Challenges (2022)

Finances

• Inflation high: eating into my savings 
• Didn't invest to earn dividends 
• When invest?
• Hesitate to ask Martin to pay more rent
• Extra $2500 tax
• Obsessive index viewing & then avoiding
• Mum outgoings for Sam & Matt
• Jo verse me
• Bank: Money didn't come through for two days
• $ 25 000 for Arctic trip

Mack & Liza

• Blood test: $250
• Arctic pet sitters
• Antarctica put off telling Liza
• Liza not having him overnight
• Putting him in for a heart scan

Car

• Radiator:  Gavin saw me stressed and running.  Cost $500.
• Fine for seat belt & no registration.  $1000 plus

Home

• Getting new housemate (after Christina)
• Garden wall shifts
• Martin's room: mould, shower
• Christina's bed
• Floor stains, especially my room, Martin room
• Shower potential leaks

World events

• Ukraine war
• Novak visa debacle: Made me embarrassed to be Australian

Health

• Lump on hand and foot
• Blood in stools
• Excessive meds in blood?
• Stool sample shame
• Blood pressure high with dr
• Graeme ill with cancer
• Booster shot:  Feel crook for a day
• Sick in South Africa

Macbook Pro

• Not get 4 gig: Spend $1000 on ssd drive
• Battery: Worried only lasted few hours. Delay testing it properly.

Weight

• Weight on stomach

Cosgrove

• Having double for 3 months, get known?

Xenia mum

• Angry, making her have tube in stomach. 
• Xenia upset she in hospital, still not sure if she wants her to recover.

Antarctica  (false start)

• Mack and Liza. Say yes to Gavin?  Lose his respect?
• Renew passport: get back in time?
• My photography good enough
• Cosgrove: Need meds early, will be able to get appointment before meds run out.

Antarctica  (2023)

• Unhappy I must pay $2000 for Richard and my cabin. Eventually have it out with Gavin.

Before Arctic

• Dark night of soul: camera.  Next day hiking with old camera.
• Anxious not up for it.
• Spent 20,000 and more.
• Gavin says do research.
• Body corporate: shower and concrete leak. 
• Martin’s room ceiling and shower.
• Richard not like Canon 90d (photography business so in the know)

In Arctic

• Richard not bring camera
• Risk of running out of meds. Stress of Longyearbyen: will be able to get ?  Terrible day of 5 - extreme fatigue and stress.
• With lessons on zodiac, unable to photograph
• Customs in Oslo leaving - not realize passport.
• Strike delay effect on Liza. 
• Norway customs especially coming home. 

Flight to Cape Town

• 1 hour in Cape Town, worried not enough. Actually brilliant.

Wisdom Trove

• Google algorithm cause 75% reduction in traffic.
• Wordpress & Plugins need upgrading but hesitating