Whoohoo! MRI results came back and the neurologist says all clear. Well, his exact words were "there's nothing major" but I'll take that as a good thing. Also my psych appointment for the ADHD assessment has been brought forward from November to next week. I hope they confirm it because it would explain a hell of a lot and I can get finally get treatment.
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I cried when I got my ADHD diagnosis. And my psychiatrist was like "don't cry!" And I'm like "happy tears!". It's such a great feeling! Though of course, you have to grapple with the idea that "oh my god this explains everything. I didn't have to struggle through life!" And then you get sad again.
colander kitties
bonus cuteness
How do 2 cats fit in the one colander???? One of the mysteries of the universe. Or possibly cats have a portal to another dimension that they can tuck inconvenient limbs into on a temporary basis. I am also curious about the portholes on the fridge.
More like how did they stay in the colander? Cats are liquid
the wall between this dimension and the cat dimension is very thin on my land
magnetic spice jars on the fridge
Omg SO cute!! The ears! The tails! ALL OF THEM!!
if i fits i sits
Please continue posting pics of your beautiful cats 😻
Bill and Ted report.
Ted is a very happy cat and when not running around exploring he's chirping saying "Hi everyone, what's up?" or "Is it dinner yet?" or sitting in a sunny spot being chill or sleeping in his little bed.
Bill is not so happy but will slowly settle down.
I'll try to get some more pics today.
- nice light with the doggo this afternoon
Edit - some idiot has brought a cat to the dog park on a lead
Good news everyone the ageratum survived the night in the fridge.
The flowers for the wedding on Sun. is sorted hooray
It sounds like I'm going to have to break lease and move.
Housemate is not dealing well with uni, and keeps ranting about wanting to fight someone. When I told them to turn the tv down from arsehole levels at 6am, he started punching up the clothes horse.
Any chance of evicting HIM? Sounds like he's the problem, not you.
There are DV break lease options. Not sure if they apply here or not.
My parents bought me a delightfully funny present for the new fourby.
Edit - no idea why it flipped the image, also no idea why I can't flip it back..
PSA: Mernda & Hurstbridge lines part suspended due to fatality incident at Jolimont Station. Buses replacing trains to Clifton Hill, then delayed services on both lines. Best find another way to get home tonight. Was on the station at the time and saw the incident. Not nice at all.
Hopefully will be fixed by the end of the football match at MCG, but don't bet on it.
That little ventolin-adjacent pill last night successfully reset my lungs with no observable side effects.
I am coughing like a normal person again.
Well my day has started out badly. Was rushing out and turned out of my car port too sharply and fast and ended up damaging my rear car door and scraping it along brick work.
Fml
Dug deep enough to peel off paint and even warp the end of the rear door and the chassis a little.
Car will function still and not sure if the damage will cause any ill effects.
God I hate my life and this hurts so bad
Dab some nail polish on any scratches deep enough to reach the metal to prevent rust.
WD40 and a magic eraser block pad can get paint off from other cars and buildings and also marks. Just don't rub too deeply or else you might rub the car paint off.
I crash napped and went out late again only to catch another snail creeping towards my seedlings. He mysteriously became airborne.
Also the internet capitalism insanity continues and I’m in the mood to rant.
Long post with many links
Apparently you have to have a paid subscription to use Pantone colours in Adobe (ie Photoshop) and if you don’t pay, their colours in your finished artworks turn to black? Ruining them. I’m not aware of the fine points as I don’t use Photoshop but wtf. This is some Anish Kapoor shit. Ok it’s due to a dispute about licensing fees.
Stuart Semple has released his own versions of the colours in a palette for free, accessible through a plugin. And calling back to his dispute with Anish Kapoor, he’s included Pinkest Pink and Pantone don’t have permission to use his colours. Classic.
Also Unity is gearing up to charge game developers for customer downloads. They’re apparently apologising and somewhat? backing down now but yeah. They tried it. (They also sold a lot of stock before the announcement.)
It matters because Unity is the game engine that is taught to game developers in school, and has been used to make popular games like Rust, Fall Guys, Cuphead, Among Us and Pokémon Go. This affects devs with large projects in development and screws over smaller indie devs. Also *because it counts repeated downloads it’s vulnerable to griefing. If a demographic get pissed off at a game? What was once limited to review bombing could become actual real world debt.
It seems what happened with Reddit’s third party tools isn’t a one off. The world has changed so rapidly and it’s slipping into enshittification.
Unity is thinking about AI games.
