Ebay

Just made my first Ebay purchase.

Dear lostandcold, Congratulations! You committed to buy the following item:

Nikon Monarch ATB 8X42 Black Binoculars Brand New Sale price: US $254.95 Quantity: 1 Subtotal: US $254.95 Postage & Handling: UPS Ground: US $10.00 for first item, US $5.00 for each additional item. USPS Airmail Parcel Post: US $15.00 for first item, US $7.00 for each additional item. USPS Airmail Parcel Post: US $25.00 for first item, US $10.00 for each additional item. Insurance (per item): US $5.00 (optional) Sales tax: (none)

Hopefully I won't get burnt.

Magpie lark

When I got up at the crack of dawn yesterday at 10am and staggered too the kitchen there was a magpie lark battling the hoards of cockroaches in the kitchen. Suprisingly enough it looked like it was winning as well, which is quite impressive considering there are a few hundred thousand roaches in the kitchen and there average size is about equivalent to a large rat.


A picture of a magpie lark that I stole from this excellent website.

Giselle

Went to the ballet last night at the sydney opera house to watch Giselle. It was remarkably good with very nice sets and dancing and seemed a little more acrobatic than some previous ballets that I have seen, which was nice.

Go the chiefs

A well deserved win for the chiefs on saturday.
Chiefs upset Waratahs

A nice site on knots

Grog's Climbing Knots Index

Fond memories of high school

Good to see my old high school now has a teen parent unit so all the 14 year old girls at the school who have children do not have to drop out.
Teens give school parent unit a big tick

The living rock: a history of adventure climbing in Australia

The living rock: a history of adventure climbing in Australia

Scientology

Was sitting out in victoria park next to uni and some dirty scientologists came up and tried to convert me and lead me in to a big yellow tent. Luckily I managed to resist not that that was too hard as you needed to pay $30 to do the introductory course, which is probably their way of ensuring only rich nutters join there cult as it is kind of pointless fleecing poor people.
For more info see;
Operation Clambake
or
Wikipedia

Ow

Easily the worst hangover I have had for a year or so last night. Think I might give up drinking for a while.

More tassie pics

If you want to see more photos of Tasmania feel free to have a look at Marty's website.
Here is a sample;