I have another! On my first visit to Las Vegas, I was walking through the New York, New York casino - headed for the roller-coaster. I needed to pass by a room full of slot machines (pokies). I figured I'm in Vegas, I need to gamble something. So, I dropped a quarter into a slot machine. It paid out $27 or so. I cashed out immediately, It was enough to pay for dinner and a couple of rides on the roller coaster.
So, Freddy just came on today and caught me in a pensive moment.
This song hits sooooooo hard looking back on it. It was a dud at the time, his solo efforts were a complete failure. The lyrics of this cover though: I’ve been thinking about what was going on in his life at this time. Hiding his sexuality. Hiding the fact that he has Aids. Looking closely at his made-up face, you can see he is already starting his decline even here. But, he’s pretending.
Public transport in Perth has been free throughout the summer school holidays the past couple of years. I don't know if the scheme affects passenger numbers, but we love it!
Fares cap at $5 the rest of the time. So even when not free, it's pretty cheap to get about. It's 124km from Yanchep to Mandurah, the train takes about two hours to make that trip. Pretty good for $5 - that's further than Brisbane to Sunshine Coast.
I've seen them in the city Coles, but my suburban Coles doesn't have them. I assume they install them as a deterrent for shoplifting. Which I guess says that not enough people in my area are shoplifting to justify these things.
I hate cameras watching my face and the overhead one that can't handle me doing something unexpected like trying to scan 4 milk cartons at once a lot more than these gates. I've also never seen them actually close though. My attitude might change if they closed on me.
I sometimes resent a little the disparity between what the clients pay for my services vs. my salary. Without exaggeration, I take home a little under 50% of what the client pays.
But at least I spent 0% of my time wondering about this. Plus I get paid leave (sick/holiday etc). I know my employer is still making a hefty profit, but I'm not sure I'd want to go the pure consulting route. Stories like this put me off. I would hurt my family if I had to routinely deal with chasing up the money.
I can't understand that industry at all. It costs parents a fortune (I think it was something like $135/day per kid 10 years ago?) but apparently the whole industry runs on a shoestring. Revenue of $16k/week per room of kids, and apparently that amount is barely scraping by.
I know the front-line workers are seriously underpaid, but someone is making money here.
I spent my youth pirating every game under the sun, so I can't really judge you for using a pirated game - but I just pay the $6 these days. Which is how I've ended up with hundreds of games I've never played. No regrets though - the kids will discover that library soon, and I feel like I need to make it up to game developers a bit for that misspent youth I just mentioned. 😀
Nah, the 1988 $10 note was an experimental thing. We went back to paper for a few years after that. It's funny: A quick Google didn't tell me when exactly we made the move to plastic, and paper notes were still common well beyond 1996. I'm sure the information is to be had - but I'm at work and can't devote any time to actually researching this.
Plastic notes phased in through the 90's over about 5-10 years starting with $5 and $10, going up. I'm not sure the exact year we started going plastic, but it was around then. I don't think we were up to the plastic $20 yet in 1993.
Paper notes were still pretty common in 1997. I remember finding them annoying because I had to separate them when doing the cash taking for work and the bank didn't like getting paper and plastic notes bundled together.
Mr Albanese and Labor got elected because of a perfect storm in WA where we had a massive anti-Liberal period. Everyone knows that the storm has mostly passed, but until the WA election next month, we won't know how much support Labor still really has in WA.
This resistance will be all about not rocking the boat four weeks out from a state election. We learned in 2009 how quickly and powerfully the Mining industry can shift the needle of public opinion on a policy that affects them.
This article was fascinating. It really shows how blatant the Colesworth "Sale" cycle is. Particularly when it looks like a DNA double helix.
So hard not to believe it's coordinated. But price collusion is illegal - they can't be doing that!
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Hmm... I should get my wife some flowers. Not today - any day but today.
But, it's been too long since I bought her any.