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Bill and Ted update.
Bill Cat wakes up in the morning, slowly yawns, stretches, scratches his ear, licks his tummy, stretches again, stumbles a few feet away, stretches and yawns again. Blinks in the bright sunlight.
Ted Cat. Runs up and down the stairs, checks every single food bowl, vacuums any scraps that may have been left over after dinner, then asks "What's for breakfast" before running up and down stairs again.
Where I work is a large rectangular room. It's me and 2 others. The other 2 aren't here at the moment.
I sit at the far end, behind me is a wall and behind that are 5 doors - 3 go to toilets, 1 to a meeting room and 1 to a cupboard. There are 2 ways into this office, the front door which leads outside and to the side of it is a door leading upstairs. Both are in front of me.
So, I'm sitting here, on my own when some lady walks in. I've never seen her before. But she has a work badge on. She says hello and then disappears into the area behind me where the toilets are.
That was 20 minutes ago.
After about 10 minutes I realised I hadn't seen her leave or heard any noises and start wondering if I imagined it or what. So I take a look into the hallway. The office is empty. 2 of the three toilet doors are open, no lights on. The cupboard is the cupboard. No way she's in there. Only place to be is the last door leading to the toilet. But the lights are off so either doing a very peaceful poop or she's not there.
Also the fans are randomly going off.
So weird.
It has occurred to me that with the warmth, and now moisture, that certain mushrooms may be springing up in bushland. Not the fatal ones, the fun ones.
I did my due diligence and voted early. While a democracy sausage is great, I just don't want to deal with people and my chronic pain.
Nothing to stop you from turning up on the day, enjoying a sausage, then going home without actually doing the vote thing. I'm planning on doing this. Voted today too - in and out in less than 5 mins. No brainer imo.
Unpopular opinion/confession. I don't like Disney movies with songs in them. Bah humbug.
Im sorry, but if you dont like Moana that says more about you that it does anything else.
Holy mcfuck, when it rains it pours, got offered a job I really really want and the pay cut will be minimal. Now I have to go send some, "sorry, but" emails.
I didn't get through the first syllable of "Kelpie would you like to come in?" before he was already inside, sitting on his bed and looking at me wondering why I had the door open talking to no one.
Just woke from a nap.. Had the windows open so had lovely rain noise to lull me to sleep. Would recommend.
Anxiety right before work; fighting off a panic attack. I suddenly feel like I'm in real danger of homelessness in the immediate future, related to my apparent inability to get a damn grad role.
Fuck.
I just want to say the shoes I bought a few months ago (asics something or rather) just inspires confidence on melbourne's wet bluestone. These things stick to the ground it's amazing.
Just knowing you're not ending up on the ground is an amazing feeling.
Mr Woof really wants a morning walk. I've tried explaining about wind and showed him the rain radar, but he just doesn't understand.
Someone motivate me to continue painting. Please. I want to but I don't want to set it all up. Haha.
Went back to the gym for the first time in six months yesterday on account of an injury. Didn't really go that hard but nonetheless muscles still feeling it today.
I'm so glad I chose not to walk to the shops. Also fucking petrol!$$$$.
Additional RBA arse blasting avoided for another month!!
Let us continue with the regular arse blasting!!
Yep... Should've worn pants.
Oh well, that's my fault.
Todays the day! New car pickup day. A moment 10 months in the making. I cant wait for the the crap car to be sold so we can pretend this whole thing was a bad drug trip or something.
It extended lotr day
😭😭😭
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6C8SX0mWP0
"What are we holding onto Sam"
"That there's some good in the world and it's worth fighting for"
Leftover chips from fish & chips frittata - with serving next to it. Several meals here. Will be taking some in to work tomorrow for lunch.
Guess I wasn’t the only whose sleep was a dumpster fire.
Also, as a veteran of weird dreams, I didn’t think they could be at any weirder, but somehow they have… Annoyingly they seem to be more stressful. I am not quite sure why this is.
Daylight Savings is so contentious. My partner is from Perth, where they trialled it for 3 years before reverting, and he is so vehemently against it it makes me cackle.
I don't mind it personally; I like the extra light in the evening and as an early riser it's usually dark when I get up so that doesn't bother me. But I wish they wouldn't do it the weekend the kids go back to school. "Yay here ya go, enjoy that extra daylight not during the holidays! Oh, you want to spend more holiday time with your kids in the sun? Bwahaha! Fool!"
Hate this time of year, I always spend the first week of daylight savings tired and in mild confusion over the time.
It looks like the Bendigo Hotel wants to reduce the amount of metal.
The band booker who did a lot of the metal and punk has been sacked, and a lot of bar staff have jumped to Old Bar.
Big rain coming. Drive carefully peeps. Extra slippy roads today.
Holy shit it's late... When I don't have anything on that I need to be up for, I usually tell whether it's time to get up or I can have "5 more minutes" by how bright it is outside. Well despite waking up 3 times this morning, I didn't actually check my phone and just assumed it was like 7 or 8. Well it's almost the fucking AFTERNOON? My room is still almost dark, there's barely any light bleeding in under the curtain
Your honor, I plead not guilty to sleeping in until the afternoon. You see it's basically 8pm outside with how dark it is
I saw a tiktok explaining that there are a lot of venomous snakes out in unprecedented numbers for this time of year (because of the heat) and that 9 dogs in Geelong and the surrounding area were bitten by venomous snakes in one day. So can the dog owners of this wonderful thread please be super vigilant and keep your precious babies safe.
Edit: just to add, this is not to villainise snakes but to warn people to keep their dogs close and on leads so they don't make snakes feel threatened. There is a training program you can enrol dogs in that teaches them to keep away from snakes. It's called Snake avoidance training.
Red bellied black snakes are fairly placid. They are not rare either. They hang around watercourses and swamps/wetlands and you can walk right by them and they don't so much as wriggle. I have been riding a horse that stepped right over one on a bush path and neither horse nor snake even twitched. Keeping your dogs out of creeks and swamps, and wearing stout shoes around bushland would be more than sufficient to keep them safe (the dogs as well). Even keeping your dogs leashed would work to prevent the dogs from chasing or harassing the snakes which is when a dog is most likely to be bitten. There is a very effective anti-venom serum that most vets keep on hand too. I would like to know where they got the number of dogs bitten from. This sounds like a tiktok scare campaign more than real information.
That was a wimdy night...
And I've just given Jeff Bezos money because I need a foldable chair for PAX (and well for whenever I'm walking somewhere and there aren't any seats) and they have some that are available before PAX and are decently priced (I could buy a similar one from Kmart for cheaper but it's not available anywhere near me sadly).
Tram is packed like sardines, uncomfortably warm, and complete with ticket checkers (st Kilda Rd City bound) 🤮
