The End of the Longest Day

Left home on Monday morning for the office... worked Monday and then checked into the Hilton Hotel in the city at 6pm.

By 7:30pm I was at the Enmore Theatre seeing the opening of the Sydney "Cracker Comedy" Festival courtesy of my good friend Tommy Dean.  Tommy himself was the 2nd of about 20+ comics each doing a 5min routine.  Show was hosted by Mickey Robbins and Steve "The Sandman" Abbott and I got to hang out with Tommy at the back stage "after party".  Many thanks to Tommy for the ticket and the generousity, it was a great way to fill in a Monday night.  Also got to shake hands and share a lamb cutlet with Vince Sorrenti, Garry Who and Indira Naidoo.  Elle McFeast was also there as were a host of comics (ie the 20+) plus more.  Excellent night.

Back to the hotel at midnight, tried to sleep, back pain kicked in and i was up earlier than i planned at 3:45am.  Showered, packed, into a cab, at the airport by 5:30am for a 6am flight to Perth. (Hence the reason for me staying in town)

Landed in Perth at 8am local time, worked all day including running a 3hr training session for WA staff.  Did some stuff with the WA risk people (i work in risk management if you didnt know that) and got to the airport for a 5:15pm flight to Adelaide.

Due to timezones, was scheduled to land in Adelaide 10:30 Central time (is it called that??) but due to a nation wide airport ticketing system meltdown, we were delayed in Perth an hour and a quarter.

We land in Adelaide at 11:30pm and I taxi it to this hotel in the city of Churches and I am now typing this at 1:00am local time after catching up on my sydney based emails... And we all thought emails would make us more productive.

A day here tomorrow before flying to Melbourne in the evening.

Good night!

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