More things happening but thankfully not so catastrophic......
Ecstatic Dancing. I just love dancing so much and am currently involved with two groups - Dance Mandala which has a weekly session on Wednesday evenings, and Dancing Dhevas which meets twice each month usually Saturday evening but sometimes Friday evening. Each session is only $20 and $25 so it is not expensive. And you don't need a partner for ecstatic dancing, it is very much dancing in one's own space. I'm getting too old for all this shit of dating, romance and relationships. If you don't have anyone by age 50 then you're not going to get anyone. I know there are exceptions to this rule, akin to the fact that there are exceptions to the rule that people who plays lotto will not win 1st division prize. Some people DO win 1st division but for any one of us it is very unlikely for it to happen - but far more likely than me finding a partner. The New Zealand affair was my last chance and it didn't work out, so I now focus on my life callings and traveling the world, which is much easier and cheaper when on your own. So ecstatic dancing is perfect for me, you don't need a partner, in fact they discourage you from trying to pick up a date during ecstatic dancing. It is very much emphasis on dancing in your own space and respecting the space of others. And I just love it so much.
End of lease. My lease on this house ends this month but haven't yet had any news on the extension or otherwise of the lease. But there is a good reason. While I was in America the landlord has been keeping watch on the house. And Perth experienced a rare event - storms! !! And the house sustained storm damage, nothing structural abd didn't affect what was inside, just the front porch was lost. Indeed it was rather a shock when I came home from the airport and found some poles and steel sticking out from what used to be a front porch!!!!
So the landlord through his insurance has been dealing with replacing the front porch, but is doing a lot more than that, which analytical Virgo me concludes that he is preparing to sell the house. We Virgos are very good at analysis and working out what is going on. For starters he has pruned all of the trees. In past years he'd prune maybe the biggests of the trees, but this time he pruned ALL of them including the front tree which had never been pruned since moving in back in 2010. Also he is also replacing part of the back porch, which does need replacing, but it wasn't damaged in the storm and could have been functional for a few more years yet.
Of course true enough I was for a while been wanting to downsize a bit into a smaller apartment, and there is no longer a housing crisis in Perth, indeed there is an oversupply of rental properties and landlords are having to drop the rents to attract potential tenants. So in some ways this is a good time to move out. But it is still expensive to move house, you need six weeks rent for the security bond and advance rent payment, and well we Virgos can budget and raise finances as needed but we do have limits. Even Virgos cannot work miracles. Uh well just have to trust the universe. My ultimate aim is a more nomadic lifestyle but some things has to happen first before this becomes a viable option.
The curse of The Three Weeks. Oh yes that dreaded time of year is coming up, the anniversary of the destruction of the Jewish Temples, the "Three Weeks" when calamities befalls the Jews - and those who were Jews in their past lives - ME!!!!! This year it falls the 2nd half of July and first weeks of August. Of course last year during this period I suffered my heart attack and almost died. So now "The Three Weeks" will be forever remembered as the time I nearly died!!!! Anyway I will be sharing more on this later as we get closer to this dreadful time......
Enough of my musings. .... as I upload more pixs to my America trip page on Facebook. ......
Monday 27 June 2016
Friday 24 June 2016
Back From America
I will be updating my America trip page on Facebook for a while yet with the huge number of pixs yet to be uploaded and my weird musings of my adventures in America. It will probably take me until my Glastonbury trip in October to finish updating my America trip trip, which by then I will have a Glastonbury trip page. But other things has been happening which I will share in upcoming blogs here. It took me a while to settle back in.
My PC have given up the ghost..... again..... hence am composing this on my tablet. However this time I am ready to let it go. It is an ancient PC and increasingly unable to meet my requirements. This tablet actually meets these requirements more efficiently than my PC. And between my tablet and my phone I can do most things that my PC could do. We Virgos does not like change so are often forced into change by circumstances. But in truth these days the PC is virtually obsolete with advances in tablet and phone technology, both items in my possession are less than a year old in contrast to my PC which is several years old, in fact over 10 years, that makes it virtually a museum piece.
This is also in keeping with my trend towards a minimalist lifestyle, that is, with a minimum of possessions, which not only will help fund my overseas trips - I plan on more next year - but ultimately will lead to a more nomadic lifestyle. I will need a Windows based device, my two devices are Android devices and there are certain things that will work only in windows, and there are reasonab6 portable items around for as little as $300, but it will have to wait until after my Glastonbury trip which is less than four months away. My air ticket and lodgings are already paid for but will need to save my pennies for other things on the trip, while still dealing with a legacy of my America trip.
