Do dogs eat grass to puke or do they puke because they ate the grass? Anyway, thank goodness for the wet & dry vac.
Mostly eating grass and puking are independent. Mr Woof wants to stop and graze every time we go past an overgrown naturestrip, if it was something that caused him to vomit I’d be constantly surrounded by dog puke. I suspect the link between grass and puking is more that grass is not something that is very digestible to dogs so tends to show up whole and identifiable. It might also be something that occasionally they eat to try to settle their stomach, much like we might have a dry cracker. But just like you can’t assume everyone who sits down to cheese and biscuits is feeling nauseous most dogs are not feeling sick when they eat grass.
I agree on the benefits of a wet & dry vac. I have a little dustbuster style spot cleaner carpet shampoo thing which has been used to clean up many an accidental pet mess.
I think he’s on the munchies because he’s not usually a grass eater. I have a spot cleaner too that I’m about to get out. The vac I’m gonna have to clean tomorrow because I heard chunks.
I believe my dog used to do it when he felt sick. I am deducing this because I spent a lot of time outdoors with him, and he never ate grass as a regular thing. Didn’t interest him. But on the rare occasion he did, he would soon puke and wouldn’t be very active. I can’t really know for sure what he was feeling but I am assuming he felt sick in his stomach and some deep dog instinct told him to eat grass to help him spew up?
That’s what I reckon too. Those catnip treats may not have agreed with him after all. Oops.
I had a decent night’s sleep last night, but my body decided 5:30 was wakeup time for no reason at all. Managed to get back to sleep at 6:40, and then woken up again at 7:02 because there’s tradies next door and they did not miss a beat. They started clanging stuff around and sawing the moment they got here. Maybe that’s why the Airbnb people were desperate to get away
My sympathies. Did they blast MMM as well?
Update: I suspect they may be fake, because they still haven’t put on MMM. They’re just listening to the foxy
Surprisingly I can’t actually hear any music. Just whistling and yelling
I took the LLN assessment because I didn’t want it hanging over my head. It didn’t tell me my score/how well I did, and nobody told me what I needed to get anyway.
I think I did well on the communication and written portion, but I think I sucked on the math part. I know I screwed up an answer that I know, because I misclicked and pushed the wrong button, but I couldn’t go back… Thanks for being so understanding, computer system.
I guess I’m happy I’ve done it, because it means I can’t forget about it. But now I have to have it hanging over my head until Tuesday, not knowing whether I passed or failed. My course is due to commence on the 16th, too, so I don’t have much time to fix myself if I colossally fucked it up
You probably did better than what you think you did.
Maybe
The local lolly shop is closing down so I bought up big. Pineapples, strawberries & cream, sherbert bombs, raspberry drops and an assortment of rock.
The kid bought stuff too. Gobstoppers and assortment of chews.
Oh so what will you eat tomorrow?
Beer
Sitting down to try and write a full track from that small piece from yesterday. Exciting!
Aw yeeeee 🙌
Hahhahhaha my cat stepped in her own puke when whoring at me for 4am food. the look on her face!
K A R M A
nice sunny day again 🌞 nice day to finish working on the terrace garden , also have loads of other jobs to do so I better make a list 🌞
So things have quietened down a bit since Mr P’s Hulk smash of the bed. He is now using some salvaged wood bits of the bed and other wood bits to build himself a new base. He’s done this before (built himself a day bed for the man cave) so he’ll probably end up with something ok-ish. Good; he needs a project, and he hasn’t been coping well with becoming a house husband.
The Minipeelers were surprisingly unphased by the whole incident. Sadly, I think they’re used to their dad’s spontaneously nutty outbursts.
Elder Minipeeler is doing fantastically with his treatment for anxiety. He’s spending slightly longer at school each time and he’s really starting to noticeably change. He wants to get fit so he’s roped in Miniest as a fitness buddy, doing things like dancing with those kids dancercise apps for exercise, and mock WWE WrestleMania lol. The latter is, as a parent, both really entertaining and a little alarming at times (“No you can not German suplex your brother!”)
Is there a Men’s Shed near you? This sort of thing is what that organisation is so damn good for. Bunch of blokes getting together to make shit and talk without getting stressed about it or dealing with money shit. Usually charitable projects like toy making and stuff for the disadvantaged.
Good; he needs a project, and he hasn’t been coping well with becoming a house husband.
Is he talking to someone about it all? Cause smashing up a bedhead is a bit of a red flag that the mental health is maybe not too good.
Maybe worth setting up some more projects for him after the bed assuming this project goes ok.
Yeah the mental health is not great. I think he talks to his mates a bit but it’s an echo chamber where most of them are drinkers/chronic long term weed users and are all enabling each other, so it’s not all that healthy. He’s having mental health assessments at the moment as part of his medication review so hopefully that leads to something positive for him. In the meantime I have lots of things for him to do lol.
Don’t dump a full list on him. “Hey babe I know you’re not feeling great. When you’re up to it do you think you could tackle X task?” Lots of praise for even attempting said task. Don’t let on there’s a backlog of projects
That’s a sound strategy.
