Got the news this morning but haven’t brought myself to tell anybody yet so you’ll be the first. I did the glucose resistance test last week and it seems I have type 2 diabetes. I felt fine during and after the tests so I thought maybe I’d be ok but apparently not so much.
It was almost inevitable, I think, considering dad and I are so similar and he has it. I’m still processing it though. I don’t think I have any of the symptoms of it but no doubt if I don’t start managing it they’ll start popping up. This is my first real health issue. Never broken a bone or had to go to hospital besides normal infant stuff. Not as invincible as I suspected.
Definitely sucks getting old. My dad had type 2 as well. Diagnosed after multiple heart attacks & strokes. Type 2 can be managed with diet & exercise. It’s not the worst.
The good news is that it’s manageable and it doesn’t have to stop you living your life. You will be ok.
I had an interview today for the exact sort of time I want at a place I’d be happy to work for. If that works out I’d start at the end of the month, so right when my 2 weeks pay from the old place would go up to.
If this works out I’m pretty much getting a 2 week holiday before starting work I actually enjoy
Fingers crossed mate!
Best of luck!
Fingers crossed for you too, it’s a great feeling when it all lines up like that!
It would be great if this works out. I’ve had times where I’ve really struggled to find work and I can’t afford that downtime now. This would be a contract to see me through to next year so I have plenty of breathing room if I don’t get any of the jobs I’m applying for now
Alrighty. One more sleep to the gig!
Now the excitement is building up 🎶🎸
Jesus christ it’s fucking hot on this train. Sweating buckets. Poor dude near me looks like he thinks I’m a biohazard
Edit: bought a spare set of strings just in case. I’m glad I have a couple of hours after work to just chill out beforehand.
I hate this humidity too - but my plants are loving it. Last autumn I hacked my pot bound ginger lily into 5 pieces and planted each one in separate pots. This morning all 5 have put out new shoots as its finally warm enough and wet enough for it.
I hate it as well. Hope it doesn’t get trapped inside.
Makes me feel yucky.
8:30pm was it?
Yep! At the Lyrebird lounge :)
So I tried Five Guys last night
Fries = legit, still had a really nice texture even after a journey in the front of my scooter in the rain. Massive serving. There’s a station at the back of the ordering line where you can fill your own tubs of ketchup, mayo and malt vinegar, so your chips get sauces and stuff entirely to your liking
Burger = got a cheeseburger. Thought it was decent; probably not worth as much as it actually cost, but I did like being able to customise it fully for no extra charge.
Shake = basic vanilla for testing purposes, was thicc
I wouldn’t go out of my way to go to Five Guys again, but if you’re in the area it’s pretty solid fast food
More deets on the shake? Worth $11? Would try a peanut butter + choc one personally. Agree with your overall sentiment.
If you loaded it up - which you can, they’re customisable - it might be. Basic vanilla sans loading is not…but I did that on purpose to judge the blankest canvas, so that’s on me.
The texture’s insanely thick and rich. I see potential, if not perfection
Noted, thank you.
The combo that appeals to me personally is banana, peanut butter and (maybe) Biscoff. It does seem to be real bananas - I saw some real bananas going in when I was waiting
Had the chocolate one and it was pretty good. You can mix things in it, like bacon?
I can’t tell whether you are talking about a chocolate burger, or putting bacon into a chocolate shake. Either choice is interesting.
Chocolate milkshake, and bacon is a possible mix-in! Didn’t try it because I’m not a fan of bacon. Might be interesting though.
Early night tonight. Goodnight everyone ❤️
These are the absolute best 🤣🤣🤣
see you tmr
Tinyest’s language comprehension appears to have exploded. Still limited words back, but answers are starting to form. Last night I asked him if he wanted to get out of the bath. He shakes his head and says something similar to “nuh”. I asked if he wants a bottle, he ponders for a second and goes “Yeh” and starts climbing out of the bath. Blew my mind. Didnt realize he was there yet.
“Are you ready for bed?”
Yeh… yeh nuh…
Pretty much! It’s rarely a yes to something we want it to be a yes to.
When Tinyest starts going through the ‘NO!’ stage, ask him if he wants a lolly … This is guaranteed to traumatise him with his first taste of existential angst. An important part of growing up.
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Things are getting a bit busy at work, which is perfect timing, as my secondment to a higher position is coming to an end.
Now I can actually focus on what I’m doing and not sort out other people’s issues.
Yay me!
Hooray!
I might have an opportunity after Christmas to have the higher duties role permanently, which would be good as I would ditch my current responsibilities.
With a salary upgrade?
A moderate one, but yes.
for whatever reason the south bank five guys didnt quite taste like five guys the two times i went
this QV one though, it is perfection
Some guys taste different. Nobody can explain it.
🏅
Why thank you. My very first LemmyGold.
sth to do with bananas or is it ananas
Wasted an hour this morning not being able to find my keys. Turns out they’d fallen into a boot. Well there goes my prep time for today’s meeting…
I’m always banging on about Thank God You’re Here. They recently posted the best clip of the last 2 seasons on youtube, well worth a watch. I think the season finale is tonight.
