kjp

Well I'm in chilly Canberra for a long weekend. I was able to get Friday and Monday off, so I turned up here on Thursday evening (straight to Brisbane airport from work). I'll be heading back first thing on Tuesday morning.

At Brisbane airport it was both fast and slow. The check-in procedure was really fast - Virgin have speedy self checking kiosk thingies. Scan your barcode, enter a few details, then take your bag to the bagmen / women (which has a really short queue too). The only thing that I'll have to do different is get a better seat - I'm not sure whether it lets you select a seat based on how far forward / back it is. It lets you select an aisle / window seat, I think. Anyhow, that was really fast, but getting of the ground was delayed due to a storm passing through the area... You win some, loose others.

Being the backwater that Canberra is, if you're getting off the rear of the plane you have to then walk across the tarmac.... Getting my first taste (in a while) of an almost winter chilly wind. Refreshing (?!) or something like that......

Because of my lack of really warm clothing in Brisbane, I've been raiding my boxes in the garage for a few big thick woollen mum made jumpers. Warm and cuddly, or something like that.

Yesterday morning - I was doing some jobs out in the garden - digging up roots, levelling some ground, etc. Then went into uni to catch up with a friend. It's weird how things have changed. Lots of little things, a building is now there were it wasn't before, construction work elsewhere, trees gone, etc, etc, etc. This goes for the rest of Canberra - houses have gone up / down / renovated, etc. Gardens have changed. Our garden has been cut back a quite fair bit... Not sure that I'm completely in favour with all of it....

Speaking of hacking down trees, I was pretty unimpressed by the Gungahin Drive Extension (GDE). I think that it was on one of my August / September 2004 trips down here that I first saw the land clearing.

Anyhow, today was fairly taken fairly easily due to last nights' excitement :(.