My day started off with some pretty great news. My 60 something application to a Boeing position made it to the first round past the computer screening. I had to fill out a few pages to I guess start a background check. I am still awaiting word from DLB, but Australia is keeping my mind pretty occupied.
I went for a run this morning and passed by three parks, two of them had clay tennis courts. One also had a AFL field and the Bentleigh Lawn Bowling Club, I assume this is bocce. There was some fog and it was a little cool to start, but all in all the back roads are pretty empty and it was a nice bit of exercise.
I caught up on the World Cup scores, I must admit I have not seen a single game, they are played at 9:20pm, 12:00am and 2:00am here. The bars even have special hours, 11am-7am. They have been covering the gulf oil spill down here too, and they were critical of the CEO attending the yacht race. Personally I think that Obama and the general public do not understand A) BP wants to collect as much oil (money) as possible and is doing everything they can to do it B) the CEO probably does not have the engineering skill set to solve the problem.
Today was going to be a light day staying around the house. The entire family, Ina’s two Aunts, her Uncle and the six cousins, went to lunch at an Italian restaurant. When we walked in there was a princess party, snow white showed up a little while later. The food was interesting. We ordered a few large dishes to share. The Lasagna was a pile of broad flat noodles with sauce on top, not the construction I am used to. We ordered two pizzas a meat lovers and a supreme. Both of them had little pieces of ham in place of tomato sauce. Apparently there are a grand total of four tomato plants on the entire continent of Australia, seriously ketchup is a heavily guarded commodity.
After lunch they made me drive again, I am still working on passing my road test. It is a little strange driving on a road that shares a few lanes with trams. Not only that it was wet, one wheel was on asphalt the other on cement with metal train rails on it. Also all of the lines on the road are white, separating traffic in the same direction and opposite direction, I love the US, staying between the mustard and the mayo.
After lunch I decided to learn Chinese, no seriously I did. I got onto Rosetta Stone and went through the first lesson, I failed at retaining a lot of it. Also Ina watched me and was much more critical of my pronunciation, the four tones and odd sounds are a bit of a challenge for me. All that Chinese learning made me tired so I slept for two hours.
That night the boys had been promised bowling. Ina, Kevin, Raymond, Ina’s Aunt Michele and I all piled into the car to the bowling alley, they did not make me drive. We ended up playing 6 games, it took about 4:30. We also had the gutter guards up for the boys, and during our 5th game they turned on the black lights and we got to play glow bowling, something I had wanted to do for a while. Glow bowling makes it a lot harder to see the lane markings and through off my game.
By the time we got home everyone was pretty exhausted. Ina and I read for a little bit, I am 2/3 the way through “The Death of Marco Pantani.” I am actually enjoying reading it, go figure books about cycling interest me.
I did not get any pictures today, but tomorrow we are going to the Sports Museum and I have to make the main dish for dinner.
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