Decently chill day of work today. Got a meeting at 3, which hopefully won’t last for too long.
Gonna hit the early voting centre to afford myself a sleep in tomorrow.
line for mine was around the block at lunch time.
very early breakfast for Ted, who woke me up by walking up and down my body
he’s been on a diet too, lost so much weight, he must be real hungry to wake me up
so hugs and half brekkie for the little guy who is not so round anymore 🐈⬛
Alfie has definitely lost weight and it’s nice because he’s running around the house more, he seems to be feel much better. But the other night after his dinner, he wouldn’t leave us alone, SCREAMING as if we hadn’t fed him. Little beast. To the point boyo was wondering if we’d actually fed him. Alfie is an excellent liar!
We have to announce “the dog’s been fed” otherwise he tries to scam another meal from each of us.
Boyo & I remind Alfie that we do actually talk to each other (a lot) and tell each other when the cat is fed, he shouldn’t bother lying, but wow he tries. Really must post a video of his SCREAMING, it’s quite something!
I would like to see this video please. I sometimes watch videos of cats yelling to help me fall asleep
Miss Meow did much the same, along with head butts and a lot of meow. She is also on a diet, but I don’t think she is losing enough weight. She is already convinced she is starving to death, further reductions will not be taken well. At least she is well fortified for the stress of moving, if she decided to hide for a couple of days and not eat it would probably be good for her.
“walking up and down my body”
I would like to hire the shiatsu kitten alarm clock please
Unfortunately shiatsu kitty often comes with enthusiastic amateur acupuncture
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Do people not realise that Costco fuel has long hoses so you can fuel your car no matter which side your tank opening is on? Or are they afraid of using it?
Just nipped to Costco and drove in looking a line of 3 cars waiting at one bowser set, only for the 3 bowser set next to it be completely empty. Feels like a cheat code when you pull up, fuel up and zip out before that line has gotten through.
Like using the tool counter at Bunnings.
or the trade desk…
Back in the day (mid 90s, Saturday night) my local night club was The Grand Hotel in Essendon. Where was your’s?
P.s. Friday night was Shooter’s in Glenroy. $2.50 drinks.
The Chevron in St Kilda Road! Also the Croc, the Parkview, and the Dan O’Connell. But just about any pub had live music on Fri/Sat albeit of varying quality and volume back in the early 70s. If you could be bothered with a long tram ride, then the Three Weeds on Plenty Road often had good bands just starting out.
Dan O’Connell for St Pat’s. They used to use the little park next to the pub for a band (the Australian U2 Experience I think) and outside drinking. Cheap Guinness that got cheaper throughout the night. I remember getting $1 pints at about 2am as they were trying to finish off the supply.
Been there, done that. A friend of mine rented the terrace house next to the bandroom so we spent a LOT of time at the Dan. St Pats was a whole other thing though - the Dan was as much fun as Molly Blooms.
I’ve been to the Chevron!
Yeah, the Chevron was for getting dressed up all fancy. Mostly I went to the nearest pub. The Chev did a good Black Russian which I liked better than White Russians.
Sneaking booze into the Fri/Sat ice skate disco on Centre Rd. We’d spend the early part of the evening scouring the Oakleigh Coles for a 2for1 shop-a-docket. We’d then try to talk people already in the queue into letting us in for free with the 2for1 cos we were broke.
😂 I love that!
What was your drink of choice? Mine was Bacardi and lemonade and Sub Zeros with raspberry.
We were underage, so whatever we could get our hands on.
Despros. 😂
Early years a pub in Footers near uni, years later Rick’s on Avenue Louise, James Joyce on Place Schuman , little mexican place in Greenwich Village, Starbucks on Pearl Street
nearly every bar in downtown Detroit
didn’t go to clubs when young, I was either a young parent or working too hard
What was the music you grooved to there? What did you drink?
whatever was playing
lattes at starbucks
tequila sunrises were popular at the uni bar, wine, beer, at pubs , Guinness on tap at the irish pubs
Various pubs & clubs, often to see bands. The Punter’s club, espy sometimes, the tote, the empress, others in Brunswick st & around there back in the day. The old Greek theatre, the club, Sarah sands (when it was a venue). That was a trip down memory lane - reminded me I did actually go out quite a lot
Sarah Sands and the Espy. Good times.
I was too busy in the 90’s for a local. 😭
What were you doing?
