Dan 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺☁️

Your Friends & Neighbors - Jon Hamm is great in a black comedy about keeping up appearances in society - Desperate Housewives with a twist of Breaking Bad

Went for a bike ride today. Tires were all completely flat after no use for over a year. But I took the chance and pumped them up, even as I heard them cracking and popping while inflating. Yeah, I got about 15 minutes in before one burst and I hadn't bothered to pack a spare tube.

Oh well, we broke down close to a decent cafe, and after coffee and cake and it'll only take about 35 to walk home. Silver linings 😎

We finally buried our pup's ashes today, in her favourite spot in the garden. All went well.

Later on, I thought I'd do some tech upgrades, and bumped #frigate to 0.17. It seemed to go pretty smoothly. But then I logged into Frigate+ where I was given a set of photos to verify objects in. She was in a whole heap of them. I need a stiff drink.

I just showed hubby an episode of The Curiosity Show. He's apoplectic. "Why would you do this stupid shit?! I've never seen anything so dumb!"

I had to explain that it's targeted at 6 year olds, and a hell of a lot more mature than the crap the kids get shown these days 🤣

Admittedly it was the show where Deane makes shrinkies in the oven from Twisties packets. Which meant I had to explain what shrinkies were to 80s Australian kids...

Thinking of dipping my toes into #LORA. For somebody in inner-west Melbourne, do I even care about #meshtastic vs #meshcore ? Do I just buy a #Seeed T1000 and flash one or the other firmware to see how the networks compare? Can I plug my #SDR kit into my #pi and communicate with it over one or both protocols?

My local bakery appears to have gone viral. Their banh mi are phenomenal, and they've only been here about 9 months.

On the one hand, dammit - I loved having this little secret. But on the other, I'm really happy for them becoming a huge success

I have a friend over from the EU at the moment, and we popped out to the Laird for Sunday drinks, before heading over to Stomping Ground for dinner then back for one last chaser before home time.

He delighted to inform me that in the time it took me to get from the pub onto the train (which arrived at Collingwood station as soon as I got to the platform), then just about arrive at Flinders Street, he'd managed to blow the bar DJ to competition at the trough, then finish his schooner.

I can't say I'm not impressed.

#german #efficiency

My favourite Ms Pat quote so far: "I've got pussy hair straighter than this weave!"

#Magda 's in remission! https://www.instagram.com/p/DVPbVNvEm2K/ ❤️

Taking a day off today.

Not a "mental health day" as such although even my doctor suggested I need one (he was even willing to sign off on a "mental health week" when we caught up last month).

But I just couldn't get up this morning. It took forever to get to sleep last night and I'm exhausted. I don't consciously feel low, but maybe I normally would and the SSRIs are just masking that.

It's an interesting state to be in, I can interpret what would be a "down" period without actually feeling the "down" (unlike the past 30 or so years).

Since finally getting this stuff looked at, I'm still able to feel all the emotions - good and bad. But the constant self-negativity has quietened down a lot, which feels like an enormous weight off my shoulders and allows me to slow down my mental stimulus-response process so that I can interrupt it before shit goes south, as I'm getting taught to.

Pay attention to your mental, just like your physical, health. Help is out there!

If you have ever found yourself watching Judge Judy or The People's Court, do yourself a favour and find Ms Pat Settles It. Nice short 20 minute episodes that have us crying from laughing. 5 stars.

Not impressed by the ABC News today scrolling a ticker about LGBT teens getting bashed in Sydney. Anxiety inducing clickbait with no context.

The full story is that it happened in 2023, and it's their headline story on their site. The story links it to the mosque that the Bondi attackers went to.

While pointing to an important story, the ticker is unnecessarily triggering, misleading people to believe this just happened

Thunder's started in the distance. And a couple of drops spitting now - about 6 hours later than predicted. I wonder if we'll actually get our super storm?