Today, at 9am (way early for me), I got a lift with my two friends from Bendigo to Swan Hill (my hometown). We arrived about 11.30am, and went to a computer/office store my friend is the manager of which is today having its grand opening at its new location. Then I got home by 1pm to finally witness first hand my dad in his fragile state: he slipped the other day on the wet footpath, inflaming his left which had lately already been suffering from arthritis; now he cannot walk for a few weeks. I have to come back again next weekend to look after him as my step mum will be at her daughters wedding (which I was originally meant to go to!)

I cam back today, however, to do relay for life for my friends team (her mother passed away from pancreatic cancer 3 weeks ago). Relay for life, in Australia anyway, is this thing for cancer where you have an assembled team that walks for about 24 hours, trying to get donations in the process.

Due to my aforementioned early rise, I just had a nap from 3pm to 5pm as my official shift at walking is 3.30am-4.30am and 6.00am-6.30am. For October in Australia, it's been a very cold and wet couple of days and making me look far less forward to tonight, which is meant to be like 3c and raining. Oh well, it's for a good cause nonetheless. And ostensibly one is able to drink while doing so, which is a bit silly as drinking is a leading cause of liver cancer. I think I'll save my drinking until Saturday night as I want to be as lucid as possible for it.