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Daily Thread - Saturday, Get Diddly Down Today - 01/07/2023

Saturday! Comedown Day!
\ Big Breakfast Day! Berocca Day!
\ Love you all being you Day!
\ You Do You Day!

Edit: RIP 3rd Party Reddit Apps. You weathered that capitalist hellscape with grace and fortitude. We will never forget all that you stood for. 💜

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  • Oh no. Came home last night to see a white rose placed on the windscreen of my opposite neighbour's car. She's elderly and the only one who talked to everyone and knew everything about the place, but been unwell for quite a while and I haven't seen or heard from her in months. I remember how lonely and weak she was at times.

    Just heard some noise outside my door and opened it to see... her sister and niece were there in her apartment and they confirmed the worst. :( RIP, N. You might've been a bit of a curmudgeonly old soul at times but I hope you meet many wonderful fluffy kitties wherever you go. (She loved soxcat)

    • Oh no that’s so sad.

      May she rest in peace.

      • I hope so too. She had no family left other than her very old sister and her beloved niece. She was a real fighter. Stopped taking the panadeine they gave her after her last treatment because she hated how it made her feel like a zombie and insisted she was going to get well enough to keep going for a while. When she started talking about selling her car she was fussing about how much she could get for it and whether it was easier to do it at a dealership. Never got around to selling her immaculate 2005 corolla...

  • Please if you’re posting pics, add a description of what’s in the pic. We want everyone to feel included. Yes every pic you post, add a description, even when replying to someone else’s post. We want people to feel inclusive here. Thank you all, have an amazing rest of the afternoon :)

  • After a good training session today I think Bot #001 is ready to try posting a new daily thread tonight. Pinning does not seem to be working so that bit will still need to be done later, but I'm pretty confident the basic post will work. If if does not work (it should be at midnight) someone will have to make one manually again.

    I will need to do some work on the format and exactly what to say - unfortunately the bot is not very imaginative.

  • Had a great day at the op shops. Got special edition copies of Deliverance and The Fifth Element with commentaries and docos, a michael franti cd, a packet of jewellery findings with some top quality crystals for $1( will string a necklace later tonight ) and a good jumper for doing calligraphy in as it won't show ink stains. Plus a cool genu-wine vintage marcasite ring. Nice . 😀

  • Little dog and I are staying awake so we can witness Midnight bot's very first live appearance. Plus the cricket's on. Good luck Midnight bot. 🤞

  • I am home from the hospital. Took a nasty fall on my carpeted stairs. I have hairline fractures on my L1, L2 and L3 on my vertebrae. so a lot of rest needed.

  • I opened the balcony door to look at the lasers in the sky and there was a cat meowing on my balcony (note I am 11 floors up). I've seen this kitty before but last time, I had my door open and I didn't notice it had come in to check out my apartment and it ran out when I turned around and noticed it.

    This time it meowed and invited itself in for a poke around. I think it checked out every inch of my apartment then left politely (I left the door open so it knew it could leave). It turned back up 30 minutes later so I opened the door again and it again came in meowing at me and rubbing against my leg, and exploring more. I felt it had probably explored enough after 15 minutes and walked it out but it's still sitting outside my door looking at me.

    My new best friend.

  • I’m going to spend the morning tidying my flat. It’s become a bit…sus while I’ve been sick, and I’m starting to mend enough to want to do something about it.

  • Went to shops to get some things and left with a new smartwatch, I've been wanting one for ages and the delirium of my UTI made it happen. Since I've been saving for a new car I've not bought myself anything nice in a very long time so it feels good to get myself something flashy.

    • I've been contemplating buying a smartwatch! Which one did ya get?

      • I picked up a Garmin Instinct 2s, I've been eyeing them for the small watch face since I have a wrist that would make a bird blush. Also really like all the tracking features, since I'm a shift worker I'm keen to see what all my stuff looks like on the regular.

  • Trying to teach bot recruit #001 to date.

    Currently showing today's date as 01 MMM 2023. Apparently instructions unclear.

    The current code includes an instruction somewhere to mark itself as a bot account, which is a problem as it is currently posting from my account. I might need to create a separate account for it. It will mean that if anyone marks to block bot accounts they won't see any automatic threads which could be a bit of a problem too.

  • There we go.. went over the road for 5 minutes. Snapped a photo of some fire. Now I can say I attended the Firelight Festival 2023.

