Thank heavens for portable power packs.
Getting through the day with them.
It’s still not back on? What’s going on there?
Line maintenance apparently.
Been off since about 8:30am.
Loaded some movies on an iPad and have podcasts downloaded on my phone for some background noise.
Just about to go play on my Switch to pass the time.
Angle grinding done. Not touching that thing for a while. Fiesty little fucker.
Pretty sparks though.
Life alternates between the 🫠 emoji and the 😤 emoji
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Only
23 wake ups so far. Not bad.That reminds me. There’s several Simon’s at work. I’m very unaccustomed to having the same name as other people.
Ive only ever met 1 other person with my real name.
Feels odd to call someone else by my name.
I know some arabs that named their twin boys Jesus and Moses (in arabic) and then there’s little brother Adam.
Next one would be Eve?
There have always been a bunch of Thomas’s around for me. There’s one guy at work also called thomas with the same initials as me, so that could get very confusing in the project management software
3 wakes, 3 recovering from migraine wakes because i have to pee
name, i don’t meet many people with my first name and have met none with my last
I dropped my weird religious name and am left with a John Smith grade common white guy name.
Almost sounds blissful. I’m the only person in Australia with my first name + last name combo. If you meet another person in Australia with my last name, I am 100% related to them 😂
I have my husband’s surname. If I met someone else with that surname, we are related.
same
both a blessing and a curse
Oh I bet I had a more generic white guy name. I think my name was the most common boys name the year I was born. Couple that with one of the top 5 English surnames and every ID check I ever did failed cause it had to go through an extensive review cause no one believed that was my real name.
Got a better last name now I’m married though.
Ezekiel?
Jebediah
Could also be Job or Onan
They’re all pretty normal names as far as names go. Wrong religion too.
Ooh okay. I always thought that biblical names we’re especially weird.
Not familiar with names from other religions that much.
Wayan Darren Jones?
That’s a cruel name
The first three people I met with name, we’re all in my grade 8 class. Thankfully our surnames had different initials.
My kingdom for a chicken stock cube 👑
I’ve got chicken, beef and vegetable. And I’ll throw in some vegan stock cubes completely free.
My mash is forever grateful 🫡🗡️
Anything other than OXO is disgraceful.
I have some but can’t throw that far
I thank you squire! 🗡️ you are a knight of the realm. 🗡️
Hold on a minute…
Ok, catch!
Got a bit of a headcold going on, so off work today. Went for a slow stroll out in the sunshine and oh my god it was glorious. Takes just a couple of grey days to really appreciate the sunshine.
Now just need the headcold to fuck right off.
Not going to finish my assignment in time, probably a few hours after the deadline. It is what it is. Just going to focus on getting the next four in before their deadlines.
I never learn. But for the next lot of assignments, I am going to force myself to break down each assignment into achievable tasks using this AI thing that does that and slot them in on the calendar.
My laptop has 8GB of RAM which is not conducive to many tabs open. It is currently showing a white screen instead of a chrome tab. My aunt has a laptop with 64GB of RAM which I think is other worldly.
I once heard a saying - ‘C’s get degrees’
Not sure how true it is but just get what credit you can for getting it done
You can do this Low! a 5% late penalty is not the end of the world. I guarantee you it will not even register on your mind 10, 20, 30 years later and when you’re on your deathbed reflecting on the things that mattered to you.
And truth be told academic structures are not always conducive to those with attention disorders. I am only smashing it at my current job because the deadlines are all within 2 weeks, the projects are almost all short term, and there is support and advice available most of the time. I don’t think I will do any further study for quite a long time after I finish this cursed subject and degree.
Thanks Kitten, you can do it too! That sounds like a wonderful working style. Long-term projects aren’t really my thing right now.
It’s unfortunately 10% at my uni (should’ve stayed at the old one hehe), but I’d rather submit an assignment that’s 10% better tomorrow than one that would get the same mark if I submitted it on time.
Went to the gym at lunchtime today. It’s 2 doors down, then got some sushi as a treat.
