Well bang goes that one

What was not simple in my last post became "official" today. New Zealand in November is off. Apparently the work situation at that time of year makes me going away for five weeks a problem. I'm not going to pretend to be happy about the decision, but ranting about it at work wouldn't have helped, so I managed to refrain from doing that. For some reason I took this decision worse than I should have -- after all, it took three years to get to Tasmania. However, a week ago everything was set up so perfectly for this trip in November. Now I'll have to try again for February, and nothing is certain there either.

In anycase, I'm going to take something positive out of this if it kills me. First and foremost, it should clear me to ride both the ASH Dash in Hobart, and the Midnight Century in Ipswich in December -- meaning that I'll only need one more to have an imperial century in every Australian state (WA). I had also been putting off a CPA module for this trip -- now I can get it out of the way. Oh yeah, and after I get a couple of things out of the way this weekend, I think I'll start to up the mileage on the bike, too. Basically, in the next six months I'm going to show the world that an annoyed me is a very bad thing indeed.

Just to make things worse (ha ha ha ha!), I have an appointment at a skin cancer clinic on Saturday to have something on the bottom of my right cheek looked at. I'm hoping it's just something caused by a stray helmet strap, but the way this week has been so far, I just don't know. Sunday I'm heading to Springbrook -- end of discussion. The waterfalls up there should be just beautiful after last week's downpour, and it's also the wildflower season. It's actually extremely rare that these two factors coincide (as this is normally the dry season). More importantly, Springbrook is the place I always go when things are difficult or frustrating. It's my special place, and I know I'll find the answers there.