photo friday: city ribbon

This is the newly refurbished Royal Institution of Australia... or more specifically, the electronic "ribbon" that wraps it's way around half of the building. I've been past it a couple of times this week... the first time there was a quote that mentioned skateboards...

I'm very glad it's finally Friday. This week just seemed to take a very long time... mostly because I didn't really have that much stuff on my plate, and that always makes time drag. Fortunately I was able to swoop in and be "Extremely Helpful Boy" not once, not twice, but three times today... so that's always good.

I had a bit of a fright this morning... I was tying the laces on my Chuck T's and there was this overly enthusiastic banging on my front door. I think I jumped about a foot in the air and had no idea who the hell it could be at 7:45 in the morning...

Turns out it was the nice Postman... and he was bringing me a parcel. I love getting parcels. I especially love getting parcels that only took a week to get here. I also love getting free things included when I buy things... even when I have no idea what the hell it's for or what I'm going to do with it...

As for what was in my parcel...

Well, that would be telling *oversharing evil grin*...

And of course, even though I knew exactly what would be in the parcel, I had to open it and have a quick look before I went off to work.

At lunch I went wandering down to the Mall, even though it was a touch on the warm side (and will continue that way until Tuesday unfortunately... I really hate Summer... although the weather has cooled down tonight which is good)... dropped into JayJays on the hunt for Spongebob Squarepants underwear... which they didn't have. But I did walk out with a double pack of Nightmare Before Christmas boxerbriefs (which I didn't necessarily need, but they were reasonably good value). The downside is that they have the underwear on display behind the counter, so you can't look through it properly *grrrr*.

Since I'd mentioned to the Ginga Ninja a couple of weeks ago about getting a copy of The Velveteen Rabbit for one of the women in our extended team who's leaving to have a baby... and unlike last time they actually had the orginal version (complete with original illustrations) in stock, so I bought it on the spot. Sadly Toys R Us didn't have the cute little bunnies they had last time... so I'm now officially on a Bunny Hunt.

On the way back to work I also discovered that one of the Health Partner stores gives out free fruit on a Friday... there's this tray of it attached to the front of the store with a big sign saying "Please take one". I took a banana. And I'll be going back next Friday.

And thanks to Sugarmonkey I now have the entire second season of True Blood to watch... so I think I'll head off and do just that...

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