Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
One of my friends from work finally gave me some good news.
Her daughter who went holidaying in Israel finally made it back home to Melbourne after being distraught at the situation and having multiple flights canceled trying to get out of the country.
She sent me a photo of them hugging each other at the airport after landing this morning.
So happy for her and relieved.
That’s fantastic
Had a visitor (or 2, one not pictured)
I swear they’re the same ones that’ve been going at that lawn for years and years now.
Doing that thing where I have a big life change coming so everything is being clean, rearranged, and then cleaned again. My pc/desk has never looked so good though, the glass panel is bordering on mirror status.
This is a wonderful morning for some buttery French toast.
Made by someone else.
Brought to my bed.
I got an invite to the NGV Gala.🙌
Fancy! That looks like heaps of fun!
Yeah should be a good one!
Do report back - I’m interested to hear what it’s like :-)
I am seriously considering making some chocolate pudding and custard, but am currently trapped under a cat so cannot move. This is a dilemma.
Edit: apparently Miss Meow thinks I should make the pudding, as soon as I hit send she got up to have another round of dinner.
Edit 2: custard made, pudding in oven. Dessert night is Go
I did 2 workouts today. One yoga and one cardio. Every time I do cardio it gets easier and easier and recovery doesn’t take as long. I’m gonna start incorporating strength training a little bit more now. I’m 10 minutes away from earning a garmin challenge badge. I feel good. That’s all.
Fucking woo, Boyo is employed again. A few more days of the pacing panther to deal with but hooray!
I’ve just made a pot of tea. I would share, but I do in fact need all of the tea
After last night, in verray truth. Please feel free to have a second pot if this is required. I can vouch for the effectiveness of choc chip cookies if energy levels flag mid-morning.
I’m of a similar mind with the tim tams I just bought. His Lordship shall have to content himself with the high tea assortment
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Oh Melbourne. One day of beautiful weather, next day pissing down. You’re a little tease, you are.
Can’t wait to see what’s in store for tomorrow and the weekend.
Thank God I got voting and petrol filling out of the way, but I have to drive to pick up something tomorrow, ugh.
Really missing having a warm cuddly cat right about now
For the heck of it I’ve started binging ST:DS9
Love me so 90s sci-fi cheese.
of all the treks, DS9 has held up the best. Plus you get Garak
Simply Garak, is it not?
plain and simple Garak
I’m nearly at the end of S2. Loving it! Are you gonna do SG1 after this?
Might do. Never got into it when it first aired…but can.
It’s really very excellent. I love when the Russians join the program. Gets me all nostalgic for a time when relations between the Russians and Americans were cordial.
DS9 is so cool, it’s more sf than the other STs
Funder and lightning in Fornbury. Big splats of raindrops. But the horizon is clearing so probably won’t last long.
Same a few km south. Looks like a small one on the radar. Of course, none of the rain is reaching my balcony…
Beautiful rainbow out to the east of Thornbury - one end appears to be anchored to the South Preston Woollies. Which seems suspiciously appropriate.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen an actual leprechaun there…
Mini rant: Went for a drive last night down to St Kilda to claim a free small sundae as I had a monopoly ticket thingo, figured it’s a nice night out so why not? Got to the drive-thru and the lady asks what I want “Just a small chocolate sundae please, I have a monopoly ticket for it”, “Ok check your order on the screen and drive to the window”. I note the $3 next to the item but continue to the window thinking it’ll get wiped when I hand over the ticket. I pull up and she passes the eftpos-on-a-stick out and I offer her the monopoly ticket. She takes a moment to buffer then says “you didn’t give me the code at the speaker” (not a requirement) and I says “I told you I had a monopoly ticket” and she says “you didn’t give me the code, can you just use it next time?” and I says “I was really hoping to use it now… it’s why I came here” and then she took another moment to buffer, said something into her headset (I only caught the word monopoly) and then cancelled the transaction and did it properly, which literally took about 5 seconds maybe, then took my monopoly ticket in a huff. I said “thaaaanks” and drove forward.
Sundae was really nice too. Nicer than usual. Drove down the esplanade and ate it by the waterfront. Had my emergency ice cream spoon with me so I didn’t have to use their awful wooden one.
Nicer than usual
What should be going through your mind right now after all of that is why did it taste nicer.
But seriously as a kid maccas monopoly was great. Just rock up, no code app shit, get your small chips and off you go. Miss those days :(
Not bull but I miss them too. They can’t resist a data collection exercise. I also remember the Paddlepop lick-a-prize competition. No get online code shit, just lick and go claim the instant win from the milk bar.
Same with the 1 in 4 free Mars bars back in the day
That’s what these instant win ones are too. You don’t need to scan them in to claim them you just hand them over. You can also win food prizes in the app from Chance games etc but you don’t need to scan the instant win peely tickets into the app unless you want to go into the second chance draw.
But I do agree that I miss the sticker ones where you would stick them onto the monopoly placemat sheet thing to track what you have. I suspect you can’t actually get the rare properties via stickers so they can control the distribution of them digitally rather than have some unused coffee cup sitting with a major prize ticket in a cupboard somewhere.
As for why it tasted nicer, I understand the whole because it was free thing but it wasn’t that. The ice cream was just extra cold last night, the machine was dialled in just how I like my soft serve. The soft of cold where it has a bit of resistance to it rather than being soft creamy and melty.
She sounds like a real fucking bitch. Just sayin.
You just reminded me to do a free chest thing and I got a freebie of small fries or apple slices.
