Defintely a geranium with those ordered petals.
A Day In The Life Of…
Some light journalizing after the Climate Change review.
04:00 Arose and had an espresso. Cleaned up last night’s dinner residue and the kitchen.
04:30 Walked dogs. Incredibly quiet this morning with crickets and a sprinkler at Wilkins Public School the only noise (and the occasional vehicle). I haven’t heard a sprinkler for months so wondered what they were watering there at 4:30am. Wilkins hosts a Community Garden and I hope is drawing its water from a bore.
05:30 Wasted 30 minutes reading The Australian and the SMH. The cup of tea was enjoyable though.
06:00 Emptied the compost bucket. Not sure what I will do with the amount of compost we are now manufacturing. Normally, I spread it about the garden early spring and in the past only just enough but now we seem to have about 25 per cent more.
06:30 Cut more branches off the collapsed peach tree overhanging the street. It is rotten and a major branch broke on Tuesday. Over the next few days will gradually cut it down.
07:30 Filleted a chicken for tonight’s Thai Green Chicken Curry and then made chicken stock. An efficient way to empty the fridge of marginal vegetables. Madeleine (the cat) gets the chicken’s wings, we get the stock and the dogs love the residue.
08:00 Caught up with email, Facebook and edited the Cook-book Glossary. I just have to keep working on getting rid of the many inconsistencies.
10:15 Left by bus for Newtown to do a strata inspection for O’Connors Property Reports (http://www.opr.com.au/).
14:00 Back to Xanadu to finish the report
14:30 Off in the CO2 belching Range Rover for vegetables and wine. Learned that brown onions are best stored in direct sunlight – it keeps them dry.
15:30 Lunch of curried vegetables and followed by a nap. Discovered that Beryl will be out until late so postponed the chicken curry until tomorrow night.
16:30 Check for OPR job tomorrow, get Google map of strata manager’s office, get bus timetable, catch up on Facebook, email, news and weather.
18:00 Waiting for outside temperature to drop – currently 33C – and writing this. Will then catch up on a few podcasts – one from Slate, “Authority, Meet Technology: A Slate/New America Foundation discussion about China, Google, and Internet freedom” – sounds interesting.
A normal day.
Today’s Podcast
“Games for Good”, FutureTense, 21 January, 2010, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense/stories/2010/2720213.htm
‘Serious Games’ or ‘Games for Good’ have a greater purpose than just entertainment — they’re being used to help us understand and solve current problems as well as to identify future threats.