Lazy Lazy Week

Tuesday 08th April 2008
at 01:19am

Well I hate to disappoint you all but this week has been a really boring week by comparison to our last few. It’s been quite deliberate I must say, thanks to the fact that I start my new job in 7 days time. I’ve been taking advantage of the quiet time now while I’ve still got it.

When I do something I tend to throw myself into it completely (this website for example) so I figure if I don’t relax a little now I’ll be exhausted by the end of my first week. I’ve got to say I am looking forward to my first day. I’ve been stinging to start work since returning so the days can’t go by quickly enough.

I’d like to send a very special thank you to Kim and Patti this week for sending me the SI, Brett Favre edition as above and some of the Gazette’s from the week of Brett’s retirement. As I said to Kim, you can really get lost in those magazines and completely forget everything that is going on around you.

I’ve been “head down, bum up” with respect to the book over the last few days especially. I’m hoping to have it as good as finished by the weekend so that I can forward it to the publisher and let them take it from here. That’ll be a massive load off let me tell you.

So far as the weather is concerned, let me tell you that I think we’ve about seen the best of it. As I type this at 1030pm it’s raining and 63F (17C) and it’s set to get colder from here. Daylight savings finished on the weekend too so it’s now getting dark at 615pm. In a month or so it’ll be dark at 530pm. I noticed, thanks to a couple of gadgets on my desktop, that the temps have hit the mid 60’s there too. How great that must be for all of you. In fact, just the other morning as I got up to check my email I noticed that is was 5 degrees warmer there than it was here. Now there’s something I didn’t expect to see so quickly.

Other than that, like I said, it’s been quite a relaxed few days. We’ve spent a lot of time down the park, feeding the ducks (2nd pic), riding our bikes and just hanging out as our time together draws to a close. The last 2 pictures were taken on Sunday at the 1st Annual Red Bull “Flugtag” event here on the shores of Sydney Harbour. “Flugtag” is German for flying day and basically it’s a competition whereby contestants build papier-mâché planes and try to fly them off a 6 metre cliff and into the water (as above). The planes usually just fall straight in but the anticipation of waiting to see if the next one will do any good was great.

Next weeks update will come after my first day at work, if I’m not asleep by 8pm so stay tuned. Until then,

(By the way, I edited this entry a little and withdrew any reference to “top secret projects”. I was writing that part at 1am and now that morning has broken I realise that they’re really not that exciting so there’s no need to worry too much about them. I should have known better than to mention them at all. Plus, time restaraints will probably leave me without the chance to put them together anyway. If I do you’ll be the first to know.)

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