Whoops.. while looking up some stuff for our trivia night, I ended up on Television Tunes.. and spent the rest of the night there listening to old tv show themes.....
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Seen near work. We think these might be juvenile superb parrots. Maybe. There was a whole flock of them.
Super busy day today. So much to do that I didn't know where to start, so didn't achieve nearly as much (I'm like the exit of a building. If there's a steady stream of people going through the exit, everything flows through nicely. But if too many people come at once and start jamming up the exit then less people exit cause they're all trying to get out at once. Give me too much to do at once and less gets done). I did organise the todo list a bit tho :/
Bit of progress on jigsaw and trivia night.
ok day at work.
Came home and in two hours had run and chlorinated the pool, put washing away, done a load of washing, cleaned the bathroom, done some jigsaw, had dinner and cleaned the kitchen.
Did a bit more jigsaw. Today I did the balloons and the rainbow.
But also did some trivia night planning.
So a pretty successful night all up.
So I was meant to be doing trivia night planning and holiday planning and UK photo sorting.
I did the jigsaw most of the weekend.
This is the next 6000 pieces sorted into sections
And this is my progress as of this evening (can't really see much in this photo)
The only other event of the weekend was meeting up with @phonakins and @chrispycon (and Rish and Richard) for drinks at King O'Malley's, followed by dinner at Asian Noodle House. No documentary evidence (although I might steal Fiona's photos of the meal one day), but it was a great night.
So the year began with a small pool party at our house, with beer, pizza, games and good friends.
We didn't travel much this year. Well, we did a bit, but no big international holidays. We did a long weekend trip to Queensland in July to visit Chay and David which is always nice. The only other flying I did was for some training for work in Melbourne. We went to Dave's coast house in February, April, June and November. Again, always great weekends away.
Did several trips to Sydney throughout the year:
- In August for my birthday to see a John Williams concert and visit friends and family
- In September to play tour guide to Dave2 and be a tourist in my home town
- In December to repeat the tourist trip with Kore
And a few smaller trips - to Yarrangobilly Caves, Parkes for The Dish 50th Anniversary open day, and Jindabyne to see the dam spilling.
At work I actually had a good beginning of the year. We got some new staff and for a few months I had time to step back from project work and get some operational stuff done. But then Phil went away for three months and it got super busy again - doh! Had a bowling night in June where I *didn't* come last! Team Blank went to three trivia nights: we came third in April, second in August and first in November! Of course that means we need to plan the next one! Planning to have that in March next year. Had a Hollywood-themed ball in October that I was sick for and was pretty miserable the whole night.
Speaking of sickness, it was one of the worst years I've ever had. Had a cold in February, with an ear infection and conjunctivitis as well. Got pretty severe gastro from Violet in March. Another cold in May and another in August. And then two months of various colds/flus/ear/eye infections from September to November. Finally healthy at the moment, but it hasn't been a great year :(
Didn't see as much of Nat and Andrew this year. The default activity for Saturday nights was watching Buffy and Angel with DaveC, so it took energy to do anything different, hence it didn't happen very often. We did have a couple of Singstar/video/games nights though.
Not a lot has changed on the fish front. We (I) made a rule some time back that we wouldn't buy any new fish until after Stu's Japan trip next year. So numbers have been slowly dwindling there. We had another heat wave that required regular dumpings of ice to keep tank temperatures down.
Although we had a couple of record lows in winter, the days were generally warmer, and the pool only froze over a couple of times.
The only new Lego this year was a few Harry Potter sets. Just trying to remember if the Toy Story 3 Lego came out this year or last year. It certainly didn't all get put away until just the other week! We went to the Lego Brick Expo in Woden which was pretty awesome. Also saw Nathan Sawaya's "Art of the Brick" exhibition in Sydney this week. And an unexpected bonus of lots of Lego displays at the Aquarium yesterday.
