The weekend nights were cold but looked amazing but next time maybe I should scout around before getting down to business?
SATURDAY MORNING
The temperature gauge on the Elders building read just 3 degrees when I slung myself around the roundabout and pushed the Slowbaru towards the freeway and Baranduda, where sadly it didn't get much higher than that across the morning. There for the grand opening celebrations of the brand new Baranduda IGA, I found the place just fine. I found where we were to do the show live for the morning from just fine. I also found the petting zoo rather easily:
What I couldn't find to save myself was a place to get coffee, even though I'd watched plenty of people there to witness this new supermarket walk in with one. 'Where are they getting these?' I wondered. Luckily Lu wondered that exact thought out loud because it turns out there was a coffee shop right behind the supermarket. In fact there was a mini shopping village within walking distance, we just didn't think to look.
How did we manage to miss that for 2.5 out of the 3 hours we were there?
SATURDAY NIGHT
It was still cold but I remembered a beanie this time around as we enjoyed a
ripper dinner with friends and then walked through the sights and the sounds
of
Aurora Albury.
In a word: Spectacular. I loved it, Donna loved it, kids loved it, friends
loved it.
BACK TO THE GRIND
Last night (Sunday night) was far less fun in comparison as I struggled to
sleep with both my nose and my shoulders playing funny buggers and making
things really uncomfortable. The cat did the dance of
wake up you idiot and managed to let herself out while I stumbled into
anything and everything in the bathroom while trying to have a shower in the
dark.
Thankfully the coffee helped and we kicked into the show chatting about the
weekend that was (yay), Nick Kyrgios not winning (not so yay) and the fact
that houses are still selling even with interest rates rising (mixed yay
there, it's good for sellers I guess even if it isn't great for buyers.)
On a far more entertaining note was this weekend highlight update from a
listener called Colleen - her husband had recently re-bought a car he sold 27
years ago and they finally took it for a drive. The car in question? This
beast:
A Valiant Charger R/T.
Given the price of cars nowadays though, buying it back wouldn't have been
cheap. And I can't imagine it'd last a long time on the open freeway before
requiring a another drink of the finest petrol. But hey, if you're more the
economical type of motorist, can I suggest something like this?
It's another car I came across today, an early 90's Chrysler Metro Geo
experiment. The experiment to make the already frugal little Metro even more
so. And boy howdy did they
strip things back including how much petrol it doesn't drink.
Ahh if only the Slowbaru could have an economy like that while still doing all
the Subaru things it's famous for...
AND A QUICK SHOUT TO AMAZON
I order a gaming keyboard for Jackson's birthday later this month and they told me it'd be here Thursday. It's arrived today, a full three days before due date - now that's exceeding expectations for sure!
Although I did sneakily tell his Amazon Alexa device not to announce it was arriving. The last time I ordered someone from Amazon, he knew it was coming thanks to that device before I even did!)
(For the record it's this one Red Dragon K552 in white - AMAZON AFFILIATE LINK. He's seen some videos and thinks he'll enjoy the clicks and the features. As long as it lasts longer than his now useless Laser gaming keyboard, we'll all be happy!)
Bring on the weekend again already, that was fun!
Peace
-Almigo
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