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(My) Photo of the day



Here is one from this morning of a random bloke walking to work. He's pictured outside of the Tasmania Parliament, but I'm not sure if he works there. Whether or not he has important top secret documents to be shredded, or has a bunch of shredded documents to be unshredded in order to see if they are important top secret documents, I am also not sure.

It was a good day today. I got to leave work early and celebrate my wedding anniversary.

And it didn't rain.

Comments

LOL! I like your sense of humor, very funny! :-D

Nice capture!
Isadora said…
That is a serious 'parlamenty' look on that building. As far as secrets - well, if you knew, it would no longer be a secret :)

Happy Anniversary! Hope you've prepared a nice surprise.

As far as what would I be drinking at the vineyard :) why, some of our wonderful dry, blushing rose, of course. Schnaps sounds good - but for that I have to be in the mood. You'd fit right in with the Hungarians. The old timers start the work day with a shot. :)
Kris McCracken said…
I reckon that I could use a bottle of scnaps to get me through work today!
Neva said…
Happy Anniversary! Hope it was great! Love the man in the photo....looks very important!
Dina said…
Mazal-tov on y'all's anniversary.
Kris McCracken said…
It was a good day. I got to eat some lovely Tasmanian squid, and that's always a good thing.

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