Bit of Cloudflare instability today.
Travelling again for work so another slightly dodgy breakfast but I got to hang out with this absolute legend
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Wow I want your job! Probably very much a grass is greener sort of thing though.
Oh yes…I then spent all day in small rooms talking my guts out to people!
:(((
They’re so funny and curious about people. Almost like if dogs were birds
That’s a great picture too!
Two new people at my co-working space having a Teams meeting on speaker and playing videos out loud. Put up with it for 30 minutes. Then went over and asked them to please stop playing videos from their computer on speaker loudly as it’s distracting to my work, and there are free meeting pods around if you need to make noise. No sorry, no speaking at all, just looked at me and each other like I was crazy for confronting them. Amazing how inconsiderate people can be.
They immediately packed up and moved someone else.
They immediately packed up and moved someone else.
A win. I cracked it at a family holding up the line for the tunnel walk on Sunday. They didn’t have their QR codes up and traffic was backing up. Dad was trying to be all just give me a minute until I loudly encouraged him to step aside while he learned to use his phone. He gave me the dirtiest look but stepped aside.
We need more shit like that called out publicly. I don’t hesitate when some idiot needs to be confronted. Public humiliation is a powerful tool.
The old me would have stayed quiet and put up with it, but not anymore.
I’ve also learned my lesson to call this behaviour out quickly. There’s a group of people from a business (not here today) who have been members longer than me who are so loud, so disruptive, and essentially untouchable (management won’t confront them after I complained). They also know they’re bothering me when I’m here and give no shits. So as soon as there’s a new disruptive group, I approach very quickly to teach some workplace etiquette they should already know.
Wankers like that in the workplace feel so much worse. I expect more from adults, and yet…constant disappointment. Good on you for evolving :)
I cracked the shits at a builder next door playing shit techno at full blast few days ago.
I like techno, but not that sort of techno, particularly when you’re angle grinding rebar.
Haven’t played it since lol.
I won that round.
I bought a new body trimmer. I practiced on the man’s back. It was all fun and games up until I accidently nicked the scrotum.
I was doing so good too.
practiced on the man’s back.
accidently nicked the scrotum.
How damned high do that man’s balls ride??
He obviously tossed them over his shoulder like a regimental soldier
Hahaha. I ran out of spots to shave. The ball sack seem like a good idea at the time.
tmi
I’m sorry. I shouldn’t tell people he’s got a hairy back.
I for one want to hear more about deputy CEOs nutsack
It was like trying to shave 2 peaches in a net bag.
Scotums are very vascular, they bleed lots! Hopefully just superficial.
Yeah he’s good now but I’m never allowed to do that again.
Until he does a worse job with diy…
Nah. It was a once in a lifetime experiment.
I bought some cheap jeans from Kmart which were too wide in the legs, so have taken the legs in by a couple of inches and hemmed them to a sensible height. They are now presentable enough to wear for general stuff like gardening and dog walking, even if they are never going to be high fashion. It’s good to have the sewing space useable, even if it does need a lot more sorting still - the table is covered with fabric that needs to be put away once I can figure out where.
5 hours sleep in a row!!!
Oh fuck yes!
it’s nice to know what it feels like to be rested 😊
One of the teams in the building had a new guy join 2 weeks ago and clocked the team leader’s bullshit with in a couple of days. Come in this morning and his work phone and keys are on his desk and my manager confirmed he’d resigned last night, can’t wait to hear how the team leader spins this one. I’m guessing “he just couldn’t handle it” as opposed to what we all know is the truth (the team leader is an asshole).
I’m still buzzed/happy from the Young Seagoons visit. The bonds have never been stronger. 😊💖They are lovely people.
And you raised them! You’re a lovely person, Seagoon. They get it from you <3
I’m up. Time to see the young seagoon’s off on the rest of their trip overseas to see other fam.
I will miss them so much 😭
What an awesome adventure they’ll be having though! So glad you got a bit of time with them!
🥲
very old MIL came over
she went on a rant about VicRoads. How dare they ask for all my medical details. my bad health doesn’t mean I can’t drive, and how dare they ask me to get retested.
“I’m a very good driver, better than “insert name of son” ( who drives her everywhere, ) I see all the things he doesn’t. I see everything and anticipate.”
She’s 86 and can barely get in a car and she can’t walk well.
She was so angry when I said maybe she shouldn’t be driving.
