My wallet was stolen yesterday. Again.
Police reports, reports to the landlord (stolen from inside my apartment, part of a break in…the building has known security issues with randoms following tenants in) etc all filed. New cards requested. It’s fixable. I’m just vaguely disgruntled with the universe and everything in it
Fucking low lifes. I’m sorry this has happened to you.
Vaguely disgruntled? You are such a cool customer. Hopefully all is right soon.
I’ve had three or four in the last ten years. At least this time the wallet appears to be the only missing thing
Omg that’s horrible I’m sorry 😭
It’s not the first time. I’ve had three or four in ten years
That’s awful!! Hope they didn’t get the chance to use anything before you could cancel.
I’m down about $200 in rapid fire transactions - biggest was $70 at my nearest bottle-shop
Hope you can the $$ back without too much hassle. That super sucks.
Bugger sorry that happened to you.
3-4 times over 10 years seems like a lot.
Just CBD things.
I live next door to a homeless outreach. Most of the clients are harmless, but there’s definitely a probability higher than zero that one of them wanders in and starts doing antisocial stuff.
Fires in the bin room in winter, for example, because someone’s broken in and is trying to keep warm. Drug use in the community garden - we try to clean up any detritus of that. Vandalism in public areas, and once or twice I’ve witnessed fights. I’ve had the lock on my mailbox cut off and needed to replace it. The occasional break in.
My tolerance for legally questionable shenanigans may be higher than many people’s!
Honestly I don’t know how you do it mentally, you sound so understanding and unfazed! I would be too worried about violence. Meth paranoia and aggression is frightening to witness. I would nope out of there as soon as I could.
I’ve been homeless myself. That’s sort of why.
The home I have now is precious to me, and I wouldn’t leave it lightly - I’m disabled, and I have some accessibility needs that this apartment is perfect for - unless I was absolutely certain of having somewhere else I could go that met those needs too.
A lot of the time I really like it here. It’s just…occasionally really feral because people suck.
Apologies, my comment seems so insensitive now. Glad to hear you’re ok now.
It’s all good. I didn’t think you were being insensitive.
I HAVE thought about whether it might be time to move. I’m not sure what that looks like for me yet, but I’m getting very tired of the repetitive criminal shit
Oh gosh! That’s awful!
You are much more resilient than I am. I’ve had trouble sleeping since a break in years ago.
I do feel for people experiencing these situations where they feel theft is necessary for their survival though.
Yeah, look, it’s not my favourite thing. I’d much rather not be doing this today. Even so, this one bothers me less than many of the previous incidents because comparatively, it’s simple to fix.
Only one thing seems to have been taken.
Nothing else was damaged.
Nobody was threatened or hurt. I wasn’t even present.
I have the means to replace all my cards - I did a passport application all of two weeks ago, so I’ve even got the photos for new ID already on hand! - and nothing immediately pressing that I need the cards for beyond daily convenience.
I’ve got a locksmith coming to check over my door, and I won’t have to pay for it because my landlord will.
It’s a time consuming inconvenience, but I’ve definitely had a lot worse.
How awful. So sorry. If they broke into your apartment, hope nothing else was stolen. If it’s happened multiple times, sounds like the apartments need better doors and/or locks! I can understand someone following through a foyer door, but it shouldn’t be that easy to get into someone’s apartment?
I’ve got a locksmith coming to check my door
I’m so sorry that’s happened to you 🫂
That sucks, I’m thankful you’re safe and only replaceable stuff was taken. And that it doesn’t seem to have shaken you up too much.
Fingers crossed for speedy replacements (and that maybe victims of crime might get some of your money back)🤞
Jeeeeeesus christ.
Once home, feed the various creatures, smash some junk food and pass out.
I also had to make a LinkedIn today which I fucking hate.
That sucks. Let me know if you want to connect, you’ll he in the 3rd network of everyone if you do
Yeah man shoot me your deets and I’ll add you :)
Dear Apps everywhere: stop offering to summarize things for me. Documents, emails, unread messages. I don’t trust you.
Down with clankers! Down with clankers! 🔱
Down with the toasters!
🤣
I have a collection lol
Right?!?!
