Finally made it down the coast. Bus replacement from wyndham vale to geelong made it a lengthy trip. Bit chaotic, no one seemed to know which bus was going where (including the drivers lol).
But it’s always interesting taking that bus through those newish estates out west to see how they’re going. People have planted things, but not things that provide any shade. The amount of synthetic lawn is pretty crazy. Just a massive heatsink. Also the walking tracks are always empty which is a shame as they look quite nice.
Before leaving decided to borrow both Situationcake’s and Dumblederps ideas. Hoping the steel wool works, but if it gets through…
Behold, the ROTATING BOTTLE ON A STICK OVER A BUCKET 2000™ (that is pb not poo).
Let’s see how we go.
That is ACME fantastic! We had a rattus suicide itself by leaving the lid of the big green bin open.
Did you oil the insides of the bucket?
Shit… didn’t think of doing that.
😂
You may come home to peanut butter smeared on the floor and the bucket tipped over because it body slammed itself up against the side.
No water in bucket ?
Yea about 7cm high. Feel bad about that part if it works.
Don’t worry rats can swim.
My brain is fried. One more to go and things can slow down a tiny bit.
Also, I’m so fucking sick of pharmacists treating me like dirt because of what’s on my safe script.
What’s the point of being in healthcare if you’re going to be judgemental about what medication people take?
Same issue with nurses. I guess everyone needs someone to look down on.
Fucking scumbags.
Just pure racism and classism at its finest. You’re on a ‘controversial’ medication and aren’t a white man. That’s it, that’s all it is. I want to slap every healthcare worker (drs, nurses, pharmacists, mental health worker) who hold those views. It’s fucking gross and I’m so angry on your behalf. Fuck.
I’m sorry man, your needs are LEGITIMATE and the problem only lies with those judgy cunts.
I’ve had some amazing experiences with nurses and some downright horrible ones that shouldn’t even be working in the industry.
The least they could do is be professional and keep their thoughts to themselves but some just can’t help themselves.
I’m sorry you had to go through that. It’s never nice.
take care ,
and you don’t need to justify yourself to them, you have a doctor
if you are feeling grouchy you could always tell your doc you are being harassed
Poor Gibson has spent so much time alone this week.
This weekend it’s just her and I hanging out.
Goodnight all ❤️
Goodnight. Sleep well.
I set up my rainbow of glass 🙂 It took me a long time to collect, each is a real colour glass, not painted glass. There’s some cenedese and nason in there
That is gorgeous!!
Thank you. The sun shines thru it so prettily. 🙂
I’ve got similar in sunglasses.
That sounds interesting 🙂
Beautiful. Coloured glass is my favourite
it’s magic chemistry
Really beautiful pieces! Do you have a particular story you love about any of them?
the grey puppy dog is a piece of Nason I bought while I was living in Brussels
cost me 300 franc ( at 27 franc to the AUD )
ugh, I have to stop thinking of price, my husband is always at me about money I feel I have to justify everything
I think the interview went well! It was my first ever “dual” interview, so there was another applicant there. But it was a very casual interview with the owner of the cattery. Her dog was also there and just was all over me wanting pats 😂
I should know by tomorrow!
I ended up walking and chatting with the other applicant, and she was so freaking cool! She’s doing a PhD in archaeology, which I asked lots of questions about haha, and she was so down to earth - I walked her to her bus stop because she doesn’t know the area well, and we added each other on insta 😂😂😂
A dual interview sounds so weird. A group interview makes sense, but when it’s you and one other person it feels like you’re meant to compete with each other directly.
That’s what I was worried about tbh, but it ended up being quite nice! It was more conversational and relaxed than I expected.
I imagine it’s because we had the interview with the owner, who throws herself into her work and just wanted to make it a bit easier for herself - but yeah it was chiller than I expected.
Plus I made a new friend so nothing lost haha
Maybe planning on hiring both of you …
The other applicant and I joked about that when we were walking together, about how it would be awesome if we both got it!
I hope I get it but I’m trying not to get my hopes too high haha
yay , 🤞🤞🤞
beach
BEEEEAAACH
Ooh, this one feels especially prehistoric!
it’s beach worn basalt 🙂
Dark so early, the eternal nights approach. I will miss you daylight saving.
Why is Australia so fucked for poor people :(
because that’s what people vote for
Low key hate Australia sometimes
same
People only think about themselves and their taxes and it absolutely shits me
If there’s no poor people, then how will the shareholders and billionaires keep holding necessities over our heads? Won’t somebody think of the billionaires!?
/s just on case 😂
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Saw a massive black rat climb in under the dishwasher last night. Have to head down the bellarine today and turn the alarm on here. Bugger. Thing would surely set it off.
Never seen a rat in the house before, just a few mice back in the day.
Hrmm
Time for a cat. Is Butters available for a ratting consultation?
Would you like to borrow a Jack Russell?
HATE rats
Massive Dislike! Pet rats nice, dishwasher rats bad.
rats seem to be a coastal thing 😬
Trust me, rats are everywhere 😂 we just don’t see them too much in built up/inner city areas because there tends to be lots of food sources around so they don’t often encroach into homes. Alleyways where dumpsters are stored, close to restaurants, etc.
Rural and coastal areas appear to have more rats, purely because it’s less built up, so rats are attracted to homes for shelter and food. You’ll see them more, but they are very much everywhere.
