Moose Musings

10:42pm: Today was the funeral for Roger, my archery friend. Suffice to say...I started crying at the start of the service and pretty much didn't stop the entire time. I must have looked pretty rough by the end because Roger's widow actually paused and patted me on the shoulder on her way out and later came over to mention that Roger had mentioned me and to thank me for coming, which was somewhat embarrassing, but really sweet of her.

It was a very nice service and the celebrant reminded us all that it was a celebration of life and it's important to remember the happy times and all that. I remain very sad though...Roger had all these archery goals that he never got to do and he never even got to attend our Club Christmas Party. It's just really sad and so sudden. :O( Apparently, he had even ordered some new archery stuff that was delivered after he died...

Speaking of, his widow said she'd donate his archery equipment to the club, which again is really nice of her.

Anyway, there were lots of club members there in our club shirts, I felt underdressed, but the family was happy to see so many of us there.

I guess I should wrap this up because even though I'm not actually going to do any archery this weekend, there's a kids competition tomorrow and it's all hands on deck to help out. Although I'll have to do something that isn't toting targets around.

On a final note, than goodness I keep a spare set of apartment keys in my handbag, because I managed to forget my actual keys at work and if not for the spares I wouldn't have been able to get into my apartment and then get my car keys to drive to the service! Yikes.

Ta-ta for now.

11:28pm: I mean I'm obviously typing in it now, but yeah, it takes me a while to figure out what to type.

Well, today is Plushy's birthday, he's 44 - which is the same age as my big bro, which is weird to me! He usually does a skating show or something, but I haven't actually checked to see. He was at an event with a student on the weekend, last I saw said student was in third place, I wonder if he managed to stay on the podium, I should go check that out.

I got Friday afternoon off so I can go to the funeral, I wonder what the weather will be like...it was an alright day today at least until I got out of the gym and discovered it pouring with rain completely with lightning and rumbles of thunder. Having said that, it'd be a bit unusual if it rained for three days straight, so fingers crossed.

I also should have done my laundry, but surprise, I did not and I'm going over to the parentals tomorrow night so I won't be able to do it then, so Thursday it is I suppose...

OK, I better head off, if I'm ever going to fix my sleeping habits, I better wrap this up and hit the hay.

Ta-ta!

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10:04pm: As mentioned yesterday today was the Club Championships, alas...I did poorly, like 80 points beneath my PB poorly. I blame the flies, they were really annoying today...problem is when aiming you have to be still and when do the flies like landing on you? When you're still!

Also, it was an 80cm target, I'm not a fan of the smaller targets, I got a lot of misses that wouldn't have been misses on a full sized target. Grumble grumble.

It also took longer than I thought it would be, because we did it under competition conditions, which meant if there was a bounce out (when the arrow hits the target, but bounces out - which sounds rather obvious now I've typed it LOL) the people on that target have to stop shooting. Then once everyone else finishes the judge comes over checks the target - which is a new one, so the only holes in it are from whatever you shot that day - and each one is marked as you go along) for the unmarked hole the bounce out left, then the rest of the shooters on that target finish up and then everyone else can score.

Having said that it wasn't like I didn't enjoy the day, although it's still weird to think of Roger not being there :O(, usually at the end of the shoot when everyone would be packing up and head over and ask him how he went. I ask other people too even though you're only competing against yourself, it's still interesting to find out. Plus if everyone had a bad day maybe it was just weird day and not just you.

After the Championship - we don't find out the winner officially until the Christmas Party at the end of the month - I hurried off to the shops to get the roast chicken for the family lunch along with some other things for dessert.

My little bro was there, I'm not sure if I mentioned it but he had to move out of his apartment because his lease had expired and the landlord wanted to offer the place to a relative or something - originally he was going to have to move in with the parental units, but luckily he found another cheaper place to rent, so he's just settling in there now. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to secure the new place before he needed to move out of the other, so he had to put his furniture in Grandpa's garage so has to move it out again! All in all thngs are going pretty well.

In further good news, Dad is doing much better with the new knees, he doesn't have to use his cane to get around the house, so yay! Plus the little bro was able to report that Grandpa (who had to get a hip replaced at the start of the year - or was it the end of last year? I can't remember) is also doing really well, though he needs two canes to get around.

