Melbourne

Yay I don't have cancer! It's been a rough week waiting for results but yeah. Fuck.

I waited until 12 ticked over to post this.. but have a look at this absolute beast of a backpack holding $84 of groceries like a champ. I've had this backpack for maybe 7 or 8 years now, taken it half way around the world twice & on countless domestic trips, and I've used it as my daily carrier/work bag and it's as good as the day I bought it.

Can fully recommend the Osprey Farpoint 40. Never felt more confident recommending something.

Has everyone opened up their house to let the cooler air in?

The man won some money yesterday so he bought me a trifle. I ♥ him.

A mystery parcel is on board for delivery today. I really wish you got the sender's name not just a tracking number with these notifications so I knew what I was getting. I have two seperate parcels with live plants expected, it would be nice to know if it is one of those so I can prepare to plant them straight away. But it could also just be the batteries I ordered.

Woke up to someone sending me a bunch of pictures of someone's kids... Hopefully it's not a phishing scam because I replied telling them they have the wrong number and that I had deleted the photos.

But holy hell what a nightmare for the parents, and also worst nightmare for me having random pictures of some kids on my phone for 5 seconds (especially as a man).

Ted Cat goes out into our courtyard every second day. He loves it so much. Sniffs all the bushes and fences then rolls around on the warm outdoor paving tiles enjoying his freedom.

Went to the doctors for my usual thing and mentioned a random rash that popped up on my face that's giving me grief, and now I'm on shingles watch... Fingers crossed the antihistamines I've been instructed to take for the next few days confirm its just weird allergy symptoms I've never had before.

I'm actually sick of Optus. I'm still pissed that like my data gets leaked but all I get is a :c soz bro. But they have cheap credit, which is $30 every 45 days, and I get a butt load of calls and text. So I guess if anyone has other recommendations for either similar price and offer or cheaper that'd be nice.

Though I do refuse to go to Vodafone because they too screwed me over years ago and I can hold a grudge.

We are heading into a cashless society they say. Do your banking online, it's easy they say. Until shit hits the fan and you can't access your funds. When the gov'ment says it's save to vote online then I'll consider it. Until then I'll stick to using my card or cash thanks.

Ted Cat likes to sit at the table. You can see how he has a little bit of a fluffy tummy.

Anyone looking for a used car? I found this lining the drawer of my sewing machine cabinet.

Optus NBN appears to be just a DNS issue, people reporting their NBN working with third party DNS provider.

I strongly recommend not using telco for DNS regardless.

FYI for those that don't know, Optus services down nationwide, effects 10 million customers as well as payment terminals, Metro trains are also partially down.

I realized I haven't been to my favourite pizza shop in many months (since before I moved). They were about a 10 minute trip, but they did the best pizza and once a month or so I'd make the hike because it was very worth it. Now I'm 11 minutes away and was going to get a pizza from there delivered. Apparently their maximum delivery distance is 10 minutes, and I'm just ever so slightly beyond their delivery area

I'm very sad now. They do the best pizza, and I'd probably be willing to catch a bus there (even in this weather), but unfortunately it would be a series of 3 buses all taking about 35 minutes + a 10 minute walk, and I don't think I want pizza so badly i'd do an almost 2 hour round trip

Oh. oh my. omg.

I wasn't paying attention but now that I finally am, there's this something I can take up that will make my future plans way easier.
But that means I should make a decision soon, and take action within 2024.

Thought I had years. Now it's just months. It's a most wonderful thing but AHHHHHH

Edit: further googling tells me walking through door A doesn't shut door B. It's a net gain. I can go back to worrying about how full my neopet is.

Well shit, that just felt like a one day weekend. Now it feels like Sunday but I have to work 😩

Sky says Kaboom! One very unhappy kitty.

Terrible job. Would not hire me again. 1.5/10. Also Bunnings guy gave me a slightly off colour.

Cold bottle of Asahi. Delicious after a hot workday.

I am trying to start a weekly discussion thread in the gardening community, so if anyone is interested please make a comment on my trial thread

rain gods washed my car

Another beautiful morning out there. I'm not used to walking in warm temperatures, I need to acclimatize - was getting hot and sweaty by the end of the dog walk, and it's only about 20 degrees.

Welp, good thing I'm not with Optus regarding the Internet. Now phone service...

I let my boss know, I should be able to get an uber to work, but I can't receive any calls or text which will be fun when I go home. I'll have to order the uber while in the office because the wifi doesn't extend very far.

Pizza troubles have been resolved! I discovered apparently their on uber ears, and Uber don't care how far away you are, if you're willing to give them money they'll keep it all, give the driver 20 cents, and then they'll give you your food

Omg it's fucking hot out there guys. Fuck.

Decided to start watching Mr Inbetween and already love the first episode. I didn't know Australia made shows like this 😄

It's kind of terrifying to realise just how much power Optus and telcos in general hold. One single outage and the entire country grinds to a halt. If there was ever a situation where Optus' or Telstra's CEO wanted to kill everything, that really could. Telstra especially could fuck everyone over, since they operate the 000 switchboardy thingo too. It'd be massively illegal, and they'd get sued into the shitter, but why does a private entity hold this much power?

I guess there's an argument to be made that a problem like this could happen even if private telcos didn't exist, but it still seems ridiculous that something this essential to how society works isn't owned and operated by the government...

Gracious, just had a meeting that wasn’t an utter waste of time. Miracle! Now back to this spreadshit of doom

I finally got around to framing some pieces that have been sitting around for ages. The cross stitch cows would probably have been unframed for about 25 years now! I got the frames for various op shops a couple of years ago, and never actually got around to using them.

The orange swirly thing has no hanger on it, so I am not really sure where to put it.