So, I've been thinking quite a bit about my impact on the environment lately (largely thanks to our getting airconditioning installed, and using it pretty regularly due to the hot weather we've been having). I'd really like to put some solar panels up on the roof so that I'd feel less evil for using the airconditioning, but we're renting this place ( Read more... )

So, I've been driving to work earlier than usual recently - I try to leave no later than 8am (if I can't get organised before then I'll leave around 9, rather than trying to deal with peak morning traffic). Leaving this early generally means I can get to work in about the same time it takes during the off hours, give or take a bit. However, it's / ( Read more... )

Well, not exactly a holiday . . . More like the opposite, actually ( Read more... )

Well, we finally heard back from Immigration about Sandra's visa application. It's been accepted, and she has a deadline of March 2, 2008 for getting into the country ( Read more... )

So, I haven't posted anything recently (for values of 'recently' along the lines of 'two months'). This isn't because I died or something, I've just been /stupidly/ busy with work. The whole of July was taken up with a bunch of stuff leading up to a four day trip to Sydney, then August was swallowed up by an insane amount of work on a project (185 ( Read more... )

I think this is the first time I've done this . . .

( Which Star Trek character am I? Take a wild guess . . . )

(the mood thing is from the t-shirt I'm wearing at the moment - yay Firefly ( Read more... )

Okay, so Sandra and I are actually still waiting on the FBI to complete their background check on her and get back to her, which could take another four to six weeks, so in order to keep us sane we've decided to bring her over here for a visit - a week over Easter, then back to the US to wait ( Read more... )

So, I've spent a bit more time working on stirling engines recently, since I've kind of reached a plateau in a number of other areas (which I've been working on posts about - this one just kind of came out first).

( Stirling engines 4tw (super-long) )

So, I went to enroll in a welding for beginners class at Lake Ginninderra college's night school thing, after hearing about it from iki_maska. I enroll online, at around 8:30pm on friday. I then get a call at 11am satruday morning from the guy who organises the classes saying (paraphrased) "Yeah, I'm sorry about that class you enrolled in being closed - we ( Read more... )