  • Day 7 of exercise accountability post. I didn't feel like it because I'd been wandering around the local farmers market and then came home and sampled sunflower seed vodka which I'd bought. It's very nice! But I thought, "if I don't do it now I'll never do it." Looked ahead and tomorrow is another rest day, so that gave me a bit of motivation! I said to myself, as always, it's a 10 minute workout and you can make time for it! I haven't weighed myself yet because the truth is even though I've been exercising I haven't really done anything about my diet at this stage, so I'm not expecting any sudden miracles there. I wanted to get into a routine with exercise before I started fiddling around with my diet.

  • My blocked ear is still working on getting better. Has anyone had a fungal ear infection before and feel comfortable sharing how long it took to clear up?

  • It's simpsons quote day right?

    Please please please please please please please please please.

    Finally going to get my arse into the great outdoors and walk a bunch of ks before I get the few groceries I need. I have a botanic gardens and beach just around the corner ffs. It;s an average looking day but I have a floral umbrella, of course. I can hear birds chirping outside. I applied for a decent sounding job today and got a response to not so decent job too.

    In other news: Wow! my feet have shrunk! This is good news, I was ladies 11 which aren't easy to find, but 10 is a bit easier. I'll have to go and check some 10s out. I'm not into heels, but fuck me if there aren't amazing ladies boots which rarely have sizes up to 11 without being really expensive.

    • I have wide feet and it's hard to find a good fit. You really just have to go to shops and try them on. Go mid afternoon when your feet are their largest too.

      good luck

      • Thanks for the tip! Might wait till next winter and hopefully they're more like the final size they shrink down to.

    • Seymour! The house is on fire! No mother, it's just the Northern Lights.

      Edit: Oh wow that's interesting that your feet have shrunk. But also have fun with that, size 10 is really hard to find. I'm technically a size 10.5, so it's great when I buy like vans or American brand shoes. So it's like, I can buy a 10 and be a bit of a tight squeeze, or I can be a size 11 and find fuck all.

      • Damn, oh well, apparently I might drop two sizes, if I'm a lucky. I get a bit dysphoric looking at ladies shoes so I've not really looked very much. I'm still pretty early on though. I'm starting to notice a lot of subtle and some not so subtle changes. It's pretty freakin cool.

    • I am the Lizard Queen!

    • “I see you’ve played knifey- spoony before.”

  • Wow, have to get used to the new DT home and how it looks!

    Does anyone know what stores like Myer do with all the clearance/reduced to clear stuff that has been reduced for many weeks? I'm eyeing off a few things that are reduced a fair bit but still too pricey for me right now. Do they eventually get reduced further?

  • Travel tip: I'm writing this because I didn't know this service existed so maybe others don't know either.

    LT;DR version: pre-purchase international SIM cards from Melbourne-based online store so you can use mobile data with decent data caps as soon as you land overseas.

    Long version: (I'll use spoiler tag to avoid a huge text post appearing by default)

    • @bull @StudChud you can also purchase international e-sims that don't even need to arrive physically, which I've found much better, though of course you need a phone which supports them, which is a limited range, even of new release phones.

      • Ah yes I forgot to mentioned those because I've never had a phone capable of e-sim. Thanks!

  • Greeting this weekend with an absolutely ripper UTI! Have a few unavoidable errands and then it's home to drink an oceans worth of Ural and cry.

    • Hot tip that I found out last time I had a UTI - if you end up needing a prescription, ask your gp to give you one with a repeat. That way, if you get another within a year, you already have a prescription ready to go. If you don’t, go get the script anyway and the medicine lasts 3 years. Saves you another trip to the gp/the bill.

      Just make sure you take complete the full cycle of the pills because antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a terrifying reality

    • Nooooooo mega RIP :'( Mate, if it's really bad, I'd recommend you just go straight to any drs and get an antibiotic and be done with it.

      In my experience "flushing it out" only works on mild infections and only when they're at the start. One time I tried it over covid lockdowns and it kept coming back over a month, by the time I saw the GP I had to take an antibiotic that fucked up my GI tract for another month.

  • Today's mad science: got one of those limited edition 'intense' Dare iced coffee and used it as the milk in crunchy nut cornflakes. It's a little too sweet but otherwise not bad!

  • Spent 3 hours at the hairdressers today, only 45 mins of which was the actual cut. Think I'll try somewhere else next time. Recovering from some dead lifting today and just gonna do some bathroom and kitchen cleaning at pace.

  • Good morning folks! I wanted to sleep in but now that the work sleep schedule is a thing, I woke up at 9am :c

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