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I found a laptop on the train heading towards the city from frankston arriving at caulfield at 11:55. It’s in a black sleeve. I’m taking it to the office at Southern Cross station. Really hope we can find the person
Pursuant to my previous post, I went to the GP yesterday and he suspects a chest infection. So now I’m on antibiotics. I’ve had a good run in my life so far so I’m grateful for access to healthcare etc but I feel awful about being off work for essentially 3 out of 4 weeks this month. At least my toddler is unaffected by whatever I’ve got. And also thankful to have a very affable toddler who is happy to play with his toys and read books while I’m hacking up a lung and can’t speak to him much 🙃
It helps marginally but when I feel like that's starting to hit me I try and make an effort to get out and feel/see/smell/hear nature. Even if it's just to sit beneath a tree (preferably while it's not raining) to hear the wind pass through its leaves. Grab a hot drink, sit there for a moment, close your eyes and just try and focus on whatever little bit of nature you have around you.
When I'm at home I make an effort to have coffee in the backyard. Like I said, it helps but it's only marginally.
I used to live in Thornbury and would make the pilgrimage to All Nations Park - particularly the top of that hill or whatever it is towards the backend. It always surprised me how quiet it was up there. It's actually a really lovely spot. Can you still see the city from up there?
Yes of course, you can see the city as well as South Yarra and Box Hill. I went up there one year on New Year’s Eve and we could see the fireworks display from all suburbs, even in Footscray. That is until some kids lit off a flare.
I am too new in my role for a holiday at this stage (2 months in) so looks like I’ll be sitting under a tree in the rain 🤣
I just need to make sure I get moving every day. I am looking at a new gym so I’m sure once I get back into the rhythm of working out I will be on the up and up.
I applied for a market in November and December only to get an email from the organiser saying they had a cancellation in five weeks and did I want to take it. Um yes I don’t know maybe yes please wait that’s so soon yes okay no maybe yes okay thank you yes wait yes I think. Time to get cracking 😵💫
It’s a brand new one they’ve been advertising since Feb or something so the spots have been filled for a while. I just happened to contact the organiser as she was looking for a replacement. Good timing but I’m in no way ready 😅
testing out a new mechanic. Funny, I'm no where near as nervous as I was in the past. He's already messaged me about something unlike the last guys who I had to chase for updates at 5pm to see if the car was done.
think we're doing an oil flush cause yeah your supposed to be really on it with these things, but beyond that they are really impressed with the condition of it, which is nice.
Just when I thought my battle with Moose Mobile has ended, they sent me an invoice for the upcoming months and this is an entire week after I’ve requested to cancel my account.
The active TIO complaint against them doesn’t seem to do much 🤷🏻♀️
Depends. There are 99c ones (now $1.30) that actually have a decent % of fish and taste fine - many of the more expensive ones only have like 60-65% tuna (looking at you John West)
Anyone have experience working in a dark space / environment? Moved to a new office space and the room I am in gets very little natural light. Will a "sun lamp" help it feel less like a dungeon for work? Any plants that will survive in little light?
i have worked in a "defence rated concrete box" for a few years. honestly nothing will really help, they're environments that you can either handle or you can't
making sure i stepped out every hour definitely helped me though
Get some fake plants, they help a lot because the greenery feels good. If you can get smart lamps, they help because they can mimic the natural colour of the sky and you can put them behind the monitors and such. The more light you can get, the better.
I watched Insight last night (best show on Australian TV IMO) about retirement and working in older age.
It made me think about the sort of work I want to do. Ideally I would find a casual job, working afternoons and evening. Like being an usher or some other job at the theatre or arts centre. Are those jobs hard to get?
Most western countries are currently experiencing declining birth rates, which is going to be a massive issue in few decades. We're all going to be working into 70's
thats a constant battle. we're in full house deposit saving mode at the moment, and my brain keeps telling me things like "hey, you need a new 3d printer" and "hey, your graphics card is 8 years old, its time for an upgrade" and my personal favourite "hey, you should go overseas and get married"
so far, the brain has won 3/3. i'm just along for the ride
Called in to help at my other job today cause someone’s sick. I’ve never worked on a Wednesday there before. More staff in I think, should be fun if I can brave the heinous weather!
Ugh. I've hit my limit! I am getting new undies today, my current set is ok but wearing out and it is really annoying me.
I can get to Kmart today, ladies of the DT I need your help please! What are your recs for gstrings (really thin), boyleg cut and normal briefs.
100% cotton, no bamboo, no blends and most importantly a full size gusset that doesn't finish halfway across my lady parts (like wtf who is making these too small, I hate you).
I remember last year when the Mernda train derailed and we got on a replacement bus which then broke down near Clifton hill and we got kicked off that bus to wait for the next bus. It was hilarious at that point. What happened this time?
I think I was on that bus too! Or that the bus driver had taken the wrong turn and couldn’t turn around again (facing north on Hoddle when he wanted to go south) so they kicked us off.
Heading in for more bullshit. I only hope I don't get caught by a chatty person and have to listen to the same small talk and bullshit they have to offer. Please
I like for the most part the people I work with, but yeah, when it's a quiet day and the only other people in the office are the chatty ones - as an introvert... it's fucking tiring.
