Tasmanian goosebumps?

🤞🤞🤞

Does it feel like heaven?

I thought you had a new better job?

I think in light of recent events you’re probably super happy and relieved as well.

You’ve been through a lot with the emotional roller coaster and to come out of it on the other side is of great relief.

Nice one!

If you squint it looks like a giraffe

You chose to spawn because…

did you also stash a block of chocolate somewhere and forget and now have to hunt it down? Im gonna find it! Its half a block of darrell lea rocky road ffs.

Does it involve any prospects of rogering or getting rogered?

I just knocked on wood for you, so that should cancel out your jinx, methinks.

Leg of lamb! Old people love lamb.

I'm down to about half of what I used to have and keeping it for earlier in the day, I think it's working as I'm sleeping better

I love salmon bagels, but for some reason my brain saw this:

Rest well!! Hope the recovery is easy and smooth!

Chefs kiss, perfection

😻

Extremely wealthy and they’re insisting people chip in for a funeral? That’s extremely tacky.

I’ve heard of people asking for donations to a charity rather than flowers, but never for the cost of the funeral.

E: it would be tacky even if they weren’t wealthy

P’s are going to a funeral tm and everyone has to chip in a $fiddy.

Why though? For what?

Very odd, I’ve been to a lot of funerals and never have been asked to chip in.

It’s up to the family to organise and decide what to do with the funeral and it’s their responsibility to finance it and everyone’s else role is to pay respects or to celebrate their life.

The only time where I might have to was when they organised a after lunch or something but I didn’t go so no idea if that ended up being split.

That'd be a pass for me.

Me either - sounds dodgy to me. Is the funeral going to be catered??? If so, why???? Usually funeral expenses are covered by the executor of the deceased's Will as a first charge on the estate. The whole "after payment of funeral expenses and just dues and taxes" bit that nearly every Will starts off with.
Sounds like the beneficiaries of the estate want to maximise their slice of the pie to me.

yeaaaaaaah nah. Unless its someone I'm super close with I cant see me ever doing that.

Staying wealthy by being (extremely) frugal? That seems... very weird.

What? I gave up going to funerals in the late 90s but have never heard of this.

Touch the corpse for $200

the country cannot be without its CEO

Pull a sickie and it's Friday. Want me to pick up a post surgical assistance requirement note for ya?

Could I please have a peri-peri chicken burger. with pineapple and beetroot.

A bottle of scotch and a straw please.

I could do with some fish and chips!

Potato cakes needed too.

Please chef.

PERFECT timing! I'm on bit of a health kick at the moment, so I'd like a plate of nachos bigger than my head please!

Fisherman's basket, please! And a shaved ice on the side. Thank you chef!

Just in time for lunch! Could I please have an emu burger, with blue cheese dressing and a fried egg on it. Hoisin sauce instead of ketchup.

Oversized beef burrito please

Hmm chicken sushi and a bottle of peach ice tea. I'm living on the edge!

Thank you 🙂

Deep fried broccoli with blue cheese sauce and some pan fried salmon (on the rare side)

Bit rude to call your partner a douche

Lol, been there! not a douche, but another adult toy. They must've seen it but said nothing. I said nothing. We all just pretended it didnt happen.

Breakfast burrito is my love language. Except for when places feel like they have to be too fancy and start throwing spinach in them.

Apparently you can make them and freeze them.

She's incredibly strong. I saw a clip of her seizure and it kills me. Her voice and power is rare and incredible, and for her to slowly lose that is devastating. She's earned her spot amongst the best singers (the trifecta: Whitney, Mariah, Celine).

I still love and listen to her Eurovision entry. It's how she got so big. She sang in french but was competing for Switzerland, as a Canadian. She changed the economy of the LA strip by doing residencies, which bought in massive revenue and made doing residencies viable for other artists again (previously they were usually for those past their music peak). Her philanthropy, her kindness. If anyone doesn't deserve her condition, it's her.

that's cool

I read that as BBC and thought you meant a documentary tv show 🤓

The food cupboard had some apple scrolls and berry scones this morning, morning tea will be yummy today.

