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I have had a lovely trip away. Now that it’s almost over I’m really looking forward to going home. Which is a good place to be.
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The main mode of transport on Hamilton Island is (apart from thongs (on feet)) the golf buggy.
After a few days they become commonplace and almost invisible. Now that they’re changing over from petrol powered buggies to straight electric, they are also almost inaudible.
From my 8th floor room I can hear the ocean swishing up and [...]
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Day 2
Originally uploaded by jojof
I am very lucky to be able to go out every day on Starkers. Today is our second last day and we have an 11:05 start.
This gives me time for blogging, breakfast and getting cranky with my father for him not receiving emails that it turns out [...]
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Today was a lay day for those of us not racing. The official programme had a trip to Whitehaven beach, which is mainly a day for boozing and topless volleyball and other such delights. So we stayed home.
There was a breakfast for the townsville contingent, but certain logistical issues with getting the right emails from [...]
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Non-plussed.
I was at reception getting change for the washing machine, when another woman lobbed up next to me and asked for an internet connection.
So, being a junkie, and having very dodgy dial-up, I asked how internet worked.
“You get one of these cards for an hour’s internet and you can use it in the business centre”.
“So [...]
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Day 2
Originally uploaded by jojof
I’ve been out two days. Today’s a lay day, which means no sailing.
It’s been nice to have a rest day. I’ve got the movie stuff started and have even uploaded pictures. I forgot to bring the camera cable, but am sticking the card into the palmtop and syncing [...]
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I spent yesterday lunching and drinking so i didn’t get the laptop out.
Today I went sailing on Starkers. Owned by the Stark family, who owned the Major, and so therefore we have the best battle cry: “GO STARKERS”. I know, but i don’t think i will ever not find this amusing.
Windy today and also probably [...]
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Scrabulous returns to Facebook as Wordscraper - Times Online.
it has round tiles to make it different
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DSC00261_b
Originally uploaded by jojof
this is the boat we liked from the sydney boat show. It’s a Sunbeam 38. Very lovely.
I figured i should put some pictures up from the last holiday before i leave for the next…
Tonight I needed to buy a new SD card. Getting on the train, things started hitting [...]
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nightstalker
Originally uploaded by jojof
First photo from the new camera. The room was actually dark when i took this, but check out those pupils. That is what stalks my head in the dark.
The colours are from a setting within the camera. It has all sorts of menus for you to play with, and [...]
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003
Originally uploaded by jojof
I decided i had had enough of the overlong and weedy appearance of my hair. So I had most of it taken off.
It may even be mostly the same colour all over now too. I can’t decide if i should colour it now, colour it red, colour it purple or [...]
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I was reading the camera manual yesterday, particularly the section on underwater photo and video. It recommended that one does not dive into water or swim with the camera in hand as the water pressure generated by this might exceed the waterproof rating of the camera.
This camera is waterproof to 4 metres. Which is further [...]
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I was partaking of my usual breakfast with junk mail when I espied the Pentax W60 on the back of the Ted’s catalogue.
It was love at first sight. I formulated a plan to have my father buy this for me as the first of our barter transactions for the work I do for him and [...]
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Red cabbage
Originally uploaded by Supriya O
I had no idea what to have for dinner tonight, and felt i should probably make a change from pasta. So I looked in the fridge.
Half a red cabbage caught my eye, and so i looked in the freezer for some bacon.
I didn’t find bacon but did find some [...]
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Red boots 1_07_07
Originally uploaded by squirrelqueen
I realised today that i spent more on petrol than on shoes yesterday.
Perhaps because petrol is a consumable and shoes less so. If they wore out once every couple of weeks I guess I would spend more.
Petrol expenditure is decreased somewhat by getting my father to fill up the [...]
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because if something is live, it must be more exciting, right?
http://jojoeffe.camstreams.com/
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Pizza Hut Japan
Originally uploaded by Aaron Olaf
In the west, a pizza from Jessies can come in small, large or family. It can take four minutes.
Here in the south east it comes in large (although peter reckons there is small i didn’t see it on the menu) and takes ten minutes.
Yes… i had pizza for [...]
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I had been looking forward to my Friday night all week and it pretty much exceeded my expectations.
It was everything really. From when Finn stopped mid-stream and asked if I’d like a cuddle (would i ever), when Leila patted me excitedly on the leg, and when Mark, Nicky and I had pizza, a chat [...]
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Finding the balance
Originally uploaded by ^Tom
Work rocks. I am busy. It looks like I will get the newer, faster, bigger laptop soon so that I can do some execution, but in the meantime I’ve still got stuff to do.
The wedding dress is going beautifully after a cranky start. I went back to [...]
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too complex
Originally uploaded by jojof
buwhahahah
i love getting unusual errors. Unfortuntately i inherited the bodgy document, and killed it when trying to clean up the formatting. Which is rather complex. Over-engineered.
