One might have guessed that the weekend adventures would bring a certain amount of consequences. For one thing we all felt pretty bad and as you age you can’t just brush these hangovers aside as easily. Unfortunately age does not appear to equal wisdom. Besides that I hereby amend my earlier post from the weekend. We did in fact receive complaints, through our realtor, who heard from the landlord, who heard from a tenant and so the story goes. Apparently we had the wildest party till 4am and the music was loud, things got smashed and cars broken into. As we left at 11:30pm the first point is completely mute. As to number 2, music was playing out of a laptop. How loud could it possibly have been, considering also that we were completely incapable of attaching the tv speakers to said laptop. To 3 and 4 I can just say, it wasn’t us. Since one of our cars got broken into I do believe we have a pretty good case. All our guests were either accountants or geologists – not your most likely crowd to be sifting through cars for some pocket change. I was somewhat worried that I may have broken into something as I woke up with scratches on my arm but after examining the paparazzi evidence I apparently tried to climb a tree at some stage during the early morning hours. Technology has certainly come too far and I just hope I never run for president because these photographs may just miraculously reappear.
By about midweek everyone was back on their usual accounting high. We put in quite some hours as deadlines are looming and the Subi office most certainly has more than their fair share of public clients. It seems to be a trend for any size mining company to go public to raise money. The realization that this entails a whole lot more work comes usually later. I did take a little bit of time one evening though to position myself across the Swan River from downtown Perth and take some awesome pictures.
Downtown Perth from Millpoint
Perth isn’t called the City of Light for no reason. In 1962, on February 20 to be exact, austronaut John Glenn passed over Australia in the Mercury Friendship 7 spacecraft to become the first American to orbit Earth. The Perth people decided to greet Mr. Glenn by switching on the lights. He apparently saw it, which I do not doubt for a minute, considering Perth is one of the most isolated cities on Earth - a spot of light in pitchblack darkness.
