The second week

It was back to work again on Monday. I’d woken up at 2 am with an idea of how to speed up plotting of raw data. It was 4am before I got back to sleep. When I got to work I thought of a variation of this to sample auxiliary data as well.

It was quite busy today with a couple of engineers in from the field, both of whom I’d met in Perth. We all went out to lunch, again at the Indian restaurant. That evening Patrick – one the engineers - and I went to A so called Australian restaurant called the Outback. It was as Australian as apple pie. Apart from a liberal sprinkling of Australian terms one the menu – Kookaburra wings, Tassie prawns etc, it was the same food you’d get at any number of other food chains. Having said that I did have a nice steak.

Tuesday we had a big meeting from late morning till late afternoon. They ordered in Mexican so we could keep working though lunch. That night Tony, Lisa, Patrick and I went to a Sushi restaurant. Lisa has food allergies so there was a lot of discussion with the waiters to make sure she didn’t get anything that could affect her. I has the surf and turf. This was unlike the similarly names dish you might get in an Aussie pub. ie a steak with a couple of prawns on top. My meal was a full lobster tale with a small piece of steak.

My cold took a turn for the worse this week and I had to get some cold tablets. This did seem to get me through the night on Monday and again last night. Today I worked through some of the bugs and enhancements we discussed yesterday. Lunch was at Vietnamese Noddle bar. After work tonight I drove around the area taking some photos of different buildings and other sites. I went back to the mall and bought a scarf for someone back home and then picked up some crab and salad for dinner.