Just another day in paradise(?)

Gidday.

Just home again after another day at the office. I am going to attempt to get clever today and see if I can successfully upload pictures to this thing. If you see a picture after this text it probably worked. If you don't... forget I was even going to try.

Earlier start today, was on the road by 7:00 heading to a cellsite for a bit of maintenance. About an hour and a half/two hours up the road... not far in Australian terms apparently. Did I mention this country is huge? Driving down the road nearing the site, the tech driving mentions that he has never actually been to this site before. Great stuff. We do however manage to find the track without too much difficulty. Did what we had to do, and headed back. Got back to base about 14:00, so that was most of the day gone.

Headed over to install some technology equipment into a building requiring 10 of these devices installed urgently to find that half the equipment we will require hasn't arrived, and the original concept differs somewhat from the job spec. *sigh*
Man handled about 10 large flat boxes around the site with these stupid rope handles that make life awfully difficult. I'm convinced that the designer of the box thought "how can I make these the most painful way to carry and still get away with it?". Clearly the steel knife edge idea was classed as too dangerous, but the ropes were a close second I would say.

Anyhow we are going back first thing tomorrow to attempt to install some for real, so it should be another interesting day.

Starting to get used to the heat a bit more now, although airconditioning is still very much my friend. Things like lifting and carrying and climbing are certainly more challenging in the temperate climate.

Still no luck on the Internet front, but I'm working on it.

One other thing...
I am convinced that the Australian mail system is sorted in reverse alphabetical order. Three times now mail for Ryan has arrived a day prior to a letter to me, having both been sent at the same time as we have both applied for them at the same time.
As Ian Fleming (if memory serves) wrote: "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, third time it's enemy action."

Or in the words of the famous Mr Rosanowski: "First time funny, second time silly, third time smack."

Such is life.

TTFN.