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Yesterday I walked 10 minutes around my house because my watch wanted me to. Today I half jogged and half walked because I wanted to. It's a big deal for me because I suffer from vertigo and low blood pressure and weird shit happens to my ears.
I usually do a lot of walking and yoga to keep fit anyway but I need intensity movements if I'm gonna give up smoking. @PeelerSheila@aussie.zone you have inspired me.
You can do this. π€
Thank you. βΊ
My neighbour opposite just came over and gave me some of his first harvest of broad beans. So young and fresh they don't need to be skinned. Marvellous!
Yum!
struggling with emotional regulation today. The fact that I'm getting hit with a slew of bullshit (like, empirically proven bullshit, not coloured perception) is not fucking helping
ride the waves as best you can.
Just under two hours until my the first session of my assessment to see if I am on the autism spectrum. Nervous but also hopeful for some answers
Good luck! I understand how nervewracking it is. Not autism but for ADHD. I think having my school reports with me as well as mentioning my family stuff (my cousin has autism and family members most likely have ADHD even though they deny it) really helped.
Can I just say hash browns are the best.
I couldnβt resist and ate some.
Are you reading this, Aldi????!!! shakes fists furiously
All forms of fried potato are magnificent. Chips, hash browns, potato cake. But the waist line consequences are not so magnificent.
I agree. Even better in a burger or English muffin.
PANIK: The very first record my client reviewed threw up a discrepancy in my magical SQL aggregate code output compared to a manual aggregate, where I thought did everything right. Cue significant embarrassment at meeting.
KALM: I quickly realised the pattern of errors and learned something new about UNION (it removes duplicate rows - I'd included the primary ID for two tabled but not two others so if all the other attributes were the same they were excluded, d'oh).
Phew. Relieved that it was an understandable error at my level. Still rockin' it. π
I'm in the LAX Qantas business lounge with the fancy people! There's a free buffet and bar. I got some warm churros and they have serve-yourself fountain drinks with motherfuckin LEMONADE WOOO
Boarding doesn't start for another 2 hours so imma just chill in here π
Your banned from lemonade for 12 months once you get off that plane
Tough but I think it's fair.. I had 3 pink lemonades with breakfast, one last free refill of Orangeade before I left Vegas which I drank while I drove, we stopped for lunch at IHOP half way to LAX where I had a lemonade and now I am sipping my second in the lounge. I also got some spring rolls!
Anyway, I am on strictly water once I'm home until I make my lemonade company because I'll need to sample for quality control.
Edit: photo
Omg I just realised I can fill my travel cup with lemonade for the flight!! Muahahahaha
That sauce looks frightening.
So, I have the rest of the day to chill, before starting work tomorrow!
Ahhhhhhh! Finally, I did it! I still cannot believe it! Everything is coming up Spud! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Youβre gonna put potato on the table!!!
Bringin home the bacon
I don't know if I'm going to stay in this role. My 2IC is "besties" with my line manager and is a rude, arrogant prick. Even the rest of the team have noticed how he speaks to me. Everytime I bring it up with my line manager, he makes excuses for him.
On Friday he said "If I wanted to get rid of you I could. There's people I could talk to that could get rid of you. But I don't".
Haven't spoken to the line manager yet, and am honestly thinking of not bothering and just looking for another job.
Yay corporate.
Sounds like he's scared of you. Can you record any of this on your phone and play it back to your line manager?
Great idea actually. I'll be recording any 1 on 1's moving forward. Shame it's playing out this way, this place seemed great until the red flags started popping up. Even if it turns to shit I'll stick it out till my savings account is nice and healthy then skedadle.
Had another thought which may be quite inaccurate, but is this toxic little nong running something not quite kosher with the line manager? Like fraud, or do you think he's just powertripping? Might be worthwhile whistleblowing this to the next rung up above the line manager. Particularly if you have recordings. Doing so could blow up in your face, but the really senior management probably needs to know if these two are sabotaging their department/area of responsibility. Hiring staff is expensive, so I can't think of any rational scenario where this sort of conduct is acceptable, or even legal. Cos it sounds like the nong is pretending to a degree of authority that he just doesn't possess. Is HR aware of this situation?
