Melbourne area
Min 11 Max 22 Showers increasing. Possible rainfall: 0 to 6 mm Chance of any rain: 80%
Partly cloudy. High chance of showers in the evening. Light winds becoming south to southwesterly 20 to 30 km/h in the morning.
Fire Danger - Moderate
Sun protection recommended from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm. UV Index predicted to reach 11 [Extreme]
Crisis averted, I spent the entire late arvo and evening sans phone thinking I’d left it in various places, got home just as Marge hit and still couldn’t find it, major panic thinking I’d need to retrace so many locations in the dark and rain - thankfully I could whatsapp someone on my desktop to call it and found the damn thing sitting on the top of the loo. Honestly!
I’ve done a shit tonne today including sneaking into the office to use the dishwasher for the collection of takeaway boxes I’ve accumulated in the last 4 weeks and doing 2.5 hrs of work while it dried; I’m so tired now and need to put new sheets on but God, if this evening wasn’t a message from the universe to stop procrastinating and set up the new phone already… urgh!! Shops, sheets, dinner, phone, sleep. I got this.
BTW it says 13C outside, still feels like a stuffy 23C in my unit despite windows open all day, goddamn this stupid heat box.
If your phone is advanced enough for voice activation you can call out to it and ask where it is.
Or if you’ve got a smartwatch many of them have the ability to electronically ping the phone from the watch.
I tried asking my phone where it is just to see what would happen, and it started talking about the history of my suburb and then said it’s the only phone linked to my account
I say Hey Siri, where are you.
She’ll reply with “im here”
I guess the history of my suburb is a lot more words than that, so probably more helpful. But I’d probably expect it to play the lost phone chime like it does if you log into find my phone and click play sound
BTW it says 13C outside, still feels like a stuffy 23C in my unit despite windows open all day, goddamn this stupid heat box.
Yup. Love that uninsulated apartment living 🙄
Very glad you found your phone! I lose mine at least 3 times a day lol; it’s black and so is a lot of my furniture, so it camoflages well 😅
Ugh and is yours carpeted as well? Haven’t lived in an almost fully carpeted joint for ages and it’s driving me mad.
My new phone cover is bright red precisely to reduce the likelihood of this happening. My new phone that I have still yet to set up… and might not get done tonight as I’m only just having diner and frankly need the energy for work.
Yep!! Carpeted and carpet moths!! FML lol!
Tonight was a very interesting experiment (and unfortunate lesson). The males of the house wanted Hungry Jacks, but Miniest wanted ravioli. So I ordered the takeout and got to work cooking the ravioli and making a simple Napolitano sauce to go with it. Her ravioli was ready and eaten with dishwasher loaded while the dasher was still waiting for the order. Then when the order arrived it was missing half of the items! Mr P’s burger was soggy and cold and his drink wasn’t cold. Had to reorder and wait again. A lesson that so-called “fast food” ain’t fast at all sometimes, and you’re better off with even a simple thrown together home cooked meal than that garbage.
I’ve gone off the whole uber eats thing. If it isn’t cold, missing items, the driver put his dirty fucking hands in my meal and started snacking on it.
I’ve decided if we’re going to have that kind of thing then we have to eat it there, seems to be the only way they don’t stuff it up. Too much disappointment for the money spent.
The boys need their head checked for wanting such rubbish when you make such delicious food (and you offered - not like they’re demanding home cooked meals from you at all times even when takeaway would give you a break).
Boyo is quite Uber Eats-pro after a single male life, but whenever he suggests it I’m like “okay, but we could just do x instead” and it always turns out better than when I’m lazy and go “sure, get that.” So very few things are worth getting delivery, no matter the app. Burritos are absolutely the expcetion.
I’ve got the big three drive throughs nearby at spaghetti junction so I’ll just go and get it if I’m eating it. I only really go if there’s a good deal in the app which I can’t uber anyway.
Perfect weather for an early night.
I'm le tired
That’s not a bad idea. Pat the cat to fall asleep lol
So have a little nap… and fire off ze missiles tomorrow, is okay.
Marge is here! Thank goodness.
yes, the garden has been so dry
and we need it to put out the fires
Rains! The Marge is here!
I’m so annoyed I can’t do dairy anymore. Thankfully generic bricks of soy milk are available and taste ok but everything else costs a fair bit more for less.
