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Dec. 19th, 2004 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seandcAnd so, I am back in the city, it's Sunday night, and I'm now another $30 richer thanks to these little things called Lotto tickets :D
Did I mention the corellas were loud last night? It bears repeating :lol: When I left the telecentre last night just before midnight, I could still hear them in the distance. Of course, helps that everything was dead quiet. Although there'd been some people on the street earlier, there was nobody when I left. The only sounds were the corellas and my feet on the gravel. Since the way I walked was a shortcut to an old part of town, there weren't any lights nearby either. It may have just been the cool wind making me think the word, but the way the night sky just looked "frosted" with all those faint extra stars... beautiful. :)
It was strange when I finally went to bed, to look out one of the windows (I always seem to end up in the room with windows on each wall...) and see the same Christmas lights in the same store I'd been looking at earlier across the road from the telecentre - that's how close it was.
This morning, wakeup was at 6am - I didn't know they still had those on Sundays ;) 6am, and already full light out, and did I mention the loud corellas? :lol: They'd gone away while I was dressing, and mum (a really early riser) said she'd heard a shot, or a loud noise just to shoo them off. And shoo them off it did... for a little while. While in startup mode (aka, drinking coke) they started up again, and a look out the back door showed in the mid-distance a massive flock of corellas. Quite possibly a hundred birds or close to it. They may have been set off by a pair of circling wedge-tailed eagles, looking for food (or just gliding for the sake of gliding - they came right over the house at one point).
So, birds seen, breakfast had, family history expanded upon after seeing some unfamiliar portraits in the room, cat not wanting to come in cause of the weird soap for handwashing... time to head on home, once more zipping along waving to the cows, galahs, horses and sheep, and back here to resume my rather short for a weekend's night sleep.
Pretty quick trip home, too... at least, once we got to Midland. The extension of the Roe Highway, underway for years, has finally reached my area (in fact, about to go past) so a winding way doubling back and all has been replaced with a direct route. About time! :D Now all we need is a bus along there...
Well, back to ye olde grindstone tomorrow, (although bossless should make a few things easier :angel:...
Did I mention the corellas were loud last night? It bears repeating :lol: When I left the telecentre last night just before midnight, I could still hear them in the distance. Of course, helps that everything was dead quiet. Although there'd been some people on the street earlier, there was nobody when I left. The only sounds were the corellas and my feet on the gravel. Since the way I walked was a shortcut to an old part of town, there weren't any lights nearby either. It may have just been the cool wind making me think the word, but the way the night sky just looked "frosted" with all those faint extra stars... beautiful. :)
It was strange when I finally went to bed, to look out one of the windows (I always seem to end up in the room with windows on each wall...) and see the same Christmas lights in the same store I'd been looking at earlier across the road from the telecentre - that's how close it was.
This morning, wakeup was at 6am - I didn't know they still had those on Sundays ;) 6am, and already full light out, and did I mention the loud corellas? :lol: They'd gone away while I was dressing, and mum (a really early riser) said she'd heard a shot, or a loud noise just to shoo them off. And shoo them off it did... for a little while. While in startup mode (aka, drinking coke) they started up again, and a look out the back door showed in the mid-distance a massive flock of corellas. Quite possibly a hundred birds or close to it. They may have been set off by a pair of circling wedge-tailed eagles, looking for food (or just gliding for the sake of gliding - they came right over the house at one point).
So, birds seen, breakfast had, family history expanded upon after seeing some unfamiliar portraits in the room, cat not wanting to come in cause of the weird soap for handwashing... time to head on home, once more zipping along waving to the cows, galahs, horses and sheep, and back here to resume my rather short for a weekend's night sleep.
Pretty quick trip home, too... at least, once we got to Midland. The extension of the Roe Highway, underway for years, has finally reached my area (in fact, about to go past) so a winding way doubling back and all has been replaced with a direct route. About time! :D Now all we need is a bus along there...
Well, back to ye olde grindstone tomorrow, (although bossless should make a few things easier :angel:...
