Denny Crane

Today I am missing another free lunch, always a disapointment, for the induction of my good friend Josh into the world of the law. One day he will be as great as the great Denny Crane, explore the cosmos and have a strange homoerotic relationship with a dude with pointy ears. Well done Josh!

Cricket tickets have been purchased, Grenada here we come!

I think I need more exclamation marks !!!!!!

Planning to take over the world!

Hey there. Well no free lunches as yet this week but with the end of the dreaded school holidays tomorrow is looking brighter. I can almost smell the mushroom and bacon quiche. As well as a free lunch, I get to learn about the treatment of depressed alcoholics, very depressing.

On a not so depressing note, progress is being made on Guy, Ben, and My mission of awesomeness to the Carribean. Oh yes, after years of pondering and making false starts on other ill concieved overseas missions we are off to the cricket world cup. Accomodation is booked and match tickets are well on the way to being sorted. It is all very exciting.

This weeks free lunch was bought to me by the kind people at invitrogen. For the first time the sales reps were selling stuff relevant to my project, so club sandwitch in hand (lamb, tomato and lettuce, perhaps the greatest of the club sandwitches) , I picked their brains about novel RNA extraction and quantification kits that invitrogen have developed (read: bought out another company and slugged an invitrogen label on it).

At one point the guy was so excited about a potential sale that he wet himself twice and had to take three deep breathes to maintain consciousness. He was very enthused and rather scary.

I sadly missed another one today :( due to a meeting with no food running overtime. I had to buy my own lunch which I think is pretty criminal.

Christchurch has been cold, damn cold (read: coldest June on record). Which is only good for one thing. That is snowboarding. Have had one wonderful day at Mt Hutt, where there was more snow than I have ever seen at this time of year, and being only 90 mins from the carpark I think I may well be seeing a bit more of it before winter is out.