R e n d r a g

Heh, yay for people grabbing one piece of a conversation and running with it…
We were evacuated out of the building this morning due to a bomb scare upstairs (The Embassy of Afghanistan moved in about 9 months ago..). After much phoning around within the AFP and getting ‘you dont need to know’ answers, I finally thought to phone Barry Corrigan (Team Leader, Protective Services), who I know looks after our building, and finally got a straight answer from a fellow called Tom.
Apparently the Body Corporate got broken into AGAIN (they’re the only office in the building without an alarm system, and I swear their door jams are made of balsa wood!), and the lockbox they keep the spare keys for the offices in the building in was torn off the wall. Apparently the Bomb Squad was on standby (as is standard procedure when an embassy’s building is broken into), but were never actually called in. They found the lockbox in the end, but they don’t know if any keys were taken, so they’ll be changing all their locks (now you know why I insist on us having completely separate bilock system, alarm, video surveillance, etc).
But yeah, I think it’s pretty funny that someone at the body corporate heard ‘bomb squad on standby’ and ran with it, evacuating the building.. 🙂

Isn’t it nice when you finally manage to meet some of your resolutions?
Three weeks ago I made two resolutions – one to stop doing something that annoys me, one to get properly into shape by christmas.. Ok, so I’m not in too bad shape – I ride my pushbike the 20km each way into work and back occasionally, and love spending a day out in stromlo forest mountain biking – but that doesn’t mean I’m actually in shape..
Three weeks later, and I’m now able to do 50 pushups and 30 situps in one go, and my heart rate isn’t rising while doing the pushups! I know that’s not much, but stop laughing (*grin*) – That’s a pretty good acheivement in three weeks I think, for someone to whom exercise was walking the 2km to the shops and back to get an icecream after dinner 🙂
I’ve also managed to burn about 90% of the fat in my arms!

Went Geocaching today.. – needed a boat to get into both, so we’ll have to see about getting us a dinghy 🙂

Got the car back finally! Kinda a good thing really, since I’ve just scored a cold from riding the bike in and out to work in the rain..

Death to Kangaroos!
Bugger bugger bugger! We hit a kangaroo heading back out to the campsite last night!

Other than that, it was a great camping trip (though trying to light the campfire again this morning when it was -6 and raining, was a bit of a lost cause!)