The Week That Was (part 7)
It’s currently 11:07am on Saturday morning as I start to type this. I’m my bed still, wearing headphones and playinng Fallout 76 on my PS4.
They have fixed a lot of the bugs in the game and it’s worth playing again.
I need to get my PS4 at some point. The DVD drive can’t be detected and it has my No Man’s Sky disc in it.
Later today I will renew my medication and catch up on my reading. I’m currently reading a new Gatchaman comic that just started (remember Battle Of The Planets?), The Last Ronin (a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story that is excellent.) and a psychological self help book.
I have new neighbours moving in today too. I’ll find out more about them soon enough.
Yesterday, I had a hospitality shift at Centennial Park Cemetery. The cemetery has 3 function rooms, a coffee shop and a gift shop. The function rooms are a great place for a wake, post funeral as it’s all within the same complex.
Hospitality gearMy job was to help setup the function rooms, offer coffee, tea and other drinks, serve sandwiches, bring used dishes back to the kitchen and vacuum the floors between functions.
It was pretty good. I got a couple of free flat white coffees as well for my efforts.
Coffee - made with love?It was really foggy in the morning.
It looked dramatically post apocalyptic.
After the shift I went into the city, catching the wrong bus and creating a whole new adventure!
When I got to the city, I got a notification for another shift an hour later and I accepted it but they cancelled it straight after.
A little annoying but I wanted to relax and I also have work for next week.
After the shift I recorded this TikTok:
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS2ecP7eY/
Then I went to the Strathmore Hotel for a meal.
On the way I saw an Asian food vendor selling his left over meals relatively cheap.
Korean Dumplings
Chicken NoodlesNot bad.
At the Strathmore Hotel every table was booked, as you’d expect on a Friday night, so I sat in the beer garden and waited for the meal there.
Curried ChickenIt was expensive for what it was and I could get 2 whole chickens for the same price.
It pays to be frugal, but the occasional treat is OK.
For the rest of the week just gone, I was working in a school’s canteen.
It meant being on the other sode of the city, an hour away by train and bus, really early in the morning.
This gave me the opportunity to take some stunning sunrise photos.
Sunrise in the CityThere was also some interesting birdlife there. I saw a beautiful Rosella. And I even witnessed a large black raven using it’s beak to puncture a Fruitbox drink container.
It’s talons making light work of the plastic too.
RosellaThe work is good and I am learning new skills. I get to drive a golf buggy to deliver the lunch orders to another nearby school.
I make the occasional mistake from not reading the lunch orders properly, but those are easily fixed. If I get flustered, I am useless so it also takes patience and positive personal affirmations to get me back on track.
Update:
It’s Sunday afternoon and I am preparing to go an volunteer at a local soup kitchen.
I also have new neighbours moving in nextdoor.
Thank you for reading.
Until next time, always insist on dignity and respect.
Shaidon
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Those photos of the foggy city put me in mind of old war time photos, especially with the tram lines showing.
Sounds like you're enjoying the work you've been doing. It was good to read a bit about what you've been up to.
Thank you. Yes it felt very “The Walking Dead”.
The work is ending after tomorrow so I will need to find something else leading into the Royal Adelaide Show.
Oh no! Lucky the show is coming up at least. It's a shame it's not something that can be continued longer term.
If you can pull some more shifts at Centennial park that'd be decent.
If you're nervous about making mistakes, the grieving aren't hyper-critical when it comes to hospitality. They have other stuff on their minds.
Back in 96 I was sent there to do a military funeral.
We did the whole 21 gun salute thing, firing blanks up at the sky.
It would be pretty good. There was a moment where I had offered coffee and tea to one family, but the recently deceased must have been young and loved so they were in shock.
So, I changed my approach to be more of highlighting that coffee, tea and other nibbles were available and let them do their own thing.
It is a far more forgiving environment than the canteen I was working in yesterday, which was stressful for no reason.
Namaste 🙏 Sir, nice post specially the morning sunrise pic is awesome , you are always cool while working or at home, keep it up and motivate us to be cool and energetic in our life in all situations 🤗
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Wow, how you can make a Day really interesting. Nice reading.
Thank you.