Last weekend was the ABC Classic 100 Piano.

When this first came up a while back I listed the first things that popped into my head.  All but one of them were listed:

Rhapsody in Blue - yes
Jessica's Theme (Man from Snowy River) - yes
Ice Castles soundtrack - no (this has a nice piano opening but not sure it's really a piano piece anyway)
Pride and Prejudice soundtrack - yes
The Entertainer - yes

They had a few novelty pieces too - Chopsticks and "Heart and soul" as well.. I never even knew it was called that.

In the end these were my votes and their places.  I wasn't really expecting the Shostakovich to get up, but I do like that piece from Fantasia 2000.

4 Rhapsody in Blue -- Gershwin, George
  (robbed!!!! this should have been number one!!)
18 The Man from Snowy River (incl. Jessica's Theme) -- Rowland, Bruce
22 Le Carnaval des animaux (The Carnival of the Animals, incl. The Swan) -- Saint-Saëns, Camille
25 The Entertainer -- Joplin, Scott
28 Pride & Prejudice Soundtrack (1995 TV) -- Davis, Carl
30 Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 -- Bach, Johann Sebastian
32 Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K331 'Rondo alla Turca' -- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
46 Up Soundtrack -- Giacchino, Michael
78 Lyric Pieces (incl. Wedding Day at Troldhaugen) -- Grieg, Edvard
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102 -- Shostakovich, Dmitri

I actually listened to every piece they had open for voting.  Because most pieces I literally have no idea what they're called.  I pretty much added anything I'd ever heard of to my short list, then whittled them down from there.

Aside from the finals above, these were my maybes and their positions.  I did consider 4'33" too haha

17 Bagatelle in A minor, WoO59 'Für Elise' - Beethoven, Ludwig van
35 Flight of the Bumblebee - Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (arr. Rachmaninov)
67 Forrest Gump Soundtrack - Silvestri, Alan
75 My Neighbour Totoro - Hisaishi, Joe
Chopsticks - Allen, Euphemia
  (just for the novelty factor)
Heart and Soul - Carmichael, Hoagy
  (again for the novelty factor)
Minuet No. 1 in G major - Petzold, Christian (formerly attributed to JS Bach)
Waltzing Matilda - Traditional (Australian) arr. Cowan, Marie

And these were my probably nots and their positions:

1 Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor' - Beethoven, Ludwig van
2 Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 'Moonlight' - Beethoven, Ludwig van
7 Gymnopédies - Satie, Erik
8 Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 - Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
  (this was the onlyTchaikovsky)
9 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 - Rachmaninov, Sergei
10 Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan' - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
12 Variations on 'Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman', K265 (aka Twinkle Twinkle - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
15 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach, Johann Sebastian
19 The Piano Soundtrack (incl. The Heart Asks Pleasure First) - Nyman, Michael
21 Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 - Rachmaninov, Sergei
26 Howl's Moving Castle Soundtrack (incl. Merry-Go-Round of Life) - Hisaishi, Joe
29 I giorni - Einaudi, Ludovico
34 Peer Gynt, Op. 23 (incl. Morning Mood) - Grieg, Edvard
  (this might have gone into my maybes if I'd realised this was also Into the hall of the mountain king)
37 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence - Sakamoto, Ryuichi
41 Spirited Away (incl. One Summer's Day) - Hisaishi, Joe
42 Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky, Modest
61 The Pink Panther - Mancini, Henry
71 Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K545 'Sonata facile' - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
74 Maple Leaf Rag - Joplin, Scott
85 American Beauty Soundtrack - Newman, Thomas
89 Waltzes (incl. 'Minute') - Chopin, Frédéric
Je te veux - Satie, Erik
Rondo a Capriccio in G major, Op. 129 'Rage over a Lost Penny' - Beethoven, Ludwig van

So most of the stuff I might have voted for got up.  Guess that says something about "popular" music.  ie, crap that people have actually heard of got voted for haha.

A fun weekend!

Was filing photos and came across photos I took of a tree removal being done at our neighbour Rhonda Owen's house years ago.  It prompted me to go look for real estate agent photos of the place to see what it looked like now (and then).

The funny thing is, there's actually a few key moments and memories of my life that I have that were at that house.

