The Breakfast Radio Diaries 025: The axe in the truck is completely normal.

I should be sleeping but I'm not. Also if you could book all the yearly events so I don't have to, that'd be awesome. 

Also any part time work going on at the Orville?

IF I WAS A SMART PHONE

Then right about now I'd have a battery life of about 13%. Even though I did all of the usual pre-bed checks of laying out the next days clothes, making sure the alarms were set and that I had a vague idea where I'd thrown my car keys so they'd easily be found in the dark the next morning. I worked my way to bed time by watching some of the awesome series Good Omens (it's either that or an ep of The Orville which I think is brilliant), nestled in the couch with a cup of sleepy tea in hand. I went to bed on time (roughly 8:30pm) and from then things went south at a rapid rate of knots.
I tossed and turned, got up a few times, tried to get my nose to unsuccessfully work again (ongoing problem really and something I need to get on top of) and tried to switch off. 
Oh and I was playing a game of Divinity Original Sin 2 in my head for some reason.

Now for the record, I'm currently playing Div 2 on PC and loving the absolute hell out of it. Especially when there's so many ways to do things and so many things to do in this massive RPG. 
However my game time is in the afternoon once all my writing is done, not late at night...and yet there I was battling away in my own mind when I should have been sleeping. 

It's always the game replays or the latest idea I've had for my latest book tumbling about, never a less focused dreamscape where I'm part of something I've watched only an hour or two. I mean even if I was some non-descript member of the Orville, pushing buttons in the background while the drama unfolded, that would be fine by me!

But no, it's either attempting to level up or plot twists and neither is giving me oodles of energy when the alarm goes off..

MOTHERS DAY IS COMING!

I passed out a public service announcement this morning to any guy across the Border who's not great with remembering dates and yearly days (so namely me) that Mother's Day was coming. And knowing full well how good I am at preparing for such an occasion, my wife gave me a suitable suggestion. Actually she tagged me in a post about mothers day lunch at a semi local pub and I thought that was a great idea. 
Especially when she suggested she book it, you know just in case I left it to the last minute (again that's me to a tee..)
Going forward, I will now be more than happy for this process to continue this for any days on the celebratory calendar including Mothers Day, Anniversaries, Birthdays and Christmas. Book somewhere or blatantly point out what you want for those days and provided the paycheck hasn't run out by then, off we go. It saves time, hassle and the likelihood of me a) Forgetting, especially with a lack of sleep and b) buying dud gifts. Everybody wins!

THERE'S AN AXE IN THE BACK WITH THE MAN SIZED FISH TANK

Illusionist Cosentino is on his way to Albury soon and we had a great chat about his new show Deception and how the small crew he works with just taking the odd things in the back of the truck in their stride - so escape tanks and sharp objects are pretty much the norm in there. 

I remember speaking to him years ago in my first breakfast stint so the fact that he's still going stronger than ever and survived Covid just fine is awesome - he's always a great chat and phenomenal when you see him in action. Onya Cos!

AND FINALLY A LACK OF VICTORY MAKES NO SENSE

Fight for your Flashback time again! And this time in the battle of 'whose song deserves to be played' it was all about artists who have performed across the Border at any stage - which really gives you an incredible amount of scope to work with. 

And so I went with my favourite song by Cold Chisel, a fantastic reflection on so much of the world right now: No Sense. They've performed a few times in the history of live music here, starting off in 1980.

However my pick twas not to be. Somehow (and I still don't know how exactly) the people spoke and let us know they'd much prefer Lu's choice, with a whopping 78% of the tally. And it wasn't even an original song that beat me here either thanks Tom..

Just like my woeful Supercoach year, I'm really getting hammered here with just 1 victory in all of 2022. 
There's always next week though...hopefully...

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY

And we're giving away even more copies of Border Monopoly, hopefully we'll have Dave O'Neil on to chat about his comedy show coming up and we'll find out when animals attack. So far I haven't been mauled by a bear which is good.

Chat then

-Almigo