First job today is to spend a lot of money and we promptly book ourselves on two dive trips (in Cairns and Airlie Beach) and a one day trip to Cape Tribulation for a highlights of the rainforest trip. So that'll be AU$2400 or so. We wander around a few shops before some Internetting again.
Before that I nip off to the Post Office to try and get my PADI card redirected from Sydney to Brisbane. In seeking out the Post Office, two paces from our furthest point to date I see the Peter Lik gallery and I am drawn in. I don't know what these look like on the Internet [I do now I've put the link in!] but when, as these are, blown up to 150cm in length the landscapes are astounding [sadly, the website just isn't the same]. He has an uncanny eye for a picture and you can see why he's won the odd award.
Via the tourist information office I wander to the far side of town where the Post Office can't redirect things for me. They tell me to call a number where the woman understands my problem and redirects me to Waverly PO (in Sydney) where they would redirect straight away but I need a full address to forward to and they don't know the addresses of the Brisbane POs. I get those off the Internet and being unsure of the call costs call my short number again rather than Waverly direct. This man has the wrong end of the stick when I try getting redirected to Waverly so I have to call direct. It turns out that the call costs seem to be fixed (unlike mobile calls) which is mostly OK except I get cut off, have run out of small change, aargh! Anyway, job done.
We had lunch almost next door where we had some very refreshing milkshakes. I think I enjoyed mine because it tasted a bit like custard. Helen went off to spend a princely sum on yet more films and I returned to the Internet shop. I typed a section about emacs' keyboard macros being slow. I fixed it yesterday -- it turns out that self-insert-command runs at about 1 per second (or worse) in a keyboard macro whereas an insert-register works as fast as you like. How odd. I realise the audience for the above comments is two but I think they would be interested -- and will probably waste the rest of their day studying the quirk. Answers in an email, please.
Helen came back asking for somewhat more than a princely sum for an entire bucket of films (well, 20 36 exposure but it seems a lot). More Internetting and time flying before catching a mediocre late meal at one of the restaurants on the way home.
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