Insanity 14

Yet again I'm going to go off on a tangent about taking PT to work.

On Saturday I worked at Sandown Racecourse. It is rather annoying that I work so far from home, but money is money.

Of course, on Saturday there were no trains between Oakleigh and Springvale, due to trackwork at Westall. That in turn meant I had to leave 20 minutes earlier than usual to arrive with the amount of spare time I usually allow. The trip was fairly ordinary, the only issue being the rail replacement bus I got on at Oakleigh departed 10 minutes later than scheduled, and therefore missed its train connection at Springvale by a few minutes.

Rather than waiting 17 minutes for the next train, to only go one station, I decided to walk to the racecourse from Springvale station. It's a fairly easy walk, a whole 12 minutes. I arrived a good 35 minutes before my shift, so no problems there. The trip back was even less eventful; the rail replacement bus ran right on time and wasn't packed.

It's unfortunate that Metro shut down the rail line during one of Sandown's few major events. But considering Sandown currently has an event planned every weekend until the start of December I imagine it was fairly unavoidable. At least everything ran fairly smoothly...