Power
I guess Origin Energy is incapable of keeping our power going for more than two weeks at a time without an outage. Last night at around 02:30 the power flickered, everything reset, the CD player started up playing a Nick Barker CD (a strange habit that it has when the power comes on — playing that is, not necessarily choosing Nick Barker), and the PC reset.
That’s about the fourth outage at approximately two week intervals that we’ve had! It’s playing havoc with the uptime records from uptimed for my PC. Maybe I need to monitor the mains as well as the weather at home… Maybe Origin wouldn’t want me to do that… Maybe I really should get a UPS!
Books
Books books books — and me with no self control at all. I briefly ducked over to the Campus Center this afternoon in order to find a card — I found the card, but somehow found a pile of books as well. Two on the sales table, one — Eels1 — in the category of “interesting factual books with single-word titles. We desperately need more bookshelf space, or more bookshelves, or even a house to put the bookshelves in!
Dinner
Out to a celebratory dinner for our anniversary tonight at Bcoz restaurant. A six course meal — luckily all small courses! About seven years ago, Jo and I visited Tyrrell’s winery while away on a bike tour, the winery has been sending me two or three newsletters a year ever since then. Normally I just bin them, but just this once one caught my eye and so we went to a posh dinner of six courses, ten wines and Bruce Tyrrell presiding. Impressive company, with Natalie, head of Tyrrell’s wines in Melbourne, sitting next to me and both Rod, the chef, and Bruce wandering around chatting to everyone.
Footnotes
 | The Book of Eels, Tom Fort |
