Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Good news is nearly all my taste is back. Bad news is I have this lingering taste and smell that I can't seem to shake off.
Totally. For me the big one was I could not taste the heat in any hot sauce/chilli sauce, no matter how much I had. I got the associated watery eyes, sniffly nose etc, but not the heat. Was bizarre.
Little dog comes trotting out of the kid's bedroom "look what I found mummy" and he has a wafer biscuit hanging out of his mouth. He is such a dibber dobber.
Decided to take the rest of the week off and head down the bellarine.
Shout out to the train inspector / announcer..
"We are now arriving at the magical station called geelong... station". He has seen things.
The weirdest thing I've seen in Geelong is a toddler having a poo under a tree and her dad bag it up and pop it in the bin. It may have been my own family. I pretended it wasn't.
Feeling extra tired today. Can't place if it's mental or physical fatigue. I have played 8 hours of tennis over the last 3 days. But I could play all day long if my body allowed me to 😅
Super excited that my new apt has a tennis court!! Moving there in a couple of weeks 😇😇
Already friggin November.. I'm barely used to writing "2023" and it's almost done. I feel like I 'just' turned 40 but that was back at the end of April. Time doesn't march on.. it can jog on.
A "friend" once told me (when I turned 50) that as we get older time seems to go faster because each passing year represents a smaller percentage of our lives. So for example, for a 10 year old a year seems like a huge amount of time because they've only experienced ten of them, but for a 50 year old a year seems much smaller because they've experienced a lot more of them. I can see their point and it feels like they could be right, but gee fucking thanks, fuck.
This has certainly been my experience. And doubly so talking about events with kids. I'll talk about photos of them and the days they were taken. They often don't remember events that feel really recent for me. I don't mean baby photos, but photos where they were 5+.
Sometimes I long for the days when you had to be on your computer to get online and it felt like a treat. we have been utterly spoiled by smartphones. I don't know if I can ever quite untether myself.
1st November means it is time for the next phase of The Diet. Aiming for another 5kg by Christmas/New year.
I can't say I did well on the exercise phase, and completely failed to get in to a routine of doing strength training. I did do a decent amount of exercise in the form of gardening, but I need to reassess my ongoing exercise plans.
This headache can F off. We thought kiddo was doing better but he just chucked everywhere so clearly not. This week can eat a bag of dicks.
The cat just griefed me in Minecraft
Edit: She's a great player for someone without thumbs. Autojump was on so by sitting on the keyboard she was able to run the character around and flatten some grass with the shovel. But then she threw the enchanted shovel away somewhere and kept running. I never did find it to get it back
Miss Meow likes to lie on top of the nice warm computer when I play. Unfortunately the power button is also on top of the computer, and a well placed paw can lead to my computer suddenly turning off mid game.
Mine like to climb on top of me. I basically perceive the internet with a cat anus permanently in my peripheral vision
I appreciate them trying to help, but I can't help the feeling I should not know my cat has a piebald vagina.
I'm actually out of work I can do at the moment, and will likely not be able to do anything for the rest of the week. No more meetings for today either. I'm going to have to find some training to do or something! Or.. *looks at golf clubs*
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really feeling the midweek slump today, just want to crawl under my blankies and watch movies.
Couple of new starts today:
Nov 1 - start of Movember
New Sprint starting at work. Bonus: I got everything I was supposed to get done in the last sprint.
New henchman starting to help me out with some of the things I've got on my plate.
We need something other than Movember for people who do not have the appropriate facial hair to be included. I propose Mowvember for those interested in lawn care, Moovember for dairy and cattle farmers, Movember for removalists and Noember for firefighters.
Inappropriate facial hair is the entire point. It is supposed to look terrible. The idea is to spark conversation so you can talk about the massive issues that the cause is all about. IT's a bit of a pity that moustaches are effectively 'back' - when I first did movember, nobody who hadn't sported a moustache for 50 years had one. They were remarkable in and of themselves.
It's all a little too mainstream as well. People all know what movember is and it's more difficult to get people interested than it used to be.
I remember doing Movember back in the late 00's. It was cool seeing all the ugly staches knowing 95% were participating.
You're right that it's a pity moustaches are back. They look good on very few people and it was more fun when they were movember related.
Oh well. Still time for Decembeard!!!
LMAO just got an overdue notice from our REA because rent was apparently due yesterday. Our agreement states we pay on the 1st of every month, and that's what we've been doing every month for 2 years now. Like oh no, we lived for a few hours free in the house gasp!
Agreed to quickly look at some stuff for a potential freelancing opportunity in Dec/Jan (an extremely simple/basic project) and I should be excited and on top of it but why do I feel like I have to force myself to just look at the stuff and throw back an estimate of hours/costs sigh I'm good at this, I can make sense of it quickly and feel competent/confident but there's still nothing inside