An Underwater Hotel…

The News.COM.Au www site (the second WWW site I visit each day after slashdot.org) has a Article about an undersea hotel that is being built. There is already one somewhere in the south east United States somewhere from memory. This type of place would be on the top of my list as an unforgettable honeymoon location, apart from the extreme cost.

My ToDo List

I am halfway throgh my ToDo list. I am really impressed. I will not get it finished but I will get close. Then again I never did intend to finish the list today.

Running…

I just got back from picking my car up. To get it I decided to jog down there. It was 2.5km, of which I walked for the first 500m or so since I got a work phone call. Then I ran most of the test of the way. I averaged 7.9km/h for the 19min 28sec journey, including the walking part. This is not that bad. Particularly since this was the 2nd run of the day.

To get this data I used my GPS receiver. Seems that the last time I used it was when I was in Rome, and I still had all the Rome street maps loaded in. And to top that off, it was programmed to take me to the offices of GPS Italia SRL on the eastern outskirts of the Italian capital. Not all that useful when you are running in the suburbs of Sydney. I can download the track I took regardless.

I definitely need a new pair of running shoes. The eyelets for the laces are tearing. I would demand a refund, but the shoes were only $14. I have promised one of my friends that I will buy a better pair of running shoes. I might even pay $30 😉

Election

Seems that there is an election taking place soon, thanks to Mark Latham resigning. I have not seen a date for it, but my mail box has been stuffed with ALP material for weeks. ALP will win with a HUGE majority since the Liberal Party is not fielding a candidate. According to the Daily Telegraph, radio presenter Mal Lees, who is running on a ticket of free beer, tollways to be abolished and a loud shirt once a month in parliament. Nominations closed yesterday at Noon, and there will be 16 candidates for the federal seat of Werriwa.

When Latham resigned he did so across the road from my church. And the hall attached to the church will be used for absentee voting in the fortnight leading up to the election.

Reading

In my cleaning up of the house I am finding books that I should have got rid of years ago, and then gems that I should have read again. One of them is ‘Phantom’ by Susan Kay. I really cannot remember too much about it, but I seem to remember that it is in general terms a romance, and I think I read it on a trip to the USA in 1997.

Legal Files

In the legal files, according to the Daily Telegraph, an ex-lover has been given a suspended sentence for accessing his former partner’s email account and deleting messages from her new lover, probably breaking the telecommunications (interceptions) act by intercepting communications.

Music: Rocky Horror Picture Show on Random Play on the laptop. Phantom of The Opera in the Car.