Today I am going to Eastgardens to do some work for a friend. I have a whole lot of stuff to do for him. The work involves weather stations, and is slightly interesting. More importantly it pays the bills and gets me out of the office.

Sometimes I love Australia Post. Sometimes I *really* hate them. When they are good they are really good. When they are bad, they are horrid. I have been waiting on a parcel for a couple of weeks. The person sending it was slack, and was a bit late; but he sent it Australian Air Express. And it arrived at my postoffice for collection 10 days ago. But they forgot to tell me it was there. No card in the postbox. Nothing. And not even a 2nd card when I had not collected it in a week.

This happens every now and then. Maybe once every six months. Normally it is not the local staff who make the mistake – at least for the first card as it is filled in by a mail centre in the next suburb. But in this case it was their fault as they neglected to place the card in my post box.

Having said that, I get far better performance out of Australia Post than most courier companies. FedEx is the exception here. They are amazing, and the local FedEx guy always asks me how I am by name… And even delivers parcels if they are addressed to the PO Box without even needing to look up the address. And I dont get that many parcels through FedEx.

Iraq Tracking

Every now and then I get some bizzare requests for assistance. One last year was wanting assistance with tracking people being abducted by aliens! This is in the Blog history somewhere from late last year… OK – the link is here proving how strange some potential clients are. A few weeks back I did get a request from an Australian working in Iraq wanting information on GPS tracking for personal security… I can assure you that I would not want to do a site visit for that job!

Music:

Tori Amos – Cloud on my Tounge