It's been getting kinda scary on the trains recently, even for me. Every single train I've been on in the last few months has had someone being aggressive on it. Coming back from Albury there were 3 people all very much off their faces screaming at nothing and punching the air, a few days ago there was some dude screaming at me for some reason about Elon Musk AIs and that I kill Europeans because Germany was right. Today there was some lady absolutely screaming her head off at anyone that moved, and apparently I look brave enough to save people so people started standing behind me for I presume protection, which I don't mind, but that did mean I got turned into a target. A few weeks ago I was abused by a junkie looking dude at Southern cross for no apparent reason. I'm not really sure what I specifically do that always brings me trouble, I try to just mind my own business and not pay much attention
I crave green leafy things. I may have stopped at Woolies for a salad just to indulge this craving
Been a regular at the gym for the past month and am seeing progress in my legs. So. Treating myself to a pizza to undo all the good work! Woop woop
Must have a wee fire under my buttβ¦ Changed the shower head yesterday, changed over the little name plates thatβs few were all scratched up from my bike stack earlier the year and have been semi-spring cleaning in general.
Hmm, weβll see how long it lastsβ¦
Since my daughter has been home sick I have seen enough of The Inbetweeners that I care to. I thought Orange Is The New Black and Shameless was bad. Jfc.
I ask her to turn these off before her dad comes home. Hahaha.
Did my exercises this morning before I shunted the Minipeelers out the door for school. I thought, geez that was a bit of an effort.. then I remembered I did the core exercises before I went to bed last night π€¦πΌββοΈNo wonder it felt a little tougher than usual! Now lunch outside for the first time since summer ended.
Pretty sure I got sunburnt spending 20m in the sun over lunch. It was delightful
The Sun Has Corrupted You.
There is so much that confuses me about this country... The Voice, the tax breaks, the constant bickering between polparties.
But the next thing that confuses me is the 1.7 billion dollar upgrade to that vic market thingy in the city, you know, the city? the place with drug addicts, homeless people, mentally sick people and the like?
surely 1.7 billion can go towards fixing that instead of upgrading a freaking market. but oh well. this is Melbourne, go danny boyyyy.
The market upgrade includes public amenities. They're building a community centre, a maternal health clinic and a library on site.
I've spent the last year or two watching them do it
Lunch in the sun. I am at peace with this
Hmm do I go out during my lunch break to get stuff done or do it after work?
I know I'm way behind the curve, but just started playing Detroit: Become Human for the first time ever.
I've been flitting through games at the moment, not really able to settle (all the ones down loadable through my ps+ subscription), but this is actually great.
If I see one more Mazda add I'm going to be violently ill.
get adblock and you'll never see another ad
unless you choose to watch free to air television
Reading in the sun before getting ready for work mightβve been a bad idea, I'm a few pages in and already sleepy.
spinach quiche and a fresh salad for dins tonight
So a person (or people) have been tailgating residents in my building to get in and steal mail. They have also been ringing random doorbells to convince residents to buzz open the front door.
When one of our "doorbells" goes off it's stupid loud, as in I can hear other neighbours bells. Anyway, one of the randoms came back and was just spam ringing. So I walked over to my intercom and told them to "give it a fucking rest bro" lol
It's stopped, so I'm happy.
Fucking grubs.
So I see broccoli on the Woolworths website at 96cents each.
What are the chances of it being that price in store?
It's a nice and buggy day today. We haven't had one of those for a while.
Saw a dragonfly in the suburbs for the first time in years.
Although I have a gripe about the 903 bus, which came and left 5 minutes before it was supposed to arrive at the stop. Would it kill the company to have them match up with the time schedule?
Would it kill the company to have them match up with the time schedule?
Based on years of being subject to the whims and fancies of Melbourne's public autobuses I have arrived at the belief that yes, indeed, there are basements of employees, quivering in the bowels of Collins Street as we speak, held hostage to a cold, metallic, fridge-sized switch at the PTV headquarters labeled "WARNING: Switching this on will initiate the running of a metropolitan public transport network befitting of the 21st century in which private contractors are genuinely held accountable to meaningful standards".
QAnon has nothing on this shit.
