Well, the sailors have all gone. On Saturday, I think it was, I went to the naval dockyards, which is a short walk from the hostel and checked out the ships. The US Navy had 5 ships. One was an aircraft carrier, another was a helicopter carrier, and, well, dunno what the others were, support ships of some sort, I suppose. The carriers were HUGE! The sailors and marines stayed around until Tuesday, I think.
Um, what else. Pool tournament on Sunday night, I lost out in the quarter finals. There's another one tonight, so I'll see how my luck goes tonight.
Clouds moved in a couple of days ago, and it started raining, hard, off and on. It comes down in torrents for 10 or 15 minutes, then stops, then nothing for a few hours, then it comes again. Mostly at night.
Courtney has left. She told me she was sick of the Funkhouse and the Kings Cross area last weekend, and told me she was going to move hostels, and she did today. I kind of like the Funkhouse, personally, it's very social, they have a "social directory" (no it's not me), that organizes nights out and pool tourney's and soccer matches against other hostels in the area. It has a very friendly, social atmosphere about it. And we get free breakfast and free suppers too!! So, for the first time in a LONG time, I actually have a room all by myself, which is a change.
When Court went to the new hostel this morning, I went with her, to check it out. She suggested I should move there too. It's called BIG, it's brand new and it's VERY, VERY nice, almost like a hotel, except the rooms are larger and have dorm-type bunkbeds in them. The have a super nice kitchen facility, and dining area, the bathrooms are very nice (the bathrooms in the Funkhouse are also very nice and clean), and it's right near downtown and Central Station, so easy access to everything. It's $160/week, though, the Funkhouse is $137/week. Court's getting it for $125/week, though, and she figures I could get that rate as well.
But, for the immediate future, I'll stick it out at the FunkHouse for the fun, pool tourney's, rooftop BBQ (where Oli...aka Harry Potter (he looks like Harry)) sells wicked vodka and wine punch, with fruit (yuk-a-flux for everyback home) very cheap. Perhaps next week I'll move to BIG.
Ummmm, still looking for work. No luck yet. Maybe I'll just go pick fruit for cash for a couple of months. I kicked around the idea of going back to SE Asia (where my cash will go a lot farther) and going up and doing China, India, Nepal and that area. We ran into sooooo many travellers that went through there, and they all just gushed about it, especially Nepal. Oh, I'm out of money. If anyone at city hall wants to start a collection for me, please do so. Deliver it to my parents, they can transfer the cash to me on the internet. Please be generous, it's for a good cause.
I'm putting myself on a budget. I'm burning $500/week here in Sydney, but I was figuring it out, and I should be able to live on $250-$300/week, so I'm going to start to budget. (That's the other reason I'm hesitant to move to BIG, $$$, especially if I can't get the $125/week rate, plus I have to buy food for breakfast and supper there...ya, I know, I'm a whiner, bug it's my journal, and I can whine if I want to, just like that chick who sings that song...it's her party, and she can cry if she wants to.)
I'm kind of babbling. But I don't care, just killing some time, the pool tourney starts in about 10 minutes.
Hmmmm, what else. Part of my budgetting process is to stop going out so much, I've been out for the last 7 nights in a row, and tonight will be 8, and I already have plans for a harbour cruise tomorrow night, so that'll be 9 in a row. But after that, budget time! I mean it.
Court got a job yesterday, it's fundraising to save the forests in Australia, she has to go door to door, or walk up to people in the park or wherever and solicit them for money, and show them pictures of cute little kuala bears, who are losing their forests. She doesn't want to do that, and she's going to quit. She had another interview today, for a data entry person, and she messaged me on my mobile (SMS is a cool thing!) and I guess she crashed and burned in the typing test she had to do today, so she won't be getting that job. She's had lots of other calls about IT jobs, but when they find out she only has a working holiday visa, they're not interested in her. She may go the sponsorship way, like me, and if she goes to FreeSpirit, I get $100 for recommending FreeSpirit to her. Woohoo!!
As I was typing this journal, two very attractive girls walked into the internet place, and announced that there was a "Cowbooys and Indians" party at the Empire (a bar) tonight. The Empire is literally right across the street from the Funkhouse. They have $4 pints (beer), $3 vodka's, and $3.50 Cock-sucking Cowboys (it's a shooter). They have prizes for best dressed. Many of the bars in Sydney are open 24/7, if I never mentioned that in a previous journal.
Anyway, must go, pool tourney will start soon.
Later.
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