Today we get the keys to our new house! Woo. Well actually we’re not that excited, our current house is pretty lovely. But given that we have to move it’s better to get it over and done with so we can start settling into the new place, and make it ours.

The new place is in Dickson, 3 bedrooms, mid to late 70’s perhaps? It doesn’t have the gorgeous front porch of Scrivener St, but we’ll sort something out. Other than that it’s probably better as a house. It’s a bit newer, it’s brick (not weatherboard), has a new bathroom, and a nicer kitchen/lounge area. We just have to give it some character.

Those of you who’ve been to Scrivener St recently will know that it’s pretty well furnished and decked out for a sharehouse. That’s one of the things that makes it nice. Unfortunately all that crap has to be lifted onto a trailer and carted across town.

Wish us luck!

Today some os us OzLab’ers had the pleasure of going to the National Press Club to see Professor Henry Chesbrough talk about Innovation. Owing to the fact that we have a pretty relaxed dress code around the office, the invitation made special mention of the fact that shoes and a collared shirt would be required for lunch.

I remembered my shoes, well if you call sandles shoes, but forgot the shirt.

So I had to do a dash home about 10am to get a shirt.

That’s a pretty boring blog entry you’re thinking. Well the exciting part is that because of some ridiculous section of the Tax law, it’s cheaper for Kelly if she drives her car more KMs over the year. Yes, we’re encouraging people to drive further – use more fuel etc, nice one.

Now I’m not much of a car head, but Kelly’s car is pretty cool, so I obliged. Here’s a pic of it outside my house.

Oh yeah, the Innovation talk. It was interesting listening, and an interesting crowd, we were more or less the only techies, which felt a bit strange. There were some interesting questions, including one that went through the keeper about the XXX XXXXXXX.

Apparently I was on the Tele too! Although one person said I looked bored, I claim that I was deep in thought.

As I drove past the local church this morning, I noticed that they’ve changed tack a little with their message board. Normally it sports something like “Jesus died for your sins”, or “Satan is coming to eat your baby!”. But this morning it said simply:

If you can read this, thank a teacher!

Hear, hear.