Keeping busy
I'm so used to Twitter that I'm going to have to try and use full sentances in this post with concious effort. I'm still writing like simple.wikipedia.org
despite this.
So I've had a busy few weekends.
A couple of weeks ago I went to check out a Sydney Hackerspace called
Robots and Dinosaurs. It's in Rockdale, so is a couple of trains,
but was totally worth the effort. On the Sunday I went to Soundwave,
and saw Reel Big Fish, Placebo, AFI, Jane's Addiction, Jimmy Eat World
and Faith No More. It was brilliant.
Last weekend on the Friday night I went to a the Mu Meson archives to
check out wacky 80's music videos put out by a dangerous cult. Saturday
during the day was back to Robots and Dinosaurs, where people were
melting down aluminium and pouring into moulds. Saturday night was at
the packed out Mardis Grais, and catching up with Rod and Matt FTW!
The next day, got up insanely early to spend 2 hours on a train heading
up north to Wyong for a huge amateur radio field day / swapmeet. Having
not actually camped out the night before to get to the swapmeet at 6:30am
(no joke) most of the best stuff was gone by the time I got there, but
it was well worth the effort anyhow.
This Friday just gone I went to a packed out show of The Rocky Horror
Picture Show: One of the first in Sydney for a couple of years.
Saturday it was back to Robots and Dinosaurs again. This is beginning
to be a bit of a habit, but now I am a full member. Yesterday I went
slightly crazy and decided to rent a car[0] and raid Ikea. Spent way
too much money, but now at least the house isn't looking so empty.
For extra points, figure out which of the events above the small
child didn't come with me ;-)
[0] For those not in Sydney, Ikea is pretty difficult to get to with
public transport at the best of times, much less with a small child and
trying to carry heavy boxes of furniture. I can't get the mail delivered
to my house much less furniture.
tl;dr: I did lots of stuff.
despite this.
So I've had a busy few weekends.
A couple of weeks ago I went to check out a Sydney Hackerspace called
Robots and Dinosaurs. It's in Rockdale, so is a couple of trains,
but was totally worth the effort. On the Sunday I went to Soundwave,
and saw Reel Big Fish, Placebo, AFI, Jane's Addiction, Jimmy Eat World
and Faith No More. It was brilliant.
Last weekend on the Friday night I went to a the Mu Meson archives to
check out wacky 80's music videos put out by a dangerous cult. Saturday
during the day was back to Robots and Dinosaurs, where people were
melting down aluminium and pouring into moulds. Saturday night was at
the packed out Mardis Grais, and catching up with Rod and Matt FTW!
The next day, got up insanely early to spend 2 hours on a train heading
up north to Wyong for a huge amateur radio field day / swapmeet. Having
not actually camped out the night before to get to the swapmeet at 6:30am
(no joke) most of the best stuff was gone by the time I got there, but
it was well worth the effort anyhow.
This Friday just gone I went to a packed out show of The Rocky Horror
Picture Show: One of the first in Sydney for a couple of years.
Saturday it was back to Robots and Dinosaurs again. This is beginning
to be a bit of a habit, but now I am a full member. Yesterday I went
slightly crazy and decided to rent a car[0] and raid Ikea. Spent way
too much money, but now at least the house isn't looking so empty.
For extra points, figure out which of the events above the small
child didn't come with me ;-)
[0] For those not in Sydney, Ikea is pretty difficult to get to with
public transport at the best of times, much less with a small child and
trying to carry heavy boxes of furniture. I can't get the mail delivered
to my house much less furniture.
tl;dr: I did lots of stuff.