Bloodwork
Bloodwork came back normal. I'm remaining cautiously optimisitic, but have defensively booked a cardiologist appointment anyway.

3am in Sydney (new ipod)
I'm up in Sydney teaching Perl for the third time in four weeks. This is such a common occurrence that it's not normally even worth blogging about unless there's a Sydney.pm meeting (which there is tonight). However this visit is very special, and all due to an incident that occured yesterday morning.

After waking in the middle of the night and discovering my pillow could be more comfortable, I raided the cupboard in my hotel room for alternative bedding. While grabbing a fresh pillow a small item fell from the shelf and landed on my foot. I placed it beside my bed and slept until my alarm woke me.

To my delight, I discovered the item was an ipod nano with 4Gb of storage. It had been sitting on the top shelf of the cupboard, completely out of sight, and probably out of reach except that it got dragged out with my pillow. No doubt it belonged to one of the previous hotel guests. I found myself wondering what they were like.

In fact, one can tell quite a lot about a person from their music player. In this particular case, I know that the previous owner's name was probably Jamie, and he likes gangsta rap, bourbon, motorcycles and porn. Jamie also didn't have the foresight to include a contact number or address. Real shame that, since it doesn't give me a good way to return it. Guess I'll have to hang on to it for now.