RustyRaven

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[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Banana split please.

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 6 points 20 hours ago

It has been a beautiful sunny afternoon. I took Mr Woof out for a walk and let him pick the route. Miss Meow helped bring in the washing off the line, which primarily involved rolling around on the concrete under the washing line.

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Based on the photos, police are waiting with serving trays for protestors with saucepans to arrive with a meal. They look very optomistic about likely serving sizes, so it may be a bit of a loaves and fishes situation. I presume once everything's served up everyone will sit down for a meal together and work out how to achieve world peace.

Could be worse

I've just scraped the ice off my windscreen

Midnight gnocci was great. I was a bit worried about having to cook the gnocci in the microwave, but it worked fine. I am now gnocciful and ready for the rest of the night.

It's nearly midnight gnocci time.

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've never really managed to get the hang of naps. Falling asleep during the day just doesn't happen.

The front bedroom was getting quite warm with the sun so I opened the windows to let some air through. Apparently ants were starting a nest in the corner of one of the windows, and few spiders had taken up residence as well. Windows that fully swing open to the inside are not such a good thing in this situation. Full barrier spray has now been applied around both windows and the dead ants vacuumed up.

The day has mostly been good though. I had a nice walk with Mr Woof and have done the weekly cleaning including a change of bed sheets, which are now on the line drying with another load of washing. And tomorrow is predicted to be sunny too.

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I considered it a good sign that my REA looks to be an actual adult. He was also nice to Mr Woof, even though Mr Woof was being a bit hysterical about the home invasion (he did calm down a bit after I picked him up, being the same height gives a dog a lot more confidence).

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago (12 children)

What's everyone looking forward to this weekend?

I'm working nights, but am looking forward to a (hopefully) sunny afternoon dog walk and new sheets on the bed. Plus daytime snoozes with Mr Woof and Miss Meow are always cozy.

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Life manages to be both fleeting and surprisingly long at the same time. Never put off things like travel plans because of that sort of fear, if you do you will find you've wasted your whole life fretting about things that don't happen. It's better to be prepared to cancel a plan if necessary than to never make plans at all.

In regards to the passport, your grandmother may be better off getting the full 10 years. She may not want to travel, but having identity documents can be very important and it can be a problem for older people when the documents have expired and they are not up to the trip to the post office to go through the renewal process. I've seen quite a few posts in the aged care groups I'm in from people struggling with bureaucracy because of this issue.

 

Oh where, oh where, has my YarraByte gone?

 

TL:DR The clocks go back an hour Saturday night, giving us all an extra hour sleep on Sunday morning.

 

This just leaves me with so many unanswered questions.

 

A TOTAL FIRE BAN has been declared for the whole State of Victoria on Thursday 26 December 2024.

No fires can be lit or be allowed to remain alight in the open air from 12:01 AM until 11:59 PM Thursday 26 December 2024. Visit www.cfa.vic.gov.au/firebans

 

Official VEC results can be found here

If you can't see the article from The Age because of the paywall you should be able to view it in an incognito browser tab.

 

I'm not sure how we're supposed to believe that disposal of nuclear waste won't be a problem when we can't manage systems to properly deal with the waste we are creating now.

 

Open House Melbourne will be held over the weekend of 27 & 28 July this year. The full program is being released on 26 June - tickets sell out fast, so if you are interested in attending any of the events you should book as soon as possible once the tickets are released.

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