Yarrabyte's gone missing again. Last seen behind the tapestry wool in Spotlight. No way of knowing if still there. Should we send out a search party?
Discussion Thread ๐๐งต Friday 24 October 2025
a year ago by TheWitchofThornbury2 to c/melbourne
Yarrabyte's gone missing again. Last seen behind the tapestry wool in Spotlight. No way of knowing if still there. Should we send out a search party?
Mental health break. Too much responsibility.
Possible gastro.
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I has new friends thanks to pizza:
The friends:

The pizza:

They're not quite at the stage of the one down the beach (who just does whatever it wants). It's a start.
Which calls for a rave choon
elastic band round the handle of his only
I'm sorry this made me laugh. What colour is it and what colour does he think it is?
Oh classic. You should put a little sticker on his.
Yeah last I saw Yarrabyte was cracking into the sewing machine oil and chatting up the computerised Singers. Probably still hungover
I have successfully revived the robovac! Of course we now have the same cat based problem as before, the LittleOne just cannot leave it alone to charge. Off to internet ways to disable the too tempting Ding!
I need to grab one of those for fluffball to ride around on when Iโm at work lol
That is fucking adorable lol
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7/10, ho hum
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The shopping has all been put away. When you do a major shop monthly that takes quite a while. Sadly they didn't have the bag of potatoes I ordered and for some reason they decided they couldn't substitute them. Is there a major potato shortage I am unaware of? Fortunately I am not completely out, but I will have to go low potato for a while.
Other substitutions today include giving me red curry paste instead of yellow and a different cut of beef which won't work well for what I planned. So I'm making red curry beef instead of yellow curry chicken, and will make a different style of chicken curry from ingredients I already have.
This afternoon I will be doing some packaging of meat for the freezer and a few other food preps, and hopefully get a bit of gardening done too.
Yes there is a potato shortage. Something to do with a drought in South Australia.
How very rude of the universe to do this to me. This is one of the downsides to moving house, I would have had some from the garden if I hadn't done that.
Given that Ballarat is right in the middle of Victoria's Big Potato district, you should be able to find some in specialty shops. Try the local shop in Trentham or Ballan. Cost per kilo will be astronomical (at least $3 per kilo), but the spuds should be nice & fresh and mega delicious. Yes, seed potatoes are grown all around Buninyong and Ballan and Trentham for most of Vic & SA. Ditto horseradish and parsnips. Something to do with the height above sea level preventing some diseases from getting into the seed potatoes. Plus fairly reliable rainfall at zigacktly the right times of the year and a very reliable cold season.
I quite like sweet potatoes in rich dishes such as stews and curries.
Here's my flex. I have 10 medium sized spuds ready for mash with my lamb chops for Sunday feast day.
WHEN WILL THERE BE A FOOD QUIZ?
UNDER NEPOLIAN III WHAT WAS THE MOST EXPENSIVE DINING UTENSIL MADE OF / ELEMENT.
*Napaleon oopsies.
**Nupolion.. fuck we're getting there.
Neapolitan?
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That's always a surprise to me.
It's bloody difficult stuff to refine without electricity, which wasn't available until relatively recently. Kaiser Wilhelm III had a special helmet made of gold and aluminium and the gold was the cheap bit.
WHEN YOU SET ONE UP
Alright. I may have a quiz game or ten. When I can be fuck typing, I'll entertain youse.
Deal.
Another quiz 6/10
Is there a rave choon for that?
yep and I'm glad you asked :)
Excellent
under my rock by patrick star with sponge bob https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7T5GBalllI
6/10 really lucky guesses
show off :)
8/10 got lucky with one, and unlucky with another. Also paid the smartypants price for the other wrong one.
I think Seagoon is gonna do really well with this one. No pressure.
I think Seagoon does well at everything
Very true.
I'm disappointed for you ๐
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Just cracked a chinotto
GOAT soft drink
Pizza is here, music apps installed, all my shit from band rehearsal last night is plugged back in.
Fuck yeah Friday night. Cheers โค๏ธ
Cheers ๐น
4kg onions = 31 serves of caramelised onion. That should last me a while.
I am about to make a really big batch of caramalised onions. There will be tears. ๐ง ๐ญ
Edit: 4kg of onions sucessfully cut and in the saucepan to caramelise. There were tears, but not as many as I feared. Now I can start dealing with some less defensive vegetables.
Sharpened your knife?
Knife was sharpened. Onions had the ends cut off and then straight into water to be peeled. They were then sliced in the food processor, which was opened under the exhaust fan to put into the pan. I managed to get away with only needing to wash my face to end excessive teariness once, which is pretty good for me as I seem to be very sensitive to onion.
