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[–] 8 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

Welcome to today: a cat has barfed on the sofa. Specifically a white bit.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    And it's wool so I can't use oxy spray. WTF do they put colorants in pet food anyway?! Grump

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It's obviously impossible not to be biased, but Delta absolutely nailed it this morning at Eurovision. I think only Denmark got close to her vocal skills. It's a tough field but I'm all in on a podium finish for Australia.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    House to myself this morning, so I stayed in bed until I could no longer stand it. It was freaking wonderful.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The glorious day continues!! A lovely walk in the sunshine with cute doggo sightings, finally tried the bakery/pie outlet around the corner and it was cheap AND delicious (including some frozen party pies for this weekend), champagne is chilling in the fridge and I am sah ready for the EDC weekend!!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    sounds wonderful

    and I might go for a walk too 🐱

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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    I'm getting a bonus at work I wasn't expecting with how the company as a whole went last year. I've decided to bang it into super since I wasn't budgeting on it coming through, and at least this way I can keep 100% of it, even if it's not actual cash in the hand.

    It just makes me think about how lucky I am I can put some surprise extra money away like this and I'm getting a bit of extra side money from trivia and Coffee. It also helps fight those conservative brainworms looking at your pay and seeing you only get 2/3 of the bonus because the rest gets taken out as tax.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Bugger. I'm supposed to be driving to Melb for work today and the car won't start. A bunch of scary error lights are lighting up instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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    All good for now. The problem was the battery, so the car was started and I'm now in Melbourne. It will be a coin toss as to whether it's going to start again, so I'm going to get a new battery today.

    I was a bit concerned with all the warning lights. I think the voltage drop from the failing battery triggered sensors to detect non-existant faults, which also stopped the car from even trying to start. So it didn't try to turn over and fail like I'm used to with battery issues.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    20% of Century brand at supercheap, 20% house brand at repco and special members price at autobarn if you're looking to save a few coins. I think supercheap, maybe all of them, will fit it for you and take the old one for disposal.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Thanks, but I'm just going to get RACV to come out today. I'm working 12 hour days/nights for the next 4 days, so don't have much time. Plus if I put it off it will probably refuse to start after night shift when I just really want to get home to bed.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    my brain has decided to migraine today

    So I will just try to do easy things and no beach.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Have they CALLED Spud yet?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    Well I did done fuck up. Assumptions and failure to measure causes flat pack furniture to not fit. Going to need a Frankenstein solution.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    I always measure 47 times to make sure things I buy are going to fit.

    And I still manage to get it wrong sometimes, especially if there are clearances for opening doors or similar involved.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    This is one of those over the loo arch shelf things. Utterly unflushable unless raised 3 inches. Fits perfect every other direction. Gah!

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Clearance issues. It's always some sort of clearance that messes things up! I have a little cupboard in the bathroom that fits perfectly, except for a compartment on top with a lift up lid which hits the bench overhang.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Put lockable castors on the bottom?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    If anyone here sees Tangy Pickle Twisties in their local supermarket for less than $5 a bag, lemme know, I will literally drive across the city tomorrow to stock up. They taste like the OG Maccas Shaker Fries and I. AM. OB. SESSED.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    The battery turned out to be even more expensive than anticipated, as the auto stop/start feature needs a more expensive battery to power it. But apparently it still had the original battery, which makes it 7 years old so I really can't complain. Plus 56% of my driving is currently claimable as work km, so the battery is 56% tax deductable!

    The technician was much better than the last one, changing over the battery efficently and doing some sort of mysterious communion with the computer that is apparently important. Mind you, it wouldn't take much to beat my last experience with having a battery changed, which involved a guy who was very shaky and I think hung over. He took about an hour trying to fit the battery unsuccessfully before figuring out it was the wrong size battery.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (7 children)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Car batteries are $$$$$. This is karma for me being happy that my service last week was not very expensive. Oh well, at least it's an easy fix.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Wild they missed the battery being on the way out if it was just serviced. Lets hope it was just because it has been colder in the morning more recently

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    From my understanding of car batteries, which is not a lot, you should test them after a certain time (I think it's 24 hrs) because if you've driven the car/van it will obviously be charged. I think (again?) if it's under 12.3 (?) then you need to replace it. I really should listen more.

    Basically you shouldn't test it until it's been sitting a while because it'll give a false reading like tyres do.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I can haz internet again.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I was looking forward to being home at 6pm tonight instead of my usual 7pm, but of course traffic decided to be horrendous and the trip took 3 hours, so I'm only just home now at 6:30. Today really didn't like me.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    nearly finished setting up my new phone

    Just entering stuff by hand and uploading and reregistering apps . Also writing a lot of things down in my note book.

    going through all my Mandarin apps, Traditional and Simplified, and calligraphy. I used to have such a huge vocab! It will come back. 🙂

    And all the issues with connecting to my PC have been resolved too. So that means I can take new photos and post again. 🙂 I didn't lose interest, just couldn't upload. 😕

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