Mum and dad picked me up on the way home and we went and got the bike and then dropped it off for a service. New gear and brake cables, true the back wheel, new handle bar tape, loosen the pedals and get the gears working again. The gears have been on friction feed for a couple of years now so it will be nice (strange even) to have indexing working again.
Mum and Dad won a $60 voucher for dinner at the Oatley West Chinese restaurant. So we went there for dinner tonight. Ken was going to come too but he is sick so couldn't join us. Very nice as always, and only cost $10 in the end.
Went to Melbourne yesterday (Virgin Blue, sigh) for a trade show, PacPrint. Normally these shows can be a bit boring but this one was pretty good. Lots of big iron, quite impressive some of it. Funnily enough when we fessed up to working for Canon R&D several of the companies, our competitors, got all excited and started opening up their machines and telling us all about how they worked and what the exciting new bits were. I guess it was a nice change having someone who actually understood the technical side. Everything they showed was public knowledge of course, but still very interesting to see the real thing. We had a nice lunch too, Linguini Pescatore with a nice Chardonnay.
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