Home at last!

Build an extension on the man cave, fix the pipework in the paddock(s), and build a café racer for the wee microbe because she comes of age at the end of the year.

MMM - and perhaps a bit of teaching - just for the fun of it.

Yep - plans to start living again!

Engineering issues at work mean further delays!

If I am lucky I'll be home in a week or so - just in time to go to Western Australia for another contract.

About 10 days (including weekends!) off this year - I need a break.

Bikes to build, plumbing to repair, dogs, cat, kids, wife and chooks (well not chooks ) to hug.

At the moment life is passing me by. Need to address that.

Cheers All!

Missed out on cool and temperate Geelong - in happy Victoria sharing an ale with Anjave!

Nope - this little black duck is destined to spend his life in isolated desert locations ..... Week 2 @ Mt Isa 1000km from Townsville, over 1600km from Darwin.

Ce la vie home in 10 days!

Gave notice today, a free man on Tuesday ... Yay!!!

I'll take a couple of weeks off, build a bike, and then get a new job.

It's a plan Stan!

Don't mind working in the middle of nowhere, but get mighty pissed off when they can't get my pay in on time, or right when they do pay me.

Dave could get ugly on this score!

40 days and home for 7 yay!!!!

Massive massive massive cyclone brewing off the coast ...... could get ugly!

16 days in - not a day below 100F, most over 105F (40C).

Nights get down to 37 - 38c.

I'm shattered!

Off to the Pilbara (Newman) for about four or five months. Time be be a mine whore again and top up the coffers! Yay!!!

My son has been accepted into Astro physics at Adelaide Uni - massive yay!
Uni fees and college living fees this year will cost over 20k - massive boo!
He still has the sexual maturity of a 13yr old (Sheldon Cooper looks like the Karma Sutra by comparison) so hopefully some young thing will seduce him and fuck his brains out. Time the cave boy saw the light!

To my Aussie mates, hope you're all surviving the heat and that the fires are a long way from all of you!

I trust the new year is being good to all of you out there in SG land.

Cheers!

Merry Christmas and holidays to all!!!

Currently 105(+) F outside (41c) but it is cooling down!

In Australia we get a white christmas when ones perspiration salts dry on our shirts!

Cane cutter mix to be consumed voraciously from this point on!!

(Rum, lime juice cordial and a squeeze of lemon - over ice) nyum nyum nyum!

Home, relaxed, a bottle of Jamesons' Cloudy Apple, and the dog snoring on the chair next to me!

Outstanding!