There were also a couple of empty jam jars of my favourite style to add to my jar collection.

I should be receiving a package both today and tomorrow - hopefully these headlight globes are not dodgy like the last ones I bought.

Grateful for Chappell Roan existing (I don't know if I want her, or if I want to be her... Prolly both lol)

Grateful that all the urgent work/backlog is cleared thanks to my colleagues, and I have a very manageable workload again!! The stress relief is immense.

Also grateful that I have meals for a few days.

Alright tough love time: Everyone is running their own race, and everyone started with their own unique handicap so you cant compare anyone elses life to your own.

BUT: If you're not happy with where your at? Fix it. Process the emotions, work through everything then get up dust yourself off and keep going. Sadly no one else is gonna step up and help you out here, so its up to you to live the life you wanna live. Set some goals and make 'em happen. Rome wasn't built in a day, but it would never have been built without starting out and some tough days.

I'm ten years older than you and have only worked out careers that I don't like. Hecks is only a problem if you make money. Due to lifelong research I'm an associate professor in being broke and feeling like I have enough. I had a super fun 20s & 30s. I've eaten the double dick of lockdown then hernia for being a massive hermit. Pulled my super out during covid because there's just something about it that I'm sus on, possibly just simple financial iliteracy on my part but gimmie my money. Impermanence, you ultimately cannot rely on anything other than your own mind/thoughts. Once I'm able to work again I'm considering scaffolding and getting back into jiu-jitsu. I've always enjoyed physical work over intellectual. My first degree got wiped out by arduino. I don't like the myotherapy industry in Australia, the way to make money is to run a clinic (rent seeking) not be a therapist. Plus any job I can leave at the job is a bonus. hits vape, pops another endone

Better to be working towards a career you will enjoy later in life than to have stayed in a career you hated for the sake of being financially stable earlier in life. Yes, it would have been better if you found what you wanted to do career-wise earlier in life but it doesn’t always work out that way. I think what you’re doing is brave, a lot of people would have stuck to their existing career, too scared to make a change. The money and holidays will come in time!

so many many hugs

half the battle is setting your own goals, not the goals of other people and society

at the same time remember you are part of team, you are not alone, it's you and your partner against the world

Ungrateful to TS for disrespecting my Queen Celine lol

• Waking up every 2 hours seemingly like clockwork to pee, although I don't feel too bad this morning considering the disruptions
• Things in my parents' kitchen which I might want being at least 6 months past their best before dates

How slow it takes things to get sent. Bought an underdesk treadmill Tuesday last week and it got shipped out yesterday.

Still being sick, day 5 and no real improvement yet. So hard to get out of bed and do work when my body wants to rest. Glad it’s not Covid though, I’m testing negative. So I have anti-gratitude and gratitude at the same time.

Today I have a day off. The Minipeelers have been sitting around all school holidays doing nothing and will want to do something today, something big. I've been working pretty hard and just want to put my feet up and do nothing and rest. I can anticipate what will happen when Miniest awakes from her royal slumber!

My ex tooth hurts. The paracetamol/ibuprofin combo works fine as a painkiller, but because of the limits you can take in a day I can't take it often enough to remain pain free. So the next few hours are going to be painful so that I can take more later so I'll be able to sleep tonight ☹️

I had a sleepless night and my eyes feel sore from it. I tried to listen to a podcast as well but ended listening to it instead of falling asleep to it.

Im trying not to sleep or have a nap so I can get my internal clock back to relative normalcy.

I hate sleepless nights.

And yet, if you start asking them to explain themselves you're the unreasonable one.

Fucking noisy hospital.

🥛

I’m still up!

there was a comment on reddit the other day about how ww3 could break out and they allys would ride in on the stony point line to save is culminating in the first battle of Frankston. I pondered how ride of the valkyries would sound on a stolen 90's WRX's ruined sound system.

