Fireworks.

A busy weekend. On Saturday was Town of Bassendean's Multicultural Food Fair, and SES was recruited to enforce the fireworks exclusion area at Mary Crescent Reserve. Was a very quiet afternoon, but was made up for when towards the end of the fireworks display a different form of fireworks occurred in the form of the reeds inside the exclusion zone catching alight. The firies on hand chose to wait for the flames to reach a worthy height (about three metres) before dousing it.

A couple of hours after that I dropped Linda off at SES base for an all-night operations exercise, and then attempted to attend pooxs's housewarming party, only to find Nick and Alistair outside saying I missed it. Oh well.

Onto the next item on my schedule, namely Adrenaline Experiment at Big Apple. Not a bad venue. Having the choice of upstairs, downstairs and outside was nice, and had neither the appearance of a dingy basement nor a warehouse.

There were a few interesting people there, though one I talked to perhaps would have been better off if she'd taken fewer dexies...I'm sure her jaw will be sore in the morning from all the (near non-stop) talking. Things wound up around 4am, and after dropping M² off home I went home to sleep.

...only to be woken up at 5:30am by Linda wanting me to come down to pick her up. On the drive there watching the gaps in the morning cloud cover grown visibly lighter was breaking my brain, though part of that might have been the sleep deprivation. A greasy breakfast was cooked, of which I ate a hash brown and half a fried egg and tomato sandwich, and eventually got home to sleep at 7am.

Much later in the day we took a look at one possible rental option. Another option yet to be explored is an offer from one of Linda's friends to move into a house somewhere. So hopefully we'll be able to afford to not slum it for the next six months until the house is built.