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I'm still not in Queensland, but my flights are booked for tomorrow morning.  I'm going to Mackay, and for the first six days I will be staying 50 metres from the ocean.  Then a mining expo hits town and takes up every room within an hour's drive, so I may couch surf for a few days.

There will be a lot of work but I think it's better for me to go to Mackay that Gladstone, where I've already campaigned and where I suspect I might get more stabby.  Also there is no beach.

It was a strange day at work as I had already cleared just about everything last week.  Today it was just some campaign preparation work and mostly cooling my heels.  I was able to get to the gym at a reasonable hour though.

TW: Push and Pull - 50 lawnmower rows, 50 bench press, 50 bicep curls, 50 chest contractions, row 2km, 50 thrusters.

I got home in time to join Helga (nicknames in my house are currently being worked out) in picking up Malice (ditto) from the airport and then swinging by the RUC for a cheap steak with Dr Daz who is back from America and whose nose is still out of sorts having been hit again in his first game back since I broke it.

I'm still all packed and waiting to go.


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My impending job interview (for a job I may not taking if offered) and the overall search seems to have inspired a desire to look professional.  Today that manifested itself by be being fitted for a suit.  There is an father/son team who travel around and take your measurements and your choice of fabric and your requests of what you like in a suit, and then the suit is custom made in Hong Kong.  So today I spent about $5000 on a suit.  (Hong Kong $ that is.)  It will be posted to me soon.  It's worth it.  I got a suit from them last year and I've been very happy with it, in that it fits perfectly and makes me feel that much more bulletproof.  (That kevlar wool is wonderful stuff!)

TW: 20 pull ups, 30 dips, 40 sit ups, 50 pushups, run 1km as fast as possible, 50 pushups, 40 sit ups, 30 dips, 20 pull ups.  Then 20 dumbbell swings just to round things up.  Bulletproof!

After the gym I went to the RUC (where the sound was off during the Sea Eagles-Eels match) and had a bit of wine and a steak with Dr Daz and two friends of his who are also navy officers.  Overall it was fine, but towards the end one of them was pontificating about how the navy has a better culture than the army and I went into screen saver mode as she spoke.  There was even some rocking.  I recovered pretty quickly though.  Sometimes if I know what's going on or I can remove myself from the source of aspie stress, I'm fine in the blink of an eye.
Dr Daz is better from the collision between his face and the back of my head, though his nose is being reset on Friday.

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