Miniest is on school camp and I've never been separated from her overnight before. I feel a bit lost tbh so I'm stretching and folding sourdough bread dough to keep me occupied. It'll be good for her to have this time to develop as a person, but I miss her so much. She's one of these little people that seem to fill up life. ๐๐๐
Iโve tweaked my hamstring ๐
I'm sorry your hamster squeaked but they just do that sometimes
I had to stake down the strays paper plates with wooden skewers because of the wind.
Felt like McGyver lol
Is it too late to tart part in operation UNKAOS? I just bought a new vacuum and it's actually working vs my old one which struggled with... everything.
*Take not tart ๐
I love a good tart.
Donโt we allโฆ
Who's calling who a tart?
When pushing hard means winning, peace and quiet feel like losing. Itโs been on my mind lately.
Goodnight all โค๏ธ
Have you read Sun Tzu? Yep, the Art of War bloke from yonks ago China. Very good at making a clear distinction between what constituted winning and losing. And the distinction is often not what you think.
Interesting. Iโve always felt the opposite. Peace and quiet is winning. Constantly fighting means loosing.
That had never even crossed my mind. We must come from, and live in very different circumstances.
I had some fermentation flies take up residence in my compost bucket and kitchen, so I made a trap for them which has worked very well. I have a jar of drowned flies and haven't seen any flying around the kitchen today. The trap is a funnel on top of a glass jar, and the bait is vinegar, sugar and yeast mixed with water.
I think youโve just solved the mystery of what flies are in my house! Always thought they were thrips, although they didnโt exactly match. Iโve found a glass with vinegar and a few drops of dishwashing liquid to work pretty well as a trap, too
I just saw a bird flying sideways. This could be the basis for a new wind strength scale..
Picked up the laybuy for the kids' birthdays and christmas today. On the way out I went through the self serve and the camera picked up the laybuy in my trolley. So it's good to know that tracking stuff is in use already, if I kept my trolley out of view it wouldn't have seen the stuff still in there.
I blame the weather for how ratty this office is today.
Though I've also noticed that I'm also reporting how ratty the office is, so maybe it's just a ratty office. I'm the self appointed cheerleader though.
Waiting for the crazy weather - Iโm getting more wind now but the sunโs out, itโs not too bad outside.
Wind's a bit wild in Ballarat. There is a lot of banging and clanging from mysterious things blowing around, but my fence repair is holding up well so far. No rain, but not much sun either.
It's one of those things everyone seems on edge waiting for it to happen, so it feels like it'll just fizzle out.
I was looking forward to sitting inside watching the rain. I got rained on as I was walking home then it stopped as soon as I got inside.
The break room at work smells strongly of garlic, so now I'm craving garlic bread.
Mmmmm, fruit toast
It was so windy! Great day to be in the city :)
Was windy but I was expecting worse based on the warnings.
So far it has been slightly moist. Might do some laundry.
Why are the new Myki readers so awful? I'd argue them to be worse than even the first-generation readers with a bad read.
The entire device basically gets locked out on a bad read for about a minute. If your Myki doesn't read properly, or your phone is acting up, a few retries could lock out a big chunk of the station gates.
The whole myki contract from the first machines has been a clusterfuck awarded to the lowest bidder.
I worked for a place ages ago that had put in a bid for a decent system but the government wanted to save cash.
To think we could have almost had the Octopus system Hong Kong uses.
Yeah, it is slowing me down massively each time. I use a card through google wallet and it used to be so smooth. I am hoping when they enable credit cards I can just let it use my main card and leave it at that.
Hmm the few times I've used them they've been really quick and easy. I anticipate the barcode/QR camera or card payment for entry are going to be a colossal disaster though.
They're nice when they work. Problem is when they don't.
Trying to sort computer shit out quick and dirty just to get unstuck.
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Windows 11 machine is completely full so using a Mac to download the classic Linux Mint and waiting a hundred years for the iso to download so I can sha the damn thing and make a bootable usb drive. The old desktop has been backed up a few weeks ago.
Tried to drag a bunch of files onto a 32gb usb off Windows machine to free space and keep them safe but thereโs seriously not enough room for all of it so I might get an external drive just for that to have on top of backups. Otherwise if I can get the desktop sorted soon I can just ferry the most important stuff over.
Then I have to download everything off Flickr and Dropbox and make sure the last gmails get changed over on any platforms theyโre still connected to (or emails theyโre recoveries for).
Today is going to be very busy so that may have to wait
Yay the string of numbers matches one of the approved ones :)
Apparently Iโm ok to skip the authentication of the .txt file so Iโm using balenaEtcher to flash the iso and hopefully all goes well.
Yay. Welcome (back?) to the Tux team! I realised how many old photos I still have stored on Facebook the other day. I think un-cloud-ifying is going to be one of my long term projects too. So I look forward to hearing how you go.
Iโm going to have to do it fast because starting from December Iโm going to lose access :(
Iโve tried Linux before but not as my main. This is basically to test out and see if I can switch over for most things because I viscerally hate Windows 11
I've been on linux for years. LibreOffice is prettty good as an MS office replacement. I don't play a lot of PC games so I've never missed that. I reckon you'll be fine.
I heard a rumble of thunder.
Mustโve been that bean I ateโฆ
Nothing like a good fart in the morning.
Well there goes my trip into the city.
Borderlands 2 and music it is!
Edit: gym done. Shopping done. Let the nap with rain sounds begin.
Nobody gives me HDs anymore, Wah! No I'm not insomniac and reading old papers for endorphins or some such shite. It didn't work, but revisiting dot matrix fonts is enlightening
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I'll have whatever Witchy wants to order for me, and Witchy can have: a walnut, apple and brie toastie with an Irish coffee
Witchy will have what SHE wants! Chef, can I please order a generous serve of humble pie for Force, with sriracha if he would like that with it, and some super sweet raspberry vinegar to go with.
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