Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
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Looking north to Melbourne CBD, construction cranes against the skyline
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
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Construction cranes looming over the MCG, the setting sun hilighting them against thunderclouds
Last day in the city
Last day of pretending I worked in the city. It still felt strange being in the train and heading into the CBD in the morning, looking around at all the power-suits sitting around studiously ignoring each other.
I’d completely forgotten that there was the Grand Final parade at lunch time, heading out to walk around the block I ran smack into ten thousand people — two-thirds of them from interstate, since the players in the grand final are Port Adelaide and Brisbane Lions.
The Bank, the Bank!
Surprise, surprise. The documents that we should have had a week or so ago, the documents that we were assured were being sent Express Post last Thursday, the documents that failed to show up on Friday? Well those documents didn’t actually get sent! They are being sent Express Post today (Monday) — honest, they really truly are! If we don’t get them tomorrow, we are to call straight away…
Maybe I should make them walk the plank?
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Will blowing out the second round of candles on Kath's cake
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Kath, Will and Jack, all blowing out the candles on her birthday cake
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Kath and Will with her birthday cake
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Jack making mysterious faces
Life into Boxes
Hmm, not such a bad idea for a weblog title. As it is, its more a description of a day spent, seemingly endlessly, putting books, books and more books into a myriad of cardboard boxes.
Finally escaped in the afternoon, only to change hats and pretend I was a computer repair-man. Where’s that No I will not fix your computer tee-shirt when I need it? Seems that Kath’s PC has suffered at the hands of the local electricity supplier, in the immortal words of Catweazle, “noothingk works.
![MLP — Bookmarks for [2004-09-19 Sun]](https://ajft.org/img/default1.jpg)
MLP — Bookmarks for [2004-09-19 Sun]
Soekris Engineering: Low-cost embedded systems, based on Geode processor
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Dennis models his birthday t-shirt and sombrero in Taco Bills
Dinner 4 Dennis
A brief chance to test some minimal Spanish this evening — dinner at Taco Bell for Dennis’ birthday. As always, any photo of Dennis must also include Jo! Apparently I’m meant to get suspicious at some point…
Dennis models his birthday t-shirt and sombrero
Refs. [1], [2], [3], [4]
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Looking out through the etched-glass doors of Bar Humbug on Bridge road
1, 2, 3, 4... 4... 3..., 2... and now only 1
Johnny Ramone dies at 55, joining Joey and Dee Dee. Nearly the end of an era. [http://www.ramones.com/]
With serendipitous timing, The Spazzys launch Aloha! Go Bananas tomorrow, I’m sure there’ll be dedications galore.
Last Supper (at Groove Train)
OK, it’s probably not going to be our last supper there, but there’s a sense of loss in the air as I realise that after almost six years living in Richmond, I won’t be eating there quite so often! Good tasty food as (nearly) always, friendly staff, decent coffee — there had better be somewhere equally good when we move!
Then up the street for a drink at Bar Humbag, joking that we’d better do a round of the suburb and catch up on all those places that we were going to get to “one of these days.
Site news
Ugly hack. Quick bit of script and thumbnails of the day’s photos get tacked on the end of each journal entry. A cousin had remarked that although she read the journally bits, she missed some of the photos. Well here you are then, take a look at last Saturday and Sunday for example.
More Moving Moments
“Where are our loan documents?” we ask the bank. “Oh,” says the bank, “Don’t you have them yet?” “NO.” “Ah, we’re sending them right away, Express Post, in fact.”
Do not trust the bank. Do not trust any bank. Jump up and down and stay on top of the bank or they will not do things that they should do. Remember this.
Then after ten minutes filling out an online quote form with Grace removals, I finally get to the end and hit submit, only to be confronted by:
BV's competence... part II
Following on from yesterday’s fun’n’games with Bicycle Victoria, I tried again to login to their website, this time using the password that we found at home on a letter from BV. Still no success. This time when I tried to ring them up I finally managed to get through to a human being. On asking why I seem to be unable to login to their website:
Oh yes, we changed all the passwords a year or so ago when we moved to a new database.
Non-existence
It seems that since my Bicycle Victoria membership expired before Jo’s and we rejoined as a “family membership,” I have ceased to exist in their records.
They just can’t seem to get their heads around the family membership thing. Every time I call them or mail them I get asked to become a member, then when I tell them that I am a member they politely tell me that this is not the case.
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Marko's steam engine passes at eye-level
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Marko preparing to show off his steam train
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Leadlight window in Marko and Lesley's house
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Marko starting his steam engine
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The final lie of the bowls in the Garfield carpet bowls championships
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Jo showing her winning style in the Garfield carpet bowls championships
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Lesley showing her style in the Garfield carpet bowls championships
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Lesley's new coffee cups
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Beautifully prepared coffees in a new cafe -- Labyrinth on Bridge road
Wanna see a video?
<img src="/2004/09/11/t_208-0808_mvi.jpg" class=“left-floating” width=“160” height=“120” alt=”[*]"> Amazing! I’ve had my Canon IXUS 300 for nearly three years, its all but falling apart after me falling on it from a bike stack, and in all that time I’ve never tried to use the movie function! Getting all nostalgic this morning about leaving Westbank terrace, I stood in the middle of the lounge room and spun round, taking my first ever video. Soon as I get it recompressed to slightly less than 3MB for 17 seconds, then I’ll consider putting it here.
Nearly going postal
All day sitting around fidgeting and waiting, then all of a sudden the mail arrives at half past two and everything happens at once. The documents we gathered last night aren’t quite what are wanted now, so more mad rummaging about ensues. A phone call to the 1300 number to find out whether to post them or visit a branch — fax them in is the answer, an option not mentioned anywhere!
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Red fishing boat and crane on the Lorne pier
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Red fishing boat on the Lorne pier
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Condemned crane on the Lorne pier
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Will and Jack testing John's Fathers' day present -- the surfboard rug
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John receiving Fathers' day presents from Jack and Will
About
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.
…The ISP
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