Intense Fucking Day

OK, just a "brief" outline.

Last night when I got home Kevin suggested burgers from the chip shop down the road. That would have been fine but I only had $6 in cash and needed $2.50 for bus fare today. I give him my $5 for $2 of chips but he never returned the change.

Which meant  that when I tried to catch the 7:47am bus this morning to go to a 9am appointment with my counsellor, I didn't have enough money. In fact, I had to go back home and drive the scooter there instead (and then noticed that he hadn't plugged it in to the re-charger yesterday).

Morning peak hour traffic to Wallsend was not pretty  and I coped abuse from some drivers who though I shouldn't be on the road. I got there in time (just) and it was a pretty fucking intense session. I have just been so confused and unfocused in the last few months.

After that, I drove to the university where I parked and locked the EasyRide behind a sign. I checked the Printery for a price on Painter, which I can get for $185. Then I had lunch, and caught the bus in to my afternoon's appointment at the employment agency. I hadn't heard back from the council and while I was there I phoned them to find out.

Seems interviews were last Monday and I never made the short list. Hmmm. Well in a way I'm relieved, but I need to sort of what sort of work I do want to do while doing my Masters (cleaning seems the go, and there's even a group that might train me at it).

As I left I commented that I wanted to find a pawn brokers to buy a 2nd hand mobile phone. One thing led to another and they thought I had a working phone (I don't - 1st got the screen broken, and the 2nd can't make outgoing calls) but of course I didn't. So then they offered to buy me one!

Paperwork got arranged while I went to the library and paid $17 worth of fines (somehow, I forgot to check what was due last week). I got back and my case worker drove me to K-Mart at Waratah where they bought me a Nokia 2310 (locked to Vodafone, which is fine as I already have a prepaid with them). Then he drove me back to the university where I went to retrieve my EasyRide.

Someone had slashed the back tire. It's currently parked inside the Printery (and can stay there until Monday) but I'm not sure what to do.

Caught the bus to Glendale, did a little shopping, and went home. I'm going to have a bath in a minute and "vegge out". What mixed fucking day!

Old Phones

Now that I have a new Nokia 2310, I'll be selling my old NEC e606 phones and accessories. Apart from two phones that don't exactly work (one has a busted scree, the other doesn't seem to make calls out) I also have four batteries (on jumbo size), a charger, a pc data cable and a hands free cable.

I'd like to recover the $40 I've spent on this stuff. I was thinking of putting them on eBay for $15 +postage the lot. Is it worth it?

 

 

 

It's a funny thing, but I sort of had a "vision" last week (which I mentioned to Kelli and Kevin) that Pawn Shops would be how I'd get my replacement phone. I thought I'd have to go in to one in order to find my new phone. As it is, all I had to do was ask where one was at the employyment agency.

Corel Painter

I priced Corel Painter (education version) for $A 185 down at the university today. However, after lusting for this software for 20 years, I think it's worth trying out first. Otherwise it might be like when I first lost my virginity (way back in 1983), a big disappointment!

So anyway, I bought a copy of Corel Painter Official Magazine today, which includes a trial version of Painter X on it. I probably could have just downloaded the trial from the web, but this way I have the magazine to read.