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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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  • Not glad, not stoned, just Gladstone

    People fly for many reasons. Some fly for work, some because they seek adventure. Others fly just for the joy of being in the air. And some fly because they have no choice. That’s me right now. It’s been a long time since I last visited my family in Central Queensland, six and a half…

  • Stormxiety

    The storm overhead is already waning. Despite the white flashes of lightning, loud thunder marking it close, I can already see a sliver of dusk orange on the horizon where minutes before it a dark and solid grey. It was an altogether larger storm that lead to a change of destination for this week. With…

  • Escaping the flood

    It looks like the city of Rockhampton in Central Queensland is about to suffer its worst floods in over sixty years. The airport will shut in a couple of days before the flood waters peak. Last time that happened it didn’t reopen for two weeks, which means our upcoming Easter trip there would be cancelled.…

  • Racing south to Jurassic Park

    Jurassic Park. Performed live by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. I had to go. Fly? Too expensive for the three of us for such a short trip. Train? Schedules don’t work. Bus? Too horrible for that distance. That leaves driving. Back when B and I were first dating and she was in Albury and I in…

  • Out of the fridge and into the frying pan

    We’ve arrived home and it’s hotter than a Japanese hotel room. The scary thing is that it’s not even that hot for Sydney this summer and is forecast to be 38 degrees Celsius in a couple of days. It was a typical final day in Japan, which is to say a bit miserable and a…

  • Driving cars and the Miraikan

    Our last morning in Japan for this trip and I’m feeling anxious about the flight back. I hate these final days, again wishing that yesterday’s Tokyo Teleport station was true to its name. If the flight home is less bumpy than yesterday’s visit to Odaiba then I will be happy indeed. We were early to…

  • Rotten eggs and ropeways

    Ah, the fresh mountain air! It smells so, well, smelly. Alright, who farted? Even in the little mountain train ride up we could smell the scent of hydrogen sulphide, aka rotten egg gas. But here we were on the high slopes of Mount Iwakudani where great clouds of steam and gas rose out of the…

  • Seafood, Shinkansens and Shinjuku

    One of the nicest things about being back in Tokyo is not needing to tread carefully to avoid slipping on ice. It’s more about treading carefully to avoid stepping on other people, but here in Shinjuku the legs are on automatic, so familiar is it to them. With the arrival of a sunny day and…

  • Slipping round the back to Hakodate

    JR Hakodate says it can’t afford to maintain much of its rail system anymore and that many sections will close. They include the most northerly and easterly of stations in Japan. Naturally I want to ride on all of these lines before they close, but that will have to be a trip for another day…

  • Asahiyama Zoo

    The cold record has been broken. Today the thermometer read -11.5 degrees centigrade at the zoo. In fact I saw it read -12.9 in central Asahigawa as we rode past in the bus. Look, I know Russians, Canadians and Antarcticans will laugh at such puny numbers, but you have to remember that we aren’t prepared…