I managed to run six days in a row for the first time in a year, only it resulted in a minor hip injury that same afternoon. I was able to get by with a bit of rest and set a new course best time at a park run afterwards, so my 5 kilometre speed (under 19 minutes) is finally getting better, but my long distance is still really bad. At the City2Sea I just missed out on 15 kilometres in 60 minutes, which was about 3 minutes slower than last year but not too disappointing given my lack of fitness.
I took it easy the week after that race, and was just on a casual morning run near home when someone ran up and attacked me. I thought it was just some idiot messing around so I was ignoring him, but then the next thing I knew I had regained consciousness after about 10 minutes and had already walked a few hundred metres away from where I was knocked down. For the next couple of minutes I couldn't even work out where I was, but somehow I managed to get home although I don't remember how. The worst injuries were to my ribs, which still hurts the same two weeks later, and my right jaw which started to improve after a few days. The most frustrating thing now is to have yet another multi-week injury when this one was no fault of my own.
My shares had a terrible run prior to the USA election, then the next day all the experts were positive again as if there was nothing to worry about. I had planned to start saving some money but somehow ended up putting $5000 in The Reject Shop because I think it has room for short term improvement. I've started tracking my shares and super total at the end of each week since the crap websites can't even do that automatically. Somehow between two jobs I got only $200 deposited into my Super for the month, hopefully that is just a delay somewhere...
I went to two matches of the NBL to watch Melbourne vs Sydney both times. The first game was an easy win to Sydney but the second match Melbourne had the lead all the way, the Kings managed a comeback in the final quarter so it was the much more interesting of the two, but only tied the game once at the end before losing in the last two seconds.
My regular NBA betting website William Hill took away all the player over-under bets which I was having success with last season, instead they replaced them with these 'player will get 10 or more of some stat' bets and they made the odds really bad too. Since I like to have the option of betting under I signed up with Sportsbet instead.
Nothing much happening with the to do list due to some other distractions.
I finished up at work on November 4 which was a big relief, the company and the conditions might have been alright, but my job was just depressing. Having most of the development work outsourced (and most of that offshored) was not something I wanted to be involved with either.
I only got a three day weekend before starting my new job the next Tuesday. I spent the first week training at head office, then got assigned out to a company to begin as a senior consultant. The customer's office is just between Southern Cross and Etihad Stadium so it's not bad, except it's not close to either The Tan or Princes Park is the one downside. It's only been two weeks so far but it's definitely an improvement. I am back to zero days of annual leave once again which is annoying.
That's it for another month.
- Books
- None completed, been really tired most days, not sure why
- Movies
- The Barkley Marathons
- A documentary about some ridiculous trail multi-marathon
- Some years nobody even gets close to finishing it
- 8 out of 10
- Music
- I was going to be seeing Grouplove in January but it just got cancelled due to illness
- TV
- Black Mirror Season 3
- Some episodes a lot better than others like previous seasons
- My favourite was Shut Up And Dance
- 7 out of 10
- Brock
- A two-part documentary / drama that aired after Bathurst
- I don't know how much was fictional but some of the events were quite crazy
- 6 out of 10
- Scream Season 1
- Surprisingly good adaptation of the movie on MTV
- 6 out of 10
- Video Games
- Playstation 3
- Gran Turismo 5
- I did a few more license while the Xbox 360 was dead
- Xbox 360
- Console
- My second console died, the red ring again!
- I managed to find a new 500 gigabyte version on ebay for about $150
- I got all the data transferred from the old hard drive without any problem
- Final Fantasy XIII-2
- Made slightly more progress
- Fun but not so challenging
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