• PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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    I’ve got the day off today and I haven’t told anyone 😁 Going to pretend to get ready for work for the day and then just bugger off and go shopping and eat or something idk🤔

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    Dropped Miniest off at school and went for a coffee and muffin, then decided I’d make good on my decision to get an air fryer. Wandered around checking out quite a few products I didn’t like before I found one I was happy with the Minipeelers using. Brought it home, reorganised the kitchen to make it fit (so good to be in the kitchen without being interrupted 😆) and then went out again for a walk in the sun under the guise of doing grocery shopping. So far we’ve cooked chips, chicken wings and hash browns. They’re interested in using it and happy with the results. Very happy with how I’ve spent my day 😊I could’ve been more self indulgent I guess, but then I’d just have eaten more cakes or something 😄

    Edit: nice to see some of you took some me time and did enjoyable things. The weather was gorgeous!

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    There is no greater feeling than looping a shitty metal riff and then playing your own somewhat out of time drums behind it lol

    Edit: 2nd interview locked in, another place contacted me as well which is awesome!!!

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      lol… for me it’s thinking you’ve done something great and the next morning you wake up, re-listen and think ‘oh… hmm we’ll try that one again’.

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        Man I hear you loud and clear. Especially when you’ve spent aaaages like, tweaking the kick or the snare and it sounds shit the next day lol

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    Decided to take today to just do relaxing stuff. Last couple of days have been incredibly hectic with losing the job and studying like crazy for the interview last night.

    Naps, reading, some pottering around the house and music works for me.

    Hope everyone has a great day :)

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      i wanna sleep all day so bad

      been achy all week, today I loosened bra straps

      migraine just happened 😠☹️

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        It’s a full r and r day today then back into the swing of things.

        I’ve drawn up a timetable for my weekdays. Definitely want to upskill if I’m going to be off work for a little bit.

        Will be going for az104 in 6 weeks. Az900 was pretty easy but 104 is pretty brutal.

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    Restoring my old childhood axe over the next few weeks. No manufacturer or any markings but it came from the grandparents place about 50 yrs ago according to ol’ boy so who knows how old it is.

    Being down here the salt air has not been kind. But the edge of it is remarkably in good shape given the abuse it took. Blunt as shit so time to change that.

    one side untouched:

    the other that’s half done (taking forever):

    Plan is to restore the edge using the Rag trick

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    I have a google speaker in the lounge playing music and I have the screen one in the kitchen. Now I know you can pair them so I touched the screen one in the kitchen, went with my gut and now there’s music playing simultaneously from that too! I didn’t press any wrong buttons and it took less than 20 seconds!

    This is a win for me. 🥇

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      Creating a home group with smart speakers was one of the benefits of them. It’s great walking between rooms and having the music ‘follow’ you. I wish there were more WiFi speakers out there

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        Is that what they’re called! Lol

        Everything here is connected to them. The lights, TV, sound system. A bit useless on me though.

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    Today I found out that some people don’t see images in their head or have an internal monologue.

    Wild.

    Couldn’t imagine reading a book without it playing like a movie in my head.

    Or the definitely funny internal commentary I’m making about my daily life lol

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      I’m not convinced. People don’t mean the same thing when they say “internal monologue” so it’s not that clear whether the differences are that big.

      Is an internal monologue like having a narrator talking constantly? Is it actually like hearing an external sound, or is it an awareness of the concept of the sounds and words along with all the other bits of meaning and fragmented thoughts that run through my brain? If you don’t have any sort of internal monologue how do you ever manage to speak or write? Does writing something down feel like someone else has taken control of your hands and leave you surprised when you read it, because you don’t have the idea in your head forming words first?

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        For me it works very like Pratchett’s Third Thoughts. I find myself watching my own reactions and speech as if they were happening to other people. And adding footnotes inside my head about what I really intended to mean/say/do (never spoken or I’d be tarred and feathered and run out of town probably). That’s the short version - the longer more accurate version WOULD get me tarred & feathered etc. I think.

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        That’s a good point.

        I suppose for me the odd one is the image thing. Can you visualise, in your minds eye… a (something absurd say a giraffe headbutting a panda)? Some people just can’t.

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              I don’t know if I can visualise it. I don’t “see a picture” or run a video in my head. Thoughts are a complicated web of interlinked ideas that constantly change as you focus on them. Telling me to visualise something like that brings up lots of ideas which include what giraffes and pandas look like, but also thoughts about how levers work, links to zoos where I have seen giraffes and pandas, the panda toy I had (and lost) as a kid, a whole mess of things that are definitely not visual, And it’s all simultaneous, it’s not like one single thing.

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      Yeah. Same. The pictures on the radio are so, so much better than the ones on the tv or movie screen. Also, the revelation I had when I realised that not everyone keeps a history timeline in their head - that really shook me. I’ve read a lot of history over the years, and that timeline just keeps getting more and more detailed and multibranched. I can’t imagine living without it now. It gives me perspective and I really value that. Can’t even begin to imagine what it must be like to not have that context - particularly nowadays.

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        I have books, files and filing cabinets in my head. I just find the file and turn the pages. New information is catalogued. This is also how I perform in exams, I just read the pages in my head. Unless it’s analysis or calculations and then I plan the problem solving.

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      It’s fascinating how different peoples brains work. I too was astounded when I found out some people couldn’t imagine images. Exactly like what you said, what’s it like to read a book? But I guess if you don’t know any different then it’s just fine. Brains are wild.

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    Dinner

    Lemon-pepper snapper with salad.

    I didn’t get the fish fully defrosted so oil spat everywhere while I was cooking. I had to do a full clean of the stovetop, benches and back wall.

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    Apart from this and the other site, I don’t use a lot of social media. Got an insta account which is mostly recipes and humour. When I scroll through reels I keep getting ads for life coaching and christian merch.

    I get a fair of bit pleasure of leaving snippy comments in those profiles.

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      My personal rule is I never scroll up on things like reels. I’ll watch YouTube shorts but I always back out and go to the main feed from there again

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    Even the crappy sleep isn’t enough to get me down right now lol

    Edit: PT at 7am sounded great at the time. Now, not so much hey.