I'm practising competitive window staring with Gibson today.
We're looking to win the national championship!
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AH HA! HAHAHHAA YESSSS
Partner's pc WORKS!
It wouldn't have been possible without the help of a DT friend, who gave me the new mobo, RAM and SSD! And they helped me with the windows media installation so I can get Win10 onto the PC as well.
Thank you!!! You know who you are! 💜💜💜
Bad gateway, BAD! Go stand in the corner. You're not getting any breakfast.
My app (jerboa) is playing up too. Says my account is not in a ready state. Fine through a browser.
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Up awake yet again, having a good giggle about the packing boxes thread yesterday. 30 for a full house? I have easily double that in just books. it's no wonder our removal guys expected to win their weekly competition for the office staff not passing relevant information to the crew 😹
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Ted sleeping with his eyes open
Last night was animated.
Ended up going to the jungle thing in the CBD.
First time at a nightclub someone trying to sell me a pen and ket at the same time. Kids are different these days.
Good jungle though.
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today has been a wonderfully relaxing day and i don't want it to end, but tomorrow there's another meet up i'm looking forward to, and tuesday too
4 years ago today!
I was going to have adventures today, but I’m honestly okay with staying in and reading a nice book
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Too warm last night but the rain was a nice touch for sleeping in a little.
Time for peanut butter toast and a coffee.
this rain is a godsend, means I don't have to go to the new house tomorrow to water the pot plants
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Why didn't I buy mac and cheese this morning? At least one of the shitty side pasta pack things? Got a craving, but also the lazies.
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Waffles with maple flavoured syrup and vanilla yoghurt
They're wonky at the edges because it was the last of the mixture and I was pushing to get 3 out of it 😆 The others were more photogenic I swear!
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The zombie outbreak begins and the DT bands together to survive. Where will we go.? What will we bring?
Okay. I realistically wouldn’t escape or survive long.
I don’t have a strong physical constitution and if not caught right away would die very quickly of bad water, injury or exposure. But to not be defeatist I would absolutely bring a few things if possible. Any of these.
- A can opener. Possibly multiple for barter, a group, or in case one breaks. You can apparently rub cans on a rough surface to wear off the lid but I don’t know how and that risks losing the precious contents.
- A knife or a hatchet. For splitting or shaving wood as kindling, self defence, hunting and skinning small game, cutting rope
- Lighter, matches, fire rod, anything
- Soap. Bad handwashing hygiene and dirty wounds will kill you. I also don’t know how to make the soap… especially in the wild with limited ingredients (I’d try lye from drain cleaner but apparently that’s not good) and limited ability to remember or measure proper ratios.
- Salt. Whether it be maintaining electrolytes while vomiting from bad water, rinsing wounds, or preserving food or skins. You want this.
- Honey or sugar. Can be mixed with salt for homemade electrolytes or used for infected wounds in the absence of antibiotics. Good for shock.
- A container for storing, transporting and treating water. Probably one of the top things.
- Needle and thread. Tent repair, making improvised clothing, stitching wounds. Possibly some rags.
- Iodine for first aid and water purification.
- Isopropyl alcohol, methylated spirits, or any alcohol over 70%. For killing viruses on surfaces, disinfecting skin and medical tools, or as an emergency/smokeless source of fuel. (With a rag wick or soaked into charcoal inside a tin.)
- A cooking pot. Cans may be used but there are so many reasons you will need to boil water.
- Oil or lard for precious calories. Or to help waterproof shelter or clothing.
- A solar charger to keep phone on for as long as internet and phone signal infrastructure stays up. Or even better one of those radios that run off hand cranking. Even better if it’s also a battery and a light, but you want to be able to pick up emergency transmissions or other survivors.
- Rope. For tourniquets, holding up a tarp between trees or as a makeshift hammock to keep your body off the cold wet ground, tie yourself into a tree to sleep, or suspending food supplies out of reach of some animals.
- A tarp, mat, cardboard, anything to stop cold and damp leaching into your body.
