It’s been one hell of a busy 2 weeks

An update on the happenings in my life…

On the 7th, the family rented a marquee and went to Coastfest. The idea was that I’d man the marquee and collect email addresses etc. However, the weather was not on our side and we were flooded out on the second day by heavy rains and gale-force winds. It didn’t help that most of the people we worked with were incredibly incompetent (example: our tent was shipped to the site with no sides, and when the sides were delivered they didn’t fit properly). I still spent one night out in the storm, suffice to say I didn’t get much sleep.

My dad is seeing a nuclear medicine physician at Kanwal, and he’s undergoing a multiple-series process known as “stress testing”, and yeah, it’s just as bad as it sounds. I’ve had to drive him there several times in the last week (he’s a paraplegic and there’s no freaking disabled parking at Kanwal) and he will have many more tests ahead of him before he is readmitted to Royal North Shore. But it’s worth it, as it should speed up the process for his kidney operations and help the old guy live a better life.

Lastly, the family has gone on a five-day trip to Bondai. We’re staying at a really expensive hotel, and it’s been a great experience so far. Helpful staff, great food, lots of things to do, it’s hardly worth leaving your suite. I have gone and visited various places in Bondai (it’s hard to forget that I partly grew up here) and it’s been great. There’s lots of small differences to living on the Central Coast (you tip shopowners here, while you don’t do that there), and the beach is beyond awesome. The prices are a gouge though. Would you believe it that bottled water in the suite costs $6.50 per 1.5l bottle? Which doesn’t make sense since tap water is free.