This morning I worked on my report for Standards Australia on the recent ISO Photography Standards meeting I attended in Japan. I have to summarise all of the relevant technical and administrative discussions and resolutions of the meeting, which means going through my own notes, the official minutes, and about 50 separate reports on all of the work that was done at the meeting and since the last meeting (in Sydney back in October last year). It takes a good three hours or so to work through all of that and complete the document, and then submit it to SA.
I’d thought about taking a long drive with Scully for lunch, to get out of the house a bit since I don’t have any ethics classes today. But I still had some rye sourdough loaf at home and decided to use that up for my lunch instead.
I took Scully for a walk instead, around the harbour shore and past Bay Brew where I tried another of their sweet treats, this time a coconut rough slice. It was okay, but not as good as the caramel slice I had last week.
After we got home I worked on a new Darths & Droids comic, and then started preparing for our trip to New Zealand on Friday. I checked out the NZ Traveller Declaration site online, which is a form we need to fill out prior to arrival. But it says you are only allowed to start filling it out within 24 hours of your departure, so we couldn’t do it today and will have to do it tomorrow. We need the address of our accommodation in NZ, but I don’t know where we’re staying. My wife’s sister booked accommodation for the whole family, so I actually have no idea where it is. But my wife got the info so we can fill in the form tomorrow.
I also prepared my bird-watching apps, Merlin ID and eBird, by downloading and installing bird data packs for New Zealand. I neglected to do this before leaving for Japan, which meant they defaulted to generic common birds, making some IDs difficult when we were over there.
Lastly, I formatted my Japan travel diary into web pages on my site. These are essentially the same text as the daily posts I posted here while in Japan, but I’ve added a lot of extra photos for the first two days so far, and will add more as I get through processing them. Id hoped to have this completed by the time we leave for NZ, but I’ve run out of time!