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Tonight I’m on the first of what isn’t likely to be more than a couple of Coopers Brewery Original Pale Ale. It’s been a long day, really a long week when I get down to it, and I should be asleep already. The thing is, it’s not all that late, and even though it’s an early start, mentally I have a hard time going to bed before midnight. So here I am, not up to anything particularly useful.

The project that I mentioned a post or two ago that hadn’t really gelled was presented today to an underwhelmed audience. I think pretty much everyone on the team was disappointed with the end result, and individually with what they each had accomplished. On the plus side, people weren’t disappointed with each other’s work. So for instance, one of the team members wasn’t happy with the end result of what he did and felt like he let down the team, but I thought his stuff was fine. At the same time I thought my work was pretty rubbish but other people told me it was good. But truth be told, in the end stuff just didn’t work, so for all the good pieces they never came together as a project.

We have a new project assignment now and I’m working with one person from the last team. I like him personally, but our differences were a problem (at least as far as I’m concerned) in the last project. I hope we come to some understanding for this next one, as neither of us want a repeat.

So tomorrow is ANZAC Day, and part of the reason I have an early start is that I have intentions of attending a sunrise ceremony. I’ve never been to one, and it’s the type of event I typically enjoy. The closest I’ve been to something similar was the dedication of the New Zealand Memorial in London on 11 November 2006. To be honest, I should get to bed now so be awake for it.

Anyway, there hasn’t been a heck of a lot of music in my life over the last few days, with the exception of the new Maximo Park CD which has been keeping me happy since it was released. I saw them in San Francisco in a place called 330 Ritch Street almost two years ago when the only song of theirs that I knew was “Graffiti” and went there on a chance. I didn’t especially like that single, but it was a venue I really liked but to which I hadn’t been in a long time. It was a great gig, I immediately bought their first CD, and I’ve seen them a few times since then. With their latest CD, I am starting to think they can do no wrong.

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