more sydney

After a nice long weekend touring the Rutherglen region of Victoria, I'm back in Sydney. Due to more delays in the project I'll be here next week as well. The nice thing about interstate as opposed to international travel is I can fly home for the weekend. And so I'll be doing that again. A good choice as it turns out it'll be raining in Sydney all weekend. Rain is good of course, but not quite to the same damaging extent as last weekend's storms I hope!

Luckily during the week days there has been fine weather. Warm during the day, but not quite warm enough in the morning to catch the ferry to work, still waiting to do that. By lunchtime however it's quite nice to head to Parramatta park to eat lunch. I was even able to donate blood yesterday at lunchtime. Parramatta has an impressive donation centre.

Last week I found some other Ericsson engineers to have a few dinners with; Stan and Dave. It's always nice to have company at dinner, to relax with and have a chat. I was able to give them a hard time about being old, and they got to give me a hard time about young. All in good fun. This week however I'm on my own again as they're back in Melbourne. Spanish tapas bars are a lone traveller's best friend - instead of looking like a loser sitting alone on a table, the traveller can look cool and sit at the bar. Other than looking cool, it's easy to befriend the barman and get some of that aforementioned dinner-time conversation.

Hence two of three nights I've had Spanish for dinner. Last night however, I headed out to Mark's house for dinner. As mentioned in an earlier post, Liz and Mark have just had twin girls. The twin's are now 15 weeks old and just starting to become self aware. For instance they're starting to listen to themselves when they make noises. This is a good thing as they don't scream as much : ) They're also starting to put their hands in their mouths and work out that it's part of their own body. Very cool stuff. They know who mum and dad are too. The twins would look at Mark or Liz if they were talking... and they'd cry if left with me!

Warning: if you don't like pink - do not have twin girls.

We watched the Rugby League state of origin match last night too. Alas, the Blue's couldn't quite pull a victory out for Mark though. It was Queensland's first victory at Homebush stadium. Tough times.