I love rats, and mice, but best not to touch wild ones. Most are introduced pests, though there are a couple of native species, like the Bush Rat and Swamp Rat.
Can you get a picture of it at all? There are a few types of rats near the coast, some are native but most are introduced pests
They’re so fast couldn’t get one :( This one is actually at the place here in Melbs (which I have to leave and head down the coast, but alarm is the problem). I’m really not a fan of poison so plan of a attack is to stop it from getting into the house with a bit of wood under the dishwasher and deal with it on sunday somehow lol.
Stainless steel wool balls, the thicker coil type, is excellent for stuffing gaps around pipework to keep rodents out. They don’t like to chew on it. The trickery part is to make sure the rat is trapped out of the house, and not in, when steel wool is applied!
ooh that’s a very good idea thank you for that I’ll go that method.
And yea, I don’t know whether it’s inside or still under the dishwasher / wherever so that’s a problem heh.
If it has black/brown fur and a white tail tip, then might be a rakali - not a rat as such.
Good idea! If you’re not interested in poison, I think Bunnings has humane traps that don’t kill the rat. But I’m not sure.
I made one with a bucket, tp roll on a stick and Pb on the roll. Rodent climbs up tries to get to Pb and falls in the bucket.
I also vote for an excuse to borrow Butters (even if all he does is watch you and look stupidly handsome)
I have some extra pennies this pay and a butcher right near me so fuckit, six lamb chops and a kilo of drumsticks pls. And some cheese kranskies.
The poms go on and on about Jammie Dodgers like some Aussies do about Tim Tam’s so the kid and I decided to give em a burl. Well, they are the most boring tasteless biscuit ever. The jam definitely saved the biscuit. A just passable 3/5 yum yums.
Day 4 of new gig.
Figuring shit out and taking some initiatives.
Sounds wanky, but trying to make a good impression.
Meeting more people and everyone still seems cool.
nah not wanky just common sense, good work!
I haven’t done this in a long time, so kind of intimidated but trying to make a positive mark too.
Better than looking to make a bad impression. “G’day team working hard or hardly working?”
Week two I’ll start referring to all the women at work, collectively, as Shielas
I worked such long days this week that I didn’t even need to take any leave last week despite not working 2 out of 3 days 🙃 that’s good though, gotta bank up that leave for upcoming uni stressout sessions.
More Project Hail Mary tonight. Only about 15% of the way in but this is a v entertaining read!
Oooh you’re on the Project hail Mary hype train! Audiobook or book?
ebook, I’m hopeless with audiobooks but I could totally see this one being a cracking good one
Aw ok, yes the audiobook performances are so good 😊
Project Hail Mary
Yes Yes Yes!
you are an inspiration 😊
My small shed has a buyer and all going to plan will be picked up on Saturday. 🎉
I had mentally allowed myself two days for looking at cars. As it only took a couple of hours I now have a lot of unexpectedly open time to fill. I might do an op shop run and try to finish off my couch.
Does anyone else write off stupidly large amounts of time to do things that are not actually that time consuming? I seem to do it all the time, which often means I put off things because I “don’t have enough time” and then when I do get them done end up with lots of extra free time.
I’m the opposite. I put things off, especially unpleasant tasks, but severely overestimate what I can get done in a timeframe. (I don’t really believe it, I just like to convince myself I will do it later to feel less guilty about procrastinating). Then mad panic ensues. I need to find a way of doing unpleasant tasks.
But more importantly, congratulations on the car! And yay for having spare time to do other fun stuff!
I only tend to do that for uni assignments - sure I can write up 5000 words after work on the day it’s due!!
I pick up the car on Thursday. I’m going to add clearing out the small shed I have at the end of the carport and putting it onto Marketplace, I’ll have an extra 13cm of car to fit in and need that space back so the new vehicle doesn’t have her butt hanging out 🤣
Drive to the op shop to familliarise yourself with the car some more? Do you have it have it already?
It’s coming on Thursday. It will actually make it a lot easier to do op shop drop offs now, tons of room and much easier access! But I’ve got a few boxes of things I’m tripping over that I’d just like out of the way so I’ll do it today anyway.
First visit with the new car is going to be the auto electrician to organise a reversing camera - it has sensors, but the visibility at the back is not great and I’d much prefer to add a camera in. Fingers crossed they can install without replacing the head unit, but it depends on which specific unit was installed in the car and they won’t know until they can look at it. I am a bit nervous about manouvering in it, after 19 years in the one car the change is going to be hard.
I love my reversing camera and Fresnel lens in my van. Visibility max. The rear windows look nice and tinted already which is a bonus.
Edit: Consider a front/rear dash cam while you’ve got the auto-elec opening things up. Viofo A129 duo pro is nice and cheap.
The windows at the back are so darkly tinted it does restrict the visibility in the rear vision mirror a bit. It has nice big side mirrors though, it’s just going to take a bit of getting used to knowing where to look.
I don’t have a reversing camera or sensors in my current car, but I absolutely love them. I used my sister’s new car for an activity where I had to park in some very tight parking spots in the middle of the night and it made it so easy. The Caddy has the sensors already and it doesn’t sound too complicated for them to add the camera into the current system - the one I was origionally going to look at already had one added, which was a big part of the reason it was first on the list to look at.
I’ve never thought about it.
