Of Late Trains

Not a great start to the week with City Rail up to its old tricks again. The train before mine was running late this morning, not that any City Rail employee was going to let us know. It was already 5 minutes overdue when someone finally decided to play the recorded message announcing that the train was running 6 minutes late. This was already after the time that MY train was supposed to have arrived. Naturally, they were keeping quiet on when exactly that train was going to get there.

After it finally arrived they added another twist by throwing in a couple of unscheduled stopes at Banksia and Arncliffe stations. They didn't tell us why and no-one got on or off seeing as the train wasn't supposed to stop there in the first place. Thanks to City Rail's arse-about way of reporting lateness, this will be one of those situations where the trains were not "technically" late.

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It was a good day for a run again today. May weather continues to provide the most superb conditions for running in Sydney. Cool and sunny ensures that you're comfortable pretty much from the first kilometre to the last. It inspires me to get out and enjoy the conditions as often as I can. 10k today just sailed by.

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I noticed on the news tonight that tornadoes have ripped a huge path of devastation across Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. The images showed massive damage with whole neighborhoods completely obliterated. The sobering news came at the end of the report when we were reminded that this is only the very beginning of tornado season and it's very possible that more will follow. add to that the terrible scenes from Burma and the death toll as a result of the recent cyclone and it hits home just how much power Mother Nature can wield at times.