S was working today so I dropped her off at Currumbin after we'd had some breakfast, arranging to go back at lunchtime to pick her up and take her back to The Pines for some sustenance. In the meantime, I was planning to spend some time at the Library but in the end I never quite made it ... but I was fairly productive in the time, checking out job ads, catching up on some correspondence and getting in a walk around the shopping centre. Then it was back to collect S and we ended up at The Shingle Inn - but not to have their famous waffles (which we haven't had at their Robina outlet either because every time anyone goes there, their waffle machine is broken).
After lunch, I took S back to work and returned to The Pines Shopping Centre where I found a coffee shop and did some more work.
The thing I was most surprised about on the way down to Currumbin was the amount of roadworks and traffic on the way. I know that we used to joke about the amount of roadworks there were on the Gold Coast when we first arrived, but there just appear to be more all the time. Yes, the business of the Gold Coast still is Road Works.
When we arrived back at Latimers this afternoon, The Plumber and The Trencher were still here. It was Bore Pump Day and they had been at it since early this morning; actually the "they" at that point was Ashley and The Trencher - but Ashley had been in and out of the trench so many times doing the electrics that in the end he went home exhausted ... obviously a man who throws himself into his work! It was a major job and it's good that it's under way. Ashley will need to come back tomorrow to hook everything up and test it - and hopefully it will work - because if it doesn't I think the whole of Australia will hear the disappointment.
I learned something at CSP tonight - besides the fact that it's so easy for the dealer to take your stake (I learnt that last week) - when a card in the deck is marked - either with a mark or a bend or other identifer - the game is stopped and the deck is replaced. That takes a while - because the pit boss has to be called, they make a call to "somewhere", and then a new deck is delivered (the old one removed) and shuffled. It was funny because when we arrived at the table, it was new decks in play - and it was on the third hand - the first hand another player joined in - that the dealer noticed that the Ace of Hearts was bent on one corner. The dealer all but insinuated that the new player had done the marking - and it was only after the same thing had happened with cards that hadn't been dealt to the players that the dealer realised there was a problem with the shoe. So, we were told it would take a while for the problem to be fixed ... at which point we walked away and went down to the other table - and watched for a little while before a seat actually opened up - and M took it ... but she didn't make her fortune this time.
By the time M and I arrived back at Latimers tonight, and it wasn't that late, S had already taken herself off to bed - so we were very, very quiet ... M went off to bed and I went off down the back to do some writing and downloading and ended up staying up far too late. Again.
There was no need to shepherd cane toads out of the house today but I did note there were two small ones in the outside toilet this morning. At first I thought I had stepped on one but they were both well (and happy?) when they took refuge under the shoe rack. I left them there but will need to check tomorrow to make sure they have relocated!
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