Bikes

I love this!


Rental bikes hit Melbourne.

Vet

Laika at the vet, for an ear infection:


Not her favorite place, of course, but she copes okay. I think it's the liver treats they give her.

Balloon

Spotted from the train station in the early morn:

City view

City view while biking along Capital City trail to Brunswick:

FA Cup night

FA Cup night with my soccer club:








The object of the game in the middle shot is to kick the ball (on the right) into the trash can (on the left). A dollar a shot, for fundraising, with a chance to win a bottle of whiskey.

Workout

In the middle of a twenty minute session on the stairmaster at the local gym:

Sunrise

Sunrise on my street:


Nice enough, but if I never see a sunrise again it'll be too soon. The price of working for a startup.

Warrandyte

Lunch along the river in Warrandyte, while we're working out of the boss's house:

Hoodoo Gurus

At the Hoodoo Gurus show at the HiFi:

La Niche

It was French Night at the French cafe near Marjorie's work, so we went down and practiced our horrendous French with the waiters and enjoyed the beautiful boeuf borgonaise. And the entertainment was nice too:


Loves me some accordion.

Galahs

Galahs take over a puddle spotted, just after my soccer match:

Rainbow II

A better rainbow, over our backyard yesterday:

Fire

Went to buy a new barbie today and came home with a new fire pit as well:

Coins

Australia coins come in different denominations than American coins - 5, 10, 20, and 50 cents, plus 1 and 2 dollars. What's weird is that they don't really seem to have names for them, like in America. No penny, nickel, dime, quarter... or anything like that. You don't really even ever hear "five cent piece", "ten cent piece", etc. that much. They just don't seem to require names, and are hardly ever mentioned. I wonder why?

Menu

The new menu from our (very) local pub, who just changed owners:





Kind of disappointing, as they seem to have have gone the chichi route - we'd much rather have had standard, reasonably priced pub grub.

Job

I figured I'd give you a break from lousy iPhone photos and fill you in on my job situation. As I mentioned, I had a month off from work after being laid off by Microsoft, which was fantastic. As my boss was planning a new company, doing the same thing, with most of the same people, there was no real stress.

The new company has started now, but without an office. We had a meeting or two at my boss's house out in the sticks, where half of our crew are now working, but the rest of us are working from home. I had to buy a new computer and assemble it from scratch as the first order of business (not without a few headaches).

I don't much like working from home. I'm getting some stuff done but it's too easy to be distracted, and too hard to get the information you need sometimes when you can't just walk over to a coworker's desk. I'm spending the mornings with the dog sitting by my chair but have been putting her out back around lunchtime when she gets antsy and then spend the rest of the day trying not to get noticed by her in the house (if she thinks I've come home, she gets overexcited).

Anyway, all of us working on this project think it has the potential to be big, so we're all willing to work hard and put up with some bumps.

Rainbow

Rainbow lorikeets, plus rainbow!



Okay, the rainbow's really really faint, but it's there...

Pitch

Construction going on literally right around the corner from me:


Sweet! The condition of the grass looks so good it almost makes me want to weep.

Rainbow

Rainbow over George St which the garage in back of our house opens onto:


There's lots of these sorts of streets in Melbourne, that are pretty much all garage doors.

Backyard

Marjorie and friend.