Rich and Strange Aeons

Old place was nice overall but had weird bits. Right on a busy stroad, that's not weird but it was unpleasantly loud. I did get used to it but still, meh. Weird was that the A/C was a mini-split mounted in the common area. If I closed my door, no A/C. It's not that hot at night and there was good third story air circulation with the kitchen windows so it didn't matter much, but still, weird. The host's room did have A/C... and hardly any personal touches (she left her door open when she went to work.)

New place was meant to be in Strathfield but I'm a station or 20 minute walk away, oh well. Place is okay. I do have A/C! mini, though a noisy and weak version. Building is right by train tracks but I can't hear them. I can hear the stroad further away. Sigh. Oh god, and I can see the stroad, so I have yet another north-facing room, too. North is toward the sun here.

There's an overpass over the tracks, so I could get to restaurants without traffic, and ate dinner at an Indian restaurant with poor service but good food. The nearest supermarket is an Aldi, across the stroad. I am fucking of stroads. Aldi is also weird. No hand baskets, trolleys need a coin deposit to unlock, the layout is... kind of like second-rate Costco more than regular supermarket. It's not huge payloads, but like vegetables transition smoothly into meat, it's like they just vaguely threw whatever they had together. Cheap though, ribeye for US$8/lb, mozzarella for hardly anything.

A Korean store nearby, Komart, was more conventional and had lettuce. The cashier seemed offended that I was buying only 3 things and asked to check the bag I had from Aldi.

I think my two bedrooms are about the same size but this one feels more spacious; the full bed is in the corner, so it's not wasting a foot of space between the bed and the wall, and there's just a tiny table instead of a big desk. Neither place provided kleenex. This one doesn't have paper towels in the kitchen, even though the hosts live here and cook a lot.