Condolences. Now comes the hard part - being kind to yourself and your immediate family. Which will be damned hard. Take time to process your feelings - either positive or negative. I found both. The one true purpose of funerals/memorials is that organising them helps to process those feelings. Be aware that other family members will have different feelings. The damned part is being patient with them and validating their feelings as well as your own. Don't shortchange yourself in that department. Take whatever time you need. Sending vibes to help when the feelings ambush you. Which they will do - usually when least convenient. Been there and done that myself. I found a grief counsellor helped me a lot after my bloke died during covid. The language of grief/relief can be grimly humorous too which I found to be an unexpected bonus.
I’m really sorry. Take as much time as you need to absorb, it can be complicated
I'm really sorry. Even when you know it's coming the death of a parent is really hard. Know that it's OK to not be OK for a while, but that you will be OK again. We'll all be here for you and do whatever we can to support you in our limited way.
Thinking of you ❤️
Condolences 💜
I'm really, really sorry for your loss ❤️
Oh catfish. He went into palliative not long ago, right? My condolences, hugs and hope for all the next steps to be as peaceful and easy as they can be. But right now your job is just to breathe and feel whatever you have to feel for a bit.
My condolences. I'm sorry for your loss 🙏🏼
I’m so sorry. I hope it was as peaceful as possible. My thoughts are with you and I’m sending hugs 💛
So sorry to read this. Sending 🖤.
Poor void 😿
studying is hard work
It's a chapter about honeyeaters and habititat. The pics are different flower shapes they get nectar from.
The subject I'm doing is "Backyard Biodiversity", about primarily about creating habitat in your garden for a range of native species.
So cool!
Wow, impressive!
Poor fluffball.
Edit: I legit could go to bed right now.
What a floofy little ball of orange fuzz!
It's a genio multicolour globe. Well worth it.
Holy hell. How did I find this place last night? Lol
I have to go to the shops for foood. Pray for me.
EDIT: Thank you all for your good thoughts. I have returned unscathed, bearing watermelon and icy poles and lettuce and jelly. And boring bread & milk etc. We will survive this. The cool change on Sunday night/Monday morning will be EPIC!
Dear Wicca deities, go easy on our resident witch. Regards aussie.zone.
Dear Sun God/ess,
Please do not scorch Thornbury Witch with your mighty UV rays,
And do not blind her eyes with your super bright ways,
And do not roast her head with heat stroke,
And do not cause car seat and belt buckle burns, that shits no joke.
I'm en route to a social occasion. It's hot and busy and I don't wanna but I gotta
Sunset tonight will be spectacular. All those wispy bits of clouds will light up I reckon.
Would have been lovely to see. I almost tempted to go the beach late this afternoon.
In Albury for the night on the way back. I've definitely had my cup filled (but already missing being out in nature all day and all night, and physically very tired from various tasks). It's an absolute oven outside. Thankfully the AC was running at my accom before I arrived so I'm just chilling for now (got a free upgrade to Queen, score!).
Debating whether to get a proper meal for dinner or just some ready-to-eat stuff from Woolies... Might splurge on the meal tonight and get some crackers and dip for breakfast and the rest of the drive home tomorrow.
I've brought great shame upon youse. 10 - 9. I lost. Good competition. Good game. Sorry.
Thanks mate. I did my best on the day.
If I were playing Mr Seagoon and got such a result I would suspect he played easy
or that my six months of secret practice had paid off so I would treat myself to a victory cigar
Hahaha. I really enjoy the sledging. 😂
If your house design can accommodate it, have some sort of awning on the north side of your building. Not everyone can afford it, but if you can spare a couple-hundred dollars on a cheap camping Gazebo, you can stop the sun hitting the brickwork and windows and that will account for a few degrees.
The forecast's back up to 40 for today and tomorrow for us northern suburbs types. Which isn't a big difference from 38 in real terms, but psychologically...
I've been to the gym (which is also a large council pool, it was bananas) and I'm hibernating with the cricket for the rest of the weekend.
Stay cool! Remember to eat all the icy poles.
My box of kid size pineapple and raspberry callipo's is getting munched.
Ok I have my torrent box set up properly now.
Downloaded 20gb in just over 5 mins!
