Friday, September 08, 2006

9.40am

I went to bed way too late last night, and I am tired again today, but it is a lot better than yesterday. I shouldn’t have had takeaway for dinner last night, either, but I ended up picking up Phillip, and the kitchen was a disaster when I got home, so it was 9.30 before I could start thinking about food. So Sarah and I had souvlaki. Very salty, outrageous quantities of garlic. But I liked it.

When I got up this morning, even though I was late, I still managed to sort the dogs. I have to. The kids will NOT clean the pens, and I cannot leave them in that state…

Tony called me this morning (on my way to work) to tell me that the car is ready, and all it needed was more petrol. I am really cross with the RACV – I thought about just asking him to do what the last bloke did (pour petrol in while I start it), but he went on about cracks and things. I have to call Frank and sort out when to pick it up. The RACV can pay for a taxi for me to do that this evening.

I found some interesting tech writing sites yesterday afternoon, and had some interesting reading. This morning I have set up a template and worked out how the document mapping thing works. It seems I’ve been ‘document mapping’ for years. I just didn’t know that the resource was in Word to make it easier to do. I also found some references to style manuals. I think I’ll find one of my own to use.

It’s now after lunch. 1.45pm

I called Frank, but he had not checked the bit of the engine that the RACV said was cracked. I described the spot, and he said he’d look at it and call me back. Mostly, I’d like him to take the tape off the hose. If it doesn’t need to be there, then I don’t want it there.

Mum called me from the Adelaide Royal. Sandy won, and Mum mms’d me a pic of the dog. A bit overangulated in the hind quarters, but refined with a good depth of chest. Mum says that the apparent overangulation is just the way that Sandy stacked him. I’m not so sure.

OK. Back to work