• PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    13·
    2 months ago

    I grabbed the essentials at the supermarket and bolted out of there because of these 2 kids, full on screaming. One had climbed to the top of the soft drink aisle shelf and was evading any attempts to get him down. The other had cleared out part of a shelf and ran around to the next aisle and cleared out the other side of the shelf to create a kind of tunnel, through which he also was screaming. One staff member was trying to cajole the kid down off the shelf and he was just laughing and screaming. The other staff all had this painful tight, pinched look on their faces. The noise broke me, and I went to the variety store nearby for a kitchen benchtop storage solution. Came home and made that solution work (looks tidy and organised ✅) and ate half a packet of Butternut Snaps 🤰🏼

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    8·
    2 months ago

    Sore throat and congestion even after drinking three cups of lemon and ginger tea in a row. I have placement on Monday 😭 I think I’ve been way too stressed lately, and this is my body telling me to slow down and be in the present more.

  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
    8·
    2 months ago

    A friend invited us over for a lovely beach walk and a feast of a dinner with delicious, heavy things. Now trying to resist the food coma or I’ll be up and pacing at 3am. Word searches and bright coloured pens for some relaxation time.

    Beach photo

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      3·
      2 months ago

      One thing I figured out with github is you need to look at the Releases tab on the side. You don’t download or fork the repo

    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
      3·
      2 months ago

      Oooh what did you get? I have a Lamy 2000 that I bought during lockdown sads and it makes me happy to use it. And I do use it every day

          • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
            3·
            2 months ago

            He said Tasmanian blackwood. I have no idea if this is correct, I don’t know from timbers, but he said blackwood

            • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              Its a fine grained hardwood - very popular in late 1800s for furniture, and again in the 70s & 80s, as both durable and beautiful. Then the supply of that timber (from old growth forests) bottomed out and imports from Indonesia/Malaysia pretty much took over the furniture market. Your pen may well be repurposed timber from old/antique furniture, as new timber of that variety doesn’t often come onto the market now, and what can be cut under the current strict licence conditions mostly goes for musical instruments. Treasure it - it’s beautiful.

  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
    7·
    2 months ago

    Today I played mini golf in the Flinders St ballroom. It was very cool. Super arty mini golf- for one hole, you put on animal tails and use the tail as your golf club. Very fun.

    It’s running for another month or so.

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Slept pretty well which was nice. Once I’ve finished with the PT it’s time for another nap and a chill night.

    Next week is interview central so doing fuck all this weekend. I generally get sick of sitting around not being productive after a couple of days so this works for me.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    6·
    2 months ago

    porridge eaten

    it tasted good 😊 had it with oat milk and a little brown sugar

    but slept bad/sad, america 😭

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    5·
    2 months ago
    content warning: mentions of very sad things that happen in this country

    I’ve been too tired to leave my bed today, so I’ve been reading and watching documentaries about teachers’ experiences in all different kinds of schools, including selective schools, where it’s super cut-throat, and remote schools. I need to stop reading stuff online, because it’s making me even more uncertain than I already am. It also makes me a bit upset that there are people earning stacks of cash for doing fuck all, whilst people are saving lives and educating the future generations and are not being as fairly compensated.

    Going on real estate and looking at the properties in remote NT, I saw a house for sale with what looked to be bloody hand prints on the wall. It was horrifying and I went too far down the rabbithole. Cars and houses being broken into, people getting stabbed, abuse, FASD. But this is people’s everyday reality in some places. It makes me so sad and I wish there was something I could do. The reality is, people feel that way and go to remote places, then experience trauma and leave.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    5·
    2 months ago

    Hooray just ordered the bits for a new 'puter for a DAW.

    Upgrading from an old 2600k lol. That kicked the bucket about a year ago so a good 12 yrs of service. Using a shitty slower (but newer-ish) one since it died. I miss that rig. It became very temperamental, suffered water damage from water cooling mishaps, and spilt wine on it accidentally a few times…

    New one will be quick but it won’t have the same battle scars or charm :(

      • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
        3·
        2 months ago

        Eee 64gb of ram so look out kontakt! bit of a jump from the 16gb in the old one lol.

        Going for the 9700x. Don’t need gfx thankfully. mb just entry level gigabyte eagle ice. Nothing crazy.

        Also have to get a new audio interface as the old RME one is legacy PCI and I think that kicked the bucket too :( Tempted to try and swap out a few caps and try a PCIe -> PCI adapter but honestly I have no idea what I’m doing there.

        • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          9700x with 64gb is unstoppable lol

          You had an internal PCI? I’ve never seen one in the wild.

          The saffire claret is a really decent interface. Beats out the standard saffire by miles if you don’t mind focusrite. But admittedly RME are absolute beasts.

          I’m the same with graphics card I think it’s a super old 2070 but I don’t game on PC so no great loss considering how expensive new cards are these days.

          • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
            3·
            2 months ago

            Ooh that does look like a good interface. Heard good things about focusrite’s drivers too.

            Yea it was an old RME 9632, so stable (and took a bit of the wine I spilt lol, kept working though). I will miss it if I can’t give it life again.

            I’m starting to look at the Scarlett 4i4, SSL 2+ mkII or the MOTU M4. The MOTU does have pretty levels leds on the front heh. Bit of a step down from the RME but practicially probably doesn’t matter.

            • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              The ssl looks awesome from the reviews I’ve read (was looking to upgrade front my saffire).

              I think it has some hardware DSP as well which is handy.