Itchy Feet
November 22, 2003 11:07 pm General
We finally decided to take our changes with the Toyota Corona and I’m back on the road again. We headed out to one of the best bouldering places in the world – Castle Hill, which is just an hour outside Christchurch. We were not disappointed with the first view of the boulder field. There is so much to do here, it’s hard to know where to start. It’s even more slopey than Fontainbleau – is that possible? I’m going to have fun being here though and working on buying a bouldering mat for some of the highball problems. Mary and Steve, whom we met through a Davey family association, gave us a copy of South Island Rock, so now there’s no stopping us. I’m a little worried about a grinding noise on the car when you shift gears. So, okay, the car might be the only reason.
Canterbury has this weird series of micro-climates, making it hard to predict the weather. While it was a pretty miserable day in Christchuch, we experiences some beautiful weather in Castle Hill. It’s all a bit strange. Perhaps the Dahlai Lama was right, when he said it was the energy source of the universe. Today we’re going to hit the Port Hills and do a bit of bolt clipping.
Watched the England/Australia final last night, and rather sorry to see pretty unattractive rugby win out – sure, they played pretty well in the final but their journey was ugly. Most of the Kiwis wanted England to win though, so I was in poor company.
Work has been amazingly slow this week, mostly trawling through emails, with lots of pretty useful conversations, but little else. Slighly disappointed to see the interview with the ‘Sun Java Desktop Team’ on OSNews being a basic marketing reply of very little interest. Pretty horrified to discover the JDS easter egg broken and rushed to fix it – I wonder if I can get a re-spin. No, I think perhaps not. From a GNOME Foundation point of view, things are hotting up – I’ve decided that more or less all of the previous board deserve to keep their place, and now have to figure out who else to vote in. I think we’re progressively kicking ass, but it’s slow and not as collective as I’d like. That’s certainly one of the shortfalls of the board and hopefully we can organize a few more face-to-face meetings next year to make this better. Sucks to miss out on the summit though.