I’m only concerned that someone else may get hurt.
Narcissism in old age manifests in new and interesting ways.
The absolute rage someone I knew flew into when his doctor reported him as no longer fit to drive. Never mind the fact that he blacked out while driving his car, fell asleep on a forklift and had lost a large chunk of his spatial awareness leading to scraping the shit out of his car, but “HoW dArE tHeY”. Fucker is lucky he didn’t hurt anyone. And yet still thought it was an excellent choice to not take his medication.
Some people would rather talk about other people’s faults than admit their own.
Thee main thing that made me feel angry was the way she insulted her son who drives here everywhere who looks after her.
She feels no gratitude and thinks saying thank you is abasement.
Oh jeez I feel this. Had to have ‘the conversation’ the other day too (again) w/ mum. She’s no longer driving but the topic keeps coming up.
😔 my poor dad barely passed his recent driving test, and almost definitely won’t pass his next. His partner will keep him in line though and won’t let him try when he’s not allowed
My grandma is 85 and gets so annoyed about the driving question because she’s still fine. But it sounds like your MIL is getting defensive because she still wants to drive even though she shouldn’t. People take that stuff as an insult.
I think there should be a driving test for people once they reach a certain age. Maybe even every ten years or something. That won’t stop people driving like hoons in the meantime. but I wonder how many would fail.
That ‘certain age’ should be 30 imo. And maybe 25 for tradies driving to the public danger in walloping great SUVs stuffed to the gunnels with tools & ladders. Or, alternatively, anyone involved in a car accident or parking bingle has to get re-tested no matter what age they are to claim their insurance. At ‘fault’ or not. This could take all the ageism out of getting re-tested. And imo would lead to MUCH more polite and courteous driving. From everybody.
I agree.
Am totally with you one this one
I remember my brother telling me about his 91 yo MIL, who was becoming increasingly dangerous behind the wheel and everyone in his wife’s family were just way too timid to face her wrath on the subject. So he “had to play the bastard son-in-law” because it was getting ridiculous and only a matter of time. She was utterly enraged, demanding her licence back, causing a fuss. They made her do a test and she failed. She was even more viciously angry, and demanded another test. She again failed. They found out she was still driving. My brother took her keys. She was absolutely beside herself with rage. She was in complete denial. In the end she was going to demand another test but death got in the way. What a way to spend your twilight years. Some people are just unbelievable.
I like to think that when I’m old enough I will heed any advice that I should stop driving, if I haven’t already voluntary realised it myself. But, with the number of cases I hear of elderly people believing they are fine to drive when they are clearly not, I wonder if some kind of self awareness problem happens in old age? Yes some are narcissists but they can’t all be, can they? Will my brain become selfish and dumb when I’m old? I really really hope not. I don’t want to be that person. Anyway, hope the vicroads testing sorts out the MIL and gets her off the road. Safer for everyone.
Imo half the problem is that driving is so damn convenient - and it’s been sold as ‘freedom’ for many decades now. Getting your licence and a car was/is a rite of passage that says you’re an adult now. Some of the rage is having to admit to oneself that you’re losing your independence, that you need help, that you are becoming a helpless child again. Even when this is true, it hurts damnably.
And there’s another level of pain when you’ve been the caregiver, the provider, the one that controls access to the outside world via a car.
And a car offers comfortable, private, weatherproof transport that just can’t happen on public transport of any sort. You can dress comfortably with less reference to the outside world as you’re less exposed to the weather. And there’s the ability to carry heavy/bulky stuff over quite long distances - far further than you can haul in a shopping cart of some sort on the bus. When there is a bus. If the bus stop/train station has a seat and is rain/sun proof (and not all of them are). Giving up all those benefits AND your independence … no, the rage is quite understandable imo. Doesn’t make it right to keep driving tho. And the risk to other road users just keeps on growing.
I’ve never understood the urge to retire to the country/beach - far from services, shops and health care. Where driving is essential for life. You really do have to come to terms with the knowledge that eventually you’re going to need a GP or an Aldi within walking distance or spend the bulk of your retirement income on taxis or equivalent.
This is the big issue with her.
Against all suggestions from fam she chose to live in an area that is far from services and shopping and medical , plus it’s an ugly house that is hard to maintain.
She is angry when others choose better/wisely for themselves, even if it costs the same.
