• melbaboutown@aussie.zoneOP
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    I ate a few rice crackers and my mouth started burning… ? Alrighty then.

    I’ve ordered some more seeds. Jack Be Little pumpkins, Tommy Toe cherry tomatoes and some cat grass seeds. Very cheap. I just wish the packets were a little smaller, I only have so many pots left.

    The zucchini are growing a lot of adult leaves and already shaping up to be monsters. What have I done planting four of them… I only had 30cm pots as well. I still haven’t got the stakes and the pipes might not be tall enough.

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      Those little pumpkins look especially adorbs and will be fast too. You have to show us pictures when they are ready. 🎃

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        I hope they go ok… pumpkins are apparently prone to mildew and attract pests. And I’m worried the pots are too small.

        I was going to get Small Sugar pumpkins because they’re sweet and good for pies but checked the size of the fruit and it’s lucky that I did. Those are smaller than standard but 18cm/2kg would be a bit heavy for vertical growing.

        I picked the Jack Be Little variety that seemed like they’d grow to the size of my fist and will support them with cut off stockings if I have to.

        I considered the tiniest ones, Baby Boo, but they look very ornamental. Their description said they were edible but didn’t say they were good eating.

        https://www.theseedcollection.com.au/?skw=Pumpkin

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    One of my least favourite things that Americans do is ask why characters are speaking with a British accent, in a game made by a non-American developer based in a country that does not have English as the first language.

    They did it with Wukong and now they’re doing it with STALKER. Why do we let the yanks run the world, again?

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      Not that I like to generalise but a lot of them don’t comprehend that the rest of the world outside of the US exist.

      Time zones and release dates tend to confuse them as well.

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    Decided to take tomorrow off since I have 190 sick days and in combination of feeling crappy I’m not going to put up with people’s horrible attitude and shit.

    I also went by Aldi, got some frankfurts, chips and a couple of bottles of wine and a meat lovers pizza to help me get through the weekend.

    Bring on the early weekend fuckers!

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    I went to drop a box of stuff off to the new place today, and checked the letterbox. Fuck me it must’ve been empty for a while, there were easily about 75 letters/junkmail/magnet things crammed in there. I grabbed them out and had a quick flick through them, and it seems that was a bad idea. There were two dead snails living on the mail, having eaten through half of it, and tiny jumping things. Fucking hope they aren’t bed bugs or lice or something. Never doing that again. Next time it’s all going directly into the bin

    I did go and have the most delicious Szechuan chicken curry I think I’ve ever had though. Too spicy for me, so I got a container to bring it back in. Quite reasonable prices though, I can see myself being lazy and getting curry for tea every night. Only a 10 min walk from the new place

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      Probably springtails, they’re attracted to damp so probably living in the paper. They’re harmless. Bedbugs wouldn’t live there. They like warm claustrophobic environments and want to be near people.

      Smart to be cautious though

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    Not Covid or the flu, so that’s good. Still feels a bit like I been run over by a truck but hopefully day 3 it’ll break.

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      I’m going in day 6 with this thing I have.

      Still don’t really know what it is but I hope it clears up soon.

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    Rant: TVs without buttons are stupid. If you mislay or break the remote it has zero functionality. Grrr.

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    I popped up to Northland at about 2 because I needed a couple of things. I expected it to be dead as usual on a weekday arvo. It was total bedlam. I guess a combo of the sales and the heat, neither of which had really registered with me.

    I survived, but I’ll be trying not to enter a shopping centre again between now and at least mid-Jan.

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    Coworker just reminded me that I’m off tomorrow (fortnightly day off).

    I smashed through my work in anticipation of an easy day tomorrow. Easy day just became a day of leisure.

    Yay me!!

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    Bleh, some people are just so unpleasant to talk to. Rude, arrogant, bossy and at times inadvertently mean.

    Normally don’t need to talk to them but had to today and it was unpleasant as predicted, thankfully I’m not the only one who has the same opinion but dealing with someone like that really sours the day.

    I think it’s just nudged me further into actually taking a sick day tomorrow.

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    I just bought BG3 and I didn’t realise that my laptop doesn’t have enough storage to run the thing. Thank goodness for the hard drive I bought five years ago that I just uncovered.