Jeremy Chrimes

Melbourne based Software Engineer

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  • Randomly taking a V/Line

    Randomly taking a V/Line

    This post was written Thursday 2 January 2025 but was not posted at the time.

    It is the first “non hangover” day of 2024 2025, and I decided that I wanted to do some fun things. Mum and my sister were going to a musical and wanted to see Robbie Williams who was doing a performance in Melbourne Federation Square. 

    I took the train into the city with them having had slept in till roughly 1pm. I was super tired after the cricket and having gone to a New Years Party at a friends place. 

    Once I got into the city I got myself a can of diet coke and went to the narrm ngarrgu library in Central. This is a cool spot. 

    I then walked back to Melbourne Central did not feel like doing anything so just sat on my laptop for 20 min whilst having a Boost Juice.  

    I then decided lets get on a train somewhere. I will often use the Metro so I decided that it would be fun to go to somewhere on V/Line. It was getting slightly late so I didn’t want to go to far from Central. I decided that for my needs the Geelong Line was the best. 

    This week, so that the Metro Tunnel can be tested the Pakenham / Cranbourne / Sunbury lines are shut. This meant that from Melbourne Central Station, I had to get at Cragieburn Line to North Melbourne and then a Werribee Line train to Footscray. But then I got on a train towards Waurn Ponds. 

    I was initially planning to get of at Wyndham Vale, but I found out that I could have 10 minutes at Little River. 

    Little River is almost a polar opposite of Wyndham Vale, for starters Little River is a Blue Brick building and Wyndham Vale is the busiest regional station in the state. 

    It is a very very pretty station and to be honest the Bluestone structure. In order to get to the city bound platform you need to cross the tracks at a level crossing that makes running late to this station incredibly tricky especially on the city bound tracks. There was a beware of snakes warning as well letting you know that you are indeed outside of Melbourne in Regional Victoria.

    Beware at snakes from Little River with a grassy yellow background on a fence protecting the railway line.
    The view from North Melbourne station over looking the Melbourne Eye ferris wheel.
    Jeremy wearing a grey t-shirt ad cream coloured hat with black band and sunglasses doing a peace sign.

    The train back to Melbourne was relatively good. I sat on my MacBook Air and did some writing and read some things about tailwind. I think I am starting to quite like Tailwind. I know it is not a full design system and that I will probably need to get Tailwind UI if that is something that I am looking at doing in the future but I think that it is a really good platform. 

    Once arriving back in Melbourne it was about 20:05. I saw that the next train to Glen Waverley was at 20:30 and I decided that would be the best way to get home. I could meet dad at Syndal Station and mum and Anna shouldn’t yet be finished with the musical that they were going to Dear Even Hanson. 

    Dad met me about 5 min after I arrived. We went to Nando’s for dinner but they took a very long time to make dad’s food. I think it took them something like 40 min. Like mum and Anna’s performance had finished before dads food was served. 

    We then drove home.

    When mum got home she showed us photos of the Robbie Williams performance that she’d seen and we watched the ABC late news so that she could see the TV footage of it. 

    I finished of my diary for the day and then finished of writing this journal entry in more of a blog form though it may not be published.

    (September 2025 Jeremy – I published it 😉

  • The lockdown ritual of going to Dales Park

    This morning I woke up at about 9:30. After waking up I stayed in bed for about 20 minutes just scrolling on social media.

    I went downstairs at about 10.20 and had a tea with mum and dad. The morning went quite slowly and I watched the start of the New South Wales press conference they recorded 124 new cases which is quite a lot. At about 11 I had a quick shave and got in the shower I was remarkably ready to leave the house at 11:30.

    I walked down to Dales Park so that I could meet Elias. He was good but mocked me a bit for wanting to social distance. We went to the Continental Bakehouse on Old Dandenong Road I had a coffee and a meat pie. They gave me a complementary donut as well which was nice (although they always do this 😄). Elias was quite concerned about not being offered a position at job he’d applied for and said that he felt as if he’d interviewed well. He is really stressed that his contract at his current job is not going to be renewed. It was nice to catch up with him.

    On the walk back I walked down Warrigal Road the traffic was not too busy. When I got home mum and dad were both asleep, Will left when I was chatting to mum it had turned out that he’d gone to the shops to get some flowers for mum.

    I went for a dog walk with mum and dad after they had had their lunch. I was stuffed for this walk because I had walked such a long distance.

    In the evening I sorted out my emails watched a uni video about FIT1008. At about 9 O’clock the movie Lost In Translation was on SBS World Movies. I watched this with mum which was quite nice.