I was too young
Night club - Goo (alcohol )or the Night at (pills) Pub - Evelyn, Rising Sun, The Standard
I was more a pub goer: the Lomond in East Brunswick, or the Woodlands, Post Office or Browns (before it was renovated) in Sydney road. Also a place that used to be called Nick’s wine bar in Nicholson st North Fitzroy next to the tram depot. Also a couple of the uni pubs but I’ve forgotten their names.
The Lomond for chats with RRR presenters.
That looks tasty!! How was the stargazing last night?!
Sky pretty. Sky VERY pretty
So, pakige arrived
are you shitting me
ohh bugger.
Refund or replacement time?
Fun fact: I have actually worked as an LCD repair tech. I opened the case up and there’s some suss as shit crap in there - the pressure plates holding the LCD layer to the light panel were not outside the metal plate at the back of the whole shebang, but jammed between them. Which is quite hard to do without opening the case and rescrewing them. So it looks like a very dodgy refurb.
Everything else works, so it’s just a 22" LCD screen needed…I think I shall hit up a mate and arrange refunds.
Swedish meatballs 10/10
Oooh yum
Oooh yeah
Definitely the weather for it. Well done.
Thanks! 👍
You had me at two bottles of tequila
My nephew just asked me who to vote for…stand back kiddo, aunty has got this 💪🏻
Alright.
No big surprises it’s music and cat cuddles this evening.
I’m doing some work over the weekend but it’s actually fun adjacent, so it’s not too bad.
Cheers 🍻
cheers 🍻
Sahtain 🍺
Cheers voters 🍺 and 'ave a good weekend 👍
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Pah! Last election my local election booth had CAKE STALLS! I will have first dibs on the first passionfruit/cream sponge I see! Plus sossiges of course but compared to a nice passionfruit sponge … no contest!
It’s a great way to raise money, I don’t know why more places don’t do it.
The Big Green Store mafia puts in the boot in on them I reckon.
I have one literally over the road with sausage and cake stall. It’s a good day for democracy
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My local polling areas don’t have anything 😒I have been known to visit a neighbouring suburb in the electorate who’s local school knows how to do it right and vote there. Sossig and cake stall, come to mumma!
I’m going to the one my kid is working at purely to embarrass her.
She’ll be working for the greens. 👍
I may have gone off a bit early.
I’ve already eaten sausages on hot dog buns.
Food coma incoming. Trying to fight it
All the exciting things I’ve ordered lately and the first thing to arrive has to be the mop bucket. Still, it is a very nice mop bucket. And it has wheels, so it can roll with me as I move around the room. Plus it’s in a nice bright hazard warning yellow with “wet floor” warnings on the side, so Miss Meow and Mr Woof will know to be careful. Although it would probably be more useful if I actually had the mop.
be more useful if I actually had the mop
Technically mr woof and miss meow could be used as interim mop heads.
Technically. Mr Woof had a bath yesterday, so I guess it should be Miss Meow’s turn. I suspect if I tried it I would end up with many claw marks.
eggsakly
it’s traditional aussie custom as per Lennie Lower to tie fluffy cats and dogs to poles to make mops
I’ve started off with removalist quotes by getting a couple online, hoping for a rough ballpark figure. One was over twice the cost of the other. Accidentally including a trampoline in the list of things I am moving may have had an impact, although the total m3 they estimated was roughly the same. I almost added 35 outdoor umbrellas to the list on the other, due to resting my finger on the touch screen, but fortunately realised before I submitted it.
beware, a lot of places try to scam with added insurance
There was one that just doesn’t have insurance, and had lots of reviews saying they break things.
As a positive I now have a bunch of quotes that all agree on the rough amount of stuff and likely time taken to move, so I can focus on the cost per hour and any extra charges (like the $500 surcharge for travelling over 30km the expensive place wanted). That place also thought it would take 3 men instead of the 2 everyone else is quoting for, which is why it was so much higher. All the others are between $1500-$2000, the expensive one was estimating $3500.
I’ll probably just go with the same removalist I had last time as long as they quote within a reasonable range. It was 19 years ago and the business has been passed on to the original owner’s son since then, but I was very happy with them.
I like it when clients ask a lot of questions but my god, this one has gone to absolute town. Getting their money’s worth I see.
yeah, today I found a dead penguin washed up on the beach. Called wildlife services and they said this area has loads of penguins and it’s a natural event. Poor little guy.
Poor pingu :(
