Nothing much new with running and just one race for the month, Run For The Kids that I've already written about. I had some promising training results beforehand, then ran into a bunch of injuries. I've had yet another recurrence of this annoying gluteal issue, which starts to get more painful when sitting down for long periods of time, I wish it would just go away once and for all. I've done a little more skipping, but haven't made a regular schedule for it.
I finally reached a conclusion for the Easter holiday - a final change to just a couple of days in Sydney. There's not much to do in Sydney, and even less so since I was just there just about one year ago. I booked some soccer tickets for the Saturday night and made a short itinerary for the rest of the time, hopefully the rain stays away, but the forecast isn't looking so good at the moment.
Taking the train to work like usual, but all of the school and university students are back now, which means standing up for half an hour on the train! I even tried to leave a bit earlier, but it makes no difference which train you get! My only solution when I'm having a bad morning with various leg ailments (just about all the time) is to jump across at Blackburn to the stopping all stations train - about ten minutes longer, but at least you get a seat.
Projects at work have been busy, mostly due to poor planning and being under resourced, but at least it keeps me occupied. Construction has begun on a huge apartment building next door which has left our whole office rattling at times, and just plain noisy the rest, I might need to use it as excuse to start listening to music at work again. A colleague Peter, who I worked with on a project for a little while last year, died of a sudden heart attack over the weekend, so that was very sad. Puts some things into perspective I guess.
There's been a little more sport to watch this month, with the conclusion of the Cricket World Cup and the beginning of March Madness. I only watched a select few matches of each, but they were generally entertaining. The New Zealand vs. South Africa semi final was probably the pick of the cricket games, since the final ended up being an easy win to Australia. In the NCAA basketball I've just tuned in to live streams of a few close games through the first few rounds, there's still four teams left and hopefully anyone except Kentucky wins.
On a related note I qualified for the finals in both of my Fantasy NBA leagues, which was good. I expect I should be able to win one comfortably, the other is a bit too close to call. I like the NBA much more than NFL, but the lack of injury updates is still very annoying and makes me question if I will play again after this year.
I only managed two baking updates for the month, but that's a 100% increase on previous months. I bought a new small chopper / food processor unit which should make some things easier. The previous chopper I had wasn't big enough and didn't work very well.
My to do list project is going alright, the list doesn't seem to be getting much smaller yet, maybe it's not supposed to, but at least it gives me some focus and priority - I just need to make sure it remains manageable and not depressing. Some progress from the list:
- Bike research
- Checked out prices online
- Checked out some models in a local store
- Book tickets
- Bunch of Gold Class vouchers about to expire
- Comedy Festival sessions
- Sydney A-League match
- Sydney fun run
- Buy a new desk chair and speakers
- Buy travel insurance - Gold Coast and Sydney
- House cleaning
- Car interior - first time in years
- Carpet stains - been there since we moved in
- Doors and window frames inside and out - first time since we moved in
- Rubbish bins - smelled like death!
- Organise the Easter holiday!
- Update health insurance - $1100 these days!
The list has also shown me that I tend to identify but then put things off for too long, so that's another challenge to solve too.
So that's it again, time for the summary:
- Books
- Black House by Stephen King
- Very long, not quite as big as The Stand though
- Starting to drag on a bit
- 7 out of 10 (so far)
- Movies
- That Sugar Film
- A documentary shown at the Rivoli in Camberwell
- One half was about the effects of a healthy diet with everyday sugar on the director
- The other half was less interesting food facts
- 8 out of 10
- Kobe Bryant's Muse
- Just a documentary about his career basically
- 5 out of 10
- Focus
- Everything was a trick planned so many steps in advance
- Hard to take it serious
- 6 out of 10
- Insurgent
- Gold Class!
- I couldn't sit still in the recliner due to leg pain
- A bit long with a limited plot
- 5 out of 10
- Music
- Nothing
- TV
- Halt And Catch Fire
- The first few episodes were good, then it was just way too slow
- Took a few months to find the motivation to watch all ten episodes
- The characters were unbelievable, always something new was going wrong
- No real ending, just ready for a second season
- 4 out of 10
- Motorway Patrol
- A fun New Zealand police show
- The narrator quotes are brilliant
- 10 out of 10
- Renters
- New Zealand rental horror stories
- 8 out of 10
- The Jinx
- A thrilling story reviewing a series of murders, well presented
- The subject was quite fascinating and peculiar
- 10 out of 10
- Video Games
- Nothing
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