4:20 a.m.

No, not that kind of quickie.

Shame on all of you.

Just a quick entry because I feel like it. A main purpose for writing this blog – other than the usual narcissistic reasons – is release, as in release from all the other kinds of writing that I have to do that have an angle or purpose or agenda. No agenda here, other than perhaps to placate “M” who is hopefully keeping tabs on me. And maybe if I am not too tired I might have a go at figuring out the RSS feed such that my sister can link to it on her iGoogle page and see whenever I post.

I really want to do a post about our garden, complete with pics, because it is going gangbusters, but we currently experience technical difficulties with the photo upload module that makes sending pictures tedious. I will try over the weekend to get them loaded.

In the meantime it is indeed Wednesday evening, about 10:30 pm. My better half is away at a conference until Friday late, so I am bacheloring it this week. Today I flew down to Wellington for a meeting. I do that occassionally for work, i.e. fly down and back to Wellington for the day for meetings or workshops.  In fact, I will fly down to Wellington next week. And the week after that… All in the name of sustainability, of course.

Today our meeting finished a bit early and I caught an earlier flight back. That meant that I got back early enough to putter in the garden and enjoy the sensational weather. Warm but no too warm, very sunny, a hint of a breeze. Fantastic. I even managed to spray the TurfFix on the lawn as well. I am not generaly keen on anything non-organic (which TurfFix could actually be, need to check the label) but my philosophy is as follows regarding lawn care: if you’ve got a lawn, then you might as well do your utmost to make it a lush, springy green carpet of healthy grass and little to no weeds. So I distract my green consciousness and spray the dickens out of the unwanted aliens, trying at the same time not to spray my gangbuster garden. I also got a bit of weeding done along the driveway and trimmed the rose bushes. You really need to see the pictures.

Not much else to report. We are just 2 weeks + a bit away from the Christmas holidays. This year I am taking 3 weeks off over the holdays. We usually have 10 days – 2 weeks off but this year I am doing 3. Leave is much better here than in the USA. Employers must provide a minimum of 4 weeks holiday time to employees. I am very much looking forward to it.

I said this would be quick, and I meant it.

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