I've heard that sometimes you can get used buckets from businesses, like the kind that they might get wholesale amounts of feta and other food products in. Anyone know anywhere that might have some for free/cheap?
We just adopted an adult chi and I'm struggling a little with the line between giving her comfort/letting her feel at ease, and holding clear boundaries to start her off on the right foot. I've done so much research about how to train dogs, but I guess I didn't take into account how different the first few weeks are for a dog who is entering a completely new environment with new people.
I've also gotten conflicting advice from people who are experts, and trying to follow some of that advice resulted in her bring wary of me. She is now acting more skittish with me than she was yesterday, and I just feel like I'm failing. I'd really love to hear some advice from those of you who have also gone through the process of adopting or fostering an adult dog, and how you got through the first week or two.
Just wondering if you leave one or two things in, like one kind of nut, will it skew the accuracy of other reintroductions? Or does it just mean you wont know if you have a sensitivity to that one item?
I don't know if this is part of Mall World, a separate collective space, or just something exclusive to me, but I've visited this place several times in my dreams, and I always end up with a feeling that it wasn't just a dream, that this place is real. It doesn't, however, feel super creepy or sinister, it's honestly a place I'd like to visit more, which is why I feel like this might be a separate place to Mall World. Curious if anyone else is familiar with this place?
It's an old Roman town, covering a hill. Walkable size. Street cobbles are the same stone (sandstone?) as the buildings. In the middle of the town is a big super old cathedral building. Multiple levels and I think a kind of high tech library on the bottom (basement) level. Around the back of the town are dusty unsealed streets, with a kind of middle eastern feeling, and a bit unsettling. I think beyond that there is a big field and a train line.
To the left of the town there is a university, which is separated from the town by it's grounds which are green parklands, very lush green grass and trees (lots of those tall skinny Italian cypress trees amongst others, and it feels shaded. There is also, up another hill, a small water park. Basically a pool with a couple of slides and water courses that are sort of like man man streams running around the outside of the pool. Also with very lush dark green grass and trees around, with a shaded feel.
To the right are some overpass kind of highways, and under one of the overpasses is a train/streetcar station. You can ride the modern streetcar/train. I've been to a big train interchange with 2 sets of platforms (as in one set of like 4-6 platforms, and then more in another location that you have to traverse the station to get to. I remember the station being a sort of aqua/minty color, with white parts. I've also caught the train to a sort of rural location. There are farms, but also dirt tracks lined by trees (pine-like trees I think), as well as a zone with hills covered in dried out longer grasses. And then near that is a low mountain, I have climbed it too. There is also a bus you can catch out there too. When I was on it it started raining. I get the feeling I caught it in the very early morning.
The train can also take you to this sort of semi outdoor shopping street. Red brick paving and red bricks on the facades of this kind of indoor/outdoor street. Some short escalators around. (Not scary infinite ones). There's a fabric store. A clothing store. A candy store or something like that? And around the corner is an indoor market in a kind of older metal building, kind of a large shed, white painted sheet metal, concrete floor in parts, wood floor in others, with various stall holders. There's also a lower ground level supermarket, with a fruit and veg shop and some eateries in the same lower ground complex. Sort of a late 80s/early 90s feel with yellowed white linoleum tile flooring. A cafe, a Chinese takeaway, some other eateries. Nearby there's also a thift store that I've been to numerous times, it has worn stained carpet floors that creak so you know it's wood underneath. It is across more than one level, and the levels are connected by both stairs (about 7 stairs) and a ramp. It's a great thrift store, always feels like you're going to find some great stuff. There's also a street nearby that has a kind of older UK feel to it, with painted brick shopfronts and townhouses, a pub or two. I have a vague memory of having to watch out for some shifty types around there. It's night time in that area. Kind of weirdly specific actually - the indoor outdoor shopping strip is also evening/night, but the market inside the metal shed is day time.
Somewhere around that zone, but out on a street is a sporting goods store, and then there is a kind of Target/Walmart style store, which i think is inside a mall.
