later dudes, 😘
I seem to have been cursed by smoke detectors. There is some humour in this one seemly being able to read a calendar.
windy here, trees are making tree noises 🙂
Wide awake at a quarter to five. Loving this cool weather, the heavy doona is so comforting.
I need to move back to the heavy doona, I’ve still got my light summer doona on the bed and needed the electric blanket last night.
As a bonus that means I will get to use one of my new (to me) fancy patterned flat sheets I was given, which will match the doona covers for the heavy doona perfectly. I have king sized wool doonas for winter & have moved to folding them between two sheets instead of using an actual cover, which is easier to change (especially because the covers have shrunk or something and don’t fit well). I like the patterns on my covers so I have cut and hemmed them to be the flat sheet on top and the two patterned sheets I was given will match them really well as the folded over top sheet.
I’ve also moved to having flat sheets on the bed instead of fitted. I was getting frustrated with fitted sheets that had been cut without enough fabric on the sides and with dodgy elastic, so I was planning on making fitted sheets from the flats, but I have found that just using them as is has been working fine too so I think I’ll just stick with that.
Flat sheets are my go to. I hate the dodgy elastic too. Protip - when putting a flat sheet on as a bottom sheet, tuck in the top edge first with a generous flap under the mattress. Then it is less likely to wrinkle into a puddle over the course of a week. EDIT: the bottom end tuck under can be a lot less generous and still stay in place.
There is also the old time method of using last week’s top sheet as the next bottom sheet, so only 1 sheet per bed has to be washed each week.
I found the sheets I have are not very generous with sizing for the flat sheets either, there was not enough fabric to actually tuck under at the top or bottom of the mattress. If it is an issue I will sew an extra length of fabric on to allow tucking, but so far it has stayed on well anyway.
Yeah, tucking does depend a bit on how much ‘vigorous exercise’ happens too.
Well, not much from me. Mr Woof sometimes gets a bit enthusiastic in his rolling around and he’s been known to rip the doona off the bed to show dominance to passing delivery people, but so far the sheet has escaped unscathed 🤣
A suicidal jam jar leapt out of the pantry to its doom on the tiles. Red sticky jammy glass everywhere. Great fun to clean up.
Oh dear. I hope it was not too full.
This possibly happened to maintain the balance of jam jar karma within the DT, as I had the good fortune to pick up a good (empty) jam jar from the food cupboard this morning, The universe added to my jam jar collection and took from yours.
This does not account for the jam, or the karmic effect incurred in cleaning up the mess. Which is a very high value as sticky jam plus glass splinters is major. Jam by itself - wipe it up. Glass by itself - sweep/vac & blutack. Both, however, is an existential crisis as the mess can neither be wiped nor swept. Even rubber gloves are not safe from the splinters. And don’t even mention the vacuum cleaner.
On the other hand, underwater magpies has incurred a major karmic benefit in cleaning it up. This far outweighs the serendipitous collection of a clean empty jar. I wonder how the universe will balance the scales.
May the whole DT find a really nice empty jam jar today. For this jar was unopened and full of quite nice strawberry jam.
I’ll have to do a second round of cleaning later, just in case. I’m not convinced I’ve got it all.
How would you safely handle cleaning that up?
Maybe by picking up the largest pieces, scraping the jam up with an old credit card, and then mopping for the stickiness and tiniest shards?
I went with picking up the biggest bits, then using a couple of containers from the recycling to scoop the worst of it. Then a few layers of paper towel and a gentle action on the worst bit, swept around the least jammy bits, and mopped. I’ll go back and vaccuum presently.
I don’t recommend giving it a go.
Sleep study night. I am connected to all the wires. Time to try to sleep. Night all
No idea how anyone can sleep at all with all those wires and things. Luck!
Goodnight, hope you can get some answers!
Didn’t sleep last night, at least I felt like I didn’t
That will serve me right by making two brewed coffees yesterday.
This is going to be a long day and painful day.
I’ve taken the next step in reducing Microsoft’s presence in my life: I’ve just notified my mother that I’m cancelling my subscription at the next renewal and she will be back on the free plan.
It is not much of a sacrifice as I still have full access to all the programs through both work and uni, but I won’t be paying them (which was primarily for my cloud storage). I might look at LibreOffice at some point, but the main thing I use is a complicated spreadsheet for my budget and it is highly likely something will break if I try it in a different program.
You can load the spreadsheet in libre office and check it out for free. Load up a copy in case it fucks with the original and ruins your life.
That’s the plan at some point. But as I do have access to microsoft office without needing to pay for it, so I’m not in a rush. I have some stupidly complicated formulas and conditional formatting in there, so it’s highly likely that something won’t translate across. I want to have plenty of time to play around with it when I do give it a try.
