The adventures of Almigo

  'Dad, are you ever going to get around to doing something with that beer you made?' 'Sure son, one day. Although I need to work out if what I have here is infected or not...' Fast forward to today, still not knowing the status of the dark ale that possible went bad, I still bottled it. What could possibly go wrong here? 

Some days, like today, I really wish I was Wolverine. I don't mean in the sense of his razor-sharp claws. There's no one currently on my radar that needs to be on the receiving end of some kind of slashing attack like that. Well not yet anyway. I want to be Wolverine for his adamantium-laced skeleton and even his healing factor would actually be really really helpful right about now. Although in saying that in all of the adventures that I've read or seen or listened to via audiobook, I don't think there's ever been a case in the life of the Canadian Super Hero where he's ever been caught unawares while trying to deliver chocolate chip muffins to his workplace in the dark.  Marvel writers reading on, you're more than welcome to borrow this storyline if you like if you suddenly run short on ideas. 

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the future because I have written today's post mostly via headset.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it? Especially in 2026 when you can use pretty much any A.I out there to really nail home the result of some interesting decisions from way back when in just a matter of moments.  To explore this today, I'm heading back to a time where I used to reward myself with choc chip cookies and work out how better off today I'd be if I'd just put the cookie down...*

Hello there - if you've just Googled an email address to see if a book club is legitimate and this post has popped up in the results then I have some bad news for you: The offer you're investigating is as legitimate as cryptocurrency from Bernie Madoff.

Dear Australia Post, Just a quick note to say thanks for sending my letter from one part of this lovely state to another, via Monaco. And Portugal. And possibly a quick stop off at Paris while it's at it.  While I don't know if those locations are 100% accurate, I can only guess that my humble little envelope with a single sheet of paper within will get to travel that far given how much you charged me to pop it into the mail chute to begin it's surprisingly mammoth journey.  At a hefty $3.40 to post a letter, I'm really hoping it finally arrives with many stamps on it's little passport!

It's been real, thanks Blogger! Hey thanks for checking out this page! After 10 years of posting here and over 600 posts, it's time to try something new at over possibly greener pastures. Which means you can now find me and all my random adventuring ways over at my latest project Garage Intelligence.  

We’ll here we are – the last show of 2022. The alarms are off, the out of office is on, my lengthy to do list has all been crossed off. Time to try and engage holiday mode after 163 shows, early starts and diary entries.  And speaking of that last point, welcome to the very last one.

With just two shows to go before we wrap things up for the year and I can finally get some sleep and now we're dealing with a scamming idiot. Yes someone is pretending to be Lu , Facebook isn't batting an eyelid and sadly people are still falling for it (I get it, the money offer this close to Christmas is pretty enticing..) Also one of us loves gift cards, the other not so much...

If you want my 128% completely undivided attention at any meeting, just supply some donuts. However if you want me to recommend a show on Netflix, make sure it's not so confusing that I need a cluey website article to finally work out what the hell happened..

Just like the first day of my latest breakfast shift I had the music blaring in my headphones as I strolled to work, pumped up for the day ahead. Because today was survey day, the day where we'd find out how well we went in the market since the show kicked off roughly six months ago.  And I was so buzzed up, I almost danced past a crime scene..

I need more sleep and to desperately stretch my calves. But on a more positive note I found the easiest way to get rid of three dead lawn mowers and a busted whipper snipper and now that my best friend has moved into a house with a pool, I'm feeling like I want to stay in the water for the rest of summer.. Push that wall!

No not on my car (wifey borrowed it to deliver milks or some such and put some petrol in it before she brought it back - now I have petrol for days!) but on myself. I can talk, I can type, just don't ask me to do anything strenuous or try to run a marathon all of a sudden..

 ...and it was really. I knew there'd come a day or two when I was so busy, I'd have to chuck a couple of days posts into one big hit just to play catch up. So welcome to the first double post where I'm trying to recall the last couple of days in between my son off on school camp and me getting slightly disappointed by trains of all things... 

So the price of Christmas lunch and dinner is set to rise because we can't find enough oysters, the reserve bank of Australia has come out and apologised for not making things as clear as they should be and we're just two sleeps away from summer and boy oh boy am I glad I'm locked and loaded with a BBQ just in time for it..

Today we said goodbye to Irene Cara, looked at the best album covers ever made and on a more personal note, today I'm recommending the life focus app Level Up Life.  (Oh and in case you were wondering, this was not  one of the ones that came up in the best album covers chat..)

So this is Friday's update written on a Sunday. Because Friday was chaotic (work, Black Friday, life etc) plus we had the staff Christmas party and because of that big night, I was in no state of mind to get to writing yesterday.  Action shot from said party. So now that I've had some sleep, welcome to Friday's update a couple of days out. 

No it's not me quitting my radio career anytime soon (not unless an incredibly lucrative offer in a new career path drops into my lap) but rather the blogging side of things here at Adventures of Almigo.  The good news is what's here will remain here forever more, I'm just moving my attentions to paid hosting on the other side of the internet and have already started on the building phase of the new site..

As annoying as Facebook can be at times (many times) today it's reminded me of when I took a huge step in not only my career but also my life, bundling up everything we had and making the huge move to the Gold Coast in Australia.  Yeah exactly six years ago I bid a tearful farewell to this place pictured and off we went for a trip that was equal parts exhilaration, frustration, triumph and moments of self doubt. There were tough and lean times for the family, there were experiences I never thought in a million lifetimes I'd end up doing.  But for all the things that went bang (and not in a good way) I'm glad I took the plunge because there got me here where I am today and currently I'm quite happy with that.

One car, one tram, two trains, two states of Australia, three pizzas, two beers, over 700 kilometres covered and the world's worst hot dog near the end of it.  So that was my Sunday, how was yours?