Melbourne

F YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just had a knock on the door and the police handed me back my mower and whipper snipper plus a 6ah and 5ah battery. Thats the bulk of my replacement costs there! all appears to be working as well. Still short a few tools and batteries, but police know who did it they are just trying to find him.

Mooooon

so unmotivated

just doing stuff cos I gotta

motivation will come later

Just noticed today that La Trobe St outside State Library Station is now clear for eastbound traffic, definitely a sign we're getting much closer to opening the munnel. They've also laid brand new cobblestone in a side street which is pretty cool.

Why is going to Chemist Warehouse such a stressful experience? Narrow isles with too many people, long waits for prescriptions and then waiting in a line to collect them. Then another line to pay. Or maybe my local is just a bad one. This place is a time suck.

Hey @briongloid@aussie.zone we're in May not March. I blame Yarrabyte for not turning up today.

Yeah, someone else offered an explanation that made more sense and I think I was definitely wrong on the internet. Which is annoying because normally I’m the one being really picky about sources and reading comprehension.

All I can say is that I haven’t been sleeping and have been vomiting today. The past few days have been rough so I wasn’t thinking too clearly when trying to get something that seemed important out there.

Also I’m a bit defensive (when normally more chill) because others (not on Lemmy) have been stirring me up. 😑

I've said hello to more strangers today than in the late 5 years.

Morning.

I’m off into The Desert today. Sky will (hopefully) be pretty

Not sure if anyone’s interested in looking at this.

I’ve been playing Expedition 33 and just beat a tough optional boss. It’s a new rpg with an outstanding soundtrack & vision and needs some good reflexes.

It’s in 2 parts because I had to take a phone call.

Have fun if you decide to have a look at it.

Frost Eveque - part 1

Frost Eveque - Part 2

Dammit dammit dammit.

Was so tired the glass lid of my double walled coffee cup slipped out of my hands and shattered.

So devastated about it and I have no replacement for it.

I have now officially spent a small fortune on stuff for the new place. A fair bit of it is stuff that needed to be replaced anyway, and some of it is just because I want the place to look nice. It's been a bit tricky to work out how to place all the furniture, but I think I've got a layout that will work (pending measurement for a couple of things). It's a fairly square lounge/dining area, with foot traffic that will cross somewhat diagonally from the rest of the house to the door to the back yard. I'm not sure it would be possible to get a decent layout if you had a tv. A big couch or dining table would also be tricky.

The biggest purchase is a (very small) dining table and a couple of chairs. I spent nearly as much on new furniture for Miss Meow too - I had been planning to recover the tree she currently has as the frame is good, but it's not really going to fit in the new place. So now instead of one big corner unit she will have two smaller units and a window hammock. I also bought a couple of pink fluffy footstools that look like her cat bed on legs that I expect she will use for snoozing.

I've also bought lots of dull but necessary things - new doormats, drawer and shelf liners, suction cup shelves for the bathroom, felted end caps for all the furniture to stop it scuffing the hard floor. I also upgraded my mop and bucket as the main living area is all hard floor.

Edit: Miss Meow is going to have a little garden themed corner, including a

banana tree

surrounded by fallen leaves

with a flower themed climbing frame

It's..... May isn't it?

I can now poorly pluck Aura Lea on the acoustic guitar. Slowly I'm learning haha

I just realised it is not Friday. This is a good thing, as I don't have to go to work untiil Saturday.

tide is low, time for lunch time walk on beach 🙂

Sandboarding at Lancelin. I have sand in my ears

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Science week. Can you guess them all?

Today in one of the classes I observed, I heard some young people talking about how silly the Clive Palmer ads are. The thing I love about being in schools is that there are brilliant young minds and many of them can think critically and consider multiple perspectives. The other thing is that school can act as a protective measure against being an asshole in some aspects. A kid said something inappropriate to get a kick out of his mates and the teacher chatted to them about why he said it and why it was the wrong thing to say.

I don't think the kids are really enjoying my lessons right now, and I guess that's kind of sad, but okay. I had some teachers in school who made me enjoy some subjects I didn't love (e.g. had a teacher who taught history through storytelling, English through lots of modelling and active learning, maths through linking it to the universe). Maybe I'm not that right now, but one day I could be.

Another thing is that with kids who have been through trauma, you can potentially be someone who is a stable and trustworthy adult in their lives and show them what a safe relationship looks like. Again, those are VERY big shoes to fill, but I aspire to be someone who supports and advises young people to reach their potential.

Nooo, the thunder thighs have struck again and worn through another pair of jeans - my favourite ones at that! But they've outlasted quite a few, so I'll still take it as a win.

It's a clear sign that I've lived too long away from this place that I look like a lost and bumbling tourist at the wet market. Doesn't help that I'm brandishing my own bags and containers like my mum does but the stallholders don't recognise me so I have to explain and stop them from giving me new bags.

Anyway, fresh you tiao!!! 😋 😋 😋

got followed by norman bates yesterday

weird frickin bloke talked to me when i was in the op shop to buy cds, ( i do not talk to strange blokes ) he said he liked the mannequins in the window because they don't talk or spend money ( he likes dead women?! )

i ignored him

after a few more stops shopping I went to the train station to go home and sat on a bench on the platform, he walked past 30 seconds later and spoke to me , i tried to ignore him again

the odd thing is he went right to end of the platform and then left the station, 🤔

I've figured out how people make those fancy designed emails that all look like one image (Figma and the snip tool to break it up into parts).

Does anyone know some good resources on graphic design so I can actually make decent looking designs?

I don't know any graphic design theory and everything I do just looks too bland or busy. I know how to use the tools, now I need to know how to make them look good.