Riiight. Peter Mac appointment has confirmed that I am alive and likely to stay that way. Flu vaccine and shingles vaccine accomplished. Lamb chops for dins with potato mash & veg stir fry purchased. Time to veg out until time to cook dins dins. Or maybe YT & chill.
Cue 🎵Bee Gees 🎶
That’s great news! Really happy to hear
Thanks!
Hooooooray!!!
Hooray for still being around in the foreseeable future! 🎉
Bill having a sleep in. 💖
Just gave blood.
🥳🥳🥳
🩹🧃🍪
Eyyyyy. Looks like I get to vote on 3 May as well! But not in the Australian elections… in the Tropical Soup ones instead - which I’m not eligible to vote for from overseas. Instead, through sheer luck, I get to vote hours before I leave! What luck.
Not like it makes a difference in a place that is a de facto one party state but hey…
I have now been implanted.
Not an alien baby or anything dramatic, a dental implant. It is not too bad but a bit ouchie.
Considering one if I can afford it
Needs all those neurons to build TP forts!
The polka dot tummy is my fave lol
just begs for a tickle
One of my rental applications has been passed to the owner to look at, giving me a sudden case of FOMO. What if I accept a place and could have got something better?! I haven’t even looked at the place yet and I’m already having second thoughts. Hopefully the other place I applied for will come through for me first, it looks about 9.5/10 on my wish list instead of 7-8 ish.
I don’t know what your experience has been like up until this point, but the market as awful for renters.
Maybe go have a look. You wouldn’t want to miss out on something and end up waiting ages for another one.
I’m definitely going to have a look. I’d also rather have a certain place to live than hold out for perfection and end up homeless. But I also don’t want to just grab the first thing available and end up somewhere that I don’t feel happy.
I do have a couple of months up my sleeve, so it will probably end up being about how I feel when I see it in person. There is always that element you can’t really tell untill you are there - something to do with the way light falls and air flows and whether you can see sky when you look out the window.
still unpacking and putting things away, I’m up to repacking all of Miss Seagoon’s things.
She kept a jumper I made for her quite a while back and she still wears it when she’s here
That looks great. I’d be wearing it all the time too.
You are so talented Seagoon! Holy cow, that is an AMAZING jumper. I’m almost surprised it hasn’t been worn threadbare. Miss S is so lucky
That’s fantastic work
Gorgeous!
I’d wear it every day
Thanks. It looks great on her still. 🙂
( I followed a pattern so I can’t take all the credit.)
easter has been sorted 🙂🐰🪺
someone doesn’t like easter
Boo to them.
I got a Liberal party email in my inbox this morning. Clicked ‘modify preferences’ and noticed some of the things they’re tracking:
👀
This is actually super interesting. Consider screenshotting it all and send a tip to the Guardian. I’m sure the Libs aren’t the only ones using these predictive analytics stuff though.
This is why political patties want your email and phone number – so they can add you to a database and enrich it with data scraped from profiling platforms, data brokers, ethnicity predictors and other commercial data sources.
It’s spooky and feels wrong.
Yeah, that was first thought actually. Thought I’d consult the DT hivemind first though 😊
Interesting article in Crikey about this today ;)
Oh awesome, thanks. I knew it was weird!
An annoying thing about political emails is they’re exempt from regular opt-in and spam laws so you pretty much just have to block them. Very interesting what they’re tracking here though
So annoying.
I reported one of those Trumpets of Patriots ads and was told they were exempt from complaints because they were political no matter how awful and targeting minorities
It really made me angry how they were allowed to get away with saying such awful things and lying.
That pisses me off too. My Do Not Call and Do Not Knock are intended for everybody I don’t know or didn’t contract in some way. Unless you’re trying to tell me the house is on fire, fuck off with your exemption.
Things I dream about:
Women
Friends
My sick telekenetic saw blade that I use to murder this massive skeleton zombie that knows martial arts
Cats
Guitars
I dreamed about being outside too long and getting sunburned. Your sick telekenetic saw blade sounds much more interesting.
It’s rare I promise you. Most of my dreams are somewhat lacklustre.
For example: I just dreamed that I lost my shoes on a bus and couldn’t find them.
Riveting lol
I got an anxiety one where something bad was going down and I couldn’t get to the ‘dial’ part of my phone to call for help. Boo. Various versions of this dream pop up when I’m stressed
Dental bullshit
I let the dental receptionist know due to a constantly recurring tooth infection I needed enough antibiotics to last until my appointment in just under a month.
Script gets sent directly to pharmacy without letting me speak to the dentist - go to pick it up and it’s only 5 days worth. I only realised on pickup so there wasn’t enough time to call them.
I’m going to be ringing them in the morning and then exploring my other options if need be but already know this is going to be a clusterfuck
You might have to keep going back to them, and it may not be their fault (although they should have told you when you made the request). When I had the finger infection the doctor said new govt. regulations mean they are not allowed to order a repeat on antibiotics, even if they know you are going to need more than one pack.
Yeah, I’m keenly aware of antibiotic stewardship 😣
I wasn’t aware of the new guidelines so fingers crossed that’s the only issue. I’m hoping that I might be able to get a pack each 5 days without a fight…
This isn’t ideal for me either. But unfortunately due to being immunocompromised and having already had a root canal the infection roars right back every time I finish. Starts spreading into my jaw and neck.
I’m just trying to contain it until I can get the extraction so I don’t end up in hospital with sepsis.
lots of hugs
and keep your doc and dentist apprised of what’s going on
You betcha
I’m wondering at what point I can legally be classified as the walking dead
I think attacking people and eating their brains is the legal line, as long as you don’t get that far you’re just walking wounded.
No promises
But if that’s the legal line brains are too scarce here
I don’t know if you can still do this but it’s worth a try, if you have a regular GP ask them for antibiotics. That’s what I did when I had abscesses before I got my wisdom teeth out.
Yeah, I’ll definitely be hitting them up again. I have a telehealth tomorrow so can ask if I get nowhere with the dentist.
Just a bit worried about getting a months worth
Good luck🤞
Up with a massive pain in my stomach. I woke my girlfriend up because this was almost Go To The Hospital level but it has dropped off again now
Fingers crossed it eases up mate.
I managed to get back to sleep and only woke up a little while ago. I only feel like this when I take codine so I don’t know what has caused it
Hope you’re doing ok now
I’m better now but still not 100%
So a heads up to anyone who has a Harmony universal remote - they’ve decided that come may you can no longer update them. As in you can no longer program them at all. They’re useless.
I’m pretty sure that’s a violation of consumer law given they’re deliberately crippling a hardware device that you own…
Another rental application in. Unfortunately the inspection is today & I can’t go because of a dental appointment. But it looks perfect for me in the photos, hopefully I can be considered and get a different inspection time. The place does have too many yuccas. I’m not sure if the excessive green of the lawn is photoshop or if the previous owner did some serious watering before selling to make it look nice but I’ll be surprised if it is not dead and yellow in real life. But the house layout is great, there is a sliding door I can put a dog door insert in and an area that looks like it would be perfect to put some vegies in without much effort. So fingers crossed again on tihs one.
The other one I put an application in looks like it might be ok, but there are a lot of maybes that you can’t see in the (out of date) pictures that could make it unsuitable too, so I’m not bothering with the crossed fingers for that one.
Edit to add: this is what happens when you plant one little yucca
one little yucca, what could be the harm in that?
15 years later
15 years is about what I’m dealing with. Stick to potted ones.
Yeah, the trunks on those are massive and look like they are damaging the fence. Who knows what the roots are getting into. In another 10-15 years the small one that’s been put in against the house will be causing some serious damage too.
