Hot Friday

It was hot, summer is here. I took the dogs walking early, before it got hot.

I walked into town to pay my rego, it's a club permit so I have to pay it in person. It was due on Monday, but I am going to have a lot to do Monday, newly back at work and the Xmas wind down approaching like a steam train. (I'm not really sure why I used that analogy?)

It was hot walking into town.

There were lots of people, as you might have expected. (cost of living crisis, any one?)

When I got to VicRoads I said I wanted to renew my rego and the fat boy on the front desk gave me a ticket and I sat down and waited.

Eventually, my ticket was called up, but when the guy on the desk saw it was a club permit renewal he sent me back to the fat boy on the front desk to get a club renewal ticket. I went back to the guy afterwards, but he said he couldn't do club permit renewals so I had to sit and wait all over again. Grrrr!

Sam asked me to get him a game at JBHiFi with gift cards. Sam buys gift cards when they are on sale for 10%, usually, but sometimes 20% off, so then he gets his purchases 10% cheaper, even 20% cheaper. He is organised like that.

A handsome JBHiFi boy served me, he didn't know how to process gift cards though.

I was looking for the Rolling Stones reissue of their Black & Blue album, but Bourke Street didn't have it.

Then I walked to Melbourne Central JBHiFi and looked for the Rolling Stones CD there, but they didn't have it.

So, it really is just an online purchase, which is weird for a band like the Rolling Stones, but that is what they said it was right from the beginning, so there you go. The problem is my online order from the release date of 14/11/2025 still hasn't arrived. Grrr. They sent me an email at some point claiming stock shortages, so...

I bought mango iced tea and drank that as I walked home. It was nice once I got to the park and all that grass. I dictated some more of the short story I have been writing, Sticky Buns, into my phone as I walked home.

It is still hot. Otto has his head rested on my foot as I write this.