Met up with Julie again, she swears she can cook Roo tail so it’s edible, Roo butt not so much… But I did get a good steak finally!!!

Also found out our favorite place to eat in Perth is in fact in the BAD section of town, she won’t go there unless armed, and since they’re not allowed, she doesn’t (Guess we got lucky as we were going there in groups of four or larger)… Local knowledge HELPS!!!

We also had another interesting conversation on shooting. Come to find out, she is a relatively new shooter, actually got into it as a stress reliever/relaxation to “shut the brain off for a bit”. She said she was immediately hooked by the math and precision requirements that forced her to concentrate

I also figured out how to get meetings done with the DC folks…

Schedule them in Sydney… sigh… Ran into FOUR people out here I needed to talk to- Three from DC and one from Utah. Got more done in sidebars than I could have done in 2 weeks of trying in DC… Also hooked up with a few old friends who are also in the ‘business’ and we had lunch today (except the chicken curry sandwich was inedible). It’s really a pretty sad comment on our lifestyles (or lack of), that we have a better chance of running into each other half way around the world than we do of seeing each other in DC…

It ‘should’ be a fairly quick trip back to the states, as the headwinds caused another flight to turn around today for lack of gas…

I get a whole two days at home, then back on the road in the opposite direction…

A couple of the Aussies were commenting on the SOTU speech and were NOT impressed. Basically asked what was going on in the States, where was the support for the troops, and why was President Unicorn still blaming Bush for the failures. I didn’t have a good answer…

At the airport now, survived an Aussie taxi driver who must have been a stunt driver in the Mad Max movies… I seriously don’t think he ever touched the brakes, just the horn and yelling at the other drivers! I “think” I finally got the seat outta my ass…

Anyhoo, y’all have a good weekend, ya hear!!!