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Birthday Musings
6 years ago
G’day all,
It’s that time again where I actually bother to get around to typing some sort of journal. It’s kinda interesting reading back on these and seeing what I was doing at certain times.
Day started like any other workday. Since last year I’ve been made full time at the company I work for, and they’ve paid for me to get my medium rigid truck license and forklift licence so that’s pretty cool, and all useful to have.
Quite the diverse range of things I did today, started off painting and drilling out these wear screens for isamill machines, trying not to break my wrists in the process every time the drill caught on a hole.
After that did some driving for pickups including hanging around for an hour waiting for some blasted and painted parts to get packed and loaded onto the truck. Least it was a nice sunny day.
Finally after lunch spent the time smashing up old furniture with a sledgehammer and carrying the pieces downstairs to chuck in a big dumpster. Work is clearing out some office space above the reception area which means lots of cabinets and desks that are no longer needed.
Not much happened after work. I got a bird in September last year, a female Eclectus parrot named Indy who I got from an owner who couldn’t spend enough time with her when she was less than a year old. She’s such a smart bird, learns very fast and is pretty friendly with most people. Most entertaining mimicking she does is copying someone’s cough or sneeze or when she rings like the home phone, letting it ring three times before answering it herself with a “hello”.
Haven’t really don’t much on the model railway front. The layout boards are complete but haven’t done any tracklaying yet, having not had the energy or motivation for the most part to spend time in the garage. My YouTube stuff similarly hasn’t been anywhere near as active as it was for the same reasons.
I finally got the NBN internet installed in November which is dramatically faster than I used to have, upload speeds are like 30x quicker so now a 15min vid can upload in about the time of its duration instead of taking an entire night. Streaming is also possible which I’ve done a little bit on twitch.
Not much else to say. Planning another trip to cairns later in the year but this time with family as I loved it up there last year. Aside from that I’m just trying to save money for a deposit on a house. At current pricing it’ll take years to get the 20% needed but I’d rather pay or a mortgage than pay the same amount of money on rent and get nothing out of it.
If anyone made it this far, we’ll done. No nice rewards though, only to say that I’ll likely see you again this time next year.
It’s that time again where I actually bother to get around to typing some sort of journal. It’s kinda interesting reading back on these and seeing what I was doing at certain times.
Day started like any other workday. Since last year I’ve been made full time at the company I work for, and they’ve paid for me to get my medium rigid truck license and forklift licence so that’s pretty cool, and all useful to have.
Quite the diverse range of things I did today, started off painting and drilling out these wear screens for isamill machines, trying not to break my wrists in the process every time the drill caught on a hole.
After that did some driving for pickups including hanging around for an hour waiting for some blasted and painted parts to get packed and loaded onto the truck. Least it was a nice sunny day.
Finally after lunch spent the time smashing up old furniture with a sledgehammer and carrying the pieces downstairs to chuck in a big dumpster. Work is clearing out some office space above the reception area which means lots of cabinets and desks that are no longer needed.
Not much happened after work. I got a bird in September last year, a female Eclectus parrot named Indy who I got from an owner who couldn’t spend enough time with her when she was less than a year old. She’s such a smart bird, learns very fast and is pretty friendly with most people. Most entertaining mimicking she does is copying someone’s cough or sneeze or when she rings like the home phone, letting it ring three times before answering it herself with a “hello”.
Haven’t really don’t much on the model railway front. The layout boards are complete but haven’t done any tracklaying yet, having not had the energy or motivation for the most part to spend time in the garage. My YouTube stuff similarly hasn’t been anywhere near as active as it was for the same reasons.
I finally got the NBN internet installed in November which is dramatically faster than I used to have, upload speeds are like 30x quicker so now a 15min vid can upload in about the time of its duration instead of taking an entire night. Streaming is also possible which I’ve done a little bit on twitch.
Not much else to say. Planning another trip to cairns later in the year but this time with family as I loved it up there last year. Aside from that I’m just trying to save money for a deposit on a house. At current pricing it’ll take years to get the 20% needed but I’d rather pay or a mortgage than pay the same amount of money on rent and get nothing out of it.
If anyone made it this far, we’ll done. No nice rewards though, only to say that I’ll likely see you again this time next year.
Do hope that trip you got planned goes well~!
Here's hoping things get easier for ya too!