The Waiting Man

The beginnings of sunset today, as I left my last measure, in a little enclave that has its own water feature... either made to look like a bushland pool, or Nature has reclaimed it already

Busy day today, looks like a quiet day tomorrow - workwise at least. She doesn't know it yet, but Bella will be bundled into her carrier tomorrow afternoon, for a 4 day stay at our Vet's boarding house, while we have a short trip to & around Canberra

... I hope she hasn't learned to read

A funny old day... Up reasonably early & with a slight hangover from a housewarming party we went to last night... the first large-ish gathering of friends & strangers we've been to since, well you know when... & why. Our host is a whiskey buff & knows I'm kind of the same, so was plying me with glasses of his favourites while I was also working my way down a bottle of red wine. Never mix grape & grain they say... but other than a slight headache & moving a bit slowly first thing this morning, I've come through okay

A couple of measures to do, before L-SP & I had our annual 'flu vaccination shots, then found a café that did galettes quite nicely & reasonable soy coffees. A little supermarket shopping, then home & into the music/computer room which is now also my home office, where I once again had cause to curse house designers who have bedrooms going off the hallway at various angles, trying to draw a 1:75 scale plan of a place that was a rectangle on the outside, but inside was a homage to The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari, all the while constantly dissuading Bella from climbing into my lap, or sitting on the rough drawing... or the unfinished plan. She's gone off somewhere now in a huff... or about a minute & a huff (Thanks Groucho!!)

Long day... busy with work. Makes a nice change...

Bed now!

Monday... seemed to be a busy day, for only 5 official measures. A lot of Sydney covered & then an evening drawing plans

I'm done already... Can I have another weekend please?

... who cares...

I think I'm in the same boat as PinkHalen - I really don't give an airborne act of intercourse about the whole Harry/Meghan/British Royal Family soap opera & I wish it would disappear from my newsfeeds. Surely the world has more important things to be concerned about than a facile family drama, albeit one with fancy dress...

Just sent my first invoice to my contracted employer, for the last week's work. Not as many measures as I would have liked, or that I was told would come my way, but I'm prepared to forgive the first week. However, given the start of the new week tomorrow only has 5 measures scheduled for me, instead of the 8-10 I'd prefer, one can only hope it will pick up a bit... or preferably a LOT

Now, bed. It's been a long day

Coffee & a brioche bun for breakfast - a rather civilised way to start the day. Unfortunately, it's a work day

So, not much to report, other than I found out a lot of my work with Pelican Daughters is up on the Soundcloud hosting website. That could make the music at work today rather interesting...?!

Black is a colour Part 3

Adrian Belew... guitar hero

Another work day conforming to type - an early start taking care of unfinished business, then nothing much happening in the Showroom during the morning when I'm the only one there, then one of the "Managers" arrives around 11, gets their brunch, gets back around 12, then loads up my schedule for the afternoon with a bunch of appointments & tasks in haphazard order of location & distance - expecting it all done by 3pm so I can then do all of the e-mails they can't be bothered to write, before an unavoidable late delivery in the complete opposite direction to where I live. Today wasn't exactly like that, but close enough... or far enough, considering whereabouts in Sydney I wound up at 5.30pm