Today was mostly routine. Ethics classes in the morning and evening. I made pasta for dinner in between the evening classes – just a simple pesto with broccoli and pine nuts. I took Scully for a long walk at lunch time. Thankfully the weather was much nicer today than yesterday, with sunshine and temperature almost up to 19°C.
Here’s a view from the walk, looking over the HMAS Waterhen navy base, out over the upper harbour and Parramatta River:
Down by the water, on the nearby civilian marina, I spotted this little black cormorant:
They’re moderately common around the water regions here. Further along the cove was this damaged yacht, which is definitely not common. It wasn’t here last time I walked the same way. I presume it must have been damaged in the heavy rain weather last week. I don’t expect it’ll be here for long – the authorities like to keep this area pretty clean.
In other news, I got a call from my mother, using her neighbour’s mobile phone. Her Internet and VOIP landline were down. I recently switched her to a new ISP to save money, and the old account was cancelled yesterday, and now I’m thinking that the fact that it was working for the past week was only because it was still connected to the old ISP, not the new one, an I need to go over and reconfigure the modem or something. Which is inconvenient since she lives an hour’s drive away. So I’ve made arrangements to go over on Saturday. It’ll be easier than trying to talk her through the configuration over the phone.