Happy Hump Day, Team!
Hate getting public transport late at night. Train from Collingwood to city, then train home from Flinders didn’t line up, 20 minute wait. Then another 12 minute delay on top of that. Feels like I went in a voyage to get home.
Travelling at peak - no problem. Outside of peak, not fun if you need to catch more than one mode of transport.
Ugh… I still haven’t sent off those soil samples because I haven’t been able to get to the post office. Other stuff has been the priority.
And now there’s condensation on the bags when the samples are supposed to be dry. Perhaps I’ll just have to take new soil samples.
Then again there are physical challenges to using the soil even if it is safe to grow food in. There are various issues with any ideas I have to make use of what’s available
Fantastic day - finished it off with American ribs (I’ve never tried them) and tiramisu
The tiramisu is very alcoholic. The bottom sponge later is dripping with it. I thought it was meant to bake out, but it absolutely has not - super strong. But enjoyable besides that
Doomscrolling, American politics, a second apology
I’m really sorry once again for my tasteless joke.
My doomscrolling had consisted of the wild suggestions that RFK junior had been kicking around for America’s health system. Such as removing fluoride from water and vaccine skepticism - but also the proposal of having “wellness farms” (labour camps) for people who used illegal or legal drugs including antidepressants or adhd meds.
I’m quite concerned about suggestions like that which slide easily into fascism. Hoping that none of the really crazy stuff actually happens over there - or filters down into Australia. As American culture or conspiracy theories can tend to do. I’m worried for the future. What happens to anyone outside the norm if that idea gets legs.
But even as dark humour and worry for the growing fascism in America and Australia, it was hurtful and not ok for me to say. I’m very sorry to survivors and relatives of people who did actually endure internment.
I just have to stop looking at or worrying about this stuff. And not smart off about painful serious things.
Don’t worry about what Seagoon said tbh. My urgroßvater (great grandfather) was captured by the Russians and spent the rest of the war in an actual gulag, he suddenly returned home after the war ended. He could not and would not eat with his family, and would only make himself a sandwich when everyone else was finished (he didn’t trust anything he didn’t make himself due to his experience). And yet, I have joked many times, while going to work, “welp back to the gulag”.
It’s an offhand joke, and not worth worrying about tbh. I only said the above to state that everyone has different opinions, and different ways of coping and joking, and I personally do not see an issue with what you said.
But yes, doom scrolling, reading about the US and worrying, it doesn’t help our mental state. It’s feels heavy and insurmountable.
But, you have us and your hobbies, and while it may be difficult to do everything you want, you can still find joy and peace away from those news sites/reddit/whatever. They are nothing more than enragement engagement machines designed to make us feel angry, sad, and helpless. But you are amazing, kind, considerate, thoughtful, clever, you have so much to offer the world. Don’t have to take any advice from me, but overall it’s better to avoid the sites that bring us down. You are an integral part of this community 💜💜💜
No, I do have to learn to curb the dark humour especially without context.
I say some horrific things coping with my own stuff but it doesn’t apply to other peoples struggles and I forget how my gallows humour comes across
I use dark humour every day to cope, whether I vocalise it or not. I insult my mother and make jokes about her, I joke about my ex, I joke about my trauma. You joking about gulags is not a big deal. It really isn’t. If we cannot joke and find humour in our darkest times, that is when all hope is lost.
You apologised, whether it is accepted or not shouldn’t matter to you. It’s okay. Do not let this curb your funny self!
If it’s any consolation I wouldn’t be laughing long. Due to multiple intersections my arse would be collected quite quickly
We certainly live in dark times. The times only get darker if we cannot joke about them.
No one has a monopoly on horror.
No one should make you feel like you cannot joke about those horrors.
It is not tasteless to joke about the horrors that exist, and have existed. It’s tasteless to pretend they didn’t exist, don’t exist.
I want you to forgive yourself for making light. We NEED light.
The dead have already suffered. The dead do not command us. The dead do not control us.
Live for the living. Laugh for the living. Laugh for yourself. Laugh for me. Laugh for us. Laugh because we need laughter.
Here is one of my favourite jokes:
A holocaust survivor dies of old age and goes to heaven. When he gets there he meets God and tells him a holocaust joke.
God says, “That’s not funny.”
And the man says, “I guess you had to be there.”
I’m fucking scared. This tide has been growing there and here, and certain things have been more mask off since the annoying orange took power in 2016.
Fascism doesn’t come openly. It comes to ‘clean up’ your country, give you more jobs, do something about those awful people. Protect the children. Drop the price of eggs and petrol/gas.
That’s how it happens. Fascism frequently correlates with economic downturns. People focus on the promises of a better quality of daily life, think ‘surely these extreme things would never happen’. And then you’ve lost Roe and Wade and some very loaded and ominous proposals are being made.
And fascism creeps. It doesn’t limit itself to one minority, or one country.
Ugh. Sorry to make this cosy thread all dark. It would have cost me nothing to have kept my yap shut
I think it would have cost you more than you think to remain silent. I am glad you are sharing these fears. The cozy places are the best places to share our fears, because they are the places we feel safe.
There’s a quite famous poem about not speaking out until it was too late, not speaking out until there is no one to speak out… Better to speak, I think.
