4:47am. Argh, it’s stupidly early to be awake. I’m still waking up. 5:15am. Shower woke me up all right. On the bright side, all being well I can go home early. And I bet I get a seat on the 5:27 train… on the 8:21 there’s never any. 5:30am. The suburb is shrouded in darkness. ... [More]
Well, the good news is that at work, the system I’ve been working on goes live tomorrow. The bad news is that I need to be in the office when it all starts off, at the ridiculous hour of 6am. It’s making me yawn just thinking about it. If everything falls apart, I’m not at ... [More]
Yesterday was Towel Day, in memory of Douglas Adams. Not exactly a very well known occasion, but I dutifully trudged off to the station with a towel around my neck. It proved quite useful as a scarf in the cold morning air. My old uni mate Peter G was there at the station. "Great beach ... [More]
I was just doing the dishes, and the biggest damn moth I have ever seen in my life was outside, banging itself against the kitchen window trying to get closer to the light. It must have been close to 15cm across. Bigger than a small bird. I’m very glad the window was securely shut… And ... [More]
It’s been a pretty quiet weekend for me. Catching up on paperwork, housework, just about every other kind of work except for work work, which thankfully has pretty much confined itself to business hours this week. Spoke to my sister, who is gallivanting around England on a very short trip over there – for a ... [More]
I learnt two important lessons today. This’ll get a bit geeky, but when I got into work this morning, my PC was off. Odd, I left it on. With the screen turned off (that’s the manual power saving feature in Windows NT 4) but definitely on. So I booted ‘er up. But I couldn’t logon ... [More]
It was sad to hear the news of the death of Douglas Adams. I have a sudden urge to read the Hitch Hikers books again. But you know what’s a little bit spooky about it… on Saturday night, mere minutes after hearing this news, my sister was looking on the Web for rental property in ... [More]
You know what I spotted today? A quick explanation for people from outside Melbourne. We have a toll road here that goes through a tunnel under the river. The eastbound tunnel has been notorious for construction delays, and now has problems with leakage of water. Which is not great for inspiring confidence to use it, ... [More]
This morning going into work on the train, suddenly: BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Gave most of us in the first carriage quite a jolt. Some of my fellow passengers looked rather worried about it… I’ve travelled by train a fair bit, so I knew it was just detonators on the track, placed there to warn ... [More]
The house next door, which this morning sold for – gulp – just a tad less than half a million dollars. (Picture nicked from the real estate agent’s site) This morning the house next door was up for auction. I listened from my balcony. It’s a nice house, a lovely house in fact, on a ... [More]
It’s been a busy week for me. I can’t think of a great deal that’s overly interesting to write about – just a couple of notable incidents. On Wednesday evening I was driving home. Imagine my surprise when, on the opposite side of the highway, I see an electric wheelchair rolling down the road, with ... [More]