Finally having a good stretch of running without any serious injuries, but don't seem to be improving at all, might have to do something different. Set a couple of park run course best times and nearly got down to 18:30, but just missed my overall 5km best. Also found a couple of new routes for longer runs in Croydon Hills and Kilsyth. Had planned to race a 10km at Albert Park but the weather was just so bad that I skipped it, probably a good idea. There's not many good choices for races during winter coming up either.
No biking.
Not much success with shares lately. I added to my investment loan, so I'm near the limit allowed unless I contribute more shares as security from my main account, probably won't do it right now since the share market is near an all time high. Did a bit of selling and buying, mostly selling out of horrible choices that actually kept going down afterwards, so no regrets there.
Still a bit slow for sports, the NBA finals were predictable with Golden State winning 4-0. Watched the first Australian World Cup game at imax, gave up an unlucky goal just when it looked like we could hang on for a draw. Stayed up for the 1-1 draw with Denmark, then got up early to watch the disappointing 2-0 loss to Peru, and that was it for another four years. For the rest just waiting for the 20 minutes highlights of each game, but haven't done so well avoiding results prior.
Nothing much seems to be happening on the to do list so it doesn't even need a section this month, just having ongoing battles with the stupid committee about the new speed bumps, which has been really frustrating.
Within a month I finished one short work assignment, went back to the office, and just started another longer assignment back at the same place. The good is that it's close by and I can drive to work, but the bad is that there's nothing much around and can't do running at lunch time - no change rooms and showers, and no good tracks. I have my first AWS exam scheduled for early July, which I should be able to pass now, I might think about doing a second AWS exam before my other exam to be done by September, since a lot of the material is the same across the two.
That's it for this month.
- Books
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - official study guide
- I suppose it counts
- 8 out of 10 - if I pass
- Music
- None
- Movies
- Downsizing
- Expected some purpose to the movie, never got it
- 3 out of 10
- TV
- The Challenge - Champs vs Pros 3
- Don't really like these as they aren't very competitive
- 6 out of 10
- The Staircase
- Netflix remade an old murder trial documentary and added new episodes
- Quite surprising how much filming was done in the moment
- 7 out of 10
- Video Games
- None