• Duenan@aussie.zone
      3·
      10 months ago

      I wanted to put one in for my next door neighbour as they’re going through a rough period at the moment but I wasn’t sure what size or creation to go with.

      Still thinking about it.

      And thank you for doing this!

      • lemondrop@aussie.zone
        3·
        10 months ago

        My pleasure :) I’ll keep the nominations open for a couple of days so hmu if you think of something.

        • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Thank you, I’ll look into joining on payday. Have you done this before? I feel like I’ve seen the idea around before, but can’t quite remember if it was you or somebody else doing something similar. If you have, how often do you do it?

          • lemondrop@aussie.zone
            2·
            10 months ago

            No pressure! Yeah, that was me :) I think I’ve done it five or six times now. I try to do it a few times a year but last year was a bad one for me so I only did it once. Hoping to do some more this year.

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
          2·
          10 months ago

          It’s for a good (and small) cause and not profit, and also not from a random who joined the group for the sole purpose of self-promotion, so I say I it’s fine. 🙂

          Just don’t try to sign us up to do a research project, those people on Reddit were annoying.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    14·
    10 months ago

    Thank you to all the people who gave me words of wisdom yesterday. I love this little community. And it’s nice to have people on my side. 🫶

    I’ve got some self-care to do. Unread books, movies to watch, doggo to pat, new gym to try. Yesterday my dad made me stand in the green waste bin to squash down the leaves and branches. It’s the little things.

    These bad feelings will pass. I will feel moments of joy again. I will focus on me and ultimately live the life I want to live. I will be okay.

    P.S. I’m plugging this now, if you’re into seeing your music listening stats - last.fm! Also good to keep up with what friends are listening to (and see who listens the most)!

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    13·
    10 months ago

    What a beautiful looking day! In another instalment of “You Know You’re Getting Older When…” You look at a morning like this and think “great, better get some washing out” instead of “great, where can we go/who can we get pissed with” 😆

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    Kids and I are going through videos on YouTube and we stumbled on The Tea Party (Canadian rock band from the 90s and 00s)

    Is it appropriate to tell my kids that I’ve hung out with the band at a bar and the recording studio.

    And yes…many, many lines of Columbiab marching powder are featured in the stories.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
      6·
      10 months ago

      Tell me dude, Tea Party was huge here late 90s. They played a bunch of uni’s instead of concert halls when they toured. I saw them at Monash Clayton and Monash Caulfield for about $20 a ticket.

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        The bar we used to hang out at was near a local recording studio.

        Tea party were recording and would go to the bar for drinks.

        I recognised the singer and introduced myself and my mates. He was super nice and thrilled that we knew who he was. My mates were musicians and he would talk shop with them.

        The other guitarist/bassist was chill and would talk hockey and movies. The drummer wanted nothing to do with us and just sat on the side drinkinig.

        At one point I went to the toilets and heard a loud snort. Two band members exited a stall, saw me, laughed and offered me a line.

        I accepted, as one should.

        Went back and kept chatting.

        We probably ran into them 3-4 times in a span of a month and they remembered us each time.

        Few months later they were shooting a video at my uni and had no idea who we were, but we’re still nice.

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        That’s what I’m thinking…at the same time my son asked me the other day how do I get my rice paper rolls , rolled so tightly.

        I told him it was luck and about 20 years of unrelated practice

        • indisin@aussie.zone
          3·
          10 months ago

          Depends on how old your kids are IMO.

          If they’re infant, set them up for success and omit the details, but if they’re teenagers then you could form a better bond and let them know they can talk to you openly when they experiment with making rice paper rolls.

    • Electronic_Owl@aussie.zone
      3·
      10 months ago

      Colombian marching powder :) I don’t want to hijack your story, but let’s just say that a long time ago, back in the UK, someone said that exact phrase to me and it started a chain of events that ultimately lead to me sitting here now, in Melbourne, typing this reply.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    10·
    10 months ago

    A terrible tragedy in the Raven household, the water fountain has died. The pets will be forced to drink still water until a replacement pump arrives. The indignity of it.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
      1·
      10 months ago

      Lol you just reminded me of the time a housemate of mine (many moons ago) got one of those bamboo zen Feng Shui tabletop water fountain things for Xmas. The water was constantly needing to be topped up for some reason, and eventually the motor burnt out. The cat looked decidedly miffed at this turn of events.

      Do you have a bath that the cats jump into? Maybe you could set up a bowl with the water just trickling a tiny bit into it?

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        1·
        10 months ago

        I think she’ll be ok drinking from the bowl still, but the flowing water is definitely better.

        Pumps often do tend to have a limited lifespan. This does vindicate my decision to pay for their 10 year extended warranty when I bought the fountain (something I normally don’t do as they are generally a bad deal). The standard warranty is 2 years, I’ve had it just under 3.

        • Catfish@aussie.zone
          1·
          10 months ago

          Sounds like you’ve already got it sorted, but if it’s anything like the pump in mine an aquarium one is identical and probably cheaper.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    It’s so hot even the cats are floomping around, instead of lying around blissfully, as is their wont.
    Meanwhile I just cracked the bottle of cold prosecco. Yum.

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    Be me trying to reserve an Uber for when my cruise gets back in: “7am from White Bay Cruise Terminal”

    Uber: You got it! 6am booking confirmed. Driver will wait until 6:12am.

    3 times just to make sure it wasn’t something I was doing. Every time. $48 for 15 minutes estimated drive too.

    Might try and sneak my way onto the shuttle bus which goes to central then just make my way from there to the car hire place.

    Meanwhile! I still have a train ticket booked which I’m just not going to use. Ship gets into Sydney at 4:30am, so when I booked it I figured I’d have HOURS to kill before the 7:40am train. Turns out disembarkation will start at around 6:45am so if something caused any delay I’d miss that train anyway. If I wasn’t carrying my own bag out my disembarkation group time is 8:35am so that would have been doublefucked.

    The upside to all of this is that last night I extended my car hire by a day and booked myself a room in Albury for the night so I don’t need to do the entire drive in a day. So now it’s not a big deal if I don’t get going from Sydney as early as humanly possible.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      6·
      10 months ago

      Sounds very sensible to break the journey on the way back esp after being unwell. 2022 xmas I had to leave at 4am to get to Sydney in time for dinner and was barely sane by the end coming after many stressful days prior. Broke my journey on the way back at Albury as well and had a much better time. Detoured via Beechworth on the way back on the second day and had a blast

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    7·
    10 months ago

    Cheese, pickles, chutney and crackers for lunch. The crackers are sweet potato, and I’m not overly thrilled with them. A bit strong flavoured, although that works quite well with the chutney which is also strong.

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
    7·
    10 months ago

    Remember folks it’s more efficient to start your air conditioning early in the day and keep it running to manage the temperature, rather than cranking it up when it’s already hot to cool down.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
      2·
      10 months ago

      We used our powerpal reader as a meter when the sun was blazing and cranked the aircon as far as possible while reading zero grid use. Now maintaining comfy as shit with very little oomphing.