Friday, April 07, 2023

March Review

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 The March review running a bit late.


Nothing new for miscellaneous at the moment.


Just another fairly boring month of running at parkrun since I didn't register for Run For The Kids before the 'fast group' deadline, but I don't really like the course anyway. One new event at Eastern Gardens in Geelong, which was a great course around the botanic gardens near the sea, I'd go there often if it wasn't so far away. Got another pair of Infinity Run and a new shoe Streakfly at the Nike sale, still getting through the backlog of old shoes except for having too many race day super shoes.


The ever amazing sharemarket has been going down for a solid two months thanks to some new USA bank problems, really don't see the benefits of investing sometimes, at least when you can get a standard 4-5% bank interest now. Got my investment loan closed at last and the left over shares transferred back into my main account.


The Sydney Kings winning a second NBL championship in a row was the highlight of the sports month, March Madness has also been on but I haven't had the opportunity to view any games, although there appears to have been more lower ranked teams winning than ever before so it might have been a good year to watch.


The to do list is stuck in the same place for the moment:

  • Holiday
    • Planned a good outline (or three) for a Europe trip if I could get approval from work
  • New computer
    • Made a shortlist of a few options
  • Running
    • Should have a race finally around the end of April or early May


My one highlight from work was getting an exemption from jury service, I did have a reasonable excuse due to commitments. Still two more months of getting a replacement bus to work is less good news.


That's it for this month, a bit shorter than usual.


  • Books
    • None
  • Movies
    • None
  • Music
    • None
  • TV
    • Formula 1 Drive To Survive season 5
      • Starting to feel a bit similar
      • Too much time spent on the team managers
      • 6 out of 10
    • Jack Ryan season 3
      • Another good season
      • 6 out of 10
    • Show Me The Money season 2
      • Just made one long movie-length episode this year
      • Not many AFL trades happened
      • 5 out of 10
    • Survivor Australia season 10
      • Hard to watch due to terrible contestants and really long episodes
      • Too many stupid changes made by the producers during the season
      • 2 out of 10
  • Video Games
    • Xbox One
      • Forza Motorsport 5
        • Started the game, even less variety than 6
        • 6 out of 10
      • Forza Motorsport 6
        • Returned to do a few achievements
    • Xbox 360
      • Dead Space
        • Finished off the last achievements
      • Left 4 Dead
        • Returned to do a few achievements after playing Left 4 Dead 2
      • Left 4 Dead 2
        • Not much of an improvement from the previous game
        • Too much chaos and interference from the computer teammates
        • 5 out of 10