The Breakfast Radio Diaries 095 - The weekend begins now

 I had the house to myself, I'm wrestling with Tik Tok and bring on Sunday when we celebrate the dads.

DO YOU TIK TOK?

Every time I put something up on Tik Tok, it's met with mixed results. On the one hand anything I do upload is viewed far more times than the same material on YouTube or Instagram but on the other there's very little if any conversion. But then I'll read a post by another writer who has had fantastic results with basic effort and again I find myself back there, creative tool set in hand. Because if that's where the book reading audience is currently hanging out, then that's where I need to be!

Maybe my day is still to come? Maybe my vids need to be shorter, punchier and use less White Zombie? Maybe I need to be seen dancing more? Either way, if you've got the Tok, come join me. I'm only just warming up. 

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LAST ONE IN THE HOUSE

I was the only one in the house last night which when you have a family of four, is a pretty rare occurrence. My wife and son were in Melbourne for a medical appointment and my daughter was staying with friends because a breakfast radio shift and attempting to get her to school on time are two things that just don't mix. 

And so come 8pm when Sophie had been picked up and it was just the cat and I left to our own devices, what did I do? Pretty much what I usually do actually. Made a cup of tea and became one with the couch while getting through another episode of the seemingly more serious season of The Orville (Season 3). Yeah no solo rock star parties or neighbourhood wrestling parties on the back lawn. No 13 and a half minute guitar solos in the lounge (I'm between guitars at the moment) - I didn't save the world, nor did I renovate the house in such a fashion that Scott Cam from the Block came around and gave me a standing ovation. 

He loves what I've done with the place. 

But what was different was the next morning where I could turn on all the lights in the house looking for a pair of fresh socks and not bump around in the dark like a blind worm. I could make as much noise as I wanted to in the shower because the cat didn't care. I didn't bump into anything, knock anything over or lose my wallet/glasses/asthma inhaller/mind at any stage. Such luxuries! That's a pretty good start to any Friday shift really. 

BILLY AND THE LOST NUMBER

After playing Phil Collins 'Billy don't lose my number' Lu remarked that it's a lot harder to lose someone's number anymore, especially when they put it in your phone. Ghosting has become so much harder - I mean you can't really say 'Welp, I think you put the wrong digits in and that's why I haven't called you back..' can you?
And it got me thinking on how if someone said they'd call you at a given time, you'd have to be in the vicinity of the fixed line phone to take the call. Hoping too that no one else was using the phone at the time nor was the dial up internet tying things up. Good time!

I can still remember how our first dial up modem sounded when we reached out to handshake the World Wide Web back in the early days. Amazing. 

GETTING READY FOR DAD'S DAY

'What do you want for Father's Day?' - My lovely wife

'Oh god, I have no idea!' - Me, helpful as ever.

Thinking about it though since she did ask me over a week ago, there's a few things that have popped up that I'd like, although they're not actually feasible gifts for Sunday Sept 4th. Still, this is all about putting things out to the universe so here's the list as it stands.

-I'd like the used car market to come back down to the levels it was at pre-pandemic. Because now you're paying a premium for cars that really shouldn't be commanding as high prices as they do, due to the lack of other options. I mean it's good for sellers I guess but not so great if you've been saving for years and now only high mileage beaters are within range.

See also: Housing and rental prices currently. 

-I'd like my Subaru Impreza to sort out it's cooling problems. It still does the occasion heat gauge lift without the engine actually overheating and I still don't know why. I am suspecting the radiator which means that it will be off to a radiator shop soon enough for a better verdict but I'm looking forward to not having to keep an eye on the heat gauge so often. 

-I'd like Natrad Wodonga to move to Albury so I don't have to drive so far. 

-I'd like everything that's gone up in price over Covid times to go back down in price. Especially you petrol. Oh and graphics cards too, cheers.

-More doctors to become available so waiting times drop. 

-Twitter to stop being so toxic. There's a lot of angry people with far too much time to vent there right now.

-Onedrive to stop annoying me. 

-10,000 sales of my book :D

-In the AFL I'd like Sydney, Collingwood and Freemantle to win. This way my $10 multi turns into a $300 win and I buy a new radiator or something. Yes I tipped against the Richmond Tigers, my AFL team, but it's paid off so far so...

-The Nasal Polyps causing me grief to magically disappear.

-All the episodes of Game of Thrones House of the Dragon to land on my Xbox in one big hit so I don't have to wait week after week for them.  

-A memorable day come this Sunday. Actually I'm sure it will be as I love fathers day :) 

Happy dads day to all the father figures out there and enjoy the weekend!

-Almigo