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      I hate spam calls so I never answer unknown numbers. I’d rather someone leave a voicemail if they are legit, than me answering every random number.

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    Tonight’s wave:

    Was sitting there gearing up (or down) to jump in. Had a really friendly dog (labradoodle) rock up, sit on me (after it’d already jumped in itself) and shake itself down.

    Doggo did that on purpose.

    love that breed / cross, no water boundaries.

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      I’m jealous of the waves, so beautiful and always different

      but then the still waters of Seaholme are so very calming and I need calm

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    I got my fan. All the pieces are there and it’s working. Looking forward to having it beside my bed, 5 inches from my face, with a remote.

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    lil rant

    D’ya ever sit down ready for the day and the first two things that jump out of the internet / work notifications just gut punch you? Not normal end of the world stuff, like people you thought were collaborators shouting things in direct competition to you…and being wrong…or things you thought were done six months ago that slipped through…like the world is rolling and you can’t keep up?

    I feel so far behind on everything

    …coffee, sun, reset,.stay off linked in… remember it’s baby steps…

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    Any recommendations for a conveyancer in the Brunswick West area? Taking building inspector recs too.

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    Feel a bit bad that I didn’t realise the Lamarre-Condon trial started on Monday. But I cannot believe what I am reading as his defence, and what the prosecutor is alleging actually happened. Those boys must have been so scared.

    Who in their right mind could possibly believe he was acting in ‘self defence’?

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      So this pig stalks his ex, pretends to be an Uber driver, breaks in and kills both his ex and new bf? And he and his lawyers want to claim self-defence‽

      How does breaking in to someone else’s property and killing them constitute self-defence? Riddle me that, Batman.

      What a piece of shit human, but unsurprising he’s a copper imo. One of the few professions someone could have where I wouldn’t date or even be friends with them.

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        If he’s instructed his legal team to run this defence they don’t have a choice! (I appreciate the interrobang.)

        r/auslaw has some funny snarky takes on this. I have also learnt there that life without parole is a sentence open to the judge. Let’s hope so.

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        It’s unfortunate bad people gravitate to positions where they can use power to exploit or even hurt others.

        We need better testing of applicants to weed out the bad ones.

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          Story Side Quest

          Back in my retails day we had a Loss Prevention officer who was kinda crazy, would basically be frothing at the mouth at the idea of catching a “bad guy” in the store. It was embarrassing watching her stalk people around the store and there was a rumour she failed the psychological testing to become a police officer.

          Jokes on her though because it turned out her work bestie had been stealing for YEARS before she was caught by someone else.

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            she failed the psychological testing to become a police officer.

            I understand that this is not that unusual. The army and navy too will happily boot out people that they think have an unhealthy relationship with unsupervised power. At least our army/navy, can’t speak for other nations’ ones. Doesn’t stop some nasty behaviour to women, but armies everywhere have always had severe difficulty coping with the ghastly prospect that women might be good soldiers.

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              armies everywhere have always had severe difficulty coping with the ghastly prospect that women might be good soldiers.

              That and some of their male soldiers don’t care what consent is, and they see a person with some holes and tits and think it’s theirs for the taking. Doesn’t matter if that person is on their side or not, they got holes they can put their dick in.

              There’s a lot of problems with the army/navy, but women aren’t one of them imo lol

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      The more I read about this case, the more utterly insane it is in the most awful of ways. He has the right to be innocent until proven guilty, but oh my god. Tbh it’s not as fascinating at the Erin Patterson case because the motive seems so so obvious, but I’m still going to follow along because I want to learn the outcome and I’m a nosey little bitch.

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    Taking my cousin to the airport shortly. He going to Queensland to start setting himself up.

    It’s been great having him here. Didn’t get to spend as much time with him as I would have liked, but I’ll be going up to see him when I can.

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    My manger keeps approving leave thinking we’ll be around to answer the phone if something comes up.

    1. I’m on leave
    2. I might answer, but it’s not like I’ll be at a computer I can actually work from for a couple of hours
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      Our lovely financial lady will be taking annual leave in the middle of our busiest period “It’s okay! I’ll just wake up early and do an hour of work every day!” GIRL!!! THAT IS NOT ANNUAL LEAVE. I DON’T CARE IF YOU’RE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.

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        Everyone thinks they could slip a little work in and it never happens. Just don’t put that pressure on yourself

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      I broke my boss of his habit calling my mobile by “leaving it at a friends place” for a week.

      I was fully at work and had my sip phone raring to go. I just ignored every call and text to my personal mobile

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    Alright, back from a two day trip and got tomorrow off. Time to get cracking. Unfortunately meetings meant the cracking starts in the afternoon