Always! My dl is 18tb and up is 42tb :)
It's the entire connection for a well seeded torrent on a private tracker.
Just had a look. Very, very interesting!
Well, we're hotter, quite a bit hotter, than Darwin rn.
Yeah… there’s soap powder residue on my cutlery so I’m having to rinse everything under the tap again before use. Hopefully it’s only because it was in the rapid cycle but there’s nowhere to put rinse aid in this machine and it’s not very convenient to load. I’m also having to put things on a dish towel or dish rack to finish drying.
Buyers regret. Like I am happy the dishes are getting done because it’s my hardest task but it’s also creating more fiddly little headaches. Pisses me off because of the money.
Guess I’ll use it in the meantime but will start saving up again and this time actually get something better, something I can see in person. When I get another one I can ask if anyone I know wants it or donate on Givit.
Try using less powder.
I can but I’m really picky about residue and there’s no extra rinse option
Kind of adds to labour when I needed to reduce it
I’ll probably still have to. It’s still full of standing water for roaches because you have to keep the door open. (It’s either fully open right down to the bench or shut. You can’t just crack it.)
And I know at some point someone else is gonna use it without knowing and serve me a coffee full of soap.
I dunno, I’m tired and upset and something that was meant to help out is only aggravating me.
If drastically reducing the soap doesn’t work I’m just packing the thing right back into its box so I don’t end up drinking it
It was the Big W Midea. It looked ok for my needs but I’m getting kinda annoyed actually using it
use finish liquid cleaner. Powder never fully dissolves in a benchtop. Our sheffield is twice the size of that and still fucks up on powder / tablets. Use about a third of the liquid and you're golden.
This is what I use but I also use powder and tablets on occasion.
It’s online only, through a third party seller I think
Having a lazy day after washing blankets (great weather for it). I can't believe it's almost time to start thinking about dinner 😦
Have to abort my heat hibernation to go to friend kid’s birthday, I really want to stay under my air con.
They have a pool and told us to bring bathers so I will but dunno if I’ll get in. It’s so hot that I might. There will be pizza too.
A party is a party, and whether you socialise or just lurk, it is often good to be around other people, especially when the weather is difficult to deal with.
We had an 80th here yesterday afternoon. Lunch was rotisserie Bolar Blade and roasted Pork Neck on the BBQ, accompanying salad bought by old people.
Our house has very good thermal Insulation, but very bad acoustics so within an hour it sounded like the scene from Sneakers with the geese, but much more humid.
Outside was much nicer, with the dry heat, tasty food and peace and quiet, even when some of the other guests came out to join me.
Now we have cleanup day today, but this is why we built our house. It shouldn’t take long.
We have a 1st and an 18th this year and a 21st and a 50th in 2026, and we will probably have all the minor birthday parties too!
Miss Meow is trying to help with my assignment by pressing the F1 key at random times. She has also managed a complete paragraph of ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
She has so far looked up both how to use Chrome and how to use Word, so I'd say she's about as useful as the AI Copilot that Microsoft foisted on me that keeps popping up trying to help out every time I cut and paste. She is much cuter though.
TiMe To UpGrAdE tO lInUx!
Seriously though, I’m not sure whether to keep my (not quite so) old Surface Pro 4 on Windows 10 or use it as a Linux tablet.
I’m finding that tablets are much more practical with cats on the house, it is much more difficult for them to mash keys when there isn’t a keyboard.
My main problem with the tablet is Miss Meow using the corner as a face scratcher and switching programs on me. At the computer she has mostly learned to stay on her bed on the side of the desk, but she does still try and encroach over onto the keyboard just a little bit.
I never would have thought I'd prefer to stay in Queensland weather wise but even with humidity I'm regretting booking my flight back to Melbourne for tonight. I suppose I'll miss a day of it but my apartment is going to be a hotbox when I get back.
Bird bath full ✔️ Sun's out guns out ✔️
The situation in Korea is wild right now. There's an arrest warrant for the president (call him in for questioning related to his declaration of martial law, which could amount to treason I think) and his personal security guards (and public supporters) are physically blocking the arrest from happening, and apparently they only have a few more days to wait until the arrest warrant becomes invalid. What the actual fuck
It's totally wild. I kinda thought South Korea was a pretty stable government too. Spent some time in Seoul and the south ages ago. Seoul reminded me of a bigger Melbourne - so friendly. Kinda hope it all is sorted and doesn't spill over into bigger violence.
Can I add chewing gum like a cow. The noise. The sight. Makes me nauseous.
I will lick my fingers in ur face with no regrets
Licking hands?!
Hahaha…
No finger licking here whatsoever… Or hands! Who licks their hands?
Seagoon… 😮 How do you know?
(I did not eat alone. Yes, I ate at home, but I am one of those finicky weirdos who eats with a tissue/napkin in hand and washes or uses a wet wipe right after.)
LOL. I feel attacked.
I did almost buy one of those meal deals, but couldn’t get an answer so nugs only as a snack it was.
Dammit. I have a split mail on my finger. Think I made it worse after snagging it on some clothing.
Got a spplit right on the side and about my probably 2 or 3mm long.
Put a Band-Aid on it for now so I don’t make it worse.
This is genius!
yeah I do that off and on, shits me up the wall.
I cut a small oversized square of teabag to go over the split, tiny lick just to make it adhere, then dop nail glue / cyanoacrylate a tiny amount on top to soak through and adhere. let it dry, then you can trim the excess and even file it. If you do a lot of typing it will last until the split grows out
I took some pics of the mini dishwasher. Sorry there’s no banana for scale. They’re also kind of minimal because I didn’t want to post any clutter or my reflection. You will get the rough idea though.
I didn’t use the tap attachment but let me know if you want me to try that and take some pictures.
This is a large Corelle dinner plate.
You can fit some in at an angle.
Just load carefully. lol (showing size)
I didn’t take a pic of the previous wash but here’s one with the pet bowls.
You can see how I Tetrised in a lot of small items while there’s still heaps of unused room up top. That’s what I meant when I said it might have been nice to have an optional top rack. I do have clearance room for it to be a smidge taller.
There’s no cover to the detergent dispenser but eh.
Here’s the fill jug and the fill tray. You fit the lip of the tray’s hole into the water tank inlet hole and slowly pour into the tray.
The supplied fill jug has weirdly marked increments so just listen to the machine. Once it receives the 5 litres it makes a series of rapid panicked beeps. If it doesn’t do that and the tap icon is showing just keep pouring in a little more.
You can see the drainage pipe at the side - that just goes over and sits in the sink. There’s a suction cup to hold it in place or out of the way if needed but just draping it over does me fine.
Ps. I did reposition that ramekin at an angle before starting! Was just focused on getting the demo pics
It's very cute and functional!
It’s cute but I kind of wish I got something with more room and better energy efficiency
Yeah I was a bit sad to see such low energy efficiency :( And the water efficiency isn’t amazing either. Loading is annoying so I would possibly have gone for something bigger. But at least I have something.
Yeah it’s cold water, it must heat it by itself.
I was able to move it by myself with a little difficulty. It was very big and awkward in the box but not as bad out. I dragged the whole thing over and then was able to deadlift the unboxed unit onto the bench.
Edit: Thanks bro I removed them
Yeah I think that’s absolutely the case. This was a Big W buy so maybe Appliances Online might have offered something more efficient for a bit more money.
I just was desperate to sort my kitchen out and got something cheaper sooner
Yep. Finally can get out of the house!
Well that was a bummer.
TW animal death, mice
There was a mouse on the footpath in a really bad way. I scooped it into the empty paper bag I had avoiding touching it and carried it home. Was thinking to put it in a box with some water. Ended up leaving it in the bag because any moving really agitated it.
It wasn’t drinking from the plastic lid so I tried to give it water from an old syringe but that just made it more panicked. (I know you shouldn’t try to give wildlife water directly like that, you’re advised not to, I just thought at that point helping it drink something maybe outweighed the risks.)
I left it alone and the next time I checked it had passed. It’s buried now - in a far corner where nothing edible will go. Unsure if heat, rat poison or disease (no visible injuries) but I made sure to avoid direct touching and washed my hands.
Only a mouse but yeah :(
Melbcat was also sick on the bed while I was briefly out. I’m still trying to get her to give me a urine sample for the vet
You gave it care and a quiet cool place in it's last moments. That matters, I think.
