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I had to register my car this week.
So last week I had to get it inspected.
$1105 later.
oops :(
The most annoying thing was they didn't like my sports steering wheel, complaining it was too small for the ACT. So now I have this massive thing. It didn't feel like my car driving it away. David suggested I put the old one back on now that I have it inspected heh :)
Registering it at the ACT Govt Shopfront proved to be time-consuming (45 min all up), but otherwise painless, me having all the appropriate documentation as specified here. I was fortunate enough to not have the problems other people have had.
My car does look a little forlorn without plates attached... but at least the new ones match the colour scheme a lot better :)
When we were getting lunch, this little brat was moving his chair to deliberately make a horrible and very loud high pitched squeal. Over and over again. I actually told him to stop because it was so distressing, but when he could see that I was upset by it he grinned and did it all the more. If I had a kid like that, I'd either be committed to a mental asylum, or to prison after killing him.
Of course the drop-kick father didn't even try to stop him.
People suck.
Of course the drop-kick father didn't even try to stop him.
People suck.
The saga for this Lego set began in 2007 when I first saw it for sale online. The biggest problem was that Lego Australia sell it for $979.99, yet it is only $499.99 USD. With the American dollar being as weak as it is, that translated into about $550AUD. So I asked my friend Dave to buy it for me and ship it out. Even with all the extra postage, I still saved about $150AUD on doing it this way. How stupid is that.
It arrived in early December, but unfortunately I simply didn't have the time to start work on it until Christmas Day, after all the Christmas *stuff* was over and done with. So as soon as we got home from lunch, I started.
The box was massive. When packaged, it all weighed 12lb, 8oz.
The manual was even fatter than the Star Destroyer's one.
Inside, all the different sorts of pieces are bagged together - there's no division based on section, so it was a lot of work to find pieces as I went along.
Everything is spread out over our dining table
Here the chassis is complete. This thing is rock solid and strong enough to bear the weight of all the lego when the ship is complete.
By Christmas night I'd finished this much of it
An in-progress shot on Boxing Day
A shot of the seven landing struts while they were in progress. I missed the instruction at the beginning that said there were seven of them, and so had completed one when I saw x7. So I then had to make the other six.
Showing the landing gear attached
Looking up from underneath
Working on the engine lights
Back view of the engines attached
The outline of the ship is now defined
A front view
The pieces are starting to thin out now
Looking up from underneath at the newly attached lower skin
A shot of the left side
And the right side - showing the way-cool lowering gangway
The upper and lower gunnery covers
Looking through to the lower guns
Top view when all the lower surface is finished
Stu holds it up for me to show the whole base
One of the side attachment gizmos
Cockpit base is now attached
By Boxing Day night, this was how far I'd progressed
Han stands next to his ship for scale
Work completed by the 27th - not much else has been done!
At this point we flew away to Queensland for five days. Other than a case of strep-throat for me, we all had a great time.
Back on New Years Day - engine covers now done
Here's everyone except Luke in the cockpit
Finished!!
Well at this point I hadn't *quite* finished. There were two 2x3 grey plates missing, and a small right-sided wing. Yet strangely enough I had a left-sided wing left over. To complete the set for photographs, I took a couple of plates from non-essential surfaces and the wing, and attached them to the places you can actually see. So it wasn't until 5 January that I could complete photographing it.
Here's some shots of the finished Lego set
Some detailed shots
These were the pieces I had leftover. Strangely enough, three other people had a *whole bunch* of wings leftover, and I ended up with one missing and one leftover of the wrong sort. I suppose I could have made a mistake somewhere, but I doubt it, as to be missing pieces would mean getting out extra for the inventory for the step, as well as finding a place for them not in the instructions. Very odd.
My manual also had a mistake on page 152. The image it showed for the section to be built was not what was actually built in the section - it was a repeat of the image for the previous section. tsk tsk Lego ;)
And a final shot of the finished set, including the name plate. Being a Lego purist, of course I couldn't ruin the sticker/Lego by actually *attaching* the sticker ;)
So there we go. Eighteen hours of work. When I pull it apart I'll be pulling it apart carefully in sections as per the instructions. So the next time I build it it will be a lot quicker. It'd be very cool to get the Millenium Falcon and the Star Destroyer built together. Pity I don't have the Tantive IV.... One day... :)
It was such a weird day today. Haven't really felt quite the same since they announced the mass redundancies a year and a half ago. Just lots of strange politics and the feeling that some people don't quite *get* what's going on. When the end of the day came and Chris suggested a beer at the local, I was well and truly up for it.
