A day late, but better late than never...

Yes, if you have just woken up after your new year's eve celebrations, you haven't missed anything so far--except perhaps the hottest new year's day on record for Melbourne (41.5 degrees Celsius after a new year's eve on which the temperature only sunk below thirty degrees at 5:30am before instantly heating up again...)

I'm off to see Spamalot today with my wife's Lutheran pastor--who also happens to be one of my best and oldest friends. Back when we were young high school students, it was still considered de rigueur for all budding humourists to be able to quote a goodly percentage of the Monty Python corpus off by heart, complete with funny voices. Alas, just one more point on which the modern generation continues to fall under par...