No rest for me today

Today I have so many things to do. First there is lunch. The meeting today went well, and I got home from it about 15 minutes ago. So first off, lunch; Then I need to do some software modifications for our tracking unit. I will not go into the details here, but the modifications are important, and will mean that I can eat this week.

Then I need to write some code for one client in W.A. which is running late as I have mentioned before. And then I have to write a report for the client I met on friday. Strangely I was speaking to a friend from church and he had heard of the project that the client wants me to work on.

Pacific Power

I spent more years working for Paicific Power than I would like to admit. They paid for me to go to uni, and mostly provided useful work for me. Sadly, they did not always value their people, and never gave me a pay rise that they were not required to.

Anyway working for them, I occasionally needed to take a trip to one of the sites. Commonly this was a day trip to one of the Power Stations within the state, and it would be a drive to get there. I did get one trip interstate. It was to a Power Station we were building in Queensland, in a place just this side of Nanango. That is about 20 minutes this side of Kingaroy. If you have heard of Nanango, Wow. It is small. The local pizza place closes at 8:30 pm, and the town is small.

I had to go up there to install a new server. Actually server is not the right word. It was more of a PC that we were using as a server, to save time accessing drawings up in the middle of nowhere. This was a project on a shoestring. The PC was shipped as checked luggage using my extra baggage allowance with Qantas Club so I did not need to pay excess luggage. It did horrible things to the computer network every night too, when I used 100% of the bandwidth for about seven hours. Later this improved to only 4 hours when they improved the link.

Anyway the photo below is of the partially complete power station that we were building. When I get my scanner back from Richard I will put some of my photos from the hunter valley on line.