:(
So, G has just passed. I’m glad we could see it coming. May he live on through my aunt’s other dog’s jumper.
The thing I wish I got about cancer is how it happens. What happened in G’s body? Was it something he ate, something in the environment or something in his genetics? What made those cells sneak through the cell cycle checkpoints? Early detection is the key, so could we have prevented it?
I will probably never know the answer to these questions in my lifetime.
But I’m so grateful for the time I got to spend with him.
oh 😔, so many many hugs
and it’s just a part of life even tho it’s so cruel
It’s always hard when a pet passes, they’re part of the family.
Cancer is difficult with dogs too, because their heart beats so fast it can spread through the body quickly. On the flip side, I heard it means they can recover from strokes quickly as a result
I’m so sorry. It’s one of those things where there are contributing factors but we never really know why
Oh that is sad news. He was such a cutie.
Oh no.
So sorry to hear that.
So sorry. Loosing pet is so hard. Hope you are being kind to yourself. There’s probably nothing more you could have done, animals often don’t show symptoms until illness is advanced.
On the one hand, it’s great to feel useful and to be doing stuff for family.
On the other, I totally forgot how easily drained I can get by being around loud people all the time. @_@
As much as I want to wean myself off screens, I am also glad I brought my devices…
Very early night. Goodnight everyone ❤️
i hope you have a good sleep mate :)
sleep well and may you have sweet dreams
Windy.
My security camera alerted me to a cardboard box crossing my driveway, and on our walk we followed a couch cushion blowing down the footpath. I also have a new collection of rubbish blown into the corner of my yard where it tends to gather (fortuitously it is the corner I keep the rubbish bins in).
Too Good To Go app is actually damn good. Basically you can place an order at participating places to get a “surprise” bag of any food that’s still good but they haven’t sold. It’s pick-up only as far as I can tell.
Got all this, and more that's in the oven heating up (this is two surprise bags) for $15.
that looks really good, and you can choose different places for different cuisines
good idea all round
They sell out so fast near me! But have heard good things.
I work near a shopping centre so I should check this out
12 bucks for a rump steak. Gotta love a country pub.
I have yet to find out if I am lucky or it’s just really bad…
It was ok.
If a pub had a choice between $12 okay steak and $35 decent steak, I’d get the okay option 9/10.
Probably better than fast food takeaway. Bargain.
Back in Melbourne 😭 I love this city but 😭
aw, hugs
We timed the strong wind for your return!
farken google sheets keeps shitting up my work screen suggesting I add pizzaz with tables!
Why don’t they take some of that AI they keep stuffing everywhere, get it to look at the data, realise it’s not table data and then shove it up their arseholes sideways
At what point do I get worried my neighbour (whose name I don’t even know) isn’t on a long holiday and make a welfare call?
If you are worried enough to ask the question here you’re worried enough to make a welfare call.
Call it through to police on 000 - it might not seem like enough of an “emergency”, but it is something that gets organised via 000. Don’t worry you are wasting police time, they do a lot of welfare checks and there is almost never something actually wrong, but some of the time someone has fallen and is lying on the floor in desperate need of help and organising the check saves their life.
If they’re someone you usually see getting about regularly and you haven’t for a while, you could always call the non-emergency line and see what they think
Trying to not become known as the local curtain twitching nutter. Maybe she does this every year or two? Argh.
To become the local curtain twitching nutter (CTN) you need to be calling in repeatedly, probably for multiple neighbours. A real CTN calls 000 weekly as a minimum, but if you are properly commited to it requires multiple calls a day.
It’s a relief to know that peering through the front curtains occasionally when there’s a noise doesn’t classify me as a CTN, even if I feel like one 🤣
I’m not a CTN. I prefer going outside with my binoculars and a step ladder.
Is that an official term? 😹 I think my brain can hold a bit longer but her car battery might not.
It becomes an official term if we can get enough people using it.
Go knock on the door and explain that you were worried as you hadn’t seen them in a while.
This is the way. If you know any of the other neighbours you could ask if they know anything. If no explanation, then proceed to calling for welfare check.
Check to see if mail is piling up and whether bins have been moved in a while, knock on the door a few days in a row maybe, see if you see or hear anything.
And don’t be afraid to call.
Mail is a good point. I now have a name.
Slept better again! So maybe taking the pill at 5am is a winner.
Fingers crossed
Had a vet house call. Apparently Ms Gibson is starting to get a little too “fluffy”.
The patient was not amused lol
That’s great about your sleep. I’ve heard meds can interfere if you take them at the wrong time
Thanks man. It’s been brutal the last 18 months. Hopefully this is it.
Its her winter fur…
I’ll pass on the message lol
Melbcat’s kidney disease is progressing, probably because she can’t eat the medical food, doesn’t want to eat the home cooked medical diet or food with phosphate binder in it, and doesn’t like the low phosphate food I found. She only wants high protein food that are bad for her kidneys and my options for her intolerances are limited.
But there’s hope. I’m going to get her phosphate binders compounded so either they taste better or it’s a format I can directly dose her with. And there’s a different flavour of low phosphate non-chicken food she likes!!!
Expensive but this is why I pinch pennies so hard. I’m going to buy her this food
you are such a good cat mum 😭
I gotta take care of baby
I’ve been noticing a lot of billboard ads from banks about scam and fraud prevention. I wonder if there’s a new wave of paranoia about these things from AI because there seems to be more than usual
it might not be more fraud just that banks are being made to share responsibility and cost
My company (finance ish) is about to switch MFA from opt-in to opt-out (on by default) for our customers to help protect from scams
MFA saved me yesterday, someone managed to log into my bank account but MFA was active through my app and prevented the login access.
So lucky it was in place or I would have been screwed.
Anyway password has been changed and precautions taken.
So fun to draw
One of my favourite cartoon characters
and then Kelsey Grammer did Blinkous in Trollhunters and I love Blinky too
I didn’t pay enough attention to the recipe for the last meal kit item I was going to make for dinner and just assumed it would be in the typical 30-60 mins timeframe. But it is slow cooked for at least 2 hours. So beef stew has now been reschedulted for tomorrow night and I’ve got some sausages and bread rolls defrosting for tonight instead.
I’m doing chicken sausages and some baked pumpkin and vegies too , I bake them
O Yarrabyte, Yarrabyte, whence art thou Yarrabyte?
Denied thy Briongloid and refused thy calling.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my request
And I’ll no longer be a Spudtato.
