So it’s been a while

So this blog has been sitting here doing not much at all for the last year and a bit…
I’m not too sure what to do with it as there has been significant changes in that time, moving countries, getting engaged, work, lack of work….
So I’m not altogether sure what to turn this into yet.. a photography blog? a travel blog?…..
I think getting my password sorted was a good first step.. also need to sort out why my sites are all being listed as dangerous.. 😐

Soon to go down…

Ok.. I’m going to take this down soon and use the URL as a photo blog / portfolio storage for my photography.. 😛 On the bright side it’ll get updated more than once every year.. 😛

Papa don’t preach

It only took me 20 years or so to figure out the song is a politcal anti-aboritionist stance……
so dense sometimes……….
good song but… I always thought it was about rebellion…. now I think it was just supposed to look that way. Madaonna’s still a good zombie but.. 😛

on bali

Going to keep this breif as my battery is running low
1st day in Bali

– Got to the hotel – found I had not hotel vouchers – sorted
– went up the road and had some good brathwurst
– came back to do temple tour
– went to have indian for dinner
– ran into my mate – cuzzy walton – drinking esured
– met melissa – got on like a house on fire
– went to several clubs, eventaully at double six by ourselves going crazy on long island ice teas
– tried to ride home in the torrential rain, motorbike fell over in floor
– pulled bike out, back at the hotel by 3:30.

I really AM going to rest tomorrow.. trust me.. diving on wednesday.. 120m long wreck.. up to 30m depth, sounds brilliant.. woop! 🙂

I know christmas is a while away…

and I don’t have SFA carpet at mine.. but I could take these babies down to harvey norman… look out in the refrigerator aisle!

P0rn

Grapefruit

I love grapefruit in all its forms, solid or juiced or mixed in a cocktail….

Grapefruit is an excellent source of many nutrients and phytochemicals, able to contribute to a healthy diet. Grapefruit is a good source of vitamin C,[9][18] pectin fiber,[19] and the pink and red hues contain the beneficial antioxidant lycopene.[9][20] Studies have shown grapefruit helps lower cholesterol[9][21] and there is evidence that the seeds have high levels of antioxidant properties.[22] Grapefruit forms a core part of the “grapefruit diet”, the theory being that the fruit’s low glycemic index is able to help the body’s metabolism burn fat.[23]

-wikipedia

Spiders

I had a bit of a spider infection last time home. 4 months after the last spray I came home to find my roof covered in webs and 1-2 large sized black house spiders happily perched in plain view in pretty much every room.

After a vicious battle in which i pitted my wits, newspaper and the WMD known as fly spray I managed to kill most of the interior invaders. However, I got a professional to sort out the outside of the house.

I did manage to find one redback in the garage, she was happily perched on his web, with a dead black house spider nicely gift wrapped behind her.
So I was looking at photos of her today and comparing her to other red backs on the web, she does look somewhat different, but I’m guessing most of the photos on the web [pun sooooo intended.. take that!] are from the eastern states.

I did learn that redback spiders are one of the few who are suicidal in their mating rituals.

For Redback spiders, mating begins innocently enough, with the male courting the female by plucking on the strands of her web, producing a vibration which has been translated into sound in this recording. But the male is also courting death: as the two spiders mate, the female will slowly consume her partner. So does he try and escape? Hardly. Instead the male spider somersaults his body into position directly over the female’s mouth, as if to say ‘digest me, I’m yours!’

It’s amazing to watch because its clear that the female is not doing anything to force the male to do this, rather the male is doing this sort of sacrificial somersault all by himself. The fangs of the female then sink into the male and she begins to extrude digestive enzymes and basically begins to eat the male while he’s copulating with her.”

Maydianne Andrade is a graduate student at Cornell University

One would wonder with the current rate of divorce if humans are that different.

To holiday or not to holiday?

Well.. the rig is finishing up soon and it’s entirely (very) likely I’m going to have a few weeks off at least, maybe even a month – definately the perfect time for a long-overdue holiday.
I am a bit trepedious as I have a few things I really need to finish in Perth at the moment – the new house needs the yard done, re-financing, settling in the new housemate (she needs more friends – she’s getting a bit upset at being alone all the time in a new-ish city) and I guess I want to fix a few things I may have fucked up, physical, mental and otherwise.. but I’m WELL due for a holiday..
I’ll leave it till I have a week to go and see what the situation looks like then. 🙂

Planning on a road trip in march when I get my lisence back. Thinking of buying a car (Victoria looks good at the moment for prices) or even Sydney and then driving it back along the coast road – problem is I don’t want to do a road trip by myself, but not many people I know can take time off from their jobs / girlfriends to embark on such an epic journey. I’m sure something or someone will present before March tho. 🙂

Much Want.. Will Get.. 🙂

Question.

Is it a better choice to light up the lives of many people, if only a little or to work on lighting up just one?