My shoulder is on fire, I'm late to an F1 party, an idiot almost crashed into the Slowbaru and today we celebrated generosity.
No wonder I'm tired.
WOKE UP THIS MORNING
And while I didn't get myself a gun nor a beer, I did wonder why there was a fair bit of pain running through my left shoulder. The same pain that had me awake and wondering exactly what I'd done to myself half an hour before the alarms started to play.
Backtracking, I believe it's school holidays fault. Well more to the point me running around like an idiot and going hell for leather on all the equipment at Oodies Creek Park with the kids yesterday, pretending I'm a monster while they try to escape my clutches gleefully.
Apparently while my 42 year body is capable of some impressive things like a 103kg deadlift out in the back yard, trying to act like a nimble pre-teen is not one of them. Well at least my shoulder sees it that way.
Built for strength and not speed apparently. Or endurance. Oh and dexterity probably needs a tune up come to think of it..
WAKE UP IDIOT
It seems my cars gain the unwanted powers of invisibility when going around roundabouts. A few years ago a high end Jeep driver decided looking forward was for suckers and ploughed into the back of my Stag. Today an old bloke in a panel van decided his brakes only needed to be used sparingly and also that you don't need to look to your right at all, not when the power of the panel van compels you.
Well my powers of 'what in the flying fork are you doing old mate?' compelled me to wrench my car into the next lane in said invisible roundabout because if I didn't, he'd be buying me a new side panel. Luckily nobody was in that lane either. Amazingly even though he stopped, eventually, I still don't think he realised the accident he could have caused there.
SPEAKING OF DRIVING - PART ONE
Remember the fund raising last week for Carevan with those copies of Border Monopoly reaching top dollar so we could help Carevan buy a new van?
Well today we revealed the amazing generosity of Rob...who bought them a new van!! Yes the same legend who bought a copy of Monopoly last week for $5k was so touched by what they do, he marched to his nearest dealership and bought them a new Hyundai Van!
Sharing not only his story on the show this morning but also how much help this gesture will be for what Carevan does from John's perspective, the guy who originally created the foundation, it was genuinely one of those 'Yeah, this is why my I love my job moments.' What a great bunch of people and feelings.
SPEAKING OF DRIVING - PART TWO
Look I know the first season so 2018 and a lot has changed since then but I
don't care. After trying out a couple of episodes of The Casketeers on Netflix
(interesting but not for me) I finally gave F1: Drive to survive a go.
Mother
of god did I get swept up in Episode one of the first season (and I've got a
whole three and a lot more to go!) As a parent I felt for Daniel Ricardo's mum
as she nervously watched him blitz around the Melbourne track and I cheered
with his dad when he revealed he 'wanted to throw something at the screen'
when Daniel was pipped for a 3rd place by half a second. I was cheering on the
Haas team and really hoped they smashed this race (guess who hasn't watched F1
in a very long time?) only to share the heart break when both drivers suffered
from the same mistake shortly after leaving the pits. At the time of writing
I'm halfway through just the second episode, having watched Fernando Alonso
give one hell of a gutsy fight to finish the race after nearly ending it on
the first lap and I loved watching Carlos, the manager and cousin of Carlos
Sainz Jnr, cheer every time something happened on track and his cousin moved
up on the race leader board.
It's the plucky little teams with bottom end budgets trying to survive, it's former greats trying to regain their mojo, it's snap decisions, mistakes and accidents at every turn and if the first one and a half episodes are any indication, I'm going to be watching this for quite some time.
(A shame my Dad wasn't alive to watch this - as someone who used to tape all the F1's across the year on the old VHS, I'm sure he would have appreciated this as much as I am.)
DIDN'T WIN
Oh I lost Fight For Your Flashback again - Alice Cooper proved too tough to beat compared to my choice of Walk this Way by Run DMC vs Aerosmith.
Current scores Lu 8, Me 5...
Phew, is it Friday yet?
-Almigo
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