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This Is What A Tantrum Looks Like
Originally uploaded by nheiges
I guess perhaps the answer to “do you mind that I’m taking Gill to china” would more accurately have been something along the lines of it being an excellent trigger for me to feel sorry for myself and to start building a lasting resentment towards the [...]
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Loved the opera tonight. Didn’t love the parking, there’s no paid facility within stilleto-stagger. Having to circle the streets got me locked out for the 1st 20 minutes.
Only found out i was going today, & only that i had a spare ticket @ 4:30pm, otherwise i’d have asked for company.
Went for dinner @ [...]
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Brass_monkeys_25
Originally uploaded by jojof
We have never quite found our rhythm this season of the brass monkeys.
Yesterday we were trying to make a decision about the sail. I suggested we decide, then do the thing we decided not to.
So we decided to leave the middle sized jib up. Then we took it down and [...]
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My mother made bran muffins from a recipe cut from the side of a packet of something. It used “Vibran” which nowadays sounds like something you’d use to treat intestinal worms. However it’s likely it was some kind of bran cereal. It seems kind of outrageous to use a cereal in cooking, considering how expensive [...]
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Cat
Originally uploaded by David of Earth (NY)
I have been attempting to teach the cats to grab stuff out of the air, like dogs do. My technique is to chuck bits of ham at their heads. Actually at the top of their heads.
It has been suggested this is futile. And indeed, I have [...]
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don’t use the “towel warm” setting on the dryer to take the chill off your jeans, no matter how frosty the morning.
Well, unless you want to shrink ‘em by at least one size.
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Rest after a strenuous workout
Originally uploaded by turgidson
It’s probably a bit early to be getting all excited but it’s been a month since i started to “see” David. That’s my family’s personal trainer.
Yesterday he made me use the dumbells. He’s training me to be the strongest winch-monkey at Royals.
Yesterday was the second time [...]
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in drunkness, I can’t see you
Originally uploaded by Abby Latif
I had a very funny ride home on the train tonight, managing to sit with the drunk person.
He was drunk but was also very amusing. I have a lot of time for happy drunk people, having been a drunk person myself quite often.
Anyway we swapped [...]
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I don’t have free tickets this time, but I do have a cheapie offer from Ticketmaster for the opera which brings the price down to $68 A Reserve, and about $45 B reserve.
It should be fun, and it has the lovely Antoinette Halloran. Who is highly recommended by my Dastardly Cousin.
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These things come and go I guess. Perhaps it’s the lack of regular structure to the last few weeks, what with my father being away and then us going to Sydney.
I just keep being surprised by my mother not being around. It seems unbelievable. Then it’s just sort of awful again. It might be that [...]
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The toe is done on the sock, and all that remains is to graft. Tomorrow I will have a new pair of socks. I reckon I should be able to manage that on the train.
Then I can breach the mental hurdle of pulling out the monkey sock that has the dropped stitch. The idea is [...]
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Australia Post Delivery.
I had no idea there was a registered post tracking system. This means I can look up the parcel and see that it has been delivered to the post office, but that i got no card for it. Not the first time either.
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Toe of the sock is started. I’m resisting the temptation to finish it now.
Dinner tonight was spagettini with a cream sauce. I haven’t done one for years. Fry off some chopped ham & mushroom while the pasta cooks. Splosh in a couple of tablespoons of cream and simmer to reduce a [...]
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Got Zen?
Originally uploaded by metadromos
i told my father he needed to get a bit more zen about travelling.
He huffed and puffed on the way to the airport, complaining about my route selection AFTER we were already committed to that way. I suggested that all this carry-on was somewhat futile. And annoying.
Anyway, we only [...]
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Barbara at the supermarket
Originally uploaded by jojof
I found this “snapshot” thing in the settings for my talking map, so had a play yesterday when we were waiting for John and Nola in the supermarket.
Turns out it puts a little camera icon on the screen, and you press it to take a picture of whatever’s there [...]
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04-08-08_0104
Originally uploaded by jojof
Cheryl (not the singer) put us up in Sydney. She and Nola have been friends since school. Which is very cool.
We were very spoiled. She has a beautiful home, and it was just lovely of her to share it with me and my father.
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IMGP2303_b
Originally uploaded by jojof
this is my mother’s piano….
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different keyboards work differently with different touch typists. Mind you, pist… hmm… been some wine consumed tonight.
However I have managed to book my father a new flight home tomorrow. He is abandoning his early flight.
Much as I love him, sometimes I just want to kill him. But that would leave me an orphan. And I [...]
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Cheryl was wonderful.
Today we’re going to yum cha and back to the boat show.
Lovely sunny Sydney day.
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Nola, John & Daddy are all on the bed watching sport & i’m knitting a sock on the chair cos there’s no room for me.
I feel like the fogey sometimes. They are like teenagers & it is a lot of fun.
We might actually see a boat tomorrow. Today Barbara navigated us via the scenic [...]
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