I miss those big tubs of basic home brand icecream and bulk yogurt. Also I would have liked to use the containers to plant in.
I really miss the coffee and grand marnier ice cream
Grand marnier ice cream? Tell me more. Where would one find this icecream?
So sorry this happened to you. It’s hard when you crave a food you can’t have. But if it’s any consolation, you’re not missing much with the icecream. Enshitification means some of those ice creams have so little dairy in them they are not even allowed to be called ice cream anymore. It’s ’frozen Dessert’ or similar phrases.
Last day of work before Christmas is over, yay! Due to my work schedule my family is celebrating a day early, so tomorrow is Christmas Eve for me. Then back to work for real Christmas Day. It always feels slightly odd to be on a slightly different timeline from everyone else, but it is the time spent with family which is important, not which day it is on.
Wow the wind behind the rain is quite chilly. I got the rain-protected windows open to let it in the house. Inside temp dropping rapidly.
sky ugly
Sky weeping
Sky ugly crying.
It was pretty before. Pink halo around orangey pink sun.
Sky over here has been smoking
ComfyAnd cute!
Hmm smells like smoke outside
Potentially doxxing where I work but I’ll be out of there soon, I don’t really care. Christmas always brings out the crazies.
retail shenanigans
Customer: you should be stopping everyone who exits the store like they do at Costco.
Me: I’m trying my best but our exit isn’t set out like their one. I can’t stop everyone.
Customer: well you’re not doing your job properly.
Me: OK
Another customer: this is a 17 year old girl and she’s doing a great job, don’t listen to her
(I’m quite a bit older than 17, time to start the anti-aging so I look 17 for as long as possible?)
First customer: calm down, you sound so angry. I’m a clinical psychologist that works with children.
I wanted to say and probably a shite one at that.
customer shenanigans 2
customer returns a pair of thongs and I go to put them with the clothing returns
Customer: I can put those away
Me: no, don’t worry about it. We can put them away
Customer: scoffs I do it all the time for people at Coles and they love it. This is the first time someone has said no. Let me do it, I like being helpful.
Me: thanks but you don’t have to, besides, they don’t have a hanger on them
Customer: raises voice why are you picking at me? I put the hanger away in a specific spot in the store, let me put them away.
Me: gives up
She ended up actually putting them back. The register people said she had to be served at register 1 and not any of the others because she has a thing with numbers.
another one
The manager that was on decided to close the door 10 minutes before closing. It had been dead for the past half an hour. They aren’t supposed to do that but anyway. We all go to clock off and leave at closing.
There was a customer behind the door.
Customer: your website said you close at this time. Why is the door closed?
Manager: incomprehensible
Customer: this is ridiculous, I should get the item I want for free.
Manager: you can’t get it for free but I’ll let you buy the item.
OMG eye twitches
I’m sorry you had to go through that :(
I don’t know how you survive this crap day in, day out - thank goodness you’re leaving soon!
In your opinion what is the worst alternative milk out there? For me it’s coconut milk. If you add that to hot chocolate it does not taste like a Bounty. It tastes like Reef sun tan oil.
Coconut milk is for curries, not tea.
Preach. I vomit at the idea of coconut milk as a cow milk replacement for tea and coffee
Almond!
I second almond. Can still remember my disappointment that it didn’t actually taste like almonds, which I love.
Slightly alternative take: alternatives to coconut milk. Evaporated cow with coconut essence is utterly unacceptable!
How does one evaporate a cow? Do you have sharks with laser beams or something?
Yes. And a hamster with goggles running an industrial salad spinner.
I don’t mind coconut milk or cream as long as it’s used in cooking like curries or coconut rice but I hate desiccated coconut in meals.
I think almond milk or soy milk.
Have tasted almond milk in coffee and it made it taste funny but I had no choice at the time.
Almond milk. Dunno why but it fucks my stomach up.
Rice milk is absolutely putrid.
Rice milk is for hair.
Second this. I can do coconut as desiccated or flaked - churned into mulk is so not my thing. And I avoid soy, almond and oat milk unless dining with vegans (which rarely happens). Gimme honest cow juice - full fat for preference. And my cholesterol is considerably below the average for my age so the Purity Police can just shove it up their jumper. This does not include the genuinely lactose intolerant of course. But there are so damn many people out there doing I’m A Special Little Petal that the red mist comes down over my eyes with very little warning.
