Parties and Motorways

Well we’re into the home stretch now… Last week of the year which means a mixture of flat chat work to get things done and socialising.  Today is a classic case, meetings in the morning to try to get certain things finalised before the break and then a lunch that will mean not coming back to the office until late in the day.  On top of this, my boss’ boss has invited a number of people in the company and their spouses to his house for Xmas Drinks.  That’s nice because it means Niki gets to come in herself and have a bit of a Xmas do.  This time of year is always hard with so many functions on that you tend to be more away from home than any other time of the year – so its pretty generous of the Big Boss to have so many staff and partners over.

So today will be a tough day – lunch at Aqua at Milsons Point and then drinks at Mosman… lah dee dah!!

Also, changing tact, a big thumbs up from me for the new M7.  I drove into work yesterday and I left the city via the Eastern Distributor (which heads South??) and around the airport to the M5 through to the M7 which goes north before hitting the M4 at Walgrove Road.  I left the office carpark a bit before 6:30 and got home a bit after 7:30.  70 mins home in peak hour is amazing.  Normally it would be 90mins easy and that’s a good run.  The traffic was a bit stop start in the M5 tunnel, but pretty much flowed between 80-100km/h along the M5 and I sat on 120km/h on the M7.

Perhaps it was light traffic due to this time of year, but I didn’t stop at a set of lights between William Street in the city and the Glenbrook Bowling Club!  The downside of it though is that the tolls would be close to $7 one way - $3.30 for the M5 and whatever the M7 would charge… which I think is also around $3.50.