Just back from settlement … Glenmaggie Place is now somebody else’s. We might have a bottle of bubbly tonight to celebrate: (a) it proved tough to sell and (b) now that it’s off our hands our finances are a bit tidier.
P.S. I recommend the Legal Kits of Victoria DIY Conveyancing kit to anyone thinking of buying or selling. Conveyancing is pretty straightforward, you just have to do the right things in the right order. This kit shows you what the things are and when to do them. From memory the kit cost us about $75 and I’ve used it four times (two buys, two sells) to save around $2,000. Pretty good value!
Forgot to blog this last week - we decided on the train home last Thursday that Thursday night is eat out night (mainly because we were gasping for a big steak). I remembered that long ago I had a good meal with Mum, Dad etc at a place called Scottish Chiefs in the middle of Geelong so I suggested that.
We got off the train, got into our car (sounds like a Billy Ocean song) and drove around looking for it. I recalled it as being down a side street with a car park opposite, but 15 minutes of circling Geelong’s CBD later I was stumped, so I rang Dad. He couldn’t exactly remember either but googled it and found the address, which I then found in the Melway. So we got there.
I’m no food reviewer so I won’t crap on for too long but suffice to say that our eye fillet steaks were over two inches thick, perfectly cooked and accompanied by delicious veggies including a huge, tasty jacket potato. And all for $20. Great value and we’ll be going back. The place was a bit more “pubby” than I remembered but who cares when you can get a top meal for that price.
Unfortunately we forgot our own rule tonight so we’re eating at home.
Shortly after writing the previous post I realised that I had no defined way of jotting down new contacts, appointments, ideas etc. for later input into the MacBook.
I thought about buying a used PDA off eBay, or even a new one - you can pick up a new Palm for less than $200 these days - but in the end I decided on a hi-fi version of the Hipster PDA. I bought a nice little Moleskine notebook and a classy Fisher Bullet Space Pen that won’t leak, is small, and has no clips or points to catch on trouser pockets. So now I carry them around jotting things down as I go.
It’s working so far - and at less than 40% of the cost of a basic PDA. Will the system last? Time will tell!
