Greetings from an Australian residing in the USA. Happy Monday. :-) 10AM on a Monday here and probably the early hours of Tuesday for you.
Good Night everyone. 😘 Sweet dreams.
Gibson approved!
Patiently waiting for you to unbox it so she can fill it with TP
I’m making her a castle lol
A CATalyst amp box is perfect for Gibson!
One out of three stressful things done - training and exam (that I didn’t study for at all, but I use the stuff frequently at work and excel at multiple choice exams so I’m confident I’ll pass).
Also finally got my licence photo taken after procrastinating till the last minute. Don’t want to acknowledge how much older and more stressed out I look after ten years 🥲 my old photo is one of the best ID photos I’ve ever had.
Next up: last day at lesser job tomorrow with lots if tidying up and handovers. And thirdly on Wednesday, big uni meeting for which I have not prepared at all and am more anxious about than today’s exam, but I simply have no energy to look at today. I will not overpush myself. I’m going to go for a walk now with my journal and find some grass to lie on while it’s still bright, although lomgcat is absolutely lovin’ on me right now and mashing her face into my jaw.
Praying for some restful sleep tonight.
You can do the things! 💪
My somehow my last licence renewal used the old photo which is awesome. I am so young in it now! I don’t want to give it up either.
My last licence renewal did too, but it’s now been over ten years so it’s photo change time.
I’ve just walked myself to a park with heaps of gum trees and although I can hear the freeway in the background, it’s still been so good to kick my shoes off and lie on the grass, feet touching the earth, looking at the leaves in the sky and hearing the commotion of garrulous lorikeets and kookaburras. I love the weather on days like this. I think I should organise a day up in the hills on the weekend with the other day set aside for a massive house clean
That sounds delightful
Never watched the Sopranos until now. Great show, but as someone who grew up with Italian grandparents, calling pasta sauce ‘gravy’ makes my eye twitch.
It’s a NY and NJ thing.
Well I’m from Utica and I’ve never heard the term ‘gravy’
- Simpsons reference.
It’s been an absolute shit of a day except for getting the amp.
Thank fuck for music to de-stress.
I just want to shout out to the teenagers emerging from the bushes after a bit of “Fun” at the park yesterday. I’m pretty sure I’m the only one who clicked what was going on, dont worry. I didn’t see anything NSFW, but dude you cant stagger out like your 10 tons lighter and have your girl emerge 5 seconds later adjusting her dress. Man teenagers are idiots hey.
Ah to be young again
You know, I ALMOST miss hanging out at maccas till 3am in bayswater and having fun in the back seat of a commodore or falcon.
Almost. not quite.
At least you got a big car to fool around in. Try that stuff in a Hyundai excel. No wonder my back hurts.
Big news. The deep sinkhole around the Telstra pit next door is finally getting fixed - three years after the plastic board was bolted to the ground. Nice bloke doing the fixing said that Telstra has QUADRUPLED the number of contractors hired to fix problems, and increased the managers that allocate/organise fixes from 7 to 26!!! Apparently if you SnapSendSolve a problem it’ll be done within a week - faster if someone has tripped or fallen. I will be very interested to see if this outbreak of efficiency lasts.
Hopefully somebody eventually fixes all the “temporary” yellow plastic board coverings on High St. they have been there since before Covid from memory.
If I ever see an old vinyl from the soviet bloc I am sure to snap it up.
Today I was not disappointed. I got a 1968 Supraphon recording of Beethoven 1st and 8th symphonies from Czechoslovakia.
omg, it is awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19jqWhCv2o4
Similar but different, I bought the Suicide 2nd album on discogs and after it arrived I noticed it was made in West Germany. Still blows my mind that Germany was like that when I was a child.
I went to Coles deli today and because I don’t go by weight I usually just say “a big handful of that thanks mate”. He was a dude with giant hands and I came out with 434gms of chorizo salami. It’s really good chorizo though. No complaints.
I got my hair cut and beard trimmed today so I look normal. My dad was always telling me to get it cut and there’s too much at stake, so I don’t want anything being a potential obstacle to another job.
And I think I might look alright? I’ve lost some hair and pretty much always had it tied back, so I’m not sure if I’d grow it out again when shit gets stable
I recently got the “yes boss, I’m a functional adult you can hire.” haircut.
No one buys the excuse, ‘I look like shit because I’m so busy working’
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Happy National Dessert Day 🙂
I’m debating whether or not I should take a gap year before starting the teaching course.
This is on the basis that I find a casual job with full time hours. I really wanted to do teaching but everyone around me is saying I shouldn’t do it because of behaviour management, taking work home, and that I’m too much of a stresshead. I also have unmanaged ADHD, constantly submitting things late. When I’m a “bad student”, I feel like I’ll be a bad teacher.
I think I’ll try the teaching course and then apply for OT if it doesn’t fit.
Oh sick discovered a camper my car can actually tow! Got a turbo diesel with nearly 2 tonnes of towing capacity, but if I stand on the towball thats almost too much weight for it. Not exactly the best design in the world.
Can you get airbags installed or better suspension? Still seems pretty crazy, my MUX tows my camper fine without airbags.
MUX is a lot bigger car than a mid sized SUV though. Diesel engine cant compensate for a chassis and suspension engineered for ride comfort.
Ask for a test drive to the local weigh bridge before committing…just to make sure
unfortunately not that simple. Its the actual weight at the towball itself that’s my limiting factor. A little baby camper trailer will almost always be under a tonn. And there isnt a great way to measure tow ball limit annoyingly.
Repeat after me - Hayman Reese, Hayman Reese - best towing rigs in the goddamn world. Seriously, they’re bolt on towing rigs that can be fitted to practically anything and will tow the Titanic up Mt Kosciusko. If you plan to go off road, or have variable loads, they’re the best. I had an H frame one put on my Ford 250 for towing horses and NEVER regretted it. Made light work of towing a 3 horse trailer all over Vic and NSW back in the day. Fully loaded too. And I found I was de-bogging other people’s rigs out of muddy ground on a fairly regular basis. Mind you, I did have a low torque gearbox added on too which helped.
