Through the Eyes of a Wombat

Its raining today, so I'm spending the day in the library at uni finishing off the Kabuki DVD from last year. It has been quite a long time in the making - too long, really, but I'm pretty much down to just letting the computer render the video and it will be finished.
Daylight Saving was supposed to finish last weekend - my computer changed, indeed everyone's computer changed. The clocks at work changed (except for the analogue one, of course), but the most surprising was the big clock above the post office. Its analogue too, and somehow it changed itself.
The reason daylight saving didnt finish, of course, was the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, which happened to finish last Sunday. Apparently it would have been 'too confusing' for overseas visitors if the last day of the games ran an hour later than people expected....
So we still get our sleep-in, but its this coming weekend instead.

As for the Games themselves, I somehow managed to not watch any of them at all. At least the Olympics last month I saw a litttttttle bit of.... Partly it was because a bit of me objected to the huge amount of advertising and promotion that led up the the Melbourne games, that the Victorian government assumed everyone in the state would be there (they even moved the school holidays by a month), and the way that the media made barely a squeak about the Olympics being on, so people wouldnt be 'gamesed out' by the time the Commonwealth ones started.
I mean, the Olympics are the pinnacle of world sport. It's absolutely first-level, highest class. The Commonwealth Games are, at best, third class. Olympics, then World Championships, and then if you happen to live in a country that competes, these games are there too.
At least living in Canberra I was able to avoid the deluge of Bracks-sponsored tripe and advertising that Victoria was saturated in. And they're over now, too :-)