Head cold weekend

So my weekend was very boring ... I started feeling a bit sick on Friday afternoon and then spent Saturday and Sunday snuffling on the couch before perking up enough to come to work this morning! What a cruel world. I left the house once, on Saturday, to go to the chemist and get some nasal decongestant. The front page of the local paper this morning was about the emergency departments being overwhelmed by upper respiratory viruses so there are a few bugs about. 

On Friday morning I had a work visit to the Canberra Deep Space Centre out at Tidbinbilla which was fascinating but extremely cold in the thick fog. We were allowed to go into the operations centre where, sure enough, they're tracking Voyager out past the solar system. I just find this amazing, that there's a NASA facility half an hour away spending all its time peering into deep space. For scale, that sticking-up-bit in the centre of the dish (tower plus the three cones on top) is the height of a five storey building. A person wouldn't be much higher than the dark ring around the bottom. It's ENORMOUS.