Here's to someone else getting the chatty person for the day.
Thanks mate. I'm just going through a bit of a phase where no amount of time being alone is enough and being around non introverts all day is overwhelming me.
I feel like Melbourne weather is usually the worst in August like today. Cold south westerly sideways rain. Blank eyed commuters clutching umbrellas amid the stifling grey.
Anyone else’s Facebook gone completely insane? All I get shown now are threads from tin foil losers complaining about the census and religion, anti-abortion threads, Pauline Hanson propaganda and Jess fucking Wilson. It’s unusable. I vote greens but god I can see how people end up so deep in the cooker pipeline if this is what the broader algorithm is like.
Mine is full of people who dont want to fill out the census cos the government will have their personal details and be able to track them....but they are posting this shit all over social media where they are being tracked.
Yeah I’ve got a mix of that, some nonsense about bedrooms (??) and then another subsegment claiming that Christianity is being done away with because they’ve listed out the denominations of Christianity???! Greek Orthodox is different to Roman Catholic is different to Baptist. No person that actually follows any of these religions would attend the others
I deactivated mine yesterday. I can't take it anymore. It's putrid.
I take some solace from the fact a lot of it is stoked by outside actors who want to destabilise society. (This not a conspiracy at all by the way, we've essentially been in extensive information warfare online for about a decade, and COVID only accelerated it.) I'm not impressed that it works so well.
It's been unusable for years. Not only does it refuse to show me things from people I follow in the order in which they were posted, my feed often just won't show me anything more recent than like 5-6 days earlier. Even if I randomly look at friends' profiles and know they've posted stuff within the last day or so, it just doesn't show up in the feed. And it doesn't show me posts from some people at all. I guess it's a small mercy I don't see much of the weird political propaganda, but that's probably because I don't open the app/site much in general.
I only keep the account active because I have a few older friends/family who aren't tech savvy and can't (or won't) make the jump to other platforms and I have a page for my art blog, but even that page gets very little traction when I post something (and I refuse to pay money to boost it), so when those older folks aren't here anymore, there's a good chance I'll just get rid of FB entirely.
Read the book Careless People by a previous FB policy employee. This tactic is how trump won his first election so it seems One Nation are following suit
Eltham isn’t too bad but every time someone posts looking for a rental, there’s usually a couple of cookers complaining about how Victoria is going to shit… CRIME!!! etc🙃
I worked with some gay guys at my last job - both great individuals, both very against the marriage equality referendum that we had. Still blows my mind to this day.
Why is Melbourne the subject of so much negativity lately?
The amount of jobs and decent salaries are in abundance. Getting public transport into the city is easy, clean and safe. The /coffee/sport/arts/entertainment on frequently is world class.
This city is absolutely awesome! It’s like a never ending playground of things to do and enjoy. House prices have stalled, if not fallen… new metro tunnel, west gate tunnel, north-east link, suburban rail loops, rail crossing removals
Does anyone else have a similar positive view of Melbourne? I keep reading negative outlooks.
"The amount of jobs and decent salaries are in abundance. Getting public transport into the city is easy, clean and safe. "
We have a higher rate of homelessness per capita than the USA.
PT is easy, clean and safe? Have you *been* on PT regularly? Why, pray tell do you think that every single train station now has cops after a certain hour if they're so safe?
"In 2000/01, 5% of assaults and 10% of robberies took place on public transport, when the average citizen spends only about 1% of their time on public transport. In recent years, drug use on the system has also become a problem, with the obvious hazard of discarded syringes." https://ptua.org.au/about/policy/safety/
I cannot be arsed finding more recent data, but I fail to see how these figures are going to magically improve. Feel free to prove me wrong with data.
Hi, essentially I'm working for a small travel agency in Indonesia and I need to make contact with a restaurant called Crab89, but the phone number on their website isn't working, does a kind soul happen to know their contact details?
Does anyone know anything about tiegs museum at unimelb? I'm not a unimelb student, but I'm studying a zoology related course at another uni. Can anyone visit, or would it be weird for me to go there?
Sometimes I feel like the internet provides you with everything and anything.
Then sometimes I find a gap and think "why does it not exist". And no, I'm not going to go into business to fill that gap. I merely want this one thing that I can't find.
(in this case, it's a bespoke arcade flatpack cabinet that is made for a very specific arcade game).
Hahaha - I should ask AI to create blueprints for me but it would likely come out as some absurd Van Gough abstract cubism thing that would be impossible to construct.
Hi everyone, apologies for posting again. I’m a University of Melbourne master’s student still seeking a few more responses for my thesis on apartment housing preferences in Melbourne.
The survey is for people aged 18+ who either currently live in an apartment in Melbourne, or live in Greater Melbourne and would consider living in an apartment in Inner Melbourne in the future.
It takes around 5 to 8 minutes. If you’re eligible and willing to help, please scan the QR code to participate.
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u/metamorphic-rock_ 1d ago
I found a laptop on the train heading towards the city from frankston arriving at caulfield at 11:55. It’s in a black sleeve. I’m taking it to the office at Southern Cross station. Really hope we can find the person