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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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  • The saga is complete

    I think I’ve finally done it. I’ve travelled along all the public lengths of the Sanin line. Didn’t I complete that last trip? No, there was one stretch, an old stretch no longer traversed by normal trains, that remained. And now I’ve ridden along it. The photo that won me the Jetstar voucher that paid…

  • Showers, sharks and shabu shabu

    Kansai International Airport was barely open when we emerged from immigration. All of us felt grimy and smelly from the long flights and humid stops. A land side lounge provided 15 minutes of showers and an hour of shower room use for about $5 a pop. I didn’t know how to use 15 minutes of…

  • Insanity at 40,000 feet – Part 2

    We could relax for a moment. The gate lounges at Kuala Lumpur’s LCCT were crowded, but our gate was not yet open. Once it was we quickly made out way outside for the long walk to the aircraft. The terminal offered no air conditioned respite from the tropical weather outside and we were perspiring on…

  • Insanity at 40,000 feet – Part 1

    And you thought my rail journeys on the last trip to Japan were insane. Not only have I topped them, but I have dragged my whole family into the nightmare. But it was the only way. A bit before eight am we left the house. We brought three pieces of luggage, my trusty 40 litre…

  • Premi-Air at 30,000 feet

    Qantas Disney’s Planes I attended a movie premiere today. A real movie premiere with a red carpet and stars, photographers and everything. But this was no ordinary movie premiere. There was a jumping castle, a water cannon salute and the screening was on an iPad. Well, that doesn’t sound like much, does it? Wait, there’s…

  • Hello Cocky: A bumpy Canberra trip

    It appears that my recent farewell to the Qantas Boeing 737-400 was a little premature. A little more than a month later I found myself travelling to Canberra again and again just for the day. I booked my usual flight QF787 from Sydney to Canberra and made it to the gate with boarding already underway, my…

  • Home alone

    The problem with Japanese airports, I’ve decided, is that they are too stuffy. As I was flying straight back to work the next day I wanted to be fresh and clean, but that’s rather hard when, after having a shower using the airport facilities, you just start perspiring again. Plus it makes me feel a…

  • Nagoya to Narita

    What will it be, where will I go? So many potential destinations from Nagoya. But I am up against a hard limit. My flight leaves from Narita Airport at 8.30 pm and I intend to be on it. The last three days of travel have left me exhausted, so I allow myself a bit of…

  • The Sanin Line – Part 2

    It was a long day. By the time the Shinkansen pulled into Nagoya station it was twelve hours from the first train to the last. But my Sanin line journey was complete. One of the nice things about this trip is the lack of alarms. Not that I sleep in much, especially considering how late…

  • The Sanin Line – Part 1

    I have a dream. It’s a crazy dream I know, but it’s mine. I want to travel the length of the Sanin railway line, have done for a long time. Oh I’ve done parts of it before, but I wanted to do the whole length along the western coastline, from Shimonoseki at the far south…