The garden has been watered, and I picked my first ripe tomatoes. Apparently I have an unexpected tomato hybrid, with trusses of yellow tomatoes. I was expecting red, so failed to recognise some earlier tomatoes had actually ripened.
10 yr outta date electrolytes down the hatch ✔️
It's what plants crave.
Too hot to be hungry. For lunch I ate a bowl of diced mango with a scoop of vanilla icecream. but now I’m peckish, maybe shall make myself a Vegemite toast.
First jelly of the day has already been consumed. Sweet, solid water. What more could anyone wish for on a day like today?
It’s a sucky solution but taping tinfoil over large sun facing windows helps a lot
Maybe the sunshades that go in car windscreens?
I was looking at the window tint a while ago, the sample square I got off eBay wasn’t amazing but Bunnings sells too and it could help.
Expensive but
A tip, shading the window from the outside is more effective than from the inside. It’s because as sun passes through the glass, it heats up the inside. But if you prevent the sun from blazing through the window then it really makes a difference. This is why houses with eaves tend to be stay cooler than those without, eaves partially shade the windows and walls from direct sun.
Whoever signed off on the wedding dress outfit in Mario Odyssey was a goddamn genius.
replaying the boss fight and having the cutscene of Our Hero (tm) kicking the door in and interrupting the wedding with Mario as a spurned bride is fucking peak comedy
Nah, if it has to be stupidly hot at least let's have it dry as a dead dingo's donger. None of that swampy nonsense.
Tropical meat has avoided wet bulb so breakfast can continue.
Did a 5k Fun Run this morning. Was fun as advertised. Minicalhoon2 did her first one at 1.4k. She made it, even with a stitch!
Onya kiddo!
I hope everyone survives today. I think I'm probably going to sleep most of the day. Fluffball will probably not move from in front of the fan.
Her fluff makes her allergic to the heat :(
My fluffy boy is mad at me because I won't let him go outside to sunbake his paws. Little silly. He wants aaaall the heat.
I'm ready 🏏
Bloody hell. Just turned on and Head gets caught. This is ... Interesting...
Hopefully Beau saves us.
Had to take the Minipeelers to a birthday party at highpoint and it finished with a movie that finished after the most of the joint closed. It was a weird feeling walking through the place, a real liminal space kind of thing.
Yes this is not the day 2 I expected...
On my way home from a pub lunch and watching gladiator 2 at pentridge cinemas. I thought gladiator 2 was really well done. They got through an impressive amount of storyline while managing to keep it fast paced and action packed. 4/5 hobbits, would recommend
It felt a bit rushed and cliche. I thought the whole movie was feeling a bit rushed - but I liked it that way? Hard to explain. It felt like it was going from one thing to the next at breakneck pace but it also felt natural
Damn… yesterday after the dentist I got the local homeless dude the wrong drinks. I usually only give him some change and only briefly saw his sign, so got a bit confused and bought the wrong option.
It’s cool. I’m not down that way too often but now I’ve figured out the right thing.
(Now him, he’s fine. The people around here are usually harassing me or doing scary disruptive things outside my house, hence my defensive attitude and unwillingness to engage, but he’s chill and doesn’t bother anyone. I’ve always got a coin or two for him when I go past.)
They're def qute
This is gold lol
🤣
I am at the stage of flu recovery where my body is exhausted and my brain is running and I can't sleep. Guess it beats last night's fever but I want to SLEEEEP. UGH.
I would like a chicken wing doused in hot sauce pls.
Just one! Unheard of.
I'm willing to share it :)
Nawww.
I got you some while I was up
Buffalo style
Yesterday I had oysters for a starter and then a lobster & prawn roll that had absolutely no right to be as good as it was. I can't stop thinking about it. Must go back.
So I would like another lobster & prawn roll please chef. Must be a brioche roll.
I love lobster rolls! Where did you have that?? I also love the lobster toastie at Pearl Diver.
Please don't hate me or judge me, it's so not hipster it's embarrassing for me as a person.
So it's was simply in St. Kilda, the place that used to just sell ice cream next to Republica / opposite the crossing. I know, I know I should face eternal shame for even saying it was good, but I saw oysters and was defo in (and always will be regardless of where the oysters are served), and thought "why not" on the roll, and then the oysters took a back seat after that. I'm literally going back next week to get another I enjoyed it that much.
