@LowExperience2368 I've got 15 minutes to wait for a compulsory company-wide Zoom call.
Not enough time to make headway on any of my tasks for today, but too ling to do nothing.
How's everyone else's day been so far?
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@melbaboutown Haha
Yeah, they're good at figuring out the hooman's schemes.
With Miss Mimi, we couldn't crush up her tablets and hide them in her food because one of our other babies likes indulging in other people's meals.
We tried these meat-flavoured pill pockets. She got wise to them within a day. She got good at eating the pockets and spitting out the tablet.
We tried this contraption that flings the tablet down her throat. She got wise to that.
We tried crushing the tablet, mixing it with water, and syringing it. She got wise to that.
We tried hiding the medicines in different places. She came to recognise the sound of the bottle opening.
We tried giving the tablets in different places.
We tried all the things. At best, they worked for a day.
At worst, she bit wifey's finger accidentally.
Most of the time, we thought she took the tablet, only for her to spit it out later.
The joys of having a sick cat...
@Duenan Out of curiosity, what blend?
(We've got an old coffee machine that work was getting rid of, but I'm yet to pick up coffee beans for it. I'm open to recommendations! ☺️)
@Duenan @wscholermann When you're still wide awake at 2am, you'll think to yourself: "Y'know, that was a damn good coffee" 😹
@TinyBreak @Seagoon_ This probably isn't quite what you're looking for, but it does involve a phobia.
I'm a little scared of heights, and a lot scared of falling off ladders.
The last place I lived was an old cream-brick 1960s-ish flat. It had really high ceilings, with that "popcorn" (possibly asbestos?) texture.
I was living there by myself.
One day, the light bulb in the living room blew.
This ceiling was high — I could just barely reach it from the second- or third-top rung (and I wasn't game to go any higher).
The light had one of those glass covers that had a screw in the middle, and then a couple of hooks on either side. After about 50-odd years, it was well and truly rusted and didn't want to budge.
Well.
After two goes, taking around half an hour each time, I finally managed to get the bloody cover off.
Then another 30 minutes to get the old bulb out.
Then another 30 minutes to get the new globe in.
After spending around two hours — basically the best part of a Saturday afternoon — trying to change one light globe, I was done. The cover can wait for another day.
Unfortunately, a few weeks later, I got a notice that the real estate agents wanted to do an inspection. The joys of renting!
That weekend, I asked wifey to come over (we hadn't moved in together yet) and help put the cover on.
Ladder out. Clip. Clip. Clip. Screw.
She had the cover back on in, like, two minutes, tops.
I think I might have actually said something along the lines of: "Shit — it's that easy?"
The moral of the story?
Find a handywoman, move in with her, and get wifey to do it 😁
@melbaboutown @Seagoon_ Poor Melbcat, hope she gets better soon.
And I don't envy you, especially if you had to feed her the tablets.
One of ours went to the vet recently and was given antibiotics.
Within a day or so, she figured out the signs and began hiding in a cupboard as soon as either of us opened the drawer where they were kept. Or she heard the pill bottle open.
It then took bogh my partner and I to hold her down while feeding her the tablet.
@CEOofmyhouse56 @Seagoon_ You just reminded me of something thst happened a couple of weeks ago.
When we first adopted our babies, wifey used to often give in and give them scraps from what she's eating. I never did.
Fast forward a couple of years.
I'm eating dinner in the living room, wifey's having dinner in bed.
She was joined by all three cats.
Mewing incessantly.
"Why do they always leave you alone at dinner time, yet always pester me for food?" shd asks.
I reply: "Because you trained them to!"
@mysticgreg Unfortunately, they're now owned by the same conglomerate that turned Red Rooster into a home brand KFC knockoff. And also Chicken Treat (ask your friend from Perth, they'll tell you).
@mysticgreg @Baku Not surprised about Carl's Jr.
I went out of my way to try one when they first came to Australia, and underwhelmed is an understatement.
It's basically Hungry Jack's, but somehow worse.
I remember trying Oporto when they first opened a store in Chapel Street. A good friend of my ex-gf insisted we try a burger at this joint that's like Nando's but 1000x better.
Even as we were trying to find parking at midday in the side streets of South Yarra, insisted it would be totally worth it.
(This would have been around 2004-ish?)
I was dubious, but went along for the ride.
And I remember that it was actually not that bad.
And that's not something I've ever felt eating their food since then.
I thought it was just me!
@NovaPrime @popheads And here's another new interview from Alessia Cara, where she discusses her songwriting process and musical influences: https://youtu.be/c5p68jz7TI8?si=GSzAebCCt8xL8F3s
I'm really looking forward to hearing what she comes up with on this new album.
#music #NewMusic #NewReleases #Songwriter #Songwriters #Songwriting #pop #alternative #brampton #canada #musicians
@NovaPrime @popheads There's some more details about Alessia Cara's forthcoming album in an interview she recently did with People Magazine.
It will lean into her '50s and '60s soul influences. Also, a guest appearance from John Mayer on one of the tracks:
"On Friday, July 19, Cara released “Dead Man,” the lead single to her soon-to-come fourth studio album with production from Mike Elizondo. It’s a song she describes as a “jam” with a jazzy touch, an in-your-face horn section and the feeling of “all the music that I loved growing up.” There’s splashes of her favorite material from the ‘50s and ‘60s, a “little bit” of 2000s, and it of course features Cara’s distinct , always-commanding vocals.
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" The album itself, which Cara has yet to reveal the title of, is set to arrive in the fall. She says it’s not a jazz album by any means, but rather “feels like a collection of all the things that I love." And she loves a lot of music. Over the last few years, she’s tapped into some music from the ‘60s and ‘70s, African funk, bossa nova, and primarily what she described as material created in “eras before my time” — the Lijadu Sisters, Billy Joel and some old Red Hot Chili Peppers records.
"Recorded between late 2021 and the top of 2024, Cara’s new album process started “very slow,” when she was 'in a little bit of a rut lyrically and conceptually'.
"'I wrongfully felt like I said everything that I needed to say, and I was just stuck on what to say. I was actually in a good place, and I don't really tend to write well when I'm in a good place because you don't really need to vent when you're happy, I guess. So I was like, ‘What do I do? I've never been a writer from this perspective.’ So I had to readjust my mindset and readjust the way that I approached songwriting, which is kind of a fun exercise and a fun challenge because you have to, I don't know, put yourself in a different position or exercise a different muscle that you don't typically exercise,' she says.
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"During one song in particular that's yet to be released, Cara features a minute-long John Mayer guitar solo, something she calls 'one of the coolest things I’ve been able to make happen in my life.'"
https://people.com/alessia-cara-interview-dead-man-single-exclusive-8680099
@CEOofmyhouse56 @underwatermagpies You inspired me to stop by the local Baker's Delight for lunch.
They didn't have any of those custard buns with coconut flakes (I looked!), but I did get a cheese and tomato bun.