Annoying things, cars

So I was busily swapping my car for my flatmate's car so I could get out and go to my singing lesson. We have a fairly steep drive with a corner on it. When we have four cars parked there getting out is a bit difficult. When I back out differently to the way I normally do it I forget to look in one particular mirror until I hear the sickening crunch of car hitting tree.

:-(

Just got back from the panelbeaters - it wil cost me $450+GST to fix.

:-((

Just enough to be really annoying but not enough to justify lodging an insurance claim.

Concert on November 10, 2005

You saw it here first. There will be a singing concert on November 10, 2005 at 6pm at St Andrew's on The Terrace. This will be a chance to hear the exam pieces of myself and some of my singing teacher's students.
I'll be doing Brahms Die Mainacht, Chauson Les Temps de Lilas, Britten Nocturne and Gilbert & Sullivan A Wand'ring Minstrel I. I may do Brahms In Native Worth - we'll see.

The cost? A mere gold coin donation at the door.

See you there!

Scorching Duathlon 03/09/2005

So I did the Scorching Duathlon yesterday - the long option which was a 7.5km run, 36km cycle and a 2.5km run.
Guess where I came - yes, that's right, last!
Splits were 41:45, 1:32:05, 14:13. I really need to work on my cycling. I think I had the slowest cycle split of everybody...

Insider's view of New Orleans post Hurricane Katrina

I just came across this on Slashdot, http://mgno.com/. It's a first hand description of what's happening in New Orleans from a (Army?) network tech trying to keep some Internet access. It's amazingly scary to hear just what's happening there. So much for the most powerful nation in the world, huh?