Rainy Tuesday

Morning started fresh as I was greeted outside my front door by a windswept path of autumn leaves and a mist of soft dewy raindrops. Little jazz looked bright behind the veneer of an overnight gentle wash of rain that I never heard rugged up in my warm doona overnight.

Off we went to work and I still can't make out why all the parks are taken at T Street but not at C Street. Normally it's always the reverse. To-ing and fro-ing for meetings has its benefits - always an opportunity for a little spacer of music as long as you don't become so absorbed as to become remiss over the 40k zone as you pass the school in between, or so absorbed that you screech breaks to miss ambling pedestrians likewise absorbed into the worlds of their earphones. Finding a car park is always a challenge if you are running late, but today and yesterday too easy altogether. I think most of the population of the workplace must be on school holidays up north escaping the winter that has just hit.

It was a busy day with winter ills absences in the team. All good and things got done and I still had a laugh in the interchanges in the kitchen, over the printer and passing in the corridor. Crossword didn't get completed today, that means someone was missing today or had another lunch engagement. There is always one guy in particular who everyday manages to complete the crossword. I keep trying to photocopy the blank one before he gets to it but I guess I am not really committed enough.

All in all a satisfying day but being half a team down, their absence was felt in a major way. All the little interchanges between team members that help you roll along and the quirky humour that pops up in all kinds of surprising ways were all missing, apart from of course the added workload that had to be relocated or shifted to the remaining or put on hold. Hopefully some return to a normal operating team will occur tomorrow.

Home again at day's end is about relaxing as I am much too tired for anything serious. Think I am even too tired for reviewing the days politics on the wider national or international scale. Probably afraid of being too disappointed with policy decisions made to woo the right. Yes off to sleep I think.