Not quite a wedding present — but definitely a present that was well appreciated! After several months of coveting Marko’s port barrel — not the least because he picked it up in a second-hand shop for around $5 — we’ve acquired our own…. Marko, the guru of the second-hand shop and flea-market, discovered it while poking around last weekend in a market in Bendigo.
The bogey-man is coming, the bogey-man is coming — or someone nearly as bad… Today was the day that the real-estate agents were performing an inspection. Would they complain that the front room resembled a bicycle repair workshop? Would they notice that the bathroom wall can’t be cleaned because the grouting is so badly done that it falls apart when you wash it? A total non-event. He rang the bell, he walked in, said a brief hello, glanced into kitchen and lounge, and left without even looking in either bedroom or bathroom.
Daylight savings has ended — finally I can wake up early enough to have a chance of getting to work early — even when work is a course that starts an hour before my normal start time!
Off to Wonga Park this morning to speak with Ivan — no, not Ivan the terrible — Ivan the chef. Final discussions on what we’ll feed the horde in two week’s time. He was quick to put us at our ease, and offered all kinds of helpful suggestions and hints, our preliminary choices only needed a little refining for everyone to be happy, then it was off to wander around the gardens to get a rough idea of where everything would be — and to look at the colours of the autumn vines.
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!
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…
stats. Today 24.88 ㎞ Trip total 599 ㎞ 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.
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!
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.
![Journal for [2003-04-02 Wed]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52438898824_177c155a90_c.jpg)
![Photos for [2003-04-02 Wed]](https://ajft.org/img/default2.jpg)
![Journal for [2003-03-31 Mon]](https://ajft.org/img/default4.jpg)
![Photos for [2003-03-30 Sun]](https://ajft.org/img/default3.jpg)
![Photos for [2003-03-29 Sat]](https://ajft.org/img/default1.jpg)
