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Tuesday Sep 23, 2014 #
7 AM
Run 1:14:00 [3] 14.0 km (5:17 / km)
Last one of any significant length before departure. Feeling a bit sleepy at the start and never really felt that strong, but a decent run none the less, given that it took on some reasonably hilly country in the first half (as far as North Balwyn) before flattening out later on. The sleepiness followed an especially vivid dream which involved trying to find a way of tracking down the 2016 federal election results while in the middle of doing the Australian Championships presentations on the same day.
Still not totally convinced that I'm going to get everything I want to get done before I leave, but did manage to get a few decks cleared today (no thanks to the continued correspondence coming into our area from climate change denialists). I'm thinking I should perhaps run a book on the date of the first "sorry to e-mail you on your holiday, but..." e-mail. I will be very surprised if that date gets beyond the end of the first week, and won't be totally shocked if it happens on Monday.
Combining climate extremes (or the effect thereof) with dumb criminals was the subject of a case reported in today's press. It involved someone who successfully claimed $1000 in disaster relief funding after saying he had been affected by the Moree floods in early 2012. This was a bit of a stretch because he was a fair way from Moree at the time - to be precise, in Cessnock Jail. He got caught after trying to pull the same trick with the 2013 Warrumbungles fires when it was discovered that the farm he said had been burnt out didn't exist. For his trouble, he got three extra months added to the sentence he's currently serving (in Cooma this time).
And I now have a note with a six-digit number on it in my wallet, as a result of acquiring the surplus Paraguayan guarani of a colleague recently returned from a meeting there. (It's worth about $25).
Still not totally convinced that I'm going to get everything I want to get done before I leave, but did manage to get a few decks cleared today (no thanks to the continued correspondence coming into our area from climate change denialists). I'm thinking I should perhaps run a book on the date of the first "sorry to e-mail you on your holiday, but..." e-mail. I will be very surprised if that date gets beyond the end of the first week, and won't be totally shocked if it happens on Monday.
Combining climate extremes (or the effect thereof) with dumb criminals was the subject of a case reported in today's press. It involved someone who successfully claimed $1000 in disaster relief funding after saying he had been affected by the Moree floods in early 2012. This was a bit of a stretch because he was a fair way from Moree at the time - to be precise, in Cessnock Jail. He got caught after trying to pull the same trick with the 2013 Warrumbungles fires when it was discovered that the farm he said had been burnt out didn't exist. For his trouble, he got three extra months added to the sentence he's currently serving (in Cooma this time).
And I now have a note with a six-digit number on it in my wallet, as a result of acquiring the surplus Paraguayan guarani of a colleague recently returned from a meeting there. (It's worth about $25).