• SpinMeRound@aussie.zone
    10·
    30 days ago

    Thanks for all of the love yesterday, Boyo and I had a lovely dinner out! The food was excellent, service so so.

    Maybe I'm just a snob.

    Call me out if I’m being up myself, but at a restaurant that touts itself as being in the top 12 most romantic venues in Victoria, getting greeted and seated someone wearing trackies and uggs didn’t really work to set the mood. Maybe she was called in last second to cover an absence.

    Also, no offer to order drinks past our first glasses of bubbles made me sad. Maybe I upset them by asking for a glass of ice?

    Either way, we had a great night going over many of the adventures and laughs we’ve shared during our relationship and lightly thinking about what’s next!

    Hope everyone has an excellent day! 😘

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
      5·
      30 days ago

      Trackies and uggs at a hipster cafe, maybe passable? But at a fancy restaurant? Nope that’s just rude. People are paying good money for a nice night out, and the ambience is as much a part of the experience as the food. Good that you had a nice time regardless!

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
      5·
      30 days ago

      Nah that’s not picky at all. Good thing is you’ll laugh about it in years to come. Glad you had a great night out despite the slob. ❤️

    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
      5·
      30 days ago

      no offer to order drinks past our first glasses of bubbles made me sad

      Hrmm odd.

      All the bougie places I’ve been to there’s always a waiter walking around occasionally asking if you want another drink. Poor!

      • SpinMeRound@aussie.zone
        3·
        30 days ago

        We’ve had lovely evenings there before so am thinking it was just an off night. We only go once a year though, so possibly just declining service.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zone
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    9·
    30 days ago

    I learned about one little gem of a change hidden in the new budget: they will be making access to any Standards which are referred to in legislation free. Which is great news, there never should have been payment required to find out what your legal obligations are.

    I was trying to look up what requirements were for Test and Tag on electrical equipment once, it’s spread over three different standards. Each one is somewhere around $100, so it would have cost hundreds just to be able to look at what was in the end just a few sentences. Access to the law is supposed to be free, it’s appalling that they were able to charge for access to it just by calling it a ‘standard’ instead of ‘legistlation’ and it is something that should have been fixed a very long time ago.

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      29 days ago

      for businesses, apparently. The fact they were ever paywalled is absolute insanity.

      fucking howard.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zone
        M
        5·
        30 days ago

        I keep thinking of more benefits to this - our Facilities Manager at work won’t be able to lie to us about things meeting the Standards when they don’t because we’ll actually have access to the Standards! We might be able to get a couple of issues with the kitchens at work fixed finally.

        I’ve also thought of a couple more times I’ve wanted to access Standards for minor things - looking up requirements for labelling pet treats and labelling clothing when I’ve had a fancy to maybe sell a few of my creations at a market. It’s very offputting to know there are laws that cover what you want to do but you are not able to find out what they are without paying an excessive amount.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      2·
      29 days ago

      Yeah, the price of Standards is bonkers. Especially the International ones. Work buys e-access packages with eye watering prices and still doesn’t have all of these.

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    9·
    29 days ago

    IRL cake day so I took the afternoon off and got a massage and some time in the sun…it was glorious out there

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    6·
    30 days ago

    This tum tum bug is doing my head in. Day 5 now :(

    Thought it turned the corner but nope.

    Doing all the right things (BRAT etc.). Shitload of water.

    C’mon tum tum… get your shit together (literally). I just need a few hrs of uninterrupted sleep.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
      5·
      30 days ago

      Agree with others, that’s not a normal bug. Food poisoning is usually 24hrs max, gastro can be up to 2 days, max 3 if it’s really bad. Not being able to sleep for more than a few hours isn’t good. This probably needs a doctors visit.

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      29 days ago

      So yeah fun fact if you need the impetus: “Stomach flu” is how my burkitt’s lymphoma manifested.

      • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
        2·
        30 days ago

        Pretty sure. Probs I caught it going out last Fri. P’s went away until Sun. Felt it Sunday morning, one day later ol’ boy got the same thing. ugh.

