It’s taco Tuesday! Hope you get to eat some tacos today. Have an amazing day 🌮🌮🌮
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After posting my dinner I realised I may have been insensitive to the fact that some people might be struggling right now. My apologies if I have caused any discomfort. So thought I might share some of my cost saving secrets because I like you guys. We are on a one low income so I know how it feels. Here we go.
We have never ordered ubereats. If we get take away my husband goes and gets it. We eat from local take away or we get specials from fast food. We have cut this down from once a week to once a fortnight. We eat out on special occasions.
I go to the local butchers for my meat. If I don’t eat red meat I feel fainty due to low blood pressure so I spread my meat consumption of the week. Most meat I buy is the cheaper cuts plus one special lamb product (that’s why we had ribs tonight). Sometimes I’ll see a two for deal at Coles like sausages or hamburgers and I’ll freeze them. Every 6 months I have to defrost my little freezer so we live off whatever is in there, defrost it, fill it back up.
The vegetables I have in my freezer all the time are peas, beans, broccoli and corn on the cob when it’s available. Everything else I get fresh from the market when in season.
The things that I have in my pantry all the time are pasta, rice, cous cous, chickpeas, canned tomatoes, baked beans, tuna, corn.
I check for half price specials every week. I only buy them if I need them. No point having 6 bottles of shampoo in my cupboard. Also on shampoo and conditioner, I buy pump packs when they’re $6 each. It’s shampoo and conditioner it’s all the same.
I try to make the evening meal serve 4 so my husband has lunch the next day or I’ll make enough for 6 meals so we can have leftovers for dinner the next night.
I freeze bread. You can’t beat toast. Ever.
I can’t think of anything else right now but if you want me to answer any questions I’ll be happy to answer them.
OK, bot has now been given a process management system to help run continually and not crash completely if there is an error. Not sure if it will help with the not posting at/after midnight issue, but it can’t hurt and will give me a bit more information.
I have instructed the bot to post at 11:55, but after past failures am much less hopeful it will actually work ☹️ I’ve added in a few more test posts elsewhere at various intervals to try and get some more information about what is going wrong. At the moment the theory that the cat is sabotaging it seems as likely as anything else. It is very frustrating that every single test I do works perfectly, and the actual post doesn’t.
FWIW one of my peeves with the way it worked on reddit is that a new thread at midnight can interrupt the thread conversations for night owls. I feel like a 4 AM time for the new thread would be good.
Midnight is a clear break between one day and the next. 4am is arbitrary.
I picked it as a solid guess as to when most people are offline. Not arbitrary at all.
With Reddit’s changes (albeit I think more people thought it things would be more dramatic than they have been), and Twitter’s continuing shit show, alongside Facebook’s shadow of it’s shadow of its former self… do we think we’re seeing or are in the middle of the end of social media in a large sense?
Seeing how younger people use social media is actually quite interesting.
My kids use it to share funny crap with their friends. Pretty much what email was back in the late 90’s early 00’s.
They don’t really use for posting or communicating. Just sharing.
Their interactions with friends are video calls and meetups.
It’s been interesting seeing the recent stuff that’s happened. Like there’s Mastodon as a Twitter replicate, Lemmy for Reddit, Tumblr is still Tumblr (a lot of Twitter and Reddit users migrated to Tumblr recently, it’s a lot of fun over there. We still don’t allow porn, but if it’s artistic like a photograph or in a movie it’s allowed but there are mature filters for like nusity, gore, etc).
There’s a MySpace replicate called HeySpace. It’s actually pretty cool, as someone who was on MySpace as a scene/emo kid.
But yeah it seems social media is imploding. I’m curious what the future of the Internet will be.
We may be seeing the end of less savvy user, which tbh is a good thing.
Should clarify: by less savvy I mean “People who do not actively seek out social interactions online unless it is via a platform thrust under their nose as a massive zeitgeist”
I’ve been farting around on the internet since fredmail, I shall continue farting long after the corporate monoliths have died
I’ve often said that one of the worst inventions was the smart phone, but I think social media has a lot to explain for itself as well. I was discussing this with the wifey the other day, saying how Instagram seems to be one of the few that people are still actively turning to (and I guess TikTok?). Both of those platforms really blur the definition of “social” media. It doesn’t seem like they’re widely used to communicate with people they know (vaguely or otherwise), but rather give this faux connection with celebrities, causes or anything else that some people seem to deem as “important.”
seems like vaguely interactive television
My dinner
From top left clockwise: Aldi’s potato scallop, peas, sauted mushrooms with chives, marinated lamb ribs definitely not burnt just well done, mint jelly. Corn on the cob not pictured.
Please note that the plate is small. (26cm in diameter)
My husband made an observation. He said “I noticed that the smaller ribs did not make the photo but ended up in my lunch”. :)
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Shoutout to the headache gang. I had a joyful one at work and it’s still kind of lingering. So frustrating. Alas, I’m an uncool kid, so no tacos for me this Tuesday. It’s pasta, cheesy garlic bread and whatever else I can wrangle. I’ve also been cheeky with my chocolate cookie and chocolate bar this evening. You know, dessert before dinner.
How is everyone?
Still have a lingering headache at the moment. But as bad as what I was feeling earlier in the day but it’s still there.
Hoping it might ease off after I eat dinner as it sometimes does relax my body and lets me relieve the tension.
How is your headache?
Yes, still lingering, also with neck tension. Ugh.
Yuck. Not nice at all but at least there’s a reason for it.
Did you manage to relieve the tension and are you feeling better?
I did! I did need some more tablets before bed, but a couple days clear now! Hope yours is much better!
What we have here is a failure to launch. Dammit.
It has to be a problem with the date, bot won’t work after midnight. It’s eather Cinderella or a gremlin. Next attempt will be before midnight, if that posts it will be a stopgap solution at least while I work out the issues. Maybe I can check the dark web for bot viagra.
If it’s a problem with the date, would it work on 07/07?
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking. Could it be that you have to do American dates?
Thought I’d join the masses over here…it’s a lot busier, haha!
Fresh meat!
Welcome!
tastes like pork
The best meat’s in the rump!
Yeah nah the crackle is the best bit.
How bloody good is ibuprofen and Panadol? I was shaking under a blanket and now I’m just back to “meh”
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Day 10 of my exercises completed. This morning I snuck into my MIL’s back room, which is like a sun room/family room, and did them there. So much space! I think I will continue this from now on. She isn’t up early so I’m not disturbing her, and she’s said she doesn’t mind me using the space.
Yesterday I set a target of 2500 steps and we were busy at work so I ended up doing 6129. It won’t be anything like that today because I’ll be standing at a bench hand stretching pizza bases and cutting dough.
Have a lovely day!
Keep meaning to ask - what exercises are you doing? I need to get back into a routine myself.
I downloaded an app called Fitness Coach and, seeing as I’m not very cardio fit, set it to a beginner level on a 30 day body shred program. It’s pretty simple and has some in app purchases but I’m just using the free things in it. It’s working for me so far.
Ta muchly. 😊
