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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Statues in Konstatino's restaurant
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Statues in Konstatino's restaurant
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Sunset from the balcony.
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Chillis drying in the sun
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Chillis drying in the sun
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Engaged
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Engaged
Saturday — Suit day
Urgent task of the day was to arrange garments for the wedding. I’ve had a catalogue for the past ten days, but the range is terrifying to a non-suit-wearing person like myself. Deferring to superior authorities, Jo and her mum made a few suggestions, then Evan and I carried them out. A relatively painless experience — all over in under an hour!
![Journal for [2003-03-25 Tue]](https://ajft.org/img/default4.jpg)
Journal for [2003-03-25 Tue]
First day back at work. Everything has quietened down — but nobody seems to have done anything in the last week….
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Chilli plants in the sun
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Chilli plants in the sun
Journal for [2003-03-24 Mon]
Am I meant to be at work today or not? Stupid me can’t remember… Jo and I both think I had said that Monday was in my leave. I guess that since Monash’s HR department has decided to ban access to the staff “eServices” from outside the campus I’ll just have to trust to memory and stay home. Being able to check your pay and leave balance would be useful when absent, so in a typically bureaucratic fashion it’s been disabled — obvious really…
2003 BNSW RTA BigRide: Sunday: Harden to Cootamundra then home...
stats. Today 24.88km Trip total 599km Typical last-day bike ride foolishness. Bicycle NSW want everyone to ride into the final town in one big mass. Nearly everyone has the feeling that the ride ended last night, and most of the riders just want to get it over with and head home. There’s the usual bunching up on the roads, and then being herded into a holding area on the outskirts of Cootamundra to wait in the sun and get gradually more and more annoyed.
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Some very large horses pulling a very large cart containing a very large man
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The Australian Light-horse Regiment
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Some very large horses pulling a very large cart containing a very large man
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Ron in a chair, and Rex on his recumbent
2003 BNSW RTA BigRide: Saturday: Yass to Harden
stats. Today 80.07km Trip total 552km
A cold morning again today — but Yass is renowned for being cold and windy! I left with thermals on under my jersey, but after the first nine kilometres of dirt roads had to stop to remove them, sweat was pouring off me!
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One of life's more memorably stupid signs. “DANGER BBQ HOT!”
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Sammie and I leaving the Yass RSL
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Sammie, playing with her blocks in the Yass RSL
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Sammie, playing with her blocks in the Yass RSL
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Panoramic view South along the Yass River, including the old railway bridge
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Looking south down the Yass River to the old railway bridge
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Half of the panoramic view South along the Yass River, including the old railway bridge
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Half of the panoramic view South along the Yass River, including the old railway bridge
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View North along the Yass River
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Raising money for their school, three schoolgirls struggle to carry Ronnie's bag
2003 BNSW RTA BigRide: Friday: Bungendore to Yass
stats. Today 101.79km Trip total 472km
I was expecting a very cold morning, thick fog, maybe even a frost…. It was cold, but not that cold. Even so, it didn’t stop the whinges and moans from the people from the coast! The temperature seemed to drop between waking up and leaving, maybe it was as the wind increased.
2003 BNSW RTA BigRide: Thursday: Goulburn to Bungendore
stats. Today 99.76km Trip total 370km A very windy day — and an even windier night last night! A storm passed through just after midnight, howling winds, lightning and thunder, and a few drops of rain — but mostly just the wind! Bicycle NSW were so concerned about the reports and warnings that they received that they turned all the floodlights on and were attempting to take down some of the marquees.
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A strange sight in the gents in a country pub…
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One of many fine old buildings in Goulburn
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Fog over the tents as the sun rises.
2003 BNSW RTA BigRide: Wednesday: Goulburn
stats. Today 0km Trip total 270km
Rest days on tour when camping are a problem — I tried to sleep in past seven but the sun on the tent and beer in the bladder forced me up and out. Breakfast was a subdued affair, hangovers all around me from those out partying late, and grumpy comments from those who had come home early and then been woken by those out partying late.
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Ronnie in his purple finery, all dressed up for the Lilac City's lilac party
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Norky bike and tents, trees and campground
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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