Firstly, quick update for all those paying to support my random endeavours- thank you! Given everything going on in the world, here’s some donations made this week using those funds. I was going to donate to MsF but looking through their use of funds, MsF ends up using 25% for admin/other use while Human Appeal uses only 15% meaning more of the donation goes to the people in need.
The past 2 weeks was meant to be the “slow” period to ease back into life in Melbourne. On the work front, it has been- I’ve enjoyed more downtime being spent at home. My mother-in-law is currently staying with us and given it was a long weekend last week, we ended up on an impromptu road trip to Canberra along with my brother-in-law and his partner too. It was quite the cosy car.
My wife and I have visited Canberra several times in the past, but the others hadn’t. Being a physically small place, we managed to get through the highlights quickly across the 2 days there- the drive was indeed long and the reason I missed last week’s newsletter.
During the road trip, we stopped by a random town in NSW called Holbrook to charge the Tesla. For some odd reason, there is an old Oberon class submarine in the middle of the town park, even though the town is 300km from any ocean. We hadn’t realised that there was another EV charger even closer to the submarine than the one we used, but it looked like there was already another car using it.
The next day, a friend messaged saying Tesla chargers were getting crowded and that they had better luck using an alternative charger. It happened to be the same brand as the one in Holbrook so I mentioned seeing it there, only to realise that unbeknownst to both of us, the other car was his and that we happened to be a small country town totally accidentally at the same time!
What are the chances?!
It’s incidents like these that make me wonder just how many coincidences occur in the day to day that we don’t even realise. How many major life moments happen simply because of chance?