Today my cat Sophie died, she was a beautiful cat that lived for 15 long years. She was my real first cat as I was lucky enough to pick her out of the RSPCA in paste all those years ago.

I'll miss you Sophie.

So me, bleerrrr.

New rotation is going good, I am working on a project that is going to help prevent a lot of fraud that goes on at my work, it involves mobile phones and the internetsss. Should be pretty good when it gets done and right now it feels pretty interesting to be involved in it.

So today I went up to my local dry cleaners to drop in my shirts, they are a bargain at $10 for 5 shirts, I reckon I might go there every 3 to 4 weeks and just take in my dirtest work shirts. They do a fantasic job and at that price, who can be bothered to waste a few hours washing and ironing every weekend? ANYWAY after I hit that up I thought i'd head down to my local park less than a block away from my house to check out some bball courts I spotted when I was up on the roof of our building last. I got there and the park was loaded full of people, playing rugby on the field and jamming the surrounding courts, there were a bunch of soccer playin' azns jivin' on the basketball court playing some form of soccer where the goals were the supports holding the basketball rings up, these supports were less than a metre wide. Each team had about 4 players on it with a dedicated goalie, I am guess that the end of the game comes is when someone actually knocks the goalie over and scores one goal, or when one team dies of exhaustion, which ever comes first I suppose.

Once I walked through the park and realised I won't be able to shoot hoops at all today, I headed over to a sign that said "Bakery" on some old warehouse building and sure enough there was this little bakery inside, I went in and checked out the goods, not much was really on offer so I bought some sort of chocolate mousse eclair and high tailed out of there, it was sickenly delicous and sugary.

Then I headed up the road back towards my house toward our dingy and expensive independent supermarket, I found another cafe in the middle of nowhere which looks like it serves some decent breakfast foodz. I'll have to head back there one day, then all of a sudden I was in the hsopital grounds area not far from my house, in front of a huge building which I always thought was abandoned but was never sure, so I investigated...

Took a quick walk around the outside and yep, it sure looked abandoned, the front area where there use to be those automatically opening sliding door thingos were all locked up, inside looked like a bit of a throwback to the late 70s to early 80s, there was just random shit everywhere.


Big ol' abandoned building

When I realised it was abandoned good and proper I sat there thinking about how it was such a waste, the funny thing is that there are quite a few building like this in Sydney, it is weird cause it sort of reminds me of how Melbourne use to be like 15 years ago, with all those abandoned CBD/inner city properties/warehouses.
I tried to find a way inside to check it out more, but it was all really tightened up good, I did see a few difficult ways of getting in through some ventilator duct things that either vandals or street people use to get inside, but I didn't feel confident that I wouldn't seriously hurt myself getting in there on my own.


How about some water polo?

That pool was over a fence right next to the building, you could see that a lot of teenagers or something go down there to drink/drug it up, lord knows I would be if I was 15 again and had a cool abandoned building near me!


There is no escape...


Supplies! Now I know where to hide out when the zombies attack

And on that, I was thinking this place would be the coolest set to do a post-apocalyptic or zombie movie at night...

Anyhoo, bored of this post already. Moar later.

The ol' food for thought.

So the weekend is over, today I have a day off work, w00plez0r!

So yeah, most of the last few days have been eaten up by some interesting points. Friday was the last day of my rotation, I had a review at the end of the day by my boss and all that. We have to give ourselves grades and then basically explain why we deserve to have them. It is not as bad (or good) as it sounds, on one had you might feel like you have to really justify yourself and if you were to have a bad boss that would be hell. On the other hand you might think you can just waltz in there and just give them a top marks scorecard and BS your way through it. Neither really happens, you both generally have a fairly good idea of what you've done and where it fits in with the structure. Both times i've done it I was told to grade the scorecard up a little bit as I might have been a little harsh on myself. This time around my manager had a lot of nice things to say to me and felt I should try to be a bit more confident in what I am saying. He often says I have these great ideas that come right out of left field that no one has thought about, but I often miss the right opportunity to get them across to everyone. I can see the trap I've fallen into, I do sit there and look at far more experienced, senior people and think "They've probably already thought of this so I'll keep my mouth shut", but I've been told that is not often the case and I should speak my mind, supposedly it is what I am being paid for!

After that it was pretty much straight home to prepare stuff for the monster 52km hike I did on Saturday. This is the last of our really long practice hikes before the 100km event which is now 3 Fridays away. I got out of around 4:45am and drove my arse down to Chowder Bay, which is a super rich area of Sydney and you can see why because it is a beautiful area. we got started just after 6am still dark, and ended up doing a pretty good pace all day and finished around 6:30pm, around 12 hours on our feet with about 3 x 15 minute breaks at the longest. It was a real killer and my left knee started killing me about 30km in (thank GOD for Nurofen Plus!) but I was pretty stoked that I made it all the way to the end and felt like if someone asked me to do another 10km, my body could have done it (but thank god I didn't).

I then headed home, but took a detour to KFC, which was a bad move because the traffic around my area of Syd on a Saturday night is worse than 8pm, Saturday on Chapel Street, unbelievable, I will never complain about traffic in the places I use to live in Melbourne again.

Got home eventually, then started fixing my bag up for our Sunday walk, yes, I was going out again. Went to bed around 10:30pm ish. Woke up around 5:25am (Sleep in!) and drove my arse a long long way away to back up on the hardest section of the course (14km of pure up and down mountain ridges). The first hour or so my knees were killing me and I started to feel a bit sick, everyone was telling me how pale I was, I ended up eating some more food and about half way through the walk I felt a bit better (particually when we got out of those cold ridges/waterways into the sun!), I swear it was the hardest hiking up some mountain ridges I've ever done, I had zero energy and seriously felt like just sitting down halfway up until I felt damn ready to keep moving, however I kept my "mental toughness" and kept plodding one foot infront of the other until I got to the top (and bottom) of those ridges (god damn 4 of them!).
At the end I felt pretty pleased with myself, we completed that section in around 4 hours which is a great pace for the terrain, I headed home on a Sunday before lunchime for the first time in what seems like months. I got home, ordered a pizza and sat down with astro and which the mindless fantastic 4 silver surfer movie. Jawsome.
I was pretty stoked to have made it through the weekend with no real bad injuries, later that night I went up to play table tennis with astro and her bro, somewhere in there I injured a toenail on one of my toes, it hurts quite a bit now, all digging into the side of my skin. I can't believe it did it (or aggrevated it) doing something so non-active! Brr!

After that I had beautiful dinnar (soup) that astro cooked for us, it was just lovely.

Then I proceeded to play a bunch of Snow bros and Dicewars and fall to sleep at around 9:30pm where I snored my head off until today.

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