Got to talk to my 2 best friends I haven’t seen in 12 years on video chat.
It’s a long story, but man I feel so fucking happy right now!
Goodnight all ❤️
this is wonderful 🥲🥲🥲
Wholesome as!
Goodnight and build on that happiness tomorrow.
eee found the water leak.
Wasn’t me but the neighbour saw it thank fuck it wasn’t under the slab.
Had ‘his’ first mate over. Vomit before 9. Yeah, cheers thanks a lot.
That’s awful but this calls for a rave choon
🤣
Fucking lightweights.
But seriously, that’s very poor form and childish.
Hope they’re ashamed.
Amateur
Charming, make them clean it up.
Today is a feast day so to honour my culture , the past, the Seagoons and myself I am cooking a feast of luscious cheeses and crackers, good drinks, a salad, and chicken cooked with nutmeg , parsley and parmesan cheese in a tomato sauce served with egg fettucini. Peaches and apricots for desert.
I am just about to put my make up on. 🙂
To honour my forbears, I am ordering a HSP from uber eats. And maybe some baclava if I’m feeling special.
yum 🙂
🍻🥂
Enjoy your celebrations!! That all sounds amazing!
I’m drinking a Japanese slipper, which is green, so kind of honouring my Irish roots.
Today is a feast to honour my culture, or lack thereof. The four bears will be regarded with great respect with cooking various meats on an open fire. The side dishes are not my problem haha .
Espresso Martini time, woooooo!! Home made, possibly a little too strong, bring it on!
wait it is risen not rinse?
Jesus was at the onsen?
We hope they don’t mind he is sparkly clean
Full immersion baptism is a thing. Mostly for adults converting. Refer St John the Baptist. Rinse is the same only different. Refer vegetables and washing machines. Then there’s the tricky question of the mikveh.
Well, we won’t tell them about the process. They should be quite happy about the result!
Has anyone here done adult swimming lessons?
I took lessons from about age 3 to 13, but that was a long time ago. Also, I was stuck on the same level for about three years, never really progressing, probably because of dyspraxia. The last time I went swimming in the ocean, I found it really difficult to keep myself afloat beyond just floating on my back, which is not conducive to activities like snorkelling.
young Mr Seagoon is a licensed swimming instructor for kids and adults
I could ask him a question if you like.
he’s a good teacher too, kind and patient
Thank you, Seagoon
I just want to know if it starts from the very beginning, like learning how to float
One thing I love about country’s towns is how people still dress up for lunch. Young lasses in their new dresses, mum and dad all ironed, trailed by awkward boys in their collard shirt and best shorts. It’s nice
I miss living in the country.
Although…swings and roundabouts…there was also the casual racism overhead at the CWA shop 🤦🏻♀️. I don’t regret moving to the city but I have realised recently do need to get out from under it regularly. Mainly for the wildlife and nightsky.
I thought to just download my OneDrive files onto my computer, back them up and unlink my pc so it couldn’t fill that storage back up again. Well downloading my stuff isn’t working. They download as zip files that only contain error and .txt.
I’m also now being told I can’t send or receive emails because I’m over storage and have to pay for more - recurring subscription of course.
It’s so very convenient that they force your files onto their cloud (removing them from your computer) and then somehow the process of getting them back is obstructive. Really slimy.
I may end up having to pay to get to the task later but this is making me seriously reconsider Windows.
Microsoft prey on fear uncertainty and doubt. Also on compatibility between organisations. The only reason I don’t walk for Linux is 1. I want to make sure I have everything first and 2. because I’m not confident of being able to reliably make everything work as I need it to.
Not sure what your arrangement is, but in windows with one drive, in explorer you can select the files and folders you want, right click, and select ‘always keep on this device”. This means you have a local copy in addition to the onedrive copy.
Thanks, I’ll give that a go
@melbaboutown @YarraByte in the process of DeGoogling and it’s similar. Though so far I’m only partway through Photos. It was always the intention to bait and switch and capture financially once the difficulty of leaving became extreme. I was always aware of Facebook which seemed blatant to me: Google and M$ actually more subtle.