Exciting, it is a lovely place. Can't wait for you to join me in listening to the local pop sing and dance on a Friday night lol.

Awesome about your instrument library! I love to hear anything you're willing to share! I really like the piece you shared last time, the one that was in your head for ages :D

Everything is coming up for you, friend! This is joyous, and you deserve every ounce of goodness that comes from it!!

The spoils of the heist lol

My old dog was a bit like that, only he preferred to tip over your glass and lap up the wine. Didn't like it in a bowl, had to be licked off the floor. Weird.

Should go nicely with your kukri methinks.

what did you order? I've somehow burnt my hurley ones and the AS colour I've gotta admit hasnt lasted as long as I'd like.

It was beautiful otw to work, even with the crazy wind on the freeway.

So nice this morning!

The whole point about formal minutes of a meeting is JUST EXACTLY THIS. So the participants can't wriggle out of undertakings given and recorded.

Baku, let me introduce you to the ancient and uncivilised practice of writing the minutes of a meeting BEFORE the meeting.

Start with the agenda of the meeting - a bullet point list of items to be discussed. These should be few in number. Ideally less than 6. You might like to send this bullet point list to the regional manager before the meeting so he knows what topics you want to discuss. For example :

• return/repair/replacement/compensation of stolen/damaged goods
• living arrangements going forward including repairs to locks etc.
• what happens if someone else is moved in to your house without consulting you
• personal safety
• maybe another item that you consider necessary

These can be in any order - I usually put the most important one at the top but you might like to start with something that the manager can agree with as this can be a useful way to get co-operation on the other items.

Then, (not sending this bit to the manager) expand on each bullet point by adding 3 short paragraphs/sentences describing and/or discussing 1) What if you get everything you want when you want it AND who is responsible for seeing that you get it, 2) If you get something, but not all of what you want and who is responsible for each/what etc, and 3) You don't get anything, and won't get it in the future either.

Print this out (or save on your phone screen) and take to the meeting. As each bullet point is discussed, you strike out whichever of 1) 2) or 3) above that doesn't apply - for each bullet point. At the end, you'll have a list of what was discussed and what was agreed, and who is going to action each item agreed to.

At the end of the meeting you make the person read the document, and sign off on it if at all possible. If you like, give them a copy so that they have a record available too.

This is standard corporate practice, and will do a lot to concentrate their mind on doing things properly.

I'm in that club as well. Let him know while it's okay to meet face to face, you'd like to be able to send him an email prior to the meeting with your points laid out and ask that he sends you a follow up email after the meeting with what was discussed. Heck, write him one afterwards with what was discussed and get your advocate to read over it.

Seconding Spin. Written or recorded. Don’t trust verbal anything

I'd be replying with a polite "I'd prefer to have this conversation in writing thanks".

If they push you into a discussion by yourself it’s a good idea to get anything said in writing so they can’t lie and bs later. Do not talk to them on the phone.

Also great to have someone with more power present or bcc’ed in, good idea

meanwhile I have one which was shipped yesterday from somewhere over the east side, I forget where exactly, went through Tullamarine last night and should be arriving at my front door of my parents place out in Melton any moment now (status is onboard for delivery as of 30 minutes ago)

sometimes they just get it right

bring me my weeeeeed mr postman

Reliable sources report that Sunhine is semi sane and Tullamarine is utterly cooked.

There's an auspost sorting facility down in Dandenong South, so I imagine it's just being sorted for distribution. Thought, anecdotally, there's been parcels getting stuck in sorting facilities for weeks. I imagine their packages fell off the conveyor lol

Edit: clarification because I had another coffee and am overthinking: it is at Dandenong to be sorted, it will then be sent to your local auspost and assigned a postie to deliver.

I'll have a chat with my aunt about it, she works for auspost. (Apparently posties/couriers can be very emotional and resistant to change lol love her stories)

The good news is that salt does not actually go off. Although I expect by this age the pepper is more of a placebo spice than anything.