Well that’s totally not dodgy
Started to recognize when I feel “exhausted” there’s a not 0 chance that its really a sign my brains blocking shit out super hard and I don’t really recognize it. OR I’m really tired. So today its time to play “Am I really tired or just a bit depressed?”. Cause the treatment is very different: emotional shit gets met with kindness, going easy and breathing exercises. Exhaustion is met with coffee and trying to fire up a bit. But the wrong treatment for the wrong cause can be pretty detrimental.
a bit of both perhaps
I’m set up with my laptop in the customer lounge of the Subaru service centre while my car gets its first service. They’re using the “Public Transport” heater setting so it’s a billion degrees in here. Otherwise it’s actually not too bad… there are free drinks, snacks and WiFi!
I used to love the Subaru service experience. But I HATED paying for the Subaru service experience. Pretty freaking telling that servicing a Korean turbo diesel AWD is gonna be cheaper than a Japanese 4 cylinder. Imagine when I finally get a WRX its just gonna be me pulling up, handing over the key then pulling my pants down and bending over for them.
That’s the boxer motor with two head gaskets for ya. But it’ll be a good car, not point getting something so nice and not looking after it
OH totally! I’ve been bitten by old neglected subarus in the past. And yes, head-gaskets haha. The WRX will be tucked into bed and kissed tenderly on the hood scoop every night.
i have a sudden urge to watch the octonauts
OMG I remember that! Haven’t watched it since I was like 5 or 6, it was only the coin purse CEO posted that made me remember it was a thing
It’s such a good show. I recommend ‘in the night garden’, too
You can’t tell me that psychedelic drugs were not part of the design process for the Ninky Nonk.
They 100% were for Dr Snuggles!
Haha, yeah. I reckon quite a few kids’ shows had that influence.
The theory in our household is that Upsy Daisy is based on Ari Up (punk rocker with dreads).
I personally like the soothing voiceover by Derek Jacobi, too.
My little coin purse.
omg
Is that show good? I’m on the lookout for bearable kids shows
Fraggle Rock. Press Gang. Round the Twist. Thomas the Tank Engine and friends. Gumby. Adventure Time. Aaahh! Real Monsters. Babar the Elephant. Phineas and Ferb. Rugrats. Tintin.
I need to introduce my little one to Round the Twist
Have you considered going old school? The Ferals, Trapdoor, Duckula, Bananaman, Superted, Dangermouse. I have vague memories of people productions of Nargun & the stars, Chocky. They may be too dated. Secret Valley would certainly be so!
Hitting the SBS cartoon nostalgia hard with Banana Man
I remember all the older shows and they have the bias of me watching them when I was a kid. I want to sift through the Netflix CGI rubbish and find stuff I could tolerate having on in the loungeroom during a workday
I spilt coffee on the kids laptop a while ago and is started having issues, mainly it will disconnect from the wifi and you have to restart to connect again. I spent ages trying to fix drivers and reinstalled Mint but it still happens, so it might be a hardware issue.
Should I go to some computer guy to get it cleaned out or is it not worth it for a 10 year old laptop intended for a pair of toddlers?
10 year old laptop? Nah just replace it. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/tag/laptop Ozbargain often have second hand business machines for 200-300.
Edit: like this one $219 for an 8th gen i5 with 16gb of ram and a 12 month warranty is a hell of a deal!
That is a good deal and I have considered it. This laptop has a bit of sentimental value because it looks really nice and I used it through uni and my first jobs. I’ll go down this path if the need to update is more urgent
I had this issue for ages with Linux. Something about power saving kills the wifi connection. Fedora finally fixed whatever it is. Try booting off a fedora USB and seeing if it goes away.
It does tend to lose connection after it goes to sleep so that could be part of it. I’ll try Fedora if I’m still having problems as well because I’m running it on my laptop and really like it.
This laptop is so old windows stopped supporting the wifi drivers years ago. I’m lucky it can connect to the internet at all
Wifi usb dongle for under $10 at MSY?
God old ethernet to the router?
God old ethernet to the router?
Man its 2024, pretty sure that shits against the geneva convention these days. No joke when I suggested it at work as a troubleshooting step I was told off because it was an “OH and S risk”. I rolled my eyes so hard I’m pretty sure it was audible 4 floors above and below.
You could give it a go yourself with some contact cleaner, otherwise you could probably grab a lappie for maybe 100 bucks off marketplace that would suit the purpose.
I forgot to have lunch. I am now very hungry so I think I’ll go straight to early dinner.
Through to stage two of one (of three total) application which is some kind of test provided by third party. It includes the need to respond to a video in real time 🤔. If that goes fine, then interview. I also had to go through a list of emotive words/phrases/personality traits - about 100 of them, and select ones I agreed with. I guess this is now the norm for large corporations
I did one of those once, lied and then deleted the profile after I didn’t hear back
We once had the low level managers all sent to this bogus psych testing thing , the results of which was then shared with everybody in all the teams around them. It was horrific. I walked out.
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