• just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    Entered the new place today.

    sad realisations

    Oh man it is somehow a lot smaller and sadder than I remember. And the road noise is so much more noticeable than at my place. I’m not even sure my fridge will fit. Like an idiot I didn’t measure anything while I was inspecting (because it was tenanted). I am really, really cracking the sads right now back at my current place knowing how much I have to give up. It just doesn’t feel like what I’ve worked for at all… Fucking rental market…

    Feels like I really am saying goodbye to a whole life in stages. Will any of it be worth it? I’m going to have to fast forward the chat with work about whether I’ll be able to work primarily remotely after I finish uni. The only way I see out of any of this long-term is to move in with family to hyper save up a deposit. But the only family I can move in with is interstate.

    I definitely need something to look forward to because after slogging it out for years to get residency and building a life for myself I’m really sad at having to shrink it so much. I’m ready to live more expansively. I’ve really sacrificed a lot to try and finish this degree and it’s going so much worse than I expected…

    And on top of that, couch guy has turned up only to find that it’s too small for his car despite my telling him the dimensions ahead of time. So that’s fallen through as well, arrrgh… what do I do now??? Pay someone on airtasker to take it?

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    Going to ask the managers if I can max out or at least come close to maxing out my hours over the peak trade. Hoping they say yes! But they probably won’t. I guess it will be worth a shot.

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    All I know is if Mr Seagoon ever started talking like in that book at various times verily I would laugh unto I cried.

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    Everyone’s home from work and I’m going to work. Fun times, hopefully won’t be too busy, I say, knowing it’s a Friday night.

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    If I’m standing there doing trade work let’s say, why do people think it’s ok to just stand there and watch me?

    If you’re sitting there at your desk clacking away on your excel spreadsheet or whatever, and I saunter up behind you and just stare at you doing work, that would be considered kinda creepy.

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      I get this a lot when I make pasta in the shop or the girls are making gnocchi, but we are doing it expecting to be seen. It’s performative and customers like to watch us do it because it signifies that what we’re making is fresh or traditional. It’s a bit different if you’re not expecting to be watched by curious onlookers.

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    Are people going through keyboards/mice like some sort of consumables?
    I’m looking at reviews for a mouse, and something supposedly good about it is that it lasted some person four whole years. I’ve been using the mouse on my work PC for 15 years, it was the first Bluetooth mouse I purchased. I’ve been using this keyboard for 10 years, and the only reason I bought it was that I was no longer typing on my laptop keyboard. Side note: I would love to buy another one just like this one for home, but it doesn’t exist any more.

    10 years with no signs of slowing in the next decade sounds right to me. 15 years for the mouse and the only reason I’m considering replacing it is I’d like one that can switch between multiple devices and maybe do away with AA batteries. Do people really go through peripherals quickly?

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      I have no idea when I got my mouse, there’s a few around and they must be 10 years old now. All wired, no wireless.

      My keyboard I got about 8ish years ago, a Corsair mechanical keyboard, cherry red iirc. I like the clacky sound, I like sounding like an 80s hacker lol.

      My PC (MINERVA) is newer, bought it pre-made in 2020/21. My PC (ATHENA) before that, I built myself and is as old as the keyboard. The case is way older, but the internals were new when I built it. I still have it and plan on turning it into media hub thing at some point lol.

      P.S My phone is called FRIGG. Yes I have a theme lol

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      My Logitech mx518 was one of the best mouse that I had for work and home.

      It wasn’t until a dumb cleaner used cleaning agents on it during covid that they ruined the texture and finish on the mouse. I’m still mad about it but they last forever and have all the convenient buttons like thumb buttons and scrolling wheel.

      I still have one in it’s packaging because I thought they were so good.

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    I’m listening the “The Nightland” by WH Hodgeson. Don’t know if I can stand the bondage and very sexual double entendres much longer. 🫤 I thought this was hard core science fiction gothic fiction. 🫥🤯😹

    They are quite long slightly weird involved chapters that seem to be perfectly paced and timed to rub one out …lol

    " and she did rub me very skillful and gentle for a great hour until I was all refreshed and in verity she was a lovely wise maid. And surely when I was come again …etc etc"

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      How very Shakespearean country matters. I’m all in for some good smut, but stuff written circuitously to avoid the censors doesn’t do it at all. No horny hobbits.

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        Odd that you would speak of hobbits , the first half of the book be very much like the journey to erebor, very very

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        other than the weird daddy mommy issues, the he-man stuff, the helpless delicate female stuff , the bondage stuff and the weird language, and these are only a few chapters so far out of many chapters

        other than that it’s a great story well told

        ( written in 1913 it predates Howard /Conan the Barbarian by 20 years )

        "But I was greatly stiff on my waking … " …lol

        what it makes much funnier for me is that this guy has the same voice and accent as Peter Cook.

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          Written as if it was the 17th century. I had a look at it, and it sounds interesting, but the wiki plot summary left all the sexy out 😂 did Hodgson edge the whole way writing this? 😂😂

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            the first two chapters were cutesy, then 9 chapters of good science fiction, now two chapters of edging

            I recommend it as an interesting and new experience

            there is another 7 hours of this

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    This is my favourite doggy pose

    Straight after his stretch he runs into the kid’s room, jumps on her and runs out. 😂

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    Neighbour’s car won’t start (sounds like a flat batter to me). It’s a late 90s Commodore that’s seen better day.

    Old mate is swearing like a sailor in English and Croatian. Been going on for like a solid 30 minutes.

    Ironically he fancies himself a handyman, and even my non-mechanical self can hear it’s the battery.

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    Ahhhh work notifications are off, auto respond email activated, told people I’m out for till next Wednesday.

    Hello music, Ps5 and catchup!