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pedanther1. Toastmasters meeting. One of those meetings where a lot of people are away; the club members who attended came close to being outnumbered by the guests. (Looking on the bright side: Lots of guests, all pretty enthusiastic.) Project speech got a pretty good reception.
2. Chronicles of Clutter-Slaying: There used to be an enormous pile of Things That Might Be Useful One Day lurking along the far wall of my study. It was occupying enough floor space for at least three more bookshelves, and was as tall as me in places. Now there is clear floor space, two smaller and more specific piles of things that might be useful one day, several large and useful empty boxes that had been buried under the pile, and a full rubbish bin (which is awkwardly going to remain full for a while; one of the reasons I don't slay clutter more often is that it often results in a full bin and my most productive day for it is the day after the bins are emptied).
3. I have a car now. (If you're waiting for me to say that cars are cool, you're going to be disappointed.) I'm a bit worried it's going to turn out to be one of those gadgets where you don't really think you need one until you have one, and then you end up using it all the time. (I would have said I really didn't need it except for getting to band things -- some instruments you can carry on a bicycle, but the trombone isn't among them -- and I was getting by all right by getting lifts from other band members. But you don't say no to a car when somebody gives you one.)
4. The state election was on Saturday. The overall result is pointing unwaveringly toward a second term for a government I wasn't that keen on the first time around. Last I heard, there hadn't been a definite announcement yet about who my new local representative will be, with the result coming down to a close contest between the only two candidates I seriously expected to have any chance at all.
5. For some reason I've been eating an awful lot of apples lately.
2. Chronicles of Clutter-Slaying: There used to be an enormous pile of Things That Might Be Useful One Day lurking along the far wall of my study. It was occupying enough floor space for at least three more bookshelves, and was as tall as me in places. Now there is clear floor space, two smaller and more specific piles of things that might be useful one day, several large and useful empty boxes that had been buried under the pile, and a full rubbish bin (which is awkwardly going to remain full for a while; one of the reasons I don't slay clutter more often is that it often results in a full bin and my most productive day for it is the day after the bins are emptied).
3. I have a car now. (If you're waiting for me to say that cars are cool, you're going to be disappointed.) I'm a bit worried it's going to turn out to be one of those gadgets where you don't really think you need one until you have one, and then you end up using it all the time. (I would have said I really didn't need it except for getting to band things -- some instruments you can carry on a bicycle, but the trombone isn't among them -- and I was getting by all right by getting lifts from other band members. But you don't say no to a car when somebody gives you one.)
4. The state election was on Saturday. The overall result is pointing unwaveringly toward a second term for a government I wasn't that keen on the first time around. Last I heard, there hadn't been a definite announcement yet about who my new local representative will be, with the result coming down to a close contest between the only two candidates I seriously expected to have any chance at all.
5. For some reason I've been eating an awful lot of apples lately.
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Date: 2013-03-22 02:29 am (UTC)http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/06/16/cost-owning-car/
Hmm. He reckons that the cost of owning a car in Australia is a maximum of 50% fuel costs - could be as little as 35%, which means that a high proportion of your annual expenditure is consumed by simply owning (and insuring etc.) the machine.
In Britain:
http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/running_costs/index.html