Backdating. Cause I'm a slacker. Nothing to see here, move along.
Monday. Slept ok. Ok day I guess. Went to have some of the snow peas that I bought probably only two weeks ago and they were *covered* in slime. So fricken unusual because normally they last weeks and weeks in the fridge. Pissed as. Then David came home and spent all afternoon swearing at the fish tank lights. But he got them working in the end. Bestest brother ever. (not sure if I ever mentioned the story - a few weeks back the transformer for Stu's stoopidly expensive LED fish tank lights went POP and that was the end of that. It was a completely non standard transformer, there was no doco anywhere online for the lights, and they were strangely wired. David decided to get resistors and rewire the thing so it'd work with a standard transformer, and also be less likely to blow out the lights. Just waiting for the other transformer to go next so he'll have to do it all over again.. hrmmm....). Had sausages and salad/veggies for dinner. Then got more grunty that Stu's sauerkraut had gone off. And some ham we bought ages ago is also looking very strange. I *hate* wasting food and we've wasted so much this week >:( Feeling like I should ban perishable food that I won't eat (like ham and sauerkraut) and veggies that only I like (like snow peas). Don't get me started on trying to find veggies that everyone likes and doesn't cause health issues in people. Took til 8pm to get UK photo labelling done. 811 left. And blogging. An hour and a half later. hrmmm.
But look! Poppy in the staircase!
Tuesday. Ok sleep mostly. Finished scanning Dad's WA slides. Was good to see his photos, after only having seen Mum's very red-shifted prints for so many years. I think I'll need to scan her negatives of those holiday trips - hopefully they fared better than the prints! Worked from home so just watched some silly horse race on tv in the background. David made home in time for the race but steadfastly ignored it ;) Later in the afternoon had no tickets and not much else happening so flexed off for an hour or so and got some UK photo labelling done. Only 581 photos left! Leftovers from the club halloween night for dinner. Hacked some periwinkle. Watched random stuff on the internet in the evening.
Wednesday. Okish sleep. Up to 5000 of Dad's slides scanned. I'm into Central Australia now. I remember Mum saying a while back that Dad had issues with his camera on the WA trip, and there was a $25 camera fixing bill listed in the holiday expenses, but all the photos from that trip looked fine. The Central Australia trip on the other hand was a disaster. So many of the photos are over exposed, and there's *heaps* missing - obviously too bad to even keep. I'm thinking *this* was the trip he had camera issues with. Must have been absolutely heartbreaking for him. I'll have to get Mum's negatives of this trip too. Pity you can't climb Ayers Rock aka Uluru anymore. I'm calling it though - I reckon within twenty years the local Aboriginal people will start doing guided tours to the top. Charged of course. I don't know how true it is, but David and Yvonne went some years ago and got the impression that the Aboriginal people didn't really care too much that people would want to climb to the top - they were much more worried about the sacred sites around the base of the rock. I'm having to be the Naughty Email Intervention Layer (aka NEIL) at work, probably for another few weeks at least. Which is a bit of a poo. Cause he doesn't document anything! Actually *going* to work sux epically - takes so much extra time out of my day. Had leftovers for dinner. Then it's back to "work" - finishing scanning the morning's photos (because there's not enough time in the mornings on "work" days), backing up hard drive, labelling photos etc. Only 475 to go!!!
I don't have any notes for Thursday. There was work drinks. And I went with David to the mall to do some shopping. Saw this very pretty car in the car park.
Friday. I swear Dad must have had sex on the brain. Following his Coitus Tower slides from the USA, this was the label for a thorny devil in Central Australia.
The evening was packing for our long weekend away...
Sylvia Johnson
My printed photos of WA were crap because of the lousy printing at Coles in Perth. I had a couple re-printed to try and get the colour better, but too expensive to do all of them. According to my photo guy at Sutherland, they didn't change the chemicals often enough.