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Well that's annoying. I woke up super early (for me anyways) to go to Echuca on the train for the day and 10 mins before we got to Bendigo they told us the Echuca has been cancelled and the train will terminate at Bendigo with a coach to Echuca
I don't really want to do the coach but they said it's at least 20 minutes away anyway
Fancy going into labour in the mosh pit of a Pink concert.
Sheโll have a good story to tell the kid!
Six places on the list viewed (plus two not, but they're out of my price range so they don't count), four boxes and two pictures dropped off at the op shop and a quick Aldi run done.
I think I've earned a prosecco.
Anyone here old enough to remember when Rage would debut a new "unplugged" show?... I used to tape them, both on the VCR and cassette for my Walkman. Currently listening to STP Unplugged - I remember thinking Scott Weiland was so classy sipping that huge glass of red through the set, in hindsight it was probably like 3/4 of a bottle in that glass.
Edit - thinking about it, I had a DiscMan at that point but no way to burn cds. Hence the Walkman - with the auto reverse magic.
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Happy Lunar New Year!
๐งงgood morning and Happy Lunar New Year to you.๐งง
Did you enjoy your bat steak and pear yesterday? Perhaps you'd like the thickshake version.
Was thinking peaches and herb today.
That'll be interesting. With a little bit of freshly squeezed nut juice.
I'd like to share a cup of tea with a dragon before they start their duties looking after this year
Moon cheese please ๐งง
Thank you!! ๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง
For you bacon ๐งง bring many good fortune.
Thank youuuu! Good fortune to you too!
Resting with the cat. She loves being in bed all day. She's the little spoon, being cuddled like a teddy bear. And when I rustle for a peppermint she's instantly alert to get her own treat from a packet.
We're a pair of tired oldies who sometimes share a hot water bottle
The Fire Pig ๐ฅ ๐ฝ has chosen to go into the city so I the Fire Snake ๐ฅ๐ and the Wood Rabbit ๐ณ๐ฐ will go and deposit some bottles ๐พ and do something with the rest of the sunnyโ day while the Water Snake ๐ฆ ๐ runs around outside barking.
I'm having so much fun with this. ๐ณ๐ฐ isn't. He assures me he is indeed a ๐ฆ and he's sticking to it.
According to the Vietnamese the year of the rabbit is actually the year of the cat. And a lion is really just a big cat, so I think the claim is justified.
I'm playing Mass Effect 2 and being evil. My god some of the lines are hilarious!!!
I forced a shop assistant to give me a discount by standing outside the store and yelling about how they were discriminating against me because I was poor ๐คฃ
It has been enlightening listening to a spine specialist , McGill. Really changed how I think about my back, the pain and what happened. There is no such thing as an achy back, there are injuries and aggravating weakness.
seems I have stress fractures of one or two L vertebrates and a touch of a disc hernia on my left side. Ten hours a week of walking on hard footpaths, walking thru pain, with hard shoes will aggravate a weakness from prior injury or re-injure.
They seem to have been learning a lot about both the spine and pain management in recent years and a lot of the more recent information is quite different to the traditional advice. A lot of the pain seems to be caused by things like bracing in anticipation of pain, which means that learning to react differently can have major benefits. So it is not "all in your head" as it is real, physically based pain, but learning to think about the pain differently can change your physical responses and reduce the pain.
I was born in the year of the snake so yeah that's about right. ๐
I'm a goat. Does that mean I'm the GOAT?
Yesssss.
My imposter syndrome disagrees!
Year of the Monkey here. Also accurate.
My kid. Year of the pig. The universe got that right I can tell ya.
Year of the dog checking in
Ditto. Us dogs are the best!
Sssssame. My mother used it to say nasty things about me when she was mad.
Fire snake here. I think boyo is a water rat which tells you something about how useful a concept this really isโฆ
It was time to upgrade the Xbox One, so I took the Nintendo switches (which haven't been used as much as we all thought they would be) plus games and traded them in for a new series X. Ended up costing me $126 with the traded stuff, so I'm pretty chuffed about that. Not as chuffed as the Elder will be on his birthday when he gets it! The switches were just not as enjoyable to use as the 3DS was.
I seem to have misplaced my debit card. Searched high and low and can't find it at the place I'm housesitting, my own place, or the route I walked to the shops earlier today (the endpoint at which I realised I was sans card). Nobody's used it in the past 6 hours either.
Found out I could put a temporary lock on the card and I'll try looking again tomorrow. I really don't want to get a card replacement, so many things I'll need to change ๐ซค
Normally I would feel panicked or frustrated but I still feel numb (not necessarily comfortably).
I do have a mysterious craving for salmon and pizza that's come out of nowhere though. None of the pizza places here in Preston seem to do in house delivery :( not having a car sucks like that. Old Kodak it is. And just a marinara pizza with garlic bread.
Someone in the street has a very noisy car exhaust. He revs it. He idles it. Turns it off. Starts it again. Revs it, idles it, turns it off. Repeat throughout the day. When he does take off it backfires repeatedly down the street. I hope it blows up.
Legs at the gym and 1.5 hrs tennis after. Send thots and prayers pls everyone ๐
Instant Pot Bol sauce on so I have something easy to reheat and put with salad for next few days. Plus I have chopped back the monstera and am now feeling very guilty. She was magnificent but was sprawling everywhere. Now I can get her growing upwards with a moss pole and can get back use of that part of the balcony.
I've been avoiding the news but saw something awful just now. What's going on in Gaza is sickening. This shit has to be war crimes.
Itโs awful. Netanyahu is 74. My feeling is that he isnโt bothered by the concept of war crimes. He wants to wipe hamas and as many Palestinians as he can off the face of the earth, and be seen as a hero and martyr. Heโs not doing this alone either. The current politics make it seem unlikely that war crimes will ever be perused though. The world is a depressing place sometimes. I donโt know what to say except avoid the news, or if you do look, then know itโs gonna be shitty. Iโm enormously grateful I live in a country like Australia.
Watching some telly before I get a little rowdy tonight, and one of my favourite costuming tropes is when a character out of their depth goes to the tropics/a hot place (it doesnt matter what they're there for) they must have a huge hiking pack paired with some sort of plaid shirt and singlet, for men you can throw in a henley, for women it must be a skin tight spaghetti strap singlet.
Bonus points for inappropriate footwear, khaki cargo shorts (cargo booty shorts of the ladies), some sort of head wrap, they gain a collection of "handcrafted" bracelets during their tropical/hot place adventure.
and they sit on logs, drink from streams and touch everything ๐ฒ
My fave movie about this Arachnophobia.
This show is about doctors in a "jungle", so them touching everything is extra hilarious! Especially since in the first episode one of the conventionally pretty doctors goes "oh I specialise in infectious diseases".
Edit - a word. I can assure you the tv doctors are not juggling.
Just drove back into the city and there are some absolute tossbags out on the road tonight. Also, why do so many dickholes drive Audis?
Had some dicksmack nearly hit me on the ring road today...they were driving an Audi hatchback. Zoomed past me and 5 minutes later were behind me again somehow
I maintained my speed and didn't change lanes
Anytime I need the train on the weekend, itโs bus replacements. Had to drive to the next closest train line then missed the train by 1 minute. On the bright side, the weather is lovely for a 20 minute platform wait.
At the risk of being considered a spammer...
Now listening to this - DMB - Tiny Desk Concert
As a (very) amateur guitarist, Dave Matthews blows my mind with his hand positions.
