Women’s 20Km Race Walk

Ok – So this was not so bad… Because it was not too long… well, compared to yesterday and tomorrow. This was all interesting – we were not so sure that we would be able to get the helos up. Eventually we prepared to get the plane up as well, but ended up not needing it. What scared us was that during the morning we had a shock… Literally. The roof had a hit of static electricity that we thought was lightening… The people at UNSW saw the flash it was so bad…

After the race I took a technician to Olympic Park to do some work on the motorbikes. I did not know where to go so I dropped him and had to go to park my car a few blocks away. I then got a bus back, and beat him to where he was going.. I was just there to look round. They were doing security checks on cars coming in, including inside the engine. Then I saw a car come in without a number plate, which I worked out was driven by the guy who got me this job…A photo is attached if I remember it… Strange that we met up here… After grabbing some lunch we went round the park, which was interesting. I found a polo-shirt for the International Olympic Photographic Pool 2000 for only $25 on special. This is great value… I will have to pick up some more.

For the pacific power people they might remember Chris Howard [I think] who was working in the Electrical drafting Office. He has been working as a stroreman at SOBO for the past 6 months… I saw him today… Wow…

I finally got round to photographing one of the notes next to the phone at the control room today. It had the following message “In case of air piracy or Hijack, please call SOBO Operations on 8114 xxxx”

The thing is that the largest of our aircraft is a six seater, most are 4 seaters, and of those one is taken up with equipment. The odds of someone hijacking one of these aircraft is quite small, given that the message went up DURING a race…

I got my mobile phone bill yesterday for the Olympic period, only about $40… I thought it would have been more for the number of calls that i have made.

Also attached is a photo of the software I am using, showing the positions of the assets I am dealing with during the race cycling…

An Olympic related cartoon… http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000924