Quick rundown...
I'm back in Sydney. I was at BNE for much longer than I wanted or needed to be: the site erroneously told me I had to leave from the international terminal (weird) and made a really big deal about it. After all that it turned out to be wrong. I could've been there an hour later and it would've been okay! And just as I was thinking of the people I could've had lunch with in Brisbane instead of going to the airport, I found out the flight was being delayed by an hour. On the plus side, it gave me a chance to catch up with e-mail, pretty much back to the beginning of the year.
I went straight from the airport to dinner with my recently-discovered cousin. She's moved to Sydney to pursue a hair dressing career, after tossing in a life of building McDonald's restaurants and similar ventures in Holland. We arranged for her to give me a free haircut for tonight, but each of us sent voicemail to the other at about the same time to cancel it. For me it was because I realised I wouldn't be able to have one last dinner with my parents before I left-tomorrow's my last night here and I have plans.
Yesterday I went to an old Arcadian friend of mine's place and hung out with a dozen or so of my 1980s BBS friends. Some of them have kids now, and those were running around all over the place like at thechoirloft, but without me having a sweetie's room to hide in when it got too rowdy for me. OTOH, they had cool toys for us big kids to join in and play with. =) At one point later in the evening, both hosts disappeared for about 20 minutes so they could put respective kids to bed. Most of my friends with kids are poly so I'm so used to the parent-on-duty concept community helping to raise kids that the nuclear method seems unworkable to me. They're very happy and I think that's wonderful, but there's no way I could live my life like that!
Work was frustrating today but afterwards I got out and had a nice bushwalk. Right now it's raining and there's even been a little bit of thunder and lightning. Not quite what I'd call a storm, but much closer than what we normally ever get in the Bay Area.