So as mentioned previously, it was my fifth Blogiversary this week. I decided last year that I wanted to update the style, and the version of Movable Type at the same time. And move it to a Webcity cPanel box. Unfortunately the weeks leading up to Christmas I was busy with getting ready for Christmas, and then we went to Queensland. So I basically had one weekend to work on it, which was a lot less than I'd hoped for!
So anyway. Here's some of my comments and traumas.
Install Wizard
The setup wizard was incredibly easy to setup and use - and it just worked! Soooo much easier that MT2, which required a tonne of hacking. I've not decided if I'll keep the default path where I just happened to dump the files, or see about changing it. My last blog didn't use MySQL - I used Movable Type's version 2.661 database, which I liked using as I could easily backup the database myself by just grabbing the files. I've still to write something to backup my MySQL database regularly.
File Permissions
In 2004 I hacked my old blog to change the file permissions that MT uses by default. For this version I followed these instructions to hack mt-config.cgi to include:
DBUmask 0022
HTMLUmask 0022
UploadUmask 0022
DirUmask 0022
This means that the files aren't written as being world writable - not good on a shared hosting site!
Style
The next step was to pick some sort of style for the site. I decided that I wanted Black Mountain Tower in the masthead somewhere, to indicate my new life. But I didn't have any good panorama type shots of it. So dragged Stu down to the lake last weekend after church to take some panorama photos. I used one of the "Cityscape" MT styles - the Sydney one actually! and then hacked that to bits. Well chunks really, not little bits ;) Found some actual bugs in the style sheet where Tiffany had misspelt tags so they weren't actually being used - tragic really for a professional.
Widgets
I don't know if these were included in version 3, as I skipped straight from 2 to 4. But they're pretty nifty. It took me a while to actually figure out the Movable Type interface to find them - hidden away in the footer templates!! - under your 2 or 3 column layouts includes. This site gives more info on changing the templates to use the drag and drop widget management bizzo - which I did and I can now drag and drop my widgets. But by doing that you do lose some of the MTif statements for whether things like the archive descriptions are displayed on the archive pages. I could hack all my widgets, or just have an index style and a non-index style column layout. Still thinking about that one.
Gravatar
Getting Gravatar working again involved simply downloading the plugin and not so simply hacking the style sheet for it to display ok (I'm not very good at style sheets!)
RSS Feed
MT4 has a full feed RSS feed by default now - I just use the rss.xml file. So anyone using my old rss url should use this one now.
Google Analytics
Inserted this into my footer template. Strangely visits have gone up heaps since the changeover. So either the old code wasn't being loaded properly, or visits are now working differently because of the broken image searches (see below for more on that). I'm thinking more likely the latter.
Captchas
Now included with Movable Type, but really really ugly. Will look at finding a friendlier one.
Importing my old blog
Strangely I left this til the last minute after doing my styles - after all you don't want to be rebuilding a site of my size too often - it takes a good five minutes each time!
I didn't do any research into this before I went ahead with it, assuming that I'd be able to figure it out. In the end the process was actually fairly simple, but it did take a few goes to get the formatting of the file right. The way I did it was to go to my old installation of MT on the other server, and do the export. Save that export to a text file (mine was about 3mb in size). Then import into the new blog. In the end used the unix format of the output file, and when importing using "Convert line breaks" and UTF-8 encoding. (Used this page for hints on this which worked)
Broken Images
Of course once everything was imported, all the links to my images were wrong. You see I'd decided not to use the old paths for my images. Although this means less hits from Google image searches, it'd also screw up anyone that's been direct linking my images for the past five years. Such people deserve to die. So I attempted the search and replace feature. But for some reason this worked really badly. So I think I've fixed up my images, but I can't really be sure, and some of my pages might still be missing images.
Broken Links
This one was going to take some work. Because in addition to the several hundred of my entries that refer to earlier entries, all external links were going to be broken. I decided to use the .htaccess method of redirecting people.
