I watched a listener of the show win $10,000 playing a giant game of Monopoly and then watched people crawl all over motorcycles while racing around a race track at high speed.
Then I tried to sleep and get ready for another big week on the breakfast show!
Yes as weekends go, this one was an absolute cracker. And you'd think after spending a couple of days in Melbourne battling traffic and praying my cooling system didn't melt (it didn't but probably would've had I not kept checking it) we'd spend the weekend taking things nice and easy like the Eagles once famously sang, but no. There were games to play and vehicles to drool over in that order and so when the alarm kicked off at 7:30 Saturday, things were well and truly on.
JUST A HEAD, ON A WORK DESK
Look I will admit, this isn't the usual thing that greets me at work on a weekend:
Apart from being a reverse Tardis (it's much smaller on the inside) visibility
in this thing wasn't great and you really couldn't look down so low flying
ducks could be a problem.
Luckily my job was to call the action and not dance around with a giant head on. Tyson (yep the coach of the famous Tysonic Hedgehogs) great job by the way!
Now due to time constraints (read: The footy started exactly at 12pm and come
hell or high water, nothing was going to stop that from happening) we were
playing an elimination style version of the game. That meant every half an
hour play stopped and a count was done of every players money and properties
and the lowest scoring player at that time was eliminated.
For us that meant we'd all be done and sorted in two and a half hours
tops.
Seriously, this is how all Monopoly games should be played I reckon because there have been some six hour sessions back in the day that really caused time to stand still. But anywhoos, moving on. We started with 6 players, they played, the crowd watched on...
And then one by one they were eliminated until the very last pair. Now going into the last half hour, there was only a measly $187 separating the two of them, less than a spin past Go really.
But by the time the game finished? Only $57 was the difference and well done
to Shannon, the listener who scored $10000 thanks to Vitasoy.
As winning
a game of Monopoly goes, that one's going to be hard for him to beat for a
very long time I reckon..
SUNDAY IS RACE DAY
Invited out to a day at the races (well the historic vehicle side of the races) the family jumped in the car and braved the fog for the hour long trek to Winton Raceway, where vehicles older than I am took to the track and display areas to race and look pretty and not necessarily in that order. There'll be a tonne of pics going up on my car blog Drive Another Day soon enough but as a taste of the big day, the pretty stakes was being heavily ruled by this RX7:
Whereas the highly track side for me had to be the sidecar bikes. And I'm sure they used that sidecar word lightly as a lot of them looked to be just staging areas where the passenger started, set to crawl all over the rider and bike itself to help with cornering at high speed. Seriously, when you look at one of these things up close you get that incredible sense of danger at high speed and you wouldn't want to be letting go anytime soon...
Great fun to watch though!
SLEEP THEN DO THE SHOW!
Naturally today was a reflection of the weekend as we revisited the big win Saturday (well done again Shannon) and got into those activities our listeners got into. Belinda called and shared revisiting the horse track she rode on thirty years back while others on Facebook shared they to were at Winton in various capacities, Gary sharing this action snap!
AND TODAY WAS A RECORD...
...for low temperature. Tops of just 12 degrees Celsius which is the coldest day so far this year. Considering there's a cold snap hitting the southern states and we haven't official hit winter just yet, there's probably plenty more to come cold temperature.
Joy.
Anyway, I'm off to go warm up again so I'll chat again tomorrow!
-Almigo
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