Tested negative but still congested and voice gone.
One plethora of plants has now been ordered, and I have a rough planting plan drawn up. Now I need to add on another small fortune for mulch and fertilizer and I’ll be set.
Every now and then someone does a cover that is just exceptional… Stand By Me - Stephen Wilson Jr.
The kid and I are deciding what toiletries we need to take and are only allowed one 20cm × 20cm ziplock bag each and everything has to be 100ml or less. What!!! This skin needs a lot of before, during and after treatments if it wants to step outside in the elements.
When I did this I used to take a bar of Dove soap for my body and hair, a kid’s toothbrush (smaller) and a mini paste, a handbag sized tube of Nivea spf15 lotion and a folding travel brush. And a small roll on deodorant. Chapstick and a couple of hair ties.
That did well for me. I did find my face would get a bit dry though with the Dove and no separate moisturiser. And the tiny Nivea tube is now discontinued.
These all sound like good ideas.
Is this for plane travel? That’s only the limits for carry on. You can take any size toiletries liquids in your checked baggage.
We’re only taking carry on backpacks.
Can you not buy toiletries there?
Why, when I have everything here.
Because then you don’t have to carry it. Plus for some reason shopping in new places is more fun. And as a bonus you don’t have to deal with power-tripping airport security who make you throw out your stuff even though it is actually compliant so you end up having to buy more anyway.
We can comply with the 100ml each item it’s just the amount of tubes we have. Moisturiser, sunscreen, face sunscreen, toothpaste, hand sanitiser and that’s the bare minimum I’ll need. All the liquids have to be in this little bag. My zip lock bag is 17.5 × 20 so I’m ripping myself off. Must go and find bigger bag.
I complied with everything too. I just had an agent who decided that I could only have things in their original containers and made me throw everything out because I’d transferred things to smaller containers for travel.
Oh no. So that’s what you meant. Luckily everything is in their original tubes.
hehe I walked to the shops and survived.
I won that war.
But the neurologist long term neighbour rocked around to say g’day to mum and dad. Wasn’t a check up just hello. Fark me get two docs like that in the same room you are gonna get a lotta latin.
Ah yes, and how are the astroglia in your medulla oblongata on this fine day. Corpus callosum in good balance?
Corpus callosum in good balance?
heh I’m hoping hm.
Miror quantum quisque in piscina reliquit.
First world problem : pizza or fish & chups? Cbf cooking tonite. And no meat in the fridge. Or freezer. Bad me. Must go shopping this weekend.
Pizza so U can have leftovers
To be honest a with a pizza there’d be nothing left over if I made one.
That’s why you get two!
That sounds like a solid plan!
You have convinced me.
Boy that’s really hard. If there’s a potato cake involved I think I’d do fish and chips tonight.
Well… you’ve convinced me to have fush & chups! At home - eat through the freezer a bit. Have leftover slaw. Perfect summertime chow while watching more British cop shows
Now that I’ve finished the planting in my Mum’s garden I’ve started to make some more serious decisions about mine. I’ve neglected it a bit because I’m not really sure what to do with it, and it’s mostly filled with vegies gone to seed. I’ve decided to pull up everything in the main beds and replace with a mix of basic shrubs, mostly natives, and just keep the two raised planters with vegies in them. That should keep everything neat and be low maintenance, without costing too much. I’ll get cheap tubestock that will hopefully grow a bit before the house goes up for sale and fill in the garden a bit and I’ll fill in all the gaps with mulch. It will probably be a few days of solid work, but at least I won’t have to cart soil or do anything too heavy.
Ahhh time to relax finally. What a day.
Bleh, even after the roofer turned up today the rain that swept through has caused another leak from the skylight and an area close to it.
Turns out from what I was told that there was a broken tile up there and something related to the skylight had to be patched up, guess that didn’t work though or wasn’t fully fixed.
It’s possible that if caulk was used, it didn’t have time to dry and immediately carked it. Sticking a plastic sheet over it may have helped but then they would’ve had to come back to remove it. May have just risked it to save you the money of them returning. It was either a definite return to remove whatever was covering it, or a potential return if the fix carked it.
That’s just my two cents anyway, I’m just spitballing.
I’ve got no idea since I didn’t deal with the roofer.
It’s a new leak sure. No idea if the repairs today have caused this or not.
Now that it’s at least confirmed I’d like it to stop raining now
That’s a wrap on a really intense work week. Who thought taking 4 hours off last week would be so hard to make up over 3 days. Some weeks are cruisey but it feels like I’ve done a week’s worth in 3 days. And then I’ve got to get cracking on uni tomoz. Have dinner at a friend’s and no time or energy to make anything. Then dinner out with another friend Friday. I hope to be able to get everything unpacked over the weekend and just blob out a bit. I sure will tonight after seeing the psych.
Hope you have fun tonight and are able to get some stuff down then finally relax over the weekend.
🍍
Can’t sleep, pineapple will eat me
I reckon Kitten’s a bit too busy to go swinging
There are other forms of hospitality. 😹🦩
GRRRRRRR the drainage I put in is draining, but it ain’t ocming out the hole.
If weather permits I’m gonna stick my endoscope on some yellowtongue and shove it up 'er
