One thing I’m really quite good at is packing to go on a trip really quickly. I’ve got like 3 laptops, an ipad, a 27" monitor, a media streamer, PS5 controller and all manner of cables, my clothes and my CPAP machine all fitting snuggly into my trusty suitcase. Then I have my backpack of stuff and a tote with foodstuffs and my blender. All took maybe 30-40 minutes and there was a shower in there too.
There’s a shower… in your luggage? 🤔
Okay there’s a lot to unpack here…
D-do you need 3 laptops and a monitor? Why do you need 3 laptops and a monitor? How long are these trips? Drug dealers only have 2 phones, what purpose do 3 laptops serve? By media streamer do you mean like a Chromecast/whatever that Amazon knockoff is?
And why do you need to bring a shower in your bag?
When I took my 5 day or whatever it was trip to Mildura, I took my phone, my tablet, 2 cables, 3 power banks, and a pair of headphones. Similar story with Sydney and Adelaide
When I was away for 3 weeks at the various hotels/AirBnBs, I took my phone, laptop, tablet, headphones, a power bank, chargers and while I was at the BnB, I brought my PC and 1 monitor (I didn’t bring it with me to either of the 2 hotels), I also brought a raspberry pi planning on tinkering around with it to kill some time, but I unfortunately forgot the little mini micro nano HDMI thingy, so couldn’t actually do much with it (could’ve done some config and set up SSH without first setting up the pi but eh). And I thought that was a lot
That’s a lot of electronics. I take my phone and a cable. That’s it.
NASA has decided to get the astronauts who went up on a crippled Boeing star liner to return on a space X next year. in short: they dont trust the spacecraft for human flight. You cant write fiction funnier than this.
Sounds more like a horror.
Russia have an emergency escape ship docked at all times. They arnt screwed. just more efficient to wait for the next American ship.
Any improvement Sammi had was minimal, so I phoned the vet and they’ve admitted her for observation and further tests (including hopefully an abdominal ultrasound).
Cross fingers for us.🤞🏾
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First cherry blossom out! which means shorts starting from tomorrow.
Mine are almost finished.
Jeez mines’ a bit slow then!
edit: should point out that this one only flowers for a week then a small gust of wind it’s all gone.
I’ve been getting about ten days of petals the last few years. Less and less each year :(
Good lord. Spotify free version doesn’t even let me play a single song I want to hear, just a playlist that includes it. What a disaster
Android? There’s a few modded Spotify clients floating around. I used to use one back before I had pocket money.
I’ve actually been considering going back to one in priest, cause they don’t consider high school students to be friends. I was annoyed but not downright pissed about that. But I checked if my new course would land me the student pricing, but nah, they either don’t consider TAFE students to be students, or don’t consider my school to be a TAFE
I can afford normal Spotify, so perhaps I’m not in the target demographic, but it just annoyed me that they keep pushing their discounts in my face and then at the last minute being like “jokes! You don’t count.”
I never joined and don’t listen . Once last.fm died as a music player I gave up enrolling and getting subs and apps
I’ve been reading stuff on the internets.
Wikipedia is wrong!!
The Edit Wars are getting worse.
They have cold soda water water on tap
a pub?
Maybe we need to make this a thing: reply to the comment above the one you’re actually replying to
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how did that happen I hit reply.
I’m sorry I don’t want to dox myself 👀
Yay. Day 1 down with no embarrassing moments to report. New place is nice. They have cold soda water water on tap 😍
Awesome. 🥤
T-minus 2 hours until my first class. Freaky.
The only issue is, my internet is down :D
Fingers crossed it comes back online!
I managed to fix it by giving the NBN box a good old smack and power cycle
Aye I’m glad the ways of the elders have trickled down to the youth.
I’ve fixed many an old box TV by smacking it on the wide.
It’s kind of hilarious how as soon as something as technologically advanced/sophisticated as modern technology breaks, our monkey brains still resort to “SLAP BOX”, and usually the box of wonders starts working again right afterwards
I have a laptop I use as a seedbox whose fan will just randomly start freaking out. Sounds like a jet plane.
I kick it.
It stops freaking out.
We have an understanding.
Just got Sammi home - it’s like she’s back to normal. She actually scarfed Zooki’s roo mince which she wasn’t supposed to have, inhaled the Hills vet food that she was, used the tray and is walking around reacquainting herself with the place.
