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[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Beep Beep ๐Ÿšš
๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅญ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅฅ๐Ÿฅฆ๐Ÿฅ‘๐Ÿซ›๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ…๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅฌ๐Ÿฅ’๐ŸŒฝ๐Ÿฅ•๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿซš๐Ÿฅ”๐Ÿง…๐Ÿฅฏ๐Ÿž๐Ÿฅ–๐Ÿฅจ๐Ÿง€๐Ÿง‡๐Ÿฅž๐Ÿงˆ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฅš๐Ÿฅ“๐Ÿฅฉ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ–๐Ÿซ“๐Ÿ•๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŒญ๐Ÿฅ™๐Ÿง†๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฏ๐Ÿฅ—๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿœ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅ˜๐Ÿ›๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฑ๐ŸฅŸ๐Ÿฆช๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿš๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ ๐Ÿค๐Ÿชผ๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿฅฎ๐Ÿข๐Ÿก๐Ÿง๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿง๐Ÿฅง๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿจ๐ŸŽ‚๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿฅœ๐ŸŒฐ๐Ÿช๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฅ›โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿต๐Ÿบ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿฅค๐Ÿง‹๐Ÿงƒ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿท๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿน๐Ÿง‰๐Ÿ”‹

[โ€“] TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pineapple upside down cake please chef, with a cup of coffee.

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

๐Ÿ๐Ÿฐ
๐Ÿ™ƒ
โ˜•๏ธ

[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Lovely! Thanks chef.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

toasted english muffins with raspberry jam and a cup of tea please

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

๐Ÿฅฏ๐Ÿ”ด๐Ÿ”จ๐Ÿฏโ˜•๏ธ

[โ€“] Force_majeure1234@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm a bit late sorry chef. Any chance of a Thai red curry? Prefer duck but any winged creature will do

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿฆ‹๐ŸŒถ๏ธ๐ŸŒถ๏ธ๐Ÿฅ˜

[โ€“] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Wet morning. Bad moussaka. Tired. Blehhh

[โ€“] StudChud@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] lowtheseal@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Looks a bit like the ocean!

[โ€“] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Massive bogong moth wave last night down here. Went out into the garden at sunset basically walking through a sea of them.

Seen a few midge plagues before but never moths like that. Was impressive.

Heaps in the house. Can't do much. Back to melbs today so it's a later problem.

[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

They don't do damage, or not much. Just looking for a cool place to sleep away the summer. If you don't want them in the house, you may need to call a pest controller as dealing with that many moffs can be difficult.

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

I love it when they get too close to the fly zapper. It produces a satisfying buzz. Fry mother fucker.

[โ€“] Eagle@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

The cats have had a field day in my house overnight....

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

I only have one in the house, and that's because Mr Woof brought it inside to show off his hunting prowess. I tried putting it in the bin, but he pulled it out again so it's currently in the middle of the lounge room.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

That's really good about the moths. ๐Ÿ˜Š

I grew up when there were so many of them everywhere. Every single street lamp at night, every outdoor light, every crack of light would have dozens pf moths crowding around. And of course car wind shields would get bug splats.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

silly weather, think I will just throw a coat on over a top

[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

The most important thing about the new Star Wars game is there are a bunch of weird little guys that talk funny. Sure the racing and crashes look good, but there's a crocodile guy that goes "SCRIB DOOON"

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

My gas safety check is now complete. I thought Mr Woof was going to have a stroke from the stress of having a stranger coming inside the house, but he has survived and is currently doing a full safety sweep of the house.

[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Roll'd for lunch, got 4 rice paper rolls. They gave me 4 pots of garlic chili oil, one each! I had to pour the last of the second pot into the third, now I have two left for something else. Decent amount of spice on these things too

[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Many thanks to IT for threatening to lock me out of a device that was handed back to them approaching 6 months ago. Very helpful.

[โ€“] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Me: orders a second hand 240gb SATA m2 on ebay, foolishly reading the description and not the photo
also me: gets a 256gb NVME m2
Me: hey seller heads up this is a different thing
Seller: "THE PHOTO SHOWS YOU WHAT YOUR GONNA GET"
Me: ok bud ya got me there but you should know an NVME m2 is worth a lot more than a SATA one.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

It's Canadian Thanksgiving today and we are having a feast for young Mr Seagoon. ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] StudChud@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

8.30 to 4 today, and I was running the pack room and training a newbie from 12pm. Phew I'm stuffed, so glad I have a day off tomorrow lol

I hoped I passed whatever test that was ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Impressive work that you're the one training the newbies already

[โ€“] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Lorikeet in da callistemon just now:

Decided to stay down for another night. Cbf'ed going back today. Back to reality tm.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Took a picture of some native irises growing in the wild in a park near me.

The flowers are about 2 cms big.

