I just heard the bad news that I am probably going to need a new job starting in July.
So, before beginning the regular search, I wanted to ask my Fedi friends if anyone could use a capable C++ programmer with lots of graphics and networking experience. I wouldn't mind a change, so I'm open to anything. Even other programming languages! It would be awesome if I could use Linux to do the work. 🐧
Locations I would consider are: Central Europe, Melbourne, Sydney or Remote
This is the first time I've flown out of MEL Domestic in several months,so I was pleased to see the food area just after security has finally been rebuilt and looks much nicer.
Used to be very tacky, full of fast-food joints and a tired-looking bar. Now there are a bunch of well-known Melbourne cafes with branches there. Surprisingly the prices don't seem that expensive, because inner-city cafes are expensive now anyway.
The bus upgrades in growth areas announced last week are very welcome, and a good start in providing more transport options for locals. Continued investment in bus services is vital.
Had an excellent breakfast yesterday at Hardware Société in the company of friends. The food is always impressive there. @NarrelleMHarris's choice looks a bit gooey but it was actually an excellent vegan option, baked tofu in a tasty sauce, with a baguette on the side.
Yesterday we had our working bee in my mother's garden. One of my mother's neighbours joined my husband and I and we spent several hours pruning, planting, mulching and chatting. It was lovely for Mum as she had different people to chat with while we were working.
We planted or moved around 25 plants in the garden beds that had been reshaped by the path my brother recently made. Things we planted included camellia, canna, clivia, mondo grass, succulents. Mum's neighbour spent about an hour on a ladder carefully removing jasmine that was covering a large camellia. We filled a green wheelie bin with prunings.
I potted up some geranium, cornea, abutilon and jasmine cuttings that Mum can look after.
I don't have any photos other than this one I took before we started. #GardeningAU#Melbourne
Kinda cool to see a stream train on the #melbourne Metro network but I have questions about who thought it was okay to run it under the southern cross roof where it made the air visibly dirty
Newly built, 'affordable housing' development in Ascot Vale that was opening in March last year has residents forced to use buckets to flush toilets and numerous other building faults. #Melbourne#housing
Had a good gardening day today. In the afternoon I planted a tall-growing geranium cutting outside the garage, a jasmine cutting next to it which will grown up the fence to the front door and on the street side next to the short drive I planted a 'Big red' geranium cutting that has a spreading compact growth pattern.
Each plant I had grown from cuttings in pots last year so they all had good root structures. By next summer I hope they will be well-established and hopefully they will survive the hot, aftoon western sun.
My husband and I dug out weeds on the opposite side of the garage. I have another set of potted cuttings I can plant there when I have time in a few days.
When we first moved in 2 and a half years ago there were two conifers planted foolishly close to the drive and house which had been cut down but were still sprouting. We had to poison them and wait until they had well and truly died. The bases of these trees are now rotting away nicely. Every few months we are able to cut away more of the cut-down trunks.
I also planted coriander seeds and a clover mix in a part of the garden with poor quality soil. I had saved a dried, okd oak-leaf hydrangea flower head in a paper bag. I shook some of the seeds into a couple of punnet. Let's see what happens with them!
It is so nice that we are now having mild weather with good rain making gardening feasible again. #Melbourne#GardeningAU
Bike Route Buddy's great video of some Geelong examples of the intentionally sabotaged bike lanes that make up the majority of bike lanes in Victoria.
'Car door death-zone' bike lanes that encourage drivers to illegally close pass are worse than no bike lanes at all.
It is a public holiday here and peak gardening season. This morning I did a lot of work on our worm farm. I had retired the bottom bin 3 months ago and have been only feeding the top bin. We have a lot of worms and some migrated up. They have eaten a lot of stuff in the top bin including all the shredded paper I had put in there.
However, there are still heaps of worms in the bottom bin that are not migrating up. I was puzzled. What were they feeding on?
As I pulled worms out from the bottom bin by hand this morning (spent about an hour doing it), I felt solid material amongst the worm paste. There were still remnants of corn cobs in there. I also found a couple of partially digested tea bags. No wonder they are still happy there.
We paid a bit more to get a worm farm that was light and can be kept indoors as well as out. During the summer it is too hot for worms outside so we have it next to our kitchen on a plastic mat. It is good that the weather has cooled down so we can now keep it outside. Regular worm farm maintenance can get messy. #Melbourne#vermiculture
Here's some street art we spotted a few days ago in Seddon ('The gateway to Footscray' as comedian Dave O'Neill once described it). Western suburbs charm.
If you can offer a room &/or be a #carer please help. Ask everyone you know. Boost until someone sees.
Can pay carer allowance (not means tested, about 75$ week) carer allowance (up to about $500 a week. Can go halves in rent too, depending on your needs
#melbourne folk, the ANZ banking museum has reopened in the gothic bank on the corner of Collins and Queen streets, moving into the ground floor grand chamber. The banking paraphernalia may or may not be interesting but the building is gorgeous and you can now get a look easier than when the whole floor was a bank branch