I usually just wander around aimlessly on lunch breaks so I’m glad I’m getting my workout without having to wake up at 5am or get home late.
Got a covid and flu shot yesterday and I am zonked.
but it’s good to have the shots 🙂 hope you feel better real soon
shit I gotta do that
Full moon this weekend. Plus hotter than expected weather. Expect weird shit to go down. Not liking the vibe rn. I will be avoiding crowds this weekend.
Gonna be a lot of bungholes out there
Nope
are those those burrowing owls? So cute.
there’s a movie about 'em https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoot_(film)
Yeah burrowing owls. I wish I was cute and fluffy and could hide in a hole in the ground…
like a hobbit?
Exactly like a hobbit
I am the great cornholio!
I need TP for my bunghole
Are you threatening me!?
Average conversation in my area…
I’ve been on the fence about going out, but now my interest is piqued further.
Just a feeling in my bones. Don’t get these often but I’ve learned to listen. Stay safe everyone.
Aww man, I was gonna go see the Minecraft movie
You still can. Just be careful.
Awooooooò.
I have just submitted my first rental application, which was slightly terrifying. It is a lot more involved than the last time I was looking for a private rental (over 20 years ago!)
Hopefully they haven’t just rented it to someone else, the landlord falls in love with Mr Woof and Miss Meow when they see the pictures, the property will be just as I imagine it in real life and I won’t have to look at any others. Unlikely, but I can hope!
Good luck!
Bring it home Mr Woof and Miss Meow 🤞
It took me nearly a month after getting my psych to fill out uni support forms (which she did within 24 hours of asking) to actually submit them to the uni out of paralysis/shame/anxiety/whatever - I did it this morning and then got a response from the subject coordinator eerily quickly… was out doing fieldwork and told myself I wouldn’t read it till I got home because I was fully expecting a “no”.
Turns out I got 10 days extension no questions asked. Fucking A. Sat with so much anxiety and avoidance for nothing.
Gonna celebrate by treating myself to an afternoon and evening of yet more PHM. Good good good. Thank!
Fuck yeah!
gecko frens living on the front porch 🦎🥰
They are so cute. It’s so nice to have wildlife around! Is it possible he lost part of his tail? The ones I’ve seen have a tail that narrow to a thinner point. Unless this is a different species. It’s amazing how tiny some of them are.
Love these little dudes even though it’s a bit less nice when they’re inside the house and leave their poo around (but still so helpful otherwise)
Melbourne black ibises.
Huh… different park, but the ones at mine were eating these…
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When this under 16 ban comes in I’m going to lose all the collected art resources I carefully organised and all my YouTube playlists…
VPNs get you banned or shadowbanned but kids under 16 won’t care. They could just keep churning through a bunch of new accounts, the disposability encouraging them to do whatever they want.
But for me when I’m unwell and can’t do much else I spend a lot of time collecting and organising reference photos, art tutorials, and posts with links to free art books. There’s a few years worth that will be near impossible to back up.
And I don’t know what sites will be affected which makes it hard to even try to start migrating.
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(‘Download account’ options never seem to work - I always end up having to go back and do it manually.)
Even if I buy a dedicated external drive then screenshot and paste links it will be hard to preserve sources or keep images and related information together. It’s a mammoth task to do manually and the old fashioned way. Archiving is literally a job. And you can’t go back to look at them without a login.
For the YouTube playlists maybe I can screenshot to be able to find some difficult to search stuff later, or paste the titles into a mega document, but oh man. Not a good solution.
It will also cut me off from a lot of other artists.
This crap isn’t going to do anything but punish disabled people who spend a lot of time online and people who care about privacy.
But that’s the Australian government’s way. Make grand promises (usually involving “protecting the children”) and then do something that doesn’t work - and has unintended consequences.
I have much more to say about that but I’m tired -_-
have you tried proton or Tor? They give privacy.
I could but at the moment it might be a bit of a steep learning curve for me. And if it gets picked up as changing where my traffic comes from I’ll probably be banned (so instead of inaccessible everything would just be gone)
