Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
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Tracye and Mel waiting in the rain, one hour after the police cancelled the day's ride on the 2004 BNSW Big Ride
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Waiting to cross from Tuncurry to Forster, clouds build ominously. 2004 BNSW Big Ride
2004 RTA Big Ride, day 2: Gloucester to Tuncurry
stats. Today 74km Trip 76km Either the beer or the travelling had produced a killer headache, tend to think it was the latter since I always seem to end up with a stiff neck and a headache after sleeping in buses and trains.
Steamy and humid all morning, then a bit of a cooler change after the lunch stop. For the first half of the day I rode by myself, trying to shake off the headache and in no mood for company.
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Ronnie, Erin and Alison posing for a baby photo
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The entrance to Gloucester campground. 2004 BNSW Big Ride
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Tent, bike and baggage; the start of another bike tour. 2004 BNSW Big Ride
2004 RTA Big Ride, day 1: … to Gloucester
stats. Today 2km Trip 2km A foggy morning in the Southern Highlands as it became light enough to see from the train, then a seven o’clock arrival at Strathfield for 07.30 departure on the North Coast XPT. Homeward-bound ferals everywhere on the platform, chuffing away on joints and bongs, oblivious to the “No Smoking” signs, but no more oblivious than the rest of the population with their cigarettes.
While waiting I sat and chatted to three other people destined for Gloucester, travelling with a Bike Friday tandem and a Birdie — two folding bikes that become more and more appealing every time I travel and have to go through the hassles of boxing a bike and transporting the box…
2004 RTA Big Ride, day 0: Preparation
stats. Today 0.0km Trip 0.0km Seems strange having a day or two holiday before I go away on a bike trip. Usually I’ve finished work one day, gone home, packed up, got to whatever transport is required, got to the start and got on my way… it all seems very relaxed this time!
Tried — and eventually succeeded — in getting Telstra to change over the phone numbers from my old SIM to my new one.
I have you in my clutch(es)
Success, success! Mr Damage is running again. I have bled my clutch and I am not bleeding from the knuckles — unlike some of my many other attempts at performing feats of motorised mechanics. After belting it with a bloody big lump of metal, the recalcitrant screw in the clutch-fluid reservoir could be undone, and then everything was by-the-book. New fluid in, assorted squeezings, bubbles and squirts everywhere, old fluid out, and finally a clutch that clutches — as it’s supposed to.
Nearly holiday
Last day of work — Yay! I’m feeling relaxed and in a holiday mood already. Its a shame Jo won’t be coming away though.
Lunch in Cinque Lire — this could get addictive — as well as quite cold in the winter unless they can close in the walls, the premises seems designed solely for summer weather. Good tasty focacacias, cheap glasses of wine and magnificent coffee. Definitely addictive.
You lot, why can't you just get along?
Interesting discussions going on in <aus.bicycle> at the moment, even though I don’t really have access to a news server to follow it. Seems that police turned out in large numbers for last Saturday’s “Hell Ride” and some of their behaviour bordered on harrassment and entrapment. Multiple police cars and motorbikes followed beside and behind the ride, officers leaning out of car windows taking photos of any and every rider who crossed into the middle lane, motorcycle cops shooting off ahead to push the pedestrian walk button at each set of lights, then trying to catch riders ignoring the red light!
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Closeup of a Cheetah, Werribee Zoo
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Mother and baby rhinoceros at Werribee Zoo
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Inside the safari bus at Werribee Zoo
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Giraffe feeding at Werribee Zoo
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Meerkats at Werribee Zoo
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Meerkats at Werribee Zoo
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A set of Jo's treasures — three down, only one left
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Looking down to the coast, near Skene's creek
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Panoramic view from Scene's creek to Apollo bay. (3 of 3)
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Panoramic view from Scene's creek to Apollo bay (2 of 3)
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Panoramic view from Scene's creek to Apollo bay
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Panoramic view from Scene's creek to Apollo bay. (1 of 3)
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Walking along Tiger lane towards the coast
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Jo picking blackberries at the side of the road
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Sticky red berries at the side of the road
Journal for [2004-03-08 Mon]
Off for a walk today. Prerequisites were that it wasn’t somewhere that we’d been before, it had to be interesting, and it had to be easy enough to get too. One of the “Great Ocean Road Walks” seemed to fit the bill — a loop between Skene’s Creek and Apollo Bay, so into the car we got…
Grey skies in the morning, grey skies all weekend, we left the sunblock and hats at home… driving towards Apollo Bay the sky cleared, the sun came out, the temperature rose, and worst of all, most of the four-hour walk was out in the open, unprotected from the sun.
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Male king parrot chasing the camera!
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Fungi growing on a tree-stump
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Ferny creek crossing on the Cora-Lyn cascades walk
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Lunch at Cora-Lyn cascades; Jo, Jack, John, Will, Ann and Kath
Lorne
Eight in the morning and Jo is still sound asleep, I’m wide awake so off I went down the street for a walk along the beach and some time to myself. Eight people in the house crowds on my nerves at times — especially when the youngest of them can wake you up screaming and the next just behaves like the three year-old that he is!
Walking through the campground I saw a couple who were cycle-touring, tents and bikes and gear and parts of a “ROAD-TRAIN” sign picked up from somewhere in the outback… I thought of stopping to say hello but walked on by and left them sitting quietly enjoying the morning.
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Crab shell on the beach
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Female Gang-gang cockatoo in a hawthorn bush
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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