• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    Still at the hospital.

    Stuff is back to normal but they did a thyroid blood test and they think it’s over-active which might have led to the heart stuff.

    Feel bad, the strays will be waiting and I ain’t getting home anytime soon

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    I visited the new Rosanna library today. The balustrade pictured here is 10mm thick steel. Obviously it wouldn’t be a single piece but it looks like one. It’s quite astonishing. I’m puzzled by the fact that it’s painted though. If you use a material like that in a way that’s a bit unusual and clearly meant to be a design feature, don’t hide it with paint 🤷

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    Every night I wake up into this awful sickening void. Melbcatless. I loved her. Unsure if I’m giving myself a break to heal or self isolating.

    The trigger of the spray cleaner bottle wasn’t springing back after being depressed so I got in the habit of pushing it forward with my ring finger to keep on spraying… doing that repetitively scraped some skin off my finger and that’s now trying to get infected. I’ve attended to it better and it’s starting to improve but I’m watching.

    Haven’t seen the furry shadow around. It’s a mix of relief and guilt.

    I’ve sent a get well package to someone, I forgot if they’re a tea person 😵‍💫

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    The surgery was a success. I was able to move my Majora’s Mask save across computers, across OSes, onto the Bazztop.

    That was the last thing stopping me from wiping the other laptop and getting jiggy with it

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zone
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    The other day my building’s fire alarm went off, and it wasn’t a test lol I spent 5 minutes chasing Mickey with a towel to get him in the carrier and then hustled downstairs to hang with all the other resident cats in their carriers.

    Took about half an hour, but it turns out the cafe they’re putting in downstairs on the street, they’re doing renos, tripped it accidentally. No actual fire.

    We got back upstairs and Mickey promptly nipped my ankles and calves, until I plied him up with a tube treat mixed with some dry treats.

    This is him afterwards

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      I went to a burger place next to a building doing am evacuation one time. All these people came oit together with their pets and then there was this one guy with his golf clubs

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      I have 3 cats and a hyperactive jack russell… I’d be fucked getting them all out in a hurry.

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        I don’t think Mr Woof would go well in an appartment, but in a house he’s great - he self-evacuates to the back yard every time there is a noise he doesn’t like. Which includes smoke alarms, blenders, crockery clinking… He evacuates multiple times a day when I’m home!

        Miss Meow would be a problem if she gets scared and goes into hide mode. She’s black and can melt into shadows, there is a good chance I wouldn’t be able to find her in an emergency.

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          The fluffy one would be easy, he’d be under the bed. The dilute torti could be anywhere, and she blends in so is really difficult to spot. The black one would be up high, hopefully I could reach her and the dog… well she’d be barking at my feet.

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    My new fitness watch is arriving today arrived as I was writing this message, so I’ll be able to start actually tracking my steps. My initial goal for steps should be quite achievable: wear the watch for a week and figure out what I’m actually doing now.

    Some weights are expected to arrive today or tomorrow, most likely they will arrive tomorrow with a whole bunch of stuff that will be piled up at my door for me to struggle to move inside after getting home late from Melbourne. Any time you only have one day you’re not home that’s when the parcels are most likely to be delivered!

    As well as the treadmill I’m also waiting on some new scales, as mine died last week after I finally got around to putting new batteries in. It managed one last weight measure, then got stuck trying to connect to wifi and passed away peacefully overnight. Plus some little miscellaneous things like a little whiteboard to write down my plans and some new shoes.

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    Water company taking the piss yet again. No, we will not be paying the bill for the entire set of units. Just like last quarter. Get your arse into gear for a ream from the ombudsperson.

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    Woo! Free reusable coffee cup at the conference. I didn’t even know it was part of the deal. I’ve seen these ones around too, they’re the expensive ones

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    That’s a spoonbill at the beach, they swish their bills in the water to feed. I don’t see many of them as seagulls hate them and will drive them away.

    I also saw fairy wrens, some big ducks, pelicans, seagulls, terns, stilts, moor hens, red cap plovers, topknot doves, sparrows, willy wag tails,

    and lots and lots of star fish .

    It really was good to see all the wild life even if it was so cold and windy today

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      I had them not long ago. They started debating me on something but as soon as I said “look, you’re trespassing” they up and left. They younger lass tried to continue but the older guy was all nah we really gotta go.

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      When I was in Perth last October, my partner and I were waiting in the car, in the carpark, and we saw and were approached by American Mormons on a mission lol. They tried to convert us, we politely declined and they left. They were two young women, maybe barely 18-21?, and there was an older man close by keeping an eye on them, I assume like a chaperone.

      It was very strange. I didn’t think they came to Australia, I thought their missions usually involved going to the global south, not the actual south lol

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    Got antibiotics and just as well because my finger is swelling up.

    spoiler

    Saw some pet things I’d been looking for in pink. I only find those items now. And out of habit I fully expected to see her when I got home 💔

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      hugs

      I used to expect to hear Allie’s meow and would sometimes see her out the corner of my eye. But it was just habit and wishing.

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    Organising win for the day: the box my fit watch came in is the perfect fit to go in my bathroom organiser and tidy up my unruly packets of dental floss picks.

    I’ve tidied up the bathroom cabinet a bit, and a section of the pantry that was a chaotic mix of vitamin pills, pet supplies and a few random things that were far better off elsewhere.

    I’m continuing to work on the area of the study that became a dumping ground for all the miscellaneous stuff I wasn’t sure where to put when I moved. The plan is to clear out all the excess clutter and tidy everything up and create space for the new fitness stuff.