While traipsing around Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's Indonesia, acting out Christopher Koch's The Year of Living Dangerously, we came across the identity of the new president of Melbourne's members only The Australian Club. 
The global village, what?
The next to lead the revered institution, which sits grandly on the corner of William Street and Little Collins, will be John Hood. His two-year term will officially begin after the club's   April 21 dinner.
It's an apt choice. Hoody, formerly of the headhunting business, is now the chairman of Mecwacare, an aged-care facility.
Not a few who have visited The Australian Club's grand dining hall may have thought they were at the same type of institution, as mumbling octogenarian members shuffle haphazardly after their post-lunch port.
This, after all, is a world in which Victorian president Michael Kroger, who turns 59 next month, is considered boyish. Fellow member Hugh Morgan, who turns 76 in   September, is "Young Morgan".
Hood will replace current president Robert Logie-Smith ("Gold Logie" to members), who has embarked on the first major restoration of the storied building in more than half a century.
Members agree the erection of the necessary scaffolding is one of the more exciting events in the club's history - up there with the fire that raged under a blocked chimney a few years ago and alongside a, perhaps apocryphal, encounter between a predecessor of the current hall man Neville and a senior BHP executive. But club rules mean we had better not say anything more about that.