Government House. I think the photo didn’t load. Here for a friend’s OAM.
Not long back from the vet.
Results of second and more comprehensive ultrasound - Sammi has pancreatitis.
Hopefully they’ll be able to control it with cortisone injections.
Also she got a bravery award from the ultrasound people and the staff said she was a model patient and love her. Which is nice. 😊No wonder she felt so poorly!
Aw poor baby, pancreatitis is so painful 😣 I hope that if she is back with you, that it is a mild form of it and she’ll make a full recovery! She’s a toughie and I’m positive she can pull through! 💜💜
Oh poor Sammi. Fingers crossed for the treatment 🤞
poor sweetheart
she needs all the hugs
She’s still Very Cross with me, so most I can manage is a stealthy head snuggle 😂
Poor Sammi cat, she has been through a lot. At least there’s answers now. I hope the treatment works too
Oh ouch! Poor squish
Poor fluffball. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery ❤️
Poor baby :( Such a good girl.
Melbcat was on steroid tablets for a while, didn’t know there were shots.
Beep Beep 🚚
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Burger with the lot please!
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Thank you Chef!
Pan fried flathead pls with chips with garlic aioli and tartare.
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Lovely.
um, some vegie spring rolls, chilli sauce and a cup of jasmine tea please 🙂
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Thank you chef. 😚
Um, bahn mi and a bubble tea plz chef
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Ta muchly
I’m reading the Alien 3 screenplay by William Gibson after watching Alien: Romulus. It’s great to see Newt and Hicks get proper character moments in a follow up story. And from what I understand, the story does things with the Aliens we haven’t seen on screen yet.
Also, it sucks that they killed off Newt at the start of Alien 3, but something had to be done about her. At the end of Aliens she went into the sleep pod, so she would look a lot like she did once she came out.
The movie languished in development hell for years. As a teenaged girl she’d look very different in Alien 3 to how she did in Aliens. With all the production problems behind Alien 3, it seems like the easiest option than come up with an in universe reason why she’s aged. If they went with Gibson’s script and got Alien 3 out 2 years or so after Aliens they could have covered it up a lot more.
William Gibson of Neuromancer fame? 😲
The very same. There are a few unproduced Alien 3 scripts around but Gibson’s is considered the best we could have got.
Unfortunately I haven’t found a PDF but this is the best web version I’ve found. I saved it to Pocket and I’m reading it on my Kobo
Thank you for this! I saw Romulus on the weekend, and actually re-watched Aliens just last night!
Will definitely be checking this out :)
There’s also an Aliens: Engineers screenplay floating around which eventually became Prometheus. It’s not perfect but I prefer it to Prometheus. The lore is similar and it helps lock in details since things are explained on the page in a way that may not fully translate on screen.
I had no idea this existed. Thank you!
Forecast changed to sunny today, best time to be wfh. Washing machine running overtime after having taken a break for 10 days. The air is bitingly cold though, not sure how dry my clothes will get
Also on the major washing choo choo. I like the odds.
How is it that some people can give you a pep talk about looking after yourself and not getting dragged by other people, then text you a rant about their own dramas an hour later? How much time do you think it takes to get my brain de-stressed and back on track, Doris*?
*Apologies to any actual Doris’s out there.
I look at it as the same as a smoker is telling you from experience that you shouldn’t smoke. It’s valid advice.
A lot of advice I’ve received over the years has come from a place of “don’t repeat my fuckups”.
Any of you sewing types successfully Re-elasticated a bottom sheet? I suspect attempting such would be economically inefficient and I should rag bag it.
I have never but I’d still give it a go. All I’d do is reinforce the corners.
It depends. Is is elastic in a pocket or sewed directly onto the sheet? I’ve done both, rethreading the first type with a safety pin took a while, but the overlocker does a reasonable job on the second.
It’s direct and I don’t have an over locker.
You could just zig zag over the existing elastic.
using zigzag stitch does the same job . It’s tricky to do tho. You need to stretch the elastic while you sew it to the fabric base
Ever met this beastie?
He’s an interesting little fella.
yes I have , they scare me lol My mum used all these weird feet for things like shirring and ruffling, I just use plain feet and use tailoring methods to do the same thing
I found a manual for it but am still scared. You can’t unpick those results.
I have a gizmo for that but have never tried it. And a super complicated pleater foot that scares me
I used to do it with just a plain foot and stretch the elastic by hand while sewing it on
Only tried once, and it was at best a very qualified success. Removed all the elastic, hemmed the raw edge and sewed on 2 tie tapes per corner. The problem was adjusting the knots on the tapes when putting the sheet back on the bed. Maybe using a strip of elastic instead of tapes would work? Sorta kinda like the elasticated tapes on a mattress protector sheet. On the plus side, the sheet was very easy to wash and fold once the tapes were untied.