[โ€“] StudChud@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

I think they're lovely, just wild little native flowers that no one takes any notice of .๐Ÿ˜Š

and our flowers are small because they haven't been cultivated to grow big, these are a natural species, not some hybrid or mutant

[โ€“] BakuFive@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Heyy DT people! Sorry to just drop in out of the blue and vent to you, but I got some kinda bad news today and I wanted to share if you all don't mind :/

VentI've been getting migraines recently and put off going to the GP. I had an appointment booked in for tomorrow afternoon, but was out today in a shopping centre with a Specsavers, so on a whim I decided to book in just to make sure my glasses don't need adjusting and eye strain isn't contributing to the migraines, since I figured the GP might ask if I've ruled that out

Got a bit of a double whammy from the optometrist, apparently I had a lazy eye when I was a child which I never had corrected, and I've permanently lost part of my vision in my left eye. I can still make out shapes, but I was struggling to read even the top row of the letter chart they had.

Even worse than that, they tested clouding over my right (good) eye with a foggy lens thing, as opposed to just blacking it out and that was really really bad. I couldn't even make out shapes on the letter chart, it just looked like a yellowish white sheet of paper

I'm not even exaggerating/joking, If the vision in my right eye ever degrades, I think I'll become legally blind. I couldn't see shit at all with that eye clouded out. I could barely even make out large shapes further than a few metres away

Worse still, they decided to test my pupillary dilation with a torch and apparently my left pupil isn't constricting properly in the light, and wasn't reacting the same way as my right pupil did. He ran a bunch of other tests to me (fuck those air puff machines, seriously), and ended up calling someone else for a second opinion

Unfortunately he said he didn't know why it was doing that, so he gave me an urgent referral to see an ophthalmologist this week

I guess on the positive side, if my pupil is staying wide open in bright light, that would probably explains the migraines. I did feel a migraine starting after he turned off the torch (complete with a nauseous feeling, so fun!) and had to take some pain relief when I got home. Also positive is that he said the vision in my right eye is good, only needs a very minor prescription. Sadly he also said even with glasses, my left eye will never be as good as my right eye. I've permanently lost some amount of vision in that eye

Thinking back, for the last year or so, I've been closing my left eye in sunlight and just been walking around with only one eye open. It was just an automatic reflex and I never thought that might be problematic. And the migraines I've just ignored because they were tolerable ish with 600mg ibuprofen and 1500 paracetamol.

Funny enough, when I was a young kid and learnt how to wink, my mum never could and used to tell me it was a stupid and pointless thing to learn anyway. I guess I've proven her wrong

On top of this, my oven packed up and I got a text today that they can't source a part so they need to replace the entire thing, with a 2-3 week wait

This day's just been a pile of shit :/

Sorry to vent to you guys like that, I don't really have anyone I can tell

cat tax

(Don't mind the weird collar and synthID watermark thing - I edited out a tag he has with the Google magic eraser thingy because it has some personal info on it

Welcome back Baku! That eye stuff sounds pretty full on. The eye doc sounds like he knows what he's doing and is committed to helping. Which is not the worst outcome in the world.

[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

What a magnificent CatTax!

With you on hate for the air puff eye gizmo. My measurement is at a level to worry about very bad possibilities. Much sympathy!

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

so sorry about the migraine and eye troubles, I hope you can get it fixed soon, it's not nice to live like that

but, at least you know now and can do something

hugs

[โ€“] BakuFive@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you! I hope so too. Migraines suuuuck

[โ€“] CadMunt@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That sucks dude. Drop in any time. - Dumblederp.

[โ€“] BakuFive@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dumblederp rebrand?? Definitely read your name as "cat munt" and was about to ask haha. Thank you!

[โ€“] CadMunt@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Sucks to hear about the eye stuff, I hope you've been able to catch it soon enough to do something about it. They have crazy technology with eyes these days. Good to hear things are at least going alright otherwise

[โ€“] stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You cheeky fucks are alright

[โ€“] TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yup. That we are. Join in and have fun!

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks shaggas

[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Missing: 1 giant lemon grabbed from FreeBox around the corner the other day. I could go for a short walk, but this wouldn't solve a puzzle.

[โ€“] Soirhyle@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Been pretty nice a day, despite the fact I woke up and suddenly had a migraine and ended up laying down in bed for a good amount of hours. Hours that could have been spent playing about on my C64U and working toward completing Briley Witch Chronicles.

[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Back in the day I'd hate it when Microsoft brought anything new out. KDE has just added a Sticky Note widget to my taskbar and I'm like, "Okay, I'll try this out." It's the difference between software trying to exploit you and software trying to help you.

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[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Nearly done organising/moving. ๐Ÿ˜Š

Bill is really starting to settle in, he's sleeping better, not hiding, and eating well. No pee accidents any more.

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