Only real toys this year were a new random camera, and a little Eee PC for use when travelling (and in fact I'm using it now!). I had a play with a macro lens and an L series lens. Still using my original lens though. On my phone I played with HDR and Instagram apps, as well as doing my first time lapse videos of Lego building, jigsaw building and clouds.
I had a lot of fun with origami this year - making several "phizz" balls of various sizes. Also some smaller geometric shapes (technically not origami).
I did some big jigsaws this year (and a stack of little ones). I did my 3000-piece one that I've had for years but never made. And then the first quarter of an amazing 24000 piece jigsaw! Hoping to do the next quarter early in the new year.
After the big La Niña of last summer, got to see Bendora Dam overflowing in January, as well as the aftermath of the floods at Coppins Crossing. Watched the progress of Cotter Dam and went to an open day in April (didn't go to another open day in November because it looked like they weren't preselling time slots and that didn't work very well at the first open day I went to).
In culinary adventures this year, I tried my hand at quite a few new recipes (and a few old ones). These were mostly desserts - Anzac Biscuits, Violet Crumble cheesecake slice, Apple pie, Caramel slice, Melting moments, Chocolate dipped fruit, Christmas cookies, Gingerbread. That was a lot of fun and will continue next year. Also did quite a few slow-cooked dishes, and rediscovered the simplicity of roast vegetables. Another new favourite of ours this year was okonomiyaki, thanks to Lisa. I also tried crocodile for the first time (it was a bit tough) and had my first McFeast (pretty good). Our favourite restaurants are still Black Pepper, the Dumpling Inn and Bella Vista. Tried a few new places as well including Courgette for our anniversary, Rice, Alice's and Kingsley's.
Shows seen this year:
- Weird Al Yankovic
- Folk Festival
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- John Williams at the Opera House
- Za Kabuki
- Floriade Nightfest
Movies seen this year (at the movies):
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2)
Books read this year:
- Hook by Geary Gravel (and got a comment by the author!)
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Mallorean series by David Eddings
- National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
Other Stuff:
- Got lots of my photos onto the RiotACT
- Saddened by the Queensland floods
- Lots of scanning of old photos
- Got a GPS and had some fun
- The little brother came to stay a few times with various people in tow (or by himself)
- Balloon fiesta including going up in one!
- Skyfire
- Walk around Government House
- Saw Peter Russell-Clarke at the mall
- Enjoyed the third season of Masterchef but decided not to watch the second kids series
- Walked up Black Mountain again in May and went up the tower this time
- Watched Amazing Race Australia
- Did the Mount Majura to Mount Ainslie walk
- Missed two lunar eclipses (4am the first time, clouds the second time)
- Met Fiona again (x2), and Lisa and Chris
- Radio silence in July when our internet went out for two weeks
- Skiing in July
- Trivia night for Stu's work
- Geotagged UK photos, but didn't get them all online
- Walked up Mount Taylor
- Stu's sister bought a new house in Canberra which makes visiting somewhat easier
- Hanami party in September, would have been better a week later
- Two games nights at Mishi's (only played games on one of the nights)
- Blog got screwed over (again) by my hosting company
- Saw the Queen
- Saw Air Force One come to land at Canberra
- Got some cool photos of lightning
As usual I don't really make new years resolutions. I think if anything I'd still like to try and spend less time on the computer - eg two hour chunks in the evenings.
We're having a quiet party in our hotel room tonight. Just a little champagne and nibblies in our room. The thought is to watch the 9pm fireworks from the hotel pool, and maybe go out at 11pm to see the main fireworks from Lavender Bay....
Happy New Year!!
So we might have accidentally won at work trivia night tonight. Just a little bit. Whoops!! (winning means you have to plan the next one - which is why we've come second or third for the last three ;) )
Fun fun fun and came home with wine and movie tickets! Yayy!! :)
Thanks DC, Chris, Jeff, Neil, Rebecca & partner and Robyn :)
Went to a trivia night for Stu's work tonight. Was lots of fun. Only six rounds though, and *lots* of blank space between each round, so not a good enough range of scores and the night took *ages*. I got a few that noone else got which was pretty cool. Although they didn't listen to me when I said a bulls eye in archery was 10 points. Oh well heh.
