Silent city

I bought a new lunch box this weekend. I know, my exciting life. I really liked my old lunch box because it came with its own fork tucked into the lid, but, alas, it was warped from being microwaved on a regular basis and the lid no longer fits, even though it claimed it was microwave safe. Well, I suppose it was microwave safe. Just not microwave sturdy. My new box also claims to be microwave safe and it's made from a different sort of plastic, so we'll see how that goes. Anyway, the new box is a Nude Food Mover. It's made of clear plastic, you see, so you can see your unwrapped food in the box, nude, which makes it sound slightly pervy. Also, they have these little characters to illustrate their brochure, which are an orange and a pear with pixellated parts. I'm not sure I want to eat either of them, particularly the orange's false eyelashes.

( Racy! )

The texts to the editor in the local paper have found something new to complain about. Well, one person has. She says that there are too many musicals on concurrently and it's unfair that she can't get to see them all. I don't normally like it when people are dismissive of first world problems, because worry is worry no matter what, but 'too many musicals, not enough time' is the very definition of a first world problem, surely.

As part of our merger process (which is still fun!, by the way, only slightly less so than it was), we have changed our financial reporting year from Australia's financial year, which runs from July to June, to the calendar year. This means that January, not July, will be the busiest month of the year for me. I'm not sure I'm entirely pleased with that, because every other business will be on holiday in January, so it will be a pain to get documents that I might need. On the other hand, it means for the first time in my working life I will be able to take leave in July. Fancy that! I'm going to take a week off, just for the novelty value.