You mean Claw & Tail?! If so, they are SO good, I had one there last year and absolutely loved it!!
I too, would also enjoy some hot wing
Hmm… just tried the countertop dishwasher for the first time and a few things quite annoy me. I hope I get used to it or I might give it away
spoiler
Edit: Ahh good, it’s only the rapid cycle I tried that didn’t do any drying. Because everything was left literally dripping wet (way more so than drip drying in a rack beside the sink) so would force you to dry things really thoroughly by hand (soaking a few tea towels) and would draw roaches if you left the door open to avoid mould. Still something of a concern tho.
Not loving that I’d have to use an hour long program to get any drying but I’ll try it out on the pet bowls so see if they’re left less sopping.
I would have liked a second rack to fit in a larger number of tiny items. I’ll have to learn how to load it properly and really learn how it works I guess. There’s a flap up top that could be for long handled spoons or little teacups. To YouTube I guess.
The utensil holder lid pissed me off to the point I just ran the load without it /shrug
Also completely petty but I didn’t like the fact that it asks for 5 litres of water to be poured in but supplies you a jug smaller than that which is marked in weird measurements. You have to just keep refilling and pouring until you hear the beeping and the tap icon disappears, leaving you with leftover water in the jug. Seriously? Marking it as 1.4L and .6L was a very random choice and I might just use my own jug.
You also need to be slow/careful in pouring so you don’t bump the pourer tray as it’s held in the inlet by a shallow lip and is quite shallow itself so you can spill some down the back of the machine. Bit hard to hold the heavy jug up for a while to go slow.
I didn’t grow up with a dishwasher and the few times I’ve used one they were full size that left the stuff basically almost dry. So yeah. It’s a learning curve.
I do like that you can just pour the water in though rather than having to constantly connect and disconnect to the kitchen tap, that would drive me nuts. Especially as the connections aren’t necessarily universal.
Standalone/tank fill option means you can put the normal stuff in to get cleaned while you handwash the knives and the cooking pots.
I’ve just expanded on my comment, I’ll probably be adding more info as I use it more.
I’m pretty thorough with describing how I find using things and how well they suit me.
Lemme know if anyone wants pics, I’ll have to buy a banana for scale
I’ve taken a few, they’re not very good but give an idea. I’ll post them now
Cool, I have a big plate. Warning though this is very mini
I really love mine. It has saved my back on numerous occasions. I have one of those metal utensil holders with the holes all over it so anything that doesn't fit in the utensil holder goes in there. The 3 hour cycle I think dries everything but it isn't great. I never grew up with a dishwasher so anything would be an improvement for me. I'm really impressed with it.
Sorry if I seem a bit picky and critical lol. I tend to have to get used to new things
Don't be sorry. You pay a lot of money for it, you want it to work for you, not the other way around.
Sweet F, hot potato….
Don’t think I’ll be heading back outdoors again unless it’s by car…
Some time at the park this morning before it got too hot. Then I picked up some coffee beans from one of those middle of the thoroughfare cafes at a shopping centre as my regular order won't be here until at least Thursday
FWIW when I make jelly, I put a bit of citric acid in the mix to sour it up a bit.
I'm on my way to the Mofusand shop and my excitement cannot be contained!!
It's the little carton of a cat often wearing things love bread and shrimp on its head, or wearing costumes like a shark or a frog. Maybe pretending to be sushi. It's adorable.
Tokyo Station!! I LOVE everything I bought!
Nooo, in Japan until next week. Honestly this store may have been what inspired the trip!
Mofusand
omg, it's all adorable 🙂
I forgot to water this morning so popped out with my hat on, sure enough everything was wilting. Quick water then out to check the maggie’s water. They still had some.
But some beefy sunburned dipshit came stomping aggressively through like an elephant while I was talking to them and topping up their water. Really obvious nonverbal anger. Not either of the men that tip the water out but looks like the one that was swearing about ‘some prick feeding them’. Guess the target is square on my back now.
But fuck him. Pretty sure this is private property he’s cutting through. I pay rent so I’m the one that has the right to be here.
I’m getting very sick of random shitty men trying to intimidate me on my own property about things that are none of their business, and if he begins to harass me directly then perhaps the police might like some footage of him.
