Melbourne

I just want to say how amazing this community is. I'm incredibly grateful to everyone for their support during this difficult time ❤️

Also cat:

Got the higher gig at work. Feels good.

Now to deal with the knob that didn't get it and will be reporting straight to me.

Banked RDO equals loooong weekend.

An adjacent manager found out about my new role and rang me earlier with a heartfelt congratulations.

This means one of two things (or both)

My old boss wasn't well liked.

I am very liked.

The amount of support I've received today from all over the organisation made me tear up nearly.

Is this what it feels like to be human?

G'day mates I'm back and I'm braindead. Happy to say immigration/e-gates were much less of a shit show than late last year even though there were still a couple of kiosks out of action. Seems like all airports are moving primarily towards facial recognition, had so many photos taken

I was offered the role. Then I asked if my expected pay had been considered, that it was more than my current pay. I was told it hadn't been, but that they'd get back to me shortly. Got back to me: "look I spoke to the big boss, and he says now your current role and the one Ur going for are considered equal (my current role used be considered lesser), your pay is appropriate and would remain the same. I told them I would consider that over the long weekend.

Also just learned that ANOTHER person quit in the role I'm going for, bringing the total to four open positions, and as far as I know, I'm the only internal applicant. The fuckers have the gall to not offer me anything.

I will not be partaking in alcoholic beverages tonight due to urgent business early tomorrow morning but will be making up for that tomorrow day/evening/ night.

For those who will be have a great night. Cheers 🍺

We got a royal welcoming committee in Donald. I think the entire town was here to greet us! All the school kids were lined up waving to us, all the industrial business we passed had nobody working - everybody was at the fence waving to us. Every level crossing there were 5-10 people waving

I've been on many heritage trains, but I've never had a reception quite like that

I'm not sure anyone told them we were running 50 minutes late and our 30-40 min stop was going to turn into a 10 min one though, so I think we disappointed them a little :(

They all lined up to wave is goodbye 🥺

Do you guys think @Lodion will be mad at me if I let slip that it's his birthday? 🎂

Student Amenities paid for, tuition on a payment plan. Totally fully enrolled! Holy shit!

A colleague why had Covid last week is back in the office and visibly not recovered. We Can either take sick day, come into office or wfh AND make up an extra office day. Meanwhile I hope my mask is doing its job.. I did have to remove it briefly to drink water though.

I did the pantry shop. Cost a bit more than expected but have quite a few meals now ready to go as backup!

Wow. It seems all the other social sites are in a competition for who can become the worst the fastest. Reddit has jumped on the selling data to AI bandwagon, as has Facebook and Instagram. Tumblr is still banning trans women while leaving up nonconsensual deepfake nudes and is also now crawling with minors. Twitter is uh... Twitter. Sorry, X.

Cursing my shitty body and dodgy area. Never have I wished to touch grass more.

I think I have covid - one of my coworkers came in with it, tested positive that evening, and now I'm fluey.

My partner is casual.

What the fuck do we do here? Are we just expected to take the financial hit in a COL crisis?

potatoes and fish in oven, fresh vegies on stove to steam , dinner in 10. I always cook an extra piece of fish for the cats to share. 🐟🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Lungs being fucky and my inhaler is empty. Need to go get a new one but the weather will make my lungs even fuckier on the walk there.

Bah.

Transiting in HKG with another hour to kill. Just want to sleeeep

E: I watched Fallen Leaves on the way here and am glad I finally gave it a go after finding previous Kaurismäki films too bleak. This one was just right. On the way to HKG I had watched Marcel the Shell with Shoes on which was incredibly cute and heartwarming but man that Dean was a total dick imo

Never realised how bad it is not having my own washing machine until now—testing positive a week later. I ran out of towels near the start as I was due for a wash and I just ran out of clean clothes then.

My only symptom now is reduced smell and I feel fine in every other respect, but I'm not gonna be that person who rocks up to the laundromat covid positive—it can wait (hopefully).

For the first time in over 30 years, a Mildura bound train has left from Maryborough! We're running about 40 minutes late because a freight train was also running 40 minutes late

Soooo our train has stopped at woomelang, but it stopped after the crossing signal on a little temporary platform thing. It's been sitting here for 30 minutes triggering the level crossing and we still have another half hour here.... Nobody's moving it, it's just idling on the platform setting off the crossing alarms.

There's no barriers, but people are really confused about what they're meant to do

Shit. Volunteered at a thing. Now I need to show up. And not be shit.

I hate how it gets dark so early in winter. Only 13 days until the shortest day of the year I guess.

Using loseit for cico atm and it just popped up in my notifs to tell me weight loss was the most important thing in life. Jesus fucking christ

I am in so many photos and videos now. So many! I need to start demanding royalties for the 3 whole pixels I take up in most of them

So we're in the middle of a field and our loco stalled...

I have 2 bars of reception and 3 fully charged power banks so I'll be right. Could be worse

We've just started moving again, but that seems like a bad omen...

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Taco Bills must have heard me talking about them because I've received an email from them saying 1/2 priced main meals this weekend and boy oh boy am I tempted to jump on a tram and go see them.

Cafes charging 20 dollars for a bowl of granola is really quite obscene. Obviously I avoid this egregiousness but somebody must be forking out for these businesses to stay open.

I begin my day with a coffee.

May the long weekend come soon!

It's International Donut Day today