It's time to clean up my...

...language. I've been informed by by friends at Sydney Water that they can't view my site because of the 'profanity' on it. So I, Peter A Harris, hereby resolve to express myself in ways which do not involve rude, crude or lewd words. We'll see how long I last...

 

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f%$k, this is harder than i thought it would be...

...I've been at work for one week now. Yesterday was a public holiday (thank god too because I needed a break after my first week back at work) and even though I'm temping I got paid for it!! Hip hip hooray for Irish workplace laws. John Howard could learn a bit from Bertie Ahern*.

 

I work for a company called Standard Life. They do life insurance and also investments. When someone wants to cash in their investment they write in to the company and that letter ends up on my (or a similar lackeys) desk and I press some buttons, and lo and behold a cheque comes out for their money. Unfortunately there is a middle man somewhere along the process who approves the cheques so I can't just make them out to myself :(

 

It's not that exciting but it pays ok and I'm fairly busy so time doesn't drag on too much.

 

On the weekend I went to Croke park, which is the biggest sporting ground in Ireland, to watch some hurling. Hurling and gaelic football are the main sports of the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) and along with soccer are the three biggest sports in Ireland. Hurling is pretty cool. It's like a pumped up version of hockey only there's much more body contact and you can use your hands and feet on the ball as well as your stick (called a hurley). It's a very fast sport to watch and the Irish croud really gets behind their teams, the atmosphere in the stadium was awesome!)

 

Cork beat Waterford by one point in the last minute of the main game. I was going for Cork because they wear red and white (go the dragons!). Anyway, I'm out of time so I've got to go.

 

Pete

 

* Irelands Taoiseach**

 

** Irelands equivalent of prime minister, pronounced tao-seck