I had to meet a colleague for lunch today at the Macquarie Centre before a meeting nearby… Macquarie Centre has always intrigued me with the architecture – with the spiral structure. And the fact that it has an icerink. It has been a few years since I have been Ice Skating, but it would be good to go again one day.

Anyway I have been good. Dymocks had a clearence centre here oposite their store, and I said ‘Oh No’ to myself as I went in. I fully expected to come out with many many books. But despite there being some of interest I was good and did not buy a single one. There was also a store nearby called Charmers which had some really nice stuff… Basically a gift type shop. They had some excellent Australian christmas cards, with Santa in a van with his reindeer and the like. Again I was very good…

The only thing of interest in the window of the computer store was a remote control helicopter. I have loved the idea, and I would love to be able to put a wireless video camera in one just to copy the TV advert of a few years back when a boy used one with a hook to sneak out of his house to buy some McDonalds… Somehow I dont think that for $250 that the helicopter would be very stable, nor do I think it would be able to lift the weight of the camera.

Until then I guess I will just have to use full size ones like I did in the Olympics 🙂