Monday 19th September - Burglary!

Well for once a monday morning in work has never been so exciting! I rocked up at 7.50am as per usual to find the door was completely smashed in. I walked in to the commotion in the office to hear the dreadful news that on saturday afternoon, some hooligan had broken in and trashed the office, stealing 500AUD from the safe (which he hacked open) and some needles from one of the surgeries. The patients files were all over the place and the office was a tip. Luckily he hadnt touched the lockers as i have a very expensive pair of loupes (dental magnifier glasses) in mine. The guy has been caught. He has not long come out of prison and broke in to a few places in the Hervey Bay area and was caught holding up a woman at gun point down on the esplanade....psycho! The alarm had apparently been going off but it took the police about 2 hours to check the place out...by which time he was on the move  to the next location.

Gaz took the car in to get serviced and to find out what the rattling was. The good news is it only cost 170AUD to get fixed. It was a problem with the catylitic converter...some honeycomb filter had come loose. Luckily the car is under warrenty so the place we got it from has to pay an extra 250AUD to get it fixed. Had we kept driving the car, the filter thing would have got stuck further in and would have cost around a grand to get fixed! Somehow the 40AUD taxi ride to my riding lesson doesnt seem so expensive any more! Gaz asked the bloke what condition he reckoned the car was in and the mechanic said it was in very good condition.

Gaz and I have been for ice cream on the pier because he has had a very bad day on the computer. Hes cooking me din dins now and then we are going to relax and watch a film...tomorrow i start my first class at the gym!