Progressive Wrap-Up
Aug. 17th, 2010 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rwrylsinToday I find myself in a 1-day Weblogic workshop in the Oracle building in South Melbourne.
I believe this is largely the doing of our soon-to-be new boss who pays attention to these things, and so knew there was free training going, that we should be positioning the team for picking up weblogic support, and as I'd done some before a 1-day workshop would work well as a refresher course.
I'd say this bodes well.
On the down side it meant taking public transport on the main commuter route, so I got to experience the squishiness that I normally avoid out in the suburbs. Still managed to get here with 5 mins to spare though.
I love the onboard feature of my tram app. I can track the position of the tram I'm in relative to stops, so for the first time ever have no trouble getting off at the correct unfamiliar stop.
If I cease making sense at any point in this post, it means I've been abusing the chocolate espresso dispensed by the drink machine here.
I took a day off yesterday as a catch-up day. Total accomplishments for the last few days include:
- Getting the tax stuff to the accountant (but still need to find David's share info)
- Mammoth shopping trip including final visit to Costco (I think we now have 2 years worth of washing powder)
- Fencing lesson delivered
- Car transmission checked and declared fully recovered
- Heat pump checked and declared to have a non-fatal fault, expert coming on Thursday for further inspection
- Putting up pics in Kitchen and generally finishing it off (except for some tiling)
- Starting painting in dining area
- Measuring up for rainwater tanks
- Consultant to quote for rainwater installation lined up for Friday
- Laundry renovation booked for late October
- Beer cake made with the free bottle of beer work gave me (after emergency call to parents for family recipe)
- Latest chocolate mousse cake recipe made (will need people to feed this one to, it's very rich)
- Lots of kitchen mess and dishes cleaned up
- Quote for preferred new toilet, although I need to check if our plumbing is compatible with it
- Got straightened out by the Osteo
- Harvested enormous mushrooms from my mushroom kit (the largest one has formed three dishes, one of which called for "4-6 mushrooms", not bad when I'd given up on the box as a failed experiment)
Things not done include anything outside (heavy showers kept arriving just as things started drying out). Our lawn is getting ridiculously long.
On drainage matters, looks like we still get water under the house in heavy rain periods, but not enough (yet) to stay flooded like it was before. Fortunately we took the precaution of lifting most things off the floor earlier in the winter.
(OTOH, the lawn outside is at a higher level and very soggy, so it's a pretty good result for our summer digging.)
One of the young magpies has a girlfriend, and they're spending a lot of time in the backyard. Good thing I like the sound of magpies warbling. A pair of rosellas have also been hanging around, among the other usual suspects. Still not certain who, if anyone, is in the nestbox.
I think that's everything covered. Fortunately as the only one here with prior appserver experience I'm well ahead in the labs. Not sure why the DBAs had so much trouble setting up the database though...
I believe this is largely the doing of our soon-to-be new boss who pays attention to these things, and so knew there was free training going, that we should be positioning the team for picking up weblogic support, and as I'd done some before a 1-day workshop would work well as a refresher course.
I'd say this bodes well.
On the down side it meant taking public transport on the main commuter route, so I got to experience the squishiness that I normally avoid out in the suburbs. Still managed to get here with 5 mins to spare though.
I love the onboard feature of my tram app. I can track the position of the tram I'm in relative to stops, so for the first time ever have no trouble getting off at the correct unfamiliar stop.
If I cease making sense at any point in this post, it means I've been abusing the chocolate espresso dispensed by the drink machine here.
I took a day off yesterday as a catch-up day. Total accomplishments for the last few days include:
- Getting the tax stuff to the accountant (but still need to find David's share info)
- Mammoth shopping trip including final visit to Costco (I think we now have 2 years worth of washing powder)
- Fencing lesson delivered
- Car transmission checked and declared fully recovered
- Heat pump checked and declared to have a non-fatal fault, expert coming on Thursday for further inspection
- Putting up pics in Kitchen and generally finishing it off (except for some tiling)
- Starting painting in dining area
- Measuring up for rainwater tanks
- Consultant to quote for rainwater installation lined up for Friday
- Laundry renovation booked for late October
- Beer cake made with the free bottle of beer work gave me (after emergency call to parents for family recipe)
- Latest chocolate mousse cake recipe made (will need people to feed this one to, it's very rich)
- Lots of kitchen mess and dishes cleaned up
- Quote for preferred new toilet, although I need to check if our plumbing is compatible with it
- Got straightened out by the Osteo
- Harvested enormous mushrooms from my mushroom kit (the largest one has formed three dishes, one of which called for "4-6 mushrooms", not bad when I'd given up on the box as a failed experiment)
Things not done include anything outside (heavy showers kept arriving just as things started drying out). Our lawn is getting ridiculously long.
On drainage matters, looks like we still get water under the house in heavy rain periods, but not enough (yet) to stay flooded like it was before. Fortunately we took the precaution of lifting most things off the floor earlier in the winter.
(OTOH, the lawn outside is at a higher level and very soggy, so it's a pretty good result for our summer digging.)
One of the young magpies has a girlfriend, and they're spending a lot of time in the backyard. Good thing I like the sound of magpies warbling. A pair of rosellas have also been hanging around, among the other usual suspects. Still not certain who, if anyone, is in the nestbox.
I think that's everything covered. Fortunately as the only one here with prior appserver experience I'm well ahead in the labs. Not sure why the DBAs had so much trouble setting up the database though...
