Australia is hurtling towards an election. Once the caretaker period starts, the ability of government departments to execute contracts and make major decisions comes to an end. What this typically means is a mad and crazy dash for projects to try to get finalised before the election is called. The workload triples and quadruples ... ( Read more... )

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It's Saturday night here and it's been raining on and off all day with more storms expected.  Given the rumbling of thunder and the heavy rain I can hear now, it doesn't bode well for tomorrow's Dog School - sorry Jerry!  I've taken the week off work and so will spend the rest of this week chillaxing - catching up on reading, some Hong Kong and ( Read more... )

I've posted photos of Shanghai before so this time I'm just being silly :) ( Read more... )

This old gem of a video says it all :)

Was at work until 2.40am yesterday and still don't know whether I'm going to be able to make it home for Christmas. Argh.

I'm always forgetting to cross-refer :P

1. Cute emails on a Friday night at work

2. Most fans of the Lonely Ship who are on my friends list are probably already members of cedrichermione but just in case, a link to the 'koala remix' of the HP7 epilogue is here i.e. how the epilogue looks when you view the world through non-canon glasses :D ( Read more... )

I'm at work. I have a huge pile of work to go through ( Read more... )

Work - still demented but tomorrow I must go to get shots. :) Hepatitis A, Typhoid, Diphtheria, Polio and Tetanus shots prior to going to South Africa in September for Habitat for Humanity ( Read more... )

When I feel trapped in my office and at work, sometimes I make myself giggle by thinking back on the very melodramatic line in the movie Born Free where Joy Adamson (played by Virginia McKenna) says passionately (about Elsa the lioness): "She was born free! She deserves to live free!" :D ( Read more... )