it’s a nice day, think I’ll go to the park and the shops
Also, I’m glad I read more than one newspaper, the way stories are reported differ so much between publications, as in research and facts
It’s so nice in the sun. Singlet and shorts weather
Tragedy has struck the Raven household. My faithful beaters will beat no more. Over 20 years of faithful service, rest well my friends you will be missed.
All licked out. RIP.
no longer beats
all licked out
😂
RIP Beats By Raven. You will be missed.
We had a set of Kmart ones last 3 years, then the replacements lasted 9 months
Ours died last year. I wouldn’t have it. I took them apart, cracked out the soldering iron and repaired them. I broke the slow/fast switch and the blitz button in the process, but they work again.
Good thing, as they have mixing bowl attachment and it’d be so wasteful to throw the whole thing away over an internal switch wearing out.
I went to sleep at 7ish and just woke up. It’s a bit early, but I got enough sleep and woke up late enough that I can probably push through until a normal time tonight
Hands down hoisin duck spring rolls are amazing.
There is no turning back now.
I refuse to go back.
that looks delicious
Feels freezing here, oodie has been deployed.
I’m so wired and tired from events of the last three days. So many thoughts going round my head and big feelings. At least it’s not the debilitating kind of tiredness, I still had enough go in me to whip up upma, dal tadka, and a guar bean + carrot sabji. And clean up all the myriad dishes and the kitchen!
Tomorrow will be a long day too, as I have a big dinner right after work with lots to talk about. Need to start early so I can take the car and leave work early + directly… Sigh
hugs and rest
Seems like there’s a real shake up afoot in the industry I work in… processing interesting news about a big player taking over a few smaller firms. Perhaps consolidation is the theme of the next decade overall. The tech might be there for small businesses to flourish, but not necessarily the market support
Coconut curry and roti has been eaten.
Do I go out and buy some sour cream for my enchiladas or could I do without? That is the biggest dilemma I face today.
sour cream on enchiladas, on any Mexican food, takes it to the next level of deliciousness
and there is lactose free sour sour cream too
I have so many of those tasty chillies I should be making lots of Mexican recipes
I went and got it and I got corn chips too to go with the salsa so it all worked out in the end.
I dont have sour cream with mine for what its worth.
You definitely need the sour cream. Absolutely. For sure. It’ll be a worthy mission!
Fuck
Why is Coles homebrand paper cat litter so expensive? It costs about 3 times as much as the brand name.
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What the others said about comparison measures. Coles probably did it differently deliberately… It ends up cheaper delivered from [various] online Pet stores if you are in their free delivery zone and get the big bags. -Barn has a $0.95/L thing on now.
I hate it when they randomly do different units of measure, or put unit pricing for different quantities -_- Genuinely didn’t pick that up for once.
Their non-member price is $1.17 for the 30l and I don’t often shop with Barn due to their prices on other stuff, so I might just stick with the supermarket when I get the cheap delivery slots or Circle (as I get free postage over a limit I always hit) or Budget Pet Products. But thanks
Unit of measure is not the same.
Just looking at the Coles listing… it mentions 21L. So probably $1.09/1L.
Amazon suggests that the 24L is about 8kg, approx $3.75/kg.
Huh, well spotted. For some reason I didn’t see that. :/ Or perhaps my brain glossed over it, not realising there was a big difference.
can’t really compare them, one is kg and one is L
Cat rambles
Did a lot of the odd cat jobs last night. Melbcat’s ears were so grubby… I had to do a wash, wipe them out, and then even more wax/dirt came out with a second wash. There’s still crevices I couldn’t quite clean out. Not sure if it’s just because I’d been slacking or if there’s still an issue with her ears. Perhaps an infection? Maybe older cats get more buildup or need more help grooming?
I’ll get them checked when she goes for her next Solensia which is soon. Today I also need to clean her eyes and give her the flea drops.
Not sure why it’s so hard to do art when I want to. It’s hard to be alive and do anything really. I have to fight against so much physical and mental stuff to even have a hobby. I’m even taking high dose vitamin D supplements.
It was nice this morning with there sun out so I decided to fix up and take out everything for hard rubbish.
Had people going through my pile of stuff as I was taking it out and things have been moved already when I made a nice neat pile for pickup.
Bleh.
Sorted out some admin stuff and left my union.
Now to make a coffee and relax with the radio and some gaming.
Oh I am very belated on date relevant material. Oops. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gEjRHFom1Kk [very mild nsfw song relevant to the Northernhdmisphere and the SCA.]
Only just saw this on abcwebsite.
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Have you cleaned your keyboard this week? this month? this year?
Yes, but also no. I don’t know how to get my keycaps off without damaging them so I’ve never really properly cleaned it, but occasionally I blast it with some compressed air to get rid of the dust and stuff that accumulates over time. I don’t do that on any sort of schedule, or even a does it look dirty?, just randomly
I try but it is also extremely gross lol. You can pop the keys off and clean it like that, just make sure you note where the keys are meant to go so you can put it back together.
At my old job (call centre with Computershare) one of my managers had a skin issue? Dandruff maybe? Anyway, he moved elsewhere in the business and I took his desk and computer. There was a thin layer of white dandruff skin all over the keyboard. So I used the sticky part of the office post it notes and cleaned it like that, while trying not to reach so I didn’t embarrass him. 🤢🤢
We had a lovely lady who used to like to eat servo kranskys wrapped in pastry at her desk every morning, along with a collection of other flaky things (admittedly her homemade sausage rolls are missed!). Occasionally I would need to use her work station when she wasn’t in and every time I went to TOWN on everything with disinfectant wipes, sprays, air freshners. She loved always coming back to a clean office, but goddamn did it get disgusting again within a day or two,
Her replacement has beard dandruff. A lot of beard dandruff.
I’m surprised she was even there if she ate any type of hot food from a servo every day. Last time I had hot food from a servo (besides sausage rolls from 7 eleven), the resulting food poisoning was not very fun
Maybe she’s been poisoned so much she’s become immune
She, uh, took a lot of sick days. Watched her shuffle-run to the toilet a few times. Guessing she’s not immune and I hope she’s doing well these days.
I happened to be in the kitchen washing my dishes at 5 pm just now. The cleaner came in and emptied the organic waste bin into the general waste bin.
I’m scandalised. If the organic waste bin weren’t there, I wouldn’t think much of it. But to have it be there and be a total lie isn’t cool. 🤬
recycling is a scam
I do agree with recycling in principle and I do my bit regarding aluminium, glass and cardboard but everything else is just not recycled by industry or gov.
my bit for the environment is to consume less, a lot lot less,
I’m also trying to make choices that result in less waste, eg, a cardboard box is better than a plastic bottle
my bit for the environment is to consume less, a lot lot less,
This is the most important bit of anything for the environment. We’re so primed by our society to consume, to want more. It’s almost rebellious to go against it and deliberately consume less.
So much of what people buy they don’t even regard as consumption
like redoing a perfectly good kitchen every few years just because of fashion
Yup. The recycling bins at work are a lie. The cleaners dump them in together. Even the pure paper ones meant for the animal house. 😾
