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Monday 24th, March 2008
Puffing Billy24/03/2008 03:33 PM
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Puffing Billy, Australia’s oldest surviving steam railway and the last of the experimental narrow-gauge railway lines built at the turn of the twentieth century to help develop rural areas.
The 25-kilometre journey winds through thick forests and lush fern-filled gullies from Belgrave to Emerald Lake and Gembrook.
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Thursday 7th, February 2008
Server Upgrades07/02/2008 12:13 AM
Yes, I have actually been busy since we arrived home from our holiday in Robe, primarily doing work on the home network which I have avoided for quite some time, but as always it’s amongst other things such as a new kitten, Caitlins Birthday, helping my Brother in-law out, Connor starting back at school and Caitlin starting at school for the first time.
As you have probably noticed by the lack of updates on the website I’m a bit bored with “Technology" at the moment and even taking any photos.
I’ve had a new server at home to replace the existing file and print server for the last 4 plus months but I just haven’t been able to find the energy or will power needed to deploy it. The old server has a nasty habit of locking up which is a right pain because the MediaPortal PC which is connected to the TV gets rather grumpy whenever you try to access files on this server.
This combined with the fact that the Domino web server was almost out of disk space which made updating the website take 10 times longer than it should and that my desktop desperately needed the removal of Vista and a reinstall of good ‘ol XP. (In my opinion Vista is without a doubt the worst Operating System ever created by Microsoft, far worse than even Windows ME and I blame this as a major contributor to my lack of interest in my PC’s of late.)
So anyway it all started because I went to turn the cartoons on for the kids the other morning only to find that the MediaPortal PC wouldn’t boot. As far as I can gather the PC had filled up with dust, overheated and then spent the night rebooting causing XP to corrupt itself. So after messing around trying to fix it I gave up and reinstalled XP and everything is up and running again.
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Friday 1st, February 2008
Caitlin & Meg01/02/2008 07:44 PM
The picture folders of Caitlin & Megan have been updated and includes Megs 2nd Birthday Party and Caitlin in her School uniform.
Caitlin's Pictures Here
Meg's Pictures Here
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Monday 28th, January 2008
Holiday 200828/01/2008 05:01 PMSee the Pictures Here
Holiday to Robe South Australia
This is our second visit to the Robe Long beach Caravan Park, this time we spent 18 days there and unfortunately the weather was a little disappointing. Of the 18 days there was only a couple of days that the wind wasn’t blowing a gale and only a few where the temperatures peaked above the mid 20 Deg’s.
Last years Pictures Here
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Monday 7th, January 2008
Cubby House07/01/2008 07:44 PM
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Heading out prior to Xmas to have a look at the ready made cubby houses as a possible Xmas present for the girls, we were blown away at the ridiculous prices they were.
After Catherine and I talked about it we decided that a “Fort” style would be a better option, cheaper to make and less grief as it wouldn’t require building permission.
So with only a rough plan in my head we headed down to the timber yard and returned home with a mass of cheap and nasty treated pine sleepers, fencing rails and decking.
The trouble was as I started building the cubby/fort the design became more and more elaborate, with a crows nest arrangement between the trees leading to a flying fox, multiple stairs etc. As it is very unlikely we will move any time soon I wanted to make it as strong and lasting as possible and with all theses factors this is where the issues began …. The sheer lack of time.
Everything is mitered and/or checked-in; its plumb, level and square, all the edges of the timber is routered round and smooth and all of this is time consuming to say the least. Unfortunately just as I started the construction Ray had the pre-Xmas rush happening as well so I was working 7 days a week leading up to the Xmas break.
So currently at the time of writing it is still not finished and I estimate that another 3 days will be required to finish it off.
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Thursday 27th, December 2007
Xmas 200727/12/2007 07:44 PM
2007 Xmas parties, Xmas Eve with the Herman family, Xmas Day with the Arber family and the Sunday before Xmas with the Lay family
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Sunday 21st, October 2007
Pt Leo21/10/2007 07:44 PM
With the warm weather coming so early in the year, a quick visit to the beach with the girls (including the dog)
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Saturday 20th, October 2007
Cobaw State Forest20/10/2007 07:44 PM|
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Speaking to Stevo’ on Friday afternoon he enquired if we were intending on going on the trip being organised by Dean to Cobaw State Forest, I haven’t been on the AULRO forums much of late and to be honest hadn’t seen the thread regarding this. I mulled it over for a while and to be honest the thought of getting out for the day was tempting to say the very least, being stuck at home job hunting is starting to take its toll on me.
Catherine was out with the girls for Friday night drinks so when I rang her about 11pm and asked her if she was interested she said yes, a few drinks and a not so clear head she failed to ask what time we would be leaving the following morning, I also believe that Cath agreed because she knew I wanted to go.
So I got to work packing for the trip, its amazing how time consuming getting ready for these things are when your packing for 2 little ones, lunches, snacks, bottles, changes of clothes, sun cream, hats, coats, drinks, dummies, nappies, wipes the list just goes on and on and crawled into bed around 12:30am just as Cath arrived home.
Waking to the alarm a bit after 5:30am we got to work, getting dressed then packing and loading the stuff into the back of Sall, then waking the girls, sorting breakfast and hitting the road about 6:40am. The plan was to meet at the Village Green Hotel car park at 7am but we needed to fill up with petrol first and 90 litres on these low flow pumps is all to time consuming.
Arriving at the car park Peter and Lyn were already there in their 80 series Landcruiser and Darren and his little one were there in his Pathfinder, we were just waiting on Stevo and Annette in their Disco1, time to crack open the thermos and have another shot of caffeine, I was sleepy and my eyes felt gritty.
Hitting the road the plan was to meet at Carlsruhe Servo at 8:30am, having a V8 and the fuel bill to prove it and with Tomtom set with our destination I decided to set cruise control and take the lead, leaving those with fuel economy to battle up the inclines.
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