Days like tomorrow are what I miss about Australia. It is Melbourne Cup day tomorrow. It's a horse race. It's a public holiday in Victoria and may as well be in the rest of the country. The morning is spent with office sweeps, studying form guides and visiting the TAB (betting shop). People who know nothing about GGs suddenly become experts. Like myself for example. No work is done at all in the afternoon. Many leave at lunchtime for the pub or a function at the local racetrack to watch it all. Usually it's an anti-climax as everyone tries to work out if they've won. Last year with a couple of the lads from work we partook in a very successful afternoon of punting. We aim to repeat the trick tomrrow, albeit with myself here in HK and fellow CoL member Chopper stuck on honeymoon somewhere on the Barrier Reef and out of range.

On the way back from a customer lunch I noticed something about HK. Well two things actually. I have yet to see anyone in a wheelchair in 10 months of living here. HK is not well suited to wheelchairs, being all hills and stairs. But nevertheless it strikes me as odd that there's no-one seemingly in a wheelchair. However what there is plenty of is people with impediments. Usually of the walking variety. They are pigeon-toed, or partly lame or worse. It's never pretty but it is surprisingly common. I have no idea why.

Now I know the California election is so very last month. But it has lead to the inevitable movie. Not just any movie: The story of the race to become the governor of California is being turned into a p0rn movie. [That's a deliberate misspelling on my part to avoid the net filters].