Inventor of the Croissant, Lord Mummy

Christmas Eve at the office means a flurry of corro that needs to be done before we close the office.  Things were thrown at me that had nothing to do with me.  If I could take letter writing out of my job description, a lot of my work angst would be gone.  We will be closing up early today though.  Hooray!

I took my car in to have my drivers side rear tire looked at.  It had been losing air at an unreasonable rate and I found out why, a little metal splinter had punctured it in a place where it couldn't be repaired.  It turns out that my spare also had a puncture, so I would up getting two new tires.  It cost me over $300 but at least I was able to find out that the right rear wheel (which has had leaks before) is fine.  It turns out it's just a coincidence that it is the only one that ever goes flat.  I feared there might be a problem with the wheel itself.  At any rate, now I am good to go up to Sydney tomorrow.

While I was waiting for my tire problem to be fixed, I walked over to the gym and did a nice easy row to pass the time.  I wound up doing a total of just over 210km which put me at just over 7km per day over the length of the challenge.  I will be returning to normal workouts again after Christmas, and I already started to get back into it by doing some pullups and kettlebell swings and bench presses.  (I did my bodyweight, for 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1).  A nice change of pace from all that rowing.
( Photo of rowing fun from last night. )

Speaking of bodyweight, I am now 86kg, which is a full 4kg less than a month ago.

Tonight I will be going to church as I always do, and I will also be having dinner with bakerypenguin and family.

Last night I saw a rather amusing program on ABC2.  It was a British sketch comedy Christmas Special (the Brits are world leaders at this) featuring a guy called Peter Serafinowicz, whom I had never heard of before.

Enjoy.

The Mactini, the smallest computer ever produced.

Paul McCartney celebrates Christmas.

The couple who never argues.  Really.

Christmas just wouldn't be complicated without Complico.

Say goodbye to dirt with new Kitchen Gun.

Agenda, featuring French Al Pacino.