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I'm taking the pressure off. No art, just sharpening pencils. That's my hobby now. /s
It also leads nicely into whittling and woodwork. If I had a slab of wood, glue and sandpaper I could even carve a handle into one end and make my own sharpening sandpaper block. I have some fence staples to hold the paper layers on. And then that could lead into making one for knives or making strops...
But no more physical hobbies or tools. I just run out of energy and drop them.
Some duct tape on the back of a strip of sandpaper can help it last. Write the grit # on the tape.
Have you found this guy on YouTube? Alphonso Dunn He also likes a whittled pencil. Also, he's got some good tutorial type videos.
Beers, music, and the new update to Slice n Dice. Perf Saturday evening
What beer? I'm downing Pirate Life XPA and it's goooood
Look Uluru would be interesting to see. Problem is it's not all that cheap to get there, nor is the accommodation or anything around it.
Out of curiosity I looked up flights from Melbourne to Alice Springs. The absolute cheapest was something like 678 dollars. That's not far off the cost of an international return flight to many places in Asia.
If you have limited time and budget it just doesn't seem worth it to me.
The young Seagoons drove there from Sydney last year, said it was totes worth it. It's very very far.
I went there back in 1991 - budgeted a week's stay in Alice and side trips to Uluru and Kings Canyon - both were mindboggling and a week wasn't long enough. If going, do it properly. Either fly or drive there, and reckon on spending at least 10 days seeing things in the area. There's a lot to see. Some crazy good museums and art galleries too. If driving, take a 4wd or a VW Kombi - the roads are NOT good. I went in September, after the first fall of rain in several years. The wildflowers were off the planet incredible.
I'm going to the chemist for more robitussin, any other chest infection things I should get?
Garlic, horse radish and vit c if mucous is an issue. Will dry it out and stop the post nasal drip that makes you cough.
Humidifier and eucalyptus/tea tree oil. Just a bowl of boiling water and a towel over your head will do if you canβt get one. Liquorice is an expectorant too.
My dad's cure was hot milk with butter, honey and garlic.
It won't not work.
I feel both our dads are kind of in the 'fuck that guy' category. At least you live on the other side of the planet.
Replace the butter and garlic with fresh lemon juice and ~40% alcohol and we're talking.
Funnily enough this recipe dates back to when I was a kid AND my old man is a full on alcoholic. This may be the only time that alcohol is not involved in a home remedy of his.
You're not wrong about living far from him.
Haven't spoken with him in a few years and feel like I'm missing nothing.
I just stopped talking to mine a few weeks ago. I realised every interaction was basically him shitting on me and being amused by it, and that I'm in my 40s now, am I going to listen to this shit for another 30 years?
