Won the Footy Tipping

Footy Tipping

I set up the work online football betting competition (called tipping here).  Since I set it up, I decided that I should enter despite the fact that I have little interest or knowledge of Aussie Rules football.  There are sixteen participants and throughout the comp I have been at the bottom (14, 15, or 16).  Last week I won the weekly picks.  I moved up to 8th position.  I would love to chalk this up to skill but it is more like one guy at work said "only someone with no knowledge of football would have done well this week".  I believe that I have moved up again this week.  I got six out of eight correct.  However, the site is currently closed while they update the comp.

Greenough Walk

I did an 8.5 km walk with the Geraldton Harriers club.  The walk was in Greenough south of Geraldton.  It was very green due to a decent amount of rain this year.  However, this morning it was dry which was good for walking.  The walk started at the Pioneer Museum and went along a road into the sand dunes.  You can check out some photos here.  I took them with my broken camera.  I had to go into school and use a card reader to get the photos off the camera.  It was a good thing I walked in the am because it poured in the late afternoon.

Foundation Day

Monday is Foundation Day and a holiday here.  I would to say that I don't have to go to work but being a bit of a workaholic I am going in.  I went in yesterday to do the computer stock take.  Tomorrow I need to review my staff's reports  (I started this yesterday but found numerous typos, spelling and grammar errors) and clean up the server.  I hope it won't take too long.

Wood Duck

Each week the person who does the stupidest or funniest thing at work gets an award called the Wood Duck.  I was the lucky recipient last week.  I was trying to show this new Hungarian teacher how the school internet filters work.  Figuring that if I typed "porn" into a Google search I would get the filter message, I demonstrated this.  Unfortunately, it didn't work.  Luckily, I only got a list of results and no images.  It still somewhat astounds me that putting in myspace will bring an immediate filter block but porn will not.  One of my coworkers volunteered to check out the porn links.  What a guy! (ha, ha).  It did come up as blocked once you clicked on the porn links.  I am glad to hear that we are protecting our young charges at school.

Reading

I am currently reading The Prisoner of Guantanamo (Fesperman) and listening to London Bridges (Patterson).  

Movies

I haven't seen much of interest lately.  I saw Elizabeth which was okay.  I just saw a quick overview of Blindness and that looks interesting.  However, I doubt it will make it to Australia before I leave.