I’ve embarked upon a fitness journey again. I got reasonably fit and lost weight a couple of years back (actually not sure how long ago it was) but let it all go for some reason/s (tiredness? The lure of cakes?) I downloaded an app called FitOn and have been doing short low impact routines from there for the past 4 days, sometimes twice a day. I already feel better (altruism?) and I think my balance and strength has improved, so I’ve got that going for me at least.
Fuck yeah! Keep up the good work :)
No cancer!!! Woooooooooooooo!!!
was that a issue 😩
you mean fluffybutt?
Nah me lol
I did mean you
Ah my bad I’m somewhat intoxicated with joy lol
it’s good, happy dance 🥰🥰🥰
God, that’s some good news on top of everything else you’re dealing with
Man I’m over the fucking moon. That was in the background stressing me the fuck out.
Maybe I’ll be daring and order a pizza to celebrate lol
Oh my god that’s such a relief! 🥳🎉
I’m so glad you’re ok! What a relief!
That was terrifying to the point where I was just blocking it out with everything else going on.
Finding a new job is nowhere near as bad as what else may have happened.
I gave Gibson a bit more gabapentin and she’s staring at the wall licking her cone lol
Wouldn’t be the first time someone had a cone and stared at the wall lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 takes me back to high school lol
An identical dose of that gives TheVoid mild naps, LittleOne is utterly out of it.
She’s been sitting like this for a while. Just staring into the void. I wonder what’s happening in that mind of hers.
she is plotting
you can’t stay awake for ever
she’s so embarrassed about her cone 😿
It’s 7ish am here in Munich. So far so good with DIL. Introduced the lil one to fingerpainting yesterday - so cute. Have to food shop today, so wish me luck.
Hope you come home with some glorious paintings by the lil one and everyone remains safe and sound ❤️
All good news ❤️
I enjoyed Munich. Love how Germans don’t do small talk in shops. Go in, buy what you need, complete transaction, on you get.
My presentation went so well! Got really great feedback from the people who attended, small group but all really engaged. Hopefully I get some new clients out of it. I think I’ll get to roll it out at another co-working location too.
I catered too and ordered waaaay too much food. I’ll be eating sushi and sashimi for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the next few days.
Yay, that’s awesome to hear!!
Congrats!!!
I’m glad to hear that for you, congratulations!
it’s a win in every way 👍😺😺😺
“Dear Nath & wifey,
In lines with 'jus coz policies, we’re increasing your rent to $800/week starting somedate soon.
lots of love,
Real estate agent on behalf of boomer landlord who has at least three other properties with us.”So much for the raise my wife just earned through her awesomeness. 😞
$41,600 per year in just rent.don’t sign yet, find another place asap then give notice
and go cheap and save save save
There are some essential criteria for a place to live:
- 3+ bedrooms
- 2+ bathrooms (there are four of us including a teenager)
- Inside the catchment of the high school.
With those points, there are presently two places in our suburb for $750/week. Moving is a lot of effort to save $2,600 in a year - assuming either place is comparable to our present (fairly nice) townhouse.
It honestly does appear to be the going rate for houses in Perth. Even going out of the school catchment doesn’t save much. The “cheap” suburbs with crime being a variable are still $550-$600/week. Which is what we were paying for a decent 4 bedroom home in the next suburb over only three years ago. Housing prices in Perth have gone bananas.
This sort of math is why we bought when I didn’t feel ready. It’s working out only a tiny bit more expensive, but massively more brain secure. The expensive bit is about to vanish, but inheritance isn’t a fun way to do that.
Tenants need agents who represent them as buyers, agents with legal clout
Random street find: strip of stickers of exotic chickens 🖤
Love finding some flamboyant, exotic cocks while wandering the streets
I gave my mum a roll of 500 of them from Temu!
Like chicken cacciatore and crispy honey chicken exotic?
exotic 🤣
🖤 I actually want spotty quail, but don’t think I can meet council regs here
Fancy feather colours you nonk!
My first thought was this
If you got sent this before an interview for a low paying role, what would you think:
“Just a quick heads-up – this role will report directly to “ some guy” our new Victorian Call Centre Manager and myself, so I thought I’d give you a quick intro before we chat.
I’m a proud father of two beautiful girls (ages 2 and 5), originally from Sydney, and have spent the last 20 years leading high-performing sales teams. I bought my first property at 21, and while I’m not a micromanager, I do have high standards. I’m naturally competitive (ex-athlete mindset!) and love surrounding myself with people who are driven to be the best – and I expect the same from my team.”
Honestly curious what you guys think working under this person would be like.
Run. Say you have a better offer or something, do not mention the ‘some guy’, as your reason, because you don’t want to give HR a heads up to remove it. Best leave it there for other people to be warned too.
I doubt there is a HR , this is a two bit operation that runs on the smell of an oily rag, expects employees to work for finger traps and waffle parties, don’t expect your legal entitlements.