First up, is that I learned to ride a bike right here!!  There were a few kids over at their place playing and puttering around on the bikes.  I was on a bike (this was before I'd learned to ride) and was just going round and round the clothes line.  I remember the moment that I was obviously fast enough to get the gyroscopic stability and the feeling of actually "getting it".  It was pretty cool.

I also had my one and only ride on a motorcycle in that back yard, as David Owen's father was there for a birthday party and was giving all the kids rides.

The Owens had a Commodore (I think) computer with an actual cassette tape drive that would take half or three quarters of an hour to load a game from tape. Excruciating!!  This is where it was setup.  Very likely at this exact side table!

One time I went down to see if I could play on the computer and walked into a full on orb web face first right here!!  I was horrified!!  I spent ages at the door trying to pull that spider web off.  Rhonda let me in even though David wasn't home to play with.  Awkward!!

Twenty years ago tonight I met Stu in real life.  We hit it off that night and have been together ever since!!

Sunday.  Star Wars Day.  Stu cooked a cauliflower and feta bake with brussels sprouts and zucchini for dinner.  

DS9 3.9 then Andor 2.1.

Monday.  Slept okish. The guppies downstairs I think are doing ok, but I think the ones in the four foot got eaten. I think one might have survived overnight (but didn't see it again later in the week). Catching up at work (not too many interruptions hurray). Cooked very nice salmon for dinner (huge pieces though), with salad for me and leftover veggies for the sweetie. DS9 3.10 which was pretty silly.

Sunrise.. sunset..

Tuesday - Slept okish. All over the place day. Did manage to do a change I'd been planning though. The sweetie cooked the mince I cooked the other night with olives and tomatoes and fake fettuccini which was very nice.

DS9 3.11. Had to LOL at a Riot-ACT post from the other day. They were all spruiking the "first Malatang in a food court in Canberra" in Civic. The first comment on the page was literally from someone saying the people in Belconnen must be shocked that they don't live in Canberra (there's been a Malatang at Belco mall since pre covid). I just reloaded the entry and got a 404. bwahahahaha.

Wednesday. Awake from 1:30 to 5:00 or so. Hurrah. Distracting day again. Did get some decom work done in the later afternoon. Pizzas for dinner. Was going to make slow cooked lamb shanks, but, life. DS9 3.12.

Thursday.  Awake for a while in the middle of the night. Managed quite a bit of decom work due to not being interrupted every five seconds. Was actually a fairly peaceful day. Put the lamb shanks on at lunch, they turned out really well. Too often in the past my slow cooker lamb shanks have super watery sauce, so this time I didn't cover the meat - I only used about a cup of liquid with a stockcube, as well as a heap of fresh rosemary and some gobs of minced garlic. At the end I made gravy like I do with the pulled pork - take the lamb out to shred, pour all the stock/juices into a saucepan with some cornflour (in a slurry with a little water). Boil til thickened. Mix back in with lamb. Enjoy!  I didn't get an "after" photo.  DS9 3.13.

The veggies didn't make it to leftovers..

Friday.  Early night so woke up at 4. Hurrah. Got a bit more sleep and in the end woken from a dream (wherein I was drifting over Sydney in what appeared to be a massive cruise ship, but I was also weightless. I held onto a handrail tightly (in case gravity came back suddenly) and just floated. Nice :) ).

More decom work. Kievs and a cauliflower bake for dinner.

Then Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Don't know why it rates so highly in IMDB - pretty much most of the entire movie takes place on one night in the story. And it's just so damned *dark*!!

Saturday.  Slept okish. Awake for a while here and there though.

Just a day of all the things. Started back into culling of Europe 2016 photos again so I can get them online.

Made butt sorry beef cheeks for dinner with lemon garlic broccolini which was very nice.

Watched Andor 2.2, Fantasia 2000, and The Movies That Made Us on Back to the Future.

Sunday.  Awake from ~1:25 to ~4 hurrah. Bit of a slow start. Quieter day, but did do some Europe photo culling.

Saw this on Neil's a while back and thought it would be cool to do.  One of those old-fashioned "blog memes" that people used to do twenty years ago.  I stopped commenting on Neil's blog forever ago because when I tried to catch up with him when I was in York in 2010 he completely ignored me.  His blog went dead for years but my feed reader still had it and notified me a few years back of new posts.

