Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
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.
Hey that's awesome! From my experience exercises really helped with giving up smoking. That vertigo and blood pressure issue is a bit of a worry.. have you got a good GP you can talk to about finding more intense exercise that won't upset the apple cart?
My low blood pressure I manage with diet (red meat, pulses etc). Vertigo has more to do with my inner ear and the fact that my eyes are different strengths (one is long sighted the other is short sighted). What I found is dancing helps a lot because I don't have to get up and down. I just need to increase the amount I do. Thanks again for your posts because I genuinely get inspiration from you. You are a champion. ♥
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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
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!
Ugh, so good! What's your favourite way of cooking them? (I presume even baby broad beans shouldn't be eaten raw...) I love them in a salad or just quickly sautéed in a good olive oil with some garlic.
When they're this young and sweet, then raw is fine! I do toss them in a vinaigrette sometimes when they're really young. Saute in oil & garlic sounds damn yum though! Must try that. This lot though I stirred into the ramen I was preparing anyway. That had noodles, some good stock, sliced salsicci sausages (try saying that really fast!) and broccoli florets and sliced capsicum and onion. The beans went really well with it.
I just use packet 2 minute noodles without the stock packet supplied. I save those for adding to stews & soups. I like wiggly noodles, they stay on the fork better imo. The noodles that come with Shin Ramyun Black and Shin Ramyun Red are extra good but there's a lot of them in each packet. Which means enormous servings for each noodle cake. For just me, the ordinary Maggi 2 minute noodles are perfectly good and a better amount for my preferred serving size. You can get specialised ramen noodles that are not wiggly, some in interesting flours like buckwheat or barley, but I like the ordinary Maggi ones better. But that's just me - a real ramen expert would probably be quite scornful of my choices.
That sounds like a divine noodle stir fry - and I actually didn't know you could eat them raw that young. Must be a bit like snow peas fresh off the vine?
Re noodles - presume the stock was for creating a sauce, not boiling the noodles in. I confess my noodle adventures are still quite restrained.
I did cook the noodles in the stock - which had been made by simmering the sausages in water to parcook them before slicing. Salcissi sausages are strongly flavoured, so 1 or 2 is quite enough for one person per meal I find, but I had six of them. Which meant that I had enough nice stock available for noodle cooking and 4 cold sausages for lunch sangers this week. The rest of the ramen ingredients just went in so they'd all be cooked just at serving time. I like a generous amount of liquid in ramen, so that worked out fine too. I still have about a half cupful of stock left, and the cold bangers so might do a hash with them and some potat if I get ambitious tomorrow. Or maybe a stirfry ...
! I would've thought Good Stock was too good for cooking noodles in. But then of course, noodle soup! This is all very delicious and economical. I learn so much from your comments. I should try this with Very Nice Vegetable and Mushroom Stock on the rare occasion I am hankering for soupy noods.
Do it! Very Nice Veg & Mushroom stock sounds absolutely yum! And very flexible for adding whatever takes your fancy on the day. Quantity of liquid is wonderfully optional with such dishes. And leftover stock can be frozen ...
Got the sad news from my landlord that they're going to have to sell this house. They just bought it last year and have been lovely. They really like us as tenants so I know that it's not what they want to do.
Mortgage rate rises just mean they have to sell.
They given us a months notice.
But now onto the house search.
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.
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
Did you buy these recently?? I haven't seen them in stock for a while but now I must go check it out
Praise be to @AldiSaturdaySpecials and all associated deities. The dark days of the Potato Famine must be over.
All forms of fried potato are magnificent. Chips, hash browns, potato cake. But the waist line consequences are not so magnificent.
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. 😎
sweats nervously i-i'm not an IT person, I just randomly shoehorn in solutions and half learn SQL instead of python because I can't be bothered doing manual analyses yet also am too lazy to actually program ^but^ ^thanks^
If I repeated that sentence to any of my clients they would think I was speaking another language lol I hope you're being renumerated well for your role :)
Hah, definitely not. I don't think management really understands or appreciates what I've brought to the business at all - they can only see my failures and downplay my strengths (and in doing so create a vicious cycle where I underperform due to anxiety and poor self esteem). Definitely not a good fit any more, hence why I'm bowing out very soon once I finish my current project.
Sounds like a smart move. I'll probably be doing the same at my current role in a month or so. It's so hard to find a good company to work for these days.
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?
Thanks for responding, I really appreciate it :)
What happened is that the last 2 people in my role were complete fuckups. They basically ignored their job and my 2ic had to step in and take up a lot of the responsibility as well as trying to do his job.
It really hurt the team and they got fired when everything came out. So my line manager was the one to come in and clean everything up and "save" the team. Somewhere along the line, my line manager and 2ic became besties. My 2ic is incredibly rude and arrogant. I have one team member who's ready to quit if he isn't treated better.
When I brought it up to my line manager, he turned it around and tried to make it my fault. "It's bad leadership". As if I created this monster.
