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So like one in five desks at work have some sort of issue. Screens/docks not working. Chairs are missing or broken. Meeting rooms can't connect to the network. Absolutely amazing.
Whoever is sabotaging this, I applaud you, you mad mad bastard.
I'm also being super vocal about stuff not working correctly, making sure the managers who really push for office days hear me.
We had a monitor nicked the other week. Local IT put on the trenchcoat and went investigating. Found it attached to a gaming rig 3 levels down. We're not 100% sure what this person needs with a gaming rig, but apparently they have approval for it. Local IT called it an emotional support RTX 3080ti.
That is beyond amazing. Look, I'm guilty of grabbing the comfiest chair available when I get into the office. But i'd never consider appropriating IT hardware. That's some balls
- pruned my monstera. Decided to go with a minimalist/beetlejuice look
I want to keep sleeping wah
some winter orchids, the plants sit outside all year and I cut the flowers to bring inside
My short holiday is over. Waiting to board the plane to come back to melb. Really don’t wanna go back to work tomorrow 😭
I'm naive AF and I probably treat people with too much trust but I've recently seen some pretty ugly stuff at work. People who are nice to your face but will throw you under the bus as soon as you turn your back because you mean nothing to them. It's disgusting and I'm losing faith in humanity.
One of life's most important skills is learning to tell good people from cunts and then stay away from cunts.
So my faith is pretty intact, I just hate cunts. Problem is the stupids, too many stupids who follow cunts.
I've been burnt hard more than once so my faith in humanity is long gone.
What it is, see, is those people are dicks.
So yesterday I bought 5 new calligraphy brushes, cost $70. I bring them home and start to prepare them for use, this means soaking in water to remove the starch from the bristles. I did this and 2 of the brush handles soaked up water and exploded. I looked at them carefully. They were made of particle wood, ie sawdust mixed with glue and moulded. ffs, I would prefer a cheap brush to a fake brush.
And this is why I usually buy plastic or bamboo brushes
It's warm! Time to wash EVERYTHING
Image of boring spaghetti bolognese or as I like to call it spag 'n' ease.My family's favourite meal
Got Metro’ed pretty hard this morning. Gonna be at least halfa late. And yet the status page doesn’t show any delay. This is my 3rd run in with them in a week. This service ain’t worth 5 bucks one way.
Got to my station this morning to find my usual carpark full. There's works downstream so instead of people taking buses they're coming to our station (the filthy heathens).
Managed to tap off 2 minutes before the free travel deadline, instead of my usual 15.
My autopilot morning has been thrown out something bad.
Day 8 mate! A rest day for me so I just did my tummy exercises. Weighed myself this morning and I've lost 4.6 kg, and I can definitely feel it! Woo! I'm still overweight but I can at least hide it a bit better with my choice of clothing, whereas before there was no hiding my gut. It's really whittled down, and my bras fit better too.
My bus smells like Strasbourg but it's a beautiful day out there. I'll get to see some of it because I'm making lasagna sheets today. Hope you all have a great day!
One of those nights where it felt like I was both asleep and awake, so now I'm super tired and it's going to be a very very long day.
Tea is excellent this morning.
I was quietly panicking, trying to find my webcam. I had moved it when I was cleaning my desk, but I just could not remember where it was. Partner gets up, hobbles to the study (which I had been in 3 times already), and "Spud! It was just on the floor next to the desk."
Like, just there, out in the open. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Got it now, so alles gut! 😅
I'm back. My day has been filled with cheese and eggs. Hope yours was too.
Had a competition pop up on Facebook advertising you could "win a chance to feed your whole family for free for a year". The prize is a $2000 gift card. Just over $38 a week. Yeah it would be nice to win, but the false advertising with this sort of ad is bullshit.
I don't enter competitions these days because they're mostly personal info harvesting exercises.
Ooof. This 'holiday' is brutal. I need a holiday from it
(Family funeral abruptly happened on Tuesday, extended family are down from every where including a lot of people i deliberately do not associate with )
The people running the competition I commented on earlier got back to me. Apparently the five $2000 gift cards they are giving away are all being given to one person, they are not separate prizes. So you could probably feed a family for a year on that after all.
Anyone remember reading Cloudstreet in school? My friend and their family are trying to move, and I'm gearing up to do the same soon, so I joked that with this economy we should start our own Cloudstreet. They missed the reference though, and now I'm asking others and they're also not getting the reference.
Four bags of donations dropped off at the op shop, beachside walk done, delicates in the wash to be line dried, windows opened for the cats to disport themselves at, protein powder ordered and yellow bin brought in.
Now to take advantage of the good weather to open up the garage ~~and dodge the resident rat~~ and haul out some more stuff to be sorted.
I’m digging the plant posts today and adding my monstera with a new winter leaf
My new acupressure mat arrived this morning. I had low expectations: I'll buy anything that might give me some relief from my chronic migraines, but most of the random stuff I get doesn't help, and this looks like a torture device. And I'm not sure this will help with the pain either, but wow. I actually have energy? This could be my new favourite thing.
It's so lovely to see the sun. But right on cue my nose starts running and I can't stop sneezing... yay for early spring?
This is Sid, proprietor of Sid's Bar (my balcony where I drink and sing haha)!
Throwing into the monstera pile:
Would be 30 something years old. Completely rootbound and I ain't even gonna attempt changing that pot.
Adding my lovely desk friend who has insane aerial roots that I just keep letting do their thing!
... sorry for the angle.
SyncForLemmy is out if anyone is keen. That guy is going to make some money on the first day I think.
After that massage I'm done for today. I'm sorry but my entire being needs to completely retreat. It is functionally impossible for me to use my brain to think about anything other than lying down on the grass in the sun. Good afternoon.
(Although, I am still concerned about one very upsetting discovery: the aldi near here does not stock frozen hash browns. Granted I haven't been to an aldi in half a year because there isn't one near where I live but is the case elsewhere?!?! Thankfully, there were potato gems)
Some things making me happy today:
The Youtube Algorithm has a lit juxtaposition today.
Watching an interview with someone that has died, it recommended the latest Tom Scott video. Where people that have died are frozen.
Those temps in Sth. America be wild. Punching 30c+ in places where it's normally 14c.
Going to start the chillies soon if this is how it is. May as well take advantage of impending DOOM.
Someone started an argument at work yesterday, and its sucked what little of the "give a fuck" I had left for this week.
ADHD paralysis is believing in something so passionately and wanting to campaign about it but not having a single ounce of energy to actually start the campaign/important conversations.