Why did you start blogging in the first place?

Vic said I should.  I was doing unpaid work at CIA/Host1 at the time (well, helping out with windows hosting support and answering support mail in exchange for free internet and web hosting).  I'd heard of blogs by then (January 2003) but had never read or subscribed to any.  Vic probably wanted to spread the word of his ISP a bit, so I did it.  But it very quickly became a place I could brain dump and I only wish I'd started the thing sooner so I could have recorded my life better.  Not that the early years were much good at recording events.  Too many times when I've been sorting my photos I've wondered what I was doing the day I took them, only to find no useful record.  These days are much more betterer.

What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it?

Movable Type.  Been using it since day 1.  I started using it because it came as part of the cpanel setup Host1 had so it was easy to start with.  There was one big upgrade a few years in that changed the whole directory/post/file structure layout, and the one that started inserting images as assets, but otherwise it really hasn't changed much.  I'm still using the last free open source version before it started costing $500 USD .. PER YEAR..!!  WTF!??  I really do need to modernise, not the least of which is because it uses http not https and I still haven't figured out how to *fully* sslify it (eg, canonical links)

Have you blogged on other platforms before?

I did put a few entries up on blogger.com for some more private stuff, but it never really went anywhere.  Same with the "This Day in History" posts I was trying to do here.

How do you write your posts? For example, in a local editing tool, or in a panel/dashboard that's part of your blog?

I just use the Movable Type web interface.  And only ever from my computer, or laptop when travelling.  Phone is too hard.

When do you feel most inspired to write?

Back in the day I would blog nearly every day and sometimes more often.  Usually in the evenings.  For several years now I've only blogged on the weekends after I've downloaded and processed my photos for the week.  I definitely post a lot more photos than I did twenty years ago.  Really my blog now is a place for me to post photos.  With a little bit of filler about what I've been doing.  It's also a bit less cryptic.  Reading my old entries now I have no idea what I was talking about half the time.

Do you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft?

I always publish immediately.  Usually on Sunday evenings.

What are you generally interested in writing about?

Nothing.  My blog's byline is "Boring Life Of a Geek" - BLOG for short.  My life is boring.  My photos are mostly of flowers and food.  I do like my travel blogs though.  There's even at least one holiday blog (USA 2000) that I wrote up from literally a paper notebook of notes I took during the trip.  And my USA 1983 blog was written entirely from my memories of the trip thirty years after the event!  When I was 9 years old!

Who are you writing for?

Myself. There's maybe like half a dozen readers that I know about, and maybe a few more I don't.  My mother and brother care most.  The sweetie might read things if they happen to show up in his feed reader.  Mostly I do it for the record of my own life.  And it's been quite useful for that.

What's your favourite post on your blog?

Don't have one. 

Any future plans for your blog? Maybe a redesign, a move to another platform, or adding a new feature?

This thing really needs to move to something more modern.  One that bakes in https naturally.  But the idea of moving it is just too daunting.  Maybe if I retire and have more time to think about such things.

Who else do you want to tag?

Ha.  Who even does that anymore??  The only two active bloggers I know that might even still read my blog from time to time are Dave2 and kapgar.

Monday.  21st.  Did I mention I'm doing low carb again for another few weeks? Except the day got off to a rocky start because I'd forgotten about an apple that needed eating. There goes my carb limit for the day.. whoops. The sweetie prepped a cauliflower bake and brussels sprouts for dinner and I chucked a chunk of beef in to go with it. I got my blogging done quite early. Funny how writing up notes properly during the week makes blogging a lot quicker on a Sunday.. or Monday in this case. DS9 2.24.

Tuesday.  Awake from Dentist Time for hours and only broken sleep after that. Sigh. NEIL at work, as well as trying to figure out the API of our IP management system to help someone with something. Leftovers for dinner, DS9 2.25. After dinner started going through Dad's photos (from when he switched from slides to prints and onwards) to get photos of Mum. Annoyingly Dad had a really bad habit of over-enhancing his photos. At least with the prints I can go back and rescan them, but for digital photos once they're enhanced at all they're destroyed because he didn't keep the originals. Which is odd in itself because he used to make backups upon backups upon backups, just not of the original unaltered files. #grunt.