It is amazing how the universe operates in cycles. My previous America trip was back in 1998, 18 years ago, which is a lunar cycle. The Moon moves in cycles of 18-19 years which the Hebrew calendar is based. My 1998 trip left me with the legacy of the car rental fiasco where basically I was ripped off by a car rental company, which wrecked my finances, maxed out my credit cards, and led to my bankruptcy a year later and years of financial troubles.
This time it is the telco roaming rorting fiasco. This time I am far better prepared, my finances in better shape, and I didn't bring back a wife this time, so this will not lead to bankruptcy. But this will test to the limit my Virgo ability to plan, budget, and get myself through this while at the same time save for my Glastonbury trip.
As I was enjoying my week in Hawaii I was blissfully unaware I was rapidly racking up a bill of several hundreds of dollars in roaming data fees. There was no wi fi in the hostel I was staying at, but I kept my online time to a minimum, only for a short time each evening. Then Telstra decided to warn me when my bill reached several hundreds of dollars which was a shock to me. They were supposed to warn me when the bill reached $100 but they failed to do so. Telstra did to me what the car rental company did to me 18 years ago. It turned out I had forgotten to switch off background data downloads on my device thus blissfully unaware that my device were downloading data, such as autosave of my pixs and auto updates. Needless to say I immediately switched off the background data but the damage has already been done. I now had a bill that was close to $1000.
Since arriving back I had already paid off $300 towards the bill, and with my Virgo abilities to plan things down to a T and my organization skills, I should be able to pay off the rest of the bill in about six weeks or so. But this is something I could have done without with Glastonbury only 4 months away!!!!
I have also taken steps to make sure this won't happen again when I go to Glastonbury. I have purchased a portable wi fi device on a prepaid data plan with a different telco company, and set my devices to connect to this device. I will not be going onto any more contracts, and when my current contract with Telstra ends in May next year I will be terminating my relationship with Telstra and have my phone on a prepaid plan with a different telco company. Meanwhile I have switched off my data on my device which ensures that the only way I can get data is through wi fi such as my home broadband connection which costs only $100 per month for virtually unlimited data with a different ISP and bundled with my landline phone, and my portable prepaid wi fi device when I am out of the house. After May next year I will have nothing whatsoever to do with Telstra. Main lesson, do not go on any contracts, always use prepaid.
On top of this, the lawnmower catastrophe. My lawnmower had given up the ghost at the worst possible time, indeed this is the worst possible thing to have happened. If my washing machine had broken down I could just handwash or go to the laundromat, if my fridge broke down I could just live on food that doesn't need refrigerators for storage, or even if my car broke down well I have my bicycle and a reasonable public transport system. But the lawnmower, well as part of the lease agreement I need the lawns mowed so need a mower to do it with, there is no getting around it!!!!
Option 1 - hire a mower. It turns out it costs about $60 on average for a day's hire on weekends, and here in winter I would need to hire a mower every two weeks, that is how fast my lawns grows in winter. And since I sourced a reasonable mower for under $200, after six weeks it becomes more cost effective to purchase such a mower.
Option 2 - pay someone to mow my lawns. Very expensive in Perth, so not a viable option at all when I would need to do it every fortnite.
Option 3 - have lawnmower repaired. Getting anything repaired is very expensive in Perth. It is an electric mower and my Virgo analysis of the situation led to an educated guess that the electronic switch box has blown and needs replacing, which is likely to be expensive this on top of the labor charges which is very expensive in Perth. Last year when I had my PC repaired all they did was tightened a loose wire, they didn't even replace any parts, and they still charged me over $100 for the privilege! !!! So a lawnmower with at least one part that will need replacing, I reckon at least $300 minimum, so cheaper to just get a new mower for under $200.
Option 4 - Get a new mower. As stated I have sourced a basic but functional mower for under $200. I could get one for close to $100 but is too small for the area of my lawns. The $200 model is bigger, and its not cordless like my current mower but it will do me for this winter until I get to Glastonbury. So will get the mower this week.
Furthermore with my lease ending this month there is some likelihood I may have to move out anyway which will kick start my nomadic lifestyle. It does help to be single. But that is another story altogether.
Other things has been happening, none so catastrophic.... will share next time......
Enough of my musings for now......
My PC have given up the ghost..... again..... hence am composing this on my tablet. However this time I am ready to let it go. It is an ancient PC and increasingly unable to meet my requirements. This tablet actually meets these requirements more efficiently than my PC. And between my tablet and my phone I can do most things that my PC could do. We Virgos does not like change so are often forced into change by circumstances. But in truth these days the PC is virtually obsolete with advances in tablet and phone technology, both items in my possession are less than a year old in contrast to my PC which is several years old, in fact over 10 years, that makes it virtually a museum piece.
