No baking again.
No exercise again, almost. I had a sore hamstring then stupidly tried to do a park run with the injury and made it ten times worse. So I haven't been able to run at all for three weeks and it's still not close to repaired yet.
I sold a few of my under performing shares, to invest in some mining companies that had been performing well all year. So of course they went crashing down almost immediately and the shares I just sold went up, but I got out without too much damage and switched course again into some software companies. Still I would have been better off just doing nothing, as well as having better dividends coming up in a couple of months...
The Euro 2016 final concluded in July. It was a sad end to a pretty poor tournament without any spectacular games and few great teams. The Tour De France took over from the soccer and although there was a few interesting stages in the hills there was never any real challenge to Chris Froome - except when he had to start running after his bike got damaged in a crash with a camera crew on a motorbike. The NBA free agency generated a few more surprises that both of the above, with teams overspending by at least 50% due to a big increase in the salary cap. I wasn't sad to see Kevin Durant leave Oklahoma, but going to Golden State was the worse possible outcome.
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| Local gridiron. |
I went to the Juventus vs Tottenham ICC "friendly" match at the MCG, right in the middle of a freezing cold winter week. The crowd was only about 30,000 compared to nearly 100,000 for last year, probably due to both teams sending almost none of the starting squad, just Dybala and Pjanic were the exceptions.
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| ICC at MCG. |
A couple of big items on the to do list:
- Holiday - sadly cancelled because of...
- Job - I accepted my job offer, finishing August 10 and starting August 16
- Tax Return - due to bank interest and some dividends I have to pay back $800 this year!
Nothing much left to say about work, I did spend an exhausting weekend doing a DR simulation, the Saturday was 7am to 6pm, meaning I had to leave home before 6am! I should get a bonus three or four weeks pay when I leave, but I'd rather have a holiday...
That's it for another month.
- Books
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
- Quite a short book but an interesting topic
- Have to watch Blade Runner now
- 8 out of 10
- Movies
- The Lost Arcade
- Watched at the MIFF
- Pretty interesting story about arcades struggling to remain open in New York
- A surprising amount of footage, although I don't know how one arcade can't make a profit in all of Manhattan
- 6 out of 10
- Music
- Missed out on Grouplove tickets since I thought I'd be on holiday at the time
- TV
- The Strain
- Finished season one and season two
- Not as good as The Walking Dead, but still a decent survival show
- The kid was really annoying like in most shows
- 6 out of 10
- Between - Season Two
- Only a short season with six episodes
- Like a poor man's version of Under The Dome
- 5 out of 10
- Video Games
- XBox 360
- Final Fantasy XIII-2
- Put Bioshock Infinite on hold, moved on to this instead
- Took a long time to get started, with very boring dialogue
- I really dislike the half-automated and real-time battle system
- 4 out of 10 (so far)
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