Wet 'n' Wild was on the cards yesterday, but postponed with weather. We went to the Gold Coast instead and trawled Pacific Fair for a while. If you're ever around Surfers Paradise at lunchtime, consider eating at the Beach Club at the Q1 tower. Their steak and fish and chips are second to none; their sauces, elegance and satisfaction. Good eating ( Read more... )

Some parts of my day I hate to write about. It's not because I hate the memory, oh no, because quite the opposite is true. Instead what I hate is the style that that writing demands. Since I can't leave anything I write to be short, it must wax before it wanes and without any insight on my part, review often slips into critique, which becomes ( Read more... )

I talked with my past supervisor at Sun: she's likely to become my new supervisor at Sun as, unofficially, I'm going to get the internship I just applied for. The terms are different to last time although it's initially set to last three months as before. I'll get shuttled across to the Bay area twice, for a fortnight at a stretch, probably in ( Read more... )

After the surprise party of surprisedness¹ on Saturday, the Advanced Driver Training course took most of the Sunday, so we barely had time after to wish the diesel off of the cars afterwards and get the smell of burning rubber out of the cars. We brought both the little red car and the Nissan Patrol along so that I could practice both ways. I ( Read more... )

The home network is once again sapping strength from the Intraweb after we pulled the plugs for a lightning storm. This wouldn't be too unusual except that as things started to get going it began to hail, and kept hailing until the hail was so deep it looked like snow ( Read more... )