Hold on now. We’re nearly there.
Just put down a deposit for a wood heater for the living room.
I cannot wait for winter with a roaring fire and scary movies.
Coffee in front of a fireplace is one of lifes simple treasures. even just sitting and watching a roaring fire on a cold night.
Reading too. Less screen time is one of my goals for 2024.
Lovely sunrise, hot air ballons over Carlton, biridies are up and cheeping, Bill and Ted are patiently waiting for breakfast.
I miss the Young Seagoons already. They fill the house with so much love and joy 😭
Marketplace win: this item is not available!!
Miss Meow’s unused climbing poles should also be heading off soon to be destroyed by another cat that really enjoys scratching them to pieces.
Edit: cat poles now also gone, yay!
GO BACK TO BED!
This is getting repetitive now.
I love how you assume that we were in bed in the first place 😁
Zzzzzzz
I’m just up to take some meds 😫
With bloody pleasure
Some dude on the escalator at Spencer Street just farted in my face. Pure, unadulterated methane right on my inhale.
I feel sick 🤢
light it up
I had a lighter, no idea why I didn’t think of that lol N E X T T I M E
Especially with the price of methane these days, what a waste.
I shouldn’t giggle at this image, I’m sure it wasn’t funny for you. But I can be a little juvenile sometimes.
Funny definitely! Not at the time tho, smelled like death
Hot af
Hot, yes. I choked a bit ha
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oooh they finally were stupid enough to parrot the line that “the driveway is unsafe to use”.
Specifically in regards to traffic during access and egress.
I’m fairly certain both the council and vic roads are going to have something fairly expletive to say about that…
I have been fighting with auspost literally for years. Finally just submitted a complaint to the ombudsman, sent the reference number to AusPost and my issue was miraculously fixed and I received two different apologies.
Oh that’s heartening, what was the issue?
they just stopped delivering parcels, and couldn’t give a reason why. they always gave an excuse, which I could always prove false.
yup, that’s ours. Oh we can’t access teh driveway oh there’s too much traffic oh it’s an oh&s issue. yeah when your own staff deliver shit on top of other vendors, it’s just one guy, that’s a pile of horseshit. Final straw was them demanding proof my driveway is safe to access. Based on an 8 month old comment by one driver. Ombudsman can deal with them.
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Vet is giving Gibson some pain relief just in case she hurt herself, but there’s nothing outwardly wrong.
However, I have to sedate her in advance next time as she was rather unhappy with the vet…
Excellent news!! I’m glad everything went (semi) well for everyone.
Edit - my toddler grade spelling.
According to auspost there is no driveway and even if we had one it would not be safe to use at any time of the day.
well 1) I’m standing in it right now and 2) I got six pages (now) of logs from aramex, fastway pet circle, tnt, temu, couriers please, budget direct, amazon, soilworx, civic, eco247, DHL and indeed, Auspost yourselves that says you are fulla sheeeeeet
Up at 6am for the “cat trying to puke on carpet sprint to the tiled floor”. Grrr
Urk. That pumping sound they make 🤢
Definitely feeling the mileage today. And that’s without taking one of the clients to Oakleigh for escorted shopping. 😂.
In other news, the cops asked me yesterday if I had a spare key so they didn’t have to call in a locksmith, so I took it down to where the car’s being held and had a chance to look at it - it looks fine from the outside aside from missing number plates. They’ve taken a few things that were inside the car including the bluetooth thingy, but I couldn’t tell if the radio was still there.
Just gotta wait for forensics to go over it, and then the insurance company will get it and go over it, and then all being well I get it back!Consider getting it detailed if insurance doesn’t cover that.
Doing my best to stay out of this “doctor killed in home invasion” and “Old man pushed into water” stories. Not doing a good job, I admit… but man what is going on here lately?! Be interesting to see how this plays out politically. Andrews would’ve already called a presser, announced another well-meaning-but-ultimately-useless-taskforce. If Libs had half a brain cell to share between them they’d be attacking the Allan government on being soft, and I hate to say it but that’d be a pretty easy picture to paint at the moment.
crime ain’t upticking. Reporting of crime in sensationalised ways is. The fact you went straight to the politics of it is your answer as to why.
