If the rain and wind could hold off until say 9pm that'd be great. I'm meant to be doing outdoor cooking with kids this evening.
Odd question, but do ya'll ever plan out other lives for yourself? Occasionally I'll just sit on realestate and and look shit up. Might be like "alright, if I split with the mrs can I afford to buy a unit? where am I gonna live?" or "Fuckit, lets all move up to bright! I hate it here, alright what can we afford?"
I find it really therapeutic for some reason. These alternate lives I'll never live out.
I sometimes find my daydreaming self inserting myself into works of fiction - such a Sherlock Holmes, the Vorkosiverse etc. Probably a symptom of deep psychosis.
Looking at houses in locations I'd love to live in but can't afford is a real one. Also, I was deeply fantasising about moving to NYC when I travelled there a couple of years back, asking people I met there about their experience in moving, even though I knew deep down that I'd never do it. It's nice to dream!
I've definitely planned out what to do with large lotto wins I will never have. Looked at moving overseas or interstate. I've considered moving into a unit right in the centre of Melbourne so I can enjoy all the activities there, or moving to a big block of land in the middle of nowhere and fixing up a rundown place.
I think it is a healthy thing to do, as long as you are not doing it with rose-coloured glasses and making yourself unhappy with your current circumstances. If you are doing it realistically it often ends up highlighting things that are important to you - things you would miss if you made different choices, and sometimes things you really want that you are actually able to do now.
I had so many things I was going to do this morning, and here we are after Noon and they remain undone.
Promite >>> Vegemite
And my axe
I love all the mites except Promite because that comes from Satan's ear holes.
I get that
Yep. But I do like vegemite too.
I like Vegemite too.
YES!!!! F'ING YES sir I will follow you into battle on this one. 100X the spread that Vegemite is!
Shots fired.
Are you trying to start a riot?
we ARE going to gather at dusk
Just staying facts.
I tried all the 'mites' apart from the UK Marmite, and so far prefer Promite.
How are stalagmites?
Not my jam
I have to admit that I'm a non-Vegemite-mite virgin. Vegemite's great and I've never been tempted to stray.
I use miso these days.
A mitey effort indeed.
wandered up to the broadbents around the corner with our garden trolley and oh my god we are gonna do so much damage at that place. Landscape supplies within a five min trolley stroll that sell shittons of good quality compost and mulch? mwah. Mwahahhaha. MWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA
It costs about $400 to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Bit exxy. Worth it?
I don't know if it's worth it or not, but if you do the climb you would have to change your username. HighExperience2090
I'm almost convinced for this reason alone.
It seems both an expensive and reasonable price. I'd pass on it.
Very much worth it. You get a full historical guided tour and of course the views. We paid for photos as well which came out great.
I guess that would cover the safety gear you have to wear and the guide etc. Understandable, but worth it? Dunno. I'm told the view is amazing.
That actually strikes me as quite reasonable pricing, you're not getting that experience from anything else
Today's gonna be painful
And the just joey is full tilt
gotta tackle this soon myself. Another 2 cubic meters of mulch and the topsoil to finish some raised planter boxes.
I'm still base ground prepping, but expecting to go ham with wicking beds this summer.
Little bit of a rambling. I'm sitting here writing notes, made a mistake so I scrubbed it out and then I realised I can erase it out because it's an erasable gel pen. Then I remembered the old pen rubbers that did diddly squat but rip your paper so everyone used liquid paper instead. Got me thinking.
What has come a long way (for the better) since your childhood?
Liquid paper tape so much better than the fluid with the brush and the liquid paper pens.
Mechanical pencils are way better now.
Photocopiers. Like, we have photocopiers now. They were revolutionary. Don't start me on what life was like before them.
Hot water services - no more stuffing the 10 gallon chip heater with briquette fragments and wood chips before doing the washing up or taking a bath or washing hair. And stuffing it again if you ran out of hot water.
just reading this made me flash back to the smell of mimeograph ink.
mmm. purple.
I thought that might have just been me! Purple definitely has a distinct smell.
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