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Sysadmin, developer, web dude in a science research organisation. WordPress, Japan, planes, trains, Arduino, Raspberry Pi/Pico, puns, dad jokes, etc

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  • A 747 flight to Tasmania

    A 747 flight to Tasmania? And not even to Hobart, but the regional airport of Launceston. And with Jetstar? What??? Okay, I’m being deceptive. The flight number of our Jetstar Airbus A320 from Sydney to Launceston in Tasmania’s north was JQ747. A bit like the old QF787 flights to Canberra. We’d bought the tickets months ago…

  • Travel in 2017

    Looking back across 2017 I’m surprised by how much travel I actually did. January: Singapore and Japan If I was to single out one word for my trips this year it would be snow. Though I’ve been to the snow before, this trip was the first time I’d really experienced snow. We started with a week…

  • Driving it home

    Made it home and home to stay. I left the office at one in the afternoon, passed three police cars on the Hume Highway, then suffered my only delay at the exit of the M5 to Fairford Road. I was pretty tired after the ride, but no rest as I had to take Alex to…

  • A quick Canberra escape

    Our team held its end of year meeting and get together in Canberra this year. To save a bit of money and to ensure that I could make it back in time for Alex’s tennis lesson back in Sydney I drove down. This was the first time I’ve driven such a long distance alone. On…

  • Escape!

    After a day of team meetings it was time to let our hair down. Dividing into two teams each group took on one of the Expedition Escape Rooms. My group tried to solve the puzzles in the Da Vinci room. We failed, but I think we did pretty well, considering that it was the first…

  • Driving alone

    The problem with driving a car is that you can’t take photos. And driving alone means nobody else can take them for you. It was such a beautiful sunset this evening. Swirls of icy contrails in the sky, their parent planes long gone. Low cloud, grey, indistinct against the salmon, orange and gold glow of…

  • The Compass Points of the Japanese Railway Network

    Over the past fourteen years of travelling to Japan I have visited all four of the home islands and passed through all but two of the forty-seven prefectures. Yet it is never enough. I am somebody who likes to travel all the way to the end of the line, to explore as far as I…

  • Now the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind

    Only a short stay in Jindabyne and it is time to head home. We ate our hot breakfast and set off back to Sydney along the sparse grasslands of the Monaro, sadly following the abandoned train tracks from Cooma to Canberra. What a beautiful journey that would have been. Alex asked to visited the amazing…

  • Skitube

    Of course I was here to catch trains! Australia’s highest train line.

  • The answer is snow

    First go at skiing. Maybe not my thing. Anyway, it’s pretty up here.