Not a bad day for a day after a long weekend. Started off with a course on the Financial Management & Accountability Regulations (and specifically Reg 10). Run by Dept of Finance and Admin but held in the new Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet digs over in Barton. It was actually a lot more interesting than it sounded. I learned a heap of things, got a few questions answered and aired a few gripes about the whole thing. The Regulation itself is about 3 lines long and if we were to explain it to a ten year old we would say "don't promise to give anyone money if you haven't got enough pocket money left to cover it". However, the machinery of government being on the slightly more complicated side the total explanation runs to many hundred pages, much of it incomprehensible to mortal man.
Remembered to give the seedlings a squirt of water this morning before I went to work. Still only the one cabbage happening. Ben is keen to put in another garden bed over at his place so that might be another weekend project. I'm having dinner with his family tomorrow night which will be very nice.
Last night was a bit of fun. Greg popped around on Sunday after the movies and managed to fix the problems I had trying to log into the online servers for a game called Dawn of War. Not a great game by any means but fun by virtue of the fact that I was playing a cooperative game with 3 friends (Johnno, Russ & Greg). Jacko is frustrated by his troubles getting onto the servers. Frankly I never would have managed it without Greg's help, so that was very handy.
I am continuing my Franz Schubert odyssey. I have a whole pile of audio files that I am laboriously splitting into tracks (so that there isn't 3 symphonies in one long track for instance). I am listening to one right now and it is incredibly uplifting.
Apart from being very breezy at the moment, the weather is getting to such a stage that I should get back on the bike and start riding to work every day. National Ride to Work day is on the 17th of October and as these things tend to happen I am DVA's national coordinator. go figure.
Finished the lecture series on 'Famous Greeks'.
Next week I start the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) 'Company Directors Course'. There's a 4 kg box of reading material to digest for it this weekend. If I pass the exam and the assignment I can use the post-nominals AICD which is quite cool I thought. It should be absolutely fascinating (and tiring). Will fit in nicely with other governance work I am doing.
Ok thats enough for today.
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