- A camping shovel to dispose of waste to avoid contaminating water sources. Also to make a burrow for temporary shelter or concealment.
- If possible multivitamins or even just vitamin c. Or forage lemons. Living off canned and dry foods can result in deficiencies which lead to scurvy, lower immune system, or delayed wound healing. In extreme cases vitamin c deficiency can lead to old scars reopening and vitamin b deficiency can result in neuropathic issues and beri beri. These vitamins are water soluble so must be replenished regularly.
- A compass? Or star chart? But tbh I don’t know how to navigate. The best I could do is use a compass or remember the direction of the sun to return a short distance to camp. And I would not be risking going far
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I live near the Cat William Adams depot in Clayton. I'll bring a mud carter with a 30t excavator. I'll then head to the savemore supermarket storage warehouse with my plex server. Fuck dem zombies.
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How nice was it to wake up to the sound of rain!
I did not get that experience.
Instead I got rained on halfway through my morning dog walk. Mr Woof got a touch soggy, and when we got home he had to wear his bathrobe while he dried off. He was not happy about it, tried to remove it himself and got his leg stuck and unded up with a short trial run of being a tripod dog. All is well now, but it was a drama filled start to the day.
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It was so nice I have gone back to bed to listen more
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Just came back from shopping. I found it strangely not cold, despite how it looks out there, just wet. I'm loving it actually.
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Blomkamp is doing Starship Troopers. Now, I imagine, for the sci fi heads, this movie is sacred ground and shouldn’t be messed with rightly so. It’s a classic.
However, I’m hyped at the prospect of seeing Blomkamp’s interpretation of the book.
Would you like to know more?
I don't mind it being remade but god dam, Heinlein wrote a whole lot of other stuff that'd make for a good movie.
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Well I’ve done sweet FA all day so far. Rain is nice.
packing is being packed
Packing Miss Seagoon's things has been a bit sad. She kept her childhood books and many baby items , she said for her own children one day. She's getting older now. 😞 I'm sad for her.
( and no, I have never said a word ever, only ever listened, answered questions and gave support for her wishes and decisions )
moving is always fraught with emotion
Aussie.zone having issues today :(
All this talk of survival on hard mode but I can barely manage what’s in front of me.
Health
I’m now taking Panadol or ibuprofen every day for an unusual level of pain when I never used to, and am spending hours under a hot shower on the daily to try and cope with it. Can barely eat anything and struggling to stay hydrated. I’m not really able to move much. Waiting on more tests and procedures.
The house is a mess and my yard is covered in leaves from arsehole neighbour but non-urgent tasks will have to wait.
Edit: Ugh. Rookie mistake. Right before I hit a rough patch I washed some dishes with food on and neglected to drain the machine. Then let it sit. Smelly.
I’ve cleaned out the filter and am running the hottest steam wash to hopefully kill the gross bacteria and any mildew. If it still stinks I’ll run a long wash of baking soda followed by vinegar, then a rinse to ensure the acid doesn’t sit on rubber seals or pipes and degrade them. Then drain it.
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Days like today have made it obvious how dark my south facing living room gets... depressing. At least I'm not looking at a grey brick wall like the ground floor apt.
Forgot that S2 of Pachinko came out a few months ago. That's my afternoon sorted. Was scrabbling around for a tv show that didn't involve mind games or violence or anything too out there, this is just what I needed.
It's a bit morbid but I LOVE eating lunch/dinner while watching this show, because all the WW1/WW2 era scenes — where food is scarce and everyone is living a hardscrabble life — make me appreciate my food and modern comforts so much more. To freely enjoy white rice and an abundance of vegetables and spices and oils. Kind of reminds me of my mum's generation watching Oshin and enduring the years of civil war and rationing at home. Did they ever show Oshin in Australia?
Rain good, humidity bad.
Hope the cool change gets rid of this muckiness.
Asked my dad for movie suggestions yesterday and he suggested Red. I ended up watching Borat, and upon telling him this, he said he didn't want to know.
Knock off blu-tack is about as tits on a fridge
Bloody crickets are deafening here
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