Melbourne

Oh. Thanks, but no thanks. I don’t think I’ll be getting up today

u/Snazzy21 has re-appeared on old DT and is confused. I deleted my account on reddit - maybe someone could DM him as I can't now. Not regretting deleting account though.

I'm kicking goals today.
Coffee beans have been roasted and leek & potato soup has been made.
The new mattress topper from Koala arrived (thanks to whoever mentioned getting one sent free!) and has been put on the bed along with new sheets. Old bedding is in the washing machine.
A grocery order has been made and will be arriving later today - Coles gave me $10 off if I spend $100 via the app, so I added a couple of things to stock up on and bought $10 of freezer bags to donate to the food pantry.
I've ordered some different types of kitty litter to try, hopefully Miss Meow will approve.

And coles just told me they have substituted medium bags for the large. Seriously, different sizes are not the same thing. Annoying. Hopefully they will refund the money and I can buy more large ones.

:)

I've been trying to wean myself off this 10 year old dual-screen desktop PC for a while, it's a Win 7 and Office 2010 setup that's no longer supportable. But it's been the cornerstone of my life for a decade and I flick it on first thing in the morning because that's what I've always done. PC first, then the kettle for tea.

I bought a snazzy Win 11 gaming laptop late last year but it's barely been used. I need to sort my shit out and finally migrate to it, and today might be the day. I've got all the personal and business email accounts working, an Office 365 licence, and OneDrive cloud storage sorted. Went to Officeworks for a second monitor this afternoon (went in for a basic 24", came out with a 27" curved gaming one. Of course I did).

The new house has a study nook with a really long desk surface, so I reckon I'll be able to run both setups side-by-side, but I'm in cable hell and it's going to take some effort to unravel everything. Wish me luck, friends.

a moth/s really went to town on my good scarf

I recently bought a fancy rice cooker (upgraded from the trusty cheapo kmart one button one), and this one has a smaller cup capacity (3c instead of 6 or 10) which is perfect for 2 people who don't need huge quantities of rice. Plus it made amazing rice, including brown rice which I've never managed to cook well before! Very happy hehe

Productive day today! Was asleep before 10 (unheard of) and slept right through, had a sesh with the coach and did a bit of tidying, then walked up to the little local supermarket to get supplies and a pastry from the little South American cafe which I was craving yesterday when they were closed.
Now relaxing on the couch while I plot my next move. g

Miss Meow and Mr Woof are both insistant it is dinner time. I think they might be on to something.

Burger time.

Dark Chocolate Raspberry Tart Tim Tams, where have you been all my life?!

That is all.

I'm not looking forward to getting up this morning!

I like this using spoilers for pictures. You can replace the 2nd spoiler text with whatever you want too.

warning: cat

Image: cheetah walking

Work has been so fucking slow today I've actually done stuff a week early. It will most likely need changing but I had nothing else!!

Time for cakeeeee

Ahhh yeah, tea has kicked in. The only thing I don’t love about tea is how long it takes to hit. Unlike coffee which is heaps faster!

Huh. TIL you can't reblock someone for 24 hours after unblocking them on Reddit

So /r/melbourne is back and I'll be able to save my journal. Did back to April last night and will do some more later today. Was actually pretty good reading it back. No, "holy shit that's right!" moments yet, but fuck it was a relief.

Today I have been doing functional crap but finally set my delay and distortion pedals up with all associated leads and the pedals off the floor so the cats can't chew them. Its running through Aux 1 so I can again put a nice echo effect on stupid things like youtubes. Not as fun as when I used to wake and bake but still at least its all working again. Glad I kept that little piano stool. It was nearly taken to the opshop three times I think. Still need to cable up the dj setup amp and speakers but lost my motivation. Another coffee I think, pic attached so you know what heck I'm talking about if you're not a muso. If you are, in before the metal zone (yuck), it's fine.

Scored a nice red pvc jacket from the opshop, put some other recent jacket scores in for repairs, with both costing more than the jackets, but they're worth it. Bought one of those cat tunnels and the cats tired themselves out playing it, really happy with that. I bought a cheap one though and it's a bit shit but it'll do, they don't understand money.

Taking the last of my stuff I need to downsize out of my life to the opshop soon. Fuck... it's almost all done! I've slowed down in the last six weeks cos I was on a bender, but I've stopped drinking and back on top of things. Also finally getting the hang of liquid eyeliner which seems like a big step in the right direction.

Edit: Also nice to post the daily thread for you all, seriously, this place feels like more of a community than the old dt and it was great.

I do have to wonder whether this who separation from the DT, and whether those that stayed behind compared with those that came in here will create some kind of rift. I don't know... this kind of bullshit feels all highschool-like to me. Could be I'm over dramatising, though.

I think the poetry has infected my brain. I keep trying to rhyme everything.

Today's the perfect weather for the soup I'll be making
As well as for the slices of pumpkin I'll be baking
They'll go in the freezer for a future lunch
Cause a hot vegie toastie is great to munch

So NOW they do a poll. Far out.

I'm confused, please can someone explain? So the Reddit DT is up again and some of the regs are posting there (and some here also). There's also Florida things. What's happening? Are we staying here or migrating back? Argh!