The September review, is winter weather over yet.
Some miscellaneous commentary.
- Immigration increased to record highs
- A bit controversial given public concerns like housing affordability and cost of living (going up) vs. wage growth (going nowhere)
- A bit questionable that this came in so soon after the election, but never mentioned during
- Queen funeral
- A sad event for sure, but so glad the TV coverage is over
- Crossing live for updates on how long the queue is and how fast it's moving
- Immediately followed by another colonisation and republic debate, with no time to spare
- Sydney Marathon candidate as a world major marathon
- Separating this from the running section below since it's not about me
- The live stream for this years event mentioned the candidacy every five minutes
- There was no mention of the course being absolute garbage, the end in particular
- I'd be happy if Sydney got a good event that I could participate in, but the route needs major changes
In running just recorded a new 5km PB at parkrun with a 17:57 at Dandenong, running with some proper modern training shoes (but not race shoes) definitely helps. Doing half marathon training in heavy Nike Structure was not a good idea however, had shin pain for days afterwards. That was the only fast parkrun for the month as I dedicated a few weekends to half marathon training, the rest done in New Balance Fuel Cell TC was a significantly better choice.
Back to attending local parkruns again for a while, the current focus is on filling in some of the gaps in event numbers under 100 not attended just for something to do.
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| Another parkrun in the rain |
Going to be a bit bored of talking about how bad shares are doing. Maybe just a summary of the month instead and this one was a real disaster, down 14% in five weeks. As interest rates keep going up and shares keep going down, there's now no benefit to have an investment loan. Every time houses become slightly more affordable it coincides with just losing over 25% of my savings.
A bit happening in sports with the AFL finals and grand final. A Geelong win was better than the alternative in Sydney, however another Melbourne based team and a close match would have been preferable. I didn't win the ballot this year, but wasn't too interested once the two teams were known. We also had the annual Brownlow medal watch event, and surprise win for Carlton with Patrick Cripps in the last round.
Also back into another season of the NFL. I don't really have much interest in any specific team for now since Brady left the Patriots and Wilson left the Seahawks. Having 16 match highlights to watch is good but can be a bit time consuming.
On the to do list this month:
- Holiday
- Losing motivation to spend money on holidays when I lose so much money every month
- Need to make a decision soon
- Tax Return
- Got a few hundred dollars back this year
- Better than owing like $50,000 last year
Slowing heading towards a production release at work that hopefully goes smoothly, not sure how I feel about staying on until the middle of next year.
That's it for this month.
- Books
- None
- Movies
- None
- Music
- None - got an increasing number of albums to listen to
- TV
- Cobra Kai season 5
- Not going anywhere
- 5 out of 10
- The Outsider
- A bit slow but better than some other Steven King shows recently
- 6 out of 10
- Video Games
- Xbox One
- Max Payne 3 (Xbox 360 compatibility mode)
- Enjoyed the dialogue but the plot wasn't great
- The gameplay is very repetitive, shoot thousands of enemies from cover or with slow motion (bullet time)
- 6 out of 10
- Saints Row
- Main missions were a bit poor, but lots of other activities to spend time on
- Finished all of the achievements except one that requires multiplayer
- 7 out of 10