The Australian Government is on to a great idea here. Can't imagine it taking hold in the US with so many lawmakers beholden to Big Tobacco but there you go. As the US thinks about health care reform, this concept is key - prevention is the critical piece.
Please note that productivity out of my office (OK, OK...the room I share with Kim) may be slower than usual from July 7 - 11 due to the First Test being played at Cardiff. You may hear the dulcet tones of the BBC's cricket commentators coming from said office as they exhort their wonder at the boys from Down Under.
This is serious. This is the Ashes. Unlike the local "World Series" played here by your sometime drug - assisted Rounders League, this actually involves teams from two entirely different countries playing for pride (and a few bucks) powered by tea and cucumber sandwiches. (I am amazed drugs haven't hit Cricket - not sure why. There's a lot less money involved so maybe that's why)
It involves a series of five games played every two years between Australia and England dating back to 1882.
The greatest batsmen of all time - Don Bradman (pictured above) - an Australian who was a stock broker by trade averaged 99.94. That is the number of runs he scored on average in an innings over his 20 year career. Only three other payers in history have averages over 60. The man was a freak. And every cricket fan father hopes his son emerges as the next Bradman. His trick was to practice hitting a golf ball with a cricket stump (like the thin end of a baseball bat) against a currugated water tank (so a curved surface). Try it sometime.
So fair warning has been given. I might be out of it over the next week...!
Boys: Jack, William, Lachlan, Joshua, Riley, Thomas, Cooper, Oliver, James and Ethan.
Girls: Mia, Chloe, Isabella, Charlotte, Emily, Ella, Olivia, Sienna, Ava and Sophie.
Yesterday, I noticed a tweet from someone who like the look of our new gCloth inserts. She posed the question on twitter to diapers.com (a great customer of ours)- would they be carrying it? Diapers.com replied by twitter that they'd follow up with gDiapers. Seeing this string, I sent a tweet to both of them explaining we were trialing it on our own site first and if it was a success, we would most definitley be calling them.
Who needs email?
1. 16 miles on spring water trail at 3am.
(Entertainment provided by NPR's A Prairie Home Companion, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, This American Life then tunes by Jason Mraz and that racy Brit Popper, Lily Allen)
2. Home by 6am to watch the Wallabies smash the French 22 - 6 with Fynn.
3. Fynn's "Rookie Rugby" kicks off at 9am.
4. On a boat on Lake Oswego by midday.
