A few weeks ago I saw this boxer sitting in the sun on the front porch of a house.

How do you like my chair?

She was quite content to ignore me as I stopped, took the photo, and went on my way laughing :–)

My MacBook finally arrived last weekend. It’s small and white, so I’ve named it ととろ (Totoro) :–)

A few quick notes:

• the packaging is excellent, the box is incredibly thin
• it looks a lot like my old ibook from the outside, just a bit thinner and wider
• the screen is great, a big improvement over the ibook
• the keyboard seems good

Obligatory unpacking photos follow…

‘MacBook box - it’s a slim little fellow!’

‘Unpacking the MacBook’

‘Unpacking complete’

I had to wait 4 weeks for the white 2.0GHz MacBook stock to arrive. I was considering paying the extra $200 for the black because I was sick of waiting. They look nice, like the old pismo powerbook, but also a lot like a normal pc laptop, and it just doesn’t seem like it’s worth the extra just for the color (although something less prone to scratching might be nice).

Now I have to install the 120GB drive in it and get everything transferred across!

So the spammers finally found my blog. I’ll be trying a few things to stop it until I can upgrade wordpress (yes, it’s long overdue).

On Sunday my family ran in the 2006 Mothers Day Classic in Melbourne.

‘After the run’

Last year we all entered the 4km run (except Dad, who was away). This year I entered the 8km run, mainly because I thought there would be less people in that event, but also because Dad was running 8km, and I couldn’t let him run twice as far as me!

It turned out that 17,000 people entered the event in one form or another, and even in the 8km run was very crowded. The first few hundred metres were barely a more than walking pace, and most of the first kilometer was a slow jog. Definitely not an event to really test your times unless you can grab a spot right at the front of the start-line. But it was probably a good thing in the end, since my “training” (yeah, right!) didn’t go so great because of a cold 2 weeks before the event. I ended up keeping a steady pace up till the 6km mark, at which point I was still feeling really good, and pushed the last 2km quite hard. So my time wasn’t great, but I was happy with how it turned out, especially considering it was the first time I’ve run 8km.

Overall it was a good event, we all managed to finish okay and had a bit of fun :–)

Today was Bron’s birthday, so we went to lunch at a Cambodian restaurant Bopha Devi in the docklands, took a ride on a ferris wheel in Fed Square, and went to the NGV.

‘Bron and the cow up a tree sculpture in the docklands’

‘Bopha Devi - Cambodian restaurant in the docklands’

‘Bron at Bopha Devi’

‘Ferris wheel at Federation Square’

‘Bron on the Ferris wheel’

Happy Birthday Bron, I hope you had as much fun as I did.