My kid prefers lactose free milk which means cows milk without the lactose. So many times barista will say “yes. We have soy, oat…”. 😡
Feels. I don’t mind lactose free cow milk - nearly indistinguishable imo. I just can’t stand the posturing over plant based mulks by the terminally inane. A genuine reason to use plant based is fine - it’s the posers that make my blood boil.
I can only tolerate good soy milk, if I must (now that I think of it it’s been a longgg time) Fuck all the rest. I drink black coffee most of the time, and if I occasionally have one with milk it’s always cow milk. I don’t eat cereal and the non-animal yoghurt etc is weird.
Fresh made soy milk is delicious and is nice when made into desserts. But it’s not a substitute for cows milk.
non animal yoghurt is just horrible
Fellow black coffee drinker here and I actively dislike any milk in coffee. Why is it sometimes weird when people are doing a coffee run and ask us why we only want coffee and hot water and if we’re sure?
Ya idk. That doesn’t happen very much anymore for me at least.
One of my favourite ways to have coffee is iced long black - made with sparkling water. 😍
Out of those I’ve tried (soy, almond, oat), soy is at the bottom, oat at the top.
Interesting! I much prefer soy milk over cows milk and find oat milk so sweet that it’s a luxury / occasional thing.
Oat milk sweetness isn’t all made the same, there’s unsweetened versions you might like more. I usually buy the barista varieties to have with coffee, sometimes over cereal, they’re not overly sweet. On its own is not nice.
I’m a cow milk drinker, but too much in a day makes my stomach upset, so I sub with oat when needed.
Same. Anymore than 2 cappuccinos a day makes me queasy sometimes but I can drink tea all day long because I only have a splash in there.
Yeah they’ve started making a lot of non-dairy icecream and yogurt from coconut milk.
It’s already so expensive and perishable I rarely ever buy it and because of coconut milk it now tastes gross too
Edit: Almond milk is both watery and kind of perfumed. Don’t like it.
I’m also not wild about oat milk, yogurt or icecream either. Porridge is good just not as a stand in for these
almond milk is an ingredient in old medieval recipes but not as a replacement for cows milk
Alternative milk?
That’s what it’s called in the biz. I dunno. Give me the full fat mama cow juice any day.
God I love a fresh full cream.
I remember milk when it was delivered everyday in bottles with foil caps.
There was no such thing as skim or homogenised and the cream would settle on the top and was delicious with breakfast cereal.
That fake milk stuff. Almond milk etc
Nooo. Listening to my audiobook and the sweetest character, Fuschia, died. Gormenghast is such a good book that I get invested in the characters.
I recommend the TV series. Christopher Lee plays Flay. If you like Mervyn Peake you should check out China Mieville.
Bad idea to get some fresh air about 15 mins ago.
Smoky?
Edit: oh, wet. It has just arrived here. I did not realise we were expecting wet.
So, so incredibly soaked.
As in my skin was wet underneath my clothes :(
That NBN box thingy hasn’t moved from sunshine West since it was scanned there for the 12th or 13th time on Friday. Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing. It could be good, cause they might have already dumped it at wherever the local delivery facility is ready to be scanned in tomorrow morning, or maybe they’ve sent it back to Adelaide (it took 3 days to/from Adelaide, so it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a scan at 2:30 this morning through Adelaide again)
In any case, if it doesn’t arrive tomorrow, I’m just going to call up the ISP again and ask for a new one and then return this one to sender whenever it does eventually arrive
PM me if you give up. Might, very might be helpful.
Cheers fishy, I know I brought it on myself with the redirection, though
I admire it’s perseverance I must admit. It reminds me of me. It started out somewhere shit (Sydney, for it), made it somewhere decent (Melbourne) but didn’t realize it, so got scared and ran away to Adelaide where it got lost and confused and very very frightened. But it persevered and made it back to Melbourne, but kept getting bounced from suburb to suburb like a displaced rat. And now it’s almost at it’s forever home, but isn’t sure about it. Will it learn to trust and go find forever happiness, or will we need to wait until the sequel?
Edit: this is a joke for whoever who needed to hear it. Not meant seriously. Lighten up a little! 😆
