Logbook

Friday afternoon I had great trouble concentrating on updating the Diverted Attention fact sheet.
Today I had great trouble staying awake while updating the Fatigue fact sheet.

The Alcohol/drugs one didn't do a thing for me though...

Time for bed and hot water bottle.

So, 2 days at new work, with the main conclusion that I need to have nice early nights and get a bit more sleep...

I think work is going divide into 3 areas: lets call them crunch, 20 questions and hot air*. Currently reading up on what is available on the public bit of the web as my computer hasn't been signed up to certain critical bits of software. Most of the previous work has been on crunch and 20 questions, so most of the reading is focussed there, especially since the hot air people are still on holiday and it appears to be a recent initiative (2030??!?).

A few things to note based on what I have read**:

Being male does not increase your life expectancy. Don't know the general population proportions to be able to compare specifically, but there is significant over-representation there. Testosterone and phallic compensation objects really don't combine well.

Slow down and relax. The faster you go, the more likely the accident (or whatever) will kill you.

Don't overtake stupidly or wander into the wrong lane. Head on collisions (especially on open rural roads - see the above mentioned contributing factor) will kill you dead dead dead. Not so many injuries, just mainly dead.

Be careful around trucks. If you run into them at high speeds, they wont notice and you will be dead. The truck driver will be slightly shaken or maybe minorly injured and very upset, but you will be very much past that. Play nicely and remember they have far more mass.

About 20% of Edit: 26 crash deaths (of precisely what sample I can't exactly remember, but I know where to look it up)or more per year could be avoided or reduced to injuries by wearing a seatbelt. That is a lot of people who didn't need to die.

I shall stop being morbid and go to sleep now.

*The paperwork, meetings, and muttering at Microsoft products (bloody top posting) are par for the course and will be accepted as givens.

** Including some sweeping generalisations, but only plus or minus about 10 %.

I really hate this message:
CHECK THETA-PRL STRATIFICATION
Especially when it is completely unobvious as to why there are temperature pressure stratification issues.
Stupid stellar atmosphere models...

Arcadia (yay to Tom Stoppard plays) is currently showing at Theatre 3. Info at:
Offprompt
http://www.theatre.asn.au/node/20745
Canberra Repertory homepage
The first link says there are cheap matinee performances on two Sat afternoons, but neither of the other website list them. Should try and book for the 6th.
Wish I could see the "Hamlet" and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" performances in Chch... Sigh.

And it looks like dinner combined with Anthony and Cleopatra on Fri (tommorrow)...

Last thing I saw at the theatre was a Chch performance of Les Miserables and before that, Travisties at the Court Theatre (more than 5 years ago).

And I shouldn't sit at my desk and work out how to sew up the skirt I am wearing, while I am wearing it...
Porrige and work time. Bloody extended atmospheres leading to possible CO emission AND absorption... It doesn't look like the model though...:(

Nothing like calming down from wanting to strangle people by finishing the main seams on a leather satchel. Now all I need to do is decide how to attach the tablet woven handle and do so. Lots of people at the AAF craft night. Plenty done and lots of fabric sales - Z made the price of the 45m wool back and more people still want to buy some... and more than half left.

Not really looking forward to tommorrow though. Shock waves play merry hell with the boundary conditions when right in the innermost layers. Nothing like seeing the 20 year expert comment on never having seen THAT before...

Sleep first though.