The biggest problem is that MT2 uses files in the format archives/002190.html while MT4 uses entry titles in the file name, and puts them in monthly directories. So I needed to convert the old links to the new format. In my old blog I downloaded Dirify Plus, then created another index template with the following in it:
<MTEntries lastn="2500">
RedirectMatch /mt-archives/<MTEntryID pad="1">.html /<MTEntryDate format="%Y/%m">/<MTEntryTitle trim_to="40" dirifyplus="pld">.html </MTEntries>
This generated a massive page of text that could be used directly in a .htaccess file. This worked well, except for the few hundred broken links where I'd had duplicate entries, and the couple of hundred pages that were more than 30 characters, which appears to be the limit MT4 uses. I tried setting my dirify to 30 characters, but that didn't seem to work, so I just hacked an excel file to rebuild the links for me. The duplicate entry titles are still a problem (the first one is whatever-1, then whatever-2 etc). I'm thinking I might have to hack the .htaccess file manually for those.
Pages
MT4 lets you create static pages that aren't part of the blog, which is a useful feature. I created a 404 error page, and put that in the .htaccess file, so people that come from broken image searches will see that.
Search Feature
The new search tool is a bit retarded in that it returns the entire page of a blog entry. If you put in something like "the" you'd probably end up returning the entire blog in one page. Will have to read up on how to change that.
Photo Uploading
My first attempts at uploading photos were a bit frustrating. It doesn't have the old feature to "show html" when uploading files, and wants to create a new entry every time. I barely spent any time looking at this though, as it wasn't a priority for going live. I might have a look at Better File Uploader, or do some more reading to find out if I've just missed something.
Comment Notifications
Haven't been able to get these to work, even though the test email when I was setting everything up worked. So I know sendmail will work with the blog, but I just can't figure out how to get it to email me whenever a comment is posted. Very annoying!
Todo
Still have a big todo list. Things like:
So anyway. Here's some of my comments and traumas.
Install Wizard
The setup wizard was incredibly easy to setup and use - and it just worked! Soooo much easier that MT2, which required a tonne of hacking. I've not decided if I'll keep the default path where I just happened to dump the files, or see about changing it. My last blog didn't use MySQL - I used Movable Type's version 2.661 database, which I liked using as I could easily backup the database myself by just grabbing the files. I've still to write something to backup my MySQL database regularly.
File Permissions
In 2004 I hacked my old blog to change the file permissions that MT uses by default. For this version I followed these instructions to hack mt-config.cgi to include:
DBUmask 0022
HTMLUmask 0022
UploadUmask 0022
DirUmask 0022
This means that the files aren't written as being world writable - not good on a shared hosting site!
Style
The next step was to pick some sort of style for the site. I decided that I wanted Black Mountain Tower in the masthead somewhere, to indicate my new life. But I didn't have any good panorama type shots of it. So dragged Stu down to the lake last weekend after church to take some panorama photos. I used one of the "Cityscape" MT styles - the Sydney one actually! and then hacked that to bits. Well chunks really, not little bits ;) Found some actual bugs in the style sheet where Tiffany had misspelt tags so they weren't actually being used - tragic really for a professional.
Widgets
I don't know if these were included in version 3, as I skipped straight from 2 to 4. But they're pretty nifty. It took me a while to actually figure out the Movable Type interface to find them - hidden away in the footer templates!! - under your 2 or 3 column layouts includes. This site gives more info on changing the templates to use the drag and drop widget management bizzo - which I did and I can now drag and drop my widgets. But by doing that you do lose some of the MTif statements for whether things like the archive descriptions are displayed on the archive pages. I could hack all my widgets, or just have an index style and a non-index style column layout. Still thinking about that one.
Gravatar
Getting Gravatar working again involved simply downloading the plugin and not so simply hacking the style sheet for it to display ok (I'm not very good at style sheets!)
RSS Feed
MT4 has a full feed RSS feed by default now - I just use the rss.xml file. So anyone using my old rss url should use this one now.
Google Analytics
Inserted this into my footer template. Strangely visits have gone up heaps since the changeover. So either the old code wasn't being loaded properly, or visits are now working differently because of the broken image searches (see below for more on that). I'm thinking more likely the latter.
Captchas
Now included with Movable Type, but really really ugly. Will look at finding a friendlier one.
Importing my old blog
Strangely I left this til the last minute after doing my styles - after all you don't want to be rebuilding a site of my size too often - it takes a good five minutes each time!
