Wow, its been quite a while since ive updated this hasnt it? Its basically because for most of the month, ive been doing the usual. Busking, paying off the car, drinking on the beach with my mates, drinking in the park with my mates, busking some more, sleeping...
Its been really good fun, but you cant really fill a blog with it! Ive made some good money busking - $420 in one night was the best so far. Looked to better it last weekend, when I made $85 in 2 songs, but then the stupid battery ran out. So that was it for the night! :)
Anyways...Ive finally got something to write about. Monday and tuesday were pretty uneventful. Wednesday I went to see my friend play at the Sail and Anchor up the road. It was a pretty good gig. There was this woman with an amazing voice singing after him, and 3 hot women who, and christ knows why, were well into me too. In fact, im heading back there this coming wednesday to meet up with one of them.
I also met the drunkest woman in the world, in a club, so yes. An eventful night. Didnt think Id better it...
....until the next day, when I got up at the crack of noon, and came downstairs to see my mate Jimmy, who asked me If I wanted a job for a day or two. Just to move a few things over to his bosses place. Well, I agreed, because his boss couldnt live more than a couple of hours away, hey? :) How little I knew...
The job was to pick up, and then drive, 2 pool tables and 100 metres of cable to this town called Newman, which is 1300k's north from Perth. Also, they had to be there before 10am because a building inspector was coming to the site. Wow. Okay.
So after alot of faffing around (oh dear. thats the 7th time ive used that word in conversation now. Im DEFINATELY turning into my dad! :P), I finally left perth, via a "shortcut" at 6pm. The "Shortcut" wasnt helped by some retard putting the name of the intersecting street on the main street before a junction in this suburb. So I drive for ages in completely the wrong direction...before turning around, going back, trying another few wrong turns because if you go one way, its the right street, if you go the other, its a different street name..bloody nightmare!
Anyways, after that I put my pedal to the metal, burnt it up north, averaging 140k + 1 monster energy drink per hour. Stopped off in Mikatharra for a bit of a power nap, that didnt really work, drove up and had an hours rest in a rest stop on the road, then carried on, getting to Newman at 8am. Well early!
So yes, I drop the stuff off, have a wonder around, drive up to a few view points. It was a nice place, but there wasnt alot to do. Its purely a mining town...well, region! Theres nothing but desert and mines for miles! They have had an above average amount of rain in the past though, so the desert is bursting with coulour, which was pretty cool!
Then I leave at 10am, and start the drive back. Obviously, having no sleep, Im STILL on the energy drinks. Also, im pulling over every so often for a 20min sleep again. I ended up having so much caffiene that I started hallucinating. Well, sort of. I knew it was hallucinating, and could switch mental gears and not hallucinate at will, but it was pretty cool, so I carried on. I thought:
*The road was a rollercoaster at one point, and it was going up and down.
* I was driving through an opressive forest, with trees that went up to the sky, and were trying to box me in.
* The trees I did pass turned into either comedy faces, or hands as I passed, and tried to grab the van,
* the Lorry in front of me suddenly developed a face (where the number plate was, sort of like when the front of a car sometimes looks like a face if you look at it at the right angle), then a Wig appeared around it, THEN it was surrounded in blue flames...
Suffice to say, I took this as a delecate hint that I PROBABLY didnt need any more caffiene, and replaced with with water, and slowly but surely my hallucinations dissapeared. They sound like they were quite scary, but It was cool. A bit like when you're only just dreaming, and can control what happens in your dream, I could see stuff at will, and was more awake than ive ever been, thanks to being 200 times over the legal caffiene limit! :P I did wake up at 3am convinced that someone was trying to cut my hair and there was a monkey sitting opposite my bed though, which turned out not to be real. Its a shame. I could do with a hair cut... :)
Finally got back at midnight, after (acording to the odometer) 2517k's, in 27 hours of practically solid driving, and decided that it was high time I went to bed (even though I was still buzzing from the caffiene!).
The journey itsself was pretty cool, although I wouldnt have done it if I wasnt getting paid. Its cool to see the trees and fields turn into Red Desert as you head furthur up. The stars out in the middle of the desert were phenomenal, and there were some nice towns I passed through. Theres nothing to do though...a few nice dried up old rivers, and thats about it!
