Melbourne

I've started a thread on !cricket@aussie.zone

Good morning little munchkins 🤗

I guess my apartment isn't so poorly insulated. Just got home after a nice lunch out thinking I'd need to blast the AC, but I've just got the fan on me and I'm pretty comfortable!

Suburban park ibis from the other day.

Only showed up about a year ago. Spreading from the Springvale necropolis lake colony.

wen cool change need dunda stom

I think I'm coming down with a sore throat. Fingers crossed it is just dry air from the air conditioner combined with standard paranoia. 🤞

Edit: I don't think it's paranoia ☹️ I've booked off sick for tomorrow and am considering making some emergency jelly.

my contribution to bird day from the beach just now:

I feel like some sort of dessert but I don't know what.

It's alright guys. The man's gone to get me something.

Nipped out to the shops for a couple of things, still foul outside. Onto season 2 of Blue Lights, such an entertaining show. Even if it kind of is copaganda. I can't get enough of those northern Irish accents. And Stevie and his lunches 🥰

One thing I've noticed since coming back is how quickly my attention span/ability to just be has gone back to shite though... I should throw my phone away, honestly.

Big spring clean tomorrow. Looking forward to it to be honest.

Been a bit "slovenly" the last 2 weeks so this will make me feel a shit load better.

Also putting the ps5 away for a little while so I can finish off these songs. Sometimes out of sight, out of mind is best.

noooooo I just found out ethique don't do their body bars or other stuff no more. I love my pumice mint

Quiz

15/20

just saw another Qute train 🥰🚞

My last.fm 2024 recap thing just arrived. It's less accurate than Spotify, because every now and then it'll crap out and decide to just not count an entire week's worth of music, or I'll listen to something 5 times and it only counts it twice

But anyway, some interesting stuff fin there:

I forgot to post something bird related! My tribute today is to the Maggies and ravens in my street, I love watching their morning antics and their little society. And the birds which raised a baby in a nest they made in the back of my staghorn. Also the pigeon that lives in the supermarket. Smart bird, it's always cool in there and there's plenty of food. They've tried to shoo it out but it's way too clever, bobs under the aisle into the next aisle away from its pursuers lol. There are black and yellow cockies that come every year exactly at the time the pine trees in the local park have young pinecones. If you're not careful you'll end up copping a projectile from above.

My contribution to Bird Day is one of my most treasured Pokemon from Go. It was one of the first Shinys I caught.

it is 26C so i should get up and start doing stuff

So Day 5 of the NY…

The space rearrangement is working really well. It is definitely is a mood booster and I somehow have started a gallery wall which I am even more excited about. Three pieces up and I can probably accommodate another 4-7 frames, depending on size and arrangement. It makes me actually want to be in the space, even if it is the dining area. (Using the dining table as a partial bar top may be also a little more enticing, haha.)

No complaints using Linux Shred. Not sure why. Last drive currently being nuked by loading the OS via USB. So far, so good. That means (as sad as it is) tower be gone tomorrow! I am also relieving myself of my giant Philips iron with its massive water reservoir that never worked quite right (it works perfectly fine, but how it steams is just odd to me). Why I hung onto it so long, I don’t know. Back to a regular sized iron (a Tefal was obtained today).

If only offloading/spring cleaning had always felt this good! Still got a bit to go, but I feel… positive.

Thinking of the birds today, I love seeing the crested pigeon (here dubbed the sprouts pigeon in this household) in the park. They just kind of look rebellious, LOL.

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I Like Birds https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=32J5jCP1z9A

Edit: The other day I saw a bird I couldn’t quite place (I don’t know all the names). It might have been a honeyeater/wattlebird but I couldn’t tell at that distance. I hope the magpies don’t drive all the other natives away.

There used to be a tawny frogmouth that would come sit on my fence hooting. Probably attracted by the mice that would be hiding in my long grass. I haven’t seen that bird in years. Maybe it ate a poisoned mouse or someone screwed with its habitat

My bird theme happening is that I saw a family of noisy miners and a magpie using the bird bath. Noisy miners have unfortunately set up camp in the surrounding trees and are monopolising the bird bath, but at least if they are here, then the bird baths in other peoples yards are free of harassment for other bird species.