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10 years ago....
jawapro
Tue 27/04/2010 08:57 PM

10 years ago today was the start of a great adventure.

Being home-schooled had it's advantages. the biggest was that we'd gotten ahead of our work, so when Dad's long service came up - the family packed up into the Pajero and headed around Australia for 5 months.

10 years ago today we boarded the original Spirit of Tasmania and headed north. With our camper trailer in tow, we toured the mainland in style. There was so much we saw and did that I could ramble on about it for ages - but instead I've done something else.

Back when we were preparing for the trip - I bought myself a laptop. It's the first computer I actually ever owned, and it was an awesome 486 that cost me $500 (big deal when you're 15). Using the laptop I was able to record our trip as we went. Every now and then we'd send a copy back to the family so they could keep tabs on our progress. It became known as Rob's Log - and detailed the trip through my eyes.

So at the 10 year anniversary I am please to present Robs Log, complete and unabridged.

It's probably way too long for anyone else to want to read - but for those who were on the trip (Dad, Mum, Emma, and myself), it's a good way to remember where we went and what we did.

As the months tick by I'll try and find more photos to add to the blog. As 2000 was before digital cameras were common, we didn't take many photos. Most of what we took was video on an analogue camera (which broke for half the trip). If only I'd had a digital camera back then I'd have taken thousands of pictures.

I'd go again tomorrow if I got half a chance...

View Rob's Log

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Targa Hot Laps!
jawapro
Mon 26/04/2010 07:30 PM

Best Monday morning at work EVER!

Because work sponsors Targa Tasmania, they were given tickets to Hot Laps at Symons Plains - and for whatever reason the powers that be decided to give one of those tickets to me!

So along with a group of guys from work, I went to Symons for the morning today - and it was a blast!

The guest speakers were Jim Richards and Barry Oliver. Jim only took one person (chosen at random by a name under a chair) for a lap, and it happened to be one of the guys from work sitting next to me. Lucky devil!

The guys from work were split between a Monaro and a Datsun - but somehow they’d missed two of us, so were sent up to the Subarus! I’m certainly not complaining!

That’s Dean Herridge’s car. I was sooo close to getting a lap with him - but my head was too large for the helmet and I had to wait for the other car which had a larger helmet. Sometimes my brain is just too large...

I ended up going around with Brian Green. He’s a fair bit older than Dean, but he competed in the WRC in Sweden earlier in the year, and is heading over to NZ after Targe to do the WRC there too - so he’s no slouch. The car is naturally aspirated, but it sure felt fast enough.

It’s the first time I’ve been around a corner doing 180k! We topped 200k on the straights, which is the fastest I've ever gone in a car. The Subaru is fantastic - it just grips around the corners like nothing else. We passed quite a few cars on my 4 laps. Makes my Subaru feel jolly whimpy now.

Must say - I have great respect for anyone who can concentrate on reading pace notes while in the passenger seat going those sorts of speeds. I could barely speak.

And just because all my readers want more 4x4 posts - that’s a Hummer H2 that was a support vehicle to one of the teams. You see a lot of H3s around (relatively speaking), but H2s aren’t as common.

Not a bad way to start the working week eh? And that’s not even mentioning the free lunch.

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Lest we forget...
jawapro
Sun 25/04/2010 09:17 PM

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

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Brickvention Video
jawapro
Fri 23/04/2010 11:13 PM

This will be replaced by the player.

It occured to me that I haven't shown anyone the video I took at Brickvention. I posted masses of photos - but not the video.

Particularly the Pirates ride really requires video to be truly impressive.

So I've tied some together, and here (finally) is the video from Brickvention.

Enjoy!

Also at Youtube if this doesn't play properly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlBX5HVJE50

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Jimmy saves the day one final time...
jawapro
Thu 22/04/2010 10:41 PM

Farewell to Jimmy - may he rest in pieces.

After years of serving as a secondary system at home (parents place) he then served as a part time retro gaming system. But alas - never again will he fly alongside me in a WCIII dogfight or assist me to save the galaxy.

Jimmy’s last move was to bravely surrender himself so that another could live. While Jimmy is no more - another computer struggles on, performing a critical task at work.

So maybe when that system is finally replaced Jimmy can be reborn from the ashes? One can but wait and hope.

Rest in peace old friend...

Jimmy is the larger of the two in the photo, sitting alongside Trojen’s Trinity.

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