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[–] hg_redditington@aussie.zone 16 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Buenas Noches all. I came here cos it was linked from the old reddit one which is alright sometimes but has some trollers. I see some names from the old lockdown days and pre-reddit "protest" purge. Hope you guise are all well.

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago

Welcome 🙂

[–] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago

Hey!👋 welcome home.

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[–] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 14 points 3 months ago

Getting there! One bed's soil is fluffed up and looking pretty. Added some dynamic lifter too for good measure. Soil will subside a bit so going to throw on somefing on top and give it a another scratch before spring.

That bed has never been more empty. Feels good to have a clean start. Also felt good standing on that retaining wall on the right with all my weight and it didn't budge.

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 13 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Cheerful morning people should be shot and fed to the early bird

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

I'm gonna be cheerful if all my body parts are working as they should. Ya gotta take the small wins.

[–] Duenan@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’m not a morning person, some of my friends are very cheerful in the morning and as much as I love them I always want to strangle them at times.

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[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

When you are just trying to play a card game

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[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hearing one of the kids on the hockey team introduce his great-grandma to my son. Totally wild. My great grandmother lived 1867-1952.

I didn't even really get the grandparent experience as a kid, let alone great-grandparents.

[–] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago

1867-1952

That's a great innings for back then!

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[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Finally found all my micro USB cables, and a watch I've got looking for about a month or so.

My girlfriend will collect things up in a grocery bag and dump it in the front room, or even on my desk, when she wants to clean and feel productive.

Unfortunately that just moves a bunch of unrelated things into a bag together that becomes harder to go through and I lose things because nothing is in a place that makes sense anymore

[–] PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ugh Mr P does the grocery bag thing too, just takes everything he feels is superfluous to the room, bag it up or toss it into random containers and dump it in a cupboard or under a bed. I hate it as it then becomes a separate more involved job to go through all the containers and bags and put stuff away like it should have been.

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago

That was the situation with my watch. There are two places I usually put my watches and it was in neither of them so I couldn't find it. Then I'm looking for a USB cable that will actually transfer data and there it is in a bag with all this other stuff

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

welp, today I learned first hand just how hard it is to get vanilla slice custard off a cat

[–] TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Peanut butter off a kelpie's back - I've been there. Not fun for anyone involved.

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[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

we need the back story on this

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was eating a snotblock, cat was interested, sniff sniff, paw paw, glob of custard down her front.

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

Oh dear. Pretty sure I already told the beetrooted white cat tale.

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[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seconded 🙋🏻‍♀️

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[–] Cendana@aussie.zone 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Google Maps vs Royal Parade

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

wiggles on bed alongside a pair of wiggly cats

They got breakfast when i had a five am pee, but they managed to swindle a second breakfast on Friday so now they're being extra coquettish in hopes of a repeat performance

[–] anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago

It’s a slippery slope. We fed ours at the table once and the pestering then continued for years

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[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Good mornin', starshine
The Earth says, "WAZZZZZUP!"

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[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My kid and her friends encountered some cookers today so they stopped, read their little signs, had a giggle then as they moved on yelled "you are all a bunch of morons". ☺

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[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

I wish I was able to do more stuff

[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

House is clean. Time to crank the amp!

Gibson got a new wand toy today, so let's see if she completely ignores it as usual lol

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[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

Whoo, what a long day. Out to the city for movie, chat with friend, lunch at a HK cafe to satiate my cravings (Ovaltine! And yu xiang eggplant and you tiao), then sitting with my friend for hours of driving as she just bought a car and only recently got her licence and wanted to practice driving various routes including all the way across town... had a video call with a family member in between... I'm ready for bed now honestly. Also it's cold again. zzzzzz.

[–] wscholermann@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This will be my monument....

This will be a beacon when I'm gone.....

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[–] bacon@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago (16 children)

Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

[–] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

4/5 stars. Food is great if you ever get it, skilled and charismatic chef, but chef sometimes falls asleep after opening the food truck resulting in multi-hour delays. Worth the wait if you have nothing on.

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[–] LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Still not really anything done today. Lots of sleep deprivation related blues. But at least I went to the gym. We shall persist. There is another chance tomorrow.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

Get the openwrt core router working, taken apart and old school serial hacked a tplink to get the first WAP up and running, get it integrated, go to do the second one and...motherfuuuuuu i did not check the version number it is unsupported

whine leya want make mesh wi fi

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's it! The heater is going on.

[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago

Same. Electricity bill ain't so bad with a job.

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[–] oztrin@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

Just finished putting together one of those Kmart trolleys.
I feel like I've been stomped on by a troupe of tapdancers.

[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Cleaning the house top to bottom. It's a big place and it's so easy to ignore until it's too messy.

Not exactly exciting, but necessary

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[–] DolphinLundgrin@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Went down to the Burnley Brewing taproom for their closing down takeaways sale. Filled my little 9.5L homebrew keg with IPA at $5/L and bought three cases of cans too.

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A fantastic loot to haul home from your successful quest for booze!

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[–] Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

My sternum is sore.

Plz explain.

In other news I am suitably stuffed from lunch and I’m up for le mini-golf this evening. Still buggered from Uni, but otherwise excited.

I have now been relegated to my much loved Savoys, but fear I have fallen in love with Jatz.

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[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago

Another eBay item sold. If my postage calculations are correct I am now $12 richer in money and one shoe-box size richer in space.

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess I have no plans, so I plan to drink thissss boiii

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[–] PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So tired today. I only worked 2 days this week but they were pretty physical days and I'm knackered. Managed to get a load of laundry done and the kitchen cleaned. Forgot I've been playing nurse to covid sufferers this past week, which has been oddly stressful and emotionally tiring. I just feel spent.

[–] Eagle@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

That and you are still recovering yourself! Feet up and rest woman!

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago

ffs, Ted Cat is a smoke persian and so godamn fluffy. So very cute but he bites and claws the whole time when I brush him, I wear gloves now, and he is a bit of a stinky dag. Def not a neeb cat like Bill.

[–] LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I got scattered sleep last night and probably only slept for five hours. Today was meant to be assignment day. We shall seize the day regardless.

[–] Duenan@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago

I felt like I got the same amount despite trying to go to bed early last night.

Didn’t feel rested when I woke up.

[–] LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Went to a cardio class where we had to accumulate distance on the bikes and rowers as a team. My team came second last, but the team that came last had their bike reset the metres in the one of the rounds. Was a good workout regardless. Feel better than I would have if I didn't do anything :)

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