putting it out there. Anxiety dreams SUCK especially when you wake up in the middle before your brain has finished filing whatever it is its trying to file. Go gently today.