Oh damn this must be mallworld. Sorry, this must read like a crazy stream of consciousness, because it is ha. The more I write the more flashes of locations are coming back to me. Kind of trippy. I really just started this with the memory of the Italian part, but more and more is coming back to me, and it's feeling so bizarre to the point where I've been sitting here wondering if some of this is real memories, but I don't think they are. It's like memories are being implanted into my head as I type. Super weird feeling.
Anyway, I think there's also a huge fancy hotel that I stayed in near that semi outdoor shopping street. There's a lift. I think a casino zone. A level with a restaurant. You can get up to the restaurant via two sets of symmetrical stairs. I think the lift can also take you down to that big high tech library, and I think it also connects to the interiors of the old cathedral in the Italian town. But then down the road is also a kind Indonesian street by the sea shore with a hostel which I've also stayed in.
There's also an airport, and I've been on a flight in my dreams. 2 sets of two seats with a central aisle.
Anyway, I have to stop for now, writing this post has been a weird ass experience. Like is this just the balance of all my life experiences merging into this odd real feeling world, or is it something more?
I'm considering moving my strawberries to this kind of set up, as 80% of last year's harvest was enjoyed by slugs and snails, and I have some leftover guttering laying around. I wonder though how this small volume of soil would go during a heatwave? Would it get super roasted up and kill the plants? Curious if anyone has tried something like this and can share their experience, and/or any amendments to the system to protect them during an inevitable heat wave. I'd probably line each one with a drip watering line.
I've been learning FreeCAD using some youtube tutorials, which has been great, but I'm finding that while I can follow along with the tutorials fine, I'm missing some of the context of why you do certain things in certain ways. I'd like to learn some of the logic behind the methodology so that I can better apply this stuff to my own models. Can anyone suggest some good youtubers for this style of tutorial?
Edit: Also open to paid courses if someone can recommend them as actually getting into the weeds of logic of FreeCAD.
Edit 2 because there seems to be a bit of misunderstanding of how I've phrased things. One example of the kind of info I feel I'm missing:
In the tutorials I've been doing they've sometimes been toggling construction geometry before using external projection to select elements, and other times they haven't, and haven't really explained why. So I don't really understand which instances it's better to do that and which instances it isn't. In my eyes both the operations were similar, and I don't really understand why they did it one time and not the other.
It's like the equivalent of following a baking tutorial and wanting to know why they put the baking powder in, not just that you have to put 1/2 a teaspoon into the bowl.
I'm on a macbook, using the gesture navigation style. While the other gestures work, the pinch gesture for zooming in and out doesn't. Anyone else encountered this?
For what it's worth, pinch gestures work elsewhere on my mac.
Can anyone recommend a local installer of the the free energy saving products (vent covers, exhaust fan seals) etc? The searches I've done result in companies that are Melbourne based and have some dodgy reviews.
I'm semi-self taught (have degrees in fashion design and fine arts, with some electives in industrial design, but I definitely have education gaps). Am wanting to work on some lamp designs, and want to make sure they comply to all safety regs to make sure I avoid any legal issues. Can you Aussies recommend resources that outline what is involved in making sure my designs are both safe, and meet electrical standards and regulations? Thanks!
Tip vouchers are supposed to come in July right? I've been patiently waiting for the new financial year, but my pile of crap really needs to go to the tip soon ha.
Hi, looking for the following:
- GP who is non-condescending, female-friendly, who has an attitude of 'let's figure this out', and who is willing to look at issues from a wider view. Who also doesn't mind that I have another doctor as my primary doctor for my chronic health issues. My main doctor is telehealth, but I need an in person doctor for things that require physical inspection, pap smears etc. TBH I'm ok with non-bulk billing if there's someone really good, because my health issues were ignored and gaslit since I was a teenager and have medical trauma as a result. I can't handle another dismissive doctor with a god complex.
- Dermatologist who takes you seriously. My previous derm experience was with someone who barely looked at the issue I had, which then proceeded to get worse. I have super sensitive skin and notice when things aren't right earlier than most people, so I need someone who will trust me when I say that something isn't right, and actually bother to at least have a look at it with their little magnifying glass, you know?
