Hospital parking fees 🤬

Nobody is going there for fun.

Pup dog decided we needed some drama in our lives and had a fit/collapsed last night :/ ran him to the vet (quite literally, they're just down the street) and he seems a bit better this morning. Back to the vet today for blood test results, but he's lost weight despite a big appetite. He's getting old and I'm trying not to think the worst.

As a result, I'm working from home while he snoozes on the bed near me and it's peaceful and nice and I'm still looking for the positives!

I've started making my coffee at home and bringing it to work in a (not Stanley) thermos flask. I worked out it saves me $67 per month. If it was a streaming service I'd have already cut it by now, but I still feel like some kind of traitorous unmelbournely bastard. Still, $ is tight and I've got to make cuts 😭

I made a turtle from imitation Lego.

My back is sore, my eyes are blurry and I have no thumb nails left but I have a cute little turtle 🐢

Surreal moment today: me, a blondeish woman of a certain age in a Volvo V70 wagon, blasting Counting Bodies Like Sheep through its (excellent) stereo. 😁

Just woke up to the excellent news that my downstairs plumbing issue is actually a street wide issue. Looks like Great Western will be sending people out today to clear the streets sewage pipes.

Been copping a bit of flack from upper management lately. My boss and the boss's boss are calling BS, but the old boss and the "head off" are fucking idiots. Anyway, there was an issue this morning, guess who solved it? Yeeaaaah, the bloke who supposedly "doesn't do anything around here". Fuck I'm good.

Oh my god. I thought it was Tuesday today.

Ever since I got home and came back from work I was trying to work out why my petrol was so low and what I was going to do.

Suddenly got confused at seeing the dates of tucker time and this thread and only clicked that it’s Wednesday.

I’m so out of it!

Ted Cat woke me up. I must have been making ouch noises in my sleep.

Still awake and it's starting to get light outside. Already told work that today isn't going to work out. It's not them, it's me.

First day back at school for mine today.. Already a kerfuffle. Good luck y'all.

jfc there is not a single fucking braincell left at M$.

Fire up laptop for work, start of the work day IMMEDIATELY greeted with an UPGRADE TO WIN 11!! screen.

Can't alt tab out of it, can't even bring up goddamn taskmgr to kill it, the only way to get rid of it so I can start my fucking work day is either "UPGRADE NOW!" or "DECLINE UPGRADE"

shit like this is why I'm cutting the workplace over to mint.

Doing some online shopping at Mid ass hoes 👍Need better shoes for walking and Mid Ass have nice wide fittings

I've had a productive morning - a trip to the op shop with a car full of donations, and then steam cleaning the carpet. I think I might rest on my laurels and slack off for the afternoon.

Pulled a muscle in my back (the doc suspects) and it's giving me trouble breathing. I want to cry 😭

I have fortunately never woken up at night because of pain so far and I had to last night cuz it got so bad. Off to scans. Also took a sickie cuz it's so uncomfortable 😪

Teens will eat through your wallet like a moth. A little bit at a time and then it's all gone.

Ok, so inflation’s too high and then interest rates go up to curb spending, and now spending slows and the economists are complaining we are not spending enough. I believe the translation is: the rich people wanted to keep wages low because more profit, but also please keep buying stuff from us because more profit. Is that it?

Finished watching Station Eleven.

7/10 on average, 9/10 for the odd numbered episodes.

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Life Pro Tip: if you're on a visa and have OSHC/OVHC, get Allianz base and Bupa extras (if needed).

imed Radiology and Melbourne Pathology both forward the receipts to Allianz and even though the cover says that they'll pay up to 85% of MBS, somehow the entire receipt is paid (goes for all scans - MRI, CT, X-ray etc).

Bupa is good for extras, I use a Bupa Members First provider and they have discounted rates for Bupa members which is great. My physio charges me $37 for a 1hour sesh but a max of $450 per year ($90 something after that). But still good value.

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People are so disproportionately angry at the little shit responsible for the milk incident. They're baying for blood.

I wonder why this has hit such a nerve.

I spent way too long playing around with Melbourne prompts on Stable Diffusion for a WhatsApp group image. Of course face masks came up relatively often.

Welp I just finished the end of the Dark Tower series (on audiobook). The final book kinda felt like a rushed mess to tidy up all of the stories and characters. It even managed to shove some new characters into the story out of nowhere really late in the piece. I also felt like the "big bad" was a big letdown.

Stephen King remains a pervy weirdo too.. never missing a chance to talk about his female character's breasts throughout the entire series. I'm not sure there was a single female character of whom he didn't describe or refer to their breasts at least once. It was pretty jarring and me feel odd whenever he'd do it for seemingly no reason.

Anywho, now I need to figure out if I want to jump off the King train and discover something new, or check out another level of the tower in another King book. Before I read the Dark Tower I read The Shining which I enjoyed so I could check out Doctor Sleep except I stupidly read the plot for that back before I started to get into the books. I attempted The Stand but I lost interest as I already knew the story pretty well from the TV show and my reading of wiki pages when the TV show came out. Was considering It.. I've never seen any of the It movies but I do know a little bit about the story there. Maybe I should skip to something without a TV/movie adaption so I can be more surprised. There's a whole world of books to discover, I just need to find what gets me hooked.