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Monday Nov 17, 2014 #
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From a comments thread on the Poll Bludger blog: "Family First have preferenced the Australian Sex Party last in the Victorian state election. Obviously no-one's had the talk to them yet about how families get started".
6 AM
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Weird orienteering and meteorology (combined) dreams department: the one which involved 165 (a very precise number) millimetres of rain falling in Launceston in a few hours and washing away the crossings of the gorge before the World Cup prologue. (In reality, nothing close to this amount of rain has ever fallen in Launceston, one of the least likely places in the country to get that sort of extreme short-period rain; their big floods, and they've had a few, come when there are big dumps in the north-east highlands which make their way down the South and North Esk).
7 AM
Run 41:00 [3] 7.5 km (5:28 / km)
Certainly knew I'd been for a run yesterday when I got up this morning. Achilles was tight (as it was every time I got up during the day after sitting for any length of time), and so were quads, but both loosened up quickly and the run was a reasonable one thereafter.
Once again headed to the Puerto Madero docklands, mostly in the name of minimising road crossings (though the traffic wasn't quite as crazy as I was expecting it to be). It's one of numerous affluent areas of the city; on the basis of what I've seen on this visit, you certainly wouldn't think you were in an economic basket case. The rich areas in Brazil are probably as rich or richer, but the very visible security there gives you a barbarians-at-the-gate sense you don't get here (the only electric fences I've seen so far in Argentina are the sort with cows on the other side of them). I'm well aware, though, that there is extreme poverty here too, some of it not too many kilometres away on the outer fringe of the city where running water and electricity are luxury items.
Did a bit of a double-take towards the end on spotting someone who bore a very striking resemblance to Asha as she was three or four years ago, walking down the street in a white lab coat. (On rounding the corner it became apparent that the white lab coat was the uniform for the local school).
It was another warm run, although with a nice breeze on the waterfront. I have two days of summer remaining (for now); the forecasts for my route are 37 for Mendoza on Tuesday, 11 for Bariloche on Thursday.
Had another pleasant day exploring various bits of Buenos Aires (including a trip out to the science museum which demonstrated that kids get as excited about dinosaurs here as they do at home), before getting on the bus for Mendoza.
Once again headed to the Puerto Madero docklands, mostly in the name of minimising road crossings (though the traffic wasn't quite as crazy as I was expecting it to be). It's one of numerous affluent areas of the city; on the basis of what I've seen on this visit, you certainly wouldn't think you were in an economic basket case. The rich areas in Brazil are probably as rich or richer, but the very visible security there gives you a barbarians-at-the-gate sense you don't get here (the only electric fences I've seen so far in Argentina are the sort with cows on the other side of them). I'm well aware, though, that there is extreme poverty here too, some of it not too many kilometres away on the outer fringe of the city where running water and electricity are luxury items.
Did a bit of a double-take towards the end on spotting someone who bore a very striking resemblance to Asha as she was three or four years ago, walking down the street in a white lab coat. (On rounding the corner it became apparent that the white lab coat was the uniform for the local school).
It was another warm run, although with a nice breeze on the waterfront. I have two days of summer remaining (for now); the forecasts for my route are 37 for Mendoza on Tuesday, 11 for Bariloche on Thursday.
Had another pleasant day exploring various bits of Buenos Aires (including a trip out to the science museum which demonstrated that kids get as excited about dinosaurs here as they do at home), before getting on the bus for Mendoza.