Lastly...Sydsquad is doing a surprise short stream at the airport, so that's cool.

OK before I wrap up...late as usual.

Friday Five

30/10/26

These questions were written by cinnamontoast on LJ.

01. Name all the orange items in the room you are in. Huh...I don't think I have that many orange things in my vicinity! Um...the end of a carrot (gotta throw that out), the cover of a book I borrowed from the library, a bag of Jaffas (chocolate covered with orange...stuff?), a bottle of surface cleaner and my Catbus door mat (a Christmas present from my little bro). There might be some other stuff, but I can't see it from here and I ain't getting up.

02. What's your favorite fall treat? We call it autumn here :OP...and I don't really limit my treats to the seasons. I guess hot chocolate - since I don't have that in the summer (and not really in the spring either).

03. What's your favorite Halloween candy? N/A although Halloween's more of a thing in Aus now, there's not really any special sweets linked to it.

04. What's your favorite scary/horror movie? N/A again because I hate horror/scary stuff!

05. What are you doing on October 31? Well, it's already passed, but going to archery, watching a Dr Gluon stream - and a figure skating GP event, going to church and playing computer games.

OK, wrapping this up.

Ta-ta!

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10:01pm: Yes indeed! Tonight was the work's Social Club's Halloween Trivia! Unfortunately, there were no chocolates won tonight, we were missing two very crucial people in our team and there were soooo many music questions! So we ended up coming fifth.

Also, I was late because the event was in a suburb twice as far away, plus I had to pick up the Lite n Easy from Mum so I had to go home first. Plus it took me a while to get dressed into my flapper costume and I ended up being about half an hour late so I missed a few questions in the first round.

Still! It was lots of fun and for the first time there was Hawaiian pizza on offer, so hooray! :O) Also my costume was well received so go me.

The only downside was I've ended up with a headache...and I didn't have an ibprofuen for it which sucked. Although even if I'd brought along my handbag I would have been out of luck because I didn't have any ibprofuen in there anyway. In fact I thought for a horrible moment that I was out of it altogether, but I found a packet so I've taken some.

Also my necklace broke - boo - it's only a cheap one that I've had for years and years, but still a bummer.

However, I was lucky enough to get a ride home with one of the people at Trivia rather than catching the bus. As it happens it might have taken longer than the bus because we had to go off the main road to drop someone off.

Apart from that not much to report, although despite being down three people in the Collections Team we're keeping on top of things. Although I just remembered I haven't done the second draft of that report I'm supposed to be doing, hopefully I'll be able to work on it tomorrow.

Right, so I'm trying to get my sleep schedule back on track so I shall wrap this up here.

Ta-ta!

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11:36pm: The subject heading here is not referring to the fact it's a bit late for me to start this update, but to the fact that when I went to the gym after work I decided to watch Doc's stream, but I forgot to actually sign into the gym's internet.

The result: I've used up all my mobile data! So for the next four days I won't be able to access the internet on my phone unless I can get wi-fi. Boo hiss. You can buy extra data, but the cheapest is like 12 bucks, which is more than half the cost of my monthly plan, so nuts to that.

Apart from that, not much to report...I was going to update last night with something, but I got distracted and now I've forgotten whatever it was, LOL.

Well it's coming up on midnight and I really need to get my zzzs, so I shall be off now.

Ta-ta!

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11:52pm: Unfortunately for me though...I'm notorious at not being consistent, which is why today I fell short of my previous PB on today's archery round by nearly 100 points. I was not pulling the string back properly for pretty much all of the shoot. So yeah, that was pretty embarrassing.

Anywho, I've started this entry way too late to say much of anything. Although I did finally get around to doing my laundry... I've been holding off on it for quite some time. It's not all my laundry though...so I gotta get onto that tomorrow.

What else to report? Not much except LJ seems to be working again after like a week of not loading, so I haven't been cross posting over there... So now I've got to do that, although I'm not sure any of my friends are on there anymore, but I do have so many more icons over there which are fun to use.

I better go though, I set my alarm and it woke me up this morning, but even though I have my head propped up on my fist i.e in a not very comfortable position I shut my eyes for a second and like half an hour passed! So I best avoid that.

