Today we drove the Landy to Corinda station and after waiting 20 minutes took the train to Central. On the way out, realised we'd forgotten to 'touch on'. Tried a touch off.
Walked to 'Sugar and Spice' coffee shop.
Friday, February 28, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
ERG
Been doing some ergs.
Date 1k 25 5k
| Date | 1k | 2k | 5k | Notes |
| 19-02-2025 | 3:57.7 | OK so a 3 second improvement. My recollection was I had dropped the rating from 33 to 29 |
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| 17-02-2025 | 4:00.1 | Place marker to see where I am at | ||
| 9-2-2025 | 8:33.4 | First time in ages doing an erg |
Times to beat. At 3:57 I am still slower than anyone else who submitted an erg.
From an email from the chairman, Mar 7, 2024, 11:22 AM
Surfers Park Run
Sufers paradise park run
Set off to take Mags to the off lead area at the spit and on the way do main beach park run. Missed the Smith street exit and so Phoebe got on line and found an alternate park run.
Surfers
After park run we walked across the bridge and bought breakfast and coffee.
Then up to the off lead area at the top of the spit. It was high tide and really rough. mags had a great time and Phoebe and I swam and splashed about in the waves. This is the only place I know of where there are flags and dogs are allowed. So we swam between the flags in view of the lifeguard.
Veronica's Room
Centenary Theatre Company have a new play at the theatre in Chelmer.
A bit weird. Well more than a bit weird. Gaslighting on steroids.
No one, except perhaps the girl, is who they appear to be. Seems to include all sorts of weirdness - people playing others and incest and implied rape.
The production, was a bit flat. A lot of just dialog between characters standing on stage.
The final weirdness was that it just finished. We thought it was just a second intermission and that there would be a third act. But that was it. No bow by the actors. No wrapping it up with a conclusion. Left feeling just a bit odd.
I note that the poster says May/June 2025. I wonder whether the theatre company had been planning some other play and then had a schism and cancelled that and brought Veronica forward.
Monday, February 10, 2025
Parking Jemmas Mobile Number
As Jemma is over seas, there is no point in paying $60+ per month.
Ideally it would be nice to keep it active and pay a small amount so that she can use it to receive two fact auth texts.
Alternatively, to somehow "park" the number until she's home. This seems to be called "Suspending"
First a long and frustrating chat with someone on the Optus app. They wanted me to pay$63 per month. Just didn't listen and focused on their bonus. Now it seems like I need to talk to a "dedicated team" ahh but lets just look at the best deals for you. Still trying for that commission.
What are the options?
ALDI
This post on redit suggests to park buy buying an ALDI $5 starter.
That seems to have some weight because then with a small recharge, one gets 365 days of credit.
A check of the ALDI web site seems to confirm that. BUT
By default, all ALDImobile customers do not have International Roaming active on their service.To turn on International Roaming, see here. -> No help
Contact ALDI 1300 989 000
VODAFONE
$180 for a 365 day expiry
FORWARD BY MESSAGING
I wonder if I port the number to a local provider like the ALDI one and then put it in a handset and imagine that handset has WIFI internet access. I wonder if there is an app that can be used to receive the text and forward it by say FB Messenger.
Messenger does not work as the SMS app.
ALDI SIM
Got a $5 starter pack.
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20-2-2025 Did messaging to "Louie" at Optus
Saturday, February 8, 2025
vampires night out
The phone rang and it was Phoebe proposing a visit to a pub to see a band called "the vampires". Never heard of them but the thought of a bit of a cultural and social injection was very attractive.
On with some clean clothes. Into the car. Picked up Phoebe.
Into West end. Circled the block a few times and eventually found a car park.
Saw a couple of people I'd met previously. Peter Branjerdporn and <name> artist I'd met at Phoebe's ex's mothers Christmas party.
Two sets and home to my place.
Park run
Park run came in
Rocks Riverside parkrun results for event #552. Your time was 00:41:14.
