good day today, got lots done , made some stuff, less chaos, more skills,
I can see a tunnel far away, can’t see the light yet but I know it’s there
🙂
Get it, girl!
What a life. Full of treats and brushed to sleep.
On the sheet of royal down.
Nothing got done today. Melbcat and I are being slugs
you got rest, recuperation and love done. 🙂🙂🙂
Those days are necessary, no matter how often they’re needed.
Whilst I do enjoy a good drive in the countryside, in the dark trying to get home from work is not really the time. I think the GPS was trying to send me the long way around to avoid some traffic, but driving back country roads you don’t know in the dark is not fun.
In good news though I had many packages when I got home, including the lost Bunnings parcel that has been spending the last week touring the state. Miss Meow has some new steps, which arrived with a bit of damage but seem to be holding together ok, and she also has a new mat to go in front of the litter trays to help contain her wild litter flinging ways.
I also have a couple of rugs which look fairly lightweight but should be decent enough for occasional use in the garage, a stand to put the toaster oven on, a rolling stand for my computer cpu, and new rollerblade style castors for my office chair. I just need to figure out how to get the old ones off.
And also a set of coasters I threw in as a last minute impulse buy and actually look pretty decent - each one has a similar but different pattern.
Those coasters look pretty fancy. Almost Lord of the Rings like.
Tree of life
very pretty 🙂
Yggdrasil.
After the awful news out of India I decided to revisit a happier ending to a crazy situation and watched Sully. Damn near cried a few times just thinking about the goodness of people compared to what we see in the US today. Now I’m off to go watch some Mayday episodes and feel grateful for my life.
E: also, massive boo to Clint Eastwood and his anti government dickhead views for making the NTSB into some kind of villain, I guess it was just the beginning of the Trump years after all. Which is all the more sad to contrast with 2009, when it actually happened… Can’t believe the GFC years feel better than what we have today.
That was tragic what happened in India, the fact by some miracle one person survived is somehow out of this world.
What’s Mayday by the way?
I haven’t read any news in about 4 or so months.
Previously, I was glued every day doomscrolling multiple news sources and subreddits a day.
In a way, it’s putting my head in the sand. But to be completely up front, my mental health has benefited significantly.
I’m mostly like that now too and yes, it’s healthier.
Woop protest on Sydney road, I think heading into the city. Good luck city dwellers 😬
About what?
Israel fired on Iran - I could hear the crowd chanting “free free Palestine”, so probably has to do with that lol
You know what, I don’t give a shit who they shoot at but firing at aid workers is fucking disgusting. Shame on Israel.
Yup and also stopping aid from reaching people who need it.
Yep. It’s not right.
you mean stopping the red cross aid to the hostages?
Humanitarian aid to those in Gaza.
Fkn aye
At this time of night?
Rug up, it’s 6.2c outside.
Pfft I’m not going out there! I’ll stay right here in the warmth of my first world problems
And so will I with a now on heater in off peak time to keep me all nice warm and toasty.
time to upgrade my phone
I am dreading transferring music, the apps seem to always change my import albums or album extras to standard albums and I lose a lot of good music
Do you not plug the old phone into the new one and it copies it across? That’s what my pixels have done.
it changes the music
That’s some bullshit. Do you not have a regular computer to act as a middle man?
You gotta invest in a hard drive
I’m trying to not have stuff
External hard drives are the size of 1 cd if that. For 1 TB about $45 at Big W. Keeps all your music safe.
mmm, the size a book
Smaller
ok, I’m sold 🙂
Today at the beach I found a red spiky sponge thing.
clear skies again, it’s very pretty here
Dog stepped in his shit whilst we were walking. But he’s clean now.
What a stunner!
I checked on my dog this morning and he was laying one right near the letterbox. He’s got the whole yard and he chooses there. Fuck me.
He’s just making sure everyone knows.
It’s like he deliberately picks the longest bit of grass to wrap it around too.
I respect his hustle.
Anyone want an overbearing 7kg cat that refuses to listen, insists on licking your face while clawing your neck, flicks kitty litter everywhere, opens every cupboard that he can, must be involved in everything and is currently nuzzled my fingers while I try to type? Anyone? Please?
Of course I’m not being serious, but he’s really A LOT today!
He looooooves youuuu!!! Literally!
He’s gorgeous! I’ll put my hand up for babysitting duties, lol, I miss having a kitty around. You can just tape up that box and post him.
Your name has been registered in the Alfie Approal List, thank you!
I don’t know if he’s real. I need a pic.
Oh, he’s very real. And he will YEOWL to remind you that he’s real.
He’s beautiful and fluffy. I’ll take him. You’re a bitch 😂
He’s already packaged up in the box, he’s coming over! 📦 All jokes, we couldn’t part with him, the house would be too quiet - although less stinky! Ten minutes ago I sneezed and he farted out of shock. He’s certainly a character!
😂 that’s so funny.
He is stunning 😍
He absolutely is and he knows it!
Look at how fluffy he is!
Majestic as fuck, I tells ya!
so very beautiful
He’s a stunner for sure! He unfortunately really likes the taste of my face cream 😆
Oh I have one of those too. Licks it right off my face.
That white vest is there for burying one’s face into while repeatedly praising the beautiful, cute, very good owner of said vest, yes?
The vest is the Danger Zone! The earsies are Yes You ARE The Best Zone. And his cheekies!!
Ah, the danger vest, as it always is! Please give this baby a few cheek tickles and a good ear scratch from me 😺
Ok, quick bedding change when Melbcat briefly got up. Quick cycle rewashing of a forgotten load.
When I get up again I’m going to replace the bin bag, throw out the stuff on the bench and empty the litter boxes.
Have returned to Firefox and it was far less painful of a transition than I thought. After figuring out some video rendering issues (stuttering caused by hardware acceleration, and tearing fixed by setting monitor frame rate to max) there are only upsides so far!
I returned to Firefox (after years of using Chrome out of laziness) on my work laptop because of Google’s manifestly (ha) stupid decision to block functionality that means uBlock Origin no longer could be installed, which means I had no way of manually adding extra filters to block the garbage AI Overview in el goog search results.
Honestly think I should just switch to Firefox on my personal computer too. I use Iceraven on my phone which is a fork of Firefox, anyway…
I use Brave on my phone, because of its inbuilt ad blocker - I can watch YT videos without all the ads before, during, and after the vid lol idk about it’s other functionalities however.
I can use uBlock Origin in Iceraven on my phone, which probably has a similar-ish outcome (though it’s slower at keeping up the YT ads arms race, every so often ads will slip in)
However, I instead watch YT on a Revanced patched version of the Youtube app, which blocks ads, uses Sponsorblock (skip all the sponsored segments and if you want to skip intros/intermissions/outros etc), and very importantly, lets you have background playback - I couldn’t be happier with it! Especially when I want to have some 3 hour brown noise + rain video playing in the background while I doomscroll
This is why I returned, though I was using Edge and they haven’t set a date yet for ending Manifest V2 support. Figured I’d get ahead of it. The uBO team also say it works best on Firefox too.
They can take the ability to block custom elements over my dead body! Especially as unwanted AI garbage continues to infect more and more user interfaces
Yeah these guys are definitely rotund now
Winter insulation
Does that happen to people too? Asking for a friend…
I’ve done my own personal research on this, and yes, yes it does
I’ve peer reviewed your research and am able to reproduce the results.
Yes! Actually! More energy required to stay warm means higher energy intake!
