Roses are red

Something else is maroon

My poetry sucks

Get well soon

4/10

Chicken :(

I did know that there was a Coles in Bayswater, I had no idea there were shops on the lower level. I hope they were able to help de-impale your finger, that sounds equally unpleasant.

I’m better, thanks and thanks also for the info. I ended up at Box Hill before the coke finally worked. The doctor had just given us the update that the fast track wait time was out to 2 hours and recommended that I just keep sipping it.

In case I’m not the last person to know, three out of three medical professionals recommended Coca Cola for removing a piece of dinner lodged in my throat. It took a couple of hours, but it worked. 10/10 would recommend but also 0/10 would definitely not recommend.

Also, I discovered that Bayswater has a 24 hour urgent care clinic underneath Coles. In case you didn’t know.

How can a fence builder get it so wrong? Our front fence failed footing and final inspection - the posts are higher than the plan, and the concrete pads don’t go deep enough into the holes. We’re at a loss…

Bought myself a kaweco sport and a travellers notebook for work notes. I’ve found that going pen/paper for notes is a breath of fresh air compared to text editors. I find myself referring back to them more often, making bullet to-dos, and I’ve worked hard to improve my hand writing.

Does anyone have any experience with changing owner’s corporations? It’s been two years since the townhouses on our block were moved in to, no AGMs or meetings, no responses to emails or phone messages.

We purchased moved into our townhouse in 2022, and except for me making a couple of calls to ask about fees and things, we haven’t heard anything from the owners corporation about meetings, plans or anything else. I suspect it’s the same for other townhouses.

I don’t know if our block just has a rubbish owners corporation manager, but does anyone know if they are obligated to communicate anything to the property owners?

During the first month or so I did try to rationalise it: Knox (Boronia) has a glut of blocks building 5 or more two bedroom, 1 garage townhouses, and most have no outdoor space (it got used by the obligatory water tank and shed/box.)

With no backyard to mow, they didn’t have or need a green waste bin, but this year they’ve had to take one, and there’s nowhere to put it. To make things worse, the waste bin is now a fortnightly pickup, and anyone with a pet now has two weeks of ripeness instead of one.

Since Knox went to the green-blue-yellow bin rotation (rubbish and recycling fortnightly, green waste weekly), the idiots over the road either don’t care or don’t understand and just put all their bins out every week and add to the uncollected bin there. This makes the uncollected bins more and more overflowing, and the crows very pleased. They currently have a bin each to themselves until Tuesday morning, with food options not unlike the old Smorgies buffet restaurant.

That said, if interest rates go much higher, I might be fighting them for the leftovers.

Big box computer games, with manuals and maps and those game brochures showing you all the other Ocean software products.