Thoughts on the Ferry

(Written off-line on Monday evening on the Ferry home - and then forgotten)

I will probably regret writing this, but 2.5 months into an extremely busy start of the year, things are quieting down to something manageable.
I have around 3.5 days of chargeable work a week and with bits and pieces I will make it to the required 85%. My OSS Project came around at a nice time, and although it will be a lot of trouble to get through, it is steady work until mid July at least. I am not really supposed to work on it, as it belongs to a different division, but being a small office I am happy to chip in anywhere I may be needed.
I am also working out a nice routine of going to the office on Mondays only. Tuesdays and Fridays I work from home, Wednesday & Thursday I see the customer.
This week my colleague Richard is here from Melbourne holding a training course and took me out for dinner tonight at the pub where we normally go for lunch if I am in the office. It was nice seeing him as we don't meet much and he updated me on the Melbourne gossip. Tomorrow& Wednesday he will train my customer Optus on the Traffic Management stuff. I will try to attend part of the afternoon session on Wednesday as I am out there anyway.
Currently it is just before 9pm and I am sitting outside on the back of the ferry going home. It is a temperature where just wearing a business shirt, whilst sitting on a seafaring vessel feels just on the edge of being too little, so probably around 18. But it is a nice evening and the neon lights of Sydney and North Sydney are disappearing in the background. The Harbour bridge need some light bulbs replaced but still looks good. There is no wind. The harbour waters are almost flat.
All in all a good start of the week.