I’m loving these longer, warmer days. I can already feel the SADs melting away
My mental health had been absolutely fucked the last few months, but even generally, I tend to end up in little depression episodes during winter time, with the short and wet days and constant grey skies
I had to visit a client on site today.
There’s a lot to be said about being well dressed and how it makes you feel.
Not in a vain way, just feels good.
Got the results from my blood test today and suddenly a lot is starting to make sense AND there may be a way to turn things around for both my physical and mental health. Feeling optimistic. I got the medical cannabis (from online doc not doc doc, a while ago) to try and help with the sads but found it doesn’t really do anything of consequence for me so I have a bunch of weed that I’m not super interested in. Although, the indica does help with getting to sleep when I can’t get to sleep which is its purpose so that’s alright.
Also though, apparently my sugar is a little high so they want me to do a 3 hour glucose resistance blood test thing to see if I have the diabeetus (like my Dad does). My levels are nowhere near the levels Dad gets though so we’ll see.
Hey @Bottom_racer@aussie.zone can you please tell me your dipping sauce recipe for dumplings. Much appreciated.
I do kewpie/siraccha/soy
Sure for me it’s equal parts light soy and rice wine vinegar with a dash of sesame oil then throw in some chilli flakes and sesame seeds. Sometimes throw some minced raw garlic.
Rectangle Kookas taste better than circle Kookas.
I’ve not had a rectangular Kooka. Tell me more…
I wouldn’t know, still trying to catch one…
today has been an odd mixture of flinging washing, dirt and servers everywhere.
Found some (I presume) a few male ‘Superb fairy-wren’ tail feathers when weeding before:
Lots a fluff around so something went down (probably resident magpie having a go at it). Apparently a common bird but I never really see them (or found their feathers).
That’s much cooler than finding split peas on your car seat.
these are from cockatiels, not sure which ones, but they are far too big for fairy wrens
Hrmm I’m not sure if cockatiels hang out on coastal fringes very often but you never know!
Might be rainbow lorikeets.
I saw this guy at Werribee Zoo a couple of years ago. One of my favourite birds, they always seem cheerful.
I found a stick of cinnamon while weeding today. Probably from making chilli oil.
There’s a small colony of them in the central Agora of the Bundoora campus of Latrobe Uni. They live in the azalea bushes. When I worked in Heidelberg Heights, I’d go to the Agora and just sit there with a coffee until they appeared. Beautiful.
The only time I’ve seen a male Superb Fairy-Wren was at the 1000 Steps, when I was a teen. Also saw a wallaby there too, it’s a magical place.
Their feathers are so beautiful - how big are the tail feathers in the pic?
Tiny about 5cm. When you turn them around in the sun they change colour to a more aqua / green which was interesting.
listening to the score of Vertigo, it’s just amazing/beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txvgd60hLPk
I’m hungover. No ragrets going last night. I didn’t get up, but everyone was so welcoming anyway, they all said hello and asked about me 😭 I’m thinking of getting up next time and reading Unsent, but I hope to write something a bit less “trauma poetry” haha
So good, and definitely get up there next time! Your talents have been kept to us for too long haha.
Thank you for your kind words 😭💜
Your very first one you posted here about the checkout chick was superbo and very relatable.
It was this one yeah?
I could not sleep, awakened afraid
Under the covers, I begged, I prayed,
For dawn, or death, for sleep to come
But mercy ungranted, I knew I was done.
For I committed a most awful crime
One for which we’ve all done time
Exactly the same or slighty changed,
Have we all made this same mistake?
I went to Woolies to buy a snack,
The cashier smiled, I smiled back
Items scanned, transaction completed
She said the words that have me defeated
Smiles and waves, “Enjoy your coffee and snack!”
“You too!” I regretfully cried back
Unthinking, unblinking, mid-step away
I died there, in Woolies, that very day.That’s the one!
Morning full of meetings, only two left this afternoon.
Sun is shining. Going to do a kitchen declutter later. Gonna be a good day
So much dust, soot and pollen to clean up, the seagoons are being over run and sneezing 🤧🤧🙀😿😾
From this morning I report: 2 touch base, 1circle back, 5 confirm, 9 flagged, 3 touched on, 10 capacity, 9 priorities, and 6 mentions of dyslexia or adhd
Shit that’s a pretty good round up! I had artifacts a few times, granular x2, vision x2, your team is the heart of this company x 1 (get absolutely fucked), and I’ve heard the word meeting at least 2 dozen times so far today.
next time could you post a trigger warning
Funny because those were one of the things discussed
of course it was …💀
I think we need to start dt weasel words bingo
There was a good meeting bingo card doing the rounds back in the 80s. I kinda miss it. One of the words was ‘elephant’. If you got it, that whole line scored double.
Thankyou for the inspiration, I just used “elephant” in a work meeting.
I’d like to add “single source of truth” and “pain points” to our lingo.
Also, profound dissatisfaction was a term I used today lol long story
I’m actually really curious to know how ‘pain points’ are a thing in IT
Someone touched a live wire?
Maybe the deep existential pain that comes from the computer installing updates right in the middle of an unsaved important task or presentation 🤔
it’s a stupid bloody phrase that basically means “IT are gonna be really MEAN to make this actually adhere to good practises and we corporate snots don’t like that”
Motherfuckers. They’re issues. This article is a good example, I’m not sure if you work IT, but as someone who’s been doing it for nearly 30 years I am chewing my own tongue in rage at the suit-speak.
Interesting article - I see what you mean. Am also now feeling tempted to see if I can insert ‘ladder up’ into a (non-IT) based work discussion, haha
I saw “insert ladder” and that was it. my brain is filthy.
I think it applies broadly to any corpo project management. Translation from my perspective is: issues that need to be solved.
Ah! TIL, thanks.
It’s definitely what the IT person at my work suffers, from all the dumb questions lol
we LIKE dumb questions. they indicate a desire to learn.
It’s the dumb actions and dunning-kruger proclamations we can’t stand.
End users are definitely pain points lol
I got to use inveterate philanderer. Some bits of work are fun.
Tell us more.
What I’ve been working on recently includes the personal papers of somebody who was Not a Nice Person
could you be more specific
Megalomaniac, ripped off brother, constantly very publicly cheating, klepto.
I think what’s needed here is a fun team-building activity during your lunch break. Yay. Who’s in? 👏 👏 👏
If it’s bowling, I’m in.🎳
I’ll check the budget and get back to you on that one. 👍
hey it’s Tuesday and you know what that means. Get yer old team building tshirts on cos it’s business time.
I’m even wearing my business socks, you know why they call them business socks? Cos it’s business time
it’s Wednesday by my count
FFS, I even wrote wednesday on the thread title
We all make mistakes. This one yours for the day and there will be no others. Congrats!! :)
It’s not a mistake, it’s a “learning opportunity”
Only if it’s trust falls and slice of pizza instead of a bonus.
🍕
That sounds like so much fun!
Don’t forget the icebreaker activity first!
At this time its unlikely we will be able to go forward with this request as we are still crunching numbers. We will look into it at a further date.
Circling back to touch base with my priority team 🚚
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The stand-up meeting this morning identified an opportunity to prevent a challenge to the company vision. Can we run up the flagpole the proposal to provide staff with a daily egg and confirm if this is an actionable priority?
Thank you for the gentle reminder. This message finds the egg well. 🥚