I do not understand. Maybe she thinks she is more powerful if she sets herself up as a “victim” that demands help.
There are definitely awareness problems with age, especially with dementia. There’s even a word for it, anosognosia. It’s one reason a lot of people’s plans for old age don’t work out, they assume they will have the capacity to recognise when they need to make changes, whether that be stopping driving, not climbing ladders or going into aged care. And because our society values being able to make your own choices we allow people to cause a lot of damage to themselves and others before we allow anyone else to step in and start making decision.
Some people of course do use denial as a coping strategy through their whole lives, and that can also be a cause of refusing to admit being unable to do things. It doesn’t help that our society sees aging as a bad thing and has a lot of prejudice against the elderly, people would not feel as much need to deny their own aging if it was seen as a more positive thing.
Turned on lossless on Spotify. There is a very clear positive difference in audio quality and not in a gold-plated-audio-cable kind of way. Sounds very full and detailed – pumping bass and very crispy hi-hats. Didn’t know what I was missing.
I’ve got my quality setting on very high (320kbps), do you think lossless makes a big difference? I did want to turn the setting on but I download my music so much more storage needed for lossless.
There are separate quality settings for streaming vs downloading, and you can set it per device*, would those fix the issue?
I’ve noticed that the caching will always choose the highest quality available, so I can’t easily flip back and forth between qualities to compare and give you a “big difference” answer. I am definitely noticing more in the low end – bass guitar/cello/kicks are all much more present in the mix. But I can do without that when I’m listening on my phone while out and about. At home with unlimited streaming its no problem.
*Edit: I think
Was anyone awake to see that Cloudflare outage? Couldn’t access any of the readings for my assignments. Lucky I downloaded most of them!
Yes I was (am) awake lol. Aussie zone carked it and I was wondering whether yarrabyte would chuck a sickie or not lol
Yeah, tried to open the itch launcher on my laptop and was just getting a 500 error. It meant I couldn’t play a game at all even though it was installed on my computer. So I think I’ll just download Niota directly and bypass the launcher now.
Noita? Love that game. So brutal. So addictive.
Here’s another thing I don’t get: Influencers that are just like a regular person. I can understand following rich people or people that were famous for something once. But I saw one woman who just lives in a 100 year old house and is renovating it kind of. I can understand if someone has an online presence about something, but there are people who are just there and don’t seem to have any particular niche or angle.
I saw one woman who just lives in a 100 year old house and is renovating it
That sounds mildly interesting (to me)
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The rest of the influencers are pretty pointless though
Jenna something? My ex used to watch her because he wanted to renovate a house one day and kind of got me onto it. But the regular people, I think people want to relate to others and feel “connected”. Rich people are far removed from them.
I don’t have TikTok, but I follow an old blog that does a weekly TikTok round up and the “influencer” shit that gets talked about and blows up just baffles me so fuckin’ much.
I almost don’t mind listening to influencer drama because it’s all so decoupled from reality and anything significant it just feels like short stories about the stupidest people you’ve ever heard of
That’s true, probably why I read the post every week. It’s crazy what people get themselves in a tizzy over. And what people are freakin’ willing to film themselves doing. Like GET A BRAIN.
I think there’s a big difference between people who set out to be “influencers” and people who just do what they want that’s maybe a little different and film it or just want to share.
Meaningless observations/waffling on because I'm bored at work
Yesterday I came across a lady who’s turning her Boston apartment into a 1980’s Malibu style place. I have friends who watch mount bikers. Boyo used to keep up with a couple who were restoring a yacht to live on. I think the people who do these things on hope of getting famous piss me off, but the people who are just doing something a little out there and filming it are fine by me. I follow an instagram of a guy who’s adopted a whole bunch of senior dogs and really appreciate that whenever people ask to send him donations he’s always “no thanks, I’ve got this”. Made respect to him vs people who buy dogs and dress them up in order to beg for views.
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Omg it’s working now?!
Your mum’s working, how 'bout that? Cash me outside
She retired a couple years ago akshually
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Took a walk today and am now resting with Melbcat curled into me as the little spoon.
I’ve sorted her specialist appointment and am waiting for it to roll around.
Edit: Crocheting and hopping around finding something to watch. Melbcat got up to lie on the carpet… I’m fidgety and bored
I am so tired, sorry I’m not more active here
goodnight, sweet dreams everyone 😘
Have a good sleep