Wednesday.  Slept mostly ok. Really wanted to get through some decom prep but the interruptions Would. Not. Stop. All. Day. So damned hard to concentrate with Teams and Outlook popping up every five seconds. Seriously considering turning all notifications off. The sweetie cooked creamy mushroom chicken for dinner which was very nice.

DS9 2.26. Then more photo picking. From 2010 and some of 2011 Dad saved the raw camera photos off separately to the enhanced photos. That was nice of him. Maybe there were other copies of the rest of his digital camera photos elsewhere that either he or I lost. More likely him. I spent an entire week one Christmas trying to sort it all out, and would definitely have kept any raw photos if I'd found them. Knowing him he probably made several backups, thought he had a backup, didn't in fact have a backup, and deleted the original. Or maybe he just never thought he'd need his originals. Silly Dad.

Thursday.  Slept okish until about 5:00. Mostly decom work at work. Bar 59 for drinks which was quite pleasant, although a lot more expensive than work drinks! Made pizzas then DS9 3.1.

Friday.  Anzac Day.  Lest we forget.  Awake from 1:45 for hours sigh.

House stuff mostly in the morning. Happy that Stumpy is basking more and is more enthusiastic about food.  Did some camera testing in the afternoon. Only to realise later I had it on the wrong mode. Sigh.

I need to find a spot to plant out these chrysanthemums.  I accidentally uprooted one of the ones out the front the other month and chucked it in a pot out the back.  They're now happily flowering while the ones out the front are barely hanging on to life.  These things like a lot of sun but our garden is completely hopeless so not sure where I can put them.  

Kievs for dinner.  With half a cauliflower and most of a capsicum.

DS9 3.2. Then watched Blackberry which made us both a little nostalgic. Also, it's Anzac Day but I've only worn a jumper like twice all year. Usually by now there would have been days where we'd be wanting to put the heater on in advance of the Anzac Day allowed starting date. Instead I had a window open in my room to cool it down so I could sleep.  hrmmm.

Saturday.  Slept mostly okish.

Cooked cheese kranskis and miso scrambled eggs for breakfast.  Although Stu just had eggs because he needed to only eat soft food to not break his temporary tooth crown again.

Started a jigsaw. Went for a several hour drive with the sweetie, checking out previous houses, family houses, the church we got married in etc. Was a lovely way to spend a few hours with the sweetie (and we drove like 70km!). 

Made a small share platter for lunch (although I did get hungry later)

Finished the jigsaw. Got Chong Co delivered for dinner (after the MenuLog driver finally turned up) and watched DS9 3.3, then The Princess Bride :)

Sunday.  Awake from ~3:30 and never got back to sleep. Sigh.  They promised many millimetres of rain.  We got about three drops.

Went and saw Constellations at the NFSA with Tony which was a bit of fun. House stuff mostly for the rest of the day, and some food shopping.

When you realise you have 15 different cheeses in the fridge.. whoops...

Filled with rage in the afternoon at Optus who FORCE you to use international roaming because there's no way to disable it. Their only workaround is leave the phone on flight mode and use wifi. WTF??? I think I did read somewhere that if you have a second sim you can disable the Optus one. Which would work unless I needed to receive an SMS for two factor for anything. But there's a heap of horror stories out there from people getting charged the $5/day even when the sim wasn't even in the phone!!!

Hi.

Edit: all of the R6 photos were on "Fine Detail" instead of "Automatic" which I swear I'd set it to.  So I'll probably have to redo this entire comparison at some point.  Sigh.

Took out another couple of cameras for more side-by-side testing.

First up is wide angle.  The 600D would have to be my favourite in this lineup.  The G5X is quite dark, and the iPhone is a little over saturated.  R6 is dull and lifeless.

Next we have zoom.  For the iPhone, G5X and R6 this is full zoom.  For the 600D its about half way.  The 600D is also duller than its wide angle, and actually probably too bright..  The G5X is dark.  I like the iPhone shot.  The R6 is dull and lifeless.

