Lev Lafayette's journal

The past few days have been very active, very productive, very reflective, and even with a fair dose of active play. It has been a period of "full time", with little to no "dead time", with just enough period for sleep and recharging the proverbial batteries. Busy, even for my own excessive standards, but with a determination for at least some relaxation tomorrow. Workwise attended another part of the Management Development Program, a day-course on Enabling Greater Performance. I find the content of this courses a little less than what I would like, but I recognise that having already done several postgraduate years of management studies that the bar has to be a bit low), and running the courses as interactive face-to-face meetings in a group means that not as much content is provided on the day.

Also managed to organise some courses (Intro to HPC, Shell Scripting, Parallel Programming that I'll be running in a fortnight, and after that will be heading to Perth to present at the HPC Advisory Council at the end of the month (neglected to mention that last week completed my reviews of other people's work for eResearchAustralasia). Courtesy of strangedave attended the launch of Crystal Eye by Red Pirhana, which sort of crosses work and a social occassion.

Politically, wrote the submission for the Victorian Secular Lobby today on parliamentary prayers, supporting a proposal to introduce a secular standard which can include a private religious option. Also just finished a 'blog post on Willful Ignorance of European Marxism based on some personal experiences, and completed an Isocracy Newsletter. I have a couple of articles banked up by others that should go on the website as well, which I should get done by tomorrow morning.

There have been some opportunities for more social and genre-enjoyment, as is my want. Sunday evening was pleasant with cousin Luke, who cared for our house whilst we were away, over for dinner and drinks. On Monday night attended the 50 Anniversary of Night of the Living Dead, a clever low-budget film with superb horror tropes and tragic political commentary. Last night our gaming group finally - after a long break - managed to get together for a game of the Exalted-China, Journey to the Far West where we finally managed to finish the first chapter with concluding my re-write of the classic Tomb of the Five Corners. As a curious aside into public commentary, the RPG Review Cooperative has made a statement about the Federal government's prosed Myhealthrecord in Newsletter - with an interesting side-story.