I've just sit down at my desk after doing the dishes and dancing to Ricky Martin. I made spicy chicken wings and fried rice/vegetables for dinner for my flatmates and myself. I intend to start studying for my first exam (in eight days) tonight.

Today at work, I tried writing a piece of code in Python that takes every one of the bus stops in my dataset of bus stops across Wellington City, find the coincident ones, and displace them all by about 10cm so that there are no longer any coincident points. This will allow to me to build a functioning multimodal network dataset of Wellington's walking, driving, cycling and public transport network. After I have executed this code, I just have to get the ferry stops and routes and I'm ready to rock and roll my code out across a grid of hundreds of PCs across the university to do my bidding calculate about 600,000 route calculations to inform my boss' econometric analysis on residential choice, car ownership and commute mode decisions. I expect this doesn't make sense to anyone outside of the people I work with and I haven't really bothered explaining it here or to anyone who doesn't work with me, including my girlfriend. I have attached a quick map I pulled together a while back that illustrates part of the outcome.

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Also at work today, two colleagues left to greener pastures. We had a huge morning tea, and I scored three bacon and egg paninis, two chocolate and caramel brownies, a chicken and cream cheese sandwich, several muffins and some biscuits... all for free. Need a long run tomorrow to work all that off.