Finally a comparison with the 600D at full zoom (at bottom).  None of my other cameras even come close to the zoom on the old camera.

Let's have a look now at raw pixels for zoom shots (fully zoomed for everything except the 600D which is half zoom).  In order, it's iPhone, G5X, 600D, R6.  Honestly I could get just as good a photo on my little G5X as the R6 (and it even has a better zoom!!).  Sorry about my head not being on straight!

   

And for a bonus, here's raw pixels on the 600D fully zoomed.  Winner by far.

And here's some of UC.  The R6 is actually probably the winner here in terms of picture clarity, but that's only comparing the 600D at half zoom.  At full zoom the 600D wins.

iPhone

G5X

600D (half way)

R6

600D (full zoom, had to crop it quite a bit)

In conclusion?  I shoulda just stuck with my old camera.  I'm half tempted to take the 600D on my next trip.  It's lighter and has a much better zoom and the picture quality is arguably better.  The only advantage of the R6 is its low light capability and utter silence.  

Sigh.

After seeing all the dead pixels in my (Dad's) old 600D thought it was time for a new one.  The new one has a dead pixel right in the middle.  But we won't talk about that.

The first photo I took on it I didn't even realise I had taken it.  It's fast and silent!

Second shot was of the sweetie of course.  Quite soft though

Obligatory Lego shot

I think at this point I'd set the date wrong on the camera so fixed that.  We won't mention that the time was actually 12 hours out as well. 

Not bad at fish photos, with a fair bit of zoom

A couple of shots of the sweetie later on - super shallow depth of field here, I'm wondering if that's cause it focussed on him being a human

Next up the true test - under the house with almost no light.  It did really well here - quite bright - a lot brighter than it looks in real life!

Went outside and took a bunch of photos of flowers which turned out quite well

Had a play with the "art" filters.  Yeah nah, none of them are any good.

A closeup of a fish - not bad

I went back downstairs to try out more options.  I tried the "hand held night scene" which supposedly takes like three photos and stacks them.  But this turned out all fuzzy.  The simple single shot (below) worked better.

This was using the "food" filter which is supposed to make things look more vibrant.  I guess it did maybe?

The next day took it to Annie's and got a nice, fairly candid, shot of her

And then the real test - comet photos!

If you can get past all of Elon's space junk cluttering up the sky #grunt

One without satellites

Thanks Elon

Thanks Elon.  This shot has TEN satellites ruining it!! (hard to see resized)

Thanks Elon

I did get a nice shot of Orion.  Well one, the others were ruined by Elon's space junk

A couple of weeks later took some more photos of the fish

And other random stuff around the house

Fern closeup

Did I mention the super shallow depth of field, even with only a modest zoom?

When I took it to Adelaide the other weekend, all of my photos on it were rather dull and lifeless compared to my phone photos.  

Like.. compare the pair..

 

Seriously WTF??

Hoping it's just a setting somewhere.. will have to do some more playing.

I'm also frustrated with the lack of zoom.  And I knew I was going to be.  I stand by my opinion of many years ago.. L series lenses are like twice the cost, but they're not twice as good.  Things are still soft at raw pixels..

I miss the old 18-135mm lens I had (~24-200 equivalent with crop).  I only get half that now. Sigh.

Yeup.

Sunday.  23rd.  Leftover chicken feast for dinner.  DS9 2.1.  Recopied all the MOVs I have on my phone with Windows.  

Monday.  Early night, slept ok.  NEIL again - did a bunch of rearranging of mail routes and holding areas to make my life easier.  Salmon and salad for dinner, with a creamy lemon dill dressing, although it was very runny because it was cream - next time I'll use yoghurt.

DS9 2.2.  I reckon Frank Langella totally looks like Christopher Lee.  Google that crap, I'm not the only one that thinks so!  Finished culling/adjusting/resizing Adelaide photos.  All the photos taken on my new camera are a bit .. muddy ..  Will have to check the settings and see what other options there are.

Tuesday.  Slept mostly ok.  Noticed that Windoze 11 brought back the ability to right click on a directory in the left pane of Explorer and choose New -> Folder (previously you had to right click then Show More Options -> New -> Folder)..  That had been pissing me off since day one of using Windoze 11, so that was nice.  NEIL again at work, doing more policies for sorting mail.  Steak and salad for dinner with creamy garlic mushrooms.

