September Review

This is the September report, almost back on time. This report should be quick since I was on holiday for a week and it felt like I spent the rest of the time catching up on things - and writing the report.

I got back into proper running after probably a month and a half off my regular routine. My serious foot pain seems to have finally recovered on it's own, but in it's place I've been having some really weird instability and structural issues at the back of my left knee, which is even more worrying. In terms of running events:

• Jells Park Run - 19:15 for 5km, my best for the course but not a great time
• Sri Chinmoy Yarra Boulevard - 38:46 for 10km (12th place), a disappointing time and about 45 seconds off my best
• Jells Park Run - 18:43 for 5km, a much better time

The share market has been as unpredictable as ever, finally dropping down below 5000 when they were around 6000 just a few months ago. I don't think they can go much lower without a major global disaster (hopefully), but I don't have much money left to risk investing at the bottom right now...

To make the most of my MCC membership, since I went to very few games during the season, I made sure to at least go to the two AFL finals in Melbourne during the first week:

• Adelaide vs. Western Bulldogs
• 60,000
• Smaller crowd, got a decent seat in the upper deck
• Great match, both teams were attacking all the time
• The Bulldogs should have won, but wasted too many shots at goal
• North Melbourne vs. Richmond
• 90,000
• I got a reserved seat at ground level so I didn't have to turn up hours early
• A slower paced game, but still close
• Richmond were always struggling to catch up, despite kicking efficiently, and just lost

Jason went in my place for the grand final, for the third year in a row, since I wasn't interested in watching Hawthorn win (again).

The NFL season is back again, sadly the times don't permit me to watch any live games, since they're all on Monday, Tuesday or Friday morning. Waiting for the highlights takes some time, so I might consider getting the NFL season subscription and watching some of the condensed games instead. It's very easy to avoid the results, except for the San Francisco 49ers now that they have Jarryd Hayne playing for them.

At work there were no major disasters to return to. I took a long time to get back to a normal pattern though, I was waking up and leaving for the train station at 6:00am for the first week back!

That's about it.

• Books
• It By Stephen King
• I'm only 25% through so far, it's taking forever
• Movies
• None
• Music
• None
• TV
• Hard Knocks: Houston Texans
• Season 10, only five episodes
• Always entertaining to see the preseason training and roster process
• 9 out of 10
• Ordinary Lies
• Interesting series, every episode was a standalone story
• Good stories
• 9 out of 10
• The Amazing Race Canada
• Enjoyable, not quite as good as the US version
• 9 out of 10
• Video Games
• None