That level of entitlement sets off my old bouncer habit of keeping an eye on cokey sales guys who were the type to get a girl drunk. They’d be a shit of a person who thought they could do no wrong. I’d still take the interview as practice but take it knowing they’ve likely already failed from your side. Even call the guy out on his shit saying that all nice for him but not how you work.
Your workplace is not a family situation and your job is not a competition.
These are giant red flags.
Do not go , or go just to see what these potential abusers are like.
Email back to cancel the interview.
I’d be running far far away, slowly as I’m not an athlete. Not saying I’m not very good at what I do, and I am driven but he sounds like a flog.
Thanks for the perspective. I thought it was just me. The house at 21 thing sounds like someone born on third base who thinks he hit a home run.
Why are the children relevant? Why is the property at 21 relevant? Honestly a completely tone deaf thing to send to a candidate.
I physically recoiled reading that. I’d cancel so fast.
He’s gonna ask you what you got up to every single weekend because we’re like a family here.
Would love to know what he believes separates his management style from that of a micromanager. Asked directly, I don’t think he’d have an answer.
A high performance manager would be sitting in on that interview, too. I bet he’s got more important things to do.
I suspect this is some kind of ploy to filter out people who can detect he’s a dickhead.
Also, you’d have two people to report to? Does not sound fun.
Run. They have a huge ego about stuff that has nothing to do with work. You’ll have no privacy and be treated like a slave.
Person sounds completely insufferable and probably narcissistic. They would be 100% a micromanager who look at long (unpaid) hours as a badge of honour.
His family situation, property achievements and ex-athlete status are completely unrelated to work but they make it part of their personality.
At the start he’d all friendly and cheery, give it a few weeks and the nightmare would start.
Also, he seems like the type who would call people ‘champ’ and mean it.
His family situation, property achievements and ex-athlete status are completely unrelated to work but they make it part of their personality.
That’s most likely a lie.
See, I don’t think it is. I think they’re the only things he sees as achievements. Ex-athlete could mean he played something at a high-ish level but not professionally. The house at 21 is very achievable when parents get involved. Have relatives in similar situations.
Boiling down your entire work persona into these 3 things, is pretty sad.
like Al Bundy then
Oh that’s uncanny.
Geez I’d be worried about that.
Personally I’d go just to see how up himself the dude is lol (probably not good advice).
I find it very weird they’re so willing to share things like this over email ahead of an interview. It wouldn’t make me enthused to work for the company or under this guy
Patient is a bit wobbly but doing ok!
Despite the fact I overheard “we should have ice cream for dinner” the fam ate pretty healthy while I was recuperating. No dishes to be done and no eggs left.
Was it scrambled eggs for every meal? That’s what we ate as kids when mum was in hospital for a few days
No. About a dozen boiled eggs. They also used lebanese bread as plates.
Smart thinking!
😊👍
I listened to the audio books of the Helen Forrester autobiographies a few months ago, recommended by CEO here. ( TY 😽 )
I just can’t stop thinking of them. The books have truly changed how I see poverty, how people talk about poverty and my life too.
sadly, in the family described by Helen the excuse of poverty was fake, cruelty and selfishness was the point , I know this is not normal for poverty, what Helen described was financial abuse, child abuse, not poverty
The mother made me so angry, such an infuriating person!
infuriating? She was a cruel psychopath who only stopped starving her children when threatened with prison by doctors working for the government . The mother was getting fat and the favourite children were healthy
Huzzah got the soundcard and HDDs. Place I got the HDDs from threw in a tiny (9g) packet of jelly babies lol which was a nice touch.
Will finally have a functional studio again. Can’t wait to make some glorified synthesised fart noises with 2.5ms latency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6TgDIHZxfY This video never fails to crack me up!
Congrats!!! If you need any plugins I know a guy lol
It’s funny the place you bought the HDDs from gave you lollies because that’s something Sweetwater in the US is known for
Today I am listening to an LP of The Kingston Trio. ( they influenced the Beach Boys, a bit )
Their version of Greenback Dollar is good too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGxZD-HNCM.
IIRC original by Hoyt Axton - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfqgSEciqCM
Cool. 😊
I’ve tidied up a playlist of albums from 2022 I want to listen to and now it’s 1 song from each album, so I can scroll through the list easier and go to the album to add to my queue. There are 125 tracks in there, each representing a larger album. I should probably do this for my other playlists as well.
That being said, the way we have to track and group music through streaming is terrible and this interface shows how the platforms are trying to kill the album. On Youtube Music you can’t even sort things by release date, which is bullshit because alternative Youtube Music frontends let you.
I swear to god, if a streaming service offered something like album shuffle, or album playlists I would switch in an instant.
I need to make playlists again. After I fucked Spotify off because of its endorsement of AI music I haven’t setup Apple Music properly.
I’m on YouTube Music for the other benefits but there’s so much of it that sucks. Tidal gives the best royalties to artists but I’m not sure what the rest of it is like
Apple Music has some great features and last I heard they take down Ai rot which I’m all for.
I think eating much less dairy ( I might have one thing a week ) and no bread has made me lose weight. I’m not complaining.
