It’s somewhat overrated and commercialised, but Happy Valentine’s Day anyway. If you celebrate it, I hope you had/are having/will have a great day, and if you don’t, I still hope you had (etc) a great day :)

Yesterday I drove out to one of the dodgiest suburbs in Adelaide to pick up some stuff I bought on eBay. Ordinarily I would just ask them to post it, which I did for another seller who also lives out there, but I was too much of a stinge to pay $8 for postage when I could just pick it up, and I wanted to take my car for a drive to check that it’s ok after my last towing incident. Now that I think about it, though, it probably wasn’t such a good idea, because it would not have been pleasant if I’d broken down there. But I didn’t, so it’s ok. So I set off on the drive, trying not to ram the people in front of me who were doing 80 in a 100 zone. HELLO! Use some gas for goodness’ sake, people. Or better yet, drive in the left lane, which is what you’re supposed to do unless you’re overtaking. Idiots. There were slow arses in the left lane, and more of them in the right lane. Sigh. Other than that frustration, I made it in one piece, and to be honest I was happy to get my stuff and leave as soon as I could. I know I’m making it sound like the worst place on earth, which it’s not (I assume), but it really is a bleak and depressing suburb. I think next time I’ll just pay the 8 bucks. On the upside, I got some cool stuff for not much money! Gotta be happy with that.