Seeing Andrew off

Well, saw Andrew off at the airport today. Off to sunny, hot, humid Darwin. Big long queue for the checkin desks, he got nearly to the front before they opened a desk up for his flight as it was starting to board.

He's staying in Darwin for a bit prior to the race, acclimatising, shopping for camping gear and staying with a friend/relative? who apparently keeps snakes or lizards or something so that should be fun.

On the race itself he'll have to be getting up before dawn which will be quite a shock to his system, his normal wakeup time being late morning (hey, he's allowed, he's an astronomer) and it will be interesting to see how he survives that. At least on the race thanks to some people with a travelling net connection that I believe was /.ed he will at least be able to get his net fix. (He was also speculating about playing Feng Shui as they go, apparently when you're driving that slow you need some way to pass the time)

So now I have the time to do all those jobs I've been putting off at the weekends. Joy ;)