• Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    13·
    13 days ago

    Pre-inspection rental application completed. I’m really missing the days when you would go to the real estate agent, grab the keys for anything you were interested in to go and have a look, and if you liked it you just showed some basic id & proof of income and the place was yours.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      4·
      13 days ago

      I’m afraid you’re quickly learning how dramatically different it is to 20 years ago. Welcome to what many of us younger ones are dealing with 😭

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      3·
      13 days ago

      Yup! Many less hoops to jump through to get the mortgage than deal with a new rental app. Seems they want damn dna samples now, and it’s all in highly insecure third party databases.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        2·
        13 days ago

        Yeah, some you have to apply for and be accepted onto a shortlist before you get to inspect it. This one sends you the link for the application at the same time as the registration to inspect, I’m not actually sure if you have to do the application first but I figure it can’t hurt.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    12·
    13 days ago

    I was unsuccessful in my rental application. ☹️

    I’ve booked an inspection of another one which looks ok, but the photos on the website are the same photos it was sold with 7 years ago.

    There is another maybe property which looks a bit too good for the price and has been listed for a while, so I am a bit sus about that one. It also has a patch of fake grass in bad condition and a number of very large yuccas.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      5·
      13 days ago

      the photos are often big lies

      it’s best to visit in person

      and what might be a catch for someone else is ok for you, so just cheack it

      for my new place teh “catch” is it’s in the western suburbs and near a railway station, for a lot of people that’s not acceptable, for me it’s ok

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        3·
        13 days ago

        That might be the only catch with this one too - maybe walking distance to the scrap metal yard is not a drawcard?

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        3·
        13 days ago

        Unfortunately both actually have yuccas, but the other place has less of them, and they are tucked away down the side of the house.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      4·
      13 days ago

      Better luck next time and beware what looks too good to be true. There’s always a catch.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        6·
        13 days ago

        It might just be location. I’m learning the “poor” areas just by comparing rental prices. But I’d personally rather have an older house with a bit of yard space in a run down area than one of the cookie-cutter grey townhouses that comprise about 80% of the market. They are just not my style.

          • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
            3·
            13 days ago

            the disused petrochemical facilities are about 2 km from where I live

            I can’t see them and there is no pollution or smell but I know they are there .

            is that any worse than densely populated urban areas with lots of noise and car pollution?

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    12·
    13 days ago

    Ol’ boy finally found the piccys from a school trip we did to nepal back in 1999 (I was yr 9 at the time). 200 kids, bunch of teachers, 4 docs who were parents of kids (and went for free lol). And a fuckton of risk, they stopped the trip a year after that as a few kids ran into health troubles. Cheap as shit due to bulk kids.

    Was before digital cams so pretty much only the adults had proper cameras. ol’ boy had a nice one and got heaps of shots. They’re all on slides and negatives.

    Looks awful for now until I get them properly imaged but fuck me the memories.

    Over easter doing a slide show on an old school slide projector from the 70’s that still works down the bellarine w/ the fam. Gonna be lit lol.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    10·
    13 days ago
    Medical

    Well apparently the reason I’ve been feeling so bad is low phosphate levels and it’s apparently urgent to deal with 🙃

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    10·
    13 days ago

    Parma for dinner. Tomorrow nights probs loaded potato wedges that I stole the idea from Aldi. need to get back into miss match meals to use whats in the freezer.

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    13 days ago

    Spent most of today learning how to navigate my new org’s SharePoint structure. Nearly 4 years in the same place and shit was embedded in my memory and almost automatic.

    I feel like an infant learning how to crawl again.

    • sarahsquirrel@aussie.zone
      2·
      12 days ago

      Your org has a SharePoint structure? I’m very envious! At our place we have multiple SharePoint archipelagos and no map.

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        My last job had SharePoint guidelines, which few followed.

        This is one is seriously regimented. In saying that, the instructions are - copy the previous folder structure and do not deviate.

        I’m down with that approach honestly.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    8·
    12 days ago

    I didn’t realise I had the same bug as the rest of the family until I finished my coffee in the office. I managed to get home alright without any problems. Another plus to the location of this place, the last thing you’d want is an hour long train trip after realising you’re sick

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    13 days ago

    Last night I learned that Pluto and Charon are tidally locked with each other, so Charon appears to not move in Pluto’s sky.

    Our moon is tidally locked with us, so it always shows us the same side, but it moves through the sky because Earth isn’t tidally locked with it.

    Mind blown 🤯

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      5·
      13 days ago

      The Brian Cox series on ABC has a bunch of interesting stuff about this. I think one of Jupiter’s moon’s moons isn’t tidally locked to the moon itself, but another point in space of it’s elliptical movement.

      Then you can look up Alpha Centuri and the suns and planets that orbit each other

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
      4·
      13 days ago

      Our moon is tidally locked with us, so it always shows us the same side, but it moves through the sky because Earth isn’t tidally locked with it.

      For the non nerds but mildly curious this means that the moon spins at the same time that earth moves and that’s the reason we don’t see the dark side of the moon.