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My journey home from Singapore is made notable by the fact that I am flying on the new Airbus A380 super jumbo (the hyperbole is theirs not mine!)… They say this is the most significant aircraft since the jumbo was launched in the early 70’s, but I’m not so sure, it’s all but incremental really… So it is bigger and heavier, but that’s not all that impressive, JAL will run it domestically in full Economy configuration, meaning more than 800 passengers will be on board, but again, so what, the bubble headed 747 takes some 500 in that format, what’s another 300 sardines? No, I’m not ready to be impressed, silly big fat bird will be my bed for the night, and it’d better not be impressive enough to keep me awake, or there will be trouble! Oh, actually, it does have these on board…. they are, eh, interesting.

The pace has been nuts these past few weeks and it has taken its toll on Diana and I. I’ve spent the past two weeks more away than home and I’m ready for that to change; Bombay and Seattle topped out a helluva two months, two months that topped a crazy couple of years, two years that followed three just “very busy” years, how fitting. Since come to Australia in January ’05 we have renovated and sold two homes, had two kids and been around the world a couple of times, since January ’07, we renovated and sold one of those houses and had just one of those kids (I should say, Ivy), oh, and in that time I’ve spent one in three of those precious days out of the country – I think we’re a wee bit over it. 

A change will do us good, a change that involves me travelling a wee bit less and seeing the kids a wee bit more and us renovating a bit less and having a bit more free time may even sound like a couple of silver bullets.