• SpinMeRound@aussie.zone
    6·
    2 months ago

    House to myself this morning, so I stayed in bed until I could no longer stand it. It was freaking wonderful.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
      5·
      2 months ago

      The performance was solid, stage and costume very sparkly, but I found the song bland? Probably just my personal taste, but I find Delta bland in general. Nice to see Australia progress though!

  • SpinMeRound@aussie.zone
    6·
    2 months ago

    The glorious day continues!! A lovely walk in the sunshine with cute doggo sightings, finally tried the bakery/pie outlet around the corner and it was cheap AND delicious (including some frozen party pies for this weekend), champagne is chilling in the fridge and I am sah ready for the EDC weekend!!

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    5·
    2 months ago

    Bugger. I’m supposed to be driving to Melb for work today and the car won’t start. A bunch of scary error lights are lighting up instead.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        2·
        2 months ago

        All good for now. The problem was the battery, so the car was started and I’m now in Melbourne. It will be a coin toss as to whether it’s going to start again, so I’m going to get a new battery today.

        I was a bit concerned with all the warning lights. I think the voltage drop from the failing battery triggered sensors to detect non-existant faults, which also stopped the car from even trying to start. So it didn’t try to turn over and fail like I’m used to with battery issues.

        • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
          2·
          2 months ago

          20% of Century brand at supercheap, 20% house brand at repco and special members price at autobarn if you’re looking to save a few coins. I think supercheap, maybe all of them, will fit it for you and take the old one for disposal.

          • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
            4·
            2 months ago

            Thanks, but I’m just going to get RACV to come out today. I’m working 12 hour days/nights for the next 4 days, so don’t have much time. Plus if I put it off it will probably refuse to start after night shift when I just really want to get home to bed.

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I’ve got two of those down.

        Watching a movie with my son and my daughter is outside chatting with a potential beau.

        I’m about to stand in the driveway and stretch whilst holding a sword.

        Yeah…I have swords (inherited)

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    5·
    2 months ago

    I’m getting a bonus at work I wasn’t expecting with how the company as a whole went last year. I’ve decided to bang it into super since I wasn’t budgeting on it coming through, and at least this way I can keep 100% of it, even if it’s not actual cash in the hand.

    It just makes me think about how lucky I am I can put some surprise extra money away like this and I’m getting a bit of extra side money from trivia and Coffee. It also helps fight those conservative brainworms looking at your pay and seeing you only get 2/3 of the bonus because the rest gets taken out as tax.

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    4·
    2 months ago

    Well I did done fuck up. Assumptions and failure to measure causes flat pack furniture to not fit. Going to need a Frankenstein solution.

  • SpinMeRound@aussie.zone
    3·
    2 months ago

    If anyone here sees Tangy Pickle Twisties in their local supermarket for less than $5 a bag, lemme know, I will literally drive across the city tomorrow to stock up. They taste like the OG Maccas Shaker Fries and I. AM. OB. SESSED.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    3·
    2 months ago

    The battery turned out to be even more expensive than anticipated, as the auto stop/start feature needs a more expensive battery to power it. But apparently it still had the original battery, which makes it 7 years old so I really can’t complain. Plus 56% of my driving is currently claimable as work km, so the battery is 56% tax deductable!

    The technician was much better than the last one, changing over the battery efficently and doing some sort of mysterious communion with the computer that is apparently important. Mind you, it wouldn’t take much to beat my last experience with having a battery changed, which involved a guy who was very shaky and I think hung over. He took about an hour trying to fit the battery unsuccessfully before figuring out it was the wrong size battery.

  • Tofu@aussie.zone
    3·
    2 months ago

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  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    2·
    2 months ago

    Car batteries are $$$$$. This is karma for me being happy that my service last week was not very expensive. Oh well, at least it’s an easy fix.

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      3·
      2 months ago

      Wild they missed the battery being on the way out if it was just serviced. Lets hope it was just because it has been colder in the morning more recently

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        4·
        2 months ago

        From my understanding of car batteries, which is not a lot, you should test them after a certain time (I think it’s 24 hrs) because if you’ve driven the car/van it will obviously be charged. I think (again?) if it’s under 12.3 (?) then you need to replace it. I really should listen more.

        Basically you shouldn’t test it until it’s been sitting a while because it’ll give a false reading like tyres do.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        3·
        2 months ago

        I don’t think the guy I took it too was big on the checking of potential issues like that, I think he just did the basic service items. Or he could just be uncommunicative, it’s hard to tell.