On the Farm

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Last week Stacey was invited out to the farm of one of the kids in her class. They were in the middle of harvesting their canola crop.

After over 3 years of living out in the country, this is the first time Stacey has been on a farm out here.

She got some video footage with our new digital video camera, so when I have some time I am going to edit it up into a nice little clip.

Breaking In

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Originally uploaded by csjohnst.

What a night! Stacey wanted to go out and get dinner, asking me to come with her. I didn't really want to.

She talked me into it, and as I was picking up my keys said, "What are you doing? I'm driving."

So I put down my keys and went out the front door. Just before pulling it shut, I asked, "Do you have your house keys?"

"Yeah" came the answer.

So I pulled the door closed behind me. We drove into town and got some dinner, then came home.

Just as I was walking to the door I heard, "Where are my keys?"

NO!!

OMG!!

I asked if she had them! What were we to do? The next door neighbours used to have a spare key, but they moved out and gave it back earlier this year.

All the doors were locked. All the windows were shut, locked and covered in security grills.

With nothing we could do at the house, we went to one of the other teacher's house to use the phone and see if we could get a spare key from GEHA. No luck there.

I rang my boss to see if he knew anyone in town who could pick a lock. No luck there.

His son said we should be able to get in through the roof tiles. Wrong... Tin roof.

"We can unscrew a roof sheet and get in"

So Cam came around with a ladder, drill and some other tools and we got working on the roof.

One thing you should know about Katanning is this:
After the sun goes down, the temperature drops considerably. Especially when it is windy. Not having a jumper because you are locked out of your house makes it worse. Being on the roof of said house ices the cake (pun, although lame, intended).

We finally got a tin panel off, to discover the insulation right below it. This is where a knife comes in handy. Within minutes Cam was inside and opening up the doors to the house.

A big thankyou goes out to Cam, for coming around and helping me get into the house. The photo is of the panel that we took off to get in.

The moral to this story is make sure you have a key on the same keyring as you car key. Either that or leave a spare key outside somewhere for just this situation.

She got the job!!

Stacey got the job in Perth that she was going for! We are going to be living and working in the northern suburbs next year, exactly where we want to be. The school is only a couple of minutes walk from my sister's house. This is a happy day. Congratulations!

Milestone

Yay! The post about my new header graphic was my 100th post on this blog. Kind of appropriate don't you think?

1%, some explanation...

Why are unreasonable people so unreasonable? It's a shame that once people choose a side of an argument/fight they can't ever see what may be reasonable to anyone from an objective point of view. I guess that's part of the reason why I call this blog one percent. When you find someone that belongs to the one percent of people on this planet who are honest, kind, reasonable, friendly, fun, considerate.... etc... Then make sure you let them know that you appreciate them for being who they are. For the others, treat them as if you were a part of the one percent too. Eventually one day you will be. Me, I'll get there one day. I still have issues with superiority, but I'm working on it :-)

New Header Graphic

I have just been playing around with a new header graphic. What do you think?

1984

Would you go see a movie if this happened to you? I thought the reason to make a film was to get people to want to see it and enjoy the experience.

Summertime

I got up early this morning. It was about 7am, had a bit of a browse around the web, then I got up and did some house work. Felicity will be happy ;-) I even had time for a walk around town listening to some podcasts on the way. When I finally got home it was 10am! Usually about the time I normally get up on a Sunday!! I still have a whole day left and I have already done so much already. This is what I like most of all about summer. Oh and it's one of the good things about not having daylight savings. Once you get into the groove of getting up early it's easy to get things done, rather than having more time at the end of the day. Personally, come 6pm I have no desire to do anything other than vege.

The hell with this, I'm gonna live!

Just watching Serenity and I agree, it Rocks! I hope they make more of these.

Piracy is Good

I have just watched a video about how piracy is good. Mark Pesce gave a presentation to the Australian Film and Televeision School in Sydney. I know that this is how I get most of my television programming. I hope what he says can play out without any interruption from the governments. I can see the Australian government at least wanting to get in there and restrict what you can and can't do. It's like when they "de-regulate" and industry by making it conform to more rules... go figure. My current list of "Hyperdistributed Programming": Alias, Desperate Housewives, Firefly, Grey's Anatomy, House, How I Met Your Mother, Invasion, Las Vegas, Lost, My Name is Earl, One Tree Hill, Smallville, The Amazing Race, The OC, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis. I don't have any time to watch much "normal" tv anymore. And the good thing about how I watch tv now? I can watch it whenever it suits me. I don't have to be in front of the box at 7.30 on a particular night to watch a show. I can just download it, and watch it later, even weeks later. I can spend a Sunday afternoon catching up on the last 5 weeks of Alias if I like. I have only one problem with all this: Hard disk space.

Job Interview

Not me... Stacey has an Interview for a school up in Perth on Friday. It is a really good school in an area that we would be happy living in. It is also a permanent merit selection position, so if she gets it she is pretty much garaunteed that position for a while to come. Good Luck!!

Break Even

Yesterday I pretty much broke even on the Melbourne Cup. I started the day with $20 in my wallet, and finished the day with pretty much the same. I bet $19 at the TAB, $5 each way on Makybe Diva and a couple of long shot trifectas. I won $28 on the win and place by the best race horse going around. So I treated myself to lunch (nothing special), thus ending up with $20 at the end of the day. I hope you at least broke even too.