Mon, 21 Nov 2005
A simple plan! // at 23:59
Just get out of bed a little early, get on the bike, ride into South Melbourne and get to a training course. Not too hard, is it?
I intended to leave at 7:30, since I was fairly sure that the advertised 8:30 start was really "08:30 for 9:00". Didn't manage to leave the house until 07:40, off through Murrumbeena and along Dandenong road. Somewhere along Normanby road in Caulfield there's a tram turning left and I can't quite see the roadsign through the windows — it must be Inkerman street so I turn too. Play tag with the tram all the way down to St Kilda where I realised that I was on the wrong road! Not too wrong, just one road south of where I wanted to be. Around the Esplanade, then back up Johnson street and left into Canterbury road.
Lots of glass in the bike lane, a bike lane less than the width of road bike's handlebars in places, and lined with parked cars the entire way! Definitely a dangerous place to be, but I'm pretty much the only traffic moving past the bumper-to-bumper cars all the way to South Melbourne.
Not quite sure of where to turn, guessed correctly, then turned left instead of straight ahead into Montague street — no problem, simply do a u-turn through six lanes of rush hour traffic. Off up a block or so, cross at the pedestrian lights to where EXCOM is...
Damn! Seems that EXCOM have moved out of that building and there's no sign of where too! Stupidly, I didn't check my confirmation notes about the booking since I knew where they were located!
A quick look around, then duck in to ask at the printing shop next door. They've never heard of EXCOM! But by coincidence one of them is doing a print job for the company, grabs the folder and reads me the address — luckily its just around the corner so I make it round there only ten minutes or so late!
