Someone or something wonderful or excellent.
“In the same way that a good red wine matures with age, it is great to see your friends grow-up and mature!”
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Judging by that first comment, I should make it clear that this isn’t me! If you want to see a picture of my ugly mug you can see it here.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining - more questioning. I love summer and all that it has to offer here in Brisbane, but it’s now the end of April and I’m yet to see a single autumn leaf fall.
I just went to get my lunch from the refectory (shudder). On the way over it was bright and sunny - a lovely day as it has been all morning. I was in the refectory for no more than five minutes but by the time I got out a dark cloud had appeared from nowhere and was producing a lovely shower. While others huddled under the picnic table umbrellas and crowded the doorways I walked straight out into it.
It wasn’t particularly heavy but the drops were large - a very important component of a fantastic summer sun shower. As I walked back to the office I spent as long as I could soaking up the smell and the feel of the rain drops mixed with some sunshine. That warm, damp, sweet smell that only summer rains bring.
Summer is still here and I’m enjoying everything about the weather at the moment (except that I’m not out and enjoying it more). The nights are starting to get a touch colder and my feet felt that cold one of the nights last week - oh how I HATE cold feet. As much as cold feet destroy my love of winter, I still love the ever changing seasons and usually look forward to the next as much as I miss the last (with a slight bias toward summer).
Bring on winter; I want to wear my new jacket already.
This weekend actually felt long, which is good because it was supposed to be and they have a habit of feeling short if they’re supposed to be long.
I have achieved a good amount of uni work this weekend and our project is coming along - sort of. I promise I’ll post a link here when we have something worth looking at.
You may have noticed an abundance of happy birthday posts on here of late, and I have one more for you. It was Tarlee’s birthday TODAY. We went up to Toowoomba to celebrate the three of us (Aidan, Tarlee, and Me) turning 22! Yay!
It was a fantastic evening of fun and laughter, nicely lubricated by some lovely wine. We got Chinese take away and sat around chatting for hours. Some time late in the night (I’m pleased to say I have no idea what the actual time was) we decided a misadventure was in order. In the process of trying to convince Brad to join us on the misadventure I slapped him hard (sorry Brad!) on the arse with a hose. I wouldn’t recommend doing such a painful thing to such a large man - lucky he’s my friend.
The night didn’t get much more rowdy from there - we went on a slight misadventure but Laura turned back early because she was sick and most of it consisted of sitting on a vacant block and looking at the view. I did however climb some scaffolding to check out a new house being built and took a fantastically cheesy photo (may need enlargement and reading of statue text for full appreciation of cheesiness).
I also took some photos which I think are pretty cool (here and here).
I just realised that I missed the ‘Something I learnt this week’ post last week. So there’s something I learnt this week straight away.
This afternoon my mouse battery light came on and the computer kept flashing at me and telling me the battery was low. I had been waiting for this event for a while and I’m impressed at how long it took to eventuate. You might remember that I bought this new keyboard and mouse a while back (see previous post).
If you check out the date on that previous post you will notice the thing took 26 days to run the batteries down. Now I recon that’s not bad considering the number of hours of use that would account for. I’ve been nothing but impressed with this keyboard and mouse. And I love not having wires all over my desk too.
I’m sure I learnt more than that this week but it’s all lost it seems, as I can’t think of anything note worthy.