I didn't do any research into this before I went ahead with it, assuming that I'd be able to figure it out. In the end the process was actually fairly simple, but it did take a few goes to get the formatting of the file right. The way I did it was to go to my old installation of MT on the other server, and do the export. Save that export to a text file (mine was about 3mb in size). Then import into the new blog. In the end used the unix format of the output file, and when importing using "Convert line breaks" and UTF-8 encoding. (Used this page for hints on this which worked)
Broken Images
Of course once everything was imported, all the links to my images were wrong. You see I'd decided not to use the old paths for my images. Although this means less hits from Google image searches, it'd also screw up anyone that's been direct linking my images for the past five years. Such people deserve to die. So I attempted the search and replace feature. But for some reason this worked really badly. So I think I've fixed up my images, but I can't really be sure, and some of my pages might still be missing images.
Broken Links
This one was going to take some work. Because in addition to the several hundred of my entries that refer to earlier entries, all external links were going to be broken. I decided to use the .htaccess method of redirecting people.
The biggest problem is that MT2 uses files in the format archives/002190.html while MT4 uses entry titles in the file name, and puts them in monthly directories. So I needed to convert the old links to the new format. In my old blog I downloaded Dirify Plus, then created another index template with the following in it:
<MTEntries lastn="2500">
RedirectMatch /mt-archives/<MTEntryID pad="1">.html /<MTEntryDate format="%Y/%m">/<MTEntryTitle trim_to="40" dirifyplus="pld">.html </MTEntries>
This generated a massive page of text that could be used directly in a .htaccess file. This worked well, except for the few hundred broken links where I'd had duplicate entries, and the couple of hundred pages that were more than 30 characters, which appears to be the limit MT4 uses. I tried setting my dirify to 30 characters, but that didn't seem to work, so I just hacked an excel file to rebuild the links for me. The duplicate entry titles are still a problem (the first one is whatever-1, then whatever-2 etc). I'm thinking I might have to hack the .htaccess file manually for those.
Pages
MT4 lets you create static pages that aren't part of the blog, which is a useful feature. I created a 404 error page, and put that in the .htaccess file, so people that come from broken image searches will see that.
Search Feature
The new search tool is a bit retarded in that it returns the entire page of a blog entry. If you put in something like "the" you'd probably end up returning the entire blog in one page. Will have to read up on how to change that.
Photo Uploading
My first attempts at uploading photos were a bit frustrating. It doesn't have the old feature to "show html" when uploading files, and wants to create a new entry every time. I barely spent any time looking at this though, as it wasn't a priority for going live. I might have a look at Better File Uploader, or do some more reading to find out if I've just missed something.
Comment Notifications
Haven't been able to get these to work, even though the test email when I was setting everything up worked. So I know sendmail will work with the blog, but I just can't figure out how to get it to email me whenever a comment is posted. Very annoying!
Todo
Still have a big todo list. Things like:
- fix comment notification emails
- decide on sidebar widgets, and put Host1/CIA buttons back
- bring over my subblogs - Stoopid Quizzes, and the
10030 Star Destroyer pageand my USA 2004 page - create a new favicon.ico
fix up imood background colour- change my Gravatars to fit in with new style
- get a nicer captcha
- setup backups of the database
figure out how to upload multiple images- can do this, but the html is butt ugly- create a "Wishlist" widget - something I wanted as a plugin but noone seems to have ever written
- fix list of blogs style
- hack the link creator to put target="_blank" in
- fix up my Weather Pixie page
- fix search returns
- see if there's a simpler create entry form that'll work from the Blackberry
hack the image insertion code so it puts br clear=left tags in- edited lib/MT/Asset.pm and put the br clear=left stuff in this line - return qq{<form mt:asset-id="$id" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-$type">$html</form> <br clear="left">}; (discussion about this was found here).
