Over the weekend I came across the idea of camera tossing and gave it a try. It produces pleasing abstract images suitable for use as wallpapers, backgrounds or in some cases even good to frame as modern art prints.

The image below, the very first one I took, was blogged on the camera toss blog.

Some of my colleagues seem incapable of understanding that those already in the kitchen, waiting to use the espresso machine when they arrive, should be allowed to use it first. Or perhaps they're just rude.

Anyway here is a link to some information on queue areas.

This morning I took the first step in the long road to getting my body into a reasonable state of health. I got up at 5am and went for a ride on my bike, down along the beach front. I did just under 9km and was feeling pretty knackered doing the last 2km back home. Still, considering I haven't ridden since last summer, and then only once or twice, it wasn't too bad. Now I just need to keep it up, and cut back on my food intake and my should slowly start dropping towards what it should be, but that is a long, long way off.

I have memories of working for a bank where we never saw any cleaning staff because they came in at night. Sadly this can't be said for the office I work in now. We have a cleaning woman who cleans the offices once a week, while we are trying to work in them. She doesn't ask if you mind stepping away from your desk for a minute so she can clean it, which would be a time to get some coffee, but simply starts cleaning around you. Perhaps it's just me but I have trouble trying to concentrate on my work while someone is moving things around on my desk. I think that the worst thing about this is that she sings tunelessly while she cleans. For some reason the sound of this singing drives me nuts and I feel like shaking her and yelling SHUT UP!

This is the sunset I saw from my backyard on 17 September 2005.