Photos from the surprise Christmas Island visit

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Recently, in a mad jumble of chaos and confusion well coordinated and executed attack, my sister and I surprised our parents for their 60th.

I took a bunch of photos but didn’t put them on my laptop due to the constant dramas I’ve been having downloading photos from the camera (keep losing connection, and the closer I get to finishing the import the more it breaks) and also the internet connection on Christmas Island is so agonisingly slow that photos would have taken aeons to upload anyway. So now having gotten back to Perth and back onto my desktop, after struggling with importing 227 photos for the last two hours, I’m going to do one of those big long photo posts that is going to exasperate my sister.

Well laid plans

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My plans rarely go according to plan. They do usually result in a desirable (and sometimes even the desired) outcome though.

The latest one worked a charm, considering how many factors, unknowns and randoms got involved.

My parents are 60 this year. When we were up for Christmas in December, I made some noises about attempting to come back for the big birthday bash they had planned in the middle of the year if I could scrape the money together.

BlenderAdventures Pt 1

That would be Blender the open source 3d application not the kitchen appliance.

2012-06-22: I want to split out the Lightwave viewports and have one view on the big screen so I can see a big picture of what’s going on and work on smaller zoomed in sections on my Cintiq. Lightwave can’t do that. Wonder if Blender can because it’s all open sourcey and whatnot and it’s statistcally improbable that I’m the only person on the planet that would want to do such a ridiculous thing. Find out it can, download. Messed around a little with menus (most important thing was change the rotation thing from turntable to trackball so it would move in a way I was used to) and made a mutant cube.

Skate ramp

Because my wonderful husband is an impatient git (whom I love very much by the way), the photos are unprocessed so may be a bit dark on some monitors. These are WiP shots of the skate ramp that’s being built in the front yard. Not so many photos as I was kind of keeping an eye on 5 kids at the time and also I need to get a photo of the state the thing is in right now as I don’t have one for some reason, thought I did.

Brain implosion imminent. Or what's been happening.

My head. It’s so full of stuff that I have a very mild persistant headache. The cold isn’t helping either, it makes my shoulder hurt. I’m glad I don’t live somewhere that’s actually cold.

Following is a thought dump so I can work out what I’m doing and so anyone that cares can now know why techno was gone for the last month and why I’ve been in such a ridiculous distracted foul mood.

Sunday lazy sunday

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Last night, I was on a roll. I went to bed slightly later than intended.

This morning, 3yo woke me up repeatedly. First, sometime before the sun came up. Then shortly after the sun came up and the blue light was caning my eyes. Then after the sun came up. And shortly after JJ staggered out of bed I did the same seeing as I couldn’t sleep anyway.

You will be assimilated...

Or not. Short version, according to last night’s bizarro dream, there’s going to be a merger between “this” world and “some other dimension/universe” soon if it’s not happening already.

Now that I’m awake I’m wondering if it was Yet Another Incarnation of the Crazy Dog House, though I don’t recall seeing a cliff this time. One day I should probably try to explain The Crazy Dog House, which appears to be a stupidly large mansion not a doghouse.

Camel barge

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Me: Here [3yo], a green nappy to go with your camo.
3yo: Camo! What’s camo?
JJ: Camoflage.
2yo: Camel barge? What the?!

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Simplistic musings on cats and dogs, or ramblings about why pet shops shouldn't sell them

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I have this bias towards cats and dogs in this piece, because I’ve only ever shared a house with cats and dogs.

My random thought that triggered the blat was that JJ is not going to let me have any more cats.

Fast Forward - greetings from 2017

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Kate of kate says stuff did a “Fast Forward” manifestation type post where she projected herself into 2017 and wrote about life as she would like it to be then. I’m giving it a go, partially because it sounds amusing and partially because I currently have trouble thinking past later in the day never mind any further.