Hello peeps
How goes it?
Edit: love you all, thanks for the welcomes! Have a photo of the cat that comes to visit me sometimes, most recently a few days ago!
You’re back! Fucking grouse man! This is such a tight little group, you know some people miss you when you’re not here. I had to look at trains because you weren’t here. I mean, I look at them anyway, but I thought of you and wondered if you were also train enjoying. Well, were you?
Edit; had alcoholic ginger beer at a park near a train station, sorry for effusive language. I’m ok.
Ay thanks!
Actually, no, not really. I caught a train home on Halloween (after a bit of a tiki tour around on the trams), but that’s about it
Oh well, plenty of time yet!
I’m heading off on vacay next week, so I’ll have plenty of time to catch trains then
Even plotting a trip to the railway museum, if they decide to be open
Be sure to post some pics!
Always! Remindns me, a few days after taking my break from here, I went down to Willys prom (one of the few places I hadn’t been). Saw the cutest baby emus. So cute! I almost want one
BABI:
So cute! Did you camp down there?
Becomes one with the emus
Welcome back!!! How are you going?
GDAAAAAYYYYYYY
I’m alright! Keeping busy-ish, you know how it is
Hey Baku. Good to hear from you! I’m good thank you. Yourself?
Great to hear/see (read?) you CEO! I’m doing better these days :)
WE LOVE YOU BAKU 💚
Today is the day of the hearts
🩷
Heya
Yay Baku’s back, alright!
Good! Well a bit stressy but good. How are you friend?
Do I need to prescribe an hour’s off peak train travel? Trains fix everything :)
(Unless the trains are broken or otherwise turned into buses)
Haha my train home was delayed by 20 mins tonight in fact. But sitting in the sun waiting was also nice.😎
Welcome back!
Thanks TW!
Hey Baku.
Welcome back!
I hope you’ve been well!
ee the baku back!
G’day!
Good to see you back. You missed strawberry day, but are just in time for golden syrup pudding 🍮
THERE’S A STRAWBERRY DAY AND I MISSED IT??!?!?!?
(Maybe for the best. I forgot that I garden, and let my strawberries die, and went from a dense forest planter box of dozens down to 2 green sprouts I’m not entirely sure aren’t weeds. I’m a fraud)
BAKU ♥️
JONESY♥️
I was worried about you, mate. I’m so glad to see you pop back up
Thanks Jones, much appreciated!
Baku 😮, is that really you?
Maybe 😶
What’s happening in the land of the llabsy?
Welcome back! ✨
Just the usual: hanging out in DDT with the DDT fam, whinging about the weather and trying not to be lazy.
How about you? What have you been up to? Been on any trips?
Cheers llabs, not many trips from me, although I did head down to Willy’s prom last month, and am heading to Adelaide next month
It’s great to see you back here. It must mean things are going well again
Cheers Tom! Things are going better, I’ve been seeing a psych regularly, and am moving out next month. A little spooky, but it’ll be nice to be like… A proper tenant with rights and all that fun stuff. The only downside is power companies are confusing, and I’ll have bulls
That’s good to hear. There are told or there to help you compare prices because utilities are so ridiculous now, and there are no incentives to reward loyalty, so you can get the best deals by jumping around and changing company all the time
Yeah. At the moment I don’t have much choice because I’m still under 18, apparently origin let me sign up with the assistance of an adult. They’re exactly at the default offer, which I don’t think is good because there were plenty of places that were under it. In any case, I’ve just got a little under 4 months to go, so that’s like 1 and a bit bills
Once I turn 18, electricity, gas, and internet are probably all being changed every time I find somebody cheaper
Hi Baku welcome back! 🤗
Hellooo
(Frank Walker from national tiles)forcey! How goes it?
Baku!! How’s things?
G’day springsy! Things are well, thanks!
How are your things?
Not going too badly, thanks
hey Baku. Nice seeing you. 🙂
Hope you are doing well. 🤗
Goonsy! Thanks! You as well!
I’m also BakuToo now, I’m not sure if I’ll switch back to AZ yet, or stay on my SJW account, but just know I’m a real Baku, too!
Confirmed, this is me
Yay!!! Nice to see you back, a bright light in a difficult week (for me anyway)
Aw thanks JK, that means a lot
Just want to say thank you all again for the support yesterday. Truly a supportive space here with great advice. After going into the eye and ear today for a follow up her schedule has reduced which means less refusal and it’s going to be a bit easier for her.
good news , I’m still sending all my “power wishes” 😣 so she will get better soon
Finished work early and… just didn’t feel like going home straight away. So I’m having a cheeky can of alco ginger beer in a part of a local park not frequented by children and their company or youths (I dislike drinking around children and will actively avoid it). Might have an extra can too. Because fuck it, that’s why!
I am so freaking pleased to hear you’re taking some time for YOU!! You are such an amazing soul, carrying so much for your family, good on you for enjoying a moment!
I can’t think of anyone more deserving 😘
that sounds nice too , ginger beer is so delicious and refreshing
now I want one 😹
General manager is resigning.