Ugh. Pay day is usually Monday. Boss did pays Monday (public holiday doesn’t bother him, he’s been known to go in and do our pays on Christmas Day if that’s the payday!) but there’s some kind of banking problem with payments for merchants to external accounts. I still haven’t been paid 😮💨 Hopefully tomorrow! 🤞🏼
I have been generously gifted $50 to see me through a walletless week
Internet outage in Thornbury from late last night. Anyone else had trouble sleeping? I found the humidity really really trying, even though the temp had dropped. Still muggy this morning.
Yeah it was gross and I hated trying to sleep. The humidity ruined the cool change lol
I’m utterly fucked. Aircon in bedroom didn’t work because it was too loud to sleep. If I didn’t have a bunch of meetings today I’d have taken a sick day.
Does your aircon have a night mode?
Sadly not as it’s just a portable. I should have slept in the lounge room lol
Yep, found it quite difficult to sleep.
Yeah it took all night for me to drop off. It didn’t seem to cool down like normal.
no trouble at all sleeping, I crashed at about 10 and woke up around 6
My 25 min commute is supreme.
that’s good to hear 🙂
Woke up with puffy face. Thanks, hot weather and humidity, I look like I’ve been punched in both eyes
Punch the rest of your face so it evens out
Now that’s thinking out of the box!
same
for me it’s the fans being on
It’s nice to finally have the doors open for fresh air. I’ve looked for my motivation but it’s nowhere to be found so gonna have to pump my body full of coffee instead.
Good morning! Survived the heat. Puts other hot weather into a weird relative perspective, “Oh, it’s only going to be 30°C on Friday.”
Ugh. Still in major sleep debt but eating something stupidly salty seems to have helped a great deal.
Ugh the place I do contract work for is absolutely pummelling me with new projects to take on. Looks like they’ve had some staff leave recently. No, I can’t do your work full time. I feel bad for ignoring / rejecting the project offers but they are a stop-gap at the end of day, not my full-time gig. They definitely have enough work to hire someone with my experience full time, but it’s cheaper to just use the contractor I guess. They also don’t pay me nearly enough to take on the extra burden of their staff shortages.
I’m planning to use this situation to my advantage to get a better deal on fees, they obviously need me and I’ve been working for them long enough now to have some leverage. I’ve booked a call with the staff manager next week, let’s see how we go! I’m becoming more ruthless in business by the day haha. But also, I need to earn the $$.
This is great leverage.
If they keep coming back despite you rejecting project work, that spells it out.
I can’t imagine they’d knock back a 15-20% increase. I’ve been at places that have paid contractors $800 a day because they refused to hire in house talent.
I should note this was exclusively for project work.
Removed because potential doxxing could happen
Tourist in your own state is a great thing to do. I took six weeks long service leave once and just did things from home. Some hobby classes, walking tours, even just visiting as many local parks as I could to see what was there, it was great fun.
That sounds wonderful!
New resident magpie has joined the fray. Either new partner or kid of the existing long time resident.
The old one knows not to come inside. New one just flew straight in and landed a foot away from me lol. Brazen.
It’s a male, so probably thinks it can just waltz in and push boundaries. Easiest birds to get out of the house, just don’t want it taking a dump inside.
Interestingly when taken (well, walked and it followed) outside, long time resident gave a new call that I’ve never heard before and pecked it once and walked away lol.
Crazy smart creatures.
Resident bird to new bird:
spoiler
It’s also possible someone else was feeding the new bird, so it’s used to coming inside if they allowed it? Don’t worry, as you said they are smart, it will figure out your house rules pretty quick!
I had a semi-productive day today. One pumpkin has been cut up and roasted, most is now in the freezer. I also roasted some zucchini. Most of it will end up on toasted sandwiches in future, but some of the pumpkin will end up in risotto and similar dishes. I also made a pumpkin, onion and fetta pizza for dinner.
I seem to work a lot and yet nothing gets done. 😭
That’s housework
Endless as the sea
How is melbcat?
She’s doing well!
A little nauseous from licking the antibiotic cream off her lip and pulled one of the scabs off but no sign of infection so far (touch wood)
🤗
yes, we need an update 🐈⬛
She’s doing so well. The wobbliness went away a day or two after surgery and she’s taking it easy.
She’s been a little off her food from licking at the antibiotic cream so I’ve told the vets about it and have stopped it until they reply. Her appetite is coming back though and I have applied a tiny bit to a newly raw spot
I relate to this soooo much!
Your meal prep is giving me good ideas.
