No plane building today, so I have been doing some shopping – I found a great store called Socrates. I guess it is somewhat like Australian Geographic, but more oriented towards games and science rather than nature. Whilst I was there I grabbed a retractable USB charger for my cellphone for only about $12. The charger is good value, and is very small. I am a bit concerned with the comment on the instructions that say not to use it for more than 20 minutes at a time, and not to use it to charge the phone more than 50% full, but I am guessing that these can be ignored… Instructions like that normally can be.

In another case of regulation going too far, there are reports in todays papers about how biscuits would be banned from child care centres by the state government, and how they want to make exercise compulsory. Reducing childhood obesity is a great idea, BUT unfortunately this will also increase prices for parents. Of course there is no extra funding to pay for this extra work for staff…

Anyway, time to pay some bills…