finally brave the city and its parking
No viable public transport options? I'm really glad we're near a train line, I basically refuse to drive anywhere near the city never mind in/through it XD
they don't take cash
This has gotten a very deliberate and very hard lizard stare (which I will usually try to be conscious of and stop myself from doing because I think they're most of what makes people uncomfortable/think that I'm "intimidating") on the few occasions where I actually needed something from a particular store, otherwise I've been like "oh okay" sometimes with a "could you please put a sign up so I know not to come back" if I had the presence of mind to do so (I'm not so witty) and just left. This has fortunately not happened that often (can count the situations on one hand).
Uni vibes
I loved uni in the time that I was going there, but I do remember the shift to where it seemed that it was far more important that you paid for your degree rather than "earning" it (by passing all your classes) which basically made it so that there were more places available for full fee paying students than the ones using HECS/HELP/whatever the hell it's called these days and going to a few protests (including some of my friends occupying one of the uni buildings for a few days).
Eldest did a semester at uni (just the bridging course to be able to enrol in courses at uni) and while he quite enjoyed finding more people on a similar intellectual level to him for a change (he always thought he was "average" because of the friends he normally hangs around with, and then he went to TAFE, and then he went to uni, and realised he is actually pretty damn smart) he eventually decided not to pursue the degree he had been eyeing off because he didn't think the level of qualification was worth the money (and there were a few other reasons that I can't recall).
I think as parents we were meant to be disappointed with that but it's kind of hard to be disappointed when we agree with him XD
when I came across someone using the fact that they have degrees to try and shut down an argument with someone else
[silent enraged screeching]
as someone with one useless uni degree and nearly 2 years worth of units towards another one, and also as someone who has had to pull the "did biology at uni" card to make people stop very confidently incorrectly trying to "educate" me on related subjects
training based climbing boards
Could you please explain to the dumb person what these are? Thanks ^_^
proving this guy right
If we're being charitable and not jumping to the immediate conclusion that "this guy" is monumentally stupid and should be very deliberately starved of all the attention he's "obviously" desperate for, broken clocks are right twice a day.
I am actually bottom feeding scum
Bottom feeders and other detritivores are useful, if not for them the world would be a much grosser place.
I wanted to say I had met bottom feeding scum and you're definitely not it but the people that I was referring to aren't even that useful
You're in dubious company anyway ;D
Week has been pretty good I think. Productive but I feel like I am never getting enough done regardless of how much I get done -_-
Have you had a good week other than the weirdness at the new gym? And how's the coming one looking? :)
We have park and ride for the train, but it's actually a bit cheaper to drive in and pay for parking when there's more than one of you. At certain times of day you can even find some free parking. This is actually another cluster of things that go against the city gym for us. All our gyms are a bit of a trip for us, so parking availability is helpful. The originals have it, but the city doesn't, hence extra costs in that regard on top of the fact that city gym has higher entry fees.
While I don't like driving in the city I suspect that Adelaide isn't as chaotic as the bigger cities. In fact if you're just driving straight down the main road through the middle it can be easier than trying to bypass it for destinations close to the other side. I used to do this to visit my eldest in Goodwood, but she's gone to Melbourne now.
Not a dumb question at all regarding the training boards. I realised as I wrote it they are probably a bit obscure unless you're into climbing regularly. This is probably a better explanation than I can give. I don't use them much myself, but when I see people using them they're usually in groups cheering each other on.
The visit to the gym was actually last year now, the epiphany was just incredibly delayed, a testament to how slow my brain can be. Since then I'm sad to say our regular gym has also gone cashless. 😭 I had already done my yearly renewal so I've yet to resign myself to the idea of paying with card and haven't purchased any consumables there since the change. I figured if I have to use card anyway I may as well get it cheaper online.
I noticed with my sister and eldest they knew what they wanted to do at university and liked what they were doing, so that was the drive to keep them going through undergrad. However, it was the PhD studies that I think they can truly say they enjoyed the most. I've never really had a passion that would have warranted the costs of Uni and what you said about your son makes me realise that having a far more academically talented sister probably made me feel like I wasn't intelligent enough for Uni anyway. I know she struggled at times and she'd never struggled at school. She thought she wasn't going to get good enough grades for her PhD and she ended up getting a first class degree, so was able to move onto the doctorate directly without having to do a master's first.
I love my sister, but as children (and as children do) she used to rub her superiority in my face a bit and that's not easily shaken. My husband is intellectually faster than me as well, so I've been surrounded by that for all my life. I'm the dumb one in my circles for sure. 😅
That's a familiar feeling. As soon as you get one task done and dusted, several more pile in and you've still got all the daily stuff to get through. I want to get some more chickens this season, before all my old girls pass on. I wish I lived a bit nearer to you or @nytehawker so I didn't have to contact randoms I can't be sure of. I keep putting it off because of this and weekends being so busy.
The weeks are pretty much same, same for me these days. They'll just be up and down depending on how my perimenopausal hormones are treating me, which is more badly than kindly lately. Can't wait for that bit to be over as I've never reacted well to hormone changes.
Hope you stay productive and have a good week :)