Anyways, that'll do for me now...In the immortal words of the poet, keep on rocking in the free world! :)
Its been really good fun, but you cant really fill a blog with it! Ive made some good money busking - $420 in one night was the best so far. Looked to better it last weekend, when I made $85 in 2 songs, but then the stupid battery ran out. So that was it for the night! :)
Anyways...Ive finally got something to write about. Monday and tuesday were pretty uneventful. Wednesday I went to see my friend play at the Sail and Anchor up the road. It was a pretty good gig. There was this woman with an amazing voice singing after him, and 3 hot women who, and christ knows why, were well into me too. In fact, im heading back there this coming wednesday to meet up with one of them.
I also met the drunkest woman in the world, in a club, so yes. An eventful night. Didnt think Id better it...
....until the next day, when I got up at the crack of noon, and came downstairs to see my mate Jimmy, who asked me If I wanted a job for a day or two. Just to move a few things over to his bosses place. Well, I agreed, because his boss couldnt live more than a couple of hours away, hey? :) How little I knew...
The job was to pick up, and then drive, 2 pool tables and 100 metres of cable to this town called Newman, which is 1300k's north from Perth. Also, they had to be there before 10am because a building inspector was coming to the site. Wow. Okay.
So after alot of faffing around (oh dear. thats the 7th time ive used that word in conversation now. Im DEFINATELY turning into my dad! :P), I finally left perth, via a "shortcut" at 6pm. The "Shortcut" wasnt helped by some retard putting the name of the intersecting street on the main street before a junction in this suburb. So I drive for ages in completely the wrong direction...before turning around, going back, trying another few wrong turns because if you go one way, its the right street, if you go the other, its a different street name..bloody nightmare!
Anyways, after that I put my pedal to the metal, burnt it up north, averaging 140k + 1 monster energy drink per hour. Stopped off in Mikatharra for a bit of a power nap, that didnt really work, drove up and had an hours rest in a rest stop on the road, then carried on, getting to Newman at 8am. Well early!
So yes, I drop the stuff off, have a wonder around, drive up to a few view points. It was a nice place, but there wasnt alot to do. Its purely a mining town...well, region! Theres nothing but desert and mines for miles! They have had an above average amount of rain in the past though, so the desert is bursting with coulour, which was pretty cool!
Then I leave at 10am, and start the drive back. Obviously, having no sleep, Im STILL on the energy drinks. Also, im pulling over every so often for a 20min sleep again. I ended up having so much caffiene that I started hallucinating. Well, sort of. I knew it was hallucinating, and could switch mental gears and not hallucinate at will, but it was pretty cool, so I carried on. I thought:
*The road was a rollercoaster at one point, and it was going up and down.
* I was driving through an opressive forest, with trees that went up to the sky, and were trying to box me in.
* The trees I did pass turned into either comedy faces, or hands as I passed, and tried to grab the van,
* the Lorry in front of me suddenly developed a face (where the number plate was, sort of like when the front of a car sometimes looks like a face if you look at it at the right angle), then a Wig appeared around it, THEN it was surrounded in blue flames...
Suffice to say, I took this as a delecate hint that I PROBABLY didnt need any more caffiene, and replaced with with water, and slowly but surely my hallucinations dissapeared. They sound like they were quite scary, but It was cool. A bit like when you're only just dreaming, and can control what happens in your dream, I could see stuff at will, and was more awake than ive ever been, thanks to being 200 times over the legal caffiene limit! :P I did wake up at 3am convinced that someone was trying to cut my hair and there was a monkey sitting opposite my bed though, which turned out not to be real. Its a shame. I could do with a hair cut... :)
Finally got back at midnight, after (acording to the odometer) 2517k's, in 27 hours of practically solid driving, and decided that it was high time I went to bed (even though I was still buzzing from the caffiene!).
The journey itsself was pretty cool, although I wouldnt have done it if I wasnt getting paid. Its cool to see the trees and fields turn into Red Desert as you head furthur up. The stars out in the middle of the desert were phenomenal, and there were some nice towns I passed through. Theres nothing to do though...a few nice dried up old rivers, and thats about it!
Anyways, that'll do for me now...In the immortal words of the poet, keep on rocking in the free world! :)
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