• MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
    15·
    4 months ago

    First week in a higher role nearly over and I must say I’m enjoy it.

    Slightly more busy and dealing with new people (who are all super patient).

    Best part of it, is I actually have some influence over large decisions. So far my input has been welcomed and respected.

    Fingers crossed my old boss stays in his role and I can keep this one 😁

  • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    4 months ago

    I know I’m going to get called preachy and whiny or whatever but here goes:

    Please wear a mask. I get that the anti-maskers won and social pressures make you feel self conscious, and people absolutely do give weird looks when they see people wearing masks, but the current sickness going around is totally preventable.

    I have a chronic condition and even a mild illness can massively reduce my quality of life. I’m required to frequently go out and be in close proximity with people, and it’s at the point where most people I see have a cough. I just want to not be at risk.

    KN95 masks are a good balance between efficacy and price. Those blue surgical masks are easiest to find, but aren’t great. N95s can be too expensive.

    Please please please just consider wearing them when out.

    Besides all that it’ll make for an easier adjustment when Pandemic 2: Electric Birdflugaloo comes around.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
      10·
      4 months ago

      …you bitch about my mask, I’m a gonna show up with my fucking 3m 100PM respirator on. Bright pink and hardcore vader noises.

      Actually I’ma gonna get another one and art it up. We’re living in a cyberpunk dystopia anyway, may as well dress for the occasion.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      5·
      4 months ago

      I find it easier to mask up when I leave the house and just keep it on, taking them on and on is also unhygienic

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      4·
      4 months ago

      I never stopped wearing a mask. I’m very possibly immunocompromised and don’t want long covid. During lockdowns I’d always get dickhead men trying to intimidate me for wearing a mask and pick a fight about it. 🙄

      But I really wish it would become just normal and accepted to mask up like in Asia. It’s polite, it’s hygienic, doesn’t really cost much and you could be saving yourself or someone else a nasty flu. And frankly anyone who doesn’t do it in a pandemic is not being logical.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
      3·
      4 months ago

      Happy to oblige, you won’t get any arguments from me. I don’t give a damn about antimaskers or weird looks, but being a large solidly built middle-aged woman in steel caps can tend to put people off talking to me on public transport about their antimask bullshit. I’m the only one in my house with a job, and as a casual employee I can’t afford time off due to totally preventable illness. The colds/flus/whatever they are going around at the moment are dynamite. My MIL is 90 and frail, my partner has many health issues, and I don’t have time for people who think they’re clever passing their ignorant bigotry towards the immunocompromised. I’m sorry you and Melba have had to deal with mean spirited inconsiderate twits. It’s actually easier to be considerate anyway.

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
    13·
    4 months ago

    I gotta say… as someone who often feels like an outsider it’s kind of nice that everyone else is sick when I am too. I feel like I’m a part of something.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    11·
    4 months ago

    Short-staffed at work because people sick. People also sick at home. People sick everywhere 🤧 Holding sickness at bay with Bioceuticals Armaforce, Tolak Angin Flu sachets, and maybe my A– blood type. A special shout out to all of you who are under the weather. May you be back to your usual sunny selves soon!

    Edit: also still wearing a mask on buses. They are really stinky sometimes and people coughing all over the place! Between people who smell like they’ve been cooking in their bedrooms and people who’ve been sleeping in their clothes for a month I am over it!

  • dumblederp@aussie.zone
    11·
    4 months ago

    Concrete pump in the fog this morning. I got a war of the worlds vibe. Like a giant leg in suburbia.

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    11·
    4 months ago

    2 more hours before these guys go and I can leave the house. They’re just pouring concrete now.

    Hard to relax when people are all over the house. Been here since 9am.

    Sorry, just whinging. I like my place to myself and fluffy butt. It feels intrusive.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    10·
    4 months ago

    I called in crook. My brain is stuffed. Then I was joined by Mrs and Tinyest cause he got sent from from daycare with lice. They claim no one else in the room has it, which is impossible cause he hasn’t any any other interaction with kids outside of daycare, and we don’t have it.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    10·
    4 months ago

    i’m a wrangler, a schemer, a cobbler and a snagger of discarded things and unconsidered trifles. A repairer and a reuser. But most importantly, i also share the booty.

    In other news, weird day today. Pic applies.

      • Eagle@aussie.zone
        3·
        4 months ago

        Thankyou. It’s a massive cheat. Two woolies mud cakes underneath but I ain’t hot time for baking and decorating.

      • Eagle@aussie.zone
        2·
        4 months ago

        It’s lollies and fondant and bought icing roses. I just put them I’m their spots. But it does look good.

        • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
          2·
          4 months ago

          Still the fondant went on smooth and stayed in place without bubbling, thin spots or tearing. And the decorations are on firmly with no leaking of royal icing or sliding down. Technique and stuff

          • Eagle@aussie.zone
            1·
            4 months ago

            It slid backwards a bit on the car ride. So much for the back seat passengers keeping an eye on it! But it was unscathed just a bit further back on the board. She loved it too.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      1·
      4 months ago

      Oh wow. I’m also making a cake tonight for a birthday tomorrow. I doubt it will be this pretty.

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    9·
    4 months ago

    Sometimes when I pick up the guitar, something really personal comes out. It’s rarely recorded, it’s never on purpose.

    And no one hears it but me. And that makes it special.

    I know how wanky that sounds, but it’s true. I’m probably not explaining myself properly

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Art is art, public or private. It is a reflection of us as humans, to put something so personal out into the universe. So uniquely you.

      It isn’t wanky, not to me at least, for whatever that’s worth ha! It’s human. No one will ever read everything I write, all the words left private, unread, unseen. But I do it for me. You do it for you. We just gotta be humans about it all, I think.

      Idk maybe I’m just a dumb dumb lol

  • SituationCake@aussie.zone
    9·
    4 months ago

    Days like this I wish I had a house with a wood fire. The crackle sounds and warm glow are a cure for winter cold and sads.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      Cleaning out the ash & cinders the next day is the downside of a wood fire. My EBrunswick house was heated with a slow combustion wood heater - dealt with all too many ashes over the years. The good side of that is I always had wood ash on hand for the garden. I actually miss that part of the deal. I don’t miss stacking the wood chunks though and keeping them dry and ready to use.

      • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, I’m glad to be done with that, I must say. (The ashes. Oh my God, the ashes.)

        • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Wood ash does wonderful things for the garden when added in small quantities. Also snails hate ash and won’t cross it, so can be used to protect baby vegetables if you put a ring of ash around whatever plant or bed you want to protect. After that, the ash can be dug into the soil when the plants come out after harvest. I’ve never used briquettes or coal, as these ashes are a lot more toxic.

      • SituationCake@aussie.zone
        2·
        4 months ago

        In my ideal house there would be regular heating plus a wood heater. Wood heater for night when I want to put effort in and regular heating for the rest of the time. I want the mod cons and the cake.

        • Eagle@aussie.zone
          3·
          4 months ago

          We run the split system on the cold mornings when we’re heading out for the day, then I light the fire when I get home. It warms the house up nicely, and is a great way to get clothes dry in front of. When I have a day off I’ll keep it ticking over all day and it’s lovely. It is a lot of work and mess though, and we are very lucky because we don’t have to pay for good wood.

    • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      It’s the smell for me. Sometimes I like to go and drive out to regional victoria on the coldest days just to smell the wood fire smell in the air mmm

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    9·
    4 months ago

    Sad news is my microphone ran out of charge 😔 Good news is the man has so many cords, power banks and nerdy shit that it’ll be up and running in no time 😀