If you saw her Wednesday and then today, the only difference in her is the shaved spot where they took the bloods. Oh and no purrs - I might be on her shit list for awhile.
Anyway ultrasound Wednesday, they’re going to let me know what time.I’m glad to hear she’s feeling better ❤️
It’s the last week of the month. If you want to change jobs now is a great time to apply for roles coming up to 14 days old
Why is that the case?
Recruiters’ commission is monthly and job ads are usually up for 2 weeks. Applying for something that’s going to close soon now means they’ll try extra hard to place you before the month ends.
Funny bones ain’t that funny when you scrape one across a door frame. I was carrying my recycle box back inside and I’m like “DON’T THROW IT. DON’T THROW IT”.
works gone to complete and utter shit. We’re being forced into this project that we all know is gonna end in a complete dumpster fire, but we (as in everyone in my department, managers included) cant do anything to stop it. Gonna chat to my boss and just say “look I cant reconcile this shit, you want it done? Fine, but I dont want to talk about it for a second more than we have to”. The greater department has this habit of turning their meetings into therapy/bitching sessions and I’m just not here for it.
Till this Project Doom is completed we’re sticking to facts any talking about it as little as possible.
thats fair enough isnt it? Honestly sat in the meeting where it was announced on seek, and I dont reckon I was alone in that.
What’s the project? I’m incredibly curious. Is it a migration of some sort?
I’m wary of places where meetings become therapy/bitch sessions. I never know how much that stuff is gonna get twisted, taken out of context, used against you etc. Risky overflow into unprofessional behaviour.
This whole CFMEU saga is equally entertaining and concerning.
100% agree. Love watching people get their just deserts.
I don’t even understand what’s happening. Tbf I haven’t really tried to though
In summary, years of corruption and criminal infiltration on work sites are finally coming to light and heads are rolling.
Colour me surprised
When unlawful power is called out and given a good smacking? Always entertaining to watch from a safe distance. Unions are not per se bad, but when the power inherent in them is abused it’s good to know that there are some ways to rein them in. You may be too young to remember the whole Painters & Dockers Union stuff, but they did things like murder people. As well as run-of-the-mill corruption and stuff. No-one was surprised when that union was forcibly de-registered - except maybe the members of the union. Seems like the CFMEU have forgotten that lesson.
My biggest concern about this whole saga is how long it’s taken to get to this point. I worked on CFMEU sites for a decade or so (non union role) and thought it was bad then. Like absolutely transparent corruption and no one seemed to care.
Also disappointing that unions are meant to protect workers against shit conditions and bad management. Now they’re becoming the monster they were suppose to slay.
The cultist mentality is pretty messed up too. Glad it’s being taken care of, but I don’t trust either gov party to act as administrators.
Yeah, the whole power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely thing. Unfortunately inevitable, unless there is robust pushback from the rank & file. Same thing happens with political parties. The point of short electoral cycles is that the bad apples can be booted out before they’ve done much damage. Variable election dates also help with the booting process. What gets really nasty is a fixed election cycle like in the USA - where the last 2 years of an election cycle is spent getting re-elected instead of actually accomplishing anything. The appointment of a ‘king’ with no pre-specified end date for power works quite well if the ‘king’ is sensible, but if a bad apple gets power …
Pushback from union members would be something, but unfortunately there was very visible intimidation from Setka’s supporters. The more I look at our Federal 3 year terms the more I appreciate it. Also having 8-10 weeks for an election is perfect.
To be fair there are plenty of non-evil unions. I’ve found the Australian Services Union pretty good.
Yeah for real. The CFMEU is just the most prolific and loud. I’m with CPSU and they’re kind of a toothless dog, but do help out when needed.
I found CPSU to be entirely useless when needed, Sadly.
F today right up the B
Bunghole?
Sideways.
That’s still A to B
Vet just called - as before, nothing detected in the external examination and nothing in the blood tests. They’re going to x-ray her and if nothing shows up on that, organise an ultrasound. Also they’ll give her fluids and an anti nausea injection since she has been vomiting on and off since Thursday.
so many gentle hugs and good wishes
Thank you 😊
You wish they could just tell you what’s going on.
You do 😕
