• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    currently watching a mate midlife crisis himself into a destroyed marriage and redpilled victim spiral that will eventually make him a pathetic, sad old man. Sadly, his reaction to some of the best friends he doesn’t realise he has trying to pull him out of it means that sympathy is running thinner and thinner on the ground. It sucks.

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      Assuming youve already had a really blunt conversation about it? Dont think there is any room for subtlety in a situation like this.

      Mrs B is lucky. Shes been prewarned of my mid life crisis ambitions. She’ll just come home to find a WRX parked in the driveway one day.

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            He tried to gung ho involve me for a bit, which lead to a bit of bargy because you high arsehole how the fuck did you manage to completely forget your wife has adult onset muscular dystrophy but now it’s him going zoomy zoomy while I sleep in and then we do things afterwards

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          LOL, dont you worry she will ABSOLUTELY enjoy it. She would much prefer a fiesta ST or focus St but as I keep telling her ford stopped making those. I can foresee me stepping out the door at 10am to grab a coffee only to find shes left me the SUV and buggered off with my wrxy

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      Ah man, sounds like the train has reached too much velocity to change directions. That sucks to watch. You think you know someone, and then…

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    16 days ago

    Credit card number got stolen over the weekend. CBA flagged a large purchase in the USA.

    New cards are on the way, time to update the automatic payments again.

    Pain.

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    -1.2, feels like -3.4

    I should move to Ballarat, it’s 2.2 degrees there!

    This sudden cold is a bit of a shock to the system. I’ve turned on the old panel heater for a bit to give the reverse cycle a hand. The temperature inside has now reached double digits.

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    since I’ve been fairly negative heres a positive thing: Really impressed with Vodafone so far. Seems to work better along the dandenong corridor than telstra ever did.

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        yup, i have been very snug

        but ted woke me up, he’s hungry since bill stole all his food yesterday

        I am going to have to do something about that

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      Got in bed early, wearing my thermals to sleep and maintained warmth with a hot mug of chamomile tea. I should be able to stay warm enough.

      Getting up tomorrow morning will be the challenge. There’s not much space in this current room to place my heater, which I normally had timed to turn on at 6:30am in the depths of winter to help reduce the inertia. We’ll see.

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      I’ve just come back from walking Mr Woof. It wasn’t too bad once I got moving, but I did have on a jumper, jacket, fur-lined fingerless gloves and my finest peruvian alpaca scarf and beanie.

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    I road tested the Aldi peanut butter block of chocolate up against Whittaker’s and I was quite underwhelmed.

    Aldi: It was very sweet. Gritty. It scratched the itch but I probably wouldn’t get it again because there are better ones in that range. 3.5 / 5 yum yums.

    Whittaker’s: Perfection 5/5 yum yums.

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    the longer I work at this place the more convinced I become that half of the office should be fired for gross incompetence.

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      I’m nearly two months into my new role and have found zero kindred spirits.

      People are nice, and good at their jobs (I guess) but just boring and too serious.

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        2 of 3 isnt bad! Most of mine are assholes with a few exceptions, but they are all waiting for someone else to do their jobs for them. And there is no consequence for fucking around and doing no work.

        hard to imagine what this place would be like if everyone gave a shit rather than just a handful of people actually trying.

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          I shouldn’t complain. Everyone is pretty competent and just does their jobs. I guess I’m used to a more cheerful environment.

          I’m just picking at shit to be honest.

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            haha thats fair. TBH I’d trade places with you in a heartbeat. Just had a team who owns X product asking me to go digging in the logs of X product.

            How about no boys, how about you guys do your fuckin jobs for once?!

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    I have just discovered Don McMillan’s stand up. It is gold. Engineer jokes by the bucketful.

    Example : ebay - the internet = garage sale.

    Example : a physicist, a biologist and a chemist go to spend a day at the beach. The biologist goes out snorkelling, gets entranced by the underwater plant and animal biota, forgets to check his air flow and drowns. The physicist sees that the biologist has not returned and goes out to check his last known location. He gets entranced by the pressure gradients, wave effects etc., forgets to check his air flow and drowns. The chemist looks around, can’t see either of them, gets out his notebook and writes “biologists and physicists are both soluble in water”.

    Creative use of venn diagrams is a bonus. Love the guy.

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    Hard rubbish bonus: as well as the corflute there was a large carpet mat in good condition. It should work well for the shoe area I’m planning in the garage.