The theme was "If I wasn't working here I'd be a..." .. Stu thought he'd be a hobo :)
Had a work trivia night tonight. We were down on numbers this time, and a couple of people dropped out at the last minute, so had to do some last minute scrambling. Ended up with seven on the table plus Neil (Me, Chris H, Windy, Duncan A, Lyn&Peter and Steve).
And did remarkably well - winning the "mega round" - which we didn't think we would, and coming second over all!
W00t!!!
(of course coming second is the best place to come - as you don't get pressured to organise the next trivia night ;) )
Twenty one years ago tonight I saw Labyrinth for the first time. I wrote about it previously eight years ago.
Somehow I think I missed watching it last year on the twentieth anniversary. Probably cause it was a Wednesday and all too hard then never got around to it. Oh, it was a trivia night which kept me busy that night.
So I watched again tonight for probably the ~55th time..
So not a bad year all up :)
Let's see. Where to begin.
The year started with me away from the sweetie - I was visiting old Sydney friends. First year since we met that we weren't together on New Years, which was a bit sad.
Did a fair bit of other travelling during the year.
The big trip of course was to Japan and the UK in September. It wasn't the best holiday I've ever been on. Japan was 34C for five days in a row, and I didn't have shorts. And the UK was grey and/or raining for a good chunk of the time we were there, plus we missed out on going to Legoland which was pretty devastating for me. But on the plus side, everything "worked" in terms of bookings. We didn't get robbed. We didn't crash the car. We didn't miss any planes or trains. We did see heaps of cool stuff. So really I can't complain too much heh.
Had quite a few smaller trips as well. Spent a couple of days in January at the coast with all of Stu's family. Would have been better if I'd brought stuff to entertain myself with heh. Went to Mogo Zoo then. There was a quick trip to Sydney for my parents' 40th wedding anniversary. Went down the coast to DaveC's house three times in March, August over my birthday and October where we had a great whale sighting. Went to Melbourne over the Easter weekend to see Cats with Nat&Andrew. That was a cool weekend, we'd love to go back and do more Melbourney things. In July we went to Queensland for a long weekend to visit Chay and David. Decided that July/August is definitely the time to go to Brisbane, so will probably do that again this year. And another quick visit to Sydney on Boxing Day.
Had a very busy year at work. Rolled out new proxies at the beginning of the year, but they were fraught with problems from the start and it was very stressful. After several patches during the year, they finally settled down, only to have the upstream proxies start playing up. Blah!
Semi work-related were a ball in March where I managed to squeeze into a ten year old dress, but only just barely! I also made a slightly drunken bet that I'd wear a dress to a Melbourne Cup lunch if all the boys wore suits. Our director unfortunately decided to take it seriously and made all the boys wear suits. Reluctantly I had to go buy a dress and wear it. We also ran a trivia night that I think went really well. And attended work drinks pretty much every week I was in the country ;)
One of the big projects at work took several months and was so stressful I'm sure it led to a high blood pressure reading in July. I've been working on relaxing at work (and at home) and subsequent readings have been a lot more normal.
Otherwise healthwise I had a great year - just a cold early in the year but nothing else.
Spent a lot of time with Nat and Andrew during the year. Those guys are always so much fun to be around, we really enjoy their company. Also did a few Singstar nights with Windy and DaveO and saw Damien and Amanda a few times as well. JamesC came to visit a few times, and the whole family stayed with us a couple of weeks ago. The Hokins clan came to visit, as did the parents a couple of times and the little brother a few times. We've spent a lot more time with DaveC in the second half of this year. Seems I get on with him a whole lot better now that we're not working together heh.