- Dentist. Tried Drummond St Dental and that was BAD.
I'm peeved. Almost a year ago I signed up for a free trial of Binge, and as soon as I realised there were still ads I ended my membership (or at least tried to). It was literally the same day I think. I clearly remember filling out the 'why are you leaving' form and expressing my irritation with a paid service still having ads. I also have a vague memory of the Hubbl service that's linked to Binge having errors with cancelling the subscription, and me sending a message through their online form to get this arranged. Then life got crazy, and I never double checked if the cancellation went through.
I've just realised they've still been charging me, and I seem to have no evidence of this cancellation or any communication regarding it in email or elsewhere. (Gotta love online forms which remove the paper trail). Any chance companies like that are legally obliged to keep records of customer communications, and is there a way you can request that file? Or if I'm just screwed with this one?
Anyone have a suggestion for an economically priced big bucket of paint stripper that will do the job of stripping most of a room's walls? I want to strip the paint off the wood panelling in the front room of my cali bungalow. Just did a test patch and it required 3 rounds of the Bondall one I have, which given how thickly you need to apply, I'd burn through something like 20-50 bottles of the stuff.
Would do a heat gun, but I suspect lead (have ordered test swabs to confirm, but I'd honestly be shocked if there wasn't lead).
I've been on a GLP1 for almost a year. I haven't been super on top of actually tracking my weigh loss, weighing myself maybe once every couple of weeks, and just wearing the same couple of outfits that aren't too loose because I don't want to spend a bunch of money on clothes that will be too big for me in a few months. I've still got all my 'big' clothes in my closet because I guess I don't really believe I wont need them.
Despite the fact that I know intellectually that I've lost 25kg, I wasn't quite comprehending how much I've lost. I decided it was finally time to buy a few cheap pieces of clothing to get me through, because my 'main' skirt has gotten so loose I can pull it down without undoing the buttons.
So I went to Target and realised I had zero idea of what size I was. When I started the GLP1s I was realistically a 22/24 maybe. I stopped buying anything that required me to acknowledge that, like jeans, and would buy loose fit dresses in smaller sizes to delude myself. So I convinced myself to try some things in smaller sizes, even though anything smaller than an 18 felt ridiculous. I picked up some 16s and 18s, and a couple of 14s as a kind of hail mary 'imagine if these actually fit ha ha' kind of thing.
Guys, I FIT INTO SIZE 14 JEANS. Not just one fluke pair - 2 separate pairs, and even crazier, one pair was from the petites section and the other was a pair with no stretch from the Lily Loves section which is targeted towards a young demographic and tends to have smaller sizing. They fit EASILY, and the cut just looked right and good - no gaping, no weird bunching fabric. It really felt like I was living in a daydream. I haven't been a size 14 in about 15 years.
I've also just crossed the threshold from obese to just overweight, which is also such a relief. I feel so much better. I feel like I can walk around and do basic stuff like tie my shoes without my extra weight making things harder for me.
To be honest, I think any weigh loss from here is going to be hard to get my head around, because the absolute smallest I ever was in my adult life was a size 12. I have been overweight to obese since I was about 10 years old. The idea that it's possible for me to be in a normal healthy weight range in the not too distant future still feels so impossible, because I don't even know what it's like to experience that. And I've really struggled with feeling guilty about the cost of this medication since I got up into the higher dosages and can't do click counting to save money. But today's experience was so worth it, and is proving that even though I haven't been perfect, I'm still getting results.
Keep on going guys.
This might seem like a weird question, but it's something that has always made cleaning my shower and/or bath feel super awkward and like I'm not doing right - what do you do with your feet? Do you wear shoes? Do you own, like, a separate pair of shoes just for cleaning your bathroom? Because you don't want to track those bleaching chemicals around the house right?
And even if you do wear shoes, what's your process to avoid getting the chemicals everywhere anyway? Do you have an old towel to step onto when stepping out of an active chemical zone? Do you take your shoes off at the door and have a plastic bag or something prepared for it?
