Peaks of planet Odin
May. 19th, 2011 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyYesterday I went to a meeting in Geelong. Lunch was provided. That's the important part, obviously. It was sandwiches and fruit. Normally when these places do fruit, they cut it up for you, but this was a fruit bowl filled with whole apples and pears and strawberries and kiwifruit... and bananas.
I think I've mentioned before that bananas are expensive right now, due to the cyclones and floods that hit Australia's banana-growing regions earlier in the year. They're still $12.98 per kilo in the City by the Sea, which is considerably higher than they used to be, so we were mildly impressed: ooh, big city bananas, fancy! But we didn't get to eat any. Some of the people came to the meeting from the other side of the state and they fell on the bananas like a plague of locusts. It turns out bananas are $16.99 per kilo over there. One woman said how extravagant it was to be eating this expensive banana, and that she hadn't had one for such a long time. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I'd actually brought my own banana to eat on the way home. Such decadence. She might think I was like Caligula or someone.
On the way home, we passed several areas of roadwork. I wound down the window and had a good sniff. I do love the smell of tar.
Back in the office today, we had a visit from from the IT firm we use. Over summer, the IT guys wore their new uniform of a dark blue rugby shirt with their logo on it. Today, they've added the winter variation of a padded zip-up vest with their logo on it. It looked like a normal parka sort of thing, but it smelt like rubber, which I also love. One of them explained to me about some network issues and asked if I had any more questions. I did, but I didn't think 'Do you mind if I sniff your vest?' was appropriate.
I think I've mentioned before that bananas are expensive right now, due to the cyclones and floods that hit Australia's banana-growing regions earlier in the year. They're still $12.98 per kilo in the City by the Sea, which is considerably higher than they used to be, so we were mildly impressed: ooh, big city bananas, fancy! But we didn't get to eat any. Some of the people came to the meeting from the other side of the state and they fell on the bananas like a plague of locusts. It turns out bananas are $16.99 per kilo over there. One woman said how extravagant it was to be eating this expensive banana, and that she hadn't had one for such a long time. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I'd actually brought my own banana to eat on the way home. Such decadence. She might think I was like Caligula or someone.
On the way home, we passed several areas of roadwork. I wound down the window and had a good sniff. I do love the smell of tar.
Back in the office today, we had a visit from from the IT firm we use. Over summer, the IT guys wore their new uniform of a dark blue rugby shirt with their logo on it. Today, they've added the winter variation of a padded zip-up vest with their logo on it. It looked like a normal parka sort of thing, but it smelt like rubber, which I also love. One of them explained to me about some network issues and asked if I had any more questions. I did, but I didn't think 'Do you mind if I sniff your vest?' was appropriate.