walkies, pt 2.1

22nd Apr, 2025

Things That Happened On My Walk Tonight

In no particular order except the one I find narratively pleasing.

• Left the house at about 2:30am
• Got spooked by a very large-sounding bat¹
• Stopped and listened to the noise of water running through all the big cistern pipes
• Saw a pair of possums sleeping on a power line
• Stopped and listened to many different humming transformers²; two on power lines, one mysterious one behind a fence, and one funny yellow box on a train line
• Realised one of the transformers was actually the irrigation system of a nearby community garden³
• Took an inadvisable shortcut across a school oval and up some stairs I'd never seen before
• Nodded to a guy who was carrying a rather suspicious-looking sack, wearing a baseball cap, and NOT wearing any shoes. Hope he had a good night
• Wondered about the Screaming Ute
• Said goodnight
• Walked all the way to cross rd by accident
• Noticed that most of the traffic on cross rd seemed to be headed in the same direction; don't have any particular theories why this is
• Delicious 4am cheeseburger treat!
• Worried that I may have created a wearying obligation for somebody
• Got scared by random woodland creatures WAY too many times
• Got EVEN MORE SCARED by a mobile cool-room turning on as I walked past
• Regretted wearing two pairs of pants
• Despaired
• Sat at a bus stop for a while to write a portion of these notes; why are all the bus stop benches only on one side of cross rd? I'm noticing a weird trend
• Crossed the same train line 4 times
• Had fun exploring the differences between 1/4th, 1/5th, and 1/10th of a second
• (Mostly by accident) Walked past the house of a friend I haven't spoken with in over 2 years
• Became very sweaty
• Thought about multiplicity
• Resolved
• Took 131 photographs! (not including a few on my phone)
• Got home at 5:25am
• And finally; went to bed shortly after posting this, I hope

In conclusion !!!

I'm not precisely sure why I bothered to log all of this. Lists are fun, I suppose.

The world has such an interesting, jarring, unique soundscape at night. We take for granted exactly how all-encompassing traffic noise is, I think. How much sound each individual car is capable of outputting; in the middle of the night, when I only encountered a car perhaps every 10 minutes, I could usually hear them coming over a minute before I saw them.

The night is full of small creature noises, rustles and thunks and bumps and screeches. It's even more full of the smaller human industry noises that usually go unnoticed; I had no idea the cistern made that much noise, because it sits next to a major road that's a deafening hum of cars at all hours of the day.

Anyway, thats enough of those ramblings. Walks are good. I'ma keep doing this I think.

Goodnight again <3