15.5.24
4:51 wakeup. 5:30 departure. Stopped in Sutton Forest Maccas for breakfast and wondered if we'd missed the apocalypse - the car park only had a few cars, and the restaurant itself was completely empty. Bizzarest thing ever!
This blew my mind because this place is *always* busy. The staff were quite old too, guess all the kids are in school.
After Maccas the car lost connection to the ipad. I finally started having a play with it around Pheasants Nest. Of course I happened to be looking down as the Picton Road turnoff came up and we missed it (I looked up just as we were passing the air field). Sigh. So had to deal with M5 traffic all the way to Heathcote Road. But haven't been down there in like thirty years though so that was nice.
Got to Mum's right on 9. Dumped my crap then train to Sydenham. Had a very slow walk to Westconnex (it takes ages when you stop every two seconds to take photos of stuff).
Talk/tour was quite interesting.
Then walked back to St Peters.
Took a train to Museum (via Circular Quay and was super super excited to see the old Freshwater class Manly ferries running again!). Got to the museum a bit after 14:00, checked in bags, then saw the Ramses exhibition.
Afterwards did a bit of a wander of the museum.
My favourite thing in the museum - the Bone Ranger!
Gymea lily in bloom
Needed a drink after all that, so walked down to Hotel Sweeney for a couple of beers and dinner.
Then train back to Mum's and collapsed.
16.5.24
Slept fairly well. Woke up at 5 for a bit then til 6:30. Had a look at all Mum's Japan photos which was pretty cool.
Then went and played tourist for the day.
Train back to Mum's. Had a shower then Luc and Cynthia came over (I was gonna go meet them at theirs but they very nicely came over to Mum's). We went to Moim Japanese Kitchen for dinner which was very nice.
We also went and got some ice cream for dessert. A lovely meal and catchup.
17.5.24
Early start. Took the train to go inspect my flat. The tenant talked for an hour about her baby coming soon and their life there. The real estate agent didn't seem to mind, I guess it saved him from doing other work heh.
Took another train to Martin Place and walked down to the Mint. I think I went there when I was in school but haven't been in at least thirty years so went there. There's not a huge amount to see there so were done by lunch time.
I thought I'd look to see if there was a Tim Ho Wan in Sydney and got very excited when it showed one in Westfield. But when we got there we couldn't find it. Had another look and on closer inspection it was "Permanently Closed". Yeah thanks Apple Maps. Oh well, had Din Tai Fung instead.
And Krispy Kreme from the station ;)
Back at Mum's I had a look at her backups. Syncback doesn't seem to have been working since her computer was rebuilt last year. When I loaded Syncback it complained about not having any profiles. So I made two that matched the arguments in the windoze scheduled tasks. I set them up to "backup" rather than "sync" - which is a better option for retrieving accidentally deleted files, not so good for a disaster recovery scenario. Dunno what had been used previously. I also tried to backup more of her recent photos to my disk, but ran out of time.
Then took two trains All The Way to the other side of the world (Brooklyn). Took like two hours. But nicely I could change trains at Town Hall so didn't have to cart my bag all the way up to the other platforms at Central.
At Brooklyn I walked up and checked into the motel. Ok room, but a little dated. And no soundproofing so I could cearly hear the pub across the road.
Went across to aforementioned Angler's Rest for a couple of beers and some salt and pepper squid. It said it came with salad, so that was a lot more meat and a lot less salad than I was expecting!
Trent Crawford was there doing live music, old pub rock, so that was pretty cool.
Then I went back to the motel and had some wine and did my nails while listening to Trent Crawford and waiting for the sweetie.
18.5.24
Slept fairly well. Had a leisurely start. Picked up some pastries at the cafe for breakfast.
Then suddenly it was 9:30 and we still weren't ready so it was a bit of a rush to get out by 10:00. Just made it though.
Drove down to the marina to see how close you can get to the bridges. Turns out not anywhere near them at all. Sigh.
Then up to Rachel and Hayden's wedding.
Didn't escape til like 16:30.
Got home a bit before 20:00. Had wine and chippies and ice cream for dinner then collapsed.
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