So far today:
- Moved 1.73 shittonnes of crap out of the garage for the hard rubbish.
- Cleaned house.
- Repotted the mini peach tree, the ginger lily and the bonsai fig treelet.
- Two loads of laundry.
Still to do:
- shopping
- batch cooking lunches for next week.
I’m exhausted already. May resort to bort lunches.
jells I was planning on doing garage stuff, but the cold got my arthritis and MD all fucked up so His Lordship took me to noodle about shops instead.
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Right. I’ve setup a trial Entra tenancy to practice on. I’ve got my server 2016 VM setup ready to practice a faux migration. I’ve got a couple of old PC’s to enrol in server instead of using VM’s which should help make things easier.
English: My IT test lab is up and running lol
A lot to learn!
Do you have proxmox? if not, worth a play to familiarise yourself now that a certain company is shitting the bed. You can also practise virtualising some machines.
Great stuff. I really should have one myself rather than using prod as the test bed.
I signed up for a free trial for a month which gives me enough time to get familiar I reckon.
If I can complete this migration, I’ll be over the moon. Also going to try enrolling dummy devices I’ve created on VM’s to see if it’s possible.
Insomnia. Again. So, DDT meet my Tommy. A bit of a belted around alley cat, but 🖤🖤🖤
What a cutie! And clearly well-loved 🖤
Yeah, he needs a bit of a restuff & buff. Scared to attempt it myself and the really good Bear Hospital people have retired.
Ah bugger. My old teddy bear could do with a freshen.
Cutie!
Adorable!
I have photographic evidence of possibly the exact moment when my brain flipped from being interested in ninja turtles to being interested in ladies.
This is me and a 24 or 25 (I think) year old Kylie Minogue at my dad’s work xmas party one year. Judging by my style/pudgy face I’m going to say it was around 1993 or 1994. I hadn’t seen this photo in decades but my mum sent it to me over the weekend.
The thing is, I can’t quite tell whether you’re looking at Kylie, or into the distance at some kind of airborne bandanna’d turtle…
My god, look at her. Imagine meeting her in person. I remember the Spinning Around music video came on Rage one time and I understood the appeal then.
Why was Our Kylie at your dad’s work Christmas party?
Fuck! Yesterday, the man decided to kill his sickness with garlic and chillis. Today, I’m living in a second hand garlic cloud. 🤢
You don’t want to know about the jerk chicken then. Hot enough to have consequences.
When I say garlic and chilli what I mean is a tub of toum and a tablespoon of Carolina reaper paste chaser. Jerk chicken wouldn’t make a dent.
This is full of Habs. Has caused vomiting when eaten without fair notice 😇
He eats habaneros like grapes. He doesn’t even get ring sting.
i never found garlic or chilli to help. Honey and lemon, an aspirin and rest helps
Yeah a normal person would do that.
My old man used to do that lol
What chilli and garlic? I bet he cuts an onion and uses the segments as a spoon to scoop up food. Just a guess.
Yeah the chilli and garlic. No on the onion spoon, however! He used to have these weird “special cotton” that he would burn and sniff to get rid of nasal congestion.
It actually fucking worked, but man, it sucked.
If it’s a cold Armaforce does wonders but it’s a tad pricey.
Used to use it all the game and would avoid colds and similar stuff by taking it early.
It’s like olive, echinacea and something else.
Andrographis. I swear by it too!
I haven’t heard of that one. What does it do?
Anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial. Can boost your immune system and white cell production but not good for people with autoimmune disorders.
Anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial. Can boost your immune system and white cell production but not good for people with autoimmune disorders.
Which end lol?
All the holes.
This is why I can’t use the duster anymore.
Also I downloaded the full seasons of Ninja Turtles and Transformers from the 90’s. So much nostalgia!
That’s so cute!
I had a proper feather duster that I stupidly left lying around and the dog got to it ripped all the feathers out. I have a lambs wool one that he eyes off now 😠
I used to play with her as a kitten with the duster to get her to stop randomly attacking me. Didn’t work lol
No cleaning, just playing with meeee!
Kill, kill, the floofuthing!
My month long trip to the UK has ended. I have landed in Melbourne. I am sad, now that I’m back to work from tomorrow. Someone give me tips to beat jet lag? Also surprisingly super sunny and chilly. Loving the weather!
Too late for my jet leg method which is changing your sleeping pattern to Melbourne time a day before leaving/continuing where possible on the plane :(
Fists with your toes?
👀
The what
Kinky
Enjoy the sun while it’s here, I got back a little over a week ago and after a bit of a sunny weekend the relentless grey was punishing 😭 How was your trip? Any highlights? I imagine it’ll be hard to adjust after a month away…
Re jet lag, I use melatonin to help reset my circadian rhythm, but you have to bring it in from overseas or order it off iHerb, the OTC stuff here (unless you’re over 55) is homeopathic.