This mattress is way too heavy to tie under! Diagonal elastic corners would be an affordable experiment
Elastic is expensive. Unless it is a nearly new sheet that cost hundreds I wouldn’t
Exactly, the sheet isn’t utterly dead but far from new. Better used as draft fabric me thinks.
Is it something some fitted sheet clips can fix?
Oh! Had not heard of these. Might try them even on newer sheets. Wrinkles near my feet are one of my Things.
Shoot me a message sometime and you can have my sheet clips, they’re not for me. They’re like big suspenders, black ones. They do not spark joy for me.
I find those things a bother.
I definitely now prefer sheets made of spandex, never bunch up under you. So good.
Somehow, I’m brutal on my sheets. I wear through fitted sheets quickly. I’ve taken to using a heavy linen throw as my base sheet, it seems tough enough to take whatever I’m throwing at it.
Er, May I send you a rather personal question about these?
Wow, they sound amazing. I have many questions… actually just 4: How do they handle romantic interludes and the various resulting bodily outcomes? Are they sweaty in summer? Do they dry easily after you wash them? Do they stain easily?
Well @PeelerSheila@aussie.zone just killed my attempt at polite
Lol I’m as subtle as a train crash when my diplomacy fails, there is no middle.
I don’t fuck under the covers usually, I couldn’t tell you! But I have spilt chocolate and coffee on them. They look and feel brand new still after a year of washing and machine drying. Seems safe with oxygen bleach.
They aren’t sweaty/hot to me. I sleep hot at the best of times, I think I would have noticed if they make it worse.
I’ve not had the need to air dry them, my guess is they’d be similar to cotton.
Oh another thing! I’d really want to touch those in person first at that price point though.
Pet hate, one person who hogs two machines at the gym alternating between the two. Extra penalties for doing it in gym peak hours.
Fuck those people.
Azaleas popping
Always wanted to try mad honey (in low doses) but it’s stupid expensive.
Bailed on work early to get to GP appointment. My lovely GP is running behind 30min+ and counting. I need to be elsewhere at 5.45pm. I also parked in the city to make my appointment.
I could have gone home and walked in if I knew. Damnit.
Today’s little “hobby from a distance” is looking at vinyls and high end hi-fi equipment I can’t afford
A Baku can dream
sigh
when it comes to sound systems the sky is the limit
When I win the lottery I’m getting these;
https://awave.com.au/shop/uncategorized/barefoot-mm12-active-monitor-each/
Daaaaamn.
I hear you. Just picked up the Pro-ject Debut Evo and the S2 Tube Pre-amp. Vinyls are also holding their value, so I’m curious how rebuilding a collection will be.
For me it’s travel and dining out in various places whilst I’m doing it sighs
Found this on yt. Nellie-specific info starts after 8.30 mins. Good if simplistic overview of marsupials in the early bit. numbats
pakige…
Two days with “we couldn’t deliver”. Two days I’ve been here all day. Either they are not trying or they can’t figure out how to operate a buzzer.
EDIT: more ranting Oh and now they have cut me off from the phone line three times in a row. I’m now on chat to Amazon making a complaint. I’ve never had anything delivered by Dragonfly couriers before - this is terrible
EDIT EDIT: Ok I know amazon are evil and all that, but 3 mins in the chat and they are sending me a replacement with a new courier company. THat is nice
And so the enshittification of everything continues.
Looking forward to the post apocalypse, just so I can build a shack and call it my own. Defend it with some pitchforks and I’m sorted. May the enshittification continue so that one day I may own a home lol
I was craving lasagne but don’t have any lasagne sheets, so I’ve made a mock lasagne with layers of fettuccini instead. Now I just have to wait for it to bake.
What was it like? I knew an Italian woman who occasionally used to make lasagna with this flatbread stuff, I think it was that mountain bread or sorj bread? Said it came out perfectly fine.
Bellissimo! 👩🍳😙👌
Onto my sixth load of washing today and I might squeeze in a seventh as I think the sheets will dry quickly (been doing clothes, towels, oodie, blanket, doona cover/pillowcases…) What a relief, i havent changed my bedclothes in ages and the whole house feels so much fresher now that all of this is getting washed.
Going in and out has also definitely helped break the monotony of today’s work, which I just have no mood to do at all. People suck!
