February Review

The February review.

Only one item for the miscellaneous section again, the never ending news about mortgage pain and mortgage cliffs each month when the interest rates go up by the smallest possible amount. There's no acknowledgement of rates still being below long term averages, and even less coverage about the issues of housing and rental affordability becoming increasingly worse. The only news worth covering is the poor people who took out loans they couldn't afford and paid so much that it's considered a national disaster when house prices go down by 5%.

Another month of standard running with only a few local parkruns, picking up some new course records at least. The only parkrun goal I'm working on at the moment is any unique event numbers I haven't attended, I'm now up to event 80 but there's not too many around that have had less than 100 events. I purchased my first pair of shoes for a while since I didn't have any for weekend long runs, so got the new Nike Invincible 3. After a few more months I might finally be clearing out my backlog of shoes, many are more than five years old now - excluding some specifically for race days.

One good month for shares followed by one terrible month, so like always we're right back where we started from. The reporting season was more bad than good, but at least some dividends will come through in March. I'm still selling down my investment loan towards zero, don't think I'll bother with that again for some time.

Nothing too much to report in sports except a superbowl I wasn't too interested in, and particularly not interested with the Chiefs. For something a bit different we had the World Cross Country championships in Bathurst this year, so it got more attention than usual (zero) and some TV coverage for all of the main races. Having a fixed course with multiple cameras is much better than boring road race coverage where you get to see the same handful of lead runners for hours and nothing else.

The to do list has some slight progress:

• Holidays
• Launceston booked in June for the 10km race - race entries haven't opened yet
• Gold Coast booked in July for the half marathon - a bit expensive but giving it another go this year
• New computer
• Still searching at the moment for the right specifications (good) and price (cheap)
• Races
• The usual process - start the year with a big list then slowly cross them all off
• Haven't raced this year so far, but trying to aim for once a month going forwards

Still going nowhere fast at work, was back to a more standard two days per week at the office, but the train line being down for over three months may change that.

That's it for this month.

• Books
• None
• Movies
• None
• Music
• None
• TV
• Criminal Minds
• Good comeback season although ended a bit sudden
• 6 out of 10
• Video Games
• Xbox 360
• Bought Dead Space 3 and Left 4 Dead 2
• Dead Space 2
• Good game except for the last two levels
• The upgrade process is too slow, you only get about half way by the end
• 7 out of 10
• Dead Space
• Went back to Dead Space 1 that I'd already played a little many years ago
• Spend too much time going back around the same area multiple times
• Can't skip any dialog scenes in either game, so annoying
• 5 out of 10
• Xbox One
• Doom Eternal
• Just finished off some achievements