Australian Crawl
Tues, 6:37am - Just got on the plane, I have a window seat, hooray.... Pity that window is a door, so I have a huge feaken annying 2ft wide door infront of me which doesn't give me much leg room at all.
Tues, 9:38am - I expect we'll possibly start our descent soon, hope the batteries last, I should have checked their charge before leaving Auckland :-) Well I'm sitting here listening to The Flower Kings, of the best bands I've discovered recently, mmm, well the caption just said something over the intercom system, but just like brittish railway, I couldn't understand a darn thing he was saying.
I've slept a bit on the flight, just minor dozing on and off with rather strange and warped dreams which I can't recall anymore, I hate that.
I've taken a photo of the door directly infront of me, why? To show the cracks in it, makes me feel REAL secure it does (not to mention that thuds and squarks it's been making when ever a bit of turbulance kicks in... The photo should be found on my photopoint.com photo site sometime soon (once I download the pic from my camera and upload it.
Hmm, battery low light flashing, gotta go :-) Bye bye, love ya.
Tues, 4:32pm - Well, an interesting day to say the least, the flight was well and getting off the plane and customs was no hassle, apart from a small luggage mixup which meant it took ages for our luggage to get off the plane...
Picked up a taxi to take me to the airport, he didn't seem to know where the motel was and asked me for directions - which I couldn't give, other than "er, its in the city". Anyway, after a while he digs out his map, should I be worried that a taxi driver doing the airport circuit DOESN'T know where hotels are??? Not really, what I -should- be worried about is taxi drivers that read maps on the freeway and crash into Preludes... Yes you got heard that right, my taxi driver crashed smashing up the backend of a rather nice looking Prelude...
Anyway, 30 minutes later we're on the road again and finally turn up at the hotel, after a quick shower and email check I walk down the road to the PB Power offices were I meet a few people, and get taking over to the PowerCor Australia building (just over the road a bit) and we stuck into talking about what it is I'll be doing, -finally- I know what it is they want of me, and I hope I can deliver :P
After 3-4 hours I now have a few whiteboard print-outs of the notes we took today and I have to write up a document on how I think we should handle the problem at hand, initial thoughts... it looks bigger than what it really is, but I think it could end up even bigger, which could be a problem.
The hotel suite is nice, its a small 1 bedroom/1 lounge unit with a tiny wee dinky kitchen, and a shower/toilet hanging off the bedroom area, all looking flash (photos will be on the net later).
I'm rather miffed, I just missed the Mortification concert by 2 days, which would have been awesome to catch, but The Offspring are playing in the next few weeks so I hope to see that.
Well, I'm starting to get a little hungry so I might go over the road to the restaurant and find some dinner, then think about this thing called work.
Muhahahaha just saw a TV add for "One Net" ISP and it's like "why should I choose One Net?" "Cause we connect by the phone" was one answer, makes it sound like an uncommong thing :P It's also wasn't flat rate :( GO IHUG :PPP
Anyways, I should go, this rant is getting tooooo long :P