Nothing New

Had Level "0" training a Eli's AusKick today - basically its a way to take all the parents and make them look as silly trying to kick a ball around as the kids.
I found out that I'm not too bad at handballing, which surprised me since I grew up playing soccer, no touching the ball allowed. I also managed to take a few good marks as well - even more of a surprise. But my kicking is still crap. I can't get the hang of dropping the ball on to my foot. If it was on the ground then that would be fine! Although it's not really the right shape for sitting on the ground properly.

Eli had a hearing test this week. One of his gromets has finally fallen out, and the other is not far behind. His hearing is great - so we're really pleased. His speech is comming along good now as well. Today we were working on the /k/ sound, playing a few games and stuff when I nodded off on the couch. For some reason I'm just absolutely buggered this week. I've had about 3 early starts, with dropping Shelley off at Uni for exams and stuff, so I guess thats whats done it.

I was going to be working this weekend, but I've managed to put that work off till Monday. Next week is bound to be a bit stressfull, more early starts as Shells has another exam on Thursday and new equipment to cutover.

Famous

My company did a feature on me for our quartly newsletter. I new that it was coming out soon, but I didn't know when. I got a rark up at a weekly meeting today when just about everyone had been sent a copy, except me. The photo is pretty crappy, given that I don't really take many photos of myself. This one was taken in Singapore for some reason - can't remember why now.

The newsletter is on our web site

No Snow

No Snow today, but it was bloody cold!
We didn't get to either Buller or Hotham, but had quite a good day at Healsville Santurary instead.
Got to see a mother koala with her joey, which is quite rear apparently.

That's it realy, a quite Queens Birthday weeked.

This comming week is going to be pretty busy. Shelley has exams, and I have a live cutover at work in the weekend, so I have to make sure that all my side of things is good and ready. A bit hard to test at the moment though.

The Ski Season has started

Today is the offical start to the ski season, unfortunataly, nether Hotham or Mt Buller seem to have any snow. Well not that can be seen from the cameras anyway. Eli and I had planned to go up for a play in the snow this weekend. Shelley has exams next week, so we thought it would be good to get away for a couple of days and leave Shelley to the books. I think we might be a bit optimistic, we'll see what the weather is like in the morning.

Nuclear Power

There has been a lot of buzz in the news here this week about Nuclear Power. Australia has finally decided that they need to generate more power, and so is looking to build some Nuclear power plants, 5 in fact. Unfortunatally its a classic case of "Not in my back yard mate!". Now this is quite funny because a shit load of the worlds uranium actually gets dug up out of the Ozzie outback. The Government even proposed taking back some of the old uranium to store it in the outback.

When I first came to Australia I thought that they had nuclear power already, but apart from a small test reactor in Sydney, the whole place is powered by coal or gas. The funny thing is that we came from New Zealand, where most of the electricity is generated by Hydro, (clean & cheep) but our power bill here is less than a 3rd of what it was in NZ.
Anyway, back to the nuclear stuff. How stuff works has a neat artical that explains how nuclear power plants work. It also has a link to a BBC program on the Chenobal explosion.

Phillip Island

Had a great day at Phillip Island. Eli and I went down this morning and walked arround looking at Koalas, then had lunch at on the beach before watching the penguin parade this evening. A real nice day, good weather as well