At last all of my injuries are close to resolved, such a relief after missing nearly eight months of running, now I just need to get fit and lose weight. I raced in the Sri Chinmoy Yarra Boulevard early in the month, still troubled by hamstring issues at the time so I only managed 44 minutes for 10 kilometres. It wasn't until a park run at Frog Hollow a couple of weeks later that I finally put in a good result and came in at about 20 minutes for 5 kilometres - not a bad course but a bit further to drive to Endeavour Hills.
I went through a bit of a period of buying and selling shares since I don't have any more money to invest. I sold another three companies for a small loss and bought four more, most have performed well so far. September and October is when most of the mid year dividends come through, it's great to get about $3000 coming in for nothing. I did some rough calculations about getting an investment loan for shares, but the initially figures seemed like it didn't come out all that much better - it really depends on the share price growth. I might do some more calculations and also see how it compares to an investment home loan, which has a lower interest rate.
I forgot to buy a reserved seat for the second round AFL finals match between Hawthorn and Western Bulldogs, which turned out to be a great game. Instead I went to Geelong vs. Sydney the following week and could have left after the first quarter. In better news I got a ticket in the grand final ballot, since it was on October 1 it will be in the next report...
We had the annual Brownlow Medal night, this year the coverage seemed even slower than ever. The winner was obvious to everyone, but at least it was still close until the last few rounds.
The NFL is already three weeks down. I watched some of the crap second week while working from home, although most of the games were already over by 6am. It should be a bit better with daylight savings now. The shortcut games come out online within about 12-24 hours and are much better, since they only take about 45 minutes instead of 3.5 hours!
I don't have much happening on the to do list right now:
- Christmas holiday
- Depending on how things go I might be back to having no annual leave yet again!
Work has been very frustrating still, sometimes getting a bit better only because I'm creating some interesting tasks myself to do. I've had a couple of interviews with some other companies, surprisingly making it through to the final interview of both and had to decide which to pursue, more on that next time too...
That's it for another month:
- Books
- Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
- Only took about two hours, not as good as The Grapes Of Wrath
- 6 out of 10
- Movies
- Cell
- I was looking forward to this adaption of a good Stephen King good
- Instead it was a complete mess, I would have been clueless if I hadn't read the book first
- 2 out of 10
- The Shallows
- Not bad given the whole movie was about Blake Lively being trapped out at sea by a shark
- 5 out of 10
- Music
- None
- TV
- American Crime - Season 1
- Good acting but just felt a bit slow and went too long
- 7 out of 10
- American Crime - Season 2
- A very cool idea where they bring back the same actors to play different roles
- This story had more depth and again didn't just have a nice ending for everyone
- 8 out of 10
- Rick And Morty
- About half of the episodes are great, the other are just alright
- 7 out of 10
- Video Games
- None