Ride like the wind!

Morning at Currumbin.



It's been blowing a gale here for most of the day. Thankfully it's from the South, meaning that it's a few degrees cooler than it might otherwise be. I have to admit I get a strange sensation of delight from pedalling into a wind of that nature. Especially on my commute, where some of the gusts between the buildings can really be heightened by the funnel effect. It's like a game of cat and mouse, the wind gusts like crazy, then drops slightly, and I respond by upping my pace, until the next gust, and so on. Then there are the exposed bit around Narrowneck, where I go right on the defensive, ticking over a small gear at just 23km/h or so, then the traffic jam in Surfers blocks it, then back into the buildings where it's on again!

Of course, this may well just be practice for the big ride to Wilson's Promontory in a couple of weeks time (just two weeks away as of tomorrow). Like the lead-up to my last tour, everyone is trying to make it as crazy as can be just before I go. At work clients are dumping their rubbish on me left, right and centre, then there is a GST audit to deal with just two days before I fly out. It's absolutely crazy, but in a way that might help me appreciate the time off even more. Two weeks really isn't enough though, but I have to settle for that if I want five or six in New Zealand next year.

Maybe it might be worth checking the job market for accountants in New Zealand. Today I read that John Howard and his cronies "promise not to abuse senate power" (they now officially have control of both houses of parliament in this country). I guess abuse is in the eye of the beholder. Some of the policies they tried to get in last time around were scary, now there's nothing to stop them. I think we can only hope they were decoy points that the could back down on (i.e. so they could look like making a "compromise"). We'll just have to wait and see on that one.

Hmmm, maybe I will go to O'Reilly's on Sunday after all.