The monthly review, nearly done for the year.
The lockdown / lockout notes.
- The Melbourne Cup with a crowd was described as 'the race that restarts the country'
- We're still getting over 1000 cases a day, almost no decrease from improved vaccination rates
- There's no sign of long term plans that don't require continual covid tests and isolation periods
- Particularly for airline travel - even just interstate
- Really slow progress towards 90% second dose target
- The government changes rules at the last minute - masks for yet another month indoors
- Due to 300 hospital cases - down from 750
- Any interstate travel requires private PCR tests - not the public test sites
- $150 but supposedly funded by the government
- A new omicron African variant arrives
- Hotel quarantine returns
- General panic
Finally got to participate in a running event, the Sandy Point 10 kilometre race. It hadn't been a good month prior to that, due to increasingly delayed afternoon running and not much opportunity for training sessions. Leading into the race I did eventually have one good training session and got back to the track for the first time in about six months.
The parkrun events are back too, but being the same weekend as the race it was a good opportunity to volunteer again. The race went well and I finally managed to get under 37 minutes, mostly thanks to a good second half with a slight downhill.
The shares were quite stable for most of the month, until the omicron virus showed up and then there was significant daily changes. I've participated in a couple of additional share purchase plans, but they are becoming increasingly pointless since the public share price ends up dropping to almost the same amount anyway.
Just the same for another month of sports - NFL and premier league. It's looking like another year of underachievement for Manchester United and the manager has been sacked again. Some daily Big Bash league will be starting soon for something a bit different.
The to do list doesn't really have anything this month, just some house maintenance - more bills. Even interstate holidays for the end of the year are hardly worth the effort / risk at this point. Even a weekend trip for a parkrun doesn't work well this year as Christmas and New Years Day are on Saturday.
Things are starting to settle down at work again for the approach to Christmas. The problem now will be having nothing to do at the beginning of next year.
That's it for this month.
- Books
- None
- Movies
- None - maybe back to the cinemas soon
- Music
- The Killers - got a ticket but it's not until December 2022
- TV
- None - just a lot of regular shows in progress
- Video Games
- Xbox One
- Call Of Duty - Modern Warfare
- Purchased the game - finally arrived in the mail
- Confusing name since they've had four others already
- Xbox 360
- Call Of Duty - Modern Warfare 3
- Veteran difficulty was tough but fair
- Call Of Duty - Modern Warfare 2
- Veteran difficulty was more difficult and sometimes annoying
- Call Of Duty - World At War
- Veteran difficultly was probably the worst experience ever
- The bullet damage was bearable, but not the grenade storm