July 2008: Hacked this further to completely remove the class bit from the form tag. Also hacked lib/MT/Asset/Image.pm to hash out the wrap_style line for left aligned images and just set $wrap_style to blank, so as to not have any extra nonsense around the images that cause them to render badly in Google news reader- put category and tags of entries in index template
ok so a little late :)
NYE Margie came over and we had a bbq (well an indoor version anyways as it was raining).. David cooked up a storm of a lot of meat .. mmmm meat :) We even finished off the leftover smoked turkey and ham that we brought up. Afterwards we played singstar, but it was insisted we play the new version, with no skips, which meant I got a few songs I've never heard of before.. doh.. And then I got beaten by an eight year old at Toxic.. doh! ;)
Spent a decent chunk of the evening doing my year in review. Then I declared it beer o'clock and had a few drinks while we watched The Fifth Element and I Am Legend. We were all too full from lunch to eat much, and in fact didn't even feel like drinking much, so by 11:30 we were all about ready to go to bed. But we hung in there, said our happy new years and watched the Sydney fireworks (that had been delayed an hour for us peoples in Queensland :) )
Yesterday we took it a bit easy, and then we headed off to the airport to go home. The takeoff was the freakiest I've ever been through. It seriously felt like we were about to get blown sideways off the runway! Distracting us from this was the little girl behind Stu who *screamed* for the entire taxi and takeoff until the seatbelt light was turned off. *yay*. Our flight took us right over the middle of Sydney, which frustrated me no end because I was on the wrong side of the plane for the best photos. But still got some reasonable ones of western Sydney. Since when does a line from Brisbane to Canberra go over Sydney tho? And we came in from the south at Canberra.. so really didn't win picking seats on the right side of the plane.
Today it was back to work. Which was not much fun, especially as I'd had so little time at home this holiday. It was a frustrating day of having to get other teams to fix things so that we could do our thing.
I finished the Millenium Falcon tonight. Well, sort of. I was missing two 2x3 grey plates, and a right wing (but I had a left wing leftover). So this is quite distressing me, and I haven't taken any photos of it "finished" yet until I can fix up the wrong bits that would be visible in photos.
Anyways.. happy new year and all that :)
2007. Interesting year. A year of upheaval.
The biggest thing to happen this year was quitting my job of ten years, moving to Canberra and starting a new job. Quitting my old job was tough, and I'd been putting it off for two years since I met Stu as I knew it was going to be difficult. I'd had it in my head that I'd stay for the full ten years and then move. Well last year they announced that there were likely to be mass redundancies, so I thought it would be a good time to leave, as I could also score a large payout. Except the redundancies never came, and in fact a couple of weeks ago they announced the plan to outsource had been scrapped. But I'd decided to leave anyway as I'd been offered a job in Canberra. Anyway, after six weeks at my new job I'm still not entirely sure what I'm meant to be doing. The whole place is very overwhelming and their server infrastructure is huge. In my first week I told someone to ask me again in a month how I was liking it. I should probably extend that for another couple of months.
On a lighter note, living in Canberra is nice. The traffic is infinitely better. Although I'm actually catching the bus to work so that I can read - something I've not done in over ten years. Is letting me actually get some books read, as I don't read at any other time. The main annoying thing with Canberra is major services and shops are only in a few select locations, which are quite spread out. And petrol stations are few and far between.
As far as wedding plans are going.. after being engaged for a full year now, all we've managed to organise is a wedding dress for me (found on eBay in February) and set a date and book a church. Reception, honeymoon and other important details have yet to be organised. Four months is plenty of time.. right..? ;)
I'm writing this in Queensland at our friends Chay and David's place. It's actually the third time we've been to visit them this year, driving up over Easter and then flying up in July. Traditionally we drink a lot, eat a lot and generally be merry, usually in the form of a lot of singing of Sing Star songs. This trip has been no exception, although we did bring a couple of board games to play this time. It'll be nice to spend New Years Eve with them, so long as I can watch fireworks at midnight :)
During our Easter trip we also got to stay with my fifth cousin twice removed Diana, and see lots of places close to Stu's heart.
The other major travel we did this year (other than the every other weekend trips between Canberra and Sydney) was five days on Lord Howe Island. It was as good as I remembered it twenty years ago, but with a lot more cars :) Stu loved it too, and we're sure to be returning to it one day.
In preparation for the move, I culled boxes and boxes of high school and university notes. I gave away and sold lots of toys and other bits and pieces from my childhood. I also freecycled a lounge chair, a table and a desk. My little brother replaced all the taps in my house, a Sydney Water plumber installed a water saving shower head and washers, and a tiler regrouted my shower. I was kicking myself that I didn't get the shower fixed a long time ago, it would have made it sooo much nicer. As it was, my shower was pretty disgusting for most of the six years I was there, until the very last week. Oh well. I still had a tonne of stuff to move though. What I couldn't tetris into Stu's place got put into storage. We have a twenty cubic metre storage unit that is very full. We hope to start looking for our own place after the wedding/honeymoon. Then we'll reevaluate everything we have.
