42 in the shade

It's Fecking hot today.
42 degrees in the shade, and not a lot cooler inside the house.
I had to go back into work this morning - it was 30 degrees at 9am. Bit clearer today, but the fire alarm was still going nuts. The VESDA system was off the scale.

Eli was still a bit sick today. I think he's like me and just can't stomach the heat.

Got some more boxes packed, but not as much as I would like.

Melbourne central covered by smoke.

We Woke this morning to a thick blanket of smoke covering the city. I went back into work today to set up some additional equipment for DSE. We had been advised that two of the sites, Mt Useful and The pinnacles were likely to be burnt this weekend. With no spares, I had to strip out most of my test system to get enough kit for two sites. That's going to make it awkward to test any new software in a hurry. We'd only been at work less than an hour when the VESDA system started to alarm. It was picking up smoke inside the building. Another half hour or so then the main alarm went off, you could actually smell the smoke inside the exchange now.
Eli Come into work with me and was really good. He played a couple of games, watched a movie, and helped me with the radio tests. He got a bit worried when the Fire Alarms went off, but Chris took him outside to see the firemen. On the way home we called into Jaycar to get some connectors and stuff when Eli said he wasn't feeling too good. It was pretty hot - high 30's at least, probably hotter in the car.
We got home and he just wanted to lie down in his room. Then, about 7pm, just as I was cooking Shelleys dinner, he come out and power chucked all down the hall in up to the kitchen. I couldn't believe that so much stuff could fit in his tiny stomach.
Shelley got home just as I had finished cleaning up the chuck, but the house still stunk of it. Then I realised that the cat wasn't anywhere to be found. Eventually I found her under the house, She'd slipped through a gap in the boxes I'd piled up in the door way so that the door could be open to let soom cool air in. She didn't want to come out and I ended up having to tease her out with some food. Know better next time - fill in the gaps!

Just over a week to go 'till we move house

Our house is a mess at the moment with boxes everywhere. I was going to take next week off to do all the packing in one hit while Shelley was at work and Eli at Kinda, but doesn't look like that is going to happen now.
We've got a new kitten, "Princess Ralph the 3rd", she gets on really well with Boots, so that's a relief. Very tiny, but house trained already.
Last week I went out for dinner with some of the big bosses. We went to Fortyone at Railto, nice view (This is looking up the Yarra towards the Dandedongs in the distance. The MCG can be seen in the middle of the photo), nice company, but food wasn't anything great. Next time were planning to go to Jamie Oliver's Fifteen resturant. Bookings are available now for March, which is when everyone will next be down in Melbourne.