Fire Extinguisher training at work...

And good fun was had by all!

Decommission

20 years ago, we built a machine  (actually we built three machines - but this one was first among equals.)  The particular machine's name was "Audrey", named after the man eating plant from the Little Shop of Horrors.  She had tried (and failed) to eat a number of us during the commissioning.

Now after making in the order of 20000000 products for the company, it has now been decommissioned.

As the original engineers who thought her up, built her and made her run, it was a bittersweet moment for Ian and me.

Masked De-Grafittier

Quietly, and without warning...
from the darkness......
 comes a masked, Hi-Vis warrior, conducting his lone vigilante quest to remove the world of yellow lines...

I nearly died this morning....

Driving down the highway, just like any other morning.....
I was faced with a situation that every driver fears, but few have had to face....

Somehow I managed to get through it... I lived to blog this... someone up there must care about me...

There, in my lane...
sitting pretty... like an evil, car crashing, yellow flower of death ...

was a BANANA skin.
I have a copy of a photo of an actual re-enactment of a simulation of the banana (not his real name).

Turns out some maniac tradesman had been throwing them out of his car screaming something in Italian..


(the real story - as I was driving to work today, I drove over banana skin... I thought it was funny....)

what used to be a tiny dribble of creek

This used to be a hardly noticeable stream.

Of course now it is a little different.

Usual model in place to give some scale!

(click on the photo to see the detail....)

Serious work

I am going soooooo grey!!!
Me on a phone conference a few weeks ago....
You can see - some very serious discussions going on.

Feedback

Sitting in the conference room, working stuff out (again).
This time, at the request of my Megaboss.. collating all the "feedback" I receieved so that I can work out a development plan for myself.
Of course the fact that I took this photo means I might have reached a point where my concentration was not completely on this.... but let's pretend it was taken by my photojournalist that I have with me all the time to document my life!

Driving to work

My drive to work is basically through the bush.
A pleasant drive rather than battling traffic.... only wildlife to dodge.
I spend the time learning things, talking to people or just being.

BTW 2 things about this photo...
1. it was not taken this week - it WILL NOT stop raining right now..
2. I am sure that this photo was taken by someone else... it would have been irresponsible to take it myself!