Third Re-Birthday

Today marks the third anniversary of my cardiac arrest and the beginning of my amazing recovery back to more or less complete normalcy. Two kind friends remembered this event in advance, for which I thank them - and Emily who is good a remembering this kind of thing has no doubt sent me a card from Quito, which has yet to arrive. Yes, Quito in Ecuador! She and Greg are off shortly to the upper Amazon jungle and I wish them good luck.

Meanwhile, back here we're going to celebrate this evening with a night out. It looks like being a nice day in another way. The sun is beating down after yet another day of rain - getting on for another 25mm (or inch) or so. Dumaresq Creek flooded again. So, I might get out of the car and take to by bike to work at UNE. Yes, work. Well, I'm now interim Director of the Centre for Applied Research in Social Science (CARSS) and I've circulated a 5 page discussion paper on CARRS's future. And then I'm working on a grant application which, if successful, would keep me employed until 2015 - when I turn 70! And a owe an article to a colleague by Monday. Oh well, it's sort of fun and keeps me off the streets where I might get up to mischief.

AS