Yep it feels like a week of Fridays this week leading into the holiday

A White Christmas indeed

We were directed to take those 3 days off. Only essential support staff are allowed to work them.

I’ve got those 3 and then until the 15th off 😎🛳️

How do we know it’s really you? You might be pretending to be somebody you’re not on the internet…

You can do brandy in it but we’ve usually gone boozeless. My great aunty used to make it and it was amazing for the kiddos but she literally took the recipe to her grave.

https://bunch.woolworths.com.au/s/recipe/a0K2y0000011ixOEAQ/christmas-pudding-white-sauce?sfdcIFrameOrigin=null

I tried making this today as a test but I must have had too much cornflour because it was so thick it was like custard jelly.

Anyone got a rock solid white sauce recipe for Christmas pudding?

Keep it clean, you heathens.

At my parents place. I have murdered no less than 4 flies. Here lies 2 victims.

You crushed it this weekend, bot001 😎💅🔥🥳🪩

I’m 40 and I’d have to try to remember which year was the last time I went for a big night out

It’s a little late for that, I just arrived after my 3.5 hour drive here. Out of curiosity I did flip the coin before I left and it said don’t go.

Sitting here contemplating flipping a coin as to whether I’ll go for an overnight road trip border adventure but realised I need to get out of this apartment so the answer is already Go.

One of the engines not so much because I know planes are designed to handle losing an engine. Thinking about a wing falling off? Yeah, especially if I’m sat over a wing by a window I’ll just look at it wobbling and think “what if this is the number of wobbles it takes to come off?”, especially on long OS flights over the ocean… but I try to distract myself from thinking about it for too long.

Holy shit Potato Gratin for prime minister. Every frozen thing I’ve tried from Aldi (I admit that isn’t many things) has been severely underwhelming but these thickened cream & cheese potato gratin things are actually incredible. Like little personal potato bakes.

I don’t know about all that. My evenings and my heart are full enough with the spoken words of our Lord in the Holy Bible.

Haven’t seen @just_kitten@aussie.zone around these parts for a bit. Did they melt in NSW?

Songs about drinkin’ and/or living that good life near the water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCjC543llU

And an old favourite drinking song of mine from back in the day, best enjoyed later in an evening when you’re all ready to sing along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETXvW0hWww4

This is going to sound like a lie but I actually have no idea. I very very rarely visit these sites. I only got to this year in review from a reddit post about it on interestingasfuck

I’m just reading through Pornhub’s 2023 Year in Review (I probably shouldn’t link to PH here, but you can find it) and it’s actually fascinating data… and they have a lot of it!

Spoiler: Australia’s PH viewing drops 17.2% on Australia Day. I think that says a lot about people getting together with friends and family rather than spending the day alone and it’s actually quite nice. Also Australia loves lesbians.

I did say that I’d like to give that a go once I got a new car! I’m just not sure I want to (or should) do it solo.

I was just looking at a picture of Australia and it’s crazy how little of this country I’ve seen in my 40.5 years. I did a rough highlight of where I’ve been, and I mean rough because I have been very generous with how thick some of the lines are considering I just took 1 highway in some cases and I’ve highlighted a whole chunk where I’ve sort of criss-crossed on various highways and destinations. It’s not like I’ve been through every inch of where I’ve highlighted.

UPDATE: I have made it a little more accurate, going from Google’s data. It looks a bit off but I think it’s because this image is skewed by Google Earth’s globeness.

If I look at where Google has seen me (so this would be from 2013 onwards when I moved from iPhone to Android), I can see it thinks I haven’t seen a bunch of western Victoria but that must have been pre-Android when I drove out there, or maybe I haven’t seen as much of it as I thought: