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The Indian family who lives behind us has several kids and they like to kick balls around their backyard, which means they often end up over the fence in our yard. I just had FIVE kids and the dad show up at our front door and ask if they could get the two balls that'd just ended up in our yard (I'm not 100% sure whether all five of the kids actually live there or not, they tend to have a lot of family visiting). The three girls were all dressed in identical red dresses, those really pretty traditional-looking Indian ones, and the two boys were all neat and tidy and formal-looking with long pants and long sleeves. I asked if they wanted to have me throw the balls back over or if they wanted to come and get them, and one of the boys said he'd come in, then the other eagerly asked if he could come too. They came into the lounge room and exclaimed with complete sincerity, "Wow, your house looks amazing!" 😂

Posted on 12 October 2024, 14:27

We had to put Beanie to sleep today. 😭 Man this fucking sucks. I have no idea how people do this more than once.

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Posted on 5 July 2024, 12:05

Tonight with the 16 year-old we made Nagi's satay chicken stir fry (https://www.recipetineats.com/chinese-satay-chicken-stir-fry/) and it was DELICIOUS, highly recommended. Then we watched The Lego Movie because the subject came up and I said I'd never seen it before and got a "Whaaaat?!" reaction and oh man is that a fun movie. 😂 Lando and C3PO from the original Star Wars trilogy were in it for approximately 30 seconds and they still managed to get the actual original actors to do the voices for them!

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Posted on 23 September 2023, 21:55

WE. ARE. HOME. To add to the overall cursedness of this trip, we had dinner last night in the hotel restaurant, it was EXTREMELY overpriced and not very good, and I subsequently woke up at 1:30am and spent the next two hours being sick. 😑 And just to top it all off, we've come home to a notification from our ISP saying there was a burst water main in one of the points of interconnect that ruined a bunch of networking equipment and we're not expected to have our regular internet connection working until this evening. And of course because the whole area is affected, everyone is tethering and it's all slow as hell.

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Posted on 17 June 2023, 14:47

Fuck yeah, I am now a card-carrying union member. ✊🏻 (Professionals Australia if you're interested, they cover tech-related areas, amongst a number of others: https://www.professionalsaustralia.org.au)

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Posted on 8 March 2023, 18:52

Tonight Beanie finally met the next-door neighbour's dog Salem and it went fine! I was out taking him for a walk around the block, and we ran into Salem and the neighbour out the front of a house around the corner. Beanie of course went feral, but I got the neighbour to do the thing that a dog trainer did YEARS ago where we picked both dogs up and let Beanie give the other dog a good sniff, then put them back down. After that there was a bit of dancing back and forth as they continued to sniff each other for a bit, but once they were over it that was pretty much that and they mostly just ignored each other while the neighbour and I chatted. Very interested to see how Beanie goes next time we run into them, if he remembers Salem or not. It seems to be just the initial introduction to new dogs that he has a problem with, once he's had a sniff he's fine.

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Posted on 26 February 2023, 19:37

Pro: Went to a party at a friend's place, used their pool for a good two hours (I honestly don't think I've been in a pool for probably ten years or more), met new people, had lots of fun. Con: My Apple Watch appears not to have survived the pool, despite supposedly being waterproof. 😡 Fortunately @yayKM offered her Watch to use because she can't wear it due to wrist issues anyway, so my 1244 day streak of closing all three of my rings will not be broken.

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Posted on 18 February 2023, 19:34

Beanie's been unwell lately (intermittently throwing up and needing to pee a lot more frequently), he was shivering a bunch this afternoon so Kristina took him to the vet and they did an x-ray and it turns out he's got a tumour in his abdomen so we had to have to rush him to the emergency vet. 😢 He's staying overnight and they're going to do a CT scan in the morning and see what the deal is, the vet said it looks like it might be something in his spleen and they see that being malignant about 2/3s of the time. They're likely going to do surgery pending the results of the scan, then take samples and send them off to be analysed to see if it _is_ malignant or not.

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Posted on 13 July 2022, 18:15

Achievement unlocked: watched Life of Brian with the daughter. 🎉

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Posted on 11 June 2022, 22:38

I am now officially discharged from the exercise physiologist! 🎉 When we started a few months ago, she had a "force meter" device where it was attached to my ankle at the front and I'd sit down and pull as hard as I could backwards. My right leg measured ~13kg and my left was 11kg. Today we did it again, and the right leg was 20kg and the left was 24kg! I'm not at the point yet where I'm able to have the elliptical up to where I used to use it (previously I was at 12˚ incline, 14 resistance out of a maximum of 20, right now I'm at 2˚ incline with 7 resistance) but that'll just be a matter of building up to it. 💪🏻

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Posted on 27 May 2022, 13:25