Had another heat wave early in the year which meant us putting quite a bit of ice into the four foot tank to try and keep the temperature down. Seemed to work and we didn't lose any fish from it. I'd moved the danios downstairs so they wouldn't overheat, and found a couple of months later some baby danios that had been surviving quite happily unattented. When I later moved the danios back upstairs, there were more babies in the downstairs tank. Win! Stu got a colony of duboisis for the four foot, which are great fun, and will follow you around when you go to look at them in hopes that you'll feed them! Stu's also gotten back into killifish and has been diligent at looking after his fish again. We're back up to fourteen habitated fish tanks now!
On the opposite end of the weather spectrum, we had a very cold winter. This year the pool froze over probably a dozen times (it only froze over twice last year). One of the days the ice was a full 3mm thick in places! We even had snow in October. Go figure!
On the Lego front, a whole stack of Toy Story Lego was released so had to get all of that. And six new Harry Potter sets as well, although really only one of those is "new". There's a few other cool sets I want to get too. Went to BrickExpo in August which was very cool, and made me wonder if I should put anything in one of these years.
Other toys included an iPhone for me, a Blackberry for Stu, a video camera for Stu, a Canon 500D for me and a PS3.
So I've had the 500D for four and a bit months and have already taken 15000 photos on it! The majority of those in the UK of course ;) I still haven't sorted my UK photos *at all*. I did however manage to sort enough of our Japan 2009 and Europe 2008 photos to get the highlights into the blog entries. One of my next projects will be making photo books of those trips. I did make a photo book of our wedding as a Christmas present for parents. Having seen the finished result (which I was stoked with) there's a few little changes I want to make and need to fix up some of the images before we get our copy printed.
Around the house, we bought a whole stack of bookshelves for the downstairs room and set those up. So that room is quite well setup now. The garden has gone slightly feral though, especially with all the rain we've had recently.
Shows seen this year:
- Canberra Show (ok technically this isn't a show ;) )
- Ron Mueck exhibition in Queensland
- Spamalot - so much fun and great for an amateur production
- Twelfth Night - quite well done
- Wishful Drinking - super awesome!
- George Hrab - wished I'd listened to more of his music before the day (me fail!)
Movies seen this year:
- Toy Story 3
- The Kung Fu Kid
- Inception
- Not the Messiah (should this be a show or a movie? heh)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1)
Books read this year:
- "Watership Down" by Richard Adams
- "On the Banks of Plum Creek" by Laura Ingalls Wilder (and the rest of the Little House books)
- All five Belgariad books by David Eddings
- "Vet in Harness" and "If Only They Could Talk" by James Herriot
- "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell
- "Bare Bones" by Kathy Reichs
- "Jaws" by Peter Benchley
- "Seven Little Australians" by Ethel Turner
- "Wishful Drinking" by Carrie Fisher
And a few other bits and pieces:
- Installed Windows 7
- Got a new niece - Violet Grace
- Tried my first ever Big Mac, and quite liked it
- Went to the Dinosaur museum at Gold Creek
- Climbed a couple of mountains - Black Mountain, and Mount Painter a couple of times
- Had lots of fun making panoramas with Microsoft Image Composite Editor
- Lost all my holiday GPS tracks because iTunes sucks donkey balls
- Lots of trips to various ACT (and NSW) dams as they all filled up and overflowed. Haven't made it to Bendora yet, I kept being on call or there was too much rain closing the road to it
- Tried out Crust Pizzas. Stu is on a mission now to try them all :)
- Got heaps of my dam photos and other photos onto the RiotACT
- Had a Yellowbeard night here with a bunch of Daves and a Neil
- Watched the end of a lunar eclipse
Phewf. Yup, busy year :) I'm actually amazed I got this thing written *before* the end of the year - that never happens!! :)
Six hours to go. Have a great 2011 peoples! Happy New Year!!