Edit: I’d consider some hotfoot powder to peacefully encourage the blow ins to walk a different way. Make all of our lives easier. But I don’t want the local cats to step in it and lick the spiciness off their beans, or me to track it in onto my carpet for Melbcat to stand on.
Other (white) suggestions welcome 😎
Bougainvillea or climbing roses to form a barrier? Hard to say without knowing what the space is like. In my area, every time someone builds an extension there are these massive rocks dug up that just get carted away in a tipper. I'd probably ask them to dump a few in the way so people couldn't pass through easily. If you can afford a motion activated sprinkler that would be funny to watch and has the element of plausible deniability, but I think some of them are actually marketed as bird deterrents. Could work for people though, depending on the range and where you point it🤔
Yeah, sorry I try to be a bit vague. Unfortunately a footpath is involved so I can’t block it.
If I was to wire the gates at each end shut (as another resident did) they would just undo it. Plus other residents need to ride their bike out.
Sprinklers would probably just get destroyed and the hose cut up for bongs :/
Angelica beside your front door has the power to drive away tax collectors, so should be able to cope with randoms such as you describe. For best effect, companion plant with dill and parsley. These are 3 of the power herbs in the north european tradition. Only problem, angelica is a huuuuge plant - a good metre across and tends to spread its tentacles a long way, so might not be the most space effective solution. Hard to find in Melbourne except from specialty herb suppliers too.
Oh dang, that might be a little big. I found the seeds on the seed collection site and do have that dry sandy patch but it might die and if the plants were in pots they might get stolen. 😢
For some reason my wipes have failed… twice. 100% bytes erased, but blanking failed. Some of the errors suggest the disks are on their way out. NBD since they’re going to trash. Yet, while I have a million and one other things to do, I haven’t looked at a Linux distro for aeons… So, of course I’m going to look at Endeavour. This is a rabbit hole I need not be heading down today. LOL.
Damnit, I knew I should have grabbed that pack of Zoopers the other day…
Try something called killdisk. Takes a while, but always works for me.
I went with ShredOS, but yeah, I’ll take another look while I satisfy my curiosity today. I just need to get rid of the tower and it’s just been taking up space and collecting dust.
Edit: Stupid autocorrect.
There's always Mint, Ubuntu, and Debian if you want something simpler. I've found the biggest difference is the desktop environment as some have GUI elements for things where for others you'll have to jump in the terminal. Since endeavour is based on Arch it may take some setting up
Was pretty quick, which was nice. Install with USB without an issue. Had a bit of an issue with the second drive, trying to run shred, but installed testdisk and ran a check and for some reason shred is working now.
Except that I was a dumbass and mistyped the zeros overwrite. We’ll see how it pans out.
Get Back comment #3. Hey, it was 8 hrs of doco.
Throw away preconceptions and what other people have written, look at it with your own eyes.
Four men. One bloke so happy and cheerful and feeling like he can do anything because he is in a new happy relationship. He wants his mates to share that feeling and the only way he knows how is to get them all back together and reexperience those same kind feelings from when they first had success.
Another guy who just a bad brush with the law and whose wife just lost a baby. She's has post natal depression hormones. She's an immigrant from a vastly different culture and in my opinion needs her family. They are both clinically depressed but both trying hard because they really do love their happy mate.
The other two, so very talented and hardworking. Burnt out from hard work, huge changes and stressors that would break anybody ( like not being able to walk down a street without being mobbed ) . They are annoyed at happy bloke for being condescended to.
The happy bloke just didn't have the perception or people skills to get his band back together.
All the people around them, the staff, they weren't friends and weren't going to say anything.
This is a brilliant doco about people.
4 hobbits
ps, they showed yoko doing some calligraphy, she's very good. n/k
Tomorrow will be hot too apparently… tonight I’ll make some jelly and maybe some custard.
I have zooper doopers but don’t like the harsh cold especially on my teeth. There’s no way I’ll finish before they expire. I wish I hadn’t frozen the unopened pack… Could have donated that
KFC nugs eaten. I have been to Bunnings twice and hung one picture.
Chips and a G&T… Now searching for something to watch.
thanks for using Leebra!
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Father dead. Zero clue what to do with this information. Boyo no help would be celebrating demise of his.
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