LIbre office is good. It can do everything Office can but the layout is a little different so you may need to just find where some options are. It’s good to have Office in some form available as a backup
I’ve removed and hidden that brick :/
We have a reply all fail. Brace yourselves.
How funny is it?
Hilarious given it’s about Security
oh dear
anyway …
About Catfishing?
is that in an out of office autoreply loop
Not yet…
i have been marked by a needle
Show us your tats
god is omnicient, god has already seen it
Joo said it mane
Does anyone know of an animal rescue or shelter that takes strays?
The ones I’ve tried just say to contact the council and that’s not going to lead to a positive outcome.
You could try Sally’s cat and kitten rescue. She has a Facebook page and is round Newport/Williamstown area
Might be worth contacting maneki neko… https://www.neko.org.au/
All done cheers :)
Elite cat rescue does strays, but are presently full.
Petrescue.com.au has a directory
Thank you :)
No worries, hope it helps your quest.
The patch is on and now my arm is itchy. Maybe I’ll put it on my leg next time where there’s a bit more meat. Or my arse cheek 😂
You got this 💪 I know it was mentioned the other day but just to reiterate, leaving it on overnight can cause extra dreaming, lighter sleep. I would always take mine off before I slept but then nice cravings would come back if I didn’t fall asleep fast enough 😭
I’ll do that 👍
Sometimes I’d spank the patch a little during cravings, it’ll increase blood flow to the area (more nic absorbed) and it gives you something to do with your hands. The itch is normal.
Is my arm meant to feel a bit funny like I’ve had an injection?
Yes. Its the drug getting into your system.
All good then. 👍
Yeah, they feel fucky.
This is a bit of a trip. There will be no exercise today. I will watch movies instead.
yah, but you might also find you don’t need as strong a patch as you suspect, so if you get a bit wiggles then play around
Got it.
I think I can taste it in my mouth and I’m not sure 😂 and I can’t google that because they think I want to lick the patch 😂
deffo sounds a bit too strong. Feeling a bit squirrely? nausea is another symptom
Nah just mellow.
You can do it! Cravings apparently subside after 15 mins.
Thanks mate. So far, so good 👍
The pumpkins have been hand pollinated and buds/leaves wiped down where necessary. There were a few more female flowers open so I hope I get some fruit.
I weighed the remaining foil pan down with a partial brick to prevent the wildlife water from tipping over but given my area I’m now wondering if that’s a good idea… one of the druggie fuckwits could impulsively throw that right through my window. It would be on camera so I could get them charged and have proof I wasn’t responsible for the damage but it’s still not a nice thought.
My stomach is so angry -_- Being stressed all the time just doesn’t help. Having another test today.
Good luck with your test ❤️
Thanks
The police won’t do shit about footage of a junkie throwing a brick through your window.
Probably not. I’ve done this dance before.
But I would need the police report and proof of it not being me so I don’t have to pay for damages or get kicked out.
still got tons of buds on my butternut as well but only 1 fruit so far.
Butternut are the best
they would be if they grew haha
Next time I plant early 😔
I find they really started to get going when I gave them more fertiliser though.
mine were planted cup day. I think yeah crappy soil and not enough fertilizer was my mistake.
Got tired of my yt-algo so I looked up how to delete my history, pretty easy actually. Hopefully whatever it re-learns about me doesn’t send my down a pile of right wing kak. I’ll need to watch a bunch of lindybeige and philosophy tube to refocus it on my interests.
Mine seems pretty easy to train. It didn’t take much for it to start serving me up Jon Stewart, Robert Reich, Jesse Welles, Fairburn Films, retro comedy like Fast Forward and The D Generation and random stuff like this
I like hickok54 and forgotten weapons so I get every fucking gunfluencer with their stupid gun shows, like fuck off, I’ve got my two shows, I don’t need more, leave me alone.
Fair enough. Just because you like one or two of a thing, doesn’t mean you want 20 of them.
I felt all my YT became guns, knives, calisthenics, and lawn care rescue videos with a smattering of why women and immigration are ruining the world. The shows I like are because they’re not hater content, I don’t need to get the hater versions of those.
Basic I know, but search for stuff you’re interested in. I get Aviation and Naval history, Some Marvel, whatever is going on at DashCams Australia, British Panel shows/Taskmaster and maybe some Star Wars/Trek stuff mostly.
What you don’t click on matters as much as what you do. Oh, I always mark Shorts as “Not Interested”, even if I would actually be interested. I despise short-form videos and would disable them entirely if I could. I can kill them for 30 days at a time on my iPad.
