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This is the second part - the first part is here

Continuing on from Stanwell Park and its beautiful sea bridge, we stopped so I could get a shot of the CoalCliff Arts Centre - Quite a nice building in the middle of nowhere.

Quite a few small towns later, we got to Kiama with its seaside Blowhole - such a ghostly vision I captured in burst mode.. I quite like it!

Waiting to Check In

I’m home, and wow - where do I start? I was up at 0130 on the Thursday when we got on the plane and flew to Sydney to start our holiday. It was a rather hot night that night, probably nature’s way of telling us to get out of Brisbane and enjoy the weather down south.

I had to sit around the airport for a while - my flight was half an hour after my parents’ I decided to get out my camera and see what I could shoot - I’m not completely happy with it, but this is the one photo that came out well.

Thick white ropes,

Draped over my fingers,

Is this my life until death,

Or is it the death of my life?

Ok, so I’ve been into photography for a while - never really done anything with it, just loved framing shots, taking random things, playing with what comes out etc etc. So I decided that rather than play with the point n’ shoot POS that I have, I’d get a camera that’s going to let me learn how to do it properly.

After reading a lot of reviews. I went to Ted’s Camera Store and bought myself a Canon 350D with the 18-55 lens kit. I bought it in black, since the silver one looks faggy.

Well, today I start another bunch of annual leave - off work until Monday. Today’s a day of shopping and stuff to get ready (can’t seem to find all those socks and boxers I’m sure I own) and go to bed early so I can get to the airport for the 5am flight tomorrow morning. Mum, Dad and I are flying to sydney, arriving at about 8/8:30am, grabbing breakfast and driving three hours south to Culburra.

Oh, I’m a goon now, so watch out for me in the forums 😉

I got bored, so I put a favourite photo of mine through the Rasterbator. The PDF it produced is here. was here but I lost it 🙁

It seems like they are crawling slowly back up my legs, killing everything as they go. My shoes are pretty much completely worn out, and with how much I wear them and walk around in them all day, my feet hurt like nothing on earth, my ankles are shagged, and now the muscles in my calves are starting to hurt. It’s happened before, when I was in high school, and I was walking too much in shite shoes. Hopefully I’ll get my ass in gear tomorrow and go buy some nice rockports or something. In the meantime, it’s painkillers ahoy!

Ok, so in my Corporate Mercenary rant, I wrote about a handset that makes phantom calls. There’s lots of explanations for it, could be bad programming, could be someone with remote access to the handset or the network (authorised or not), all sorts of things. But what is the explanation for all these examples, over quite a few years?

Well, another knowledgeable person has posted on my “help me” thread on the Gemini forums. Seems that I might be able to completely avoid using one of the coolant chambers on the manifold - the one designed to provide heating for the runners, and feeds to heat the throttle body - which I don’t need anyway. Means I can just run a pipe from the bottom of the thermostat housing through to the heater, and that’s that. The coolant temp sender isn’t changed, and if I do need a coolant feed for a turbo or something down the track, then I can open up that chamber again and spend the money to modify it to allow for the heater pipes *shrugs*

I’m going to get it out of the way early - I’m a Corporate Mercenary®, and I have no qualms about that. I’m just like a lot of people out there doing things for money which most people with “normal” old style morals wouldn’t do. I have been given a set of rules, and I stick to them. It’s called towing the company line.

“Normals” working in big corporations don’t realise this. They are taking people’s livelyhoods for the sake of their own, thinking that they are just working a job. I work for a major phone company, and there are so many cases where something happens, and it’s nearly always the customer’s responsibility to deal with the results.