Today is World Rainforest Day!
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Me and the gang just hanging out
House is clean. Time for dinner and some relaxing time. Tomorrow and Monday are study time for the Tuesday interview. For the IT folks, it’s API’s and SQL this time.
Lmao good luck! Hate db gigs.
It’s a software implementation role. They reckon they don’t mind if you’re not great at db, but I figure it couldn’t hurt to get up to speed anyway.
I’ve always threatened my boss that the only sql I know is DROP TABLE ALL;
I’m off to a mexican restaurant with mates
see ya later 😘😘😘
Bring me back a spicy!
Have a great time!
Enjoy 🍹
Don’t tell my kids, but I don’t really want to get up at 7:30 on a Saturday to go and watch them play hockey. I’m tired, it’s cold, wet and I’m not really having fun.
I might be getting my first new computer in 14 years later today, so I have something to look forward to.
the darkness is over
the day gets longer😎 the future is so bright I gotta wear shades …
the darkness is over
the day gets longer
the sun is just that much brighter
the sky is becoming ever so lighter
the day gets longer
the darkness is over
Look at us all busy little bees today. I’ve managed a shower and I’m deciding whether to get dressed or not.
Just picked up a free old projector for my emulator PC.
I just picked up my towel and hung it up.
I put out a really nice new cat chair out in the courtyard for someone to take , the boys are too big for it
So many things are made for dinky little kitties. The large loaves deserve nice things too :(
Lol don’t worry. I only just got around to having a shower and getting dressed, and I only did that because I have a visitor soon. If it wasn’t for him, I would still be in bed
Same, though I did get dressed.
It’s been a very slow start for me, if that makes you feel better! I have tons on next week so I knew I had to get some things done today or I’d be punishing my future self when she’s more tired and cranky.
Ii think I’ve been worse. I woke, had breakfast, chatted in the phone then went for a nap and that’s my day :/
Spent this morning redoing my resume, and have now sent two applications with cover letters. I think that will do for today. Main part was ending the procrastination and actually sending out some applications. Feeling accomplished
Good onya, that’s not an easy thing to push through, but it feels so good once the initial inertia has been shoved out of the way. I need some of that energy with my chores today! Here’s hoping your efforts are rewarded with a better job very soon :)
Intertia is a great word. I hope your chores arr completed 💪👌
Putting yourself out there is scary. Good on you for taking the plunge.
My gonads have recessed and are shrivelled by the cool water of the plunge but they’ll drop back down with my voice, once I’ve earned it
Good luck ! The cover letters have been the hardest and most troublesome part for me.
How anyone can crank out and personalise more than one a day (let alone 20) is a complete mystery.
It anyone ever figures out how to explain to your cat that awake time is for playing, not sleep time, let me know.
Or that when the people are trying to sleep it is not time for an argument with your siblings.
I’m still trying to work this one out as well
My cat is so wiggly!
It’s hard to believe that they have any bones at all.
If I tried to sleep like the cat does, I’d end up with backache for the next century.
I have returned from the Lightscape thing. I haven’t walked that far or up so many hills for… way too long. I am very sore.
Event was a nice family-friendly affair where we’re shuffled through the gardens like cattle. Some of it was kinda meh but other bits had really cool effects. Pretty great food and drink options. Not as blatantly expensive as it could have been for that stuff. I was there with my sister, bro in law and niece.
Pretty pricey tickets though. A little cheaper on a weeknight.
Worth it though? Did you enjoy yourself, besides the hills?
Yeah as a social event I think it’s worth it. If I went by myself I probably wouldn’t think so. It’s a cute couples/family thing, good memories together.
Ah, cool. Had a look and I don’t think it’s my vibe, but I might go sometime before it finishes. I think I’m keen to go to firenight, which seems to be in a similar vein, except it’s fire and free
The Docklands one? It’s pretty shit lol My apartment looks down on where it’s held and each year I pop down purely to say that I did but just keep your expectations real low.
It is indeed free so might as well check it out if you’re not doing anything, even just to say you did.
