Melbourne

Hi

Tram is packed like sardines, uncomfortably warm, and complete with ticket checkers (st Kilda Rd City bound) 🤮

And I've just given Jeff Bezos money because I need a foldable chair for PAX (and well for whenever I'm walking somewhere and there aren't any seats) and they have some that are available before PAX and are decently priced (I could buy a similar one from Kmart for cheaper but it's not available anywhere near me sadly).

I saw a tiktok explaining that there are a lot of venomous snakes out in unprecedented numbers for this time of year (because of the heat) and that 9 dogs in Geelong and the surrounding area were bitten by venomous snakes in one day. So can the dog owners of this wonderful thread please be super vigilant and keep your precious babies safe.

Edit: just to add, this is not to villainise snakes but to warn people to keep their dogs close and on leads so they don't make snakes feel threatened. There is a training program you can enrol dogs in that teaches them to keep away from snakes. It's called Snake avoidance training.

RIP Gippy... Forever broken and tormented

Re-discovered (read that as remembered) Lower Decks the other day. Finished S2 a while ago and never went back.

S3 is a delight and I have all of S4 to look forward to.

wInNiNg

I have slept like shit. Long day ahead fuck

:)

I ordered Nacho ingredients on ubereats because I'm home sick, a delivery person accepted but has not moved at all since, to even get to the supermarket. This is a major first world problem for me. Haha.

In bed with the electric blanket on. I know Melbourne weather well enough not to be fooled by an early warm burst in September. Cold nights ahead. Electric blanket stays on the bed until cup day.

Ants were swarming in the kitchen last night and got into my cat’s bowl. I had to throw out a bowl of expensive kibble and couldn’t find the bottle of Ant Rid. Of course I notice it’s gone after sending the Bunnings order.

In the meantime I cleaned up the ants in the food area, fired off a Coles order and moved a borax and icing sugar bait to the spot where they were coming in. That was a diy cockroach bait courtesy of Smeg but curious to see if it works at all. Maybe they’d be more enticed by borax in honey.

Then I put the fresh biscuits in a small heavy ramekin with tall sides, and sat it in a wide low saucer bowl of water creating a moat. (Normal bowls floated and wobbled sideways creating a point of contact. Biccies weren’t heavy enough alone.) Adding one drop of unscented dish soap to the water was hopefully enough to cut the surface tension so they can’t just walk over the ‘skin’ of the water like some insects can.

I hope kittenface doesn’t drink the soapy liquid. I hate ants.

I’ve also been seeing fruit flies. Time to put diluted apple cider vinegar in an empty bottle with a drop or two of dish soap. And either leave baking soda sitting in the drain overnight chased by a kettle of boiling water, or use actual drain cleaner.

Ah nothing like potato chips and a sandwich as the ultimate lunch combo

What the hell? The Minecraft hut was randomly struck by lightning leaving a single flame, I ran towards it but an announcement immediately popped up that the cat inside

tw animal death

burned to death

Everything else was left untouched. No damage, just the cat gone. That was just bullshit.

Now I'm regretting leaving the cat sitting inside on the bed where I thought it would be most safe :(