Adelaide 2 Fri

Breakfast at the Adelaide Markets which are right across the road. It's indoor with lots of fruit stalls and bakeries. We've found a vegan place that does lovely coffee and for breakfast we added a bowl of salad. 

Slept off breakfast and then took a bus to Glenelg. More coffee. Wrote a post card to Tim and Ro. Next stop is the beach. 

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Adelaide 1

4:40 

4:47 bus departed air park 2

6:00 boarding. 

6:11 on plane. Doors closed. 

A thing in a cardboard box masquerading as breakfast. 

Arrived Adelaide on time 9:15 ish local time. 

Google advised there was a bus and directed us to the bus stop.  The ticket machine had strange patterns on the screen. 

Walked 3 blocks to the hotel metropolitan. Left bags. 

Checked out the market and ate a banana, cucumber, Portuguese tart and a coffee. 

Mountain Valley all good

Most Monday nights I get together with a small group of guys and we have dinner and after discussing sex drugs religion sport politics and generally solving the problems of the world we turn our attention to our own issues. 

One framework some of us use is:

MOUNTAIN 

VALLEY 

OASIS

HORIZON

MOUNTAIN - a recent high point. 

VALLEY - a low point

OASIS - a time of calm in the last week. 

HORIZON - something I'm looking forward to. 

Last night I quickly thought of a horizon being the up coming travel. 

Initially couldn't think of valleys, mountains or even an oasis.  Life just seemed pretty good. Rolling along comfortably. 

Then realised ahh yes I do have a valley in the form of a broken foot. 

Later pondered how my mental state has changed with time. 5 years ago, I would have been very down. I would have fixated on that broken foot as confirmation that the world is against me.  My life socks. I'm a clumsy idiot and so on. 

Now my mental space is much more positive such that while a broken foot is an annoyance and I was annoyed with myself for slipping, there's not the accompanying depression, negative view and anger. 

Broken foot

4am and I'm on my way to rowing, walking down the back stairs.  Suddenly I'm on the ground groaning in agony and pushing the dog away as its trying to lick my face. 

Carefully reach out and feel my foot and even more Tentatively stand up.  It's sore but I can put some weight on it.  Hobble to the car and drive to west end. 

I was bow seat in an eight. The row was a bit ordinary. No pain while rowing and so I don't think I contributed disproportionately to the instability.

Breakfast ok

At work it began to throb.  Got a cold pack from the freezer and that provided some relief. 

Gave up and decided to go to the doc. Established that Corinda medical centre could not see me for 4 hours and likewise the blunder Rd ctr. Discovered the urgent care clinic at Canossa. Walk in, or in my case hobble in. No cost. No booking in and almost no wait.

A slight digression here as I had to park way down the hill on seventeen mile rocks road.  Took forever to hobble up the hill. 

Dr Liam organised a fellow to fit me with a moon boot and referred me for an ultrasound. The ultrasound people are down the corridor but a different business. They scheduled me for 3:40pm.

Hobbled back to the car. Experimented with operating the car with the moon boot. Decided too hard. So pryed it off. Drove home. 

Felt spaced out. Forgot the phone on silent. A few work calls backed up. 

Later Phoebe kindly arrived to take me to the ultrasound. We wound our way through the back streets to avoid the gridlock.

Now waiting for the ultrasound report.

Sat 15 SUN 16

Saturday was very full and busy.  Sunday was the spin down day.

 SATURDAY
7:00 Park Run
Breaky at Phoebe's
Syndetic - Circular Saw.
Bunnings - Plywood
Pet Shop - Shampoo
Home - Tek Screws.
Phoebe's - Work on chair.  Measure and trim plywood.
Home - Snooze
3:30 - Dance Lesson - Bluebell Swing
Drinks and pizza at ? in West End.  Danced Bluebell Swing to the duf duf DJ
Bush dance - Said Hi to Megan who was there.  Only did a few dances because tired and early start due Sunday.

 

SUNDAY
7:00 Coaching
Breaky at home
Wash Magnus with the special anti itch shampoo.

6:00 Dance at Seventeen Mile Rocks Good Life.

8:00 ish Dinner at the Greek takeway.

Cyclone Alfred

 Well what a fizzer this has turned out to be.

About a week ago the government began, rightfully in my opinion, to warn us that the cyclone was on it's way.

On Wednesday they switched off all public transport.  In my opinion, way too early and of course stranding those who do not own a car.  The sky's were blue and there was no wind.

 

MON 3 

TUE 4
Normal work day.  Dance lesson followed by Thai.

WED 5
Went to work.  Ross, Jeremy & Will turned up as well.
This was the day that the government [unnecessarily] told everyone to stay home from work and switched off public transport.

THUR 6
Went into work and wrapped the bench with the valuable equipment.
Roast Dinner with Chris

FRI 7
Visited Phoebe's dad at Lota.  Walk along the beach front.  Observed kids encouraging cars to drive through a puddle and splash them.  Saw CH7 reporter and cameraman looking bored.  Picked up plastic from RQ and fixed Phoebe's window and then made a short silly video wrapping the house.  Went back into work and checked on stuff.  Took pic of wrapped bench.  Dinner at Glenrich st with Tim and Phoebe.

SAT 8
No power at Phoebe's place.  Coffee and Breaky cooked on gas.  Tim came with Apple Danish after being instructed to buy Croissants.
Evening - Power on at St Lucia and OFF at Corinda.  FT cooked up plastic emergency food and rice for dinner. 

SUN 9 
No power at Corinda.  Breaky at Phoebe's (Power back on at Phoebe's

 

 

 

Sat 8 Powers OFF

 Two different days and two different places had power off.

 FRIDAY

Came over early to visit Phoebe and the power was off at St Lucia.

 

Wow so exciting.....

.....

Finally something

...

The powers out.

We have to fire up the gas stove.

Coffee.

....

Just like camping.

 

SATURDAY 

Early evening, having a shower and the power went off at Corinda.  Got out wet and fumbled around looking for my torch.  Gave up.  Used phone light and got back in the shower to rinse off.  Later found the torch.

 

No power in my life.

In order to get the full cyclone experience

going to force myself to eat the one pre-packaged emergency dinner.

And feeling self-righteous having prepared a torch(with batteries), gas to cook on and what one could call food in an emergency.  

 

In the dark, between stirring the "dinner", Got the inverter that I had brought home from work out of my car.  Collected the two car batteries from down stairs and brought it all up stairs.

 

Sat back ate the plastic emergency food and checked facebook.

 

The mobile data was very slow and only one bar.  I assume that the mobile network providers do not have battery backup.  The Optus tower is in Corinda and in the middle of the power outage