Sport

I find it strange that although every sporting team that you support can lose their respective sporting event during the weekend, the weekend can still be classed as a great weekend. Take the weekend that has just passed for instance; you may or may not know that I am an avid Forumla 1 fan and when the melbourne grand prix comes around all other tasks for the weekend become priority number 2 (meaning they never get done).
Being a true Australian I support Mark Webber on his quest to winning the world championship (which should be in the bag this year) but this year I have started a dream team for Formula 1 (Weird I know, how do you even score that?!?) so it has meant that my support has been distributed further than just Red Bull.
To summarise a very complex system of the dream team you have a set budget and you have to pick 4 drivers, 2 cars and a team. In all my wisdom I thought that Mercedes had some pretty good pre-season testing, were cheap, had Schumacher and Rosberg two great drivers and would probably win out of the mid range cars (so average maybe a 6-8th placing). In addition, for my drivers I choose Mark Webber (of course) two other drivers (that you don't need to know about) and Rubens Barrichello a great sensible, reliable driver (who for some strange reason had to be my double pts guy). This was all looking pretty good and I was confident going into the weekend. However come race day Barrichello decides to crash into Rosberg taking both of them out of the race and then Schumacher then had to retire for some reason I can no longer remember, Mark decided to fail once again and came 5th and so all in all the race was a complete disaster.
However it was still great! Having the season back on and watching all the improvements to all the cars was brilliant! Mark Webber could have had a season ending crash and I probably would have still loved the weekend.

Secondly; my sister, her husband and I went and saw the ACT Brumbies saturday night at Canberra Stadium. They are our local Rugby Union team and we normally go down to the pub on a fri/saturday night and watch their games. This year has been a bit of a flop for the Brumbies, however this week was the grudge match - the one we had to win. Our opponents were the Waratahs a team from just across the border and this is always the Australian match to watch, the local derby, the battle of the greats, the one you need to win... and we were confident of a win.

We lost... on the siren. Pretty much the worst way to lose, apart from the previous match where the scoreline was 52-10 and it was just embarrassing.
But even that can't ruin a great sporting weekend, it's great! If you want to know the secret to a great weekend then just watch sport... or if you don't like sport then uh, go shopping or something...

So what have we learnt this weekend? a) Sport is great, b) Peter took a really long time to blog this post considering the weekend was 4 days ago...

Petey