Birthday Weekend
It was my birthday on November 26th so we decided to have dinner at Silks in the Crown Towers complex. We also decided to spend the night in Crown Towers and together with my Mother-In-Law and 3 friends, Suellen and I booked 2 double rooms for the stay.
On Saturday morning, Crown Towers rang and told us they’d upgraded us to a 2 bedroom suite which usually goes for $2,500 a night for the same price as the 2 rooms. Sounded like a good deal so we accepted.
When we got to the suite, we couldn’t believe our luck – what a great place! 2 huge bedrooms each with kingsize beds and their own ensuites, lounge room, dining room, and about 5 TV’s (including 1 in each bathroom).
Dinner at Silks was amazing! Their food is the best Asian food I think I’ve ever had and their Peking Duck is to die for!
All in all a great day, a fantastic meal, and wonderful accomodation.
Blood Test Time!
Time has rolled around for another blood test. Had Dr Sweeney take my blood this morning and looking forward (with some trepidation) to the results which he says he’ll give me over the phone tomorrow.
I’m hopeful that this Year’s results will be better than my 4.9 reading this time last year. I missed having my blood test in June this year – partially because I’m slack and partially because I was worried about the result. I was forced to have the blood test this time as I’m due to see my cardiologist, Dr Hiscock on December 6 and he needs to see my test results.
The gym at VU just isn’t as convenient as what I’d hoped, so I’ll have to push myself to join a gym in the City. Fitness First are seemingly everywhere in the City now – Melbourne Central, QV, and where the Melbourne Fitness Club used to be in Collins Street. I’m undecided between 3 gyms – Corporate Fitness Club in Flinders Lane, Fitness First at Melbourne Central, and Fitness First at QV. The FF at QV is a “Platinum Club” which I need to find more information about. They say that they give members more individual service and I need to find out what that is before committing to it. I like Corporate Fitness Club because their prices are similar and CFC supply all your gear and have regular fitness assessments so you can keep track of your progress. They are relatively handy provided I get used to catching my trains at Flinders Street.
I’ll check out if FF have a similar assessment process and if not, it looks like CFC could be the place.
Busy Week!
Had a busy week this week. It started early on Monday morning with a drive to Mansfield where I spent 2 days getting the Shire Council up and running with TRIM Context version 6. Since returning to the Office on Wednesday I’ve been busy catching up with e-mail and phone call enquiries from Clients.
Over the weekend I finished painting our new study and moved the PC’s into the room. Still no desk there but I’m hoping that the travelling allowence I receive for the Mansfield trip will pay for one of them. I updated the Windows PC with all the O/S patches and NIS to the 2006 version. I finally finished configuring NIS last night so that Jarvis’ parental control will operate correctly. I also installed Fedora Core 4 on the other PC so I can start playing around with that. The next stage will be to get the wireless antenna working on my old laptop so I can work on it in the lounge room!
It’s great to be busy but I’m looking forward to having a relatively quiet weekend!