It’s also a classic example of the availability heuristic.
Two notable youth crime events happened recently; therefore, youth crime must be increasing. It’s a non sequitur. But it does unfortunately work on the populace – and has since time immemorial.
I’m not saying crime is up. I’m saying high profile things are up. yes it sells news, but then again, a doctor being killed in a home invasion probably should be news.
Why? I don’t want to come across as cold but a doctor is a person. They’re the same as the rest of us.
Also i hate the term ‘home invasion’ it’s designed to incite panic. It was a robbery that turned violent when he caught the little cunts at it and went after them.
It’s not the government though? It’s a judicial issue.
Correct. But government write the laws. They invest or ignore public housing or rehabilitation programs, drug policies. edit: Also need to point out that facts have not baring on a channel 7 “special “investigation””
Do you think the Government should make it illegal to invade people’s homes and kill people? I thought that was already against the law.
I’ll be honest, I don’t know what the solution is. I’ll be the first to say that. I think its a balance of having serious consequences (a dude bashed a woman but was back out on bail!?) and proper rehabilitation and support services. Mental health is a joke in this country. Addiction is worse. It used to take a village to raise kids, now we have a lot of people on their own in tight economic times and we wonder why kids are falling through the cracks.
But I think we elect people to figure out solutions to problems, and instead they’ve declared this one too hard and stuck their head in the sand. I’m not worried about today. I’m worried about where this all goes in 20 years time.
The acts of the judiciary are by design entirely independent of the government. We can’t blame the government for that.
Rehab and support, as well as mental health does come under the government’s remit, however. That said, the support and recognition in these areas has improved immensely since the introduction of the NDIS. IT still isn’t perfect, but it’s the best it has ever been and is still improving.
The cost of living stuff, I’m right ther with you. It’s costing me a fortune just to live in a 3-bedroom townhouse in a reasonable area. I’m paying more to rent here than some jobs on seek are even offering. And I’m hoping to save for a deposit on a mortgage somehow. Which is going to be extra tricky, since I don’t plan to still be in the workforce in 30 years.
But, the truth is: The ludicrous cost of housing benefits far too many Australians for the government to want to tweak that knob too much. If it were suddenly possible to buy a 4 bedroom house in the suburbs for $400k again, the net-worth of a massive chunk of Australians would halve overnight.
I find it depressing. Yeah I know they are young, but there are zero real consequences for their actions, the kids are probably laughing and boasting of their horrific acts thinking they are top shit. It’ll be a slap on the wrist, released on bail and free to go do some more pushing off piers, bashing, robbing, murdering. Our government has decided this is acceptable because it’s not happening in their own back yards, so there’s no plans for rehab programs, penalties, interventions etc. It’s awful.
Melbourne/Australia just seems to be getting more feral.
Edit: Cripes, now I’ve seen about the tent cities and shipping containers being rented out with single beds inside. It’s fucked
I’m so tired and I still have two days of work 😭😱😵💀
aww
I have successfully completed two tasks today that required phone calls. I am really terrible at those - I’m not sure if it’s because I will take any excuse to delay a phone call or because the times I like to sit down and do organisation type stuff generally fall outside of business hours.
Sent the REA a pet request form earlier this week. Can they say no? How long do I wait before I chase up on my application?
In addition to the other responses, they have two weeks to respond, no response by 2 weeks = can keep pet.
iirc, REs/owners can’t deny the request unless they can prove to vcat they have a good reason.
“Renters who want to have a pet in the property must ask their rental provider (landlord) for permission. Rental providers must have a good reason to refuse the renter’s request. Rental providers can apply to VCAT for an order to refuse permission.”
https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/housing/renting/repairs-alterations-safety-and-pets/pets
-34 minutes from smoke detector person’s eta. Will they make their 2 hour window or will I chuck a tanty and put the chain on the door?
Electrical check person showed up 6 minutes early yesterday! I mean, they’d had to cancel last week, but still, will take a win!
Early might mean no pants! 15 min left. I know it’s not the tech’s fault, it’s the bloody offshore schedulers but GRUMP.
9:57 HA! Also defeated statistics by not being under 30 and a Kiwi.
