I'm on the plane and about to go... I'm just gonna make this trip work! Au revoir.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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eee jello.
I hope you have a great trip, let us know you're ok after you've landed and sorted all your stuff out.
Bon voyage ๐ฝ
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Well after several delays and 3 flights and a long bus ride, over 24 hours from leaving home we are FINALLY at our first accommodation in Japan and I am ready to eat 50 convenience store meals and then sleep for 50 hours. Trying to bust out the Japanese after so long is breaking my brain. Next few days will be full on soaking up the atmoshere so I might be incognito over here. Thank you all for the wonderful messages this morning.
I still have some question marks for the second part of my trip but I've got plenty of flexible options and I'm not feeling quite so stressed out about it now...
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My dad changed his name and this was in the 1950s. At home he still kept his name.
And I've moved continents twice, each time locals adapted my name into something more familiar to them. It upset me at first but then I understood it was about acceptance into society and I felt that's a good thing.
Alrighty. One referneces down. One to go!
Still not getting my hopes up because of the police check but who knows, they might be understanding.
Hopefully.
If you've been clean for 7 years (I think) you can have your police record zeroed, wiped clean. Might be worth it for just such situations.
It's been 9 and a half years. I'm definitely going to look into that.
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Expert on abc radio saying nucular. Sorry, canโt take him seriously.
Shout out to PTV for using a replacement bus driver who doesnโt even know where he is fucking going. Cheers to the passenger who helped him out with google maps. If I didnโt have to fix something in the office Iโd have already turned around and gone home.
So far that's never happened to me, but it's always fun when I'm stuck standing and the bus driver thinks he's in the NASCAR... You haven't lived until a bloke who thinks he's Michael Schumacher takes a roundabout at 60 while you're clinging onto a rubber handle that's older than your grandmother and disintegrating in your hands for dear life
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Today's project inspired by recent events: I have bottled 6 single serve arauras.
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I'm about to try dragon fruit for the first time. Brb.
Update: interesting. Not bad. Not flavourable. A bit like kiwi fruit's mute brother.
I found it pretty tasteless, I bet it tastes better when cactus ripened and in a tropical country
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Pretty is where it's at, I think. Looks lovely on a fruit platter or part of a cheese board - really shines there. As a fruit in and of itself - meh. The red sort is tastier than the white sort I find.
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I have apparently passed the vetting (haha) process to do dodgy art for Pets of the Homeless in a few weeks. If you wish to charitably donate and have your fur/feather/scaled friends artistically demolished There is an FB event thing on the 14th of next. [not linking because FB]
I am full of pasta and regret (that I didn't eat enough for lunch and then stuffed myself with pasta). Was yum though.....
True
Made in Satan's image ๐๐
I'm thinking of making sweet and sour pork using a jar of Kan Tong. Once upon a time I tried chicken tonight (some sort of "creamy" concoction) and that put me off jar sauces for life but I'm willing to give Kan Tong a go.
Mama's making Kan Tong, doesn't take long for the word to spread around.......
We usually opt for a jar of something from the Asian grocer. I find them much less sweet.
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Sleep well everyone. ๐
Pakige
Stuck at home with COVID, I am dangerously close to doing a lot of unnecessary online shopping just for the excitement of a packidge
Depending on how eco friendly you are, you can pay 4 bucks for a onepass and then order a 60 cent Chupa chip from Kmart and they'll send it to you in a giant box
this is oddly tempting...
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In exactly 20 minutes (as of the time of writing, closer to 10 at the time of posting lol), apple with change the number on my iCloud account and let me back in. In preparation, I wiped my MacBook then forgot to do the updates. I never upgraded it past Mojave because I wanted my 32 bit app support they deprecated in Catalina, so when I wiped it it went back to high Sierra. Unfortunately though, I couldn't even install it because my clock was years behind so https wasn't working.... I had to do some weird shit messing around with installer logs and nvram to force it to download over http
I can apparently go to Monterey, but I'm not sure about it. I've always known Mac as OSX, and I'm not sure about this new OS that looks like a glorified iPad, but it's gonna take 7 hours to install (โฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธ Australian internet) so I guess I have time to think about it
I understood some of those words. Grew up Mac only but stopped when the weird multicolour jelly ones came out. Do have an emulator to play Dark Castle and Fools Errand though ๐บ
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Stupid phone! Why is the mute button where my ear can turn it off?! Not great when calling emergency.
One of my workmates have enlightened me to some spices that they reckon taste like KFC seasoning.
I reckon I'm going to have to buy some and give it a try on some chicken next week if it all works out.
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It took me one hour to write a fairly basic work email. Brain is in OFF mode today.
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Movie Review. Tudo Bem no Natal que Vem with my fave Brazilian actor Leandro Hassam. This guy is as good as Groucho Marx, no lie.
this was a surprisingly good xmas movie, sincere, not overly schmaltzy at all. A cross between Back to the Future and A Christmas Carol.
4.5 hobbits
Looks like Dragon Age Dread Wolf's release date is going to be announced soon. Such a shame. I'm going to get gastro on it's release date and be knocked out for a week or so.
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