Melbourne

Officially signed the contract. I'm now a Project Manager.

Fuuuuuuuuuck yeeeeeees!

Happy Birthday Baku.

I put in an application to volunteer at a cattery, and originally had to sign up for the orientation in April, but! They had a couple of cancellations so I get to attend tomorrow instead!

Yay! Finally, things are starting to turn around! Have to be up at sparrows fart though, to travel on two trams out to the SE, but definitely worth it!

I'm hosting a training session this morning, but my new gaming rig JUST arrived. VERY tempted to go "Ok gang! Today we're setting up Windows 11 and installing steam and drivers! Are we ready? First up, does anyone know if Helldivers 2 or Boulders Gate 3 use their own launchers? No? Ok so here's how we're going to find out!"

Stayed at home today. Feeling run down and sniffly. I slept in for quite awhile and decided to make chicken bullion soup with egg and veggies in it and boiling pasta with it.

Me thinks this weekend will be mostly soups for meals.

Cool neighbour is going travelling for like 12 months and leaving a set of keys with me.

Basically told me to have at anything that edible, potable or smoke able.

He's a good egg

Wow! Lucky they warned me 🤣

I have quite a bit of life-admin to do today. Being an adult is so arduous sometimes. 😭

Hot cross buns
Hot cross buns
Now my house smells of
Hot cross buns
If your daughters don't like them
Give them all to me
I will happily take them
Hot cross buns

World Sleep Day?

Blessed I have nothing to get up for tomorrow morning. ✨

Forgot to mention Mrs's B's car got a good mechanical check, its with the mechanic today getting the RWC sorted but so far it looks and feels pretty good for a 12 year old car. Might need to replace the stereo with something carplay compatible though. Lets just say Bluetooth tech has come a long way.

The crow remake looks like a piece of shit.

Time to torrent the old one and watch it tonight in 4k.

Cheers everyone 🍺. Sorry @Force_majeure123@aussie.zone

Shit 2 weeks at work and I'm OK? It's my job to look after my people even if they have fucked up and they have

But I'm not doing great generally. I'm feeling worn down. I will literally expend my all my energy to provide support for my team, but I'm flagging.

I went on the puffing billy today. I didn't like it, but TIL that anything can become fun if you have people to shit talk with

Also maccas was broken. No drive through, no app, no self serve, no chocolate ice cream, no frappes, no receipts, no registers. They were hand writing the orders. I really did take a trip back in time today

Any music makers in here? Just curious.

The FishieCAT has earned a hat trick for disconnecting the internet three days in a row. It would help if the moron who installed the NBN box knew what plaster plugs were (or put it on the same wall as a power point)

My bird :(

I know it's world sleep day but I don't wanna. After sleep comes waking up and going to work and I am really not ready for that.

Look it's great my friend loves his dog but posting 10+ photos a day of the dog on social media makes me think he might have issues.

I'm thinking about the milky caffeinated dumplings (edit) @Force_majeure123 was dreaming of.

I have zero energy, lactose intolerance and my stomach is being a massive jerk so I can also only dream. But I found a coffee pastry cream recipe. You could probably stir some condensed milk in there too for a Vietnamese coffee sort of taste.

I was thinking the thin slippery unleavened dumpling skins might not go well unless you wanted to fake it with mochi or use one intended for sweet buns. I wondered about sweetening a pork bun dough recipe and making it like bao.

Then I found out Cantonese custard buns exist. Perhaps if you cooked the pastry cream down thick enough or added coffee to the intended custard filling it might work. It doesn't look quite creamy though. These are more complicated but look runnier.

Actually... the supermarket used to sell tubes of coffee flavoured condensed milk. You could put the flat dough skins in muffin trays to hold up the edges against spillage, squeeze it into the centre and quickly wrap it inside. I can't see the coffee tubes at Woolies or Coles but there are still tins you can spoon it out of... unfortunately the brand is Nestle.

Or chocolate steamed buns with white chocolate for the ganache.

I just made some passionfruit cheesecake on pavlova cups with berry sauce. mmm mmm mmm delicious

spoiler

I've never been the type of person who plays online games. But this helldivers game is pretty fun.

Might take today off. You can have a super short week if you and the kids are sick

Metal detectors at the G.

Rumours of my criminality precede me

My CBDA oil and THC balm arrived in the mail today. Just so happened I had a cracking headache at lunch so I rubbed some balm on my temples and back of neck as described and it has actually fixed me right up!

You can literally just order this stuff online from a normal website. I had no idea. You do have to pay $1 to join their community, then you get access to the store and just buy stuff. Can't wait until our country catches up to other countries and we can head down to the local dispensary.

Actual comment on my just-submitted Pull Request:
Odds of this build working first time are about the same as Daniel Riccardo winning next weekend. Not 0%, but not 90% either.

Currently sitting here in South Aus where I'm waiting for the 30 min time difference to tick over so that I can comment in the Saturday 15th thread

Boss calls: "Can you please call supplier and organise X?" Me: does exactly that and notifies people boss requested Half hour later, supplier calls: "Your boss just rang and asked for Y, can you please confirm?"

WHYYYYY ask me to do something, if you're just going to call up and arrange different shit?!

The CCP left a voicemail with loud bangs at the end.

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The week after I got my breadmaker, I discovered my really itchy eczema rash I'd had for a year could be gluten related. So I cut out gluten and wasted $180 on a breadmaker.

3 weeks later when I had little one over, decided to use the last packet to make bread and because I have zero self control and the smell of it made me drool I had some and no rash/no return/nothing (but still staying away from gluten if I can).

My body is a mystery.

Hola