Finger Pointing

 Deja Vu was in full swing back at the hospital again.  I got as far as the preliminary interview room before going home to sit it out. Same pack drill, same questions, same answers except it wasn't for me. Debbie is having a finger gouged, straightened and plugged.  Now we were supposed to be on a boat right now but because we weren't this procedure was brought forward.  I was told to wait it out for at least 4 to 5 hours then do the pickup.  My fingers have plenty of buckle in the knuckle and are worse than hers but mine are not leaking. 

Eureka

 This is a Geelong pub that has a had a resurgence. It was fairly roughhouse back in the day.  This is the second time we have been here in a month, so it can't be too bad.  I recommend the guiness pie complete with peas and mash.  I tried to get one of these the first time around and on this occasion there were plenty available. Four of us at $35 per head including drinks, can't get much better. We took a look upstairs at the rooftop bar. This would be your nightclub venue of an evening with plenty of leather couches and a huge bar. We should go back and pretend we are on a cruise ship right now.

lathered in leather

Aerial View

It has been calm as here for a few days and if it is pleasant then the gardening overhaul must continue. A neighbour bailed me up while I was coming back from the beach and announced he had found another gardener (me) for the cause. He was told this area was off limits so he went on his way.  We are going to borrow the neighbours green bin. They have artificial grass for one thing and its an airbnb as well so that bin has never been used. I have the new designs from above.  Moving tons of rocks around is more like landscaping than gardening.

It is hard to compare this still scene with the wind scene

Seniors health card

 This seniors health card looks alright. It cuts down chemist costs and maybe some other perks.  I can just muster enough energy to type this blog after the nearly three hours of trying to get thru the online application process. I never got to the end either.  First I had to go through the digital ID process which involved my phone and an app and various documents. This was about an hour or so but eventually worked.  Then it was getting Centrelink attached to the MyGov and getting a Centrelink account, this was another hour.  Now we are down to the actual application process which involves questions about everything including how long you have lived at the current address and for some reason that is where we got stuck for 30 minutes as no matter what we did we could not put a date before 2022, which is 4 years to short. We decided to move on with the wrong date. They did not seem to care. By now Debbie is fully involved as it branches to allow for a second person to apply for a card as well becuase the answers are almost for two people anyway.  I got to the final document upload where tax assessments are required but now have to wait for the taxman to get back to us.  To be continued.

Midnight Line

 There is extra reading time at the moment with the doctor's orders.  I am moving around and doing a few pushups and situps without too much discomfort. I ripped the covers off the wounds which has freed up my movements even better. There are three holes to go with the scars I had previously collected but right now it is a series of black blue belly blobs.  The latest novel I finished is another Reacher feature. Now there's a guy who does not even acknowledge a few scars and stitches. This book presents a slightly tamer version of Reacher. Yes there are a few bad guys who got their noses rearranged but overall only a short body count and Reacher was not the culprit either.  This was mostly paying homage to returned servicemen and women and their readjusting to life in the burbs.

Shortest Day swimmers

There were three cars together containing five swimmers. I was expecting them to have pointy hats and runes painted all over but they just went in for a swim for 10 mins and then headed off again. It was the calmest of days and very clear water. One of them said the water temperature wasn't too bad. I have been accused of that exact same phrase outside of Winter.  I also had the rubbish bag and there was plenty of the trashy stuff. By far the most numerous items this time were rope pieces. This seems to be a theme lately and some of them were heavy duty knotted coils but also short and cutoff. The usual plastic bags and small plastics were there as well. The bag was full and heavier so I left the remainder.

Knot rope

Rope II

Phillip Parker King

 There was one stamp that had been waiting to find me for years. I had a charity box that I bought which could be a hit or miss.  I opened one of the albums and there it was on the first page, a complete set of navigators.  Many times I would find this set and always the last one was missing. These were the predecimal variety and there it was, a £2 King, worth around $90 at the moment. There are about 180 different designs in the 415 Australian predecimal stamps ever released and now I have at least one of every design. It was the last predecimal stamp that I could realistically expect to find just floating around.  The other 20 or so variations I do not have are worth $1,000s for each one.  As for King, he was an explorer, one of Australia's first beach combers. He sailed all around Australia, hugging the coast on four different explorations.