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lorikeets[1] in the plum tree screeched at us to go away, we were interrupting their feasting
[1] Rainbow lorikeet
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
bushfires all over the east of Victoria for weeks and not a peep out of the Alpine Classic, no updates on their website, no emails, nothing. Will they cancel?
2020 cycling every day... a challenge
Each year for the past few years I try and ride as often as I can, my reasoning is that if I can’t go far, at least I can go often! Best effort to date was 2017 when I managed to ride 363 of 365 days, succumbing to the flu and staying in bed for two days in September. Rules are minimal; on the bike and over 1 ㎞, hopefully over 1.
Saved by habit! Nearly left my keys at Lorne
Habits are a wonderful thing. Whenever I go for a bike ride, I put my house keys in my left rear jersey pocket, my phone in the right, and maybe a snack or sunglasses or coin pouch in the centre one. I hop on the bike, ride off, and reach back and pat pockets, right then left … just to be sure.
Today I was leaving Lorne to ride the 60 ㎞ back to Waurn Ponds before catching the train to Melbourne to have the house to myself for two days while I had to go to work….
2019 Bike commutes
Annual bike commute summary and statistics.
I think I rode to work every day this year, at least I can’t remember catching the bus. Shortest ride was around 2-3 ㎞ when I had to drive to my parents in law’s house and ride from there. Longest was probably 30-40 ㎞ on a Thursday or Friday afternoon when I can take a detour on the way home and go exploring.
From the visualisation of all the GPX tracks I saved its all variations on a theme and either straight out and back each day or an approximately anti-clockwise loop.
2019 lunchtime walks; 186 of 253 possible days – Mondays to Fridays, without leave days
oodk – Out of Disk Killer
# rpm -qi oodk Name : oodk Version : 0.1.2 Release : 6.e23_5 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Wed Sep 31 01:23:45 2019 Group : System Environment/Kernel Size : 2266176773 License : CDDL Source RPM : oodk-0.1.2-1.src.rpm Relocations : (not relocatable) URL : http://localhost/ Summary : Disk equivalent of Out of Memory Killer Description : This package contains the Out Of Disk Killer. At system defined levels randomly chosen directories are securely deleted from the file sysetm.breakfast discussions on cow reaching escape velocity, use of the moon for gravity slingshot, and cow re-entry
The plums are ripening, and as fast as they do, the blackbirds[1] peck holes in them and they fall off and rot
[1] Common blackbirdmisty rain, dead legs, sore arse. Feeling like a post audax lump of lead
Cool and grey ride, feeling flat and sore and mentally exhausted, magpies[1] warbled in the trees
[1] Australian magpieMy Spotify artist of the decade – Tinariwen
My Spotify top artists, 2-5 – Tinariwen / The Stranglers / Lee Hazlewood / Killing Joke
Spotify suggests that I let Leonard Cohen (rip) know that I listened to him most of all artists this year
that horrible lurching adrenalin feeling as I thought I'd lost my journal – dropped on a walk – no, left it in the car
Wolfgang[1] staying the night via #warmshowers, on his way from Melbourne to Sydney
[1] WolfgangSpotify seems to think I'm in South Australia, I keep getting University of South Australia and South Australian motorbike ads
Well that's a first; a Russian dating spam purporting to be a gay man, perhaps its because I never responded to the female ones
Google Keep is always popping up "You are signed out, sign back in" – why do I suspect a product to be discontinued
The cockies[1] are back, splitting unripe plums and adding to the general mess under the plum tree in the back garden
[1] Sulphur-crested cockatoo
Otago Central Rail Trail — Day 4 — Hyde to Middlemarch
Last day of our four day trip along the Otago Central Rail Trail
Otago Central Rail Trail — Day 3 — Wedderburn to Hyde
Our third day along the Otago Central Rail Trail
Coffeeneuring 2019 no. 7 — International Railtrail Coffeeneuring
In a week of riding along the Otago Central Rail Trail for our first “overseas family bike touring holiday” we drank at least one decent coffee a day that would qualify, for clarity, here’s the one I chose to be number seven of this year’s challenge.
There was a coffee on day one, but I was too busy enjoying it to take a coffeeneuring photo. Day two of our mini bike tour was from Omakau to Wedderburn, with the morning tea stop coming early at Lauder.
Otago Central Rail Trail — Day 2 — Omakau to Wedderburn
Second day of our four day ride along the Otago Central Rail Trail
Otago Central Rail Trail — Day 1 — Clyde to Omakau
Stepping up our Rail Trail game, we went international
cockies[1] have found the plum tree, the ground underneath is littered with split green plums, the kernel eaten out of the stones
[1] Sulphur-crested cockatoobother, I think my 256MB Samsung SSD from 2013 died sometime today
🎶MyPlan / Waits for me / Like a mongrel waits / Downwind on a tight rope leash:🎶 – with appologies to Ultravox & our HR's "MyPlan" system
tomato seedlings survived the hail last Friday, but their location will make automatic watering problematic in summer
Coffeeneuring 2019 no. 6 — The Solo Slog
A long one, and it would have been “an event” and disqualified according to the rules, but the event was cancelled so I rode the route anyway.
In 2012 I first rode “The Slog”, a 160 ㎞ fund-raising ride around Gippsland, starting and finishing at the Chairo Christian School just out of Pakenham. I’ve entered it and ridden every year since, except for 2013 where I entered but stayed home due to illness & bad weather.
YTBC[1] flock of 6-8 flew over
[1] Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
Coffeeneuring 2019 no. 5 — Lorne to the lighthouse
Two rides in a row, two days apart, acceptably within the bounds of the rules.
Unlike two days ago, today I left Lorne on the Great Ocean Road to the north-east, off towards Aireys Inlet and the Split Point Lighthouse.
Out of town, a few kilometres of flat coast road then up Big Hill and into the steeper forest sections, winding and twisting. Up and over Cinema point and down to Eastern view and back to flat coastal road and eventually, to pass under the arch that marks the official start of the Great Ocean Road.
Tramway walk yesterday afternoon
Very strong winds around the pier and point so we walked the tramway track. Getting overgrown in places. Around to the river then up to the lookout. Saw two yellow-tailed black cockies[1] and a Gang-gang[2] on the way back from teddy’s lookout. [1] Yellow-tailed black cockatoo [2] Gang-gangBirds on the road
Gang-gangs[1] x3, honeyeaters two types. Currawongs[2] calling, magpies[3], black cormorants & blue wrens & lots of crimson rosellas [1] Gang-gang [2] Pied currawong [3] Australian magpie
Coffeeneuring 2019 no. 4 — Kennet river koffee
A long weekend down at Lorne, an afternoon out along the Great Ocean Road. I’m over half way through the coffeeneuring challenge for 2019.
Road riding options from Lorne are somewhat limited; its either along the coast one way, towards Wye River, along the coast the other way to Aireys Inlet, or inland to Deans Marsh. Today it was fifty kilometres or so, south-west along the Great Ocean Road through Wye River and on to Kennet River, stop for a coffee at the Kafe Koala, then retrace my route back to Lorne.
trying to cool the house down with the doors open, a huge European wasp[1] flies in, zooms around the kitchen and makes life hell for three or four minutes
[1] European waspCame home to find two ravens[1] sitting on the back gate, I think one a fledgeling, perhaps making use of the birdbath
[1] Little ravenAbout
ajft looking stylish and black
…The Owner
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
…The Site
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
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