I mentioned earlier that I had concerns about a winner of an auction on eBay. Well, I finally heard from the winner, and he had an excuse - and I was pretty dumb for not working it out. Turns out he was in Victoria fighting fires, so it is understandable he was not able to contact me. But now I have been paid so I am happy. I will probably put the proceeds for this to buy an XBox for viewing digitized video files.

I have just been to Parramatta to see the Australia Day fireworks there. This was really good - I got to be really close to the actual fireworks and there was not much of a delay between the explosion of the fireworks and the sound reaching me. I was amazed at the echos - they were really distinct - and it would be interesting to do an acoustic model of the area based on the echo.

Tomorrow we are hoping to get the top skin on the plane. I think there is a good chance of this. But you never can tell. I may actually need to do work too, but I can generally put most of that off until a bit later...