It’s technically my girlfriend’s place and she got it for her mother. Her mumcan’t work because she’s the carer of my girlfriend’s aunt who had a stroke. Her husband left her and they had to sell the house so this is the solution to keep her family out of renting forever.

Her brother has been allowed to stay in his room so he’s in his mid 20s and has never had a job before. He’s autistic but that’s no reason to let him become a shut-in with no prospects.

I’ve had that where my own sick days have doubled up as carers days for the kids. Unfortunately the support network in the house isn’t great because the people who don’t work and have no other commitments can’t seem to get up before noon or even just walk the kids down to thr park

Unfortunately I live with the less useful side of the family. I avoid sending them when sick, even when they’re just clingy because I know it will disrupt the carers’ plans for the other kids.

There are just a fair few days like this, and responding to a call to pick them up would take too long if I was in an office in the city and got thr call to pick them up

I took them to the doctor today and got a certificate for carers leave for tomorrow.

I’m full WFH and tomorrow is like the one day a year event they want everyone to go to Marvel stadium for a bunch of pro work propaganda.

I may be having problems with my manager, but I might need to ride this out or find another fully remote role because I don’t know how days like this will work otherwise

My girlfriend’s family live with us, so her mother and her brother are here, but I don’t really want to leave my kids in their hands.

My parents are up in NSW so whilst they’d be a little better they’re just not an option

Nat is a lot like that. It’s like he’s playing up the Australian trope of swearing a lot. I’m fine with swearing, even as much as he does, but you take it out and there are no other jokes there

This is where I would kind of work backwards and skeleton out my writing, then look for anything in the research papers that supports it. I know it’s not so easy to Ctrl+f academic papers because they’re so dense, but you can skim until you find what you’re after.

If you’re not having luck then you adjust your argument to something more along the line of what you’ve read so far

What do people with normal jobs do when both parents are working and their kids are too sick to go to childcare?

I have the one in person event I need to attend tomorrow and the way the kids are going that probably won’t happen. Are you supposed to take a day off work every time? Normal people can’t do that

Academic writing is very different to the SEO blog content I used to crap out at an old job, but that approach to writing might behelpful.

I’d start with the title of the piece, then skeleton it out with subheadings, and expand on those subheadings to populate the body.

It’s a great way to structure your writing even when you don’t have the mental capacity to start. Then you can think about your argument before you do a bulk of the writing and you’re not staring at a blank page when you sit down to write again.

Also, check if the text editor you’re using has a referencing tool. It makes putting them in and your bibliography so much easier if you’re not using it already

Do what you need to get by. Sounds like a good time to focus on tafe as well

I don’t know about his food, but you need to get past Nat talking like a kid who just learnt what swear words are

I thought it would mean an easy nap put down but they’re both awake again and have not slept yet

Just had two toddlers sleeping on me the way pets do when you can’t move

I have a shield as well and I guess I haven’t been completely happy with it. You’re limited to what’s in the app store, it’s hard to download things because it doesn’t have a browser, and I mapped it to my computer as a network drive but it keeps disconnecting

This came up in the 4 corners episode on supermarket price gouging. There’s no way laundry detergent is worth $20 so half price is just a brief stint at how much it should cost

I heard it’s easy to change versions and even get free copies of windows. I ran this other tool I read about that I think edits the DLL files and just turns it on. If that doesn’t workI’ll try this

I was going to do this with the kids’ laptop until the internet connection became too unstable.

I’d like to learn Docker and even Kubernetes on top of that. Having a computer I’m using for something specific will help with that a lot.

And fuck Microsoft for only allowing remote desktop on enterprise versions of windows. I want to set up a remote connection so I can leave this laptop behind the TV and not need to touch it unless absolutely necessary. Any version of linux would let me do so

Ballista’s are no good. The recoil means they’re never in the same place twice which makes precise aiming difficult

I’m thinking I put an old laptop to use as a media player before forking out for an old PC to be dedicated to the job. I want to use it as is initially, but Windows is really making me want to just wipe the whole thing and just put Debian on it for this project.

This laptop was my daily driver for a couple of years so I kind of want to keep it as is for a little while if possible, but I could just scrape everything off it and format it if that’s what things come to

I was hoping to see Psycroptic tonight but the show sold out. I don’t buy tickets in advance much anymore in case the kids are a nightmare to put to sleep but they went down well enough tonight.

These are the risks you take, and good on the boys from Tassie for selling out their Melbourne shows