So I say...ta-ta!

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11:49pm: My right hip area that is. For the past few weeks it's been sore, at first I thought it was the actual joint, but now I'm not so sure...it seems more muscular. I did have to go to the physio a while back for pain in my side, but it was higher up so I'm not sure if it's the same issue. But yeah, it's really annoying and I don't want to end up doing some long term damage or something.

Anywho, I've managed to leave it a bit long to not only update this, but also clean up my apartment a bit more because Mum is coming over with the Lite 'n' Easy and also to watch our shows and she'll kick my ass if it looks like it does now.

Instead of cleaning up my place I was playing Dressmaker and then American Truck Simulator, I ended up not buying a new used truck because I like my green truck!

On that note, I should be off because midnight is coming.

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11:26pm: OK, that sounds really dramatic, but I was the Director of Shoot or DOS today at archery (the Club President gave me a whistle last week and said I should do it this weekend and since I was at work yesterday, today was the day) which meant blowing the whistle to let everyone know when to approach the shooting line, when to start shooting and when to go out to collect the arrows.

This was not without drama, at one point I almost sent everyone out to collect their arrows when some was still shooting (I was sitting down and someone was standing in front of said person) and when someone left their bow behind at the target (which was a weird thing to do, because you don't usually take your bow out when you go to score). In that case a left handed archer spotted the bow because from where I was positioned there was no way I'd see the bow unless I looked over my shoulder like some sort of owl. Although I guess I should have double checked before blowing the whistle. But overall I did a good job, so go me!

Alas, I missed out on a PB by 3 points, but what are you gonna do?

Now, about cleaning...um...I did do my laundry, but I'm sorry to say that I slacked off and the place is still looking terrible. Well shit. It's after 11:30pm! Sigh, I don't know why I do this to myself.

On that note, I better get outta here - once again the Friday Five continues to languish. We'll get to it though!

In closing, don't be lazy when it comes to cleaning!

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11:44pm: Not of my car, but in American Truck Simulator which I haven't played for quite some time, which is a dang shame because I got the steering wheel and everything. So I got it out from the backroom and made some deliveries. Unfortunately, my truck is kinda dead, but I don't have the money to fix it! I've already taken a loan out, so I don't want to take another one out because last time I did that I couldn't pay it back and they repossessed my truck! I had a mod that let you have a cat in the cab and it was like the bank repossessed them too!

Anywho, I've got to be quick because it's only 10 minutes to midnight and I have my Saturday shift tomorrow so I need to be good and ready for that. As I mentioned I haven't been keeping up with my zzzs and I'm sure that's no good.

I did mean to do the Friday Memes on Friday, but alas... Oh well, I'm sure you can all hold out until tomorrow. ;OP

Ta-ta!

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11:07pm: So in one of their recent updates The Sims 4 finally got around to implementing an auto-save feature, and it saved my butt just now when my game decided to freeze up on me and I had to restart my laptop. I'm seriously relieved because I did a whole bunch of stuff this play session and I would be kicking myself if it had all been lost. Luckily for me, I travelled just before the freeze up, which is when the auto-save happens.

In other news, the air conditioning people were less than helpful, grumble grumble, so the plumber is booked to come next Monday - I have a half day. I hope this won't cost me too much, but what are you gonna do? I can't wash any dishes that might need it at the moment because of the leak. I guess I'm lucky the dishwasher hose outlet thing is underneath the air con pipes otherwise I wouldn't be able to use it either!

I do need to get a new bin though...the other one is probably slightly too big and may be part of the reason the air con hose is leaking, although you'd hope for a tougher more secure set up for a pipe that has water running though it. Grumble grumble.

Also, to digress, I'm convinced that part of the reason my Sims game crashed is because of this damn pain in the ass AI co-pilot key on my keyboard. It's right next to the left arrow key and is stupidly easy to hit, which makes the stupid Co-pilot pop up and minimises whatever you're doing. It's super annoying and there's apparently no way to turn it off, which I might have mentioned before, but it's worth mentioning again because it really gives me the shits.

Anywho, I've been staying up waaaay too late these past few nights so I better wrap this up before I start regretting all my choices :OP

Ta-ta!

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