This is also in keeping with my trend towards a minimalist lifestyle, that is, with a minimum of possessions, which not only will help fund my overseas trips - I plan on more next year - but ultimately will lead to a more nomadic lifestyle. I will need a Windows based device, my two devices are Android devices and there are certain things that will work only in windows, and there are reasonab6 portable items around for as little as $300, but it will have to wait until after my Glastonbury trip which is less than four months away. My air ticket and lodgings are already paid for but will need to save my pennies for other things on the trip, while still dealing with a legacy of my America trip.
It is amazing how the universe operates in cycles. My previous America trip was back in 1998, 18 years ago, which is a lunar cycle. The Moon moves in cycles of 18-19 years which the Hebrew calendar is based. My 1998 trip left me with the legacy of the car rental fiasco where basically I was ripped off by a car rental company, which wrecked my finances, maxed out my credit cards, and led to my bankruptcy a year later and years of financial troubles.
This time it is the telco roaming rorting fiasco. This time I am far better prepared, my finances in better shape, and I didn't bring back a wife this time, so this will not lead to bankruptcy. But this will test to the limit my Virgo ability to plan, budget, and get myself through this while at the same time save for my Glastonbury trip.
As I was enjoying my week in Hawaii I was blissfully unaware I was rapidly racking up a bill of several hundreds of dollars in roaming data fees. There was no wi fi in the hostel I was staying at, but I kept my online time to a minimum, only for a short time each evening. Then Telstra decided to warn me when my bill reached several hundreds of dollars which was a shock to me. They were supposed to warn me when the bill reached $100 but they failed to do so. Telstra did to me what the car rental company did to me 18 years ago. It turned out I had forgotten to switch off background data downloads on my device thus blissfully unaware that my device were downloading data, such as autosave of my pixs and auto updates. Needless to say I immediately switched off the background data but the damage has already been done. I now had a bill that was close to $1000.
Since arriving back I had already paid off $300 towards the bill, and with my Virgo abilities to plan things down to a T and my organization skills, I should be able to pay off the rest of the bill in about six weeks or so. But this is something I could have done without with Glastonbury only 4 months away!!!!
I have also taken steps to make sure this won't happen again when I go to Glastonbury. I have purchased a portable wi fi device on a prepaid data plan with a different telco company, and set my devices to connect to this device. I will not be going onto any more contracts, and when my current contract with Telstra ends in May next year I will be terminating my relationship with Telstra and have my phone on a prepaid plan with a different telco company. Meanwhile I have switched off my data on my device which ensures that the only way I can get data is through wi fi such as my home broadband connection which costs only $100 per month for virtually unlimited data with a different ISP and bundled with my landline phone, and my portable prepaid wi fi device when I am out of the house. After May next year I will have nothing whatsoever to do with Telstra. Main lesson, do not go on any contracts, always use prepaid.
On top of this, the lawnmower catastrophe. My lawnmower had given up the ghost at the worst possible time, indeed this is the worst possible thing to have happened. If my washing machine had broken down I could just handwash or go to the laundromat, if my fridge broke down I could just live on food that doesn't need refrigerators for storage, or even if my car broke down well I have my bicycle and a reasonable public transport system. But the lawnmower, well as part of the lease agreement I need the lawns mowed so need a mower to do it with, there is no getting around it!!!!
Option 1 - hire a mower. It turns out it costs about $60 on average for a day's hire on weekends, and here in winter I would need to hire a mower every two weeks, that is how fast my lawns grows in winter. And since I sourced a reasonable mower for under $200, after six weeks it becomes more cost effective to purchase such a mower.
Option 2 - pay someone to mow my lawns. Very expensive in Perth, so not a viable option at all when I would need to do it every fortnite.
Option 3 - have lawnmower repaired. Getting anything repaired is very expensive in Perth. It is an electric mower and my Virgo analysis of the situation led to an educated guess that the electronic switch box has blown and needs replacing, which is likely to be expensive this on top of the labor charges which is very expensive in Perth. Last year when I had my PC repaired all they did was tightened a loose wire, they didn't even replace any parts, and they still charged me over $100 for the privilege! !!! So a lawnmower with at least one part that will need replacing, I reckon at least $300 minimum, so cheaper to just get a new mower for under $200.
Option 4 - Get a new mower. As stated I have sourced a basic but functional mower for under $200. I could get one for close to $100 but is too small for the area of my lawns. The $200 model is bigger, and its not cordless like my current mower but it will do me for this winter until I get to Glastonbury. So will get the mower this week.
Furthermore with my lease ending this month there is some likelihood I may have to move out anyway which will kick start my nomadic lifestyle. It does help to be single. But that is another story altogether.
Other things has been happening, none so catastrophic.... will share next time......
Enough of my musings for now......
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