The iPod just switched from Orff's Carmina Burana to Australian Crawl's Beautiful People and The Boys Light Up.

Given how much of a modern Carmina Burana would be engineering (and possibly law) student drinking songs, I'm actually finding this to be kind of appropriate...

Make with the clicky. You know you want to. 

Comment: Obviously the girl didn't have a mobile...or the beau was too dumb to check with her as to where she was going to be. 

The age difference is causing a bit of an "ewwww" reaction on my part and is probably contributing to my willingness to laugh at the schmuck.

Stuff I've acquired recently includes the Patlabor TV Series (47 episodes) which I'm chewing through fairly quickly and enjoying immensely. I think you can take it as a given that I'll be trying to run a Patlabor panel at some convention or other. :)

I've also snagged some of the second series Wings of War miniatures and now understand why the DR VII came as such an unpleasant surprise to Allied pilots at the end of WWI (that turning stall maneuver is a nasty piece of work).

And I should be getting ARIA in September. :)

Having a day like this, or having the story picked up by Snopes Daily.

Why I don't listen to the iPod on the trike.

My Asus eee eats my iPod.

I've got most of my collection across to the eee now so hopefully I won't have to connect the two again.

It's still annoying though.

An (almost) perfect end to the tour.

( Still, can't really complain about ONE puncture )

I had fun, caught up with family and friends, and piled on the kilometres. Good to be me. :)

Back in Canberra & I've already ridden further in May than I did in April. Another 400Ks this month and I'll be ahead of quota again.

Full ride report later.

Well that pretty much worked as planned although I'm surprisingly tired this afternoon.


Hopefully the 92Ks to Canberra tomorrow won't be quite this hard.

As a bunch of cyclists have just discovered, being noticed can be a bad thing sometimes.

There also appears to be an alternative interpretation of events that I thought was, ah,interesting.

Also on the subject here's some less than helpful advice. Look, I'm not a roadie, nor will I ever be any kind of racer, but at the elite (eg olympic) levels pack riding is an essential skill that requires training and practice.

I've been aware of a nifty cycling blogger treadly for some time now but haven't been reading him on a regular basis on account of laziness (not on LJ, therefore not as easily read).

However I appear to have created (partially by accident I'm sure) an RSS feed for LJ with the obvious name of treadlyandme. It even appears to be working...

:)

A bus that requires me to get up at stupid o'clock but still better than riding up that mountain...

Being in all manner of things a comedy of errors and timing.


Now to go see if the nice man at reception has come up with a plan A for getting me over the Macquarie Pass that doesn't involve pedaling...

Yay! ARIA the ANIMATION is getting a commercial release! Does the happy dance!

I am definitely going to order it in from the US. If Madman pick it up, I'll happily order it locally as well.

Let me be clear about this: I don't want this to be a moderately successful release, I want it to be a stonkingly hugely successful release so that the second and third seasons get done too.

For those of my friends list with a serious interest in children's literature, I bring you Magpies!

I readily admit that this plug is a shameless example of nepotism but hey it really is a good magazine and one of the longer running magazines in the area.

So go and make with the clicky already.

Wheeeeee!  Oh, and a good lateral abs workout while I was at it.

I needed to get to Leura in the Blue Mountains today so planned on riding to Wollongong and catching the train from there. This would be a short day - only 50Ks or so.


Once I got to Wollongong I bought a train ticket to Leura ($22.00, pretty good for the distance) and managed to keep the trike unfolded and the luggage on through lifts and one change of trains to Leura.

So now I'm in Leura borrowing my Aunt's internet and waiting for dinner and enjoying catching up with her, a cousin, and my eldest brother. Life is good.

A much better day today. Still slow, and still a seemingly endless series of hills*, but I made the distance in reasonably good time.

Gotta go, my bangers and mash just got here.:)

So I've started the three day ride to Sydney with the first leg to Goulburn. Alas, I ended up cheating at the last.



On to Robertson tomorrow with an earlier start and (hopefully) a flatter,cruisier, ride.

Read this. I don't always live up to it but it is one of the best statements of what I try to live up to I've seen in a long while.

Oh, and thanks to alias_sqbr who just posted a bunch of stuff that led me to it.