• calhoon2005@aussie.zone
    16·
    23 days ago

    Heading to Flaming Lips tonight, should be fun. I’m guessing they haven’t installed aircon at festival hall…?

    Edit. Feels like there’s fans, but it’s still really quite hot.

    Edit. There seems to be no fans. I was mistaken.

    Edit. My god, I’m drenched already.

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    Second set … I’ll ease off now 🙂

  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
    13·
    23 days ago

    I bought a portable air con from Appliances Online. Rare delivery fail - didn’t get notified until the guys actually rocked up to deliver. First time this has happened to me.

    Mega dramas hooking it up to the outside to vent (we all gotta vent from time to time). At the moment it’s held in place by repurposed cardboard and the magic of duct tape, which will do until it rains. If it continues to do well over the next few days, then will invest in a proper window fitment.

    Unit works well - has shrunk the temp in my bedroom from 30 plus to 23 over 1 hour. Methinks this was money well spent.

    Will be keeping an eye on the power bill, but my last one was $45, so I think I can splurge a bit on personal comfort.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      8·
      23 days ago

      Definitely worth shelling out to not boil in this horrid heat. You’d have spent so many decades the “hard way” with wet towels and ice cubes and what not. I’d only experienced that in my childhood overseas and that was enough for me.

  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
    10·
    23 days ago

    I didn’t mean to, but I also bought a copy of War and Peace today.

    I guess I know how I’m spending the heat

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    10·
    23 days ago

    Gutters done. Always like doing them down here because:

    Worth the risk. Lovely up there. Doesn’t look anything like that from ground level.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    10·
    23 days ago

    Rolled outta bed late and dehydrated but still managed to hoist myself out to do the needful:

    ⛽ Car filled up

    🚘 Car given a long overdue clean and vac - tired of Monday’s gunk

    🌬️ Car tyres pumped although I still get the tyre pressure warning…

    🥕 Bought fruit and veg at my old shops on the way back (almost drove back to my old place out of habit 💔)

    🍲 That includes a shit tonne of vegan snags and easy cook shit at the Fancy Woollies which I miss DEARLY despite the shitty parking

    🍦 Grabbed half price ice cream and cheap chips from the shops across the road

    🧹 Vacuumed the joint

    🚿 Had a shower with hot water coming out of the cold tap, as usual on hot days, because this place sucks that way

    ❄️ Aircon on

    🍽️ About to have a late lunch

    That’s it. Staying PUT until Monday. I have plenty of food options. Window shades on my car windscreen because I’m not going anywhere. Need to buy a dash cover.

    So many Severence theories to catch up on and then time for this week’s The Pitt, then I’ll need to tackle the dishes and get round to reading Juice tonight.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    9·
    23 days ago

    Might watch Se7en now. I’ve been looking at what Cinema Nova’s been doing for their anniversary parties and following that

    Edit: was good, but holy shit

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      2·
      23 days ago

      I’d love to check out more of their events like that. It would be so good to watch those classics on the big screen properly

  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
    7·
    23 days ago

    I’m really not far north of the city, closest to the Viewbank weather station. It’s usually a couple of degrees warmer here but right now it’s 11 degrees hotter than the CBD. It’s 37C.

    How??

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    7·
    23 days ago

    I feel like I’m missing something fundamental in my life and I don’t know what. Perhaps it’s boredom and sense of fulfilment, because there is so much I can do with ice on my face for most of the day. I’m trying not to see the future as scary, but as something with hopefully some sort of excitement.

    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      23 days ago

      I think it’s normal to see the future as a bit scary. It’s the unknown.

      Edit: Maybe that’s one of the most exciting things about being alive. You don’t know what’s around the corner.

  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
    6·
    23 days ago

    Out for a walk and brunch before the weather gets too hot. Now home for washing and relaxing.

    Love this space on the internet and glad for all those who are or were part of it.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      2·
      23 days ago

      I know. 🥹 I feel so lucky and grateful to have all these wonderful people share their everyday lives.