Last night, Ellery and I filled in the for mighty 9-a-side aussie rules (fools) footy team the Ducks which also includes the mystical character “Maddog” or Brent as his parents named him. We played the traditional Duck arch-rival which have known to produce a stunning display of football skill and agility. Last night was to be no exception. On more than one occasion, the ball was kicked from one player to another without touching the ground (mark). I think we only lost by about 230 which is amazing in 9-a-side football and I think we squeezed in a couple of goals before the siren sounded… looks like we keep our pants on this time around.

It’s been pretty hot the last couple of weeks and I’ve had the benefit of sleeping in air conditioning when things get a bit out of control in terms of the heat. Last night I was sleeping as usual between about midnight and 7am, and my cat Neo slept on the floor next to the bed. After a few hours Neo decided that he wanted some food, so at about 4am, Neo woke me up by kneeding my chest and meowing at my face. Anyways, having done this numerous times before I arose from my bed (which is draped in luxury 1000 thread percale sheets - yes i counted), and walked down the stairs and gave him some food, all of which he ate. Neo really appreciated my endeavours of keeping him alive by feeding him and returned to the room and purred himself to sleep.

In other news, the biggest ever software launch from the biggest software company in the world released the highly anticipated Windows Vista and Office 2007 software packages.

Anyways, you can see the little gathering microsoft had with some people they know via this webcast of the product launch .

Last night Luke took me indoor rock climbing at west end. I’ve never been before and it was great fun and it was exciting hanging from the top of a wall thinking I was He-Man then realising that I wasn’t then losing grip and hanging on the cable like the dummy I was.

I got a little bit of confidence as I worked my way through this new adventure, I had a go at a purple course which I just scraped in to do, then after mastering the blue course on the straight wall, tried the blue on an angled wall which I failed to complete.

Luke initially invited me after reading one of my blog posts where I had indicated that I wanted to do at least one session of sport a week. I hope he hasn’t started me with a new obsession of interest…