Walk To Work Day
Today was Walk To Work Day in Dunedin, an initiative spearheaded by Living Streets Aotearoa with the support of Sport Otago and the DCC. I decided to make the trip as the amount of excercise I get thanks to the extreme convenience of my scotter is minimal. I left home at 7:20 this morning and arrived in the Octagon at about 8:30 where a few stands were laid out for registration. The registration process was rewarded with a $7 voucher redeemable at Barakah, MASH, The Ra Bar, Alibi or The Craic. I chose MASH and a nice looking breakfast bap which was delicious, but unfortunately my order was forgotten in the rush of breakfast time cafe operations. After a reminder it turned up with an apology.
They say New Zealand is a small place and indeed it is – I ran into community advocates Frank Buddingh and Nina Arron from Lawrence who were on the registration stands. A familiar face was very much a welcome sight. I first ran into Frank and Nina some time ago when Frank was looking for an alternative provider for the Buddingtree Consultancy website.
For me the nicest thing (other than the fantastic weather!) about walking into town was it was a chance for me to “sit down” and listen to some podcasts. Listening to Leo Laporte, Jono Bacon and Randal Schwartz interview Jamie Cameron about Webmin on the FLOSS weekly podcast was a delight, especially as in my dark days I had a fair use for Webmin, so much so that I bought Jamie’s “Using Webmin” book.
Now that I have my walking method sussed all I need to do is load up my iPod and get an early night and a good sleep beforehand – unfortunately the early night and good sleep was thwarted last night by some jQuery and AJAX goodness and also by Zoe night-babbling, then Linus who woke up crying because “Ada ate my pie in a dream!” and then some more Zoe babbling. Things had quietened down by about 4am anyway.
Check out the local Channel Nine TV coverage at http://www.ch9.co.nz/node/14223
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March 10, 2010 10:20 pm
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