Training Log Archive: O-ing

To a pepper steak pie (yum) at Pie in the Sky.
Saw a lyre bird as it walked out on the road, and back again, behind the Bobbin Head cafe.

Big Foot, short via McCarrs Ck to West Head turn off and return. Foot OK on bike, still sore to walk on, but there has been some improvement in the last couple of days. Foot good on the bike and fitness OK considering its 4 weeks since I made this ride.

Test ride from home. Foot was much more comfortable on the bike than walking, or even sitting down/standing at times. Could almost tick off the cold as well but still a few sticky coughs.

Antony Green has several interesting pages on his ABC site.
One very important thing I learned is that if you try doing below the line and stuff up that your vote will still count if you put an above the line vote as a backup. They look below the line first and if that doesn't work they will take an above the line vote.

Using the Senate Calculator its pretty clear that the Lib/Nats will have an uphill battle to take the 4th seat in NSW, so the outside possibility is actually that the ALP may retain their 3rd seat instead. The front runners for the sixth seat (after Coalition 3, ALP 2) are still the Greens and the Right Wing (e.g. One Nation, Fred Nile, Shooters and Fishers, Family First, LDP etc among 35 above the line options).

Note that voting Lib/Nat will mean that after they get their 3 seats the remaining unused votes will flow to Fred Nile and then the other right wing parties except for One Nation which they put last.

So the options are now:
Green = R (Green), E (Voluntary Euthanasia), K (Future Party), AF (Democrats), AM (Socialist Alliance), AO (Pirate Party) and AP (Secular Party)
ALP = F (unnamed), M (ALP), AG (unnamed).
All other above the line votes will probably end up with one of the right wing parties - even AK (Stop CSG) which goes to Family First ahead of the Greens.

C • Have you sent your postal vote yet? 2

Foot still pretty sore all day (5/10 usability - no chance of running yet). Cold lingering in chest, bad night last night. Actually a pretty convenient time to have a cold when I'm out injured.