Some indecision of course, eventually I summon the strength for the cold shower, get ready and head to train station. Make it to train station for 1015pm train to Perth CBD, get off at CBD and walk through Yagan Square opposite Marketgrounds. JC & Vesper are the only two out, they are at Prince Lane, I wait, Marketgrounds busy. Eventually JC and Vesper make it, the line for Marketgrounds is big, perhaps too big! Make quick decision and decide to go to Niche. Main topic of conversation in taxi is Vesper’s big crypto currency windfall, I am interested in this. Make it to Niche, no real line, not that busy in relative terms. Get our ID checked off and head inside.
Decent crowd so we start drinking. Niche music good as always, many nicely groomed men and women. Not too busy, why so quiet? Maybe weather too cool, not right time of the year. We all drink and dance, eventually I get to the danger zone and hit 8 drinks 😳 I know I’m in trouble. I there until about 220am, drink some water, am tired from gym and drinking too but I feel drunk and happy. I say goodbye to Jas and Vesp, say goodbye to Big Rob too, I walk out of Niche, it’s a little cold but not freezing. I walk from Leederville to West Leederville, over the FWY overpass, I love this part of the walk. So quiet.
The walk is nice, a little cold but I am fatiguing hard. Go down Cambridge St and cut back to Subiaco. The roads are dead quiet and I am feeling like this walk is becoming a pretty tough WOD. Finally make it to the drink fountain near the 92.9 office in Subiaco. This drink fountain is surrounded by a lot of nice 2-3 story apartment / townhouse buildings so maybe someone is still awake and seeing this vagrant (me), nicely groomed and perhaps a little drunk, drinking water at 3:15 in the morning, like he hasn’t drank water for 10 hours. One or two cars drive by and I keep pushing myself up Hay St and finally make it home - one of my toughest walks in a long time. It is so cold inside so I cover my whole body with blankets on the couch and play on my phone until my hands are frozen. I fall asleep.
