No baking for the month again, part of the trying to eat healthier and not losing any weight program I'm on - not recommended. I'll get going again in January I think, since I collected up all my recipes and got them in order.
My running training was going well at the beginning of the month, with some quite encouraging speed, I even got to challenge myself on a few days that were well above thirty degrees. Around December 20 a nagging shin pain became significantly worse and I haven't been able to run at all since - more news on that later as I'm still getting in diagnosed at the moment, but it's not looking good, I can only hope it is not too serious and requires weeks to recover than months.
I finally have some good news in the share market to end the month and year, I made one great investment in a milk company that has more than doubled in value, so that has erased all of my losses since April. I've got a little bit of money saved up so I might make another investment soon, but I will at least wait until I find out if I need expensive surgery first...
Nothing much has been happening in sports, the Boxing Day public holiday was on during week 16 of the NFL so I was looking forward to watching some good games during the day, but most of the playoff spots were already decided so it was a big letdown.
The to do list is becoming a bit empty, so I either need to take on some difficult tasks that have been hanging around forever, or repopulate it. I finished my Christmas holiday planning of course, and it will probably be a while before I need to plan the next one - some running weekends might need to be cancelled too.
At work I was seriously overloaded for the month trying to get some projects done before the shut down period, and a few people were on leave which didn't help. I managed to bank a few hours of extra leave credits with some weekend work, so that will come in useful when the Australia Day weekend and NFL super bowl comes along.
That's it for now, since I'll leave the rest for the Christmas report. Here's the summary which I still haven't come up with a good name for:
- Books
- Dexter Is Dead by Jeff Lindsay
- Really short, nothing really happened
- Disappointing lack of an ending
- 5 out of 10
- Revival by Stephen King
- Captivating until the end
- Story kept progressing over the lifetime of the narrator
- 8 out of 10
- Movies
- It Follows
- A different horror movie to the standard
- A few bits were too slow
- 7 out of 10
- Star Wars The Force Awakens
- Too much like A New Hope, just with different characters
- 7 out of 10
- Who Am I
- German with subtitles
- Fictional movie about hackers, entertaining but not very believable
- Ending was too much like The Usual Suspects
- 6 out of 10
- Music
- None
- TV
- A Season With Notre Drame
- Good documentary about the college football season
- Lasted the whole season, unlike Hard Knocks which is just the preseason
- 9 out of 10
- Skins Season 5
- Only a couple of good episodes, the rest were too long and slow
- 5 out of 10
- Video Games
- PlayStation 3
- Gran Turismo 6
- Going to give up on 100% soon
- I can't even find a guide anywhere that says what is required...
- 5 out of 10
- Retro
- Sega Master System
- Wonder Boy 2 - Monster Land
- Almost impossible, even with an emulator
- I must not have bought the correct upgrades during the levels
- Lose health each time the hour glass runs out!
- 2 out of 10
- Wonder Boy 3 - The Dragons Trap
- First level went forever, didn't know where to go
- Have almost no health
- Gave up but might revisit it later
- 1 out of 10
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