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Well it's been another busy week at the building site. The scaffolding has now been removed, plastering has been completed, and they have now started painting the exterior brickwork.

here's the photos:

All Locked Up

Well, what a busy week it was last week. Had lots of training for work during the week including a full day off-site "managing effective teams" session with some other council staff. I had a site visit to the new Sydenham Library on Thursday. The building works are progressing there very fast. The interior is pretty much complete and now most of the remaining work is on the exterior.

Speaking of building works. The house is now officially in lockup, so unfortunately when we went there on the weekend we could not get in to take newer photos (I tried though the glass, but there is too much reflection). The staircase is now in, as well as the decking on the entry/porch. All the plaster has been delivered and is piled up around the place inside, but as of the weekend they had not yet started putting the plaster up. The hole is now in the brickwork for where the embedded letterbox will go.

I am also going to upgrade my computer hopefully this weekend. I have a day off on Friday, so amongst other things I am going to go and buy the components I need to do the upgrade. That means I will be busy in the evenings this week backing up all the stuff on my current PC that I wish to keep (as I will reuse many parts from the current PC such as hard drives, CD/DVD ROMs, graphics card, ect.

Also a busy week socially this week. I am going out for dinner with some old workmates on Wednesday and out for dinner and movies with a group of friends on Friday night down at Werribee.

That's about it!

Weekend By The Sea

Sean and I spent this weekend down at my grandparents caravan at Ocean Grove. It was nice to get away from everything and just have time to chill out and relax. We went straight down on Friday evening, I had an RDO on Friday so I drove Sean to work in the morning, went and had my hair cut and did some other stuff, did a bit of Work at SirsiDynix in the afternoon, then picked Sean up and drove straight down from Seans Work.

On Saturday we went for a walk along the beach at Point Lonsdale, followed by a trip into Queenscliff to look at some of the local galleries for painting ideas for the house. We had lunch at the View Grand in Queenscliff. We then went to Drysdale, Clifton Springs, Port Arlington, then back to the Caravan before going back to Queenscliff to get some fish and chips for tea.

On Sunday we went for a walk along the beach in the morning, packed up our stuff then went to "the house" and my grandparents before going home.

I didn't have my camera with me so I have no house photos to share (thank god you are probably thinking!). All the electrical work is complete and I spoke to the builder on Thursday and he said that they are doing the plaster work this week, so I believe we will no longer have access to the inside from this week (bummer!).

I held my first training session at Brimbank last Thursday, it was staff training for Microsoft Outlook. It all went well, so hopefully this will carry through to some successful training sessions once the Sydenham Library opens in December.

Knock, knock knocking on Heavens Door

We went for a visit to the house today. Some inconsiderate builder has put a front door on the thing!

A lot of progress has been made this week. The last segment of brickwork around the back is almost complete, wiring inside has started, and as I said, a front door is now in place. Here are the updated progress photos...

Above: View looking from the Gallery to the front door.

Above: Gallery front window
Above: Looking from the gallery up towards the loft.

Above: Front view
Above: Looking from the gallery into the kitchen

Above: Looking out the backdoor of the gallery.
Above: looking at the front and street side.

Hitting the Ceiling

There is now finally a roof on the house. Brickwork apart from a small section in the patio garden is now complete, and most of the guttering is on. I went for a look yesterday afternoon cause I finished work as Sydenham as I had a site visit to the new library, which is almost finished.

I would have photos to show you, but the battery in my digital camera died, so I will see if I can get some batteries today and will go out and take photos on the weekend.

It looks extremely different inside now with a roof on - it actually feels a little eerie!

I attended a change management session for work yesterday. It was funny, all these people talking about little changes, and there was I who has changed relationship status, jobs twice, and soon to change address - I think I may know how to manage with change from practice now!

Went a watched The Devil Wears Prada on Friday night. I was a little disappointed. It had really good characters but was really lacking in story. There was really no goal through out the film which made it feel like it dragged. As soon as the movie started you figured Meryl Streep was a b!tch, and when it finished you still though she was a b!tch. What also gets me is they only played 2 trailers before the film, and both were for kids movies! What is the point of going to the cinemas these days?