Light and Colour

A moderately boring MSDN presentation last night. The presenter, Andrew Coat, knew his stuff, perhaps a little well because he delved a bit further into Office automation and Sharepoint than I'd really like. Ran into my old supervisor Steve, who has been having a holiday for nine months. He's given up skydiving and has been a kept man. But he's getting back into the workforce after spending his time doing renovations.

Anyway, the presenter wanted to spice up his autogenerated report and drug in the "Northwind Traders" logo, which is a lighthouse. This got me thinking of the picture that Kerri would like me to paint for her - a lighthouse standing a warning to traffic, in imitation of her job in "the drug police". Experimented with a couple of concepts during the more tedious portions of the presentation - I could do something Feiningerish in semi-abstract, breaking up the sky into planes of colour split by the beam of the lighthouse catching the sail of a yacht on a fractal sea. Have to experiment with this.

A fine clear blue day in Canberra. Cold - a frost this morning and when I hit the windscreen washer to wipe the grime from the windscreen in the rising sun, nothing happened because the water had froze in the tubes.

Cloudberries

Email from Kerri last night, talking of a dinner in a 13th century hall, dining on cloudberries and reindeer. She'll be back on Sunday morning - must make sure the house is tidy. The kids had pizza last night and the place is littered with empty boxes and coke bottles.

The New Zealand book is mildly interesting - a couple in their 60s more or less following the same route we did. Spends his time talking of jobs and the economy. Not as sparkling as I'd like. A published book - I wrote away to a literary agent with some links to my stuff and outlining a couple of ideas, because I'm certain I did better than this chap over the same ground.

Kicking myself over my trade of a couple of days back. Santos recovered and is up 28c, Amcor dropped a further 18c, for a combined total of 46c. On paper that's a loss of about $900. Bugger.

Not that it's a loss until I'm forced to sell at a loss, and I haven't done that yet in my trading. Still, it's not quite what I was reading of the market and the news. Pity I didn't go the other way - I would have made enough for my fare to Paris in September. Oh well.

Here it is Friday and I've got another stack of books to post off. Best get stuck into it. Delivered a book to Lawton's in Curtin and saw signs advertising the YMCA garage sale in Yarralumla tomorrow morning. Books at $10 the box - always a few bargains, always a pile for Bookcrossing. Only drawback is the cold. At least it will be dry.