Monday has arrived, I’m still on a high from the long weekend of music, settling back into the work flow - I have decided to change the configuration of my little lab at work, so that I can play around with some very specific ‘layer 2′ scenarios based around traffic/load sharing and high availability….to ‘bespoke’ end user site running 2 IP instances (one for backup); it’s all really technical and really boring so I won’t pollute my blog any further than this.

In other news….? Wellington Pelorus Trust Brass Band = Grade A (yeah!!!)

Whilst I played my part, it’s largely down to all the fine soloists in the band to have got us where we are today. It certainly humbles me each time I hear them play. Meanwhile my own playing is slowly coming along.

A few shameful skating pictures will follow soon, along with some of the rather English looking architecture of Christchurch!! Loads of Christopher Wren influence abounds…

Yup we went, and we did it again, and to be fair it was an extremly CLOSE contest, we only won by 2 points! However, this now means that we can compete in the A Grade next year, which means Wellington once again has an A-Grade band - which hasn’t been the case since around 2001 I believe?

Also - I managed to learn to ice-skate (cringe) …uh… kinda…. fell over like thirty plus times, got extremley sore, but after an hour and a half managed to stay away from the wall, with some semblance of forward movement for about 20 seconds!! Which I think is amazing for my first try, plus the fact I have no sense of balance.

To round of the last week of Brass Banding we competed in the Band of the Year contest which along with our section contests were streamed live over the internet! Alas I think they weren’t stored for retrospective viewing, unless they come later? I’ll keep my eye out, anyways unspurisingly Woolston Brass won; and I am told we came joint Second with Cantebury Brass. Woolston were even kind enough to loan us use of their bandroom whilst we were in Christchurch and this was quite a humbling exprience for me, as the bandroom has a museum dedicated to this bands illustrious history, I’m gutted I didn’t think to take any pictures of the hall, but hey ho….I’ll upload some of my Christchurch piccies when I get the time, as I have work in the morning, and need to grab some sleep….