Supposed to have finished packing by now, and just doing the last little bits and pieces...instead, procrastination is the order of the day...well, week if you want to be technical about it...I did do some packing, but not enough to fully finish the room...in fact, I've been packing everything else except the room, which isn't much at all...I might just send some more stuff up north using the mail service for now, and go from there...
Sent up some sheets and basic cooking utensils on Friday...was talking to the AusPost people, and they were suggesting to send the boxes by normal parcel mail instead of Express (my original idea)...they were saying, that even though I sent off the parcels today, using normal mail the parcels could still be arriving up north on Wednesday...I think the thing that really swayed me was the price difference; $33.45 normal as opposed to $78.30 for Express, and even then there was no guarantee that it would arrive before Wednesday...so, prices clicked in, and also opened up another viable way of sending stuff up north...
Also went on duty yesterday for what was meant to be a really easy and early finishing event...instead, we were still there three hours later...when the photo below was taken...
The event we were covering was a hill climb component in the morning until lunch, then a Criterium around the Pit Complex...and today was the Blaney to Bathurst race...110km or 75km of road bike riding...the only reason why we had State Unit 158 (on the extreme left) was because Brendan had to use it for motocross today, while State Unit 148 and Bathurst 450 (van and other 4WD ambulance respectively) were used today for the race...so, from left to right, Justin, me, Tammy, Paul, Mick and Jess...Justin and Jess are both on BERT (Bicycle Emergency Response Team) units, and there we all are, in the shadow of the Mt Panorama Pit Complex...on a beautiful Bathurst Saturday evening...
What was funnier was when I heard that some enterprising thieves STOLE a LIGHTBAR from one of the State Units when they were up here last weekend for the ARAP (Advanced Responder Accreditation Program) course...they unbolted the bar, and cut the wires...there goes $2500...bastards...
Also went out last night...was extremely dehydrated (we were on tarmac all day) and kind of forced myself to eat something....it was obviously when I just finished an entire container of No 7 from Noodle Box (combination meat noodles) that I get a sms from Shaun...saying to get ready because I'm going to be going to their place for a BBQ and drinking session...so, off we go...I'm squished into the back against the baby seat on one side and Fat Tony on the other (there is a major reason why they call him Fat Tony)...looked like a bloody clown car with Arron up front and his lanky legs...at least it wasn't in the Kingswood...that would have been too strange...anyhow, BBQ'd hamburgers with cheese, bacon and onions was what's on order, and it went down well...and before and after that there was the rum...I think I got 18 into me at the end of the night, and was still sober enough to hold a conversation and walk straight....what was a close call was when we did Jager bombs though....that one I kinda went a little green from, but in the end, all was good...it was a good night, until I ran into Bryce in the toilets...bastard went, "Hey fuckhead, weren't you meant to be deported or something? Who the fuck let you back into the country?" luckily enough there was two other blokes, one of which who I sort of knew, in there at the time too...because he pipped up, "Hey Nick, you'd never leave here (meaning Australia) would you? You're making too much money from the place..." to which I replied, "Yup, definitely making more money than most of the boys I used to go to school with..." at which point Bryce (who I did use to go to boarding school with, and was a sort of poster child of a racist hick) started calling me a bastard and useless and all that....to which I replied, "Mate, do you still live with your parents out in Oberon? I've got a house now on the Sunshine Coast...screw you." and walked out, to which all I heard was him trying to say something else, but just ignored him...I know I told a few gray lies, but I do have a roof up on the Sunshine Coast, so I guess they were a darker shade of gray...
Man, I really miss Grace...been sending her sms' but not talking to her...she's been a bit busy this week past with her dad up and everything, and she's doing her first aid course today and yesterday, so hopefully she's passed her ten questions easily...I'll be ribbing her about it with a vengeance if she makes any mistakes...:p
I think I've finally sold my bed...the first item sold in fact...:(...my bed...it's going to go...$450 for it, mattress and frame...I am going to so miss it...it has been such a big part of my life, and on top of that, was really comfortable...
And on that note, I'm going to jump back into it to enjoy what I can of it...
Be safe...
N
Also went on duty yesterday for what was meant to be a really easy and early finishing event...instead, we were still there three hours later...when the photo below was taken...
The event we were covering was a hill climb component in the morning until lunch, then a Criterium around the Pit Complex...and today was the Blaney to Bathurst race...110km or 75km of road bike riding...the only reason why we had State Unit 158 (on the extreme left) was because Brendan had to use it for motocross today, while State Unit 148 and Bathurst 450 (van and other 4WD ambulance respectively) were used today for the race...so, from left to right, Justin, me, Tammy, Paul, Mick and Jess...Justin and Jess are both on BERT (Bicycle Emergency Response Team) units, and there we all are, in the shadow of the Mt Panorama Pit Complex...on a beautiful Bathurst Saturday evening...What was funnier was when I heard that some enterprising thieves STOLE a LIGHTBAR from one of the State Units when they were up here last weekend for the ARAP (Advanced Responder Accreditation Program) course...they unbolted the bar, and cut the wires...there goes $2500...bastards...
Also went out last night...was extremely dehydrated (we were on tarmac all day) and kind of forced myself to eat something....it was obviously when I just finished an entire container of No 7 from Noodle Box (combination meat noodles) that I get a sms from Shaun...saying to get ready because I'm going to be going to their place for a BBQ and drinking session...so, off we go...I'm squished into the back against the baby seat on one side and Fat Tony on the other (there is a major reason why they call him Fat Tony)...looked like a bloody clown car with Arron up front and his lanky legs...at least it wasn't in the Kingswood...that would have been too strange...anyhow, BBQ'd hamburgers with cheese, bacon and onions was what's on order, and it went down well...and before and after that there was the rum...I think I got 18 into me at the end of the night, and was still sober enough to hold a conversation and walk straight....what was a close call was when we did Jager bombs though....that one I kinda went a little green from, but in the end, all was good...it was a good night, until I ran into Bryce in the toilets...bastard went, "Hey fuckhead, weren't you meant to be deported or something? Who the fuck let you back into the country?" luckily enough there was two other blokes, one of which who I sort of knew, in there at the time too...because he pipped up, "Hey Nick, you'd never leave here (meaning Australia) would you? You're making too much money from the place..." to which I replied, "Yup, definitely making more money than most of the boys I used to go to school with..." at which point Bryce (who I did use to go to boarding school with, and was a sort of poster child of a racist hick) started calling me a bastard and useless and all that....to which I replied, "Mate, do you still live with your parents out in Oberon? I've got a house now on the Sunshine Coast...screw you." and walked out, to which all I heard was him trying to say something else, but just ignored him...I know I told a few gray lies, but I do have a roof up on the Sunshine Coast, so I guess they were a darker shade of gray...
Man, I really miss Grace...been sending her sms' but not talking to her...she's been a bit busy this week past with her dad up and everything, and she's doing her first aid course today and yesterday, so hopefully she's passed her ten questions easily...I'll be ribbing her about it with a vengeance if she makes any mistakes...:p
I think I've finally sold my bed...the first item sold in fact...:(...my bed...it's going to go...$450 for it, mattress and frame...I am going to so miss it...it has been such a big part of my life, and on top of that, was really comfortable...
And on that note, I'm going to jump back into it to enjoy what I can of it...
Be safe...
N
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It was *40* questions!!! Hehe, and I assume you're still working on the next post.
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