The adventures of Almigo

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?

Remember how I had three things on this weeks fix it list ? Well I'm happy to report that the son's computer is working better than ever, so that's great. Also my wife's car is full of fresh oil now...after a one hour job turned into a six and a half hour job and ended up with me bleeding all over the place... Sigh. Nothing ever goes to plan does it?

Flying solo today on the show due to a bout of possible food poisoning, I'm happy to report that I didn't crash the show into the nearest wall. Not me! Not today! Also I fixed 33% of Yesterday's issues so that's a bonus..

In a competition to give away $5000 we were calling out a street that didn't actually exist anywhere on the Border. Luckily the people who lived where we were supposed to be talking about figured it out pretty quickly and got us back on the right path.  Also we found a cafe where only one sized coffee is king (because that's the only sized brew they do!)

On Saturday we had a lovely feed of fish and chips from Greg's Takeaway in Wodonga, ate them over the road at Junction Square and then the rains came down. Yesterday we were there for my nieces christening (which was a first for both of us!), then a celebratory feed at a mansion in Jinderra...and then the rains came down.  Which made it no surprise at all to come to work this morning after an active weekend and spend most of the show talking about blocked off roads and flooded areas. The phones went into meltdown mode and at one stage crashed with all the calls on flooded areas and blocked off roads.  Welcome to Albury-Wodonga, beautiful one day but partially under water the next. 

It's been a decent sized week with plenty going on both at and outside of work. Hell, even the household cat Kiki is tired. And rather than bog you down with daily details just before the weekend, how about we reminisce about awesome 80's film clips/ music videos instead? Sounds good? Let's go!

This site has gone Meta but not in a failed Facebook way, Weird Al's got some great advice if you're in Australia and want to watch his new film and we dive deep into our own phones for photos with celebrities such as these:  

First it was a lack of easy to access water across the weekend. Today the power was cut to swap a few poles over. Whatever is coming next, I'm hoping it's not a cap on sunshine because I'm truly loving that at the moment..