All my fish survived the move. It did take a good half a dozen trips to get them all down though :) My major addition before moving was another white angel fish, this one a boy, to go with my girl angel. She laid eggs a couple of times after he arrived, but while he had successfully bred before and knew what to do, she had been single for so long, that she kept telling him to piss off away from her eggs, and then ate them all herself. Silly fish :) We currently have fourteen tanks with fish in them, and four that don't. Stu sold some of his juvenile Julidochromis transcriptus fish for $7 each. We're going to have to take good care of the other fry we have, as they seem to be little money-spinners :)
At the beginning of the year, I saw comet McNaught, after not thinking that I'd get to. We also saw the total lunar eclipse. And we had two astronomy nights in Spence in Canberra at someone who has a telescope mounted permanently in his backyard.
Our Christmas involved lunch at my parent's place the Sunday before Christmas (actually we were up for Jake's wedding reception on the Saturday and bundled the two). Then it was back to Canberra for Christmas day at Stu's.
Other things I did this year:
* decided to cut down the amount of orange juice I drank per day and lost two kilos
* went on lovely cruise on Lake Burley Griffin as an engagement present from Damien
* went to Cancon
* more poker nights at cia and work, with mixed success (success at work ones, failure at cia ones)
* saw the Queen Mary 2 and QE 2 in Sydney
* went up Sydney Tower with Mum and Stu
* discovered Google Sketchup
* walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge on the main deck, on the weekend of its 75th birthday
* dragged Stu up Black Mountain Tower to take photos
* participated in Earth Hour to save turning the timers on my fish tanks back an hour ;)
* saw the Amazing Human Body exhibition at the show ground
* saw the very last flight of Qantas' very first 707 jet
* saw the Kitty Hawk in Sydney
* read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the day (and day after) it came out
* dragged Stu to the Blue Mountains, down the Giant Staircase and up the Scenic Railway
* did a day trip to the snow to go skiing
* babysat Josh and Rachel at Questacon all day
* got the hiccoughs for the first time in a *very* long time
* shut down my eleven year old photo server conspiracy, after moving all the photos to a virtual host
* had a farewell at work that not too many people came to (probably about a quarter of the people that were invited)
* got a new computer
* decided very quickly that Vista sux
* met another blogger (Lil Lioness)
* got the latest Hogwarts Castle Lego set
* got the Millenium Falcon in Lego
* had about five different work end of year parties, but felt left out because I couldn't go to my old work one
* got my own Blackberry, switched to Optus only to find they are just as crap as Vodafone
Things I miss about Sydney (in no particular order):
* my job
* walking with George on Thursday nights
* lunches with Luc/cards in the office
* dinners at Alan and Marylon's
* living right next to a big airport
* my flat
* easy access to petrol stations (especially my regular one and the dude there)
* family and other friends
Things I don't miss about Sydney:
* the traffic
* my bumhead neighbours (we just have bogan neighbours here)
* Freecycle Sydney Central moderators
Have a safe 2008 :) Happy new year!!
So Saturday .. was that yesterday? Seems so long ago..
Got up and got ourselves ready before heading to Parramatta Park for Jake's wedding reception thingie. Was quite pleasant, and the food was fantastic. It threatened to rain for most of the afternoon but held off until near the end. Not that it mattered much, being under one of the nice big pavilions.
Wandered back to James and George's for a bit of a sleep. After dinner we all played another game of RoboRally. This time Stu won, after a hard battle for the second flag, the rest of the game was fairly easy.
We went to bed *very* late (even Josh stayed up til after midnight). So we were a bit tired this morning. Said goodbye, then trekked the entire way across Sydney to my parents place for lunch.
Me in the Bah Humbug hat
Stu and me (laughing at my brother baring his chest to make us smile)
The cockatoos are multiplying
On the way home we came across these poor people who had overturned their car and caravan. Ruining their holiday fairly decidedly. That purple car with a P-plate is an unmarked police car .. is that even legal..??
Stu decided to take a scenic route home, so we went down the left side of Lake George, through Tarago. It was very pretty.
Smith's Gap coming up the end of Lake George
This is one of the Christmas presents I got today - a Rubiks mega cube. I'm dreading mucking it up, because I don't think it'll ever go back together again..
After our dinner we went for a drive to see some Christmas lights. Firstly in Gungahlin
And then Amagula Ave, Ngunnawal, as recommended in the Riot Act. Truly spectacular!
The whole front room of the house was converted into these little displays
My tree at home doesn't look nearly so exciting now
I still like my study lights tho...