Once again I managed to cook it nicely.  I may convince Stu to like steak after all haha.  DS9 2.3. Talked to the mother type person.  She's doing better, and said they pulled up the security video which showed her fall (she fell right at the entrance to her retirement village) and you could see that it was in fact just simply tripping over a raised bit of concrete, not a blackout, so that was a huge relief!  Mum photo picking - from all the weddings we've been to, so that was a bit of fun, lots of looking through photos of our wedding too.

Wednesday.  Slept mostly ok. Windoze 11 has recently started randomly moving windows off to my other screen overnight.  So I'll turn on my right screen in the morning only to find some of my windows aren't there anymore, they've been shoved off to my secondary monitor on the left.  Why is windoze 11 so TRASH?? WHY WHY WHY????  Less time having to be NEIL with my policies in place - less time picking through big mail queues.  Dealing with other crap instead heh.  Leftover lemon pepper dill chicken for dinner.  DS9 2.4.  Mum emailed through a video taken on a phone of the security video and yeah you can clearly see her trip rather than pass out.

Thursday.  Went to bed at 22:00.  Went to sleep at 01:00.  Sigh.  NEIL again for the day.  They're threatening to go back to managed desktops at work, which will be a massive pain in the @$$ because in order to use my own computer (you know, to actually work productively with a proper keyboard and two large screens) I'll need a dock or kvm just to use my own computer.  So dumb.  Ok drinks, although bartender was late so we were wondering if the bar would even open at all.  This cockatoo was hanging around behaving rather strangely.  I went over and it was quite tame (even let me hand feed it).  Wonder if it was someone's escaped pet.  

Pizzas then DS9 2.5.

Friday.  Early night and slept well hurray.  NEIL again, hopefully the last day for a while!! 

Had this miso ramen for lunch - $5.80 for two servings from Daiso.  Wasn't too bad.  Needed some pork belly though!

Kievs for dinner.

DS9 2.6 then Death in Paradise 14.4 - another ridiculous episode.

Saturday.  I knew that because I slept well on Thursday night I'd sleep badly on Friday.  Sure enough, awake from ~1:30 to ~4:30 sigh.  Zombie morning, pretty much a complete writeoff.  Tried to pay tax (last time I tried the site was down for maintenance).  Why do they make it so damned HARD??  Why can't they make it like utilities where you get a nice clear bill and details to pay.  Tax you're *lucky* to get a cryptic "You have mail in mygov" email (or in my case, the first you hear about it is an sms that it's overddue).  Then when you login it's still not even clear what you're paying.  Like is this PAYG for this quarter? Next quarter? What?  Just make it EASY FFS!!  But.  All the rain today!  Hurray!  Blogged my recent trip to Adelaide.  The new light I got for the two foot tank looked rather.. dim.. and flickery.  I tried replacing the starter (of course I opened up the wrong end first didn't I??) but no luck.  Tried another bulb, it seemed ok, and tried the bulb in another fitting, still dim.  #grunt.  Windoze 11 Notepad sux.  If the file you have open is too big (like maybe a couple of hundred KB) it will literally just skip entering keys you've typed.  So you have to back and keep reentering them.  So dumb. Most likely it's all the spell checking and autocorrection crap.  I'm still on the fence whether to give up on it and go back to classic Notepad.  I do like the state saving - you can reboot and not lose anything you have open.  Handy when Windoze REBOOTS AGAINST YOUR WILL whenever it feels like it.  Sausages and salad for dinner then watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.  Even though we put it on at dinner time it still finished after 21:00. hrmmm.

Sunday.  Slept mostly ok.  Definitely had a lot more energy today.  Although mostly just house stuff, food shopping, returned the fish tank light and got a new one which seems better, cleaning etc.

We're worried Stumpy is dying.  He's not been himself the past couple of weeks.  Lethargic and not basking. hrmmmm.  He is around 18 years old though, and typical age for a blue tongue in captivity is 15-20 years.....

Been 11 years since Dad went and carked it.  Life just whizzes by.. and then you're gone..