significance

weekend

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:12:37 GMT

The new laptop is good. Though I had to spend most of the weekend working to get ready for my various meetings in the next couple of weeks (including making at least a start on some nutrient budget work of which I'm supposed to present final results next week), I was able to spend the time quite pleasantly, sitting on our back deck, enjoying the perfect weather and sipping a beer while I worked.

Otherwise, a very quiet weekend. Ate Chinese take-away while watching "Gangs of New York" on DVD on Friday, and spent some time on Sunday morning making runs to the "dump" (composting centre) and back with piles of weeds and garden clippings.

travel madness

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:41:47 GMT

Next week (the 26th), I'm off to Brisbane for a project team meeting, then up to Kununurra for a community workshop and a stakeholder meeting for the Ord project, then down to Adelaide for a project meeting for the Coorong project, returning to Canberra on the 5th. The following week (on the 12th), I'm off to Townsville for a science planning meeting (returning on the Friday evening - the 14th). I'm also supposed to have a trip to Rockhampton for my Fitzroy project sometime in March, but I'm hoping it can be put off until April. Also in April, I'll have a trip to Darwin for a planning meeting for the TRaCK project, and a trip to Perth for a stakeholder meeting for the Ord project. It's a reflection of how fragmented my time at work is at the moment. If I'm feeling particularly industrious, I'll pop across to Kununurra after Darwin to present the final report for the Ord project to stakeholders there. But at the same time, there's really rather a lot of work that I ought to be doing with some urgency here at my desk in Canberra.

On the plus side, I should have a Sunday free in Adelaide and am seriously thinking of signing up for a Barossa Valley day trip. Any tips on how to find a good one? Or should I try the Clare Valley or Adelaide hills instead?

It is interesting to note that despite all this travel, various other work-related travel over the course of the past year (to Darwin, Kununurra, and Adelaide), a trip to NZ at Christmas and our trip to Europe (UK, Turkey and Belgium), I'll still be nowhere near the number of frequent flyer points needed to reach gold status.

The Apology

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:17:02 GMT

This is a great day.

Squee!

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:13:53 GMT

In my mail box yesterday: two beautiful handmade notebooks, made from hand-recycled paper, each page slightly different, with petals and leaves embedded in the paper. A gift from calla_s. Thank you - they are wonderful! I will save them, I think, for poetry.

locking the journal

Thu, 25 May 2006 23:34:22 GMT

For one reason and another, I've decided to friendslock all posts in this journal (other than this one, of course). Sorry for any incovenience to those who don't normally log in to read LJ or who don't have an account. If you want to read my journal and you have an LJ account but I don't have you friended, let me know and I'll add you. If you don't have an account and don't want to set one up, but don't mind logging in to read LJ, and if I know you, email me and I'll send you the password for "lj_reader", which you can use to read and comment.