Big blow. He’s one of the reasons I like it here.
Goddamn it.
Oh damage. Too soon, feels like you’ve just barely started! Any chance you can follow him to where he’s going?
Something odd happened last week.
He reached out to offer some mentoring because he felt that maybe it would help, which I agreed to.
He must have known he was leaving last week already. Curious to see what this will be about.
so your still meeting before he leaves? interesting.
I think you’ll find you don’t need mentoring. From what I heard your project management experience was second to none. all your skills in fact. Glowing report really.
A very glowing report!
Yeah I’m super curious to see what this is about. I don’t think he’s being asked to do it, I think he was offering because he’s a good dude.
I’ll keep you posted. First meeting is Friday.
Hopefully not overeaching but he’s not mentoring you to be his replacement or to take on another role?
That’s what I’m wondering. We’ll have to wait and see.
Just going off on a tangent, how’s your new car going?
Had a really helpful session with the psych today. Talked a lot about why I am struggling to let go of stress and work and gave me some good exercises to help getting some structure back and some boundaries (for me). I picked out this time. She is kind but not afraid to suggest stuff - which is good. Practical.
Step one. Back to decent bedtimes. Night all. ♥️
Night night. Sleep well
Goodnight ❤️
So I went to check out this blue sky thing. It turns out I actually created an account on there at some point under my real name. I don’t remember doing that, it had to be before Aussie.zone became a thing.
So I log into it, I’m already following half a dozen accounts that I don’t remember following (but they’re awesome people like George Takai and Mara Wilson).
Review:
It’s all about US politics and how awful Twitter is. Boring. 😔I never sent a single tweet in 15 years, I can’t see myself using this site either.
I have a Blue Sky account just to secure a user name and… Just checked and got the same experience. I’ll never use it either unless it becomes good for data mining.
Nath, if you’re not into microblogging in general then perhaps you won’t ever be interested in it, but the algorithm is easy to train or replace with a custom Feed, moderation lists like this one let you mass block confirmed dickheads, and labellers like this one let you filter everything else.
Given your skillset you might even enjoy creating and publishing your own custom feed algorithm.
Ohhh fuckity.
Boss: How do you feel you’re going?
Me: I’m planning on resigning in 2 weeks.
Boss: … can you not?
you: Sure if you change [x, y, z that’s making you leave]!
He’s going to discuss with the directors about sidestepping me into another role, I’m not well suited for the one my original role grew into. I’ll see what they offer, but I think it’ll be adios for me.
Hope it works out well whichever way it goes 🤗
Turd burgers! Ripped the stocking I bought an hour ago
Stockings suck. I gave them all to a mate of mine to practise cricket on the clothes line.
They’re also good for tying plants up with
Oh so true! My childhood memories involve a back garden with various skin coloured pantyhose tying plants to stakes. I’d forgotten all about it.
Happy International Men’s Day
yay, I love men. 😻
It’s only a day for International men
that’s ok, Mr Seagoon is an international man
Cough cough
🕺🕺🕺
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Fucking cleaning took so long even with the help of a friend because there was still Stuff that took long rob to load. Wish I didn’t have overdue stuff to do at work this morning.
But i am really, truly, for sure this time 99% done - every last thing has been cleaned except the kitchen and second bedroom floor, it was too late for a vacuum. Tomorrow lunchtime i shall mop, take exit photos, drop off the keys and be done with moving out.
… next stage is moving in… I live in a fortress of bags and boxes. But first, my car is loaded up with shit that needs donating including a neglected bike (with good parts). Gonna try and temporarily store it at work so I don’t need to be driving around with a whole ass bike in the back for the next few days.
Also, the check tyre pressure light came on even though I got a new tyre. More headaches! Rahhhh!
Good night everyone…
You’re doing really, really well! Things will settle soon :)
Go you!
Often that light will come on after a change because it just needs to be reset. Pop into a servo and check the tires and if they seem ok there’ll be a way to reset the sensor.
And cheers in advance for handing back the keys 🙌🏻🙌🏻
got my entire maslow’s hierarchy of needs satisfied yesterday ☺️
Woot woot!
Kinky
Woohoo, self-actualization!!!
☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
One warm mince pie with cream and Bailey’s custard. I could go another one.
Ok maybe I did.
interesting development at work. Boss asked some common sense questions, leadership team didn’t really have answers. Looks like things may not be as doom and gloom as we originally thought, so thats awesome. I don’t love the company but I do love the boss and they’ll pay to upskill my unqualified ass so thats worth something.
gmta
Good night everyone , sweet dreams. 😘😘😘
Goodnight ❤️
Pearl Jam absolute rocked last night.
Eddie is such a treasure.
Yellow Ledbetter!
And rocking in the free world!!!
Was amazing!
Not a single bad song. Even the new stuff sounded good
It was soooo wholesome. Seriously. I loved the shoutouts, the relating to the audience. Just 10/10.
I had plenty of room and jumped around to my heart’s delight. Could not have asked for more.
