And we wait.

For the plans to come out of council. For summer to start kicking in. Though that's really not that far away. For the final prices/costings etc to come back from the builder so we can figure out if we can actually afford this. And how much we'll have to sell our bodies for to fund the exercise.

At the end of what was a pretty full on and hectic August for me on the work front. Sydney for 3 days one week, then 2 days the next. And long days. One day consisted of going in to the Sydney office for an hour, heading off with a hire car to drive 2 hours west of Sydney to where a Leadership forum was being held (I was an attendee last year), presenting on Finance for a couple of hours, then driving back to Sydney, dropping the car off at the airport, then hopping on a plane back to Brisbane. Home for 9.30pm. The next day, Alissa headed off to Sydney for 3 nights to catch up with her friends. Lots of Sydney happening.

Interviewing a lot too. No matter what they tell you about being trained with interviewing techniques and what have ye, it comes down to your gut feel as you walk away from them. I've asked the same questions over and over, and some answer better than others, but at the end of the day, it comes down to how I'd feel about them working for me. Half the time you do not even listen to the answers, it's about how it's said rather than what. But Christ it's tiring. Ye start hearing yourself repeating the same sentence for the 4th time in a day and ye feel like a total twat and it doesn't even mean anything.

Aside from that, there's not a lot to report. Oh yeah, the election.

Technically a hung parliament, and while I guess am used to the whole concept having lived through coalition and minority governments many's a time (till we all decided to give FF carte blanche to go f&ck up the country on their own) - it's the first time since 1940 here apparently and they really aren't ready for life in the hands of a few independents and 1 green. Massive backlash against Labor, they're not getting any 'credit' for their claim of keeping the economy out of recession. Knifing the sitting PM (Kevin Rudd - nerd extraordinaire and a class A spanner) 8 weeks ago did nothing for them, especially when replaced by a trade union puppet Julie Gillard. Country is dividing in two at the moment. NSW, QLD and WA vs VIC. I heard them call Victoria the more 'progressive' State on the TV the other night, but then I read some more and really, it's just the home of the trade union movement so is more lefty. But the swing there is heading more and more green.

And to complicate matters, the Governor General, who could ultimately have the task of asking one or other party to form government, minority or otherwise, has a son-in-law who is a member of the Labour party....... the plot thickens.

20 days later.....

Labor got back in having given in to the demands of several hick independents. Representing 2% of the country's population. Here we go. Crap.