Tonight’s wave / smoke:
That’s an amazing photo
wow
Gorgeous!
Well that sucks. Several houses in Belgrave including mine have been without power since 18:30. Would have been good to have aircon this evening.
On the positive side I’m feeling virtuous for having recently run up the generators, checked the oil, topped up the petrol, etc. So we have a fridge / freezer and, if we still have no power tomorrow, will still be able to work.
Holy shit balls. I just paid the whole mortgage off 🤯
Best feeling in the world. 🥂🎆🎇🎉🎊🏅🥉🥈🎖🏆🤩
Grats!
One (1) [House] has been added to your inventory.
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I would but don’t want go out to get any!
!!! Holy shit congrats!
Am I an adult now??? Still have no idea what I’m doing.
You have skipped the adult stage and gone straight to boomer parity.
yeah that’s normal.
Congrats!!!
Congratulations!
Weeee!! That’s so exciting!!
Well done!! That’s a huge feat 🥳🥳
Congrats 🎉
Gonna take the dog for the arvo walk and by walk I mean take him out to the front porch where he’ll stare at me with the “What the fuck?!” look but at least he’ll stop with the “where’s my fuckin walk” looks I’m getting now.
EDIT: I took him out when going to the car for some tools, he absolutely stayed on the porch with a strong “nu-uh” vibe about him. I took the tools through the side gate to the shed and he still wouldn’t leave the porch to run around the side and come back in that way. So I went an got him and brought him back into the AC, he had a big drink on the way back. Outside in the shade for under five minutes
Cool change is making its way across the Geelong plains. Should be here soon.
Glad i decided not to head back to melbs. Currently 24 here in queenscliff. Got to about 40-ish but felt a lot cooler next to the ocean.
The WSW / soon to be SSW is bringing a lot of smoke from the otways though.
I am about to finish work and head home. Fingers crossed I survive
You got this 🤞
I can confirm it has gone down 1° in the last hour here.
My backyard max/min thermometer has gone down from 45 deg to 40 deg. Still bloody hot though.
The wind has increased in my hood, maybe has dropped a couple degrees but still very hot. I think it’s going to be a gradual cooldown tonight.
I can feel it already
I’ll have to wait a bit, being further north. Bummer.
Just went up a degree in North Fitzroy. Help 🫠
I had the brilliant idea tonight when filling the water tray for animals to put the timer on and set it to a slow trickle. That’ll keep it topped up and I know some animals are more likely to drink from running water than still
That’s genius. It would be so cool to have a solar powered water fountain recycling a tank of clean water (with a filter to sieve out mosquito larvae and kill them).
Replacing the water and cleaning the fountain would be a job though.
I did the slow release thing with blocks of ice before but now just fill an automatic water dispenser sold for pets
Running water should be enough to stop mosquitoes but a filter would be great for everything else that gets caught in there. I think I’ll do the dribble timer next hot day we have too
It’s officially below 30 degrees. Yay!
Gibson’s unsure of the portable aircon lol
keep those of us without air conditioning in your thoughts today 🥲
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I thought getting wet was bad for bots? Stay safe yarrabyte, we don’t want any short circuits!
Holy shit YarraByte. You talk!
Oh crap he could have heard us talking about him…
Could possibly be a christian soul who is all about loving your neighbour and forgiving sins against him. Unlikely, but possible. Or just a really really nice person.
I hope so or the bot uprising will go badly for me
Oops, hopped on a machine that was logged in as !YarraByte@aussie.zone
Spray bottle with fan does such a great job, optionally can refrigerate the water.
thats a great idea! I should get a spray bottle for next time.
my strat has been to close all windows and blinds to the world & have regular cold showers. plus frozen grapes.
I just assumed you all died, it’s good to hear that at least one of you is still alive. I don’t do well with heat, if I didn’t have AC I’d either be camped out in the shower running cool water over myself or on the floor crying. I wish I was more like Miss Meow, who is currently voluntarily outside.
I used to survive by wringing out a shirt in water and putting it on, and having icy poles or frozen drinks
Thank god this gig tonight is at the Croxton. It’s close to home and has decent parking. Just as long as the air conditioner works well in there
Has anyone heard from just_kitten or Duenan lately? Hope they’re doing well
I have seen a few posts from just_kitten recently at the other place.
I got a dm from Duenan a while ago. He said he was doing well so I left it at that.
Duenan left after TinyBreak did iirc. They still post on the other place regularly. Same with Baku.
;-;
Edit: We seem to have lost a lot of people since this started, leaving a core group of regulars.
There’s probably more activity in the other place but I haven’t gone back because I don’t recognise many people there and may no longer fit.
As well as the whole ‘owner emulating you know who’ thing.
I’m out of the loop, why did they leave?
I did notice that just_kitten was gone, I haven’t heard from Duenan either
ahhhh train cancellations and delays due to the heat. Never change, Melbourne, love ya 😂🥵
Dear cat jesus, thank you for letting me work from home today. I will dispense the appropriate treats to your people.
I haven’t heard a train in hours 😬I thought this might happen, it’s why my husband didn’t take the train this morning, could not rely on it in the afternoon heat
a predator cannot distinguish between prey and accomplice
sewing on a patch onto my new tshirt
Love it
That is so adorable!
It is? I don’t see people wear stuff like this, especially at my age, so I get a bit insecure about it. I dress weird …lol Think of this way, at my age I could shop at Katies or Blue Illusion. I actually shop at Dangerfield.
Mr Seagoon hasn’t seen it yet, I think he will like it. 🙂🚀🐈
It is very cool. Embrace the weird!
Rock it, girl!! I love seeing people wear bright and interesting things or dressing however they feel. More and more I dress only for comfort!
Love it! 😍
Thanks. I put the same design patch on a denim jacket too 😻it’s cute
Went to take the bins out and ran into neighbour doing the same.
He’s loving this heat, or so he claims.
He ain’t right in the head, is he?
Does he walk around saying ‘how about this heat’? /s
Hahaha
I’m down with it. My low blood iron has me feeling cold more often than not. Today is fine by me.
Hearing ya with hypothyroidism!
And the rest of us are cooking slowly
🤡
I honestly think he just runs cold. He was running his fireplace into December when it was high teens/low 20s.
I don’t get it
he could have very poor circulation
That’s what I’m thinking
Vic emergency map has a cool new feature - the little red triangle with the warning “evacuate immediately” now has the red triangle and a little running man blinking on and off. Really stands out. Check it out at the Otways fires.
Aaaand it looks like most of the Otways are going up in smoke rn.
You should have a look at bushfire.io it includes the information from the Vic Emergency app, and also has overlays with the wind speed/direction, satellite detected hot spots which show where the fire is actively burning, and where the fire fighting aircraft are. It’s really interesting and I presume it takes a bit of pressure off the Vic Emergency app and helps stop it getting overloaded.
Thanks! That looks like a really useful take - especially the closed roads.
That site is utterly fascinating, thank you so much for sharing it!
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