deathpixie | Running errands and best laid plans...

Spent part of the afternoon (more than I intended, but that's another story) running various errands in town. Mailing stuff, mostly. But I also managed to arrange a bank cheque for the rest of my DexCon fees, which attracted a fee of thirty dollars. No wonder people think thebanks are all profit-driven conniving bastards, 'cause they are. But between that and the lousy Aussie dollar exchange rate, I managed to get my cheque.

I had intended to send it to Dex along with a pre-Con stress-relieving beer. Had the package sorted and everything. Only I'd forgotten/discounted the Pressure Factor.

Beer is fizzy, sorta. Under pressure, anyway. Plane cargo holds aren't. So when you put a pressurised container in a cargo hold and go up into the air where there's less pressure, the results are... explosive, to say the least. So, no beer for Dex. But I did manage to mail the cheque. And I have a beer in my fridge waiting for me. ;)

Also mailed off tapes to IceWing and Crantz, by economy air ( I refuse to pay more in postage than the item costs, except on special occasions) and orgainsed a surprise for Someone who shall not be named until I know they've gotten it. ;) But it has lots of sparkly, shiny bits. And amusing things from the $2 Shop.

And I got sucked into the music shop in the plaza again. *wails* It's not fair! Everytime I go there I end up spending more money than I should! *pouts* But there's all these shiny CDs, asking me to buy them and take them home, and I always find something interesting and I need to build up my CD collection again and...

*sighs* I have no will power when it comes to music. Clothes I can put off buying unti lI'm in rags, practically, and shoe shopping is a polt to send me insane, and books I can usually find in the library and are too much any way, but music? It's my downfall. Especially Aussie music. So I ended up with Blue Sky Mining by Midnight Oil, and Down In The Lucky Country, an Aussie collection by various bands. Normally I wouldn't touch something like this with a ten foot pole, but it had a really good mix of 'classics' like "Come Said The Boy" and "Solid Rock", and 'alternatives' like The Gadflys and Tiddas and Archie Roach. So I am pleased with it. It also has Christine Anu singing "My Island Home", which is a song I've wanted, but not enough to buy her album.

*chuckles* And as always, when I'm in a good mood and I'm in the music shop, I had to most alert for signs of Dancing to the dance crap they were playing - boy bands, that sort of thing. The sort of stuff that's only bearable when drunk or in an outrageously good mood. Not that I don't mind dancing in the music shop, but the young thangs in there laugh at me. *grins* Guess it's not cool.

That's it for now - BRM and the crew are due back, and I have to sort out the recording of tonight's Tour leg. And I'm hungry. So I'll leave you to it.