Spent a wonderful christmas in Adelaide with Chris's family. Pressies all round, water fights, all the usual hot weather festivities (except the weather wasn't that hot!!). Hacker BBQ at Groggy's was excellent, also! Looking foward to taking Rodney to work to meet everyone!

New years was in Ballarat with my fam. We had a great time, Chris approves of my favourite Ballarat restaurant, got to spend some time with parents, grandmother, surprise visit from my gorgeous cousin, Cassie, and her (relatively) new husband.

And getting down to business... Because our government and tax system is so screwed up, we get rewarded for driving more and penalised for driving less when taking up a salary sacrifice car lease. As such, if I don't come up with another 9000km between today and March, it's going to cost me somewhere in the vicinity of $4500. Ouch... Seriously, given environmental concerns, you would think they'd be willing to provide tax cuts for looking after the world we live in and driving less... Idiots... As such, we drove from Canberra to Adelaide to Ballarat to Canberra for Chrissy and New Year.

ANYWAYS... Driving home from Ballarat to Canberra yesterday. Not too much traffic on the roads, so it was rather good driving long distance when most people were suffering from hangovers and unable to drive. One person who wasn't suffering from some such hangover was this fella - around mid thirties - driving a (approximate guess here) 1997ish dark blue holden commodore station wagon.

This driver stayed pretty close behind us until just before the Victoria/NSW border. Not so close that it was annoying or even dangerous, but close enough to see clearly from my rear view mirror. As such, I could see that for EVERY bend in the road, he would indicate and change lanes to get to the inside of the corner, therefore cutting about 2.5mm distance from each corner (possible under-exaggeration here, but you get that). We figured that he was probably REALLY proud of himself for his ability to drive less distance, probably thought it was an excellent short cut. Chris and I just thought "WHAT A WANKER!"... Seriously - why bother?!?

If anyone can give valid reason why cutting corners is good in any driving other than grand prix and the likes, please tell!!!