Wrestling with the idea of heading off for a weekend adventure. Staring at the map but can’t think of where to go.
I feel like something in the mountains would be nice but only if I can find a good book to start on because I’m currently between books. I’m not sure if I loved the first Discworld book I read.
assume you’ve read the expanse? I LOVED those books. the martian is also a great (if obvious) suggestion.
If it wasn’t likely to be so wet, I’d recommend Lake Tarli Kaarng. Have to hike in and out though. Better keep that one in mind for summer methinks.
Have you been to Howqua Hills? You could stay in Mansfield or Jamieson and head in from there. Absolutely stunning.
I am currently pinned down by a snoring void.
Do the pointy pins go in and out with the wruffles?
It depends - if I give up use of my left arm entirely to provide an appropriately supportive pillow they are tucked away. If I claim the use of my arm she needs to use one leg as a support brace and things get very pointy when that happens.
When you snore with the V O I D, the V O I D snores with you
Declining a work social event is a great way to get a secret afternoon off if everyone else is going
The words work and social do not belong in the same sentence.
Especially if you’re so not popular that nobody notices you’re missing
The secret is to never be known enough for people to notice
There’s a new Mercedes parked in the 5-minute zone outside one of Perth’s city stations. It’s been there a couple of days. On the first day, I thought it was a case of rich jerk parks wherever they want to and just pay the fine.
Now there are several presumably expensive tickets on the windscreen and a notice it’ll be towed soon.
I wonder what the story is? Presumably if it had been stolen, police would have notified the owner by now. So has it just been abandoned? If so, why there? It’s very mysterious.
Has anyone checked for bodies in the boot? (I have watched too many tv shows)
dammit I have rosacea again, looks like I have red eyes, will be scaring people over zoom and such.
( just shows how tired out i’ve been from sciatica )
Are you quite sure you weren’t recently bitten by a bat?
Hugs. Rest. You been healing great. Hopefully just a lil bump on the road
Put the umbrella logo in your zoom background
Mr Woof pushed me into second walkies. It was the right call, but it is definitely on the chilly side tonight.
Um. My ducted heating just died. I think it’s the fan part of it.
Can you hit up Kmart for a little electric heater or electric throw to hold you while it’s fixed? (when shops open)
If anybody anticipates needing one from Kmart over winter, get in quick! Last year I discovered the hard way that Kmart don’t sell heaters past the first month of winter. Had to buy one that was identical to the $20 Kmart one from big W for $60 😑
They don’t? That’s messed up :/
Oh no! And even worse tomorrow’s the weekend so might not get trades until next week. Do you have a split system aircon? They can heat as well. Hopefully you can find ways to stay warm until it’s fixed.
Have found a tradie to come on Wednesday. Not a chance over the weekend apparently. Also, the nice person at the call centre said that they’d had more than 50 calls since 5 pm today for similar problems. Aaaarrrrrgggghhhh.
This is not a good night for it. Do you have backup heating options?
Not really. Will resurrect the emergency doona as a wrap. Hot water bottle deployed already.
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Bugger. Do you have an oodie by chance?
Yes, fortunately. And ugg boots. So thankful.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Coffee, yogurt and muesli please
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Coffee please, and buttered crumpets with kiwifruit jam. The weekend cannot come soon enough.
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thanks!
I’ll get lamb offal noodle soup with lots of chilli please, and a durian smoothie. Then I’ll accidentally get Thornburywitch’s order and she’ll get mine
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This establishment does not make errors.
This is good to know. I will have a discussion with Force if he/she/whatever succeeds in stuffing up the delivery of our respective orders. Further misbehaviour and I will curse him to become a food delivery driver for a brief period to teach him better manners. This is educational, so not really a curse as such, so the threefold rule won’t come into play. We are allowed to prepare an educational experience for someone if our intentions are good (this has got me out of trouble a few times already).
You could have done it accidentally on purpose though. Whatever that’s what I wanted for breakfast anyway 😒
A selection of exotic jellybeans please
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Bean pee certainly is a new flavour
I tried to post on a tolkien site, it was like trying to post on a fundamentalist site where all answers have to be from tolkien scripture 😵
You must read all of his letters, or else you’re not a true Tolkien fan /s
Also, i know his name is pronounced “tok-keen” but I always say “tol-key-en” 😭
because he never wrote the same thing twice there are different versions of middle earth history and facts
so it really is like scripture with people quoting different facts at each other or quoting from gospels, ie accepted writings about tolkien
i was foolish and wrote something from real life and in my own words😹
Gosh, ever read The Silmarillion, that’s scripture at the start. And then you get into his letters and it’s retcons for daaaayyyys. And the insane fans will just rip you to shreds if you haven’t read the letters.
I’ve read The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of The Rings; I’m not gonna read his freaking letters too, or his son’s.
If you’re able to, get a copy of The Soddit and/or The Sellamillion by Adam Roberts. They’re hilarious parodies that I love too, I still quote The Soddit. Don’t mind the insane fans, they’re ridiculous people lol
I admit reading books about tolkien’s world as well but not the letters, that’s just crazy
I have been looking at a lot of real estate listings recently and was complaining about too much grey. I think I found an antidote.
I bet it’s solid!
Very solid - but I would have concerns about that much brick holding the heat/cold. Depending on how the rest of the design works it could be a major issue or a major benefit having that much thermal mass.
I remember so many houses like this. Very nostalgic feel. I bet many a delicious meal came out of that kitchen. Whilst the brown is not to my taste, today’s endless palette of grey is soul sucking least people used to put some personality into their houses before.
The bathroom and the canary yellow benchtops - errk.
geebus the decor is the worst of the 70s
paint and spanish furniture and it might look ok
that doona cover is straight from the 80s
I was trying to concentrate on whether the layout etc. would work if updated, and my brain just kept short circuiting with brick overload.
I think with a few fairly minor changes it would work quite well, but definitely in need of updating.
One good thing about all those bricks is it really shows how distorted some of those camera angles are…
I’m glad they usually include plans with measurements these days, it makes it much easier to figure out how much space there really is. I spent some time with a tape measure around my place figuring out some comparisons and minimum room sizes I am looking for which should hopefully cut down on some wasted time inspecting places.
The layout of the lounge /dining area is very bad. The fireplace is mental.
The bedroom that only opens to the carport looks like it would be dark. But the layout is ok…so so brown though. I love myself a bit of exposed brick but…man
Ted bitted me, I held him. You would think I was torturing him the noise he made. 😹
5 - 2. Holy shit. Can’t have that happening. Need hot cuppa in the morning.
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I wonder what kind of music Falco would be releasing if he were still alive. I reckon they’d be absolute bangers like Rock Me Amadeus.
Gosh, I love his song Egoist.
Kinda just laying here in a stressed out but exhausted state from the week. Had a bite to eat but too tired for much else. Think I am gonna pour a drink and make a list of the work life things that have to happen next week then go to bed. I hate feeling like I left everything in a mess but nothing seemed to get finished this week and I can already feel the wave building up for next . Gah hopefully it’s just grey day blues
Feeling a bit like that except it’s my travel plans that’s a siren-blaring mess lol. I’m letting myself park it till tomorrow, can’t fix the mess if I don’t recharge right now and let my brain heal from all the load it’s been placed under. Lean into the grey I say, get cozy and warm for one night at least.
You are right. Ended up just writing down what I need to do tomorrow morning in case I wake up stressed still. Now listening to the rain. Good luck with the travel plans. I am sure it will come together when you have some rest
Playing gin rummy. Me winning 3 - nil.
