I have come to the conclusion that Internet quota is wrong. Unfair, awful, evil, wrong. I’ve been over quota at Warrane for quite a while, although I manage due to some convenient loopholes involving a Socks proxy and SSH port forwarding. Ahem. But now I’m over quota at CSE (again! although this time I used up what I was entitled to, rather than what they grudgingly gave me…). Kind of makes it pointless to be at work. (I’m at Warrane right now on my lunchbreak.)

In better news, Australia Day was fun. Went into the city with the other summer research student in my group, and we saw the ferry race, the tall ships race, the Roulettes flyover (well, four of them at least… whoops), etc. Then we went to Hyde Park for the food and wine show, and discovered the NRMA vintage car show on the way. And the NRMA Stage where they were playing jazz all day. Later on the harbour the Army parachuters showed off with some flares and flags and stuff, landing in Sydney Cove. The Navy dropped a guy into the water from a helicopter and then winched him to safety. Four times. (Gotta make sure everybody gets a good view )

In the evening, we went to Darling Harbour for the show. They paraded the day’s Best Dressed Vessels (although we missed that, cos we were eating dinner), the Working Boats of Sydney Harbour (not in a Working Girls sense, but in a ferries, firemen, police, coastguard, etc sense), and the tall ships. Then they droned at us for a while about the inspiring new Young Australian of the Year for NSW (might have been interesting in a different setting), then the Governor of New South Wales tried to get our interests up, but the crowd was only there for one thing. Fireworks. A solid 45 minutes of fireworks. Wow.

In other other news, I’ve just booked my flight home. Woohoo!

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