Asleep on a Train

On Tuesday night, I had to drive down to Geelong to pick up my 14 year old daughter. It was at the end of a long tiring day (sob) and as my car was at the Werribee train station, I got out of the train, into my car and headed straight down the coast to Geelong. It was sunset, and I had already had one SMS from Casey asking me if I was on my way. For a dad, this is pressure. 5kms before Avalon Airport my car died. Pulling over to the side of the road, I popped the bonnet,(hood!!) climbed out, but in the failing light, was unable to detect the reason. I had plenty of petrol, water, and the electrics all worked, the engine just wouldn't fire up. I rang my wife (the client !) to ask her to begin to drive to Geelong instead of me, and then I rang RACV. I'm a member, so I had no reason not to call them. RACV answered the phone within a minute, after a bit of option selection, and once they had confirmed my membership, I told them my situation. They dispatched a van to rescue me. With...

" Wake me up when September ends" - Green Day I can write better on a train than I can on a plane The seats on the plane are too close together, and I don't get enough room to hold the laptop far enough away from my fat tummy to read it clearly (bad eye sight doesn't help!) The flights to Sydney are too short to really justify even getting the laptop out The train trip into Melbourne is better, I can start to write as soon as I sit down, and the trip time is unpredictable but always more than 35 minutes. On a train you never know which stations will be used. Sometimes it is an express trip, and sometimes it stops all stations Today the train isn't even going to the usual destination, but it still gets me pretty close to the office. Since the Sydney project was completed,(six weeks ago) I've being feeling a bit empty and lifeless. To address those feelings, I took a week off, but with Dee at home, I ended up being just as busy as ever. In fact we di...