Agreed… We are the product. But Meta are now doing things I never could have imagined when I signed up. They scraped all of the user data and pictures for AI and Australian users didn’t get to opt out.
Agreed about Microsoft being more subtle. It kind of crept up on me.
Oh man… I want to de google but I’m absolutely drowning at the moment and barely managing life admin let alone a mammoth task like that.
I still have to go through my Facebook to make sure I get everything before I deactivate or delete with the under 16 ban (because I’m not giving Meta or other platforms my id). And because the download doesn’t work I have to do it manually.
My respect goes out to people who are able to stay on top of all this
@melbaboutown I am glad I don’t have to think about FB as have never given them my data. I need to anonymise on several services to at least try and thwart the AI feeding frenzy, though I’m rarely active anywhere except on Fedi these days. But I need to move Gmail as well. It’s more than many people are even equipped to try, sadly.
Yeah I regret. And it’s probably more than I’ll ever be able to attempt.
Right now I just need to get my stuff backed up to physical media in time and make sure I can continue to use my main email.
@melbaboutown yeah when you realise “the cloud” is just other people’s computers and “free” SM & other lockin has always been designed from the outset to bait & switch and basically enslave you it makes you realise the real costs of not being free and open. I remember when I genuinely believed Google was a force for good.
What was the size of the zip file that you downloaded?
Try downloading a smaller directory or file and see if you can open it.
I made repeated attempts so - 69kb, then 1.2kb. Probably too large.
Some other guy was complaining about this so I began manually downloading - and then saw that I could ctrl-a and copy the contents of the OneDrive folder to paste it into a new folder. Once I think I have everything I’m unlinking.
Ok, not sure how you’re doing it but if you’re able to get your files back that way then that’s fine.
If using the zip method you need to use smaller sizes like maybe 1gig but test it out first and make sure it works.
Cheers, thanks :)
Putting a heap of things through the mulcher… MUNCH…
The only thing going through my head is
How’s it going with the party house?
Suspiciously quiet!
here are more abalone shells, I like the one with bright contrasting colours
the nacre doesn’t photograph well at all
Beautiful.
They are all different types too.
I planned a friend outing for this evening and honestly I don’t know why I bother. I’ve been getting slow responses during planning, slower than usual, feels like I’m forcing these people to hang out with me. They can say no? Maybe I’m reading too much into this but it’s consistent with other things that have happened recently which make it feel like we’re distancing. Don’t say I didn’t try if these friends aren’t in my life in future. I don’t even want to go anymore.
🙁
today at the beach I found a little fish, two pieces of coral and an ear shell
Is the inside of the abalone all shiny and nacreous? I love them when they’re fresh enough to have all the lovely bluey-greeny-pinky nacre intact.
yup , that’s one of the reasons I love ear shells
Oh man, I unleashed on the broom rider (MIL) last night. An awkward start to the long weekend.
So many people don’t stand up to their MILs/FILs. As a kid, my mum always used to complain to my sister and I about things her MIL would say or do, and my dad would either stick up for his mum, or pretend that nothing was wrong.
Thank you. It was something I really needed to get off my chest. Maybe not the best time to do that during a family gathering though.
broom rider
Shouldn’t laugh but lol. Seems like easter is just one of those times of the year that gets tense for some reason.
so many hugs, she must have pushed you beyond endurance
Sometimes people need to realise that they’re being dicks.
they already know
They need to hear it from someone else.
I have decided once the lease on the new place is signed I am going to celebrate by buying a new lawn edger, hedge trimmer and the fancy brushless motor for my whipper snipper. I aim to make the garden so neat people assume it’s no longer a rental 😁 It also means I’ll be able to properly edge my 3m of nature strip here as a parting gift. Hopefully because the edger rests on the ground it won’t kill my arms as much as the whipper snipper does. With a much bigger garden to look after (and a 2-strip of concrete driveway, so lots of edges) I anticipate building up lots of muscle. 💪
