The Nice Little Weekender

Well that was a nice weekend. Pity they can't all be like that!

Heidi and I returned back to 'Sunny'? Melbourne on Monday night to polish off the remainder of the shortened week.

The chosen destination was a nice place called castaways in Skenes creek only 6 kilometers from Apollo Bay. (It was a mystery, but the game is finally up!).

Unfortunately we kind of lost a day due to rain and were forced inside watching movies and eating tomato soup - Yes this is the hard life!

Once unleashed outside here's what we managed to accomplish;

1. Dinner Apollo Bay- first night at a semi fancy restaurant and to the Pub on the next night.
2. Triplet Falls walk Otway ranges
3. Otway Fly tree top walk
4. A walk on the pier at Apollo Bay - I think I found a fishing charter that I might do? Looks like fun!
5. Otway Estate winery. This place could be very dangerous before a long drive home?

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Don't touch the system on a Friday?

I believe it to be worth a mention of some excellent advice I received today from my team leader, technically very experienced in the up keep, maintenance of business critical applications.

He says: "One should never (if possible) make any major or even minor system changes, enhancements to any business critical applications on a Friday". Why? Simply because if anything goes wrong and invariably it does, you'll spend the whole weekend or part thereof fixing it up. Not worth the risk, I say.

So obviously this begs the question: What should I be doing on a Friday?

Generally, if everything is running smoothly time should be devoted to answering emails, authoring and reading documentation and perhaps even a nice lunch wouldn't go astray. Makes sense really, to enjoy the good times while they last!!

Rochford Winery - New Years Eve 06/07

Fireworks Over Rochford
Originally uploaded by Markus Krebs.

Usually I can't be fussed when it comes to New Years Eve celebrations - I mean why should I be? It's the same old tripe year after year? New years eve parties for me suffer from a severe image problem. Could it be all the party's where you spend half the night ordering a drink because it is so packed? Or greeting a city full of riot police arresting obscene drunks all competing for just a handful of cabs, watching people throw their guts up within meters of you while waiting for the late night trains. That's if you can get on the last train, otherwise you'll have the dreaded two hours of being stranded. Might as well crack another beer? Or get myself arrested maybe even both! I'm not going to expose myself to it again, I've seen it all.

Well as it turned out I didn't have to. This year Rochford winery New Years Eve party presented the right balance of live entertainment, fun, great outdoor atmosphere with enough people to make sure that event staff and facilities were able to adequately cope with all the demands placed on them. It was easy to get around, friendly crowd that was the change I needed to re-new the enthusiasm for new years eve celebrations.

So congratulations on all that made this night a really enjoyable one - the good friends, good atmosphere washed down with a nice glass of Pinot Noir (I think I drank the whole bottle) was a welcome change to what I'm normally accustomed to. Bring on grape grazing!

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