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Money, money, money
I just came back from a trip to the casino with the boys. First time I have been to the casino in probably ten years if not more. We did not go there to gamble, we went there because one of the guys had heard about a new bar there called The Merrywell which had got some good write ups and he wanted to try it out ( Read more... ) -
Renovations...
My laundry had a wonderful orange benchtop, very fashionable about 30 years ago, so I decided to paint it with this paint and two part epoxy stuff. It was a wonderful idea until I discovered the bench was rotten and needed more work. That lead to me replacing the bench top and the replacement wasn't as thick, so I ended up re-tiling because of ( Read more... ) -
Wildlife!
Ok, Drhoz asked me if I saw any interesting bugs out at site to let him know, I've been stalking around with a camera, so under the cut, if the right buttons are pushed should be some photos of interest.
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That was interesting
There is a video doing the rounds on the net at the moment of our Prime Minister, Tony Abbot taking questions from students from a high school. I'm not sure of the setup, but from what is said I gather the students were on a trip to Canberra, the PM walked past and guessed it would be a nice thing to speak to the kids. There was a bit of banter, ( Read more... ) -
Bugs!
Hey drhoz, these are for you
These were out at site, so the middle of the Murchison. I found 3 or 4 of them, all dead. I'm guessing with those colours, they blew out of one of the gum trees which was nearish, but maybe not. They're about 2.5-3cm long.
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Hi all
For those who don't know I alternate between working in town and out at site in what've we've nicknamed DIDO (Drive in/Drive out) I'm roughly on site every second week or so. We normally drive out Monday and head back on Friday. The drive is about 350km and takes about 4-4.5hours. That is to get to our accommodation. The worksite is another ( Read more... ) -
2013, the rear in review...
I'm only 9 days late, but thought I'd put in the yearly summary since last year was pretty major. My parents had been bugging me for ages to get out of my comfort zone and I'll freely admit that my work was not as exciting as it once was ( Read more... ) -
First movie of 2014
I saw The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug last night. Most of the people have covered it. A lot better than the first one. Annoying, but predictable cliff-hanger ending. Still had some slow Middle Earth lore moments, but otherwise it was good ( Read more... ) -
It's been one of those days...
My lawn has been looking a bit sick lately so last weekend I ran around replacing the broken sprinklers. I replaced one sprinkler on a station which had 8 sprinklers and then none of them wanted to work. I ended up capping off two more of them and that gave me a system which sort of limped through the week ( Read more... ) -
A good read
I finally finished off the Age of the Five Trilogy by Trudi Canavan today. I had read her Black Magician Trilogy a while back and rather enjoyed it, so I got the Age of the Five Trilogy, I made it through the first book quickly, then I just got bogged down in the second book (Sorry Trudi) The middle third took me ages to get through, I'd read a ( Read more... )