Something's Fishy...

I ran over a FISH on Saturday morning, as it was crossing the road. It looked to be maybe a bit over a foot long. I've never done that before. It was on the Nambour-Maroochydore Rd, as we heading up to Noosa.  Some parts of the Sunshine (Hah!) Coast had more than 800mm of rain in three days!! Unbelievable. Hopefully some of the runoff will make its way to the dams that feed Brisbane.

Mountain Climbing

Went driving around Mt Mee this weekend. VERY dry, and the storms and showers this week are much appreciated. Good fun driving. Tried a long, steep, dusty, shale-y hill, but didn't get as far as Geoff's Prado. Didn't really expect to, but you've gotta try, sometimes.

Also didn't manage to follow him thru a tight, twisty and well-holed climb. I have decided that the extra leaf in the rear, although it has increased the ride height and load-carrying capacity, has decreased the amount of rear axle articulation with normal loading. That is, with a bunch more kilos in the boot, the axle would have twisted as much as a standard-sprung Charlie, allowing the wheels to stay on the ground in deeper holes. This was what pulled me up short on the weekend. I wasn't touching the ground with anything but tyres, but too few tyres… A front diff-lock would have helped, as would a (working) rear LSD. Ah well. There's always Christmas…

Photos rarely show a good perspective of climbs, but the vid I took of Geoff's climb should look good, when I get my camera back from Pat.

Couple of the dudes with us were a bit cowboyish. Full throttle, arms and legs akimbo, kids standing on seats etc… I can't figure out how people can let their kids ride in the car with no seat belts. Weird. Maybe they don't like them?

Happy eKKa Day!

Day off yesterday, mid week. Feels like a while since that has happened. We went for a fundraising walk along the river, from Southbank out to Kangaroo point, over the Storey Bridge and back to Southbank via the Botanical Gardens and the Goodwill Bridge. Nicely.

I saw a truck and car crash; or rather heard the squeal and turned around and there was a truck, pushing along the car. 'Course I had to take photos then, 'cos that's what you do these days...









Then today I got the bike serviced for the first time in a loooong time... Yeah, it hurt. And gotta go back. Sounds just like a dentist. The "loaner" bike i got was a ZRX1200. First time I've ridden one of them. Pretty cool, plenty o'torque. Bit windy tho.

I think there was something else I was going to say too.... Oh well.

Byron

Carmen and Chalky wanted to go diving (SCUBA-type) so we went down to bryron for the weekend. Tops trip, sitting on the beach, having ice creams, coffees etc, playing cards, reading. Was like a mini holiday.

Ok then...

Bloke at work was offering this free to good home. His ad said "much TLC" req. Check the photos, i think you'll agree...

So I went and got an unreg trailer permit, picked up the trailer, and the next day towed it up to Dad and Mum's, collecting a bit of steel on the way.






Plenty of room for improvement, and plenty of targets for my grinder, hey?

And after all was salvaged...


So then I went into the garage (for the concrete floor...) and got set on the next step...






Next weekend I picked up some sides, and uprights, lights etc...







I cleaned everything that I was re-using with a wire-wheel on the grinder. Tops little tool, but pretty wicked. Wear the gear, cos as the wires break off (naturally) they come flinging out pretty quickly. You end up with bits of wire sticking out of your overalls, sleeves, skin, eyeball-peepers, whatever is exposed.


I wanted LED tail-lights, but the price of a free trailer is NOT zero...




Still to come: Paint and rego. I think it'll be a nice shade of black. Good, cheap black...

Trailerable offense

Picked up the new set of wheels tonight. SOOO stoked. Stand by for photos...

Oh, and I re-read that last post of mine, and the story about the drafting bloke. I called him a dud, when I meant dude. Turns out the typo was funny, so I'm gonna leave it there....

Tubes, multicoloured and different shapes...

I picked up a delivery this morning: a package full of intertubes.

Stand by for full connectedness.

My title here reminded me of a story my old boss let me in on. He was interviewing for a drafting position, and was trying to get a handle on how much the dud knew about AutoCAD.  He asked him about blocks, and the fella said "Yeah, they can come in different shapes, and colours, and stuff."  For those unfamiliar, Blocks are user-defined groups of entities (such as lines circles etc) whereby all instances of the block in a drawing are updated when one is changed.  So to say that they can come in different colours and shapes was very funny to us…  *sigh*. Geek humour.