Weather forecast today (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 14°C, max - 31°C. 100% chance of no rain

Time to start closing the windows, freezing the ice blocks, and preparing the fans (or wallet if you’ve got proper air conditioning)!

  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
    13·
    2 months ago

    Permission from Birthday Child to stay home because “you’re hurting”.

    I love you, Birthday Child. I will donate to your Lego Fund generously and spoil you rotten at Christmas

  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
    11·
    2 months ago

    I’m supposed to attend a child’s birthday party today, but I’ve massively overdone it and can barely move.

    What do

    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
      9·
      2 months ago

      Sleep. Apologise. Catch up with them separately and give said kid a nice pressie. If you need, tell them you are aiming down with somethibg and don’t want to spread it.

      Unless you are someone actually helping with the party etc it’s all good.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    11·
    2 months ago

    ✅ dishes washed

    ✅ clothes washed

    ✅ clothes dried at laundromat

    ✅ clothes put away

    ✅ soaked beans cooked

    ✅ breakfast and coffee had

    Time to hit ze shops for some milk and OJ. Maybe a small box of ice lollies.

    E: is my local Coles just shit or has Proud & Punch stopped making pure icy poles without “cream”. I am disgruntled. Considered all other ice cream options and then decided fuck it, I don’t need that in my life, OR OJ, got my favourite coconut water on half price instead.

    Driving back the sun was already stinging like a MF, so make sure to get that sun protection on today!

    Then chop and cook up the veg and tvp for hoppin john, wash up all of that, switch on the AC and do a few hours of work (to make up for short days next week) until my friend turns up.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        4·
        2 months ago

        Because I haven’t had only 3 hours of sleep! I did spend half of yesterday in a fog with a bad headache…

        • dumblederp@aussie.zone
          6·
          2 months ago

          Ayy 3hr sleep club. I’ve lost my caffeine tolerance and had an iced coffee with 160mg, it kinda fucked me up. Helped a friend move house a little this morning and now back home to follow Dr William Nelsons Jamacian arthritis protocol.

              • just_kitten@aussie.zone
                5·
                2 months ago

                I suspect our wise feline-pescine comrade is insinuating there will come a time when 3 hours simply won’t even be an option (bar the copious use of pharmaceuticals). I tend to agree.

                Enjoy being able to function at all on such little sleep while you can!

          • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
            4·
            2 months ago

            I think it comes down to sleep cycles. We go in and out of deeper levels of sleep, and if you wake up at the right time you feel more refreshed than if you are woken up from a deep sleep. The cycles are a few hours long, so a three hour sleep can mean you wake naturally at a good time, but an extra hour might mean you wake up half way through one.

  • Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Update to my broken window opener and closer dealy:

    I generously applied WD-40 and managed to get it to close \o/

    Opening it will be tough though I imagine. Alas.

    • No1@aussie.zone
      5·
      2 months ago

      Wd-40 is not really a lubricant.

      If you have some light oil, eg sewing machine oil, or silicone spray, that might be better. Work it back and forward a few times to distribute it evenly.

      But be careful applying those. They can be messy. Less is more 😉

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      4·
      2 months ago

      Oh, I hadn’t read this before I replied to your other comment - thank fuck you got it to close! Better closed than open for now. Can you get your landlord to replace the winder soon? From what i hear it’s not a difficult fix

      • Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        I’ve passed it on to the landlord via the lead housemate, but we’re currently waiting on her to fix the back fence and that’ll be pretty expensive.

        He(the lead housemate) has a thing about trying to keep rent down by not bothering the owners, basically. Our rent went up anyway, but not by much so he is sorta on to something considering how bad the market has been.

        • just_kitten@aussie.zone
          4·
          2 months ago

          Argh. Yeah look tbh I did the same at my old place - when I got the blinds replaced as the old one literally was going to fall off, bam, rent increase (even though it’s improving the sale price of the house and tax deductible! Fuckers)

          I did have to give in and ask them to do my old stuck winder though as it was letting in a lot of cold air heading into winter and that sucked big time. I think the LL’s partner just did it himself.

          Your situation sounds serious enough to be worth getting fixed…

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    10·
    2 months ago

    omg omg omg, I found an original book from 1912 by Professor Flinders Petrie, he’s like the guy who invented modern archaeology. It’s typical of much archaeology of the time, called Biblical Archeology, it’s interesting nonetheless.

    I’ve read some of his essays in compendiums but not his books before. He’s quite scientific about it all, unlike Carter, who I’ve also read, but who was an adventurer and treasure hunter , not a scientist. Carter’s book was about the discovery and the objects he found.

    This book is full of plates and rice paper covers, hand drawn maps and has an awesome embossed cover with hieroglyphics. The hieroglyphs look like they would have originally been in gold leaf, they are all black now.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    9·
    2 months ago

    One last trip to the doggo park with hams soon.

    Truly is hopeless off lead. Marginally better on lead.

    But I do feel for him. At the park, a lot of people don’t understand that breeds’ behaviour… going prone, ears all over the place, aloof. Doesn’t really ‘play’ with the other doggos but still wants to be part of it (don’t think other doggos understand that breed either). Unlike most other dogs he won’t go up to people for pats. Completely disinterested.

    Doing a bit of reading and apparently collies annoy the shit out puppy most trainers and make owners feel bad for not getting doggo to do what they’re told. Once you throw in a distraction and they become fixated, they’re truly in their own world. Can’t do much about that (not now at least).

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
      3·
      2 months ago

      Mr Woof is not a collie, but he does have that fixation thing - so much training advice centres around using treats or “high value objects” which don’t have any impact because once he is fixated there is absolutely nothing else of interest to him. If he eats a treat in that state it is only because it is the most expedient way of getting it out of the way! All the advice I have received about how to deal with that is to start further away from whatever he is focussing on when he is still distractable so that you can work on it gradually, but he is like an on/off switch, there is no in between to work with.

  • tone212_@aussie.zone
    8·
    2 months ago

    Someone who drove past my place chucked half eaten McDonalds all over the road. It was attracting birds and gong to become disgusting in 40c weather tomorrow so I picked it all up. The street is not your trash can assholes.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      5·
      2 months ago

      I am so sick of that , the streets are becoming so disgusting. This is not right, it’s so anti-social.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
      3·
      2 months ago

      My local parks have gone back to locking the gates at night. So many people eating at the park in their car and chucking their shit out the window.