I've just realised I was never really taught how to do this properly, and whatever way I try feels wrong, awkward and hard, and as a result I don't clean my bathroom as often as I should (which then obviously makes the difficulty level even harder when I do clean it). Can someone who is good at this talk me through the step by step process of cleaning their bathroom? I would be genuinely grateful.
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I know these are the trend at the moment, but they make me kind of anxious. Like I would never be able to fully relax because who knows who/what's lurking in the closet behind you?
It feels ungrounded. Sort of reminds me of how feng shui is always talking about being in positions where no one can sneak up on you from behind. Which, regardless of your feelings about feng shui, actually speaks to our human instincts and nervous systems. There's something about this layout that makes me feel fundamentally uncomfortable.
I can't be the only one? Just sanity checking myself here as I think about floor plans ha.
I want to get a table saw for various reno/DIY purposes, but am a bit nervous about it due to how dangerous they can be with kickback etc. Would rather not lose a hand or my spleen if I can avoid it.
Anyone know if there's somewhere I can do a short course on safe table saw operation locally?
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One of my doors has sagged a bit, so I was going to do that trick where you pop the pin out, shim the door and then bend the hinge bits to realign them. After scraping a century of paint off the top and bottom of the hinge, both appear to be perfectly flat and solid, without a central pin? Confused. Are these hinges fixed in place or something? Any idea if you can take the two sides apart with these?
(Sorry for the bad pics, I don't have the best light in the bathroom, and also super awkward angles. But I've poked and scratched around both the top and bottom, and both seem to be fully solid, and don't appear to have any cap parts either. It's just the hinge teeth, with each alternating one connected to the alternating side of the door.)
(Also don't worry, I know the photos look like lead paint carnage, but I am being safe and wetting everything down.)
In between the Audhd and my chronic health issues, I haven't been able to hold down a job for several years. I'm fortunate to have a supportive partner, so I don't have to stress about money (though the guilt of not contributing is definitely a factor, we're not rich, but that's a different post).
My form of contributing has been doing as much of the cleaning as I can manage, and also working on fixing up our house when my energy levels are high enough (I can manage a few hours a day on most days, but it's not reliable). I'm happy doing this, but I am objectively quite isolated.
I go for days without leaving the house leaving the house, and I've realised a big part of this is simply the spoons involved. To most people, the time and energy involved to get ready to leave the house is no big deal, but when you have a reduced capacity equalling less functional hours in a day, the act of getting ready feels like it uses up like 1/4 of my time and energy. And then being out in the world equals an increased drain on resources due to sensory stuff, unpredicability, and physical effort.
I don't want to be a shut in, and I hate how hard it feels to do these simple things. Like right now I need to take a package to the post office. It's a 20min walk there and back. That's a distance I don't have too much struggle with on a casual walk. But when it's an errand, even a low stakes casual one, I am so resistant.
Getting ready makes me anxious. Probably because of how often I used to forget something like brushing my teeth or leaving my phone at home etc when I used to work or go to school. I've pavloved myself into feeling like getting ready to leave the house is a high stakes thing with a high chance of failure.. So I tend to get ready in spurts, with breaks. Brush my teeth - break - get my clothes - break - get dressed - break - etc etc. So the whole thing ends up taking an hour or more depending on how anxious I feel. And then there's recovery after. So what should have been a 30min thing at most turns into like 2 hours sucked out of my day. And given that I have 4-6 usable hours at most, that's 50 - 67% of my day gone.
I hate this. If anyone has tips for making leaving the house feel less burdensome I'm all ears.
I think our (pre-existing) wood burner has a draft around the flue where it meets the ceiling. It's a bit of an issue because we've been battling the neighbour's insane amounts of smoke that comes directly at our house, and I presume it's getting into our ceiling cavity and then leaking into our living room. (No need to comment about the neighbour issue, we're in the process of trying to find out the owner's details (tenanted), but need to minimise the smoke in the house in the meantime).
Wondering if it's ok to just seal with some fire-rated sealant, or if there's some kind of fire-proof insulation foam/wadding that we can shove around it? I assume we'll have to take the ring down to that properly. Or is this something that can only be done by a licensed plumber?