AI art is also filling the various art references I look through, I see artists having to put anti-ai filters over their work because it gets stolen.
It’s affecting writers too. Bogus ai-written foraging guides are being sold on Amazon. Do not go mushroom picking with one of these babies OK? I think we all know how that ends up.
Famous authors are suing OpenAI as their work is getting scraped ( this is the second lawsuit apparently) and fake ai books are being sold under the names of established authors.
Last but not least there’s a bill called KOSA that will infringe on privacy (it wants ID) and target trans/queer content under the guise of protecting kids.The idea is platforms are responsible for the content each user posts so to avoid consequences anything adult in nature is at risk of being scrubbed.
I’m still getting my head around all the fine points of both bills but apparently it’s been changed to a different bill called the Online Safety Bill which also wants ID and to scan encrypted messages like WhatsApp. The UK has just passed it.
This stuff matters because Australians use sites or services hosted in America (and any other country that brings in these laws).
Edit: Oh yeah, the Pantone thing happened a year ago. It’s not new. I just found out about it
going to the state library to smash out some assignments I've been woefully avoidant of all week...... hurray
Have done about 80m of the new watering system and just hit it with 600kPa kapow mfer! Take that!
It took it.. that's great. Starting to feel a bit more confident it'll be at worst a moderate to good design.
But hearing water course through them pipes was satisfying.
All i need now are the pressure reducers / backlfow, filters, air + flush valve thingos and that's the first 1/3rd done.
If you choose to talk about something to someone that they don't necessarily care about, the whole subtext is sharing how you're feeling, right?
Ok I didn't phrase that very well. What I don't like is how I listen to people's shit and am patient with them, even if I'm not necessarily interested in the topic, yet other people wouldn't do the same for me.
Is it not a basic human decency thing to do?
I'll answer because I think I'm the only one awake. If you listen to their drivel and they don't listen to your drivel then they are narcissistic cunts. Full stop.
Morning everyone.
I have no interest in knowing how you’re all going to vote. I won’t ask that.
But there is a pretty good short primer on Aunty ABC today about what the constitution is and where the Voice would go in it if it passes
it's a real "Hoodie and loud punk rock" kind of mood today.
I am such a nong! Didn't set up a reminder to chuck a cursory amount to grow my savings balance for two whole months and missed out on like $400 of the bonus interest which is why I signed up for this account in the first place 😭 I could've really used that! Talk about stupid tax...
...oh well, can't turn back time, have put in a reminder now; I'll get this month's at least. After that, one time chunk coming out to buffer me for the rest of this year, and every month after I'll be trying to get as much interest as I can out of the remainder.
- I think someone's opinion on this gives you good idea about what sort of person they are.
I just did party pies in the microwave for 4 minutes and then in the airfryer for 5 minutes. Cuts the time in half. Work smarter not harder people.
The funny thing is yous probably already do that. I am slow. Hahaha.
Oh and they turned out fabulous.
I will not have any caffeine after 12 noon ever again unless I desperately need to
I is going caffeinateded all day for like the next three days and then think about it.
Fuck I accidentally posted in the brisbane one but I deletoed that..
But here's what I was hoping to say.
I'm getting a potao cake today and it's stoic af considering what this w/e is looking like.
edit: and the ageratum still looking okay in the fridge so I think that's an okay flower
This is ‘use up leftover veggies’ and tofu dinner. Roasted, with some chili, Cajun spice and soy sauce to serve. Very tasty!
Tastes better than it looks, lol
On hold to Cennalink. Get your bets down as to how long I'll be on hold this time around.
Edit: 40 mins plus the five minutes on hold while they entered my deets.
39 minutes the first time, then you will get hung up on. Then 85 minutes.
Friday night conundrum - fish & chips OR pizza? Just don't feel like unfreezing something.
Welp doctors are done and I was right I now have tendonopathy in my wrist. I actually hate being hypermobile.
trained my puppers to swing through the trees like tarzan:
Scheduled rest day in the exercise program today. It goes 3 days of exercise and 1 day off in a repeating cycle. However, and I'm not sure how long ago I started doing this, maybe a couple of weeks, but I started doing standing bicycle crunches whenever I'm waiting for the Minipeelers to answer a question I've asked. It goes something like, "What do you guys want for breakfast?" commence crunches while waiting for answer Child answers eventually and I cease crunches. I sometimes get quite a few in before they answer! They found it funny at first but now it's normalised. Also, I didn't realise how many questions I ask my kids!
- movie night