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... As A Blue-Arsed Fly
Jan. 21st, 2013 02:48 pmIt is not often that I use a Royalist phrase, but it is appropriate. From Thursday onwards it was a roller-coaster of events, starting with the call for registrations for the Introductory and Intermediate HPC and Linux courses I conduct at work. As usual, places in those are filling up very fast. Following that was the second-last Call of Cthulhu session of Horror on the Orient Express. Also semi-work related Friday included a friendly soccer match at the Old Melbourne Gaol between systems and CAS, leaving me a little sore.
Saturday was the Linux Users of Victoria Annual Penguin Picnic; I did most of the shopping for this at the last minute at the Victoria Markets, and managed to get to the excellent, and somewhat unknown, Yarra Bank Reserve in time to get things started. A great day, we gave away some copies of OpenSuSE that were on hand to visitors, including a Dja Dja Wurrung person who showed us the scarred tree of local significance. He seemed pretty impressed with the idea of Linux as well!
After the LUV meeting, chaired the annual general meeting of the Victorian Secular Lobby, which will be organising a national conference of like-minded groups, and will have a Federal focus this year. Afterwards a number of us had dinner at the Tran Tran; very good food, although when I was a little surprised when the pre-recorded "Happy Birthday" music came on and even more surprised when the subtle banana fritter arrived at the table (not safe for some workplaces); you'll keep Ant...
On Sunday gave the address on The Contribution of Unitarian-Universalists to Isocracy; very well received, with an excellent turnout - I was little worried because it was substantially longer than prior presentations, but managed to deliver a little faster than usual. In the afternoon, ran a game of Twilight 2000, where there was an organised attack on a marauder band, the theft of a helicopter by said band, the assassination of the local elected leader, the establishment of martial law, the signing of a pro-Soviet agreement, a labour and military strike, and eventually the re-establishment of the Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Krakow and Its Environs - and with one of the player-characters as nominal head of the military (no-one else was trustworthy...). After dinner at the ever delightful Iliana's went to visit![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hathhalla and ser_pounce to collect the rescued Noisy Miner; a welcome to Mr. Chirpy (blame ser_pounce for the name).
Saturday was the Linux Users of Victoria Annual Penguin Picnic; I did most of the shopping for this at the last minute at the Victoria Markets, and managed to get to the excellent, and somewhat unknown, Yarra Bank Reserve in time to get things started. A great day, we gave away some copies of OpenSuSE that were on hand to visitors, including a Dja Dja Wurrung person who showed us the scarred tree of local significance. He seemed pretty impressed with the idea of Linux as well!
After the LUV meeting, chaired the annual general meeting of the Victorian Secular Lobby, which will be organising a national conference of like-minded groups, and will have a Federal focus this year. Afterwards a number of us had dinner at the Tran Tran; very good food, although when I was a little surprised when the pre-recorded "Happy Birthday" music came on and even more surprised when the subtle banana fritter arrived at the table (not safe for some workplaces); you'll keep Ant...
On Sunday gave the address on The Contribution of Unitarian-Universalists to Isocracy; very well received, with an excellent turnout - I was little worried because it was substantially longer than prior presentations, but managed to deliver a little faster than usual. In the afternoon, ran a game of Twilight 2000, where there was an organised attack on a marauder band, the theft of a helicopter by said band, the assassination of the local elected leader, the establishment of martial law, the signing of a pro-Soviet agreement, a labour and military strike, and eventually the re-establishment of the Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Krakow and Its Environs - and with one of the player-characters as nominal head of the military (no-one else was trustworthy...). After dinner at the ever delightful Iliana's went to visit
hathhalla and ser_pounce to collect the rescued Noisy Miner; a welcome to Mr. Chirpy (blame ser_pounce for the name).
