Day Six

Just got in the office. The weather here is great around 60-80 each day. It takes a calculator and 15 minutes for me to figure out the conversion from Celsius.

There are parakeets outside the window at the office. Cool.

Bill and I had a great meeting with Peter today. We got to discuss the LongTail and web strategies for IFL and IFL Australia. I believe we have some good walk-aways from our meeting and good agreement on the next steps of action.

Tonight we are going over to Mac's house. He is a board member of IFLA. We are being picked up at the hotel and driven to his house. (Ok, we just went, here is Mac and his lovely wife. We had a great time eating and fellowshipping. He told us great IFL stories and his wife cooked a mean dinner and dessert. (Which Bill ate all of. I did not))

The weather was perfect again. I can’t wait to drive down to the coast in a few more days.

Be sure to click on the pictures in the nav-bar and view all the images I uploaded. You will see Peter and his family and some images around the office.

Just got finished with the long tail... Fun! Fun!

I woke about 5am this morning and went to workout in the gym. Don’t know why I can’t sleep, as I am very tired throughout the day. I guess it is adrenaline that is keeping me going.

The food is wonderful. Where the USA has fast food places and large Wal-Marts, Australia has great small family style eateries with great tasting, fresh food. Lots of options. I have not seen or eaten a hamburger yet. And there are very many small specialized stores… Store fronts that just sell fruit or flowers or seafood or meat. It would be so great to have these type of stores in America.

The other interesting thing I have enjoyed looking for is the school playgrounds and sport complexes. Where our high-schools have basketball goal and football fields, their schools have 4 tall post on the end of the pitch for Australia Rules Football. And you see cricket setups too. The people’s looks and the language are very much the same as the US, but the sports are totally different. EVERY single day you can find a professional Australian football, cricket, car or motorcycle race on TV. Their news talks about these sports “only.” No NBA, NFL, or PGA, or NHL scores. They don’t care a thing about US sports.

Here is the front of our hotel. It is very nice.