Week ending 12-Oct

This week was a short work week since we had Monday off and we had our IBD offsite starting Thursday night and all day Friday. Part of the offsite on Friday was “team building” which meant we went to the Paddington Bowling Club and did some lawn bowling. Lawn bowling is awesome…its just a bunch of people out on this well manicured grassy area bowling balls down trying to get as close to the target as possible. Very simple, but when you’re out on a beautiful day, with a little competition between co-workers and a beer in hand, it makes for an excellent afternoon. My team got to the finals actually, out of about 30 or so teams where we were defeated by the Kiwi team (which to everyone else on the team made losing that much worse evidently). I’m planning on bringing lawn bowling with me back to the US; quite a good time. The conference ended with the big party Friday night at this club in the CBD which was fun…we stayed out later than I usually do these days. Otherwise the weekend was pretty low key at home, lovely weather as always these days, went down to the pool for a bit and BBQed burgers for dinner. It was sad however, that this weekend was our 5 year Stanford reunion so all of our friends were out at Stanford which was quite a bummer to miss. But that’s the price of living in Australia I guess!