It was actually the first event I went to after moving to Melbourne. I went in 2019. I honestly liked it, but there’s probably some rose tint on my glasses.
But I’ll be going with a friend, so worst case we can always just spend the whole night shit talking the event and eating overpriced garbage food
I smashed my free amazon prime membership for a month then cancelled it. Thanks for the postage suckers.
I do this every time it comes up too. Stock up on inconvenient stuff I know I don’t need immediately but might as well get while I have free shipping. Stuff like a big roll of tough double sided tape suitable for outdoor use or copper tape for snails.
Currently doing this…
I bought a bunch of bulk foods that I’d otherwise have to run around town for and an instapot duo.
6 jars of marmalade made, 3 plants repotted, 1 load washing done and put away, another load in the machine
What do you typically have marmalade with, other than toast? Not having much of a sweet tooth, I can’t imagine how one gets through even a jar of marmalade in a reasonable time, let alone 6.
Topping for cheesecake, glaze for apple tarts, anywhere where the intense sweetness plus fruity tartness and a bit of bitterness makes a nice contrast. Marmalade can be melted, sieved and the liquid used as a sauce on vanilla icecream too. Adding a bit of arrowroot & water to the sieved liquid sets it to a firm gel, which goes pretty good as an icing substitute on a plain pound cake. A small spoonful of marmalade is a nice addition to a stir fry sauce too along with soy etc. Try it with cauliflower or broccoli. Bearing in mind that a jar of marmalade for toast only every day is usually gone in a week, so 6 jars will last maaaayyyybeee the worst of the winter.
oh yeah, it’s good in icing for carrot or banana cakes
my last jar in the batch has less peel and is more like jelly and that would definitely be good with desserts
just want to add I chopped and seeded about 100 cumquats to make 6 jars
Cumquats I just do whole in brandy for about 6 months. Seeding them is bonkers!
That’s a LOT of chopping! Props to you.
I use it in marinades for roast chicken , I give a few jars away but I mostly have it on toast , one jar lasts me about 3 weeks
an unintended consequence of having a day job is vitamin d deficiency so now i am rotating outside in tshirt and shorts
take vitamins 👍
i forgot to
A spot of fish now and then also won’t go amiss.
Just a psa that there are high dose vitamin D tablets that can be taken once a week 👍
Depressing weather. Have the fire going to get the washing dry. Discovered my shower is going mouldy. What is it with grout and silicon that we haven’t mould proofed it yet?
It’s gloriously sunny where I am right now and has been for a while. Woke up at 9am and indulged in some YouTube silliness in bed until 10:45 but pushing out the laundry quick smart now. Dont think everything will finish washing in time but I think some of it can dry over tomorrow as well. I have so much cleaning to do, might as well be when it’s sunny to help lift my mood.
World Rainforest Day
World: from Proto-Germanic *weraldi-, a compound of *wer “man” (Old English wer, still in werewolf; see virile) + *ald “age” (from PIE root *al- (2) “to grow, nourish”).
Rainforest: apparently a loan-translation of German Regenwald, coined by A.F.W. Schimper for his 1898 work "Pflanzengeographie
Day: Old English dæg “period during which the sun is above the horizon,” also “lifetime, definite time of existence,” from Proto-Germanic *dages- “day” (source also of Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Dutch dag, Old Frisian di, dei, Old High German tag, German Tag, Old Norse dagr, Gothic dags), according to Watkins, from PIE root *agh- “a day.” He adds that the Germanic initial d- is “of obscure origin.” But Boutkan says it is from PIE root *dhegh- “to burn” (see fever). Not considered to be related to Latin dies (which is from PIE root *dyeu- “to shine”).
Australia has unique temperate rainforests in that they have the biome but not the high rainfall. Like in the Dandenongs, Macedons and the Otways.
In terms of tourism probably one of the few legitimate sights of interest.
You may be interested in this book if you don’t already have it. https://www.routledge.com/Old-English-and-its-Closest-Relatives-A-Survey-of-the-Earliest-Germanic-Languages/Robinson/p/book/9780415104067
Feeling better this morning. But of a late start but that’s ok. Needed the extra sleep.