I'm in a corner. If I say something to my line manager, and he goes and blabs to my 2ic it'll just make my life worse than it already is. So the best I can do is shut up and try to deal with it.
I'm going to start putting out resumes this week and see what's out there. Everyone else is really cool and the job itself is great. It's a shame these dipshits are making it a shitshow.
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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 😎
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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
LAX is my view of purgatory, however I was once in a lounge there that had a DIY Taco and Bloody Mary bar. Amazing.
You can thank Elizabeth Gaskell for that one. Mr Gibson (the main characters Dad and county doctor) in Wives and Daughters often has some very funny outbursts that make very modern me giggle. My favourite is when he intercepts a love letter for his daughter from one of his student doctors and he writes back a doctors script that basically says "fuck off buddy boy".
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!
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.
Nope, it's a smaller apartment building; no security people. Just doors that require a keyring pass thingy to scan, unlocks the doors. Or residents can use their intercoms to open the buildings front door.
We use the FB group page for alerts, as it's a conbinations of the owner-occupiers (who have access to the security camera's footage), and resident renters like myself.
The police are already aware of the thefts and also have access to our camera footage. It's just bothersome that they got in once via social engineering + spam ringing our intercoms, that they keep coming back and trying again. I'm hoping me having a lil yell at them has deterred them somewhat, though I doubt it.
Mine was an hour late the other day. Had to call to see if they were going to turn up at all. Got the delivery fee credited, too bad if I wasn’t home
Must have a wee fire under my butt… Changed the shower head yesterday, changed over the little name plates that’s few were all scratched up from my bike stack earlier the year and have been semi-spring cleaning in general.
Hmm, we’ll see how long it lasts…
same going on at our place. actually doing some genuine spring cleaning, booked someone to take some rubbish away, given a bunch of old furniture etc away. very cathartic.
Rolled in with some satisfaction and sense of achievement. Funny how much of a struggle it can be to do things and then when you finally get to them it’s always like, why didn’t I do this before?
Cheers to us!
::: spoiler Mentions of dead pets and just depresso posting. It's not super triggering, but I thought I'd hide it just in case. God I don't want to go to work. But I have to. I just hope my boss sends me home. My chest feels super heavy, I hate this. Gonna try and keep my depressed postings to a minimum not to be a bringer of sadness. And what sucks even more with the benefits of ADHD, one of them is just forgetting people exist. Like it won't occur to me that I have a Dad until someone mentions him or their Dad and I'll be like "oh I haven't spoken to him recently" (I did last night, he was apologetic). It's even worse when people or animals pass away, like my Grandpa passed in 2019 and I'll forget about him until I remember and then I have to go through the grieving process again. :::
Update: went to work and started bawling. He told me to go home. I'll see how I feel tomorrow. But I'm just going to play Starfield and hug my cats.
Okay so editing a post on mobile that has spoilers wrecks the coding. Interesting.
I was utterly devastated when we had to put down our dog for lymphoma. I was a wreck. Three years on I still tear up when I think about losing him (even right note writing this). I have to think of the joy he brought me and how that love and joy outweighs the pain of losing him. It’s the only thing that vaguely helps. Sending you hugs and care.
Certainly not fun times indeed. Thank you very much for all your love. I really appreciate it. Playing Starfield is taking my mind off of things, but funnily enough I got food in the game called Chocolate Labs, and man... (For context my dog is/was a chocolate lab).
Just as something to discuss, have you happened to have had the chance to try out Armored Core 6?
If there's anything I love about games when I'm in the mood it's a nice little vehicle for escapism.
Nahh not my thing sadly. But have heard that it got pretty good reviews, especially for a game in a pretty dormant series.
Good on your boss, I'm glad he understood the situation. Processing it when it's fresh (when possible) is better in the long run
He mentioned that he appreciated me coming into work but yeah he offered to either work from home or take today off. So I went with taking today off. I think tomorrow I'll work from home.
If I was to go on MKR with my bestie I wouldn't be saying "I'm gonna get all 10s or my food is better than this slop" I'd be more "I hope it's edible or I hope I don't poison yous". If you set the bar low you don't disappoint yourself. Hahaha.
I have a consultation with my wedding florist today and I honestly don't know what I want so am terrified. This is what the professionals are for, right?
I had a wedding with no flowers, it is definitely possible. I mean, the marriage didn't last, but I'm sure the lack of flowers at the wedding had nothing to do with that 🤣
A wedding must have flow. As has been widely quoted, the spice must flow. Therefore a wedding is spice. And needs to have rice. As well as sugar and everything nice. And Chemical X.
Thank you. I was trying to order it from former twitter but their customer service team is not responding.
If it were up to me I would just head to registry in a white t-shirt but it is not just up to me, so flowers it is!
I'd rather have flowers than people if i ever got married. Catering would just be a bag of mulch and maybe some blood and bone.
Ask them if they have photos of their previous work, maybe something will catch your eye.
This is my hope. I have a vague colour scheme and they have worked at my reception venue multiple times so I'm hoping just to copy some other more inspired couple 😆