• bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
    16·
    5 months ago

    I have photographic evidence of possibly the exact moment when my brain flipped from being interested in ninja turtles to being interested in ladies.

    This is me and a 24 or 25 (I think) year old Kylie Minogue at my dad’s work xmas party one year. Judging by my style/pudgy face I’m going to say it was around 1993 or 1994. I hadn’t seen this photo in decades but my mum sent it to me over the weekend.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      8·
      5 months ago

      The thing is, I can’t quite tell whether you’re looking at Kylie, or into the distance at some kind of airborne bandanna’d turtle…

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      5·
      5 months ago

      My god, look at her. Imagine meeting her in person. I remember the Spinning Around music video came on Rage one time and I understood the appeal then.

  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
    16·
    5 months ago

    So far today:

    • Moved 1.73 shittonnes of crap out of the garage for the hard rubbish.
    • Cleaned house.
    • Repotted the mini peach tree, the ginger lily and the bonsai fig treelet.
    • Two loads of laundry.

    Still to do:

    • shopping
    • batch cooking lunches for next week.

    I’m exhausted already. May resort to bort lunches.

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    14·
    5 months ago

    This is why I can’t use the duster anymore.

    Also I downloaded the full seasons of Ninja Turtles and Transformers from the 90’s. So much nostalgia!

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    13·
    5 months ago

    Bedtime I think. Alarm is set for 6am. Getting back into the swing of a routine for when I’ve found a new role.

    Goodnight everyone, from the fluffy butt household

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      5·
      5 months ago

      Oh her precious little face, I could kiss her on her little forehead. So cute! Hope you only see this message when you wake up tomorrow morning!

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    13·
    5 months ago

    Insomnia. Again. So, DDT meet my Tommy. A bit of a belted around alley cat, but 🖤🖤🖤

    old plush cat

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    13·
    5 months ago

    Right. I’ve setup a trial Entra tenancy to practice on. I’ve got my server 2016 VM setup ready to practice a faux migration. I’ve got a couple of old PC’s to enrol in server instead of using VM’s which should help make things easier.

    English: My IT test lab is up and running lol

    A lot to learn!

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
      3·
      5 months ago

      Do you have proxmox? if not, worth a play to familiarise yourself now that a certain company is shitting the bed. You can also practise virtualising some machines.

      • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
        1·
        5 months ago

        I signed up for a free trial for a month which gives me enough time to get familiar I reckon.

        If I can complete this migration, I’ll be over the moon. Also going to try enrolling dummy devices I’ve created on VM’s to see if it’s possible.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    13·
    5 months ago

    Fuck! Yesterday, the man decided to kill his sickness with garlic and chillis. Today, I’m living in a second hand garlic cloud. 🤢

  • fullkitwanker@aussie.zone
    12·
    5 months ago

    My month long trip to the UK has ended. I have landed in Melbourne. I am sad, now that I’m back to work from tomorrow. Someone give me tips to beat jet lag? Also surprisingly super sunny and chilly. Loving the weather!

    • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      Too late for my jet leg method which is changing your sleeping pattern to Melbourne time a day before leaving/continuing where possible on the plane :(

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      4·
      5 months ago

      Enjoy the sun while it’s here, I got back a little over a week ago and after a bit of a sunny weekend the relentless grey was punishing 😭 How was your trip? Any highlights? I imagine it’ll be hard to adjust after a month away…

      Re jet lag, I use melatonin to help reset my circadian rhythm, but you have to bring it in from overseas or order it off iHerb, the OTC stuff here (unless you’re over 55) is homeopathic.

      • fullkitwanker@aussie.zone
        2·
        5 months ago

        The trip was amazing! But I also felt I had enough and wanted my space after living with family for a month. I had to sleep on an air bed due to lack of space so am vvvv grateful to be back on my bed 🥲

        Highlight would definitely be Cornwall (county on the SE of England with beautiful coastline views and sceneries). The Cornish pasties are to die for 🤤🤤

        Also, re: melatonin, how often do you take it and what’s the strength?

        • just_kitten@aussie.zone
          3·
          5 months ago

          Haha there is nothing like that feeling of coming back to my own bed. A month is a long time, definitely some positives to feeling sick of being somewhere else so you appreciate home that much more. I have only ever been to the UK once for like 4 days on a school trip 20 years ago. I’d love to go again, I do have family there.

          I take 0.3mg once a day about an hour before I want to fall asleep, for max 5 days (it does result in weird dreams and morning grogginess). A lot of melatonin out there is in wild amounts like 3mg, 5mg, even 10mg. I had a bottle of 70 x 3mg that lasted me like 7 years - I cut the pills. I do not find that “more is better” as I feel horrifically awful in the morning with the high dosages, and the marginally shorter time it takes to fall asleep isn’t worth it.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    10·
    5 months ago

    First time making cauliflower “wings”, a bit time consuming and a fair bit of mucking about, but came out really nice especially after dunking them in the sauce - made with my lovely homemade hot sauce - and then doing another 5 minutes in the air fryer.

    Unfortunately the green manzano peppers I used for tonight’s arroz verde ended up spicy as well (Russian roulette with those things), so everything’s clearing out my sinuses.

    Discovered a bottle of mead in the fridge from goodness knows how long ago and poured myself a rare little tipple with soda water to wash down the spaaaaaice 🥵 🌶

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    10·
    5 months ago

    I have been to Outside. The giant purple wooly cape is totally justified. Zero fucks given that it makes me resemble a circus tent. Warm!

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      5·
      5 months ago

      I have a friend who wears a knitted green mohair cape, it looks so elegant and warm on her. It’s a short cape and she’s so slender.

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    9·
    5 months ago

    Nah. I’m taking my ~bat and ball~ book and glass of water and going to bed. Big busy cold week coming up I might as well get some rest in. Night all.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    Interesting little thing I’ve noticed: my organisation (and thus their complaints page) blocks all the connections from our IP (we have a static IP). Switch to data and it works, turn on a vpn (even a foreign one) and it works.

    🤔

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        And probably kind of dodgy too… There’s nothing that I can think of that would prevent access to their website besides them making a conscious effort to block IPs they manage

          • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            SORBS doesn’t seem to be a thing anymore, but a similar IP blacklist checker says we aren’t listed on any

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
          2·
          5 months ago

          It could just be bureaucratic idiocy. My work blocks access to their own rostering system over the organisation’s wi-fi, you can only use it on the wired network or using your personal connection.