Do you freeze them or is this for a specific recipe?
I freeze them. Most of them end up in toasted sandwiches.
I wish that was all it took. I am very sensitive to onion and end up in tears cutting them as a regular occurance. With large batches like this tears are guaranteed.
Mr Woof's really not doing his guard dog duties well today. There is someone at the front door dropping off the groceries and he's just nonchalantly wandering around the back yard.
Edit: I just left him unattended with some of the shopping bags for a moment. Instead of getting into the lamb roast that was in one of the bags he thoroughly investigated the box of long life milk. He's just not dogging properly at all today ๐คฃ Maybe he just needs a good walk.
Needs a reset
Dude check out ik multimedia. If you buy amplitube 5 for 30 bucks you get to choose another 42 plugins for free!!!!
ooh been a while since I've seen a group buy that's a good deal!
Looking at their website I had no idea they're also leaning into hardware these days lol.
Right? I wouldnโt mind one of those arc microphones but a bit out of reach at the moment lol
Iโm going to grab amplitude and see whatโs on offer. I mean can always go to news but wouldnโt hurt to own a couple.
I grabbed em. There's some real useful ones like T-racks 6 and a few other mixing plugins
Todayโs gone well so far. Let this continue
Amen
get lost or something might happen
Japan is super safe.
I'd say ditch the tour and just organise it yourself. Getting lost is half the fun :)
I've been lost many times, just find a main road, they often have maps or duck into a cafe and ask
if it's bad grab the closest taxi and ask to go to the nearest landmark you know
or to your hotel. Take a business card from your hotel's front desk and pass that to the taxi driver
Tours are great but you pay a premium for having everything taken care of you. Also, less flexibility in your trip. I love solo travelling but I understand the thought of it is super daunting. Japan is a great place to have your first experience with this - it's very safe (taking the usual precautions you would anywhere else). Having to navigate a new place yourself is part of the experience, you can do a lot more than you think. And there are other ways to connect with solo travellers. I'm not coming from this with the female perspective though, you can do research on other solo female traveller experiences in Japan to see what it might be like.
You can plan your own holiday and part of that might be organised day or two day tours if you are interested. It might be cheaper and easier than renting a car for longer trips.
get a big tour guide book and see what you want t do, DK or frommer is good, lonely planet is clueless. Booking is so easy now because internet.
Think of it this way, you live in a really big city so you already know how to do this :)
Urgh my microwave died. Do I get a fancy one or a cheap simple one. Convection and airfry seem to be things in microwaves now. e: hmm 3v3 votes. Imma see if the next Aldi has the convection on sale else I'll get a $50 700W baby microwave, babies are less than 20Litres yeah?
I have a Samsung. It's small. 2 things it doesn't do is large popcorn bags and microwave rice standing up (I lay it on It's side. It does the job). Go with one that microwaves, grills and bakes.
Cheap. The expensive ones die twice as fast in my experience. Currently have a Westinghouse, after a Samsung died 2 weeks after the warranty expired. Have always paid $$ for Sharp, but the cheap Westinghouse is doing a great job.
It's 99% re-heating meal prep or cooking poppadums so I don't need a heap of space.
I have never used the microwave for tea or coffee.
I lost the containers I put my caramelised onions into to freeze. I searched everywhere without any success and decided to go to the backup plan of ice cube trays. Then I remembered where the containers are - in the pantry, right next to where I have been working all day and very visible. Fortunately I remembered before actually packaging the onions.
I like the little containers because they are easy to throw one in for lunch at the last minute if I've been a bit lax on preparation. I've always got some sliced cheese and bread available at a minimum, throwing on some caramelised onion makes a great last minute toastie. But ice cube trays work too - I have a few in different sizes and freeze things like herbs and tomato paste, very rarely actual ice.
It's bloody beautiful outside, I'm going to find some "work" to do away from my desk while it lasts!
updating printer drivers ...waiting
oh ffs
processing .....
and went to print out my PT exercises, my PT did not do what I asked, which was to send pictures and text. She sent me an app to subscribe to, which I will not do.
That's really annoying.
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Hello chef! Hot toast with babaganoush with a fried egg on top and coffee please.
Yumm. Thanks chef!
The best beef pie ever please
Bubble tea with extra bubbles, please
Coles didn't have two satay chicken skewers so only supplied me with one. Which is slightly annoying, as one's not really enough for a meal.
Except when I went to pack everything I discovered there actually were two in the package. I'm not sure what happened there, but I guess "yay, free chicken skewer". If they wanted to give me something free it would have been nice if it was a move expensive item though.
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I wanna let youse know YarraByte is with me and we are getting pissed together. They may not turn up for work tonight because my parties can get pretty wild.
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