some christmas eve hijinks

the tassie trip: 12th dec to 23rd dec. 8 days hiking in south west tasmania, across the western arthurs.

twisted trees on the wind blown moor before mt hesperus

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hectic times – a couple of weeks in tasmania, and then christmas craziness.

the tidal waves that have been landing through south-east asia hit tonsai beach as well – thankfully none of the people i know who are climbing there at the moment were hurt (or drowned). the wave wasn’t so bad there – i hope everyone out there managed to escape serious harm. my flatmate was up on the beachside cliffs watching the whole thing unfold.

The weather fortunately cleared for this portion of the trip. This was the view from Mt Colombia, near the High Moor campsite.

a goat, and the view from a friend’s house.

ARGGGHHHH! Visa interview today, I had to spend an hour and a half at the US consulate watching Fox News. It hurt my brain. Fingerprints were scanned, and I found there was yet another fee to pay. Then they told me: “You are now free to go”. Excellent. When I got out, I’d never felt so glad to be Australian (well, not living in American anyway).

just about ready to collapse. just finished doing some spam proofing, after an attack from evil gambling bots. argh, it burns my brain. and there are some very quirky things going wrong, for reasons that are beyond me. i’ll keep working at it… until the code in front of my eyes becomes too blurry.

haha! i said i’d do it, and finally, after months of achieving nothing, we have an updated web site, that does all sorts of things of its own accord. some of which i’m trying to stop it from doing, but we’ll see how we go.