O- can go into anybody, O+ can go into 80% of the population. In a pinch. It’s better to match blood types exactly if possible. Which is tricky if the patient is AB+/-, those are rare blood types and always in strong demand.

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/blood-groups

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… but it looks like melbaboutown already knows that and has things well in-hand.

O+ is common, but it is also one of the most in-demand.

That’s a good point. We’ve offered to share our place with family flying in. We don’t really have room for them. Kids will be sleeping on camp mats and sharing bedrooms, adults will be sleeping on the sofa bed. It’ll be tight. But we’ll make it work if they need a roof.

I can’t tell you how much I miss Preston Markets, even now. My oldest and I were a fixture there. Vendors knew his name/he knew them etc. We were there upwards of three times a week from when he was a newborn. The sounds of the market would soothe him to sleep when he was a baby. He had a tiny size 2 uniform of the taco truck that Ellie bought for him and he wore proudly out and about.

The few markets we have in Perth are more like Queen Vic than just regular weekly shopping markets.

I was surprised to learn that a few people at work were happy with yesterday’s result also. Not in a ‘good for them’ kind of way (which is how I’d have been had the result been different), but in a more direct good for us kind of way. One person even pulled out one of those red and white hats. I have never seen one in Australia before.

These are smart people. I have previously dismissed most of the Republican supporters as uninformed and uneducated. It’s easy to just assume that anyone voting for the guy has no idea what they’re doing.

I still don’t get why anyone in Australia is that invested in US politics. But I’m reassessing my previous notions that the Republican party is as successful as it is because they have convinced dumb people to vote for them.

We rent, so don’t have pets. This is Cara:

She was a sweet old girl belonging to dad (and Mum before she passed). This photo is my kids saying goodbye to her - it was her last visit before she had to go.

I don’t really miss her like she’s shown here, but boy do I miss her when she was young! I could take her on a 10km run and she was so fast that she made me faster trying to keep pace. Jack Russells will run forever if you let them.

I mostly used eBay in Melbourne. I found it suited my needs. For whatever reason, it’s just not popular in Perth. Even now when I use eBay (for stuff that can easily be posted), I find the sellers are in Melbourne about half the time.

I don’t do Facebook, so I don’t know how the marketplace thing works. In Gumtree, you can see ratings of people. “Quick Responder”, “Showed up on time” and “Polite” points account for a lot when I have a choice of buyers. If one buyer had a bunch of those and the other doesn’t, I’ll go with the one that does.

Reliability over everything for me. I’d rather know that the person is 100% going to come at [x] time and buy [thing]. It doesn’t need to be today, I’ll wait until the weekend even. So long as I know when they’ll come and that they will for sure come at that time.

Having three people say they’ll come and then don’t turn up sucks. Do I hold out? Do I just go straight to the next person only to find out the first person turned up after all and now I’m shafting person #2? It’s all exhausting.

No. In fact when we ask about it, they usually think we are joking.

It is too early to be sure, but it took four days in 2020 to get a result and things looked a lot more purple than they do this time around.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-06/shark-quiz-facts-about-ocean-predators-megalodon-great-white/104320696

2/10. It turns out I don’t know much about sharks.

I used to think of the first weekend in November as the time to put decorations up. But then we had a kid born at the end of November. So we usually wait for his birthday, now.

Time for the other Horse race now - the ones our US friends are having “Today” (It’s midnight in New York). It’ll be mostly tomorrow for us, though.

Curiously, the betting odds appear to favour the previous President having a return. I don’t know how much faith to put into that, but if any bunch of people are dumb enough to put that bloke back in charge of the country, they’ll be found in the USA.

In the news today: It’s official. Pauline Hanson is a racist.
I nearly made a post about it - but I decided it wasn’t actually news to anyone.

Wait. Hear him out. If he’s offering beers, I might be interested!

Lap around the sun day! Yay!

“Start > CMD > Type ‘Net Statistics Workstation’”
“Read the line where is says ‘Statistics since’ and a date”
“Oh, it’s three weeks ago? It appears the reboot failed. That happens sometimes. Let’s go ahead and reboot it again”

Yeah well, the protester didn’t want to miss out on the show. There’s no point in protesting during the first song and getting escorted out. Palestine is super important and all - but not worth missing out on the whole gig!
(I’m probably being nasty, but I suspect there’s a kernel of truth in this)