The Week That Was (part 7)

The Week That Was (part 7)

It’s currently 11:07am on Saturday morning as I start to type this. I’m my bed still, wearing headphones and playinng Fallout 76 on my PS4.

They have fixed a lot of the bugs in the game and it’s worth playing again.

I need to get my PS4 at some point. The DVD drive can’t be detected and it has my No Man’s Sky disc in it.

Later today I will renew my medication and catch up on my reading. I’m currently reading a new Gatchaman comic that just started (remember Battle Of The Planets?), The Last Ronin (a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story that is excellent.) and a psychological self help book.

I have new neighbours moving in today too. I’ll find out more about them soon enough.

Yesterday, I had a hospitality shift at Centennial Park Cemetery. The cemetery has 3 function rooms, a coffee shop and a gift shop. The function rooms are a great place for a wake, post funeral as it’s all within the same complex.

Hospitality gear

My job was to help setup the function rooms, offer coffee, tea and other drinks, serve sandwiches, bring used dishes back to the kitchen and vacuum the floors between functions.

It was pretty good. I got a couple of free flat white coffees as well for my efforts.

Coffee - made with love?

It was really foggy in the morning.

It looked dramatically post apocalyptic.

After the shift I went into the city, catching the wrong bus and creating a whole new adventure!

When I got to the city, I got a notification for another shift an hour later and I accepted it but they cancelled it straight after.

A little annoying but I wanted to relax and I also have work for next week.

After the shift I recorded this TikTok:
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS2ecP7eY/

Then I went to the Strathmore Hotel for a meal.
On the way I saw an Asian food vendor selling his left over meals relatively cheap.

Korean Dumplings

Chicken Noodles
Not bad.
At the Strathmore Hotel every table was booked, as you’d expect on a Friday night, so I sat in the beer garden and waited for the meal there.

Curried Chicken
It was expensive for what it was and I could get 2 whole chickens for the same price.

It pays to be frugal, but the occasional treat is OK.

For the rest of the week just gone, I was working in a school’s canteen.

It meant being on the other sode of the city, an hour away by train and bus, really early in the morning.

This gave me the opportunity to take some stunning sunrise photos.

Sunrise in the City

There was also some interesting birdlife there. I saw a beautiful Rosella. And I even witnessed a large black raven using it’s beak to puncture a Fruitbox drink container.
It’s talons making light work of the plastic too.

Rosella

The work is good and I am learning new skills. I get to drive a golf buggy to deliver the lunch orders to another nearby school.

I make the occasional mistake from not reading the lunch orders properly, but those are easily fixed. If I get flustered, I am useless so it also takes patience and positive personal affirmations to get me back on track.

Update:
It’s Sunday afternoon and I am preparing to go an volunteer at a local soup kitchen.

I also have new neighbours moving in nextdoor.

Thank you for reading.

Until next time, always insist on dignity and respect.

Shaidon

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