Friday 7 February

There went that forty minutes sleep! But it was good to have an early morning texting session with my sister We - whose first text arrived forty minutes before the first of my three alarms was due to go off. I had planned to have a bit of a sleep-in because I was late getting to bed last night after the excitement of Roulette at The Big House - but not meant to be this time.

Still, if I hadn't made the earlier start, I would have missed what I thought was the best caption of the morning at Maccas on one of the morning show: You're the ledge end. I sometimes wonder if the captioners ever see their work back, or have anyone comment to them about it ... as you know, I love what they do, on so many levels ... and some translations are just much much better than others.

The snake

Work was good - although most of it was spent head-down in spreadsheets trying to work out why some figures weren't showing up where they should be - while others were showing up where they shouldn't be. Unfortunately, they did not cancel each other out ... and the hoped-for epiphany hadn't come to any of us overnight.

There were kangaroos in the paddock across the way on the road home, and a bevy of galahs where the letterboxes used to be (no new letterboxes yet - except for L's.) But that wasn't the only wildlife of the day ... as I was talking to Sooz on the phone at lunchtime (she had gone into Broadbeach with M for an appointment and to do some errands) I happened to look under the site office - and there, not moving, was a green snake. Sooz could tell I was distracted by something, but not what ... as I went in to get our Environ Expect, Tom, and ask him about it. He was good enough not to laugh out loud at my concern over the plastic snake some wag had put there!

The Great Card Swipings are again underway at The Big House - and Sooz and M swiped cards while they were there today. Unfortunately I was not a winner - but Sooz did manage to win Casino Dollars to go with the real dollars from the other day. Only time will tell if Az and Mo will be the big winners again this time around.

There was music coming from somewhere on the other side of the creek this afternoon - it was repetitive enough for me to think that there was a band practicing - even though there was no "and a one and a two and a three" preceding each play. I think I've heard it one time before - so perhaps it was the music was being carried on the wind.