On Holidays!

Author: jawapro
Date: Mon 26/07/2010 03:41 PM




 

Well - I’m interstate again! But this time it’s holidays, so it’s far more pleasant.

My parents decided that they prefer travelling with my sister and I (don’t ask me why) so organized that we could all have the same week off and flew us all up to Port Macquarie in northern NSW. Mum wanted to go to Queensland where it would be warmer - but they’d left it too late to book the Timeshare Exchange, and we only got as far a northern New South Wales. If you ask me, that’s not entirely a bad thing - it’s not too hot here.

 

Mum and Dad have a timeshare in Shearwater in Tas, and can swap their week with a week elsewhere, so here we are. It’s quite a nice place, Port Macquarie. Has an EB and a TJM shop - so it ticks all the right boxes.

 

I should have taken these photos earlier in the day as the sun was bright and made everything look darn tropical. It’s still very pretty, but not quite so spectacular.

So I’m over here enjoying myself and doing nothing - what’s up back in Tas?


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Launceston Nerf Campaign

Author: jawapro
Date: Thu 22/07/2010 06:11 PM




 

As a veteran of the Myer and Kmart Assaults, I decided to play this one smarter.

This time I’d be there early. The early bird gets the worm, and the early nerd gets the gun.

Because Devonport doesn’t have a Target worthy of the name, this meant a trip to Launceston, which in turn meant a day in lieu from work, but I have plenty of them owing to me, so that was fine.

So I launched the HMS Subaru and plotted a slipstream jump to Launceston. I emerged the other side in plenty of time, but locked myself into a holding pattern while I tried to contact reinforcements. The Legendary Klutz was supposed to meet me there, but he was having a legendary sleepin and missed his rendezvous.

Eventually giving Klutz up as MIA, I landed the Subaru at the docks and approached Target on foot. But alas, the delay had cost me dearly. The Target was already breeched, and the sale had begun.

Thus began a rapid search pattern, as I attempted to locate the Nerf cache. I found it with only moments to spare.

 

There were two Nerf Longstrikes on the shelf. I grabbed one, as someone else grabbed the other.

Victory was mine! The sale had only been on for 10 minutes, and the stocks were gone. Even while I stood there I saw numerous people searching for a Longshot or Longstrike, but with no success. They were gone.

These sales are almost an intense as any Nerf war I’ve been in. The guys at the shop couldn’t believe how fast they sold. I then proceeded to spent $300 on lego, but only $6 of it was mine - the rest was on Richie’s behalf.

The second hand bookshops were my next target, but the tale is not so thrilling, so I’ll leave it untold.

So that’s how I spent my day off. Worthy?

 
^ Yes, I realise the gun is not fully assembled yet, but I couldn’t be bothered doing it properly on the side of the road.




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New Camera

Author: jawapro
Date: Mon 19/07/2010 10:29 PM




 

For quite a while now I’ve been thinking of getting a smaller camera. Not to replace my main one – I’d have to go bigger for that. But as a smaller alternative. For times when you want to put a camera in your pocket and not have to wear it around your neck all day or carry a backpack.

I was going to save up and get as good a small camera as I could (and probably waterproof) but Dick Smith were selling this one for about $70, so I figured I couldn’t really go wrong with it. Sure it's nothing special - but for the price of about 4 sets of film in the old tech, it's not too shabby.


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Emma moves home

Author: jawapro
Date: Mon 19/07/2010 10:19 PM




 

After finishing her Honours at uni, my sister decided it was time to move back up north. At least until she finds a job.

So my parents and I went down on Saturday and helped her move out of her tiny shoe-box apartment and into a small truck, and then into an even smaller room at Mum and Dads. It remains to be seen how well things fit there.

So to the Honourable Emma Kingston, Welcome back to the North!
 
 


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Collector or Builder

Author: jawapro
Date: Tue 13/07/2010 08:35 PM




 

The Lego house picture has been demolished for parts. I bought the set because it’d been discounted pretty drastically and comes with a nice collection of pieces. But I just had to put it together once before I parted it out.

This marks somewhat of a departure for me. Over the last few years I’ve been getting my old sets back together again by buying any missing pieces from Bricklink. These sets are kept in separate bags and almost nothing could convince me to part them out.. But here I am deliberately breaking a set down into it’s pieces with no plans to keep it together as a set.

The collector in me isn’t sure that it’s a good idea. The builder in me says it is.

So am I a collector or a builder? If I am both, where does the collector stop and the builder begin?




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