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The dust settles

17/11/2011

 
So. The move was completed. The garage is still a shambles, with the car out on the driveway, but that will change ere long. Heather has done her customary job of getting everything shipshape very quickly, but as ever, the devil is in the detail, and there are plenty of little bits & pieces that have to be properly organised. I am determined to cut down on the clutter that usually surrounds me, so am dragging my heels about filling my room with the same old stuff that I had there in the last house.

We are all quite happy with the new place, which seems to be slightly larger in every room except the kitchen. The aircon is serving us well so far, although we've yet to have any really hot days. So far we are just running it when the heat & humidity are too much, and on the "dry" setting rather than "cool", which does all that we need. No need for 18 degrees around here!

Happy to say that it's pretty quiet here, although I've heard a neighbour with a noisy exhaust roar down the road before sunup a couple of times. At least we've heard no barking dogs so far. It's hardly any further to work from this house either, so I'm content with that. Speaking of the drive to work, here's the 21km, run in less than a minute:
_One unfortunate thing about the timing of the move is that it came at the time I wanted to try to photograph one (or even both) of my asteroids. However, after lugging boxes around I didn't fancy getting up in the small hours and schlepping up to the planetarium to have a go, and I think I might have run out of time. The photo wouldn't be Earth-shattering, but I'd like to catch it while it's as bright as it is, which won't occur again for a few years, apparently. Trouble is, it's now so close to the Sun that it will be in twilight by the time it's high enough in the sky to capture, and you really don't want twilight interfering with a very faint object; nevertheless, I'll have a go. Meanwhile, I've been trying to snap other things, the results of which can be found here and here.
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Denial
23/12/2011 06:47:08 am

Frankly mate, I reckon they should introduce speed limits in Australia.
But I have to say, I'm impressed with your reaction times [considering your advanced years ;-)] - you didn't hit anything!

T. fugit
23/12/2011 07:16:54 pm

Mr Denial Nonfarting... There has been a speed limit for years: no faster than the bullets fired at Ned Kelly's body armour. Any slower, and yer just a bloody wuss.

What I hit shall remain a mystery, lost on the cutting room floor.

Denial
17/1/2012 08:38:26 am

Ah, there I was being impressed by your youthful abilities and now it looks like the rot has set in after all :-( To think that you came up with the original anagram too. Besides, at my advanced years that version of the name just doesn't apply. LOL!


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    I take photographs, sometimes with obsolete technology. I look at the night sky. I drink coffee, and whisky (Scotch, or possibly Irish). I read and sometimes write. I Tweet, occasionally (@ozalba). I might ruminate and fulminate from time to time.

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