Wednesday, March 10, 2010

F...Lag, Wavering

Wednesday 10th

Work has been good so far with some great ideas for extending and optimising relative curve functions. Had a few iterations but think we got it right finally. However I was too tired to concentrate to finish the actual programming this afternoon.

Monday night I slept well getting up around 7.  On Tuesday,Tony invited me to dinner at his place along with a neighbour, a Shell geologist. However due to some confusion about  the  "tomorrow" mentioned in the email invite, he thought it was Wednesday, so there were just the 3 of us.

Lisa cooked a roast and we had berry pie for desert. A couple of Margaritas got the night started.

We had a very pleasant evening and discussed all manner of things. Last time I was here Tony was away for all but the first and last few days of my visit, but this time he'll be here all the time, so we will probably socialise a number of times.

Last night jet lag caught up to me. I woke about 3-30 this morning and just couldn't get back to sleep. I was at the office too early to get in with my pass but some one else was there to let me in. I worked fairly steadily through the morning.

I went down to the TPC (Tournament players course) at lunch time and hit some balls on the driving range and then had some putting practice.

The range itself is mostly brown with some very green target greens. The bit of the course I could see also had very green fairways but the short rough was also brown. I haven't been here this time of year before so I'm not sure if this is normal or not. They have had snow here which is apparently not always the case.

After this, I got back to work and then hit the wall about 3-30 pm. I had a hard time staying awake let alone concentrating and eventually gave up and left a bit before 5. I picked up some pre grilled chicken breast and salad at the supermarket and just ate in my room.

The last 2 days have been overcast but not raining and quite balmy. It seems as we head to the weekend it will be getting sunnier but colder. Seems counter-intuitive to me.

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