I maintain that they picked the wrong Hoodoo Gurus song - should have been What’s My Scene
And another thing I’ve been wondering lately…
What a song! Your right, of course.
Shitty photo sorry. This is corner of Toorak Rd and St Kilda Rd. 9.3m for 4 br apartment on noisy st corner. Hmm
Another building that will have no vacancies and no residents either.
Loads of them in Southbank. Drive around that area around 7-8pm. Prime time of day for people to be home and awake. Entire apartment buildings are 75% dark.
I’m not certain whether this will be the same. I truly can’t see how they can be valued at $9.5M. Who the hell is going to buy them? 4 Bedrooms suggests families. But any family with that much to spend isn’t going to want their kids on a busy corner and no yard to run around in.
While it’s derelict, there’s a 4-bedroom house/yard going for $2M a few hundred meters away. You could spend a Million totally renovating that place and really sprucing it up and still move in before this building is finished. And for a third of the price.
Foreign buyers. Simple as that. Buying a property here ensures safety of their money (talking about China specifically). Whether it’s buying through a shell corp or a local agent/entity, those places are not there to be lived in. They’re just there to safeguard cash.
Not to mention to beef up a property folio for an agency and artificially inflate the value of the building.
From memory, foreign ownership rules have tightened up, but there’s plenty of loopholes still.
The land tax component is getting severe for property banking of this sort. Most of Melb’s accountants are in panic mode right now with their property investor/developer clients going apeshit over the new requirements. Especially when their trusts need to have a specific ‘no benefit to foreign residents’ requirement bolted on. There are five different pieces of legislation that discriminate benefits from trusts/super funds going to foreign residents - and the definition of foreign resident is very very broad when you look at all the five Acts.
Ooh, I knew there was changes but not the significance of them. Thank you!
For sure, that’s the target market - but the trick only works if the property holds that value in the first place. I don’t see 9.3M value here, no matter how you twist and stretch it.
Even if the price drops by 50% when selling, that’s still 4.5 million AUD, which is much safer than the CCP taking away all your assets and liquid funds in China.
The security is worth the potential drop.
We may not see it, but banks and buyers will. Those are the parties that matter. It’s an absolute shit show but that’s the unfortunate reality.
I started looking for a tent at first
Hahaha
This could be wild optimism on my part, but I really hope Gen Z can change workplace culture, and the world for the better.
Because I’m sorry to say Boomers really fucked it up. Gen X and Millennials raised by boomers are too damaged and drained to fight the man.
Millennial here and while I’m generalising, I don’t think our generation is following in boomer footsteps in setting workplace culture. Although the biggest change to workplace culture in my lifetime has been thanks to a global pandemic, with the boomers now trying to pedal us backwards.
Biggest thing I’ve noticed with my millennial colleagues is that they see the job as a job and have very little loyalty to a ‘company’. If the wages and conditions are right, they’ll stay and work. If they’re shit, workers will leave and find something better.
The boomer (and GenX to an extent) mentality is still very much ‘find a job and stick it out’.
Until I started my current role (almost 7 years) my longest tenure before that was 3 years, over a 15 year career.
I would get asked in interviews about ‘job hopping’ and would simply say that I can handle a bad situation for so long. Mind you some of those were being made redundant, but older people couldn’t believe I would leave a job.
And honestly, why be “loyal” to a company when they will neck you the minute it serves their interest. They reap what they sow.
It’s a very old school way of thinking. Back when loyalty actually mattered, sure.
I’ve said in an interview ‘I’m loyal to my family and keeping a roof over their heads, work is work’. Ended up getting the job, but declining it.
As a proud Gen Xer (on the cusp, but still counts) I do my best to undo work place fuckery whenever possible.
Also try to call out and push back on entitled behaviour. That one applies to all generations.
it’s not enough to unsubscribe or block I want to punish cyanenergy for their SMSing. How the fuck did they even get my details.
Get in touch with the ACCC and the ombudsman. I had some fun doing that to Simply Energy a few years ago
Cyanenergy exists for real? I thought they were a scam.
they certainly exist as a dodgy as fuck company and I am beyond pissed the cunts got my private mobile. I am downright satanic about this number and who gets it.
Well, don’t look at us. We sure didn’t give it to 'em! 😀
squints suspiciously
Uni meeting didn’t go as badly as i thought, but I’ve been feeling really out of it and congested most of the rest of the day. Brain really has taken a battering after the past few days and there’s no rest in sight as I’ve got a major job ahead with cleaning up the house for inspection next week, and also starting to line up rental inspections myself (fuck that noise majorly, but I got no choice).
It’s a real effort to try and relax and not constantly feel like I should be doing something
I’m not going to practice tonight. I’m starting to get complacent.
One more practice tomorrow before the gig and that’ll do.
Edit: even with a migraine I’m going. Not to tempt fate, but still.
Check the tuning of your guitar?
Edit: spelling mistake.
I bought new strings so I’ll have to break them in which I actually enjoy.
