Sometimes things just work, and this is one of those times. Shortly after St Paddy’s Day ends I’ll be on a plane to Sydney for about 9 days, and I can’t wait.
Friends from the South Island who has missed out on tickets to the Auckland U2 concert decided it would be a good idea to get tickets for the Melbourne concert instead. And who can blame them, the airfares would’ve been about the same or cheaper and Melbourne is far more interesting than Auckland. As it all worked out, sadly U2 had to postpone their concerts which put Russ and Greg in a bit of a tough spot. Credit to them, they’ve decided to go anyway.
Anyway I was talking to Russ yesterday and he mentioned they’d still be heading over and I thought “Heh, maybe I could go as well…”. Didn’t take it all that seriously and mentioned it flippantly to Sarah who insisted that I should do it. Apparently I’ve been working too hard and am too stressed out and holiday would do me well.
Ok, thats all good and well but the reason I’m busy at the moment is because I’m invested heavily in a few projects at work. Would I be able to get a week of leave at such short notice given that it would be a significant risk to those projects. Well, my CD didn’t seem to think it was a horrible idea and was happy to entertain it for me. After checking with all the PMs I’ve been working with it seemed that it could be possible…I’d just have to work my butt off a bit this week (no problem, I was going to anyway).
So I’ll be taking in Sydney, Newcastle, and Melbourne starting on Saturday, great. Will hopefully get to see some of the Commonwealth Games madness Melbourne will be in starting from tomorrow.
