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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I thought about not going but it didn’t seem like it would stop bleeding. Unfortunately it wasn’t the type like a slice where you could hold it together and it clots up and stops bleeding. The doctor couldn’t stitch it either, I think the word he used was “trimmed”. Deep enough to continue bleeding but no way to close it up, hence the cauterisation. It’s not fun I can tell you, it’s also on my dominant hand which is annoying as I can’t get it wet!





  • Well they haven’t got back to me with the test results yet, but I already started taking them and the antibiotics. It’s definitely seemed to help me yesterday and I managed a much better sleep last night without as much pain on waking up. What should I be concerned about with the steroids with glandular fever? I understand antibiotics wouldn’t do anything as it’s not a bacterial infection.






  • Currently day 10 of whatever sickness has been going around. Spent all of last week with constant nausea, then last weekend in bed. Been popping ibuprofens and paracetamols for the last few days just to get through. Still getting a bit of nausea, but head and ears are feeling lots of tension and throat is swelling up, but now combined with the fun being unable to sleep through the night for the last few nights! To top it all off can’t get a doctor’s appointment for more than a week. I guess I’ll just resign myself to either being better or dead by then.


  • Unfortunately it’s probably too easy to get shut down due to IP laws here. Anyone selling the stuff that gets even remotely popular would attract the attention of the law.

    Counterfeit clothes can be very hit and miss though. I lived in Southeast Asia for awhile where you could get it easily and there is a lot of it that is crap quality.

    Personally I don’t buy many clothes any more, but the little that I do buy I’m happy to spend more on quality so it lasts longer.




  • I’m not sure locally you can find counterfeit clothes easily, and they may be of variable quality if you do manage to find someone doing it without being shut down.

    I do remember from my sneaker obsessed days that there were sellers on Taobao that sold “replica” sneakers. Not sure about cheaper end Adidas but I remember on reddit there was a sub for discussing “replica” clothes and shoes, r/fashionreps or something? You might be able to find an international source there.

    Many years ago I went to Hong Kong and Shenzhen and picked up a number of “replica” luxury watches for myself. They had them by grades and you could choose to spend more for higher grade replicas. I think I was paying $100-$150 for replicas of $10000+ watches which most people wouldn’t be able to tell they were fakes. I still remember they would bring out catalogues from watch manufacturers and tell you what they have available and what grade they were. The whole replica industry is pretty interesting.


  • Good food is wasted on kids honestly, they always want the most basic tasting food. My favourite way for broccoli is to toss it in oil, salt, garlic powder and pepper then roast in a really hot oven or bbq so it gets a bit charred all over. Gets a really nice nutty flavour to it.

    Currently the youngest just wants whatever we’re eating. Sometimes she doesn’t even know what it is and immediately wants it when she sees us eating it 😂