I passed 10,000 kilometres of running on Strava recently. This would not cover every running activity, but would be pretty close - once I purchased my first GPS watch. This month was time for another Melbourne Marathon - fifth in a row, but slower than all but one, even the first one back in 2013. I'm still not close to feeling my best, so was just aiming to stay under 4:10/km, which was quite easy until the last three kilometres just ran out of energy. I was unlucky to get a bad blister the week before the race, but it didn't cause too much of a problem during it.
Since the marathon I've managed to run one new park run at Diamond Creek - just under 19:00 - and had limited opportunity to make improvements for upcoming 10 and 15 kilometre races.
I guess I reached my 300,000 shares goal for the year at least, unless something really bad happens. I'm not sure if next years goal would be 400 or 450, but also depends on using that money for a house instead. I got a bit bored with my current investments so bought and sold three each, going into more small cap companies with more risk but more growth (and loss) potential - but no dividends either. I also started filling out an investment loan for 100,000 against my existing shares, but that will take a while to go through since it's a bit complicated. I will review the whole process later.
Not much happening in sports at the moment. The baseball finished and the New York Yankees just fell short of the world series, but much better than previous years. The NBA hasn't been too interesting yet as the same teams are at the top, and all other teams seem to have about a fifty percent win-loss record so far. I have started up some daily betting with mixed results.
The to do list I guess didn't get too far again:
- December holiday
- I need to find out what my company expects first
- The standard is two weeks (eight days) off which is annoying
- It's a bit hard to know right now since I'm not allocated to a project
- NBN
- Finally got the NBN but it's the crappy hybrid cable version
- Had a couple of dropouts but the speed is a bit better
- Not paying the extra money for the fastest speed though
- NZ holiday
- Got the final bookings done for car rental and organised a SIM card
- Just have to look at some final preparations, maps etc.
- USA Lottery
- Well I did register again just to have a go
- Now it looks like they might cancel the whole thing due to the latest incident
I finished work in October and since this is not meant to cover November I won't mention what I've been doing since yet. However it wasn't great to not know for sure what I would be doing next even on the last day, but I'm still getting paid at least.
I had to put together another resume using our company template which is annoying, I hate writing a resume more than almost anything. Since I went to an AWS training last month I found out everyone is expected to sit for the exam, so I will need to find time to study for that somewhere.
That's it for this month.
- Books
- None
- Movies
- Alien Covenant
- So bad, not even worth talking about
- 2 out of 10
- Music
- Foo Fighters ticket for January
- Grouplove ticket for February
- Grizzly Bear ticket for March
- The Killers no ticket because of a website session timeout!
- TV
- Somewhere Between
- An interesting first episode but the story was just stupid afterwards
- There was no explanation why two people had experienced the future
- 4 out of 10
- Survivor Australia Season 4
- Fairly happy with the winner
- Otherwise the tactics of most contestants were a bit frustrating
- 7 out of 10
- Video Games
- PC
- Alwa's Awakening
- Annoying rooms with consecutive trick jumps later in the game
- Finally finished
- The final boss was easy and then there was no ending
- 6 out of 10
- Xbox One
- Ordered Forza 7
- Ordered Mafia 3 and Watch Dogs 2
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