Congratulations on completing your 40th parkrun and your 30th at Rocks Riverside parkrun today. You finished in 541st place out of a field of 701 parkrunners. You were the 292nd male and came 9th in your age category VM60-64. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Rocks Riverside parkrun remains 00:36:07. Congratulations on your fastest time this year.
You achieved an age-graded score of 39.57%.
Friday, February 7, 2025
Bob Dylan Movie
3:40pm session at Eldorado. Cinema 1.
Empty except Phoebe and me until just before it started and 3 ladies arrived in the row in front. The seats were very comfortable.
I liked the movie.
I'll start off admitting I know nothing about Dylan. Apparently he's still alive and Apparently he was given the opportunity to review and comment on the script before filming and was OK with it even though it does show some of his failings.
It feels like a documentary and the difficulty with that is I tend to take things at face value. So in the case of a documentary, I'm believing it's all true and the documentary maker is trying to be historically accurate. I have to keep telling myself 'it's only a movie'.
I liked the sound track. I never realised "how many roads must a man walk down" was a Dylan song. We learned it along with Kumbaya (not a Dylan song) in primary school. So just admitting again that I know nothing about Dylan.
I liked the acting. All the characters came across as comfortable in their roles.
Dylan is portrayed as becoming more introverted and self centred as time goes on. Insensitive. Arrogant.
He would use others especially women and then move on leaving them feeling rejected. Then simply return and try it all again.
It did show a caring side where he would come to the hospital and play music to Woody Guthrie.
On the other hand he didn't seem to have respect for old friends [Pete Seeger] and I guess that's something I value. For example, at the end of the movie, he's billed to close the Newport folk festival. Apparently solo acoustic was the way to go but he had a band with electric instruments and he had an electric guitar. He'd had various friends try to get him to do traditional stuff but he just slammed them by opening with his band. Personally I would have thought he could have started solo acoustic and gradually introduced and integrated the other musicians and then switched to an electric guitar. I think that would have taken the audience on a journey but instead he alienated them. But history is history.
In This video, an interview with Pete Seegar, Pete says he was ok with electric instruments but asked the sound guys to fix the sound because it was so distorted.
https://youtu.be/UXbf7o8HGv0?si=gEcTZIg2HBUgPeyx
Pete Segars CIA/FBI file is 1800 pages.
https://youtu.be/yncIV5sot4E?si=Car2cH5b0gUpCuPS
5:05 belief and science
At 6:00 he's talking about feeling and the religion of science.
All in all a movie I liked.
Had lovely discussions with Phoebe. She's a Dylan fan. Must be hard for her to relate to me who knows nothing about Dylan.
Prompted thoughts about relationships. How much do you need to have in common to be attracted. And stay attracted.
In regard to relationships, I think I've moved from WTF is wrong with me to what should I do and say to keep her feeling attracted to me.
It's just a different way of looking at the same thing. Let's assume I'm a little different. Neuro divergent is one label. ADHD, Aspergers are other labels.
Upon reflection, everyone is different and we have good and bad points. The difficult bit is we hunger for intimacy in relationships. It's more than just respect for one's partner. It's what creates the spark of attraction.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Sunday, February 2, 2025
South West Rocks
SUN 2 FEB
There is a triathlon on today and it would appear one can enter all manor of incantations. Phoebe's sister Julie and brother in law Gavin are doing just the swim and cycle. Others can add 5k or 10k runs.
The roads are closed so we parked near the close off point and walked. This bit was along the cycle course. We saw her relies. Then continued to the finish line.
We then went back to sister Penny and partner cow boy place for breakfast consisting of mince toasties and fried eggs.
We then drove a few hundred meters to where one jumps off the bridge.
https://youtube.com/shorts/qg3TAcVnTho?si=i1cs0xHKwthuebrf
Looked at the local graveyard that contains graves of Phoebe's ancestors.
Looked at the light house
Snooze
Then another swim
In the evening doing my blog