The trip was amazing! But I also felt I had enough and wanted my space after living with family for a month. I had to sleep on an air bed due to lack of space so am vvvv grateful to be back on my bed 🥲
Highlight would definitely be Cornwall (county on the SE of England with beautiful coastline views and sceneries). The Cornish pasties are to die for 🤤🤤
Also, re: melatonin, how often do you take it and what’s the strength?
Haha there is nothing like that feeling of coming back to my own bed. A month is a long time, definitely some positives to feeling sick of being somewhere else so you appreciate home that much more. I have only ever been to the UK once for like 4 days on a school trip 20 years ago. I’d love to go again, I do have family there.
I take 0.3mg once a day about an hour before I want to fall asleep, for max 5 days (it does result in weird dreams and morning grogginess). A lot of melatonin out there is in wild amounts like 3mg, 5mg, even 10mg. I had a bottle of 70 x 3mg that lasted me like 7 years - I cut the pills. I do not find that “more is better” as I feel horrifically awful in the morning with the high dosages, and the marginally shorter time it takes to fall asleep isn’t worth it.
Bedtime I think. Alarm is set for 6am. Getting back into the swing of a routine for when I’ve found a new role.
Goodnight everyone, from the fluffy butt household
Oh her precious little face, I could kiss her on her little forehead. So cute! Hope you only see this message when you wake up tomorrow morning!
First time making cauliflower “wings”, a bit time consuming and a fair bit of mucking about, but came out really nice especially after dunking them in the sauce - made with my lovely homemade hot sauce - and then doing another 5 minutes in the air fryer.
Unfortunately the green manzano peppers I used for tonight’s arroz verde ended up spicy as well (Russian roulette with those things), so everything’s clearing out my sinuses.
Discovered a bottle of mead in the fridge from goodness knows how long ago and poured myself a rare little tipple with soda water to wash down the spaaaaaice 🥵 🌶
The electric blanket was a worthy purchase
you getting any, or is it all melbcats?
It was all Melbcat’s, but I managed to lure her to a better spot
I napped too hard and now I am feeling yuck and discombobulated.
I have been to Outside. The giant purple wooly cape is totally justified. Zero fucks given that it makes me resemble a circus tent. Warm!
I have a friend who wears a knitted green mohair cape, it looks so elegant and warm on her. It’s a short cape and she’s so slender.
Elegant isn’t the word for mine. It’s electric violet and made from an opshop blanket. (Best way to get wide width 100% wool!)
So an Onkaparinga cape. Cool
Interesting little thing I’ve noticed: my organisation (and thus their complaints page) blocks all the connections from our IP (we have a static IP). Switch to data and it works, turn on a vpn (even a foreign one) and it works.
🤔
That’s just dark.
And probably kind of dodgy too… There’s nothing that I can think of that would prevent access to their website besides them making a conscious effort to block IPs they manage
It could just be bureaucratic idiocy. My work blocks access to their own rostering system over the organisation’s wi-fi, you can only use it on the wired network or using your personal connection.
How odd, I wonder what their reasoning is for that
Check your ip isn’t on SORBS
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!
Was a great game with some dodgy calls and maybe some questionable tactics as well.
Sorry for your loss :(
We’re used to disappointment but it still hurts 💔
That was a clear 50 in the last few moments and earlier they didn’t pay a touched mark.
It was enough to take the game away from you :(
There’s always next time.
I don’t know what the screaming is about but I’d like to join
I do. I was watching it.
Arguably some dodgy umpiring that could have turned the game the other way.
Ah, I know nothing about sportsball but I’ll add some background screams just because
Join in the chorus
We are Geelong….oh wait…
I’m watching old Sherlock Holmes movies and it’s so nice to see all the expressions of friendship between all the men.
I grew up on old movies, and a lot of international films and shows from SBS. It’s a stark contrast seeing how men act towards each other in that media compared to now.
I feel like there’s been a kind of, dumbing down of the portrayal of men in western media in general. They’re either jesters, playing the hero, or being a piece of shit.
Maybe I’m biased because middle eastern culture is so different to western culture.
Nah you’re right. I can’t speak to middle eastern culture but there’s something really wrong with male relationships in western culture.
I agree and disagree…
I agree, modern media representation for healthy heterosexual male-male relationships are lacking. Which makes the toxic traits that are represented frequently more likely to be picked up by younger men/boys.
And I disagree…in the real world, there are plenty of healthy male relationships… part of the problem is that men tend to only display these aspects of themselves to their closest friends, for fear of toxic masculinity from others.
I dunno. The ammount of fear for being seen as “homo” is insane. The contempt some people feel for spending time with “the boys” and also the difficulty men experince talking about anything remotely serious with the same boys is all pretty terrible. But deadset agree not enough positive role models in media.