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zone
          M
          6·
          30 days ago

          Google search of multiple places say you should seek medical attention if symptoms go longer than 3 days, you are well past that already. I know it’s great having your username be so appropriate, but it’s not worth risking your health just for that.

          I think you got your mother’s stubborness in regards to medical care.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zone
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      4·
      30 days ago

      Have you been to a doctor? That’s a long time for a standard bug. The last person I know who had that sort of ongoing issue had picked up a nasty parasite in Bali.

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zone
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          4·
          30 days ago

          If it’s been going this long you really should go now. Most stomach bugs don’t last more than about 24 hours, this really does sound like something more serious. The longer whatever it is has to establish the harder it is to get rid of and you could be turning a minor problem into something major.

    • TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone
      2·
      29 days ago

      Um this is a long shot, but have the next door builders been dropping stuff in the guttering or over the house and/or garden? Lots of building substances are toxic when broken or distributed as a powder. It’s not just asbestos that you need to worry about on a building site. The fact that ol boy got it too has my trouble whiskers twitching.

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      1·
      29 days ago

      I had that a few weeks ago. I just stopped eating in the afternoon so there would be nothing to pass at night. Stay stocked on the hydralite, that really caught me out

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    6·
    30 days ago

    First.

    been 3 weeks since the trains started again

    Still not tired of living across the road from the station , it’s so close it’s like having a personal, not public, train. I reckon 15 seconds to the platform from my front door. And it’s a lovely shady street too.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      6·
      30 days ago

      I had that situation years ago, could hear the train coming and dash out. Downside was when the Uni bar closed there was a raucous migration on the overpass

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        4·
        30 days ago

        This place is as quiet as a train station in a classic Western movie and looks like it too. It’s a lovely little place. Whistle blows, train stops, one person might get off, one gets on.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    5·
    29 days ago

    Apple store gave me answers. It took them 30 minutes and 3 people.

    I had been doing everything right

    I had tried the cloud, quick start, two different apps, wired transfer. None worked because none *could * work.

    official apple support page instructions for my model phone was wrong

    basically apple changed the structure of the message app so you can no longer use your phone service if you want to save, you have to use imessage. My model phone only had phone service messaging, that meant I couldn’t transfer messages…

    also, all apple IDs have to be the same across all devices if you want to use apple now. This is a copyright nightmare, meaning if you buy stuff from other copyright zones you will lose it…

    I’m printing out old stuff, transfering data by hand and then it’s off the cloud baby and no more apple ID either

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      3·
      29 days ago

      There is a reason paper is archival standard. Not sure which physical audio media to back

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        2·
        29 days ago

        But I’m a boomer who is just frightened of tech!!

        audio? I reckon phonographs. They don’t degrade. Can be played even without electricity. I have records that are over 100 years old.

        I have been putting music on usbs

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    5·
    29 days ago

    Had just a really nice day today, everything went as planned.

    I took the day off to look after one of the kids. They had to stay away from childcare for a bit so we took turns. I wasn’t feeling great at the start of the week so I was thinking of taking today off anyway since I didn’t have any meetings.

    Had a catchup with the Coffee Client today. Everything has been going well there and they’re happy.

    Then we went out and did some leafleting for the by election in our area. The kids love putting things in mailboxes and with just one kid it’s so much more manageable.

    Then we had acai and icecream and went to pick up the other kid from childcare. It all just went so smoothly according plan, the way things never do.

    Now the other kid just needs to stay home from childcare so I can do it all with them again.

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    5·
    29 days ago

    Pakidge! Always feels bloody weird to have to use Boyo’s legal rather than use name. Never called him that and never will!

  • bacon@aussie.zone
    5·
    30 days ago

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone
    4·
    30 days ago

    Had a restless sleep last night. Got lots to do today, first coffee is already drunk, and I feel I’m gonna need another by mid morning.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    4·
    29 